9 Movie Recommendations for Multiverse Fiends
If the nerve wrecking, mind-boggling prospects of universes outside our own and realities with people similar to our own allures you, this list of movie recommendations is for you.
Of late, the film industry has seen a surge in the number of movies where the plot revolves around multiverse and multiversal travel. Marvel’s Spiderman: No Way Home, Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness and What if.. are some examples. While the notion of Multiverse itself might be a relatively newer one in the movie industry, there are movies that explore possibilities equally dubious and in this list, we have a list of fantasy movies that will get you in the state of existential crisis you so crave.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
IMDb: 8.1
A Chinese immigrant gets unwillingly embroiled in an epic adventure where she must connect different versions of herself in the parallel universe to stop someone who intends to harm the multiverse.
Vanilla Sky
IMDb: 6.9
David Aames, a publishing magnate, becomes the victim of a car crash, which scars his face. The incident changes him and compels him to question the existing reality of his life.
Butterfly Effect
IMDb: 7.6
Evan gets severe headaches that cause him to suffer blackouts. While unconscious, he is able to travel back in time and alter the past but this causes drastic changes in his present life.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
IMDb: 6.9
Doctor Strange teams up with a mysterious teenage girl from his dreams who can travel across multiverses, to battle multiple threats, including other-universe versions of himself, which threaten to wipe out millions across the multiverse.
Looper
IMDb: 7.4
In the near future, the mob sends their victims back in time to get them executed by the loopers. Joe, one such looper, finds himself to be the victim of his own actions.
Predestination
IMDb: 7.4
As his last assignment, a temporal agent is tasked to travel back in time and prevent a bomb attack in New York in 1975. The hunt, however, turns out to be beyond the bounds of possibility.
Source Code
IMDb: 7.5
Army pilot Stevens, recruited for a top-secret operation, finds himself in the body of an unknown man. Soon, he is on a mysterious trail to track down the bomber of the Chicago commuter train.
Palm Springs
IMDb: 7.4
Stuck in a time loop, two wedding guests develop a budding romance while living the same day over and over again.
Groundhog Day
IMDb: 8.1
Phil, a self-centred weatherman, goes to the town of Punxsutawney for an assignment. He is later shocked when he wakes up the next morning and realises that he is reliving the same day over and over.