Movies and TvShows featuring "alternate-reality" theme.
After a plane crash, the survivors find themselves stranded on a mysterious island. As they struggle to survive, they uncover secrets about the island and themselves, leading to a journey of identity, community, and survival.
Angel, a vampire with a soul, runs a detective agency in Los Angeles and helps the helpless by fighting against evil supernatural creatures. Along with his team, they face various challenges and navigate a world full of darkness and redemption.
Quantum Leap is a TV show about a scientist who travels through time, leaping into the bodies of different people. He tries to fix the mistakes of the past and alter history for the better. With the help of his holographic guide, he experiences various adventures in different time periods, encountering both drama and action. The show explores themes of love, friendship, and the impact of small actions on the future. It is set in the 1980s and 1990s and revolves around the concept of quantum physics and time travel.
Farscape follows the adventures of John Crichton, an astronaut who is accidentally transported to a distant part of the universe through a wormhole. He finds himself on the run from the Peacekeepers, a militaristic alien race, and forms an unlikely group of allies while trying to find a way back home. Along the way, he encounters strange creatures, colorful characters, and navigates the political conflicts of different alien races.
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated follows the adventures of a group of teenage detectives, Fred, Velma, Daphne, Shaggy, and their talking dog Scooby-Doo. Together, they investigate and solve various mysteries in their hometown of Crystal Cove, uncovering a larger conspiracy along the way. With humor, suspense, and a touch of romance, the gang faces kidnappings, strange creatures, and the secrets of the town's past.
What If...? takes viewers on a captivating journey through various alternate realities in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, presenting intriguing twists on familiar characters and storylines. With stunning animation and gripping storytelling, this anthology series offers a unique and exciting look into the endless possibilities of the Marvel universe.
W: Two Worlds Apart is a fantasy drama about Oh Yeon-joo, a surgeon whose father, a famous webtoon artist, goes missing. As she tries to find him, she gets transported into the world of her father's comic, where she meets Kang Chul, the main character. Together, they navigate between the real world and the comic book world, facing various challenges and dangers.
In a gritty and violent alternate reality of the 1980s United States, a group of retired masked vigilantes, known as Watchmen, uncover a conspiracy that threatens world peace. As they delve deeper into the mystery, they face moral dilemmas, personal demons, and the question of whether their actions can truly make a difference. With elements of mystery, drama, and sci-fi, Watchmen explores themes of power, morality, and the inherent flaws of humanity.
Pulled into the pages of a fantasy novel, a woman is shocked to find herself stuck in the role of a villain. Now, she must battle to rewrite her destiny.
Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more. Within an isolated node of the Matrix, Bugs, the captain of the Mnemosyne, encounters a program running old code involving Trinity's discovery of Neo's location before Agents of the Matrix find her. Bugs finds one of the agents behaving strangely and discovers he is actually the embodiment of Morpheus and helps to free him from the node before it is erased. Thomas Anderson is a successful game developer, having created a trilogy of games based on his dreams of the Matrix, with the aid of his business partner Smith. He frequents a nearby coffee shop where he continues to encounter Tiffany, a married mother that reminds him of his dreams of Trinity. He has trouble separating dreams from reality, but his therapist consults him and provides him blue pills to help keep his sanity, though he later refuses to take it. He notices an intruder in one of his private instances of the game, but later finds that the instance had been deleted by Smith. Outside the Matrix, Bugs and Morpheus discover Neo's signal within the Matrix, despite the belief he had died. They connect Neo to Anderson, and realize he had been unconsciously running the node to allow Morpheus to be found. Bugs and her allies enter the Matrix to help locate Neo's body in the real world, and discover that Smith is Agent Smith, having been keeping close watch over Anderson's activities. Bugs helps Anderson to elude Smith and his new ability to take control over numerous individuals within the Matrix as a swarm. Bugs and Morpheus explain to Anderson what the Matrix is, and with his perception of reality already waning, Anderson agrees to be extracted. Neo wakes up in a pod, finding that a nearby pod contains Trinity, but machine entities, loyal to Bugs, recover him before he can free her. He is taken to the Mnemosyne and to the new human sanctuary of Io, where he is reintroduced to an elderly Niobe. Niobe explains sixty years had passed in the real world since the end of the Machine War, and the human survivors have allied with the machines to keep the system working against an Anomaly within it. Niobe takes Neo to meet Sati, an exile program he had previously met, who explains that the Anomaly was created after the Machine War and had somehow resurrected Neo and Trinity and kept them isolated from others. Though Neo wants to rescue Trinity, Sati warns that there could be consequences of this. Niobe orders Neo to remain outside the Matrix, but Bugs and others agree to defy her orders to try to help free Trinity. Coordinating activities in and outside the Matrix, Neo and Bugs enter the Matrix