Dark future movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant dark future movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, suspense, futuristic, exciting, apocalyptic and captivating films and TV shows about / with dark future, post apocalypse, distopia, dystopia, dystopian future, violence, cyberpunk, apocalypse, murder and fight plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Thriller genres shot in USA, Japan, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as dark future: Snowpiercer (2013), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Vesper (2022), The Matrix (1999), The Expanse (2015), Genesis (2018), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Elysium (2013), Wizards (1977), WALL·E (2008).
Best films
New films
| Future World (2018) | 3.3 | |
| Getter Robo Arc (2021) | 6.2 | |
| Vesper (2022) | 6.0 | |
| Scorched Earth (2018) | 4.5 | |
| Breach (2020) | 2.9 |
List of dark future movies
418K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Style:
suspenseful, futuristic, thought provoking, allegory, philosophical ...
Audience:
date night, family friendly, chick flick, adult
Plot:
train, post apocalypse, survival, distopia, dystopian future, dystopia, revolution, rebellion, violence, social differences, class struggle, winter ...
Time:
future, near future, 2030s, year 2013, year 2014 ...
Place:
east asia, britain, south korea
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Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Spain
Duration: 164 min.
Story:
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, ...
Style:
futuristic, neo noir, detective, tech noir, thought provoking ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, dystopia, investigation, dark future, technology, robot, flying car, bounty hunter, violence, police detective, memory ...
Time:
future, near future, 2040s, distant future, year 2017 ...
Place:
california, nevada, space western, san diego california, los angeles ...
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27K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Lithuania, France, Belgium, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the ...
Style:
apocalyptic, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, tense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
distopia, dark future, teenage girl, woman, post apocalypse, dna, cyberpunk, hunger, father daughter relationship, female protagonist, experiment, man versus nature ...
Time:
future, 2020s
Is relevant?
2.2M
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
Style:
philosophical, thought provoking, cerebral, mind bending, surreal ...
Audience:
date night, manly, kids, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, philosophy, dystopia, virtual reality, existentialism, distopia, cyberpunk, alternate reality, martial arts, gunfight, hacker, simulated reality ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 1999, near future, 22nd century ...
Place:
persia, los angeles
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190K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
Style:
futuristic, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
outer space, space travel, space opera, human in outer space, spaceship, space station, conspiracy, spacecraft, space colony, space exploration, investigation, society ...
Time:
future, 24th century, near future, 23rd century
Place:
space western, hawaii
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
After an apocalyptic event, the remnants of humanity create an artificial intelligence to save them.
Style:
psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, artificial intelligence, free will, biohazard, human nature, experiment, rivalry, cyborgs, computer, post apocalyptic, robot, president ...
Time:
future
Place:
england
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be ...
Style:
visually appealing, visually stunning, road movie, apocalyptic, breathtaking ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
post apocalypse, car, desert, apocalypse, survival, post apocalyptic, chase, on the run, dystopia, car chase, distopia, tough guy ...
Time:
future, year 2015, year 2016, near future, distant future ...
Place:
australia, los angeles
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489K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, South Africa, Mexico
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes (Jodie Foster), a hard line government ...
Style:
futuristic, breathtaking, cyber, serious, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, dystopian future, dystopia, space station, distopia, class conflict, space and aliens, politics, robot, dark future, ecological disaster, utopia ...
Time:
future, year 2013, 2010s, near future, 22nd century
Place:
los angeles, seattle, peru, africa, usa ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The series picks up four years after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day with John and Sarah Connor trying to stay under-the-radar from the government, as they plot to destroy the computer network, Skynet, in hopes of preventing Armageddon.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, cyber ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terminator, cyborgs, female killer, time travel, killer robot, androids and robots, changing the past or future, female robot, female warrior, kickass women, kick-butt women, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Is relevant?
14K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
An ambiguous battle between good and evil wages in a post-apocalyptic earth populated by netherworld creatures who have re-emerged after the nuclear winter. Two wizard twin brothers - the evil Blackwolf and the good Avatar - battle for supremacy. ...
Style:
adult animation, psychedelic, anime, surreal, stylized ...
Audience:
horror for children, adult
Plot:
sword and sorcery, magic, post apocalypse, dark future, nymph, wizard, world war two, surrealism, trippy, good versus evil, apocalypse, medieval ...
