Overpopulation movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant overpopulation movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out futuristic, suspenseful, apocalyptic, serious, intellectual and cult classic films and TV shows about / with overpopulation, dystopia, distopia, post apocalypse, murder, dystopian future, post apocalyptic, survival, apocalypse and danger plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Action genres shot in USA, UK, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as overpopulation: The Thinning (2016), What Happened to Monday (2017), Elysium (2013), Pandorum (2009), Z.P.G. (1972), Fortress (1992), OtherLife (2017), In Time (2011), Humane (2024), District 9 (2009).
Best films
New films
| OtherLife (2017) | 6.2 | |
| DNA? (1994) | 6.4 | |
| Elysium (2013) | 6.6 | |
| District 9 (2009) | 7.9 | |
| Sanctuary: Population One (2018) | 2.5 |
List of overpopulation movies
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
In a post-apocalyptic future where population control is dictated by a high-school aptitude test, two students discover the test is smoke and mirrors hiding a larger conspiracy.
Style:
brutal, touching, disturbing, cynical, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
overpopulation, protest, youth, eugenics, dystopian future, dishonesty, love, danger, rivalry, high school, dystopia, distopia ...
Time:
near future
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Genre: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA, Belgium
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, tense, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
overpopulation, distopia, dystopia, sisters, hiding place, chase, dystopic future, death of sister, politics, tough girl, investigation, betrayal ...
Time:
future, near future, year 2017, 2010s, distant future
Is relevant?
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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167K
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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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In the not too distant future, a very smoggy and overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation. One couple, unsatisfied with their substitute robot baby, breaks the rules and gets in a lot of trouble. (Z.P.G. ...
Style:
apocalyptic, experimental, grindhouse, frightening, serious ...
Plot:
overpopulation, birth control, post apocalypse, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, robot, contamination, survival, control, epidemic, artificial intelligence, pregnancy ...
Time:
year 1972, future, distant future, 21st century
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32K
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A futuristic prison movie. Protagonist and wife are nabbed at a future US emigration point with an illegal baby during population control. The resulting prison experience is the subject of the movie. The prison is a futuristic one run by a private ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, rough, cyber, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, dystopia, escape, desert, prisoner, maximum security prison, violence, overpopulation, isolation, pregnancy, strong sexual content, dream ...
Time:
future, near future, year 1992, year 2017, 80s
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18K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ren Amari is the driven inventor of a revolutionary new drug. OtherLIfe expands the brain's sense of time and creates virtual reality directly in the user's mind. With OtherLife, mere seconds in real life feel like hours or days of ...
Style:
suspense, tense, futuristic, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
virtual reality, computer, coma, technology, medicine, experiment, memory, prison, corruption, chase, father daughter relationship, computer program ...
Time:
future, near future
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480K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In the not-too-distant future the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their ...
Style:
futuristic, serious, philosophical, thought provoking, clever ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family friendly, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
time, dystopian future, immortality, fighting the system, dystopia, distopia, love, dystopic future, survival, life & death, class differences, social differences ...
Time:
future, year 2011, near future, distant future, 2010s
Place:
usa, los angeles, canada
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the wake of an environmental collapse that has forced humanity to shed 20% of its population, a family dinner erupts into chaos when a father's plan to enlist in the government's new euthanasia program goes horribly awry.
Style:
captivating, psychological, satirical, suspenseful, dark comedy ...
Plot:
inheritance, overpopulation, suicide of father, family conflict, family drama, dystopia, social problems, distopia, social issues, dystopian society, dystopian future, life is a bitch ...
Time:
near future
Is relevant?
748K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA, New Zealand, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Aliens land in South Africa and, with their ship totally disabled, have no way home. Years later, after living in a slum and wearing out their welcome the 'Non-Humans' are being moved to a new tent city overseen by Multi-National United ...
Style:
serious, biting, suspense, tense, breathtaking ...
