Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "alternative-reality"

1. Dark City (1998)

R | 100 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A man struggles with memories of his past, which include a wife he cannot remember and a nightmarish world no one else ever seems to wake up from.

Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt

Votes: 212,385 | Gross: $14.38M

2. Shallow Hal (2001)

PG-13 | 114 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A shallow man falls in love with a 300-pound woman because of her inner beauty.

Directors: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly | Stars: Jack Black, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jason Alexander, Joe Viterelli

Votes: 144,827 | Gross: $70.84M

3. Inland Empire (2006)

R | 180 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

As an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Karolina Gruszka, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Grace Zabriskie, Laura Dern

Votes: 62,240 | Gross: $0.75M

4. Motherland: Fort Salem (2020–2022)

TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

A trio of witches are trained to become powerful weapons for the American military.

Stars: Taylor Hickson, Amalia Holm, Demetria McKinney, Jessica Sutton

Votes: 18,771

5. The Plot Against America (2020)

TV-MA | 62 min | Drama, Thriller

Characters live in an alternative history in which Franklin D. Roosevelt was defeated in the U.S. presidential election of 1940 by Charles Lindbergh.

Stars: Winona Ryder, Anthony Boyle, Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector

Votes: 11,254

6. The Discovery (I) (2017)

TV-MA | 102 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

Two years after the afterlife is scientifically proven, a man attempts to help a young woman break away from her dark past.

Director: Charlie McDowell | Stars: Robert Redford, Mary Steenburgen, Brian McCarthy, Jason Segel

Votes: 37,466

7. Blood Drive (2017)

TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

In a dystopian alternate 1999, a former cop is forced to take part in a death race in which cars run on human blood as fuel.

Stars: Alan Ritchson, Christina Ochoa, Thomas Dominique, Marama Corlett

Votes: 6,837

8. Life or Something Like It (2002)

PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Romance

A reporter interviews a psychic, who tells her that she's going to die and her life is meaningless.

Director: Stephen Herek | Stars: Angelina Jolie, Edward Burns, Tony Shalhoub, Christian Kane

Votes: 28,116 | Gross: $14.45M

9. HyperNormalisation (2016)

166 min | Documentary

Adam Curtis explains how, at a time of confusing and inexplicable world events, politicians and the people they represent have retreated in to a damaging over-simplified version of what is happening.

Director: Adam Curtis | Stars: Adam Curtis, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Victor Gotbaum

Votes: 7,379

10. Seven in Heaven (2018)

PG-13 | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Teenagers Jude and June spend seven minutes in a locked closet and emerge in a hostile and dangerous alternate world.

Director: Chris Eigeman | Stars: Travis Tope, Haley Ramm, Dylan Everett, Jake Manley

Votes: 2,938

11. Smolensk (2016)

120 min | Drama, Thriller

An inspired story of people affected by the 2010 crash of Polish Air Force Flight 101 in Smolensk, Russia. Fiery reporter Nina won't accept the story she's been given and is determined to find the truth.

Director: Antoni Krauze | Stars: Beata Fido, Maciej Póltorak, Aldona Struzik, Lech Lotocki

Votes: 40,175

12. Lady Blue Shanghai (2010)

16 min | Short, Drama, Mystery

A nameless woman enters her Shanghai hotel room to find a vintage record playing and a blue Dior purse that seems to come from nowhere.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Marion Cotillard, Clark Gong, Emily Stofle, Cheng Hong

Votes: 1,970

13. Shuang Shi Chong Fei (2017– )

Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

When two sides of the same woman fall in love with two different princes, can either find true love?

Stars: Zhaolin Xing, Jie Liang, Ruichang Wang, Yi Ning Sun

Votes: 458

14. Fortuna (2020)

108 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Fortuna is a little girl who lives with her mother in an unidentified and anonymous suburb. There's something else that makes this place even darker: an unspeakable secret that shadows the lives of Fortuna and her best friends.

Director: Nicolangelo Gelormini | Stars: Valeria Golino, Pina Turco, Libero De Rienzo, Cristina Magnotti

Votes: 198

15. Honky Holocaust (2014)

96 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller

A few times each century, humanity dodges an apocalyptic bullet and in 1969 that bullet was Charles Manson. But in Honky Holocaust's alternate universe, the Manson Family succeeds in ... See full summary »

Director: Paul McAroni | Stars: Maria Natapov, LaNecia Edmonds, Lucas Fleming, Aurora Grabill

Votes: 160

16. El Hazard: The Magnificent World (1995–1996)

TV-PG | 235 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Thrown into another dimensional world, a teenage boy must save a kingdom by impersonating a missing princess.

Stars: Tetsuya Iwanaga, Ryôtarô Okiayu, Rio Natsuki, Kôji Ishii

Votes: 437

17. Lazare (2020)

108 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical

A team of French-Brazilian actors goes to Bucharest to shoot a film at a lower cost. But the Romanian technical team secretly shoot their own film.

Director: Philippe Chalem | Stars: Emine Meyrem, Milena Straube, Lionel Rousselot, Stanislas Siwiorek

Votes: 11

18. Dark Seed II (1995 Video Game)

M | Adventure, Horror, Mystery

Accused of murdering his librarian girlfriend, small town horror novelist Mike Dawson must catch the shape shifting alien serial killer that did it to help a monstrous alien invader from an alien parallel dimension enter Mike's world.

Director: Michael Hiebert | Stars: Chris Gilbert, Michael Hiebert, Richard Bradbury, Sarah Stone

Votes: 68

19. El-Hazard: The Wanderers (1995–1996)

25 min | Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Thrown into another world, a group of high school friends look for a way home while helping the people they meet there.

Stars: Steve Blum, Randy McPherson, Heidi Lenhart, Eddie Frierson

Votes: 168

20. Persona 2: Eternal Punishment (2000 Video Game)

T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Sumaru City, Japan, the year 2000. The Grand Cross, a famous convergence of the planets, has passed without incident. The latest urban legend among high schoolers is that of the "Joker ... See full summary »

Director: Keith Arem | Stars: Takehito Koyasu, Akiko Yajima, Noriko Kaneko, Jôji Nakata

Votes: 158

21. Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure (1999)

TV-PG | 25 min | Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi

A boy who sees visions of giant robot battles in modern Japan is accidentally transported to the parallel dimension in which the fighting is taking place.

Stars: Joshua Seth, Michelle Ruff, Sherry Lynn, Wendee Lee

Votes: 169

22. El Hazard: The Alternative World (1998–2002)

25 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy

Makoto and the others are mysteriously transported from El Hazard to yet another world where they face dangers, both old and new.

Stars: Bridget Hoffman, Eddie Frierson, Lia Sargent, Michael Sorich

Votes: 173

23. RWD (2015)

TV-MA | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Two men went searching for ghosts, but they found themselves instead...

Director: Matt Stuertz | Stars: Adam Hartley, Matt Stuertz, Aj Meadows

Votes: 508

24. Destiny to Order (1989)

R | 127 min | Comedy, Fantasy

A novelist must come to terms with his characters in this changing reality comedy.

Director: Jim Purdy | Stars: Stephen Ouimette, Alberta Watson, Victoria Snow, Michael Ironside

Votes: 109

25. Shadow Hearts: Covenant (2004 Video Game)

T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

During World War I, a German army officer and her companions try to thwart the plans of a secret society.

Director: Matsuzo Machida | Stars: Joe Cappelletti, Kari Wahlgren, Ellyn Stern, Bob Papenbrook

Votes: 190

26. Psychedelic Pink (1968)

G | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

The Pink Panther discovers a door with an hypnotic eye that takes him on a mind trip in a psychedelic book shop adorned by huge letters of the alphabet and managed by a short, pointy-nosed ... See full summary »

Director: Hawley Pratt

Votes: 325

27. The 7th Portal (2000– )

5 min | Animation, Action, Fantasy

A group of international teenage internet enthusiasts are pulled into another dimension and become superheroes.

Stars: Gordon Michael Woolvett, Jovanni Sy, Christina Gordon, Carlos Diaz

Votes: 25

28. Fragmentary (2019)

90 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

A man believes he can travel to an alternate reality under the influence of alcohol, to see the love of his life, who was murdered in his reality two years before.

Director: Jace Pickard | Stars: Jace Pickard, Jacinta Moses, Debbie Neilson, Renee Lim

Votes: 1,216

29. Hexen: Beyond Heretic (1995 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

While you were battling the evil forces of D'Sparil, the other Serpent Riders were busy sowing the seeds of destruction in other dimensions.

Star: Timothy Moore

Votes: 303

30. El-Hazard 2: The Magnificent World (1997– )

30 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy

While Makoto and his friends search for a missing friend, his enemies find a new super-weapon who is not what she seems to be.

Stars: Eddie Frierson, Lia Sargent, Michael Sorich, R. Martin Klein

Votes: 144

31. Stefano Quantestorie (1993)

92 min | Comedy, Drama

What would it have happened if...? Italian director Maurizio Nichetti replies to this question in this humorous film, where he plays six different roles who meet one another in a way or another during a night.

Director: Maurizio Nichetti | Stars: Maurizio Nichetti, Elena Sofia Ricci, Amanda Sandrelli, Caterina Sylos Labini

Votes: 167

32. Hollow (IV) (2020)

85 min | Mystery

The author Jake Summers has a writer's block for several month. In an attempt to free himself from his blockade, Jake goes on holidays in small village far off from his hometown, but instead he revisits his worst nightmares.

Director: Aaron Townsend | Star: Nik Trifino

33. Vedro (2013– )

30 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

A sketch comedy with a recurring serious segment (usually of horror genre) which evolves around people from the local TV station in the city of Donetsk trying to came of with something to ... See full summary »

Stars: Yaroslav Kozak, Mikhail Bondarev, Leonid Syplyi, Kirill Mieliekiestsev

Votes: 48

34. Whispers of Carcosa

Short, Horror, Mystery | Pre-production

Following mysterious voices who beckon him, a traveler finds himself lost in a seaside town. Upon calling out to a stranger, he discovers some questions best left unanswered.

