Distopia movies and TV shows – page 7
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| The Running Man (2025) | 6.4 | |
| Civil War (2024) | 7.0 | |
| JUNG_E (2023) | 5.5 | |
| Borderlands (2024) | 4.7 | |
| Reloaded 2 (2024) | 6.6 |
206K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
Style:
bloody, disturbing, cult classic, suspense, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
game of death, survival, death, dystopia, violence, gory, desperation, jungle, cruelty, contests and competitions, satire, social commentary ...
Time:
future, year 2000, distant future, 2000s, near future
Place:
japan, asia, east asia, india, tokyo
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After a spectacular crash-landing on an uncharted planet, brash astronaut Leo Davidson finds himself trapped in a savage world where talking apes dominate the human race. Desperate to find a way home, Leo must evade the invincible gorilla army led ...
Style:
futuristic, twist ending, bad ending, suspense, saga ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
post apocalypse, dystopia, ape, survival, astronaut, space adventure, genetics, dystopian future, alien planet, space travel, planet of the apes, distopia ...
Time:
future, year 2001, near future, 20th century, 2020s ...
Place:
washington d.c., north america
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In a world after the nuclear apocalypse a scholar helps a small group of children and adults survive, staying with them in the basement of the former museum of history. In his mind he writes letters to his son — though it is obvious that they will ...
Style:
apocalyptic, depressing, poetic, spiritual, twisted ...
Plot:
nuclear war, post apocalypse, nuclear holocaust, distopia, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopia, survival, nuclear explosion, atomic bomb, underground, disaster ...
Time:
distant future
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: China, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end as they chase a group of immigrants who they want to punish because of their harsh historical past.
Style:
suspense, scary, saga, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
survival horror, killing spree, immigrant, social decay, desert, civil war, racist, racism, murder, dystopia, pregnant woman, distopia ...
Time:
2040s, 2020s, near future, 21st century
Place:
mexico, el paso texas, texas, usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.
Style:
exciting, stylized, breathtaking, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, ghetto, bomb, parkour, gang, undercover cop, fight, urban ghetto, tough guy, danger, heroes, escapades ...
Time:
future, near future, year 2004, 2000s, 2010s ...
Place:
france, paris france, europe, hong kong
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the suicide bombing of a young girl and is forced to undergo retraining. However, unbeknownst to him, he becomes a key player in a dispute between rival ...
Style:
anime, philosophical, heartbreaking, rough, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
conspiracy, little red riding hood, resistance fighter, dystopia, alternate history, politics, distopia, double agent, neo fascism, resistance, political unrest, dark hero ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
japan, east asia, poland, tokyo, germany
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day. While widower Patrick Wheeler braces for his fate, he meets Sandra, the wife of a businessman who is intent on ...
Style:
dark comedy, surreal, semi serious, sincere, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
apocalypse, doomsday, chaos, end of the world, distopia, existentialism, satire, solitude, post apocalypse, hopes, danger, armageddon ...
Time:
year 1998, y2k, turn of the century, year 2000, future ...
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Japan, Mexico, Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Years after the Racoon City catastrophe, survivors travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against hordes of zombies and the evil Umbrella Corp.
Style:
apocalyptic, entertaining, satanic, scary, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
zombie, apocalypse, supernatural, zombie apocalypse, monster, post apocalypse, danger, dystopia, survival, epidemic, heroine, infected ...
Time:
future, year 2007, 2000s
Place:
las vegas, salt lake city utah, utah, alaska
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
René Laloux, created Gandahar, his final animated feature film. Based on Jean-Pierre Andrevon’s novel Les Hommes-machines contre Gandahar (The Machine-Men versus Gandahar) This fascinating adult animation combines Laloux’s famous imagination ...
Style:
adult animation, atmospheric, stylized, futuristic, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, robot, female nudity, invasion, utopia, distopia, injection, androids and robots, transformation, mutant, sword and sorcery, sorcery ...
Time:
future, distant future
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, has escaped during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor, John Spartan, who had also been ...
