Best tv shows like The Crossing Hero
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Plot Summary:
Can Ming Dynasty imperial guards who are accidentally transported to the future adjust to life in the modern era? Hong Xi Dong is the leader of Emperor Zhu Yun Wen’s personal bodyguard detail during the Ming Dynasty. When a precious pearl treasure goes missing and is thought to be in Xi Dong’s possession, two imperial military guards – Peng Ze and Xu Xiao Tian – give chase.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: History, Sci-Fi
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Splash Splash Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
Danbi, a senior in high school, is whisked back in time to the Joseon Era. There she is mistaken for a servant and begins her life anew as the confidante of King Lee Do; her knowledge of mathematics and sciences, however, begins to cause controversies to arise.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, History, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: dorama, romantic, captivating, novela, entertaining, period drama
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Gosti iz proshlogo (2020)
Plot Summary:
Moscow, year 1982. Scientist Matvey Pyotrovsky creates a time machine and conducts a scientific experiment, which divides the apartment in two parts. It's first part is left in the 80-s with the professor, while the second one is transported to year 2020 to a modern family: businessman Sergey, his wife Svetlana and daughter Kristina. This kind of coliving creates a lot of trouble for everybody, since layering of two times means each of the families has lost access to the other part of the apartment. But problems don't end there: inventor's grandson Pavel, after waiting for 38 years, tries to prevent one tragic incident.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy, History, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Ashi Girl (2017)
Plot Summary:
Hayakawa Yui is a young girl whose biggest quality is to be a fast runner. She accidentally travels through time up to the Sengoku Era and falls in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 38 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Thunderstone (1999)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2020. Fifteen-year-old Noah lives with his family in the futuristic underground community of North Col. The world above is a frozen wasteland after a massive comet strike destroyed all other life in the world including the animals. One night, he accidentally time travels to the future and finds himself trapped in the year 2085 in a desolate desert place called Haven with a group of children, the Nomads, led by Arushka.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic
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Labyrinth of Cinema (2019)
Plot Summary:
The only movie theater on the Onomichi seafront is about to close its doors. Its last night of screenings will be an all-night marathon of Japanese war films. When lightning strikes the theater, three young men in the audience find themselves thrown back in time into the world inside the screen.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 894
Genere: Drama, History, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 179 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Nobunaga Concerto (2014)
Plot Summary:
Saburo is a high school student good in sports, but not very good with his studies. One day, Saburo travels back in time and arrives in the Sengoku period of 1549. There, Saburo meets Nobunaga Oda who looks and sounds just like Saburo. Nobunaga Oda is the son of a warlord and magistrate of the lower Owari Province. Nobunaga Oda though is physically weak and he asks Saburo to take his place. Then, Saburo as Nobunaga Oda attempts to unify the country of Japan.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 505
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, anime
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4400 (2021)
Plot Summary:
4400 overlooked, undervalued, or otherwise marginalized people who vanished without a trace over the last hundred years are all returned in an instant, having not aged a day and with no memory of what happened to them. As the government races to analyze the potential threat and contain the story, the 4400 themselves must grapple with the fact that they've been returned with a few "upgrades", and the increasing likelihood that they were all brought back now for a specific reason.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, interesting
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A Step Into The Past (2001)
Plot Summary:
A Step into the Past is a 2001 Hong Kong television series produced by TVB and based on Huang Yi's novel of the same Chinese title. The series tells the story of a 21st-century Hong Kong VIPPU officer who travels back in time to the Warring States period of ancient China. He is involved in a number of important historical events that leads to the first unification of China under the Qin Dynasty. The series' first original broadcast ran from 15 October to 7 December 2001 on the TVB Jade network in Hong Kong.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, exciting
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Time Chasers (1994)
Plot Summary:
An inventor comes up with a time machine, but must prevent its abuse at the hands of an evil C.E.O.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, cult film
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Lifeline (2017)
Plot Summary:
What if you could use time travel to save your life? Welcome to "LIFELINE," the new YouTube Red Original Series about the Lifeline insurance agency, whose specially trained agents jump forward in time to prevent the deaths of their clients.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 863
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: tense, non-linear, exciting, captivating, enigmatic, suspense, futuristic
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The Tomorrow People (1992)
Plot Summary:
The Tomorrow People are the next stage of human evolution. They can teleport, communicate by telepathy, heal with the power of thought and they are unable to kill or harm any living creature. Aided by a mysterious and ancient spacecraft buried in the sand of a Pacific island, the Tomorrow People use their powers to protect the world, while trying to keep their own existence a secret for fear of exploitation.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, futuristic, suspenseful
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Tatau (2015)
Plot Summary:
Tatau follows Kyle and Budgie, two twenty-something friends from London that set off to travel the world. Ahead of the journey, Kyle gets a Maori-style tattoo to celebrate their eventual destination: the Cook Islands. When snorkeling in a lagoon, Kyle finds the dead body of a local girl, Aumea, tied up underwater. Returning to the lagoon with the police, Kyle finds her corpse has disappeared. But Kyle knows what he saw. Desperate to uncover what happened, Kyle and Budgie find themselves sucked deeper and deeper into a world of Maori myths, symbols, and hallucinatory visions... until finally the full meaning of Kyle’s tattoo is revealed.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: mind bending, clever, serious, captivating, suspenseful
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Riley Rewind (2013)
Plot Summary:
A high school girl named Riley has the ability to travel back in time and uses this power to save her friend who commits suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, offbeat
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Dirk Gently (2010)
Plot Summary:
Dirk Gently is a British comedy detective drama TV series based on characters from the Dirk Gently novels by Douglas Adams. The series was created by Howard Overman and stars Stephen Mangan as holistic detective Dirk Gently and Darren Boyd as his sidekick Richard MacDuff. Recurring actors include Helen Baxendale as MacDuff's girlfriend Susan Harmison, Jason Watkins as Dirk's nemesis DI Gilks and Lisa Jackson as Dirk's receptionist Janice Pearce. Unlike most detective series Dirk Gently features broadly comic touches and even some science fiction themes such as time travel and artificial intelligence. Dirk Gently operates his Holistic Detective Agency based on the "fundamental interconnectedness of all things", which relies on random chance methods to uncover connections between seemingly-unrelated cases. He claims that he follows the principles of quantum mechanics, and although the majority of his clients suspect he may be a conman he often produces surprising results. With the help of his assistant, Richard MacDuff, Dirk investigates a number of seemingly unrelated but interconnected cases. An hour-long pilot episode loosely based on plot elements from Adams' 1987 novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency was broadcast on BBC Four on 16 December 2010 and was watched by 1.1 million viewers. Critical reception was generally positive. A full series of three one-hour episodes was subsequently commissioned in March 2011 and was broadcast on BBC Four in March 2012. The series was the first continuing drama series produced for the digital channel.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: detective, humorous, semi serious, captivating, exciting, touching, hilarious, offbeat, suspenseful, witty
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Samurai Sensei (2015)
Plot Summary:
Takechi Hanpeita, a samurai from Bakumatsu period time-travels 150 years to modern day Japan.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Time travels (2014)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl wish for her parents to get back together, when suddenly she meets a time traveling guy from the future. Together they try to change both the past and the feature - with small bumps on their way.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Paper Girls (2022)
Plot Summary:
It's the day after Halloween in 1988 when four young friends accidentally stumble into an intergalactic battle and find themselves inexplicably transported to the year 2019. When they come face-to-face with their adult selves, each girl discovers her own strengths as together they try to find a way back to the past while saving the world of the future.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing, exciting, thrilling, retro, queer cinema
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Time Jumpers (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a young man finds a time machine device, his life spins out of control.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 689
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, anthology
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Visitor from the Future (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Visitor from the Future is a cross-media series that combines comedy and science fiction. Since its launch in April 2009, it was viewed 5 million times on the French web and was aired on the TV channel NOLIFE.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Journeyman (2007)
Plot Summary:
This mystery-drama revolves around a newspaper reporter named Dan Vasser who suddenly begins to travel through time to change the lives of those around him. When his travels reunite him with his long-lost fiancée Livia, life with his present-day wife gets very interesting.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, captivating, psychological, suspense, sweet, apocalyptic, serious, suspenseful