Director: Pete Yagmin

35. Imagining 'Heavy Metal' (1999 Video)

36 min | Documentary, Short

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Director: Jeffrey Schwarz | Stars: John Bruno, John Candy, Carole Desbiens, Kevin Eastman

Votes: 72

36. Oneverse

Sci-Fi | Announced

James Faulkner, a workaholic scientist, loses his wife in a car accident and uses his knowledge of quantum physics to travel to parallel universes to find the closest thing to his lost love... See full summary »

37. Citizen's Arrest (2008)

5 min | Short, Comedy, Crime

A hipster couple out for a night on the town are pulled over by an ordinary citizen with his wife as backup. Things aren't as they seem in these streets.

Director: Tom Demar | Stars: Zoe Canner, Tom Demar, Chuck Loring, Dwayne Omar Smith

38. Zombie-Virus (2013–2016)

Fantasy

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Stars: Leonid Pustelenin, Lada Kotova, Danil Listov, Just Tomcuk

39. Run Leia Run (2003)

16 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

In this animated parody crossing Star Wars with Lola rennt (Run Lola Run), Princess Leia has twenty minutes to raise 100,000 credits to save Han Solo from being frozen in carbonite.

Director: Adam Bertocci | Stars: Rachel Chadderdon, Will Butler, Ben Fletcher, Darren Scales

Votes: 124

40. Zaderzhi dykhanie (2014)

Short, Comedy, Fantasy

Silent touching story about a boy first trying to do ice skating

Director: Aleksey Krasovskiy | Stars: Alesya Dmitrieva, Igor Skripko

Votes: 10

41. Dym (2007)

8 min | Short, Drama, Mystery

The story of the person who became the captive of surrealistic madness.

Director: Grzegorz Cisiecki | Stars: Katarzyna Dalek, Grzegorz Golaszewski, Hubert Jarczak, Malgorzata Kocik

Votes: 164

42. El funeral de los dedos (2000)

7 min | Short, Drama

One woman that is dead and doesn't know it has a final encounter with her beloved one.

Director: David Josué Delgado | Stars: Diana Danés, Carlos Acosta, Dulce Gutiérrez, Roberto Estrada

Votes: 18

43. Rosenthol Lives On (2006)

Short, Comedy, Drama

Rosenthol is a neurotic hypochondriac whose idiosyncrasies are his own worst enemy. Late twenties and still living with his parents, he's ashamed because he's forced to seek refuge in ... See full summary »

Director: Justin Lader | Stars: Brian Feldman, Gail Golden, J. Bryan Hayes, Paul Austin Sanders

44. Concert for a Rat (1995)

110 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi

The rat lives in a cage that stands in the room of a large communal apartment in which the poet lives. The apartment is in the house, house is in the yard-well, the courtyard is in the city... See full summary »

Director: Oleg Kovalov | Stars: Yelena Savina, Fyodor Konovalov, Pyotr Zaychenko, Katya Tomnitskaya

Votes: 41

45. Susan for Now (2007)

54 min | Documentary

The documentary Susan for Now takes the viewer on a journey of discovery through what most people know only vaguely as a mysterious and taboo subculture: the world of sadomasochism. The ... See full summary »

Director: Robin Franzi

Votes: 9

46. Square Claire (2005)

15 min | Fantasy, Short

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Director: Brad Bartlett | Stars: Deanna Maurice, Trin Blakely, Buddy Farler, Brian Hull

47. Artscape (1984– )

Family

Two kids have adventures in another world that illustrate various concepts of the visual arts.

Stars: Tom Rivers, Diane Douglass, Chris Todman

48. Niin paljon sinua halusin (2010)

4 min | Short, Drama

Pirjo strives for perfection in everything she does, and now her goal is to have a perfect baby. She goes out to find the perfect man to mate with. Finally Pirjo gets what she wanted: a baby so flawless that it is no longer even real.

Director: Aino Suni | Stars: Helena Rängman, Petri Uusitalo, Jose Viitala

49. Infokrieger - Die neuen rechten Medienmacher (2019 TV Movie)

63 min | Documentary

The Internet is an important medium for disseminating information and maintaining interpersonal relationships. But who determines the political discourse that takes place in social networks... See full summary »

Directors: Anna Breithausen, Dennis Leiffels, Marvin Milatz, Alexander Tieg, Uwe Wichert | Stars: Dennis Leiffels, Uwe Wichert, Alexander Tieg, Marvin Milatz

Votes: 11

50. Le portefeuille (2003)

10 min | Animation, Short, Drama

A story of a simple man whom his each different decision facing an incident opens several dimentions in the future.

Director: Vincent Bierrewaerts

Votes: 64