Movies about a Parallel Universe

Movies and shows that feature parallel universes often explore alternate realities, divergent timelines, and familiar faces in unfamiliar roles. If a particular scene or concept from an alternate world is stuck in your mind, describe it to our AI. Alternatively, explore the list of related titles below.

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Spider-Man: No Way Home
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Spider-Man: No Way Home

2021

Peter Parker is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the high-stakes of being a super-hero. When he asks for help from Doctor Strange the stakes become even more dangerous, forcing him to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man.

ActionAdventureScience Fiction Movie
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Donnie Darko
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Donnie Darko

2001

After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.

FantasyDramaMystery Movie
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Loki
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Loki

2021

After stealing the Tesseract during the events of “Avengers: Endgame,” an alternate version of Loki is brought to the mysterious Time Variance Authority, a bureaucratic organization that exists outside of time and space and monitors the timeline. They give Loki a choice: face being erased from existence due to being a “time variant” or help fix the timeline and stop a greater threat.

DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy Show
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Coraline
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Coraline

2009

Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy, she must make a frighteningly real sacrifice.

AnimationFamilyFantasy Movie
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

2023

After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse’s very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most.

AnimationActionAdventureScience Fiction Movie
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
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Everything Everywhere All at Once

2022

An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.

ActionAdventureScience Fiction Movie
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The Flash
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The Flash

2023

When his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry Allen becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned and there are no Super Heroes to turn to. In order to save the world that he is in and return to the future that he knows, Barry's only hope is to race for his life. But will making the ultimate sacrifice be enough to reset the universe?

AdventureActionScience Fiction Movie
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What If...?
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What If...?

2021

Taking inspiration from the comic books of the same name, each episode of this animated anthology series questions, revisits and twists classic Marvel Cinematic moments.

AnimationAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy Show
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The Chronicles of Riddick
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The Chronicles of Riddick

2004

After years of outrunning ruthless bounty hunters, escaped convict Riddick suddenly finds himself caught between opposing forces in a fight for the future of the human race. Now, waging incredible battles on fantastic and deadly worlds, this lone, reluctant hero will emerge as humanity's champion - and the last hope for a universe on the edge of annihilation.

ActionScience Fiction Movie
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The Cloverfield Paradox
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The Cloverfield Paradox

2018

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.

HorrorScience FictionThriller Movie
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Bleach
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Bleach

2004

For as long as he can remember, Ichigo Kurosaki has been able to see ghosts. But when he meets Rukia, a Soul Reaper who battles evil spirits known as Hollows, he finds his life is changed forever. Now, with a newfound wealth of spiritual energy, Ichigo discovers his true calling: to protect the living and the dead from evil.

Action & AdventureAnimationSci-Fi & Fantasy Show
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His Dark Materials
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His Dark Materials

2019

Lyra is an orphan who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Her search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. She is later joined on her journey by Will, a boy who possesses a knife that can cut windows between worlds. As she learns the truth about her parents and her prophesied destiny, the two young people are caught up in a war against celestial powers that ranges across many worlds.

Sci-Fi & FantasyDrama Show
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The One
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The One

2001

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

ActionScience FictionThriller Movie
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Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
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Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time

2021

In the aftermath of the Fourth Impact, stranded without their Evangelions, Shinji, Asuka and Rei find refuge in one of the rare pockets of humanity that still exist on the ruined planet Earth. There, each lives a life far different from their days as an Evangelion pilot. However, the danger to the world is far from over. A new impact is looming on the horizon—one that will prove to be the true end of Evangelion.

AnimationActionScience FictionDrama Movie
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Terra Nova
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Terra Nova

2011

In the year 2149, the world is dying. The planet is overdeveloped and overcrowded, with the majority of plant and animal life extinct. The future of mankind is in jeopardy, and its only hope for survival is in the distant past. An ordinary family goes on an extraordinary journey back in time to prehistoric Earth as a part of a massive expedition to save the human race.

Sci-Fi & FantasyMysteryAction & Adventure Show
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Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-
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Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-

2016

Natsuki Subaru, an ordinary high school student, is on his way home from the convenience store when he finds himself transported to another world. As he's lost and confused in a new world where he doesn't even know left from right, the only person to reach out to him was a beautiful girl with silver hair. Determined to repay her somehow for saving him from his own despair, Subaru agrees to help the girl find something she's looking for.

AnimationComedyAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy Show
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Sliders
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Sliders

1995

In his basement in San Francisco, boy-genius Quinn Mallory unlocks the doorway to an infinite number of Earths. During a test run, Quinn invites co-worker Wade Welles and his teacher Professor Maximillian Arturo to see his new invention. But an increase in power and an early departure leave all three, plus a washed-up soul singer named Rembrandt "Crying Man" Brown, lost in a parallel world. Now they must "slide" from world to world, not only adapting to their changing surroundings, but also trying to get back to their world. Will they ever make it home?

Action & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy Show
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Synchronicity
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Synchronicity

2015

A daring physicist travels into the past to stop a mysterious woman from stealing his invention. But once there, he uncovers a surprising truth about the machine, the woman, and his own fractured reality.

