Films with theme "Alternate history films", sorted by name

, 1h32
Genres Drama, War, Thriller
Themes Political films, Alternate history films
Actors Andrea Riseborough, Tom Wlaschiha, Michael Sheen, Kimberley Nixon, Iwan Rheon, Stanislav Yanevski

Grande-Bretagne, 1944. Le pays est occupé par des forces allemandes. Un matin, les femmes d'une vallée galloise isolée se réveillent pour découvrir que tous leurs maris ont mystérieusement disparu.

, 1h56
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Adventure
Themes L'adolescence, Films about animals, Films about education, Films about children, Transport films, Time travel films, Films about automobiles, Comedy science fiction films, Films about dogs, Alternate history films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Teen movie
Actors Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Thomas F. Wilson, Marc McClure

Teenager Marty McFly is an aspiring musician dating girlfriend Jennifer Parker in Hill Valley, California. His father George is bullied by his supervisor, Biff Tannen, while his mother Lorraine is an overweight, depressed alcoholic. Whilst expressing disapproval of Marty's relationship with Jennifer, Lorraine recounts how she met George when her father hit him with a car.

, 1h48
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about education, Transport films, Time travel films, Films about automobiles, Comedy science fiction films, Films set in the future, Alternate history films
Actors Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson, Elisabeth Shue, James Tolkan

On October 5, 1985, Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown arrives in his flying time machine and persuades Marty McFly and his girlfriend, Jennifer Parker, to come back to the future with him to help their future children. Biff Tannen witnesses their departure. They arrive on October 21, 2015, where Doc electronically knocks out Jennifer and leaves her asleep in an alley, explaining that she should not have too much knowledge of future events. He has Marty pose as his own son to refuse an offer to participate in a robbery with Biff's grandson, Griff.

, 1h58
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Transport films, Time travel films, Films about automobiles, Rail transport films, Comedy science fiction films, Alternate history films
Actors Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Thomas F. Wilson, Lea Thompson, Elisabeth Shue

On November 12, 1955, Marty McFly discovers that his friend, Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown, had become trapped in 1885. Marty, with the 1955 Doc, uses the information in Doc's 1885 letter to locate and repair the DeLorean. He spots a tombstone with Doc's name, dated six days after the letter. Learning that Doc was killed by Biff Tannen's great-grandfather, Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, Marty travels back to 1885 to save Doc.

, 1h44
Directed by Richard Loncraine
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Politique, Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Dystopian films, Alternate history films, Films about royalty
Actors Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr., Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith

The film is based on Shakespeare's play of the same name, written in approximately 1592. Unlike the 1955 film starring and directed by Laurence Olivier, this production combines the roles of the Duchess of York and Queen Margaret, widow of Henry VI.

, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, War, Action, Horror
Themes Political films, Alternate history films
Actors Corin Nemec, Ben Cross, Raycho Stevanov Vasiliev, Asen Blatechki, Kirk B. R. Woller, John Newton

During World War Two SS Lieutenant Reinhardt arrives at the Citadel, a French castle being used as a German laboratory. He meets Dr. Ullman (Ben Cross), whom he relieves of command. He finds three caged dogs who are horribly mutated; they are extremely muscled and their bodies glow. Ullman reveals that this is his latest experiment and requests one of Reinhardt's men for a demonstration.

, 2h23
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Alternate history films
Actors Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yūki Amami, Morio Kazama, Tsurutaro Kataoka, Reiko Takashima, Seiko Matsuda

, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Martial arts, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Musical, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about music and musicians, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Comedy science fiction films, Films set in the future, Martial arts films, Musical films, Political films, Road movies, Dystopian films, Alternate history films, Buddy films, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films
Actors Jeffrey Falcon, Dan Barton, Rheagan Wallace

In 1957, the Soviet Union attacks the United States with nuclear weapons, rendering most of the nation uninhabitable. The American government has collapsed with the exception of the haven known as "Lost Vegas", ruled by King Elvis. The Red Army has been besieging Lost Vegas, but the lack of supplies over the years has relegated them to a gang of thugs. Forty years after the Soviet invasion, King Elvis dies and radio disc jockey Keith Mortimer announces a call for all musicians to come to Lost Vegas to try to become the new King of Rock 'n' Roll.

, 2h25
Directed by Richard Kelly
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Time travel films, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Alternate history films, LGBT-related films, Disaster films, LGBT-related film
Actors Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Prinze, Mandy Moore, Miranda Richardson, Wallace Shawn

On July 4th, 2005, in a fictionalized United States alternate history reality, two towns in Texas: El Paso and Abilene were destroyed by twin nuclear attacks that triggered a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions, sending America into a state of anarchy and hysteria, as well as a Third World War (a fictionalized perspective of what the War on Terror would've escalated to). The PATRIOT Act has extended authority to a new agency known as US-IDent, which keeps constant surveillance on citizens—even to the extent of censoring the Internet and requiring fingerprints to access computers and bank accounts. In response to the recent fuel shortage in the wake of global warfare, the German company Treer designs a generator of inexhaustible energy, which is propelled by the perpetual motion of ocean currents, called "Fluid Karma". However, its inventor Baron von Westphalen and his associates are hiding the fact that the generators alter the ocean's currents and cause the Earth to slow its rotation, and that the transmission of Fluid Karma to portable receivers (via quantum entanglement) is ripping holes in the fabric of space and time.

