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22 films tagged parallel worlds
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2025 · Family
Four misfits from a small Idaho town fall through a portal into a blocky world where anything can be built, and need a man called Steve to get them home. It moves fast and is played for laughs.
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2025 · Animation
In 1860s Mexico, a young woman who cannot get her horror stories published is visited by a prince from the world she invented, whose kingdom runs on human fear. Stop-motion, gothic, and there are songs.
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2023 · Comedy
A doll from a pink plastic world where every day is perfect starts having thoughts she is not meant to have, and drives to the real world to find out why. Bright, fast, jokes stacked on jokes, with dance numbers.
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2025 · Science fiction
A woman whose daughter was murdered uses a machine to cross into parallel universes and kill the same man again and again, until a teenage runaway attaches herself to the trip. Small, grim science fiction, mostly on the road.
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2026 · Horror
A furniture store owner in San Jose falls through a glowing slit in his basement wall into an endless run of yellow rooms and corridors, where a researcher went missing in 1990. His therapist goes looking too.
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2026 · Fantasy
A washed-up martial arts actor is recruited by a thunder god to fight for Earth in a tournament against the emperor of another realm. It is fight after fight, and it expects you to know the first one.
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2026 · Fantasy
A prince of Eternia is sent to Earth as a boy when a warlock takes his parents, and grows up in an office job in Oklahoma still hunting the sword he lost. Big, loud sword-and-sorcery once it gets back off-world.
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2026 · Comedy
A chauvinist ad executive argues that men have it harder, knocks himself out, and wakes in a world run by women where the colleague he promoted as cover is now his boss. A broad comedy that flips every scene.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2026 · Science fiction
A love story told across several timelines, following Ivy through parallel versions of present-day London. It plays out in the city's live jazz scene.
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2009 · Animation
A bored girl moves into an old house and finds a small door into a version of her home where her parents pay attention and everything is better. Stop-motion, made for children, and properly creepy.
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1999 · Science fiction
A software developer who moonlights as a hacker is told the world he lives in is not the real one, and is offered a look at it. Kung fu, long coats, and a lot of talk about what is actually there.
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2013 · Thriller
A tired history lecturer in a yellow-lit Toronto spots a bit-part actor who looks exactly like him, and sets out to find him. Slow, quiet, and confusing on purpose.
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2021 · Comedy
A cheerful bank teller works out that he is a background character in a violent online game, and starts playing it himself. Bright, fast, and full of jokes about video games.
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2023 · Animation
A teenage Spider-Man from Brooklyn is pulled into a society of hundreds of Spider-people from other worlds, who have rules about how these stories are supposed to go. Loud, fast, packed with detail, and it stops mid-story.
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2018 · Animation
A Brooklyn teenager gets spider powers and finds himself sharing the city with Spider-People pulled in from other dimensions. It is fast, loud and drawn like a comic book page.
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2021 · Action
With his name public and his life coming apart, Spider-Man asks a wizard for a spell to make everyone forget him, and it goes wrong. Big fights, plenty of jokes, and it leans on the films before it.
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2023 · Animation
During the war a Tokyo boy is moved out to his family's country estate after losing his mother, and a talking heron leads him into a tower with another world inside. It wanders, and the rules are never explained.
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2019 · Horror
A family on holiday at their beach house find four people standing in the driveway at night who look exactly like them. It runs on chases and a house under siege, with jokes throughout and plenty to argue about after.
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2022 · Science fiction
A woman running a failing laundromat is hauled in for a tax audit and told she has to save reality by borrowing skills from versions of herself in other universes. It is a family argument and a martial arts film happening at the same time.
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2016 · Animation
A girl in a mountain town and a boy in Tokyo start waking up in each other's bodies a few days a week with no idea why, and begin leaving each other notes. Bright, fast and hand-drawn, funny one minute and serious the next.
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2011 · Science fiction
A second Earth appears in the sky the same night a student causes a fatal crash, and years later she goes to work for the man whose family she destroyed. The science stays in the background.
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2024 · Action
A mercenary who talks to the audience drags a reluctant Wolverine across timelines to save his own. Rude, violent, and stuffed with references.
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