Distopia movies and TV shows – page 5

List of distopia movies

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 6.3
 70K
Spectral (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural being that have taken over a European city.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, serious, suspense, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: supernatural, violence, danger, technology, science, super soldier, chase, heroes, heroic mission, chaos and mayhem, military, escapades ...
Time: future, near future
Place: virginia, usa, eastern europe, new york
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Fantastic Planet (1973)
Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Fantastic Planet tells the story of “Oms”, human-like creatures, kept as domesticated pets by an alien race of blue giants called “Draags”. The story takes place on the Draags’ planet Ygam, where we follow our narrator, an Om called Terr, ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, adult animation, art house, visually stunning ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: dystopia, trippy, surrealism, distopia, slave, meditation, alien species, baby, alien life-form, giant, planet, existentialism ...
Time: year 1973, distant future, future
Place: tokyo
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Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain (2013)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 58 min.
Story: The story is set in 2027, one year after the end of the fourth non-nuclear war. New Port City is still reeling from the war's aftermath when it suffers a bombing caused by a self-propelled mine. Then, a military member implicated in ...
Style: sexy, anime, atmospheric, melancholic, talky ...
Plot: cyberpunk, distopia, fight scenes, love story, ghost in the shell, character study, moral ambiguity, investigation, ghost, imagination, dialogue, storytelling ...
Place: japan, east asia
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Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 4: Ghost Stands Alone (2014)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 59 min.
Story: The upcoming installment's story takes place amidst signs of postwar reconstruction in the winter of 2028. Tensions are rising in New Port City as demonstrations are held concerning the interests of foreign cartels. This leads to a shooting ...
Style: anime, philosophical, humorous, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: androids and robots, cyborgs, cyberpunk, distopia, brutality, violent, ghost in the shell, giant robot, fight scenes, supernatural, chase, culture clash ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: japan, east asia
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 6.6
 189K
The Running Man (1987)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight ...
Style: rough, futuristic, cult classic, exciting, tech noir ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: dystopian future, cyberpunk, distopia, chase, chases and races, dystopic future, prison, danger, dishonesty, rivalry, tough heroes, social commentary ...
Time: future, near future, 80s, 20th century, year 2019 ...
Place: los angeles, california
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 4.2
 349
Arcadia (2016)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the not too distant future where a deadly disease has gripped the world, Arcadia has been built as safe disease-free haven for the privileged. Outside Arcadia, the average life lasts merely 40 years - unless they can earn a place amongst the ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, social ...
Plot: totalitarianism, distopia, family relations, dystopia, disease, pandemic, dystopian future, social commentary, social injustice, illness, totalitarian state, dystopian society ...
Time: future, near future
Place: london
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 5.8
 259K
The Purge (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.
Style: tense, scary, suspenseful, brutal, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: home invasion, survival, survival horror, self defense, danger, violence spree, security system, dystopia, family in danger, society, killing spree, distopia ...
Time: future, year 2013, near future, 2010s, year 2000 ...
Place: california, usa
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 6.2
 8K
Metropia (2009)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In the near future, oil reserves are nearly depleted and Europe is connected by series of underground tunnels. While navigating these tunnels, Roger hears voices, one in particular. Seeking a way to rid himself of the voice only leads Roger deeper ...
Style: adult animation, futuristic, surreal, exciting, atmospheric ...
Plot: dystopian future, conspiracy, dystopic future, brutality, distopia, society, chaos, corporate crime, life is a bitch, danger, bomb, cyberpunk ...
Time: future, distant future
Place: europe, eastern europe, scandinavia, paris france, stockholm sweden ...
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The Zero Theorem (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Romania, France, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.
Style: surreal, philosophical, thought provoking, offbeat, psychedelic ...