but are met by Smith and other exile programs would want to see the Matrix returned to its former self. While Bugs and her crew fight the Exiles, Neo faces against Smith, slowly recalling his previous abilities to bend the rules of reality within the Matrix. With Smith defeated, they take Neo to Tiffany's repair shop, but before Neo can talk to her, his therapist appears and slows down time. The therapist reveals himself to be the Analyst, a program that studies the human psyche but has since grown more powerful. He saw Neo and Trinity die at the end of the Machine War but created the resurrection pods as to study them more. Over countless iterations, he found that individually, the two were not special but when they worked as one, they had overpowered the system. Thus, the Analyst has been controlling the latest iteration of the Matrix as to keep the two near each other but preventing them from becoming close. As this has destabilized the Anomaly, the machines have prepared to reboot the Matrix again, but the Analyst has placed that on hold. He threatens to kill Trinity if Neo does not return to be reinserted in his pod. Neo and Bugs are forced to leave the Matrix when another ship loyal to Niobe brings the Mnemosyne back to Io. Neo pleads to Niobe to let him return to try to free Trinity again, and she eventually agrees. Within the Matrix, the Analyst invites Neo to a challenge, that if Trinity volunteers to go free of the Matrix, Neo can take her, but if she refuses, Neo will permanently return to the Matrix; Neo agrees. Trinity, as Tiffany, is brought to them and when the question is posed to her, her family appears. She initially seems to want to go with them, but soon rejects that reality and recognizes that she is Trinity. The Analyst prepare to kill them before Smith interferes, temporarily stopping the Analyst and giving time for Neo, Trinity, and the others to escape. Neo and Trinity race ahead to give Bugs and the others time to extract themselves, but the Analyst turns a swarm of controlled humans against them. The pair race into a skyscraper, and with nowhere else to go, the two jump with Neo expecting to be able to fly them away. Instead, Trinity has come to learn to fly and the two escape and regain control of the Matrix. In the aftermath, Neo and Trinity return to face the Analyst, assuring him that he will face dire consequences should he try to seize control of the Matrix again. Neo and Trinity both fly away to redesign the Matrix.
Eureka is a small, seemingly normal town hidden in the Pacific Northwest. However, it is anything but ordinary. It is a secret community of geniuses working on advanced scientific experiments. Sheriff Jack Carter finds himself constantly dealing with the strange occurrences and eccentric personalities that come with living in Eureka.
Barry Allen, after being struck by lightning, gains the ability to harness the Speed Force. In an attempt to save his family, he travels back in time, resulting in a world devoid of superheroes. General Zod returns, and Barry must join forces with a retired Batman, another version of himself, and an imprisoned kryptonian to defeat him.
Haven is a crime TV show set in a small coastal town in Maine, where FBI agent Audrey Parker arrives to investigate a murder. As she delves deeper into the case, she discovers that the town is plagued by supernatural and paranormal phenomena, including time-travel, reincarnation, and cursed townspeople. With the help of the local police officer Nathan Wuornos and the mysterious smuggler Duke Crocker, Audrey uncovers the town's mysterious past and her own connection to it.
Timeless follows a team of individuals who use a time machine to travel through different eras in order to prevent a secret organization from altering the course of history. Led by a history professor, a soldier, and a scientist, the team must navigate through various challenges and handle the consequences of their actions as they try to maintain the timeline.
In a parallel universe, where the Axis Powers won World War II, the United States has been divided between Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. The story follows a group of rebels who rise against the oppressive regime and search for a mysterious film that shows a different reality, known as 'The Man in the High Castle.' As tensions escalate between the Nazis and the Japanese, the rebels must navigate a dangerous landscape filled with spies, conspiracies, and interdimensional travel.
Rumpelstiltskin tricks a mid-life crisis burdened Shrek into allowing himself to be erased from existence and cast in a dark alternate timeline where Rumpelstiltskin rules supreme.
In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet. The story is set in the indeterminate future. A virus, deliberately released in 1996 in multiple locations around the world, has killed off nearly all of the Earth's population, at least five billion people...
Jason Dessen is abducted into an alternate version of his life. To get back to his true family, he embarks on a harrowing journey to save them from the most terrifying foe imaginable: himself.
In 'Sliders,' a group of friends accidentally discover a way to travel between parallel dimensions using a device called a 'sliding' device. They find themselves in various alternate realities, each with its own set of challenges and dangers. Their main goal is to find a way back to their own dimension while avoiding getting trapped or lost in the process.
Neo, Trinity, and Morpheus lead the revolt against the Machine Army. They fight against repression and exploitation using their extraordinary skills and weapons. As they face the imminent threat to Zion, they seek the advice of the Oracle. However, Agent Smith poses a new danger, transforming individuals into clones. Against orders, Morpheus takes Neo to meet the Oracle with the hope of ending the war.