One major and mind-bending aspect of sci-fi movies is alternate realities- parallel worlds where everything seems to be alike yet different.
Below are seven movie recommendations centered on the alternate reality theme that will twist your mind but leave you thrilled.
Donnie Darko (Prime Video): A teenager befriends a figure only he can see, who informs him that the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds.
Source Code (Prime Video): A soldier wakes up in someone else's body and discovers he's part of an experimental government program.
Predestination (Prime Video): A temporal agent is tasked to travel back in time and prevent a bomb attack in New York in 1975, beyond the bounds of possibility.
Synchronic (Netflix): When two paramedics discover a connection between several deaths and a designer drug, their lives are upended.
Looper (Prime Video): A hitman working for organised crime, kills people sent back in time by his employers when his own future self appears in front of him.
Edge of Tomorrow (Netflix): A captain who is trapped in a time loop, teams up with a warrior to save the planet after alien forces threaten to wipe out the human race.
Inception (Netflix, Prime Video, Jio Cinema): A man steals information from his targets by entering their dreams in search of his only chance at redemption.