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- DirectorSam LiuStarsJason IsaacsAmy AckerDiedrich BaderWhat if baby Kal-El's rocket landed not in Kansas, but in the Soviet Union? That is the premise of this Elseworld's tale from DC Comics.
- DirectorLeopoldo Torre NilssonStarsJosé SlavinMarta GonzálezVíctor LaplaceIn an alternative reality, a man who is entering old age faces a society in which the young eliminate the old.
- DirectorAnthony WoodleyStarsBilly ClarkeAlexander DevrientLuke HealyOutPost 11 is a thrilling story of three Arctic Circle soldiers, Albert, Mason, and Graham, who must navigate isolation, madness, and arctic spiders to survive in an alternative past ruled by steam power.
- DirectorElle CallahanStarsGideon AdlonAbigail CowenElizabeth MitchellIn a modern America where witches are real and witchcraft is illegal, a sheltered teenager must face her own demons and prejudices as she helps two young witches avoid law enforcement and cross the southern border to asylum in Mexico.
- DirectorMotke DappStarsKristopher WenteC.J. Perry BarnyashevSara AntonioDiggsy meets a stranger who gives him a key to parallel universes where another version of the girl of his dreams may not only exist, but where one of them could possibly love him back.
- DirectorHenry SelickStarsDakota FanningTeri HatcherJohn HodgmanWandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, an 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.
- DirectorRalph ThomasStarsJoan CollinsTom BellDenholm ElliottAfter a scientific experiment goes horribly wrong during a demonstration, a scientist finds himself trapped in an alternative reality that bears some similarities to our own, but also has some striking differences. In this other reality, World War II had never occurred, mankind had not yet travelled into space, and Mt. Everest had not yet been conquered, just to name a few things. Also in this other reality, he is no longer a scientist, but rather a well-known author. He also finds that he is married to a beautiful woman with whom he instantly falls in love, but for whom his alternate self never cared. He has some difficulty convincing anyone that he is not actually who they think he is. With the help of a physics professor who believes his story, he finally manages to convince his "wife" that he is not the man she knew before. After a personal tragedy in this alternative world, he finds himself back in his own world and desperately trying to locate the woman with whom he fell in love in the other world. Little does she know, however, that her life depends on him finding her.
- DirectorAlrik BursellStarsPatrice BinaisaPhillip CairesNatalia DominguezUpon unlocking a portal to an alternate dimension where all his dreams have come true, struggling filmmaker Jake is forced to confront his idealized self.
- DirectorIssei ShibataStarsTakuya IshidaMitsuki TanimuraShunsuke DaitôTeenager is transported to a parallel world where everyone who shares his family name is being hunted down by the dictatorial government.
- DirectorQasim BasirStarsJesse MetcalfeJason DohringHill HarperDestined tells the parallel stories of Sheed and Rasheed the same actor played by (Cory Hardrict) as they explore the idea of destiny as well as how the smallest incident can manifest itself into a life changing event.
- DirectorDavid NutterStarsTim ThomersonStacie RandallTy MillerFuture lawman Jack Deth must find his way home from the other-dimensional world of Orpheus, where magic works and trancers are the ruling class.
- DirectorSatoshi MikiStarsKazuya KamenashiYuki UchidaRyô KaseThe world is full of me.
- DirectorDavid MoreauStarsSofia LesaffreStéphane BakJean-Stan Du PacFive kids wake up in a world where everybody has disappeared.
- DirectorDavid NutterStarsTim ThomersonStacie RandallTy MillerLost somewhere in the future, lawman Jack learns he's lost his wife to another and lands in a new, dangerous dimension, where evil Lord Caliban rules.
- DirectorSam RaimiStarsBenedict CumberbatchElizabeth OlsenChiwetel EjioforDoctor Strange teams up with a mysterious teenage girl who can travel across multiverses, to battle other-universe versions of himself which threaten to wipe out the multiverse. They seek help from the Scarlet Witch, Wong and others.
- DirectorMasaaki TezukaIshirô HondaStarsMisato TanakaShôsuke TaniharaMasatô IbuJapan creates an artificial black hole device to trap Godzilla forever, but a test of the device creates new foes for Godzilla, car-sized dragonflies called meganula and their queen, Megaguirus.
- DirectorChristopher WinterbauerStarsTheo TaplitzLulu WilsonSosie BaconIn an alternative 1990s equal parts Yorgos Lanthimos and Todd Solondz (but gentler), an awkward young teen must complete a school requirement in which students wear electronic collars that detach only upon engaging in their first kiss.
- DirectorDaniel KwanDaniel ScheinertStarsMichelle YeohStephanie HsuJamie Lee CurtisA middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led.
- DirectorJim CliffeStarsDanny GloverKyarra WillisKaren HolnessA series of uncanny déjà vu events force a man to re-examine his tragic past, memory, instinct, and future.
- DirectorJon WattsStarsTom HollandZendayaBenedict CumberbatchWith Spider-Man's identity now revealed, Peter asks Doctor Strange for help. When a spell goes wrong, dangerous foes from other worlds start to appear, forcing Peter to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man.
- DirectorAmanda TappingStarsLacey ChabertTyron LeitsoMilli WilkinsonAfter a conversation with a man playing Santa Claus during her office Christmas party, a woman wakes up to find herself married to her college sweetheart with two kids, and questions her life choices.
- DirectorDanny BoyleStarsHimesh PatelLily JamesSophia Di MartinoA struggling musician realizes he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking up in an alternate reality where they never existed.
- DirectorBryan SingerStarsPatrick StewartIan McKellenHugh JackmanThe X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.
- DirectorMatthew VaughnStarsJames McAvoyMichael FassbenderJennifer LawrenceIn the 1960s, superpowered humans Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr work together to find others like them, but Erik's vengeful pursuit of an ambitious mutant who ruined his life causes a schism to divide them.
- DirectorRobert StoneStarsBoris SichkinChristoph GutknechtBoris LyoskinThis mock documentary uses archival footage, interviews and reports taken out of context and staged interviews to highlight a possible escalation into a nuclear war. In this feature, tension in East Germany, and an uprising triggered by a visit by Gorbachev sees a successful military coup taking place in the USSR. Western actions against brutal crack-downs on civilians involved increases tension between the sides, finally resulting in nuclear war.