Distopia movies and TV shows – page 6
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| JUNG_E (2023) | 5.5 | |
| The Plague (2024) | 5.3 | |
| Resurrected (2023) | 5.3 | |
| Box: Metaphor (2023) | 3.1 | |
| Coyote (2023) | 3.7 |
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
As Britain is rocked by unstable political, economic and technological advances, members of the Lyons family converge on one crucial night in 2019. Over the next 15 years, the twists and turns of their everyday lives are explored as we find out if ...
Style:
political, captivating, light, apocalyptic, philosophical ...
Plot:
politics, political activism, female politician, society, distopia, family relations, political satire, dystopia, rebel, lgbt, lifestyle, lgbtqi ...
Time:
near future, 2020s, future, 2030s, year 2019
Place:
london, manchester
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After a global neurological epidemic, those who remain search for meaning and connection in a world without memory. Five interwoven stories each explore a different facet of life without memory in a future that has no past.
Style:
apocalyptic, suspense, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
distopia, memory loss, dystopian future, epidemic, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, memory lapse, fate of humanity, humanity, struggle for survival, vestiges of humanity, memory ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Scientist Will Rodman is determined to find a cure for Alzheimer's, the disease which has slowly consumed his father. Will feels certain he is close to a breakthrough and tests his latest serum on apes, noticing dramatic increases in ...
Style:
thought provoking, visually stunning, emotional, exciting, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, family friendly, adult
Plot:
gorilla, ape, planet of the apes, rebelliousness, chimpanzee, animal testing, virus, rebellion, experiment gone awry, animal experimentation, dystopia, animal ...
Time:
future, year 2011, jurassic, 2010s, near future ...
Place:
san francisco, bay area, california, usa, north america
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248K
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years, but have been forbidden for law enforcement in America. Now OmniCorp wants ...
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, intense, rough, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
cyborgs, androids and robots, robot, police, cyberpunk, urban, technology, haunted by the past, graphic violence, superhuman powers, androids, tough law enforcer ...
Time:
future, year 2014, 2010s, near future, 2020s ...
Place:
detroit, usa, pentagon, tehran iran, china ...
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282K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, Mexico
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and ...
Style:
touching, entertaining, exciting, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
artificial intelligence, robot, cyberpunk, cyborgs, parents and children, androids and robots, human versus robot, technology, technology gone awry, brutality, consciousness, distopia ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2015, near future, 21st century
Place:
africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
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48K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
4400 centers on the return of 4400 people who, previously presumed dead or reported missing, reappear on Earth. Though they have not aged physically, some of them seem to have deeper alterations ranging from superhuman strength to an unexplained ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, quarantine, missing person, disappearance, murderer, paranormal activity, investigation, foreknowledge, cure, supernatural power, danger, psychic ...
Time:
2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c., seattle
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as "firemen", to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of ...
Style:
futuristic, atmospheric, thought provoking, tense, stylized ...
Plot:
totalitarianism, distopia, resistance, book, dystopia, satire, rebellion, dystopian future, fighting the system, fire, alienation, dictatorship ...
Time:
year 1966, future, distant future, 60s, near future
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Already deep into a second Cold War, Britain’s Ministry of Defense seeks a game-changing weapon. Programmer Vincent McCarthy unwittingly provides an answer in The Machine, a super-strong human cyborg. When a programming bug causes the prototype to ...
Style:
futuristic, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, cyber ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
artificial intelligence, cyborgs, androids and robots, robot, man versus machine, secret laboratory, female robot, distopia, laboratory, inventions and discoveries, programmer, technology gone awry ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s
Place:
england
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18K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a ...
Style:
bleak, apocalyptic, suspenseful, rough, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, apocalypse, post apocalypse, cyborgs, killer robot, robot, androids, dystopia, man versus machine, desert, artificial intelligence, wasteland ...
Time:
future, year 2016, 90s
Place:
new york
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254K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a zombie becomes involved with the girlfriend of one of his victims, their romance sets in motion a sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world.
