Dystopian future movies and TV shows – page 4

List of dystopian future movies

Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story: It's three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist determined to bring down the government. His terrorist group, Wild Seven, stages an attack that levels several ...
Style: suspense, controversial, splatter, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, kids
Plot: terrorist, dystopia, island, terrorism, vengeance, violent, dystopian future, revenge, terrorist group, friendship, game of death, violence ...
Time: 2000s
Place: japan, afghanistan, asia, israel
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Planet of the Apes (2001)
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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 5.7
 144K
Gamer (2009)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Mind-control technology has taken society by a storm, a multiplayer on-line game called "Slayers" allows players to control human prisoners in mass-scale. Simon controls Kable, the online champion of the game. Kable's ultimate ...
Style: futuristic, action packed, stylized, cyber, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: distopia, mind control, virtual reality, cyberpunk, cyberspace, hacker, profanity, dystopian future, computer game, death, danger, contests and competitions ...
Time: 2030s, year 2009, near future, 2000s, future ...
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Starship Troopers (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an ...
Style: futuristic, stylized, sexy, exciting, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: alien invasion, military, space travel, monster, space and aliens, creature, soldier, space wars, alien, satire, fictional war, space battle ...
Time: future, 23rd century, year 1997, 90s, jurassic ...
Place: buenos aires argentina, space western, argentina
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 8.1
 1.2M
V for Vendetta (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as 'V' conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When 'V' rescues a young woman from the secret police, he ...
Style: futuristic, philosophical, intense, captivating, neo noir ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: revolution, distopia, revenge, vengeance, fighting the system, dystopia, vigilante, freedom, anti hero, protest, society, masked man ...
Time: future, year 2005, 2000s, distant future, near future ...
Place: london, england, britain, big ben london, europe ...
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 7.8
 392K
Moon (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: With only three weeks left in his three year contract, Sam Bell is getting anxious to finally return to Earth. He is the only occupant of a Moon-based manufacturing facility along with his computer and assistant, GERTY. When he has an accident ...
Style: psychological, philosophical, suspense, futuristic, clever ...
Audience: adult
Plot: isolation, moon, loneliness, space travel, outer space, astronaut, space, twists and turns, solitude, space and aliens, human clone, cloning ...
Time: future, year 2009, 2010s, near future, y2k ...
Place: hawaii, mexico
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 6.0
 18K
Hardware (1990)
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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 5.8
 13K
Apocalypse (2011)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In 2016 the sun has turned the entire world into a scorched and barren wasteland. The humans who have survived are either resourceful or violent, and sometimes both. Marie, her little sister Leonie, and best friend Phillip, are in a car headed to ...
Style: apocalyptic, suspenseful, serious, psychological thriller, futuristic ...
Plot: post apocalypse, survival, heat wave, cannibalism, dystopian future, chase, on the run, danger, society, disaster, epidemic, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time: future, 2010s, near future
Place: germany
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Battlestar Galactica (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth.
Style: futuristic, sexy, exciting, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, space opera, outer space, space and aliens, space wars, space battle, artificial intelligence, human in outer space, heroes, androids and robots, military, cyborgs ...
Time: future, 2000s
Place: space western
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Star Trek: Enterprise (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Star Trek: Enterprise is a science fiction TV series and a prequel to the original Star Trek set 100 years before. The series premiered September 26, 2001 on the UPN television network with the final episode airing on May 13, 2005. The series takes ...
Style: captivating, exciting, serious, erotic, saga ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: outer space, space travel, space and aliens, time travel, alien invasion, spacecraft, