| Back to the Future (1985) | 8.5 | |
| Interstellar (2014) | 8.7 | |
| Firefly (2002) | 8.9 | |
| Farscape (1999) | 8.3 | |
| The Matrix (1999) | 8.7 |
Future shock movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant future shock movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out futuristic, psychotronic, exciting, suspenseful, suspense and interesting films and TV shows about / with future shock, technology, distopia, space, danger, cyberpunk, chase, outer space, alien and post apocalypse plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Adventure genres shot in USA, UK, Australia and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as future shock: Escape from New York (1981), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Twilight Zone (2019), Demolition Man (1993), Gekidol (2021), Excursion (2018), Maniac (2018), Black Mirror (2011), Westworld (1973), The Tomorrow War (2021).
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List of future shock movies
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In 1997, the island of Manhattan has been walled off and turned into a giant maximum security prison within which the country's worst criminals are left to form their own anarchic society. However, when the President of the United States crash ...
Style:
retro, exciting, tech noir, apocalyptic, perverse ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night
Plot:
prison, cyberpunk, dystopia, escape, post apocalyptic, race against time, rescue, post apocalypse, hostage, lone hero, taxi, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, near future, 80s, year 1997, year 1981 ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
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Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
Style:
futuristic, philosophical, mind bending, cerebral, psychedelic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, adult
Plot:
space travel, artificial intelligence, astronaut, outer space, space, moon, computer, scientist, human versus computer, extraterrestrial, deception, spacewalk ...
Time:
future, year 2001, 20th century, 2000s, stone age ...
Place:
persia
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Tales of science fiction, fantasy and the occult, exploring humanity's hopes, despairs, prides and prejudices in metaphoric ways. Next stop ahead The Twilight Zone.
Style:
anthology, dark fairy tale, suspense, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot:
mysticism, stephen king, afrofuturism, darkness, secrets, propaganda, murder, parallel universe, future shock, mind game, black, magic realism ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s
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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: Animation, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Five years after a mystifying disaster decimates cities across the globe, Seria Morino receives an invitation to join Alice in Theater, a small stage troupe that takes it upon themselves to brighten the world through their performances.
Style:
anime, futuristic, psychotronic, captivating, romantic
Plot:
slice of life, laser gun, battles, lifestyle, fight, planet, flash forward, music, killer robot, science and technology, dystopian future, humanity ...
Time:
future, distant future
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In the late eighties, the USSR government enlists Tomas, a devoted member of the Communist Party, to travel back in time to future London and document how Socialism has thrived.
Style:
not serious, humorous, light, mumblecore, absurd
Plot:
time travel, changing the past or future, time paradox, bully, culture clash, danger, sent to the future, existence paradox, future shock, fish out of water, destiny, confrontation ...
Time:
2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
soviet union, united kingdom, ussr
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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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728K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone with stories that tap into the collective unease about our modern world.
Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to ...
Style:
anthology, thought provoking, philosophical, serious, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly
Plot:
technology, dystopian future, dystopia, twists and turns, satire, human nature, social decay, computers and web, alternate reality, society, social satire, media ...
Time:
future, 2010s, near future
Place:
england, london, united kingdom
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67K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In a futuristic resort, wealthy patrons can visit recreations of different time periods and experience their wildest fantasies with life-like robots. But when Richard Benjamin opts for the wild west, he gets more than he bargained for when a ...
Style:
tense, sexy, philosophical, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
old west, man versus machine, artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, computer, life philosophy, robot, technology gone awry, vacation, dystopia, villain played by lead actor, cyborgs ...
Time:
future, 20th century, near future, year 1973, 19th century ...
Place:
space western, usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
An ordinary man is recruited by time travellers from 30 years in the future to fight in a war against deadly aliens.
Style:
futuristic, suspense, exciting, anamorphic, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
future war, alien invasion, time travel, alien, military, fictional war, struggle for survival, soldier, alien encounter, evil alien, alien monster, final battle ...
Time:
future, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
dominican republic, bahamas, miami, north america, russia ...
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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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243K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.
Style:
grindhouse, retro, futuristic, apocalyptic, perverse ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, dystopia, chase, post apocalypse, vengeance, revenge, biker, car chase, car, dystopic future, chaos, criminal ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 1979, near future, distant future ...
Place:
australia, oceania
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Marty and Doc are at it again in this wacky sequel to the 1985 blockbuster as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud. But things go awry thanks to bully Biff Tannen and a pesky sports almanac. In a last-ditch ...
Style:
futuristic, entertaining, clever, light, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, date night ...
Plot:
time travel, time machine, alternate reality, changing the past or future, inventor, time, sent to the past, alternate timeline, travel, time paradox, time loop, mad scientist ...