ThrillerMysteryScience Fiction Movie
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Bakugan Battle Brawlers
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Bakugan Battle Brawlers

2007

Centers on the lives of creatures called Bakugan and the battle brawlers who possess them.

Action & AdventureAnimationKidsSci-Fi & Fantasy Show
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Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One
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Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One

2024

Death is coming. Worse than death: oblivion. Not just for our Earth, but for everyone, everywhere, in every universe! Against this ultimate destruction, the mysterious Monitor has gathered the greatest team of Super Heroes ever assembled. But what can the combined might of Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, The Flash, Green Lantern and hundreds of Super Heroes from multiple Earths even do to save all of reality from an unstoppable antimatter armageddon?!

AnimationScience FictionAction Movie
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Outer Range
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Outer Range

2022

A rancher fighting for his land and family stumbles upon an unfathomable mystery at the edge of Wyoming’s wilderness, forcing a confrontation with the Unknown in ways both intimate and cosmic in the untamable American West.

DramaMysterySci-Fi & Fantasy Show
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Rosario + Vampire
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Rosario + Vampire

2008

An ordinary high school boy fails to get into any private academy except one — which happens to be populated by supernatural creatures disguised as humans. To survive, he has to pretend that he is one of them and blend in.

AnimationComedySci-Fi & Fantasy Show
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Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three
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Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three

2024

Now fully revealed as the ultimate threat to existence, the Anti-Monitor wages an unrelenting attack on the surviving Earths that struggle for survival in a pocket universe. One by one, these worlds and all their inhabitants are vaporized! On the planets that remain, even time itself is shattered, and heroes from the past join the Justice League and their rag-tag allies against the epitome of evil. But as they make their last stand, will the sacrifice of the superheroes be enough to save us all?

AnimationScience FictionAction Movie
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Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Two
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Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Two

2024

An endless army of shadow demons bent on the destruction of all reality swarms over our world and all parallel Earths! The only thing opposing them is the mightiest team of metahumans ever assembled. But not even the combined power of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and all their fellow superheroes can slow down the onslaught of this invincible horde. What mysterious force is driving them? And how do the long-buried secrets of the Monitor and Supergirl threaten to crush our last defense?

AnimationScience FictionAction Movie
Parallel
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Parallel

2018

A group of friends stumble upon a mirror that serves as a portal to a "multiverse", but soon discover that importing knowledge from the other side in order to better their lives brings increasingly dangerous consequences.

Science FictionFantasyHorror Movie
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The Singing Detective
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The Singing Detective

2003

From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots.

ComedyMusicMysteryCrime Movie
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Lexx
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Lexx

1997

A Time Prophet predicted that Kai would be the one to destroy the divine order in the league of the 20,000 planets, someday that will happen, but not today. Today a cowardly security guard, an undead assassin, a female with a body designed for sex and a robot head madly in love with her all make up the crew of the spaceship Lexx, the most powerful weapon in the two universes.

ComedyDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy Show
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The Tatami Galaxy
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The Tatami Galaxy

2010

When a college dropout stops for a late night bite at a mysterious ramen stand, he crosses paths with a self-proclaimed deity of matrimony. This bizarre meeting sends the young man hurtling through a horrifying flashback to his not-so-glorious college days when the influence of a cruel new friend turned him from a hopeless romantic into a mischievous “black cupid.”

AnimationComedyDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy Show
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Perfect Creature
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Perfect Creature

2007

The vampire myth is given a stylish 1960s treatment, where a human cop partners with a vampire cop to stop a vamp bent on creating a war between the two "separate but equal" races.

ActionScience FictionDramaFantasyHorror Movie
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Prisoners of the Lost Universe
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Prisoners of the Lost Universe

1983

Three people are transported into a parallel universe. There they find that they must use modern technology, but medieval weapons, in order to save the citizenry from a murderous warlord.

AdventureScience FictionAction Movie
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The Universal Theory
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The Universal Theory

2023

Johannes, a doctor of physics, travels with his doctoral supervisor to a scientific congress in the Alps. A series of mysterious incidents occur on site. He meets Karin, a mysterious jazz pianist who seems to know more about him than she can know. Suddenly, mysterious deaths begin to pile up and Johannes tries to uncover the secret under the mountain.

MysteryThrillerDrama Movie
Untitled Super Mario Bros. Movie

Untitled Super Mario Bros. Movie

2026

A new movie based on the world of Super Mario Bros. that further broadens Mario's world with a bright and fun story. Plot TBA.

FantasyAnimationFamilyComedy Movie
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Redux Redux

Redux Redux

2025

A woman travels the multiverse, killing her daughter’s murderer over and over again. She grows addicted to the revenge streak, putting her own humanity in jeopardy.

HorrorThriller Movie
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Ladies First

Ladies First

No release date available.

An unrepentant womanizer finds himself in a parallel world dominated by women. A fiery female counterpart makes things even more complicated.

Comedy Movie
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