Plot: loneliness, computers and web, society, computer, computer system, virtual reality, escape from reality, computer genius, dystopian future, uncover truth, hacker, distopia ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2013, distant future
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 5.4
 105K
The Circle (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: United Arab Emirates, USA, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young tech worker takes a job at a powerful Internet corporation, quickly rises up the company's ranks, and soon finds herself in a perilous situation concerning privacy, surveillance and freedom. She comes to learn that her decisions and ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, grindhouse, thought provoking, tense ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: technology, privacy, video surveillance, fighting the system, twists and turns, internet, hacker, media manipulation, microchip, new job, father daughter relationship, company ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2017, distant future
Place: bay area, scotland
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 6.1
 36K
The Final Cut (2004)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Set in a world with memory implants, Robin Williams plays a cutter, someone with the power of final edit over people's recorded histories. His latest assignment is one that puts him in danger.
Style: psychological, psychological thriller, philosophical, intellectual, suspense ...
Plot: distopia, surveillance, cyberpunk, twists and turns, memory, existentialism, microchip, afterlife, dystopian future, social satire, machine, deception ...
Time: future, year 2004, near future
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The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In a dystopicly polluted rightwing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
Style: sexy, sensual, erotic, apocalyptic, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: distopia, dystopia, sex, sexualized violence, religion, impregnation, sexual attraction, violence against women, totalitarian state, dystopian future, rebellion, slavery ...
Time: future
Place: canada, iran
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The White King (2016)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his ...
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: distopia, family relations, society, social problems, rebel, life is a bitch, social misfits, mother son relationship, dysfunctional family, boy, dystopia, coming of age ...
Time: distant future
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 6.7
 167K
Pandorum (2009)
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they're actually not alone – and the reality of their situation is more ...
Style: futuristic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, survival, isolation, creature, outer space, danger, survival horror, deadly creature, spacecraft, post apocalypse, spaceship, monster ...
Time: future, year 2009, year 1969
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The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
Style: futuristic, exciting, saga, action adventure, cyber ...
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, virtual reality, distopia, robot, post apocalyptic, alternate reality, chosen one, dystopia, resistance, prophecy, one against many ...
Time: future, year 2003, 23rd century, 2000s, distant future ...
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Lord of the Flies (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Stranded on an island, a group of schoolboys degenerate into savagery.
Style: psychological, brutal, captivating, rough, scenic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: survival, coming of age, island, violent, death, bullying, child, distopia, stranded, innocence lost, brutality, isolation ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: fictional island
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 7.0
 30K
Alphaville (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet which is ruled by an evil scientist named Von Braun, who has outlawed love and self-expression.
Style: neo noir, cerebral, atmospheric, futuristic, detective ...
Plot: surrealism, dystopia, satire, distopia, artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, dystopian future, private detective, spy, imagination, existentialism, obsession ...
Time: future, year 1965, 50s, 1950s
Place: france, paris france
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Frank Herbert's Dune (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 265 min.
TV show
Story: A three part mini-series based on Frank Herbert's classic Science Fiction novel entailing politics, betrayal, lust, greed and the coming of a Messiah.
Style: atmospheric, epic, futuristic, stylized, light ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space opera, rebel, dune, prophecy, desert, distopia, chosen one, technology, brutality, space travel, vengeance, alien planet ...
Time: future, year 2000
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 7.1
 46K
Sleeper (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.
Style: futuristic, funny, surreal, slapstick, cult classic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: satire, dystopia, robot, cryogenics, distopia, time travel, cloning, resistance movement, food, surrealism, dystopian future, imagination ...
Time: future, 70s, 22nd century, year 1973, 1920s
Place: usa, new york
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 6.0
 15K
Parallels (2015)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An underground MMA fighter must confront his sister and his past in an adventure through parallel universes
Style: clever, confusing, futuristic, suspense, enigmatic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: parallel universe, time, plot twist, survival, twists and turns, multiverse, alternate universe, alternate reality, betrayal, clone, teleportation, dystopia ...