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The Crossing (2018)
Plot Summary:
Refugees from a war-torn country start showing up to seek asylum in an American town. Only the country these people are from is America and the war they are fleeing is 250 years in the future. The local sheriff with a past, a federal agent and a mother in search of her missing refugee daughter drive this allegory with a surprising conspiracy at the center.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, suspense, non-linear, spiritual
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Tales from the Loop (2020)
Plot Summary:
The story of the town and people who live above “The Loop,” a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe – making things possible that were previously relegated only to science fiction.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: anthology, futuristic, thought provoking, captivating, visually appealing, entertaining, realistic, enigmatic, iconic
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Travelers (2016)
Plot Summary:
Hundreds of years from now, the last surviving humans discover the means of sending consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These "travelers" assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly working as teams to perform missions in order to save humanity from a terrible future.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, intellectual, spiritual, detective, smart, mind blowing, interactive
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Time After Time (2017)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of young H.G. Wells and his time machine.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, exciting, suspense, intense, romantic, atmospheric
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Frequency (2016)
Plot Summary:
Detective Raimy Sullivan is stunned when a voice suddenly crackles through her father’s old, long-broken ham radio – it’s Frank Sullivan, somehow transmitting over the airwaves and through the decades from 1996. Separated by twenty years, father and daughter have reunited on a frequency only they can hear, but can they rewrite the story of their lives without risking everyone they love?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, detective, suspense, atmospheric, spiritual, sitcom
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Plan B (2017)
Plot Summary:
Et si c'était possible de faire marche arrière dans le temps pour modifier le cours des événements et changer sa destinée? Et si une deuxième chance nous était offerte? Et si c'était possible grâce à Plan B - Le jour où Philippe perd l'amour de sa vie, Evelyne, il découvre une invraisemblable compagnie du nom de Plan B qui offre la possibilité de revenir dans le passé. Après un premier essai fructueux, Philippe réalise l'immense pouvoir que lui donne ce stratagème. Il voudra donc aussi s'en servir au profit de son cabinet d'avocats qu'il possède avec son associé/ami/beau-frère Patrice et pour remettre son frère André sur le droit chemin. Mais Philippe réalisera qu'un choix nouveau, aussi minime soit-il, a des répercussions aussi incontrôlables qu'insoupçonnées sur sa vie et celle des autres. Plus rien ne sera sans conséquence. Le jeu en vaut-il la chandelle? Valait-il mieux accepter son véritable destin?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing, anthology
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Passage (2019)
Plot Summary:
Passage is an episodic paranormal sci-fi drama centered around Janus Agent Ali Prader. This queer mom is a top paranormal operative for a secret division called Caelus within the government. Ali is able to balance her professional and personal life – that is until she starts to unravel a thread that opens the door to a new crucial shift in power.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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Rewind (2013)
Plot Summary:
Revolves around a team of military field operatives and civilian scientists who must use untested technology to travel back in time to alter past events in order to change the future and avoid a devastating terrorist attack. Feature length pilot for failed tv series, released as a made for TV movie.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: captivating, intense, tense, suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful
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Continuum (2012)
Plot Summary:
The series centers on the conflict between a group of rebels from the year 2077 who time-travel to Vancouver, BC, in 2012, and a police officer who accidentally accompanies them. In spite of being many years early, the rebel group decides to continue its violent campaign to stop corporations of the future from replacing governments, while the police officer endeavours to stop them without revealing to anyone that she and the rebels are from the future.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, detective, apocalyptic, cyber, spooky, serious, suspenseful, tense, interesting
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Flashforward (2009)
Plot Summary:
When the entire world blacks out for two minutes and seventeen seconds, everyone sees a flash of their own future 6 months from the present. For some, the future is hopeful, while for others, it is unexpected. For a few, it doesn't seem to exist. Knowing their fate will alter each person's life, destinies will be changed.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: mind bending, suspenseful, stylized, surreal, apocalyptic, tense, thought provoking, captivating, futuristic, cliffhanger