Time:
20th century, future, near future, distant future
Is relevant?
1.3M
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
WALL·E is the last robot left on an Earth that has been overrun with garbage and all humans have fled to outer space. For 700 years he has continued to try and clean up the mess, but has developed some rather interesting human-like qualities. When ...
Style:
futuristic, touching, feel good, sweet, emotional ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot:
loneliness, robot, space travel, outer space, post apocalypse, technology, love, artificial intelligence, ecology, dystopia, happy ending, ecological disaster ...
Time:
future, distant future, year 2008, 2000s
Is relevant?
875K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
Style:
neo noir, futuristic, tech noir, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, dystopia, existentialism, dystopian future, distopia, androids, cyborgs, fugitive, police detective, fugitives, flying car ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2019, 20th century, near future ...
Place:
los angeles, california, bolivia, usa
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Luxembourg, Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two time travelers with opposing views are sent back to the present aboard a research ship in the Antarctic to prevent a global biological disaster from occuring
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
time travel, disease, ship, tough guy, good versus evil, race against time, heroic mission, dystopian future, imaginary, experiment gone awry, infection, one against many ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 23rd century, year 2004
Place:
south america, antarctica
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Genre: Animation, Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A film adaptation of the Holy Emperor story arc, which primarily depicted the conflict between Kenshiro and Souther. New characters Reina, one of Raoh's army officers who falls in love with him, and her brother Soga, Raoh's advisor, play ...
Style:
anime, suspense, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
nuclear holocaust, supernatural power, heroes, emperor, warrior, battles, friendship, brother vs brother, superhuman powers, post apocalypse, fight, dark future ...
Time:
future, 2000s
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain, Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In a not too distant future, a totalitarian state run by ‘The Director” (Seagal) controls all aspects of life. All enemies of the state are dealt in the harshest way. Most of them are executed by the secret government’s assassins. The best ...
Style:
futuristic, suspense, tense, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
martial arts, female warrior, coup d'etat, aikido, violence, assassination plot, revenge, murder, corruption, political corruption, spy, chase ...
Time:
near future, future
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
As the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the wasteland, they encounter the citadel presided over by Immortan Joe. The two ...
Style:
visually stunning, exciting, apocalyptic, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night, family friendly, girls' night, adult
Plot:
post apocalypse, desert, female protagonist, mad max, distopia, mother daughter relationship, chase, wasteland, kidnapped girl, warrior, revenge, loss of mother ...
Time:
future
Place:
oceania, australia
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Serbia
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
The story is set in an ambiance of a dark utopian future, a city of mentally dead zombies under the firm grip of military dictatorship. Boldly, like a man on a mission, the Tailor will walk the Kafkaesque and macabre streets of a city where terror ...
Style:
sinister, existential, surreal, bleak, art house ...
Plot:
city, totalitarian regime, dystopia, dark future, military dictatorship, isolation, urban decay, macabre, most dangerous game, moral ambiguity, anti hero, mystery woman ...
Time:
near future
Is relevant?
835K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
When Ripley's lifepod is found by a salvage crew over 50 years later, she finds that terra-formers are on the very planet they found the alien species. When the company sends a family of colonists out to investigate her story, all contact is ...
Style:
futuristic, scary, suspense, space horror, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
alien, strong female character, space travel, creature, female warrior, survival, space and aliens, outer space, monster, space, creature feature, spaceship ...
Time:
22nd century, 20th century, year 1986, future
Place:
space western
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224K
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Childhood friends Tetsuo and Kaneda are pulled into the post-apocalyptic underworld of Neo-Tokyo and forced to fight for their very survival. Kaneda is a bike gang leader, and Tetsuo is a member of a tough motorcycle crew who becomes involved in a ...
Style:
anime, futuristic, surreal, adult animation, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, post apocalypse, motorcycle gang, motorcycle, teenager, protest, dystopia, body horror, psychic power, military, experiment, hallucination ...
Time:
future, near future, distant future, 2010s, 80s ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, east asia, asia
Is relevant?