Time: future
Place: louisiana, california
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 6.6
 33K
Silent Running (1972)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In a future Earth barren of all flora and fauna, the planet's ecosystems exist only in large pods attached to spacecraft. When word comes in that the pods are to be jettisoned into space and destroyed so that the spacecraft can be reused for ...
Style: philosophical, visually stunning, futuristic, apocalyptic, thought provoking ...
Plot: robot, dystopia, space travel, space opera, distopia, space and aliens, spaceship, post apocalypse, spacecraft, dystopian future, artificial intelligence, isolation ...
Time: future, year 1972
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The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo has proved to be a good omen for the free humans, as more and more humans are being freed from the matrix and brought to Zion, the one and only stronghold of the Resistance. Neo himself has ...
Style: futuristic, saga, philosophical, reflective, cerebral ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick, kids, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, dystopia, post apocalypse, prophecy, chosen one, distopia, man versus machine, robot, alternate reality, existentialism ...
Time: future, year 2003, 2000s, distant future, near future ...
Is relevant?
 7.9
 27K
Threads (1984)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
Style: depressing, grim, psychological, gloomy, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, apocalypse, cold war, nuclear explosion, survival, world war three, nuclear, post apocalypse, distopia, post apocalyptic, radiation ...
Time: 80s, near future, distant future, year 1984, 20th century ...
Place: england, northern england, europe, ussr, soviet union ...
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 8.0
 155K
Stalker (1979)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A Stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep seeded ...
Style: philosophical, atmospheric, bleak, art house, psychological ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: stalker, post apocalypse, dystopian future, surrealism, psychokinesis, dog, wish come true, trippy, human nature, distopia, escapades, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future, distant future, year 1979, near future
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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 5.5
 72K
Spiderhead (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A prisoner in a state-of-the-art penitentiary begins to question the purpose of the emotion-controlling drugs he's testing for a pharmaceutical genius.
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, psychotronic ...
Plot: prisoner, drug, medical, emotional manipulation, distopia, manipulation, experiment, tragic past, medical experiment, dystopian future, psychological manipulation, manipulative behavior ...
Time: near future, future, 2020s
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The Quiet Earth (1985)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.
Style: philosophical, sexy, cerebral, surreal, apocalyptic ...
Plot: post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, alone, apocalypse, male nudity, end of the world, vestiges of humanity, survival, dystopia, love triangle, disaster, parallel world ...
Time: future, year 1985
Place: new zealand
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Death Race 2000 (1975)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians. Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using cars equipped with deadly weapons. ...
Style: grindhouse, road movie, black comedy, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot: car, car chase, carsploitation, dystopia, satire, dark humor, dystopian future, racing, distopia, dystopic future, danger, chases and races ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 2000, 2000s, 70s ...
Place: usa
Is relevant?
 7.6
 27K
The Trial (1962)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story: An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.
Style: surreal, black and white, psychological, disturbing, psychedelic ...
Plot: surrealism, paranoia, dystopia, courtroom, courtroom drama, distopia, trial, insanity, oppression, legal, existentialism, literary ...
Time: 20th century, year 1962, 60s, 1920s, 18th century
Place: america, russia
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 7.0
 320K
The Platform (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two people per level. An unknown number of levels. A platform with food for all of them. Are you one of those who think too much when they are up? Or of those who have no guts when they are down? If you discover it too late, you will not live out of ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological thriller, mind bending ...
Plot: survival, struggle for survival, confined, food shortage, cannibalism, social injustice, prison, social differences, isolation, rivalry, danger, survival horror ...
Time: future, 2010s
Place: iberian peninsula
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 6.3
 474
The Day After (2013)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: A drug company, attempting to create a perfect human race, releases a virus which proves to be deadly. People are dying by the thousands, but eleven strangers, who wake up in a bunker with no memory of how they got there, find themselves responsible ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: virus, epidemic, youth, mutation, adaptation, survival, friendship, chase, blood, bunker, murder, post apocalypse ...
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