10 Best Multiverse Movies Ever

Multiverse movies don't get much weirder than Donnie Darko, one of the definitive cult classics of the early 2000s, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as the titular teenager who narrowly avoids calamitous death before learning of a grim prophecy that the world will end in 28 days.

Unlike most movies on this list, Donnie Darko doesn't hold your hand through its multiversal hooey, enough that you really need to read an extra feature on the Director's Cut DVD - an excerpt from "The Philosophy of Time Travel," a book featured in the film itself - to truly fathom what's going on.

Even if you don't understand it entirely, though, you'll probably feel Donnie Darko and appreciate its spectacularly weird, inventive take on both time travel and parallel universes.

Armed with a small budget of just $4.5 million, debuting director Richard Kelly - who made the film at a mere 25 years of age - proved the possibilities of multiverse movies on a smaller scale, with no less intelligence or intrigue.