Top Alternative World Movies & TV Shows

The One (2001)

6.1 1.8K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 87 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A sheriff's deputy fights an alternate universe version of himself who grows stronger with each alternate self he kills.

Plot: martial arts, dual identity, time travel, wormhole, alternate dimension, los angeles, california, criminal, ...

Cast

Dakota Blue Richards

Nicole Kidman

Daniel Craig

Ben Walker

The Golden Compass (2007)

6.1 4.9K votes

Genre: Adventure, Fantasy

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In a parallel universe, after overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny.

Plot: compass, experiment, polar bear, airship, steampunk, animals, alternate universe, based on young adult novel, ...

Place: england

Cast

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Mia Sara

Ron Silver

Bruce McGill

Timecop (1994)

6.0 1.3K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Japan

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 2004, an officer for a security agency that regulates time travel must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.

Plot: martial arts, time travel, based on comic, alternative reality, security agent

Time: 1920s, 19th century, 1990s, ...

Cast

Craig T. Nelson

JoBeth Williams

Heather O'Rourke

Oliver Robins

Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)

6.0 772 votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The Freeling family move in with Diane's mother in an effort to escape the trauma and aftermath of Carol Anne's abduction by the Beast. But the Beast is not to be put off so easily and appears in a ghostly apparition as the Reverend Kane, a religious zealot responsible for the deaths of his many followers. His goal is simple - he wants the angelic Carol Anne.

Plot: monster, poltergeist, halloween, undead, family secrets, sequel, alternate dimension, shaman, ...

Cast

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Michael Rapaport

Tony Goldwyn

Michael Rooker

The 6th Day (2000)

6.0 2.3K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A world of the very near future in which cattle, fish, and even the family pet can be cloned. But cloning humans is illegal - that is until family man Adam Gibson comes home from work one day to find a clone has replaced him. Taken from his family and plunged into a sinister world he doesn't understand, Gibson must not only save himself from the assassins who must destroy him to protect their secret, but uncover who and what is behind the horrible things happening to him.

Plot: laser gun, clone, dystopia, dna, villain, futuristic, murder, cyberpunk, ...

Cast

Robin Shou

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Linden Ashby

Bridgette Wilson

Mortal Kombat (1995)

5.9 2.6K votes

Genre: Action, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: For nine generations an evil sorcerer has been victorious in hand-to-hand battle against his mortal enemies. If he wins a tenth Mortal Kombat tournament, desolation and evil will reign over the multiverse forever. To save Earth, three warriors must overcome seemingly insurmountable odds, their own inner demons, and superhuman foes.

Style: nostalgic

Plot: island, martial arts, monster, saving the world, magic, villain, gore, god, ...

Cast

Adam Sandler

Kevin James

Michelle Monaghan

Peter Dinklage

Pixels (2015)

5.8 8.1K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: China, France

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who've attacked New York.

Plot: new york city, london, england, usa president, washington dc, usa, video game, nerd, ...

Time: 1980s, world war

Cool World (1992)

5.7 813 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: While incarcerated for murder, cartoonist Jack Deebs found escape by creating Cool World, a series featuring a voluptuous femme fatale named Holli Would. But the artist becomes a prisoner of his own fantasies when Holli transports Jack into Cool World with a scheme to seduce him and bring herself to life. Hard-boiled detective Frank Harris – the only other human in Cool World – cautions Jack with the law: Noids (humans) don't have sex with doodles (cartoons). However, flesh proves weaker than ink as Holli takes human form in Las Vegas, staring in a trans-universal chase that threatens the destruction of both worlds.

Plot: cartoon, seduction, comic book, alternate dimension, adult animation, cartoonist, live action and animation

Place: las vegas

Cast

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Daniel Bru00fchl

Chris O'Dowd

David Oyelowo

The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

5.6 3.6K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.

Plot: experiment, disorientation, alien, space, scientist, space station, parallel universe, alternate universe, ...

Cast

Helen Slater

Faye Dunaway

Peter O'Toole

Hart Bochner

Supergirl (1984)

5.4 707 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: PG

Story: After losing a powerful orb, Kara, Superman's cousin, comes to Earth to retrieve it and instead finds herself up against a wicked witch.

Plot: magic, superhero, laser, based on comic, alternate dimension, teenage girl, female protagonist, gardener, ...

Cast

Lisa Zane

Robert Englund

Shon Greenblatt

Lezlie Deane

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

5.3 1.5K votes

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 89 min.

Audience: R

Story: Just when you thought it was safe to sleep, Freddy Krueger returns in this sixth installment of the Nightmare on Elm Street films, as psychologist Maggie Burroughs, tormented by recurring nightmares, meets a patient with the same horrific dreams. Their quest for answers leads to a certain house on Elm Street -- where the nightmares become reality.

Plot: amnesia, dreams, nightmare, sadism, psychopath, supernatural, ohio, sequel, ...

Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)

5.0 1.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The hilarity begins when professor Sherman Klump finds romance with fellow DNA specialist, Denise Gaines, and discovers a brilliant formula that reverses aging. But Sherman's thin and obnoxious alter ego, Buddy Love, wants out...and a big piece of the action. And when Buddy gets loose, things get seriously nutty.

Plot: mad scientist, alter ego, family, dean, duringcreditsstinger, research laboratory

Cast

Lexi DiBenedetto

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Louis Bottino

C. Ashleigh Caldwell

Love Is All You Need? (2011)

4.7 29 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 20 min.

Story: Ashley was raised in a picture perfect all-American family with two moms, two grandpas, two uncles, and a little brother. But Ashley has a problem, she has a crush on a boy at school, which is against everything this world has ever taught her.

Plot: parent child relationship, sexuality, harassment, bullying, role reversal, family relationships, bully, crush, ...

Place: california

Cast

Christopher Reeve

Margot Kidder

Gene Hackman

Mariel Hemingway

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)

4.6 1.4K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: PG

Story: With global superpowers engaged in an increasingly hostile arms race, Superman leads a crusade to rid the world of nuclear weapons. But Lex Luthor, recently sprung from jail, is declaring war on the Man of Steel and his quest to save the planet. Using a strand of Superman's hair, Luthor synthesizes a powerful ally known as Nuclear Man and ignites an epic battle spanning Earth and space.

Plot: saving the world, superhero, mountain, nuclear missile, convertible, us army, based on comic, sequel, ...

Cast

Robin Shou

Talisa Soto

James Remar

Brian Thompson

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)

4.6 1.4K votes

Genre: Action, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A group of heroic warriors has only six days to save the planet in "Mortal Kombat Annihilation." To succeed they must survive the most spectacular series of challenges any human, or god, has ever encountered as they battle an evil warlord bent on taking control of Earth.

Plot: martial arts, saving the world, magic, authority, transformation, villain, sequel, alternate dimension, ...

Cast

Ella Scott Lynch

Benedict Samuel

Heather Mitchell

Lewis Fitz-Gerald

Pimped (2019)

4.5 29 votes

Genre: Thriller

Country: Australia

Duration: 80 min.

Story: Over the course of one night, Sarah meets the handsome, captivating and smooth talking Lewis, who aims to be the bait in a sick sexual trap set up by himself and his low-life, rich kid housemate Kenneth. When their ruse backfires, Lewis and Sarah are forced into an unlikely alliance with deadly consequences.

Plot: rape, imaginary friend, trap, alter ego, cover-up, shovel, dark heroine, golf club, ...

Place: australia

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