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, semi serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
distopia, cyberpunk, dystopia, prison, utopia, psychopath, time travel, satire, maverick cop, totalitarianism, fish out of water, violence ...
Time:
future, 2030s, near future, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
German students compete to enter one of the country's elite schools.
Style:
suspense, tense, thought provoking, captivating
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
dystopian future, male objectification, competition, diary, forest, rivals, social problems, rivalry, ambition, class differences, social issues, school ...
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Genre: History, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
In a near future, due to the effects of an uncompromising law on the eco-sustainability of supports, paper has become a rare item, a luxury possession, controlled by the "Big Z": Zimurgh Corporation.
Style:
exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
distopia, post apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, dystopic future, dystopian future, sin, ritual murder, killing spree, murder mystery, murder investigation, ritual, seven deadly sins ...
Time:
near future, future
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The global economy is on the brink of collapse. Brilliant creators, from artists to industrialists, continue to mysteriously disappear. Unemployment has risen to 24%. Gas is now $42 per gallon. Dagny Taggart, Vice President in Charge of Operations ...
Style:
philosophical, thought provoking, exciting, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
politics, self fulfillment, libertarian, rebellion, ambition, visionary, radical, workplace, lifestyle, idealism, rebelliousness, human spirit ...
Time:
future, year 2012
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Revolting mutants hunt human outcasts and underground fighters (Bruce Campbell, Marta Alicia) in a future world of mind control.
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic, serious, futuristic ...
Plot:
virtual reality, post apocalypse, cannibalism, wasteland, dystopian future, trap, cannibal, rebel, danger, rivalry, post apocalyptic, distopia ...
Time:
future, 2030s, 21st century
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261K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A mercenary reluctantly leads a motley crew of warriors who soon come to realize they've been captured and deposited on an alien planet by an unknown nemesis. With the exception of a peculiar physician, they are all cold-blooded killers, ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, futuristic, breathtaking, visually appealing ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
alien, monster, jungle, creature, space and aliens, evil alien, deadly creature, hunting, hi-tech, predator, alien life-form, survival horror ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 20th century, future
Place:
texas
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40K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A teenage girl and her father travel to a remote alien moon, aiming to strike it rich. They've secured a contract to harvest a large deposit of the elusive gems hidden in the depths of the moon's toxic forest. But there are others roving ...
Style:
psychotronic, mysterious, cyber, realistic, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
stranger, survival, loss of father, young girl, father daughter relationship, alien planet, distopia, rescue, greed, planet, partner, father and daughter ...
Time:
future
Place:
space western
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Set seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe. Class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival are questioned in this riveting ...
Style:
apocalyptic, unusual plot structure, captivating, depressing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
train, apocalypse, post apocalypse, struggle for survival, rebellion, class system, inequality, disaster, distopia, humanity, forces of nature, caste system ...
Time:
future, 2020s
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171
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Not much left since the world died. That's what they called it the day the virus took over and people went inside, never to leave their homes again. Soon after that, the last of the food was gone, the last drop of gas was used up, the ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
distopia, isolation, mosquito, survival, chaos, danger, plague, confined, post apocalypse, apocalypse, dystopia, dystopian future ...
Time:
future
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37K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Based on the British cult comic-strip, our tank-riding anti-heroine fights a mega-corporation, which controls the world's water supply.
Style:
slapstick, exciting, futuristic, offbeat, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
female protagonist, desert, punk, post apocalypse, female warrior, strong female lead, kickass women, wasteland, tank, cyberpunk, female fighter, comic book ...
Time:
future, 2030s, near future, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
australia, seattle
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92K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
Two strangers find themselves caught up in a mind-bending pharmaceutical trial gone awry.
Style:
psychological, satirical, futuristic, philosophical, mysterious ...
Plot:
surrealism, psychiatric patient, computer, schizophrenia, dystopia, alternative medicine, pills, twists and turns, social decay, borderline personality disorder, society, dark humor ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
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53K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Four friends fleeing a viral pandemic soon learn they are more dangerous than any virus.A deadly virus has spread across the globe. Contagion is everywhere, no one is safe and no one can be trusted. Four young attractive people race through the back ...