Audience:
chick flick, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
alien, extraterrestrial, distopia, space and aliens, alien encounter, metamorphosis, mutation, ufo, alien invasion, first contact, social commentary, transformation ...
Time:
year 2009, future, 2000s, year 2000, year 1982 ...
Place:
africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
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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
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: All citizens get a chance of being 'renewed' in a Civic Ceremony at their 30th birthday, unless they run and escape before their time comes.
Style:
futuristic, apocalyptic, visually stunning, philosophical, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
dystopia, apocalypse, utopia, cat, dystopian future, robot, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, artificial intelligence, escape, post-apocalyptic future, space ...
Time:
future, distant future, 23rd century, 70s
Place:
washington d.c., usa, new york
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Mexican science fiction film where the over-population problem has been solved by programming people to operate in either day or night, and not both.
Style:
thought provoking, philosophical, bleak, political, futuristic ...
Plot:
dystopia, overpopulation, social commentary, alienation, segregation, oppression, isolation, sleeping, claustrophobia, alternate reality, ethical dilemma, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
near future, future, 2010s
Is relevant?
310K
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, South Africa, USA, India
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called ...
Style:
futuristic, cult classic, intense, neo noir, visually stunning ...
Audience:
family friendly, manly, boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, dystopian future, post apocalypse, one man army, brutality, dystopia, distopia, organized crime, lone hero, judge, tough cop, rookie ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2012, near future, distant future
Place:
usa, america, seattle
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Armored Fleet Dairugger XV was an anime series aired in Japan from 1982 to 1983. It is also referred to as Dairugger 15, Dairugger XV, Armored Armada Dairugger XV, Armored Squadron Dairugger XV, or Machine Platoon Dairugger.
In the United States, ...
Style:
anime, mecha, action packed, action adventure, futuristic ...
Plot:
giant robot, space exploration, space opera, teamwork, good versus evil, overpopulation, heroism, adaptation, young heroes, space colony, exploration, rebellion ...
Time:
23rd century
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff.
Style:
futuristic, atmospheric, twist ending, cerebral, philosophical ...
Plot:
dystopia, conspiracy, food, cannibalism, death, murder, overpopulation, distopia, police detective, investigation, law enforcement, consciousness ...
Time:
future, distant future, near future, 2020s, 70s ...
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In the year 2011 the greatest tectonic disaster in the history of mankind has occurred. As a result of the catastrophic earthquakes North and South America, Eurasia, Africa and Australia have sunken underwater while the Japanese islands remain ...
Style:
apocalyptic, tense, emotional, grim
Audience:
adult
Plot:
disaster, post apocalypse, refugee, post apocalyptic, natural disaster, social commentary, global warming, climate change, survival, kaiju, diaspora, overpopulation ...
Time:
near future
Place:
asia
Is relevant?
201K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.
Style:
suspense, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, saga ...
Audience:
chick flick, family friendly, boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
conspiracy, ancient mystery, twists and turns, danger, riddles and clues, treasure hunt, memory loss, religions or cults, church, biohazard, conspiracy theory, chase ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place:
italy, florence, venice, europe, istanbul turkey ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The film is made up of futuristic, high concept stories about artificial intelligence. Whether it's love found in time of over-population or exploration of the unknown and space-travel, "A.I. Tales" has a bit of something for every ...
Style:
futuristic, psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, space travel, multiple storylines, space exploration, struggle for survival, survival, moral dilemma, outer space, technology, exploration, transhumanism, androids ...
Time:
near future, future
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Epic battles against evil.
Style:
anime, ecchi, horror comedy, exciting, stylized ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, exorcism, female protagonist, strong female lead, supernatural power, paranormal, youkai, dark humor, occult, revenge, satire ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
No-nonsense comic Bill Burr takes the stage in Nashville and riffs on fast food, overpopulation, dictators and gorilla sign language.
