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What If Movies

by NoRa_FoKa • Created 2 years ago • Modified 2 years ago
These movies show other versions of life. How different it would be with just another choice. Which do you think does it best?

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  • Marina Kalogirou and Christopher Papakaliatis in What If... (2012)

    1. What If...

    20121h 51mNot Rated
    6.9 (8.8K)
    Under the Athenian night sky, before the silent threat of an imminent socio-economic crisis, a young man goes for a stroll and meets the love of his life. Does fate govern one's existence? What would have happened if he stayed in, instead?
    DirectorChristopher PapakaliatisStarsChristopher PapakaliatisMarina KalogirouGiorgos Konstadinou
    Remake:One Love Two Lives (2019)
  • Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess in One Day (2011)

    2. One Day

    20111h 47mPG-1348Metascore
    7.0 (177K)
    After spending the night together on the eve of their college graduation, Dexter and Emma are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, and sometimes not.
    DirectorLone ScherfigStarsAnne HathawayJim SturgessPatricia Clarkson
  • Four to Dinner (2022)

    3. Four to Dinner

    20221h 45mTV-MA
    6.3 (4K)
    In this rom-com challenging the concept of soulmates, parallel storylines portray four single friends as they pair up in different couple combinations.
    DirectorAlessio Maria FedericiStarsIlenia PastorelliMatilde GioliGiuseppe Maggio
  • Javier Gutiérrez, Adriana Ugarte, Álvaro Morte, Chino Darín, Luna Fulgencio, and Julio Bohigas-Couto in Mirage (2018)

    4. Mirage

    20182h 8mTV-MA
    7.4 (69K)
    Vera, a mother of one, interacts with the ghost of a child and saves his life. However, her actions cause a space-time continuum glitch, altering reality.
    DirectorOriol PauloStarsAdriana UgarteChino DarínJavier Gutiérrez
  • Giuseppe Battiston, Marco Giallini, Edoardo Leo, Valerio Mastandrea, Kasia Smutniak, Anna Foglietta, and Alba Rohrwacher in Perfect Strangers (2016)

    5. Perfect Strangers

    20161h 36m
    7.7 (76K)
    Seven long-time friends meet for dinner. They decide to share their text messages, emails and phone calls. Secrets are unveiled. Harmony trembles.
    DirectorPaolo GenoveseStarsGiuseppe BattistonAnna FogliettaMarco Giallini
    Remakes:Teleioi xenoi (2016)
    Perfectos desconocidos (2017)
    Le jeu (2018)
    Perfectos desconocidos (2018)
    Complet Necunoscuti (2021)
    Zarim Mushlamim (2021)
    Ashab wala Aaz (2022)
    Perfect Strangers (2022)
  • Ashton Kutcher and Amy Smart in The Butterfly Effect (2004)

    6. The Butterfly Effect

    20041h 53mR30Metascore
    7.6 (545K)
    Evan Treborn suffers blackouts during significant events of his life. As he grows up, he finds a way to remember these lost memories and a supernatural way to alter his life by reading his journal.
    DirectorsEric BressJ. Mackye GruberStarsAshton KutcherAmy SmartMelora Walters
    The Butterfly Effect 2 (2006)
  • Jared Leto in Mr. Nobody (2009)

    7. Mr. Nobody

    20092h 21mR63Metascore
    7.7 (254K)
    A boy stands on a station platform as a train is about to leave. Should he go with his mother or stay with his father? Infinite possibilities arise from this decision. As long as he doesn't choose, anything is possible.
    DirectorJaco Van DormaelStarsJared LetoSarah PolleyDiane Kruger
  • Gwyneth Paltrow in Sliding Doors (1998)

    8. Sliding Doors

    19981h 39mPG-1359Metascore
    6.7 (74K)
    After personal and professional setbacks, a woman experiences an alternate reality.
    DirectorPeter HowittStarsGwyneth PaltrowJohn HannahJohn Lynch
  • Adam Sandler in Click (2006)

    9. Click

    20061h 47mPG-1345Metascore
    6.4 (377K)
    A workaholic architect finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices.
    DirectorFrank CoraciStarsAdam SandlerKate BeckinsaleChristopher Walken
  • Nicolas Cage, Téa Leoni, Jake Milkovich, Ryan Milkovich, and Makenzie Vega in The Family Man (2000)

    10. The Family Man

    20002h 5mPG-1342Metascore
    6.8 (127K)
    Offered the opportunity to see how the other half lives, a fast-lane investment broker, wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have become a mini-van and a wife.
    DirectorBrett RatnerStarsNicolas CageTéa LeoniDon Cheadle
  • Bruce Willis, Jeff Daniels, Piper Perabo, Paul Dano, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt in Looper (2012)

    11. Looper

    20121h 59mR84Metascore
    7.4 (621K)
    In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
    DirectorRian JohnsonStarsJoseph Gordon-LevittBruce WillisEmily Blunt
  • Rachel McAdams and Domhnall Gleeson in About Time (2013)

    12. About Time

    20132h 3mR55Metascore
    7.8 (419K)
    At the age of 21, Tim discovers he can travel in time and change what happens and has happened in his own life. His decision to make his world a better place by getting a girlfriend turns out not to be as easy as you might think.
    DirectorRichard CurtisStarsDomhnall GleesonRachel McAdamsBill Nighy
  • Rachel Griffiths in Me Myself I (1999)

    13. Me Myself I

    19991h 44mR46Metascore
    6.6 (2.7K)
    Pamela Drury is unhappy and alone. On her birthday she stumbles across a photo of Robert Dickson and wonders what would've happened had she said yes to his proposal. A freak accident causes Pamela to live out the life she could've had, but is the grass on the other side always greener?
    DirectorPip KarmelStarsRachel GriffithsDavid RobertsSandy Winton
  • Zac Efron in 17 Again (2009)

    14. 17 Again

    20091h 42mPG-1348Metascore
    6.4 (228K)
    Mike O'Donnell is ungrateful for how his life turned out. He gets a chance to rewrite his life when he tried to save a janitor near a bridge and jumped after him into a time vortex.
    DirectorBurr SteersStarsZac EfronMatthew PerryLeslie Mann
  • Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future Part II (1989)

    15. Back to the Future Part II

    19891h 48mPG57Metascore
    7.8 (606K)
    After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip.
    DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsMichael J. FoxChristopher LloydLea Thompson
  • James Stewart and Donna Reed in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

    16. It's a Wonderful Life

    19462h 10mPG89Metascore
    8.6 (534K)
    An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartDonna ReedLionel Barrymore
  • Denzel Washington and Paula Patton in Deja Vu (2006)

    17. Deja Vu

    20062h 6mPG-1359Metascore
    7.1 (340K)
    After a ferry is bombed in New Orleans, an A.T.F. agent joins a unique investigation using experimental surveillance technology to find the bomber, but soon finds himself becoming obsessed with one of the victims.
    DirectorTony ScottStarsDenzel WashingtonPaula PattonJim Caviezel
  • Himesh Patel and Lily James in Yesterday (2019)

    18. Yesterday

    20191h 56mPG-1355Metascore
    6.8 (179K)
    A 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.
    DirectorDanny BoyleStarsHimesh PatelLily JamesSophia Di Martino
  • Jennifer Garner in 13 Going on 30 (2004)

    19. 13 Going on 30

    20041h 38mPG-1357Metascore
    6.3 (238K)
    Unpopular schoolgirl Jenna Rink makes an unusual wish on her birthday. Miraculously, her wish comes true and the 13-year-old Jenna wakes up the next day as a 30-year-old woman.
    DirectorGary WinickStarsJennifer GarnerMark RuffaloJudy Greer
  • Jamie Lee Curtis, Michelle Yeoh, James Hong, Ke Huy Quan, and Stephanie Hsu in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

    20. Everything Everywhere All at Once

    20222h 19mR81Metascore
    7.8 (591K)
    A 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.
    DirectorsDaniel KwanDaniel ScheinertStarsMichelle YeohStephanie HsuJamie Lee Curtis
  • Will Ferrell, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Radha Mitchell in Melinda and Melinda (2004)

    21. Melinda and Melinda

    20041h 39mPG-1354Metascore
    6.4 (34K)
    Two alternating stories, one comedy and the other tragedy, about Melinda's attempts to straighten out her life.
    DirectorWoody AllenStarsWill FerrellVinessa ShawChiwetel Ejiofor
  • Louis Hayward and Joan Leslie in Repeat Performance (1947)

    22. Repeat Performance

    19471h 31mApproved
    6.8 (2.3K)
    On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.
    DirectorAlfred L. WerkerStarsLouis HaywardJoan LeslieVirginia Field
  • Antônio Fagundes, Débora Falabella, Rodrigo Santoro, and Marieta Severo in A Dona da História (2004)

    23. A Dona da História

    20041h 24m
    6.5 (761)
    A 50 year-old woman who analyses her past. She pictures herself when she was 20 years old and she re-creates the story of her life through a game of innumerous possibilities... What if she wouldn't have gone to that ball? What if... instead of meeting the man of her life, with whom she married and had kids, she would have called a girlfriend and they went to the theater? What would be her destiny? What would have happened? In the plot the present talks to the past. A young woman projects her future in a fascinating game between memories and desires.
    DirectorDaniel FilhoStarsMarieta SeveroDébora FalabellaAntônio Fagundes
  • Julia and Julia (1987)

    24. Julia and Julia

    19871h 38mR
    5.4 (936)
    Julia, an American woman living in Italy, becomes depressed and traumatized after her husband Paolo is killed in a car accident on their wedding day. Six years later, she inexplicably finds herself sliding between two different worlds: in one she is still struggling with her grief over Paolo's death; in the other she is married to Paolo. In the latter timeline, Paolo is alive and well with their 5-year-old son, and Julia is having an affair with a British gentleman named Daniel. The frequent supernatural sliding between these two worlds threatens to drive Julia crazy, as she has difficulty telling them apart. Then she learns which world she currently inhabits.
    DirectorPeter Del MonteStarsKathleen TurnerGabriele FerzettiGabriel Byrne
  • Olivia Munn, Eleanor Tomlinson, Joel Fry, Tim Key, Freida Pinto, Aisling Bea, Sam Claflin, Jack Farthing, and Allan Mustafa in Love Wedding Repeat (2020)

    25. Love Wedding Repeat

    20201h 40mTV-MA41Metascore
    5.6 (23K)
    While trying to make his sister's wedding day go smoothly, Jack finds himself juggling an angry ex-girlfriend, an uninvited guest with a secret, a misplaced sleep sedative, and the girl who got away in alternate versions of the same day.
    DirectorDean CraigStarsSam ClaflinOlivia MunnFreida Pinto

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