Style:
scary, road movie, frightening, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
virus, survival, infection, pandemic, road trip, post apocalyptic, biohazard, post apocalypse, deadly virus, dystopia, apocalypse, blood ...
Time:
distant future, 21st century
Place:
texas, usa
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In 2039, jails have been turned into online portals where the public gets to choose what prisoners eat, wear, watch and who they fight. So successful is Panopticon TV, it is about to be rolled out to a whole town, providing subscribers even more ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
distopia, prison, jail, prison life, prisoner, dystopian future, internet, prison sentence, choice, jailed, society, runaway ...
Time:
near future, 2030s
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602
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
It is the year 2027, eight years after the first outbreak of The Sickness, a highly contagious, adaptive and lethal virus. The world is now run by a pharmaceutical corporation called The Company, which distributes a treatment for the virus but ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, exciting ...
Plot:
survival, dystopia, distopia, betrayal, corporate conspiracy, virus outbreak, human experiment, pandemic, post apocalypse, imprisonment, good versus evil, fight ...
Time:
near future
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A few decades from now - Sienna, a rebellious robot-fighting arms dealer, lives on a post-apocalyptic Earth. When the cities start to fall under the control of the A.I. Scourge, a hyper-weaponized robot army, Sienna decides to leave the Earth and ...
Style:
futuristic, rough, exciting, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, cyborgs, distopia, robot, space battle, dystopia, post apocalypse, human versus robot, weapons, robot as menace, killer robot, manhunt ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Austria, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The insurance salesman Vincent Baumann, a cold-blooded careerist and minion of a merciless system, becomes a victim of the very corporations he is representing. Degraded to a henchman he grimly struggles to get back on the job market. He fights to ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
distopia, megacorporation, dystopia, dystopian future, corporate greed, life insurance, powerful corporation, corporation, fighting the system, evil corporation, corporate conspiracy, dark future ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
2023 and Karl The Butcher Jr Returns from hell after 25 years, and is on a mission to kill a new butcher, Axe. But the world he returns to is in devastation, civilization is split between gangs, including the Gang loco, The Others, the tyrant Queen ...
Style:
slasher, psychotronic, suspense, semi serious, bleak ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, back from the dead, castration, distopia, hell, dismemberment, warrior, violence, death, chaos, bloodbath, mission ...
Time:
future
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41K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
The human race is wiped out by a government invented super flu. The remaining survivors take sides in the forces of good and evil. A mysterious old woman who is a servant of God and a powerful and deadly man who might be the devil himself. A gas ...
Style:
scary, apocalyptic, satanic, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, virus, disaster, end of the world, stephen king, post apocalypse, pandemic, supernatural, plague, good versus evil, cursed object, deadly virus ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
las vegas, maine, nebraska, usa, oregon ...
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A shower of meteorites produces a rare night time spectacle that blinds anyone that looks at it. As it was such a beautiful sight, most people were watching, and as a consequence, 99% of the World's population go completely blind. In the ...
Style:
scary, suspense, enigmatic, tense, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blindness, space and aliens, creature feature, post apocalyptic, monster, mutant, distopia, apocalypse, survival, humanity, post apocalypse, save the world ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, england, united kingdom, london, france ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Amidst a nuclear war, a plane carrying a group of schoolboys crash lands on a deserted island. With no adult survivors, the boys are forced to fend for themselves. At first they cooperate, but when the they split into two separate camps -- one led ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, black and white, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
wilderness, island, desert island, bullying, innocence lost, survival, children, stranded on an island, literary, coming of age, skinny dipping, isolation ...
Time:
year 1963, 20th century, 60s, future, near future
Place:
fictional island, britain, pacific ocean
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Genius artist Cesar Catilina seeks to leap the City of New Rome into a utopian, idealistic future, while his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, special interests, and partisan ...
Style:
epic, exciting, captivating, thrilling, tense ...
Plot:
utopia, architect, disaster, male nudity, sex scene, mayor, distopia, time, satellite, uncle nephew relationship, city, urban setting ...
Time:
future
Place:
new york
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