Style:
romantic, rom com, humorous, teen, offbeat ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
zombie, supernatural, post apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, love and romance, young woman, supernatural romance, love story, interspecies romance, fall in love, young man, survival ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, seattle
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In 2030 the world is in a permanent state of economic recession and facing serious environmental problems as a result of global warming.
Style:
apocalyptic, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, road movie ...
Plot:
dystopia, hidden truth, deception, government agent, dystopian future, life is a bitch, pursuit, runaway, human existence, life risking, conspiracy, single mother ...
Time:
2030s
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Estonia, Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Set in the future on a war-ravaged Earth, four exhausted soldiers man Sentinel - a remote military base in a vast ocean that separates two warring continents. While their tour of duty ended three months ago, the relief crew still hasn't arrived ...
Style:
disturbing, minimal cast, suspenseful, captivating, action thriller ...
Plot:
storm at sea, distopia, dystopian society, enemy, planet earth, military base, soldier, earth, planet, dystopian future, rainstorm, dystopia ...
Time:
future, near future
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Lithuania, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In the near future, the sun has become so toxic people can no longer leave their houses in daytime, and normal life is conducted mostly inside the virtual realm. Against this dystopian backdrop, a dying man seeks to ensure the future well-being of ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, psychological, touching, thought provoking, suspense ...
Plot:
distopia, mortality, dystopian future, terminal illness, virtual reality, clone, family relations, father child relationship, ecological disaster, catastrophe, virtual world, science ...
Time:
near future, future
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In a futuristic totalitarian society, people have no control of their lives or their destiny.
Style:
apocalyptic, thought provoking, serious, atmospheric, grindhouse ...
Plot:
distopia, dystopian future, genetic engineering, post apocalypse, social differences, society, love and romance, life is a bitch, human nature, danger, doomed romance, anarchist ...
Time:
future
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world's population. As a father struggles to protect his child, their bond—and the character of humanity—is tested.
Style:
apocalyptic, bleak, ambiguous ending, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, child in peril, father daughter relationship, forest, girl, survival, immunity, virus, epidemic, distopia, post apocalyptic, fight ...
Time:
year 2019
Place:
persia
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185K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Soon bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, saga, space horror, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien, survival, tough heroes, space, space opera, one man army, space and aliens, danger, alien planet, mysterious planet, heroes, mercenary ...
Time:
future, year 2013, 2010s
Place:
space western
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A powerful railroad executive, Dagny Taggart, struggles to keep her business alive while society is crumbling around her. Based on the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.
Style:
philosophical, stylized, serious, futuristic, talky ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
libertarian, capitalism, politics, distopia, dystopia, totalitarianism, capitalist, greed, corruption, idealism, society, workplace ...
Time:
future, year 2016, year 2017
Place:
usa, new york, colorado, russia
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101K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In Babylon A.D Vin Diesel stars as a veteran-turned-mercenary who is hired to deliver a package from the ravages of post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe to a destination in the teeming megalopolis of New York City. The "package" is a mysterious ...
Style:
futuristic, action packed, stylized, apocalyptic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
cyberpunk, dystopia, mercenary, post apocalyptic, protection, dystopian future, one man army, protector, distopia, master warrior, heroes, survival ...
Time:
future, year 2008, 20th century
Place:
russia, new york, china, usa, mongolia ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Robert Morgan is the last man on earth, as far as he can tell. A plague killed everyone else on the planet several years ago. He was immune to it, and can only guess why. Vampires that were formerly human attack Morgan's home every night
Style:
gothic, grindhouse, scary, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, horror for children
Plot:
post apocalypse, vampire, dystopia, virus, disease, zombie, cemetery, chase, dracula, distopia, monster, disaster ...
Time:
future, distant future, year 1965, year 1968, 60s
Place:
italy, rome italy
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14K
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In a future world, young people are increasingly becoming addicted to an illegal (and potentially deadly) battle simulation game called Avalon. When Ash, a star player, hears of rumors that a more advanced level of the game exists somewhere, she ...
Style:
bleak, atmospheric, stylized, surreal, cerebral ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
virtual reality, technology, obsession, fantasy world, distopia, transformation, lone hero, battles, dystopian future, contests and competitions, gang, addiction ...