, 2h10
Directed by Katsuhiro Ōtomo
Origin Japon
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Films about computing, Transport films, Rail transport films, Political films, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Steampunk films, Alternate history films
Actors Anne Suzuki, Manami Konishi, Katsuo Nakamura, Masane Tsukayama, Kiyoshi Kodama, Ikki Sawamura

In 1863, where an alternate nineteenth century Europe has made tremendous strides in steam-powered technologies, scientist Lloyd Steam and his son Edward have succeeded, after a lengthy expedition, in discovering a pure mineral water. They believe the water can be harnessed as an ultimate power source for steam engines (the main industrial engine of the time). An experiment in Russian Alaska goes terribly wrong, with Edward being engulfed in freezing gases, but results in the creation of a strange spherical apparatus.

Directed by Maurizio Nichetti
Genres Comedy
Themes Alternate history films
Actors Maurizio Nichetti, Elena Sofia Ricci, Amanda Sandrelli, Milena Vukotic, Caterina Sylos Labini, Renato Scarpa

Stefano, at forty years old, is looking back at his life and at the lost opportunities to living it in a different way: if at seventeen he had moved in America, if he had become an aviator, if he had graduated and had become a professor, if he had become a police officer... destiny will give him a chance to meet all his doppelgangers.

, 1h39
Directed by Mamoru Oshii
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Action
Themes Dystopian films, Alternate history films
Actors Yoshikatsu Fujiki, Shigeru Chiba, Takashi Matsuyama, Fumihiko Tachiki, Masaru Ikeda, Ryōichi Tanaka

The film begins with the last stand of the Kerberos unit. After disobeying an order to disarm and disband, they have held out for an unspecified time: talk between the fatigued Kerberos cops suggests that they might have been stuck there for three days, three months, to three years. A power amplifier system issues orders for a final stand and for Koichi Todome, Midori Washio, and Soichiro Toribe to come to the central building. A Kerberos named Inui wanders through the halls of the Kerberos headquarters and then witnesses officer Koichi Todome boarding a helicopter. Angry, Inui feels betrayed by his master and asks why he's running away and not fighting until the end like he has ordered to his men. As the helicopter takes off, the army breach the headquarters.

Directed by David Anspaugh
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality, Alternate history films
Actors Andy García, Harry Belafonte, Robert Prosky, Ray Walston, James Whitmore, Kate Nelligan

, 1h47
Directed by James Cameron
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Transport films, Time travel films, Films about automobiles, Aviation films, Films set in the future, Political films, Road movies, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Alternate history films, Children's films, Chase films, Anticipation, Robot films, Disaster films
Actors Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield, Earl Boen, Bess Motta

On May 12, 1984, two beings from the year 2029 arrive in Los Angeles: one is a Terminator T-800 Model 101, a cyborg assassin programmed to kill a young woman named Sarah Connor; the other is Kyle Reese, a soldier sent to protect her from the T-800. After the Terminator kills a gang member, a gun-shop manager, the two other women named "Sarah Connor" listed in the telephone directory, Sarah's roommate Ginger, and her partner, it tracks its target to the Technoir, a nightclub. Kyle arrives and saves Sarah from the Terminator. The two steal a car and escape, while the Terminator steals a police car and pursues them.

, 2h17
Directed by James Cameron
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Social science fiction, Action
Themes Films about computing, Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Transport films, Time travel films, Films about automobiles, Aviation films, Motocyclette, Films set in the future, Films about psychiatry, Political films, Road movies, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Alternate history films, Films set in psychiatric hospitals, Chase films, Anticipation, Robot films, Disaster films
Actors Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, Edward Furlong, Earl Boen, Joe Morton

In 1995, John Connor is ten years old and living in Los Angeles with foster parents. His mother Sarah Connor had been preparing him throughout his childhood for his future role as the leader of the Human Resistance against Skynet, but was arrested after attempting to bomb a computer factory and imprisoned at a mental hospital under the supervision of Dr. Silberman. Skynet sends a new Terminator, designated as T-1000, back in time to kill John. The T-1000 is an advanced prototype composed of a mimetic polyalloy that allows it to take on the shape and appearance of almost anything it touches, and transform parts of its anatomy into knives and other stabbing weapons. The T-1000 arrives under a freeway, kills a policeman and assumes his identity. Meanwhile, the future John Connor has sent back a reprogrammed T-800 (Model 101) Terminator to protect his younger self.