Style:
feel good, entertaining, captivating, humorous, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
stand up comedy, comedian, pop culture, fast food, youth, dictatorship, stand up comedian, society, talk show, social problems, talk show host, current affairs ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
nashville tennessee
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
At 56 years of age Mita Pantić (Nikola Simić) is still only a junior clerk in his company. Another typical workday for him is starting at 6 a.m. as frustration awaits at every turn from the moment he gets up. Trying to get ready to go to work, he ...
Style:
humorous, family comedy, black comedy, period piece, light hearted ...
Plot:
social commentary, social satire, satire, slice of life, frustration, middle class, everyday life, fatherhood, family conflict, city life, male protagonist, lottery ...
Time:
80s
Place:
former yugoslavia, belgrade
Is relevant?
137K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Norway
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.
Style:
satirical, semi serious, melancholic, existential, action thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
shrinking, aeroplane, experiment, amputee, neighbor, divorce, environment, laboratory, new house, cleaning lady, poverty, journey ...
Time:
future, year 2017, 2010s, near future
Place:
new mexico, istanbul turkey
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35K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain, USA, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
On a bleak future Earth, a soldier endures a radical genetic transformation to save humanity. But his wife fears he's becoming more creature than man.
Style:
suspense, rough, sad, exciting, disgusting ...
Plot:
human experiment, transformation, genetic mutation, creature, mental breakdown, experiment, nasa, soldier, laboratory, military base, dystopia, science ...
Time:
future, 2040s, near future, 21st century
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11K
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In the future, Earth is overcrowded and the population relies on distant bases to be fed. In the Saturn 3 station, Major Adam and the scientist Alex, who is also his lover and has never been on Earth, have been researching hydroponics for three ...
Style:
futuristic, serious, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
man versus machine, robot, cyborgs, scientist, killer robot, saturn the planet, outer space, chess, artificial intelligence, psychopath, infatuation, spaceship ...
Time:
future, year 1980, year 2016, distant future
Is relevant?
275K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid, even though he's got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life ...
Style:
futuristic, entertaining, mind bending, suspense, cyber ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, distopia, virtual reality, technology, memory loss, post apocalypse, dystopic future, dystopian future, on the run, flying car, mars, false memory ...
Time:
future, year 2012, 2010s, near future
Place:
seattle, big ben london, australia
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
Story:
In 1995, a severe drought forced Americans to flee the West for the cities. Water became more precious than gold. Now in 2005, settlers are coming back, meeting new challenges, and age-old adversaries. A U.S. Marshal and his cyborg partner patrol ...
Style:
tv series pilot
Plot:
post apocalypse, trucker, distopia, dystopian future, arizona desert, bare chested male, shootout, dystopia, police protagonist, impersonation, arranged marriage, sexist ...
Time:
future, year 2005
Place:
arizona
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In the 22nd century, scientists from an energy-depleted Earth research new fuel sources in the far corners of the solar system, where they discover an ancient alien race from Jupiter as well as the emergence of an apocalyptically dangerous black ...
Style:
futuristic, dramatic, epic, suspenseful, melancholic
Plot:
space opera, black hole, jupiter, space exploration, spacecraft, space colony, solar system, alien race, extraterrestrial, space adventure, mars, survival ...
Time:
22nd century, 80s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos. Architect John, along with his family and friends, is making his way from London to his brother's ...
Style:
apocalyptic, offbeat, cult classic, controversial, depressing ...
Plot:
dystopia, post apocalypse, virus, survival, post apocalyptic, distopia, post-apocalyptic future, disaster, wasteland, rape, gang rape, attempted rape ...
Time:
future
Place:
england, northern england, london
Is relevant?
22K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A futuristic 'Brief Encounter', a love story in which the romance is doomed by genetic incompatibility.
Style:
futuristic, philosophical, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
dystopia, dystopian future, husband wife relationship, infidelity, distopia, cyberpunk, abortion, cloning, pregnancy, coitus, forgery, investigation ...
Time:
future, year 2003, near future
Place:
asia, shanghai, china, middle east, seattle ...
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