378K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico, Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Construction worker Douglas Quaid discovers a memory chip in his brain during a virtual-reality trip. He also finds that his past has been invented to conceal a plot of planetary domination. Soon, he's off to Mars to find out who he is and who ...
Style:
futuristic, cerebral, cult classic, mind bending, ambiguous ending ...
Audience:
kids, manly, boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, mars, dystopia, secret agent, dystopian future, virtual reality, memory, memory loss, false memory, space colony, conspiracy, chase ...
Time:
future, 20th century, near future, 90s, year 1990 ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins ...
Style:
anime, atmospheric, philosophical, futuristic, mind bending ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, androids and robots, hacker, female protagonist, cyborgs, dystopia, policewoman, distopia, female spy, chase, hacking ...
Time:
future, near future, 90s, year 1995, 2020s ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, east asia, asia
Is relevant?
611K
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In 2035, where robots are common-place and abide by the three laws of robotics, a techno-phobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may ...
Style:
futuristic, philosophical, exciting, apocalyptic, serious ...
Audience:
manly, teens, family friendly, boys' night
Plot:
artificial intelligence, robot, cyberpunk, cyborgs, distopia, androids and robots, dystopia, dystopian future, androids, technology gone awry, fate of humanity, hi-tech ...
Time:
future, year 2004, 2030s, 20th century, near future ...
Place:
chicago, usa, north america
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Groundbreaking director Mamoru Oshii continues to push the boundaries of art and anime with this universally acclaimed cyber thriller following cyborg detective Batou as he tries to unravel the reasons for a murderous robot revolt in the year 2032. ...
Style:
futuristic, philosophical, adult animation, cyber, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
cyberpunk, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, androids and robots, distopia, androids, investigation, robot, hacker, ghost in the shell, technology, computers and web ...
Time:
future, 2030s, 21st century
Place:
japan, taiwan, hong kong, asia, tokyo
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10K
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In the distant technological future, civilization has reached its ultimate Net-based form. An "infection" in the past caused the automated systems to spiral out of order, resulting in a multi-leveled city structure that replicates itself ...
Style:
anime, apocalyptic, suspense, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
robot, dystopian future, cyberpunk, evil robot, robot as menace, sentient robot, killer robot, human versus robot, dark future, against humanity, rebellion, humanity ...
Time:
distant future, 2010s
Place:
indiana
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
TV show
Story:
A new series set in the “Orphan Black” universe is currently in the early development stages at AMC. Temple Street Productions, which produced the original series, is on board to produce the new one as well. This is not spin-off or reboot of the ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
bonding, clone, change of luck, identity, identity crisis, secrets, female protagonist, woman, women, dark future, destiny, seeing the future ...
Time:
near future, future
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In 2307, a future soldier is sent on a mission to hunt down the leader of the humanoid rebellion.
Style:
captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense, independent film
Plot:
cold, reluctant hero, humanoid, avalanche, near death experience, human versus robot, post apocalypse, winter, dystopian future, humanity in peril, manhunt, humanoid robot ...
Time:
future, 24th century
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In the year 2961, the time is after humanity and nature has recovered the land. A hunter named Cygnus is called to rise above his duty. He provides for Last Arc, a once nomadic band of survivors in need of food and water that is now growing scarce. ...
Style:
tense, futuristic, captivating, apocalyptic, disturbing ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, desert, trap, dystopian future, survivor, struggle for survival, human existence, dark future, humanity in peril, humanity, deathtrap, fate of humanity ...
Time:
future
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
In the early 2050s, unknown life forms called “Oracle cells” begin their uncontrolled consumption of all life on Earth. Their ravenous appetite and remarkable adaptability earn them first dread, then awe, and finally the name “aragami”. In ...
Style:
anime, captivating, exciting, dark fantasy, stylized ...
Plot:
disaster, post apocalypse, monster, teamwork, survival, military, danger, showdown, battles, fight, epic battle, superpower ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Story:
This be the year 3000. The world has been enveloped within the flames of nuclear warfare, bringing with it a new dark age. In these times, technology can be a rare blessing, or curse, depending on its discovery and / or use. What is left of ...
Style:
psychotronic, romantic, suspenseful, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, steampunk, revenge, friendship, love, father daughter relationship, friendship between men, impossible love, supernatural power, science, love affair ...
Time:
future
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