Time:
future, middle ages, near future, year 2001, 2000s
Place:
poland, japan, europe, latin america
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Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
In the future when technological enhancements and robotics are a way of life, Major Motoko Kusanagi and Section 9 take care of the jobs that are too difficult for the police. Section 9 employs hackers, sharpshooters, detectives and cyborgs all in an ...
Style:
anime, philosophical, adult animation, cyber, futuristic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, androids and robots, artificial intelligence, hacker, cyborgs, cyberspace, distopia, mind game, investigation, androids, ghost in the shell, science runs amok ...
Time:
near future, future, 2030s, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia
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61K
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States.
Style:
captivating, apocalyptic, serious, suspenseful, mysterious ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, disaster, small town, danger, chaos, nuclear holocaust, post nuclear, conspiracy, distopia, leadership ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
kansas, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
This bizarre surrealistic black comedy takes place in a small fictitious post-apocalyptic town where food is scarce and butcher Clapet has the macabre business of using human flesh to feed his customers. Yet when his daughter falls in love with his ...
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, art house, visual, offbeat ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
dark humor, dystopia, surrealism, cannibal, cannibalism, food, underground, post-apocalyptic future, apocalypse, dystopian future, imagination, european ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, distant future, future
Place:
france
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Genre: Action, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After being held in a coma-like state for fifteen years, vampire Selene learns that she has a fourteen-year-old vampire/Lycan hybrid daughter named Nissa, and when she finds her, they must stop BioCom from creating super Lycans that will kill them ...
Style:
gothic, dark fantasy, exciting, action packed, saga ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
vampire, werewolf, fantasy world, tough girl, immortality, supernatural, supernatural power, female warrior, one woman army, monster, survival, badass female lead ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2012
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
France. A near and probable future. The Sisterhood of Metacontrol governs Europe. Angeline, an exemplary and irreproachable citizen has just joined the order... But her relationship with a special man, Nono, will make her question profoundly the ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, captivating, stylized, serious ...
Plot:
chastity, forbidden love, distopia, feminism, dystopia, totalitarian regime, sexism, matriarchy, self sacrifice, male female relationship, love, political repression ...
Time:
future
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Iceland, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In the wake of a nuclear war, a young woman survives on her own, fearing she may actually be the proverbial last woman on earth, until she discovers the most astonishing sight of her life: another human being. A distraught scientist, he’s nearly ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, apocalyptic, serious, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
apocalypse, sex scene, post apocalypse, farm, love triangle, post apocalyptic, nuclear war, survivor, radiation, survival, jealousy, distopia ...
Time:
2010s, future, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an ...
Style:
surreal, futuristic, cynical, apocalyptic, postmodern ...
Plot:
time travel, dystopian future, apocalypse, alternate reality, memory, prophecy, chaos, distopia, dark humor, alternate history, amnesia, drug ...
Time:
future, year 2005, year 2006, near future, 2000s ...
Place:
los angeles, syria, middle east, nevada, southern california ...
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy ...
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
deadly virus, virus, disaster, medical, laboratory, science, race against time, plague, alien, pandemic, epidemic, small town ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, distant future, year 1971, year 1970 ...
Place:
new mexico, usa, north america
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In the not too distant future, two young women who live in a remote ancient forest discover the world around them is on the brink of an apocalypse. Informed only by rumor, they fight intruders, disease, loneliness & starvation.
Style:
disturbing, futuristic, erotic, melancholic, mysterious ...
Plot:
survival, post apocalypse, forest, isolation, rape, dystopia, father daughter relationship, sisters, death of father, post apocalyptic, family bonds, humanity ...
Time:
future
Place:
canada
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121K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily ...
Style:
philosophical, political, disturbing, suspense, educational ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
fascism, nazism, suicide, dictator, experiment, bullying, teacher, teachers and students, high school, fanaticism, dictatorship, against humanity ...
Time:
year 2008, 20th century, year 2011
Place:
germany, middle east, israel, europe, berlin germany ...
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