Time:
future, year 2015, 1950s, 20th century, 2010s ...
Place:
california, los angeles, north america
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webers into their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam now ventures forth into Los Angeles to obtain food and supplies for his family, and a non-mutant wife for himself.
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, entertaining, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
bunker, opposites attract, fish out of water, happy ending, cold war, genius, cuban missile crisis, father son relationship, love story, fall in love, nuclear war, destiny ...
Time:
60s, future, 90s, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, cuba
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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
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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?
2.5M
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
Style:
futuristic, mind bending, cerebral, clever, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
space travel, time travel, outer space, nasa, astronaut, father daughter relationship, space, dystopian future, survival, end of the world, robot, space exploration ...
Time:
future, year 2014, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, colorado
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
After 250 years on ice, a prisoner returns to life in a new body with one chance to win his freedom: by solving a mind-bending murder.
Style:
futuristic, tense, exciting, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, consciousness, artificial intelligence, investigation, resistance fighter, twists and turns, virtual reality, murder, body swapping, doppelganger, female nudity, multiple storylines ...
Time:
future, distant future
Place:
san francisco
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story:
Dirk Gently is a British comedy detective drama TV series based on characters from the Dirk Gently novels by Douglas Adams. The series was created by Howard Overman and stars Stephen Mangan as holistic detective Dirk Gently and Darren Boyd as his ...
Style:
detective, semi serious, humorous, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
private detective, unconventional method, time travel, investigation, investigator, imaginary, danger, murder mystery, occult, friendship, future shock, whodunit ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, england
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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
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, South Korea, Cambodia
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to The Avengers ...
Style:
exciting, entertaining, humorous, saga, surprise ending ...
Audience:
kids, teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night ...
Plot:
superhero, robot, artificial intelligence, good versus evil, superhuman powers, technology, tony stark character, superhero team, supernatural ability, master villain, heroes, killer robot ...
Time:
year 2015, future, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
oslo norway, usa, europe, london, new york ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has ...
Style:
surprise ending, philosophical, confusing, clever, mind bending ...
Audience:
boys' night, family friendly, chick flick, adult
Plot:
time travel, time loop, plot twist, time machine, time paradox, twists and turns, parallel universe, gender, destiny, existentialism, changing the past or future, loner ...
Time:
year 1975, future, 2010s, 1940s, year 2014 ...
Place:
usa, new york, peru, cleveland ohio
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.
Style:
futuristic, saga, exciting, scenic, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, boys' night, adult
Plot:
star wars, alien, space travel, death, obesity, space opera, resistance fighter, destiny, fantasy world, super weapon, space and aliens, duel ...
Time:
future, year 2015, 2010s
Place:
space western
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161K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK, India, Australia, Brazil, China
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home. Now, the universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other ...
Style:
exciting, slasher, psychotronic, suspense, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
alien, alien monster, predator, hunter, extraterrestrial, alien creature, warrior, female warrior, soldier, monster, child, mission ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
xian, georgia, mexico
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
This scripted anthology series mashes up wildly different genres to tell suspenseful stories with funny, imaginative twists. Each episode turns familiar tropes inside out to create a curated and eclectic collection of stories filled with equal parts ...
Style:
anthology, parody, dark comedy, light, absurd ...
Plot:
satire, social satire, monster, social commentary, dark humor, surrealism, children, society, social relations, supernatural, creativity, parents and children ...
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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, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
Plot under wraps
Style:
futuristic, exciting, saga, action adventure, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
star wars, outer space, space travel, space opera, bounty hunter, warrior, loner, space and aliens, one man army, alien civilization, tough guy, space adventure ...
Time:
90s, future
Place:
space western
Is relevant?
56K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 51 min.
TV show
Story:
Young computer engineer Lily Chan investigates the secretive development division of her employer, a cutting-edge tech company based in San Francisco, which she believes is behind the murder of her boyfriend.
Style:
intellectual, philosophical, enigmatic, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
murder investigation, hacker, quantum physics, virtual reality, cold blooded murder, conspiracy, robot, computer, artificial intelligence, technology, investigation, murder mystery ...
Time:
future, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A standalone Star Wars adventure focused on the character Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Style:
saga, exciting, captivating, disturbing, retro ...
Plot:
star wars, space opera, outer space, galaxy, space, jedi, empire, lightsaber, hunted, master, recluse, fight ...
Place:
space western
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
Set twenty years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis, we follow the now-retired Admiral Picard into the next chapter of his life.
Style:
exciting, captivating, tense, breathtaking, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
star trek, space travel, spacecraft, alien, spaceship, exploration, fight scenes, human in outer space, friendship, space opera, space adventure, space exploration ...
Time:
future, 24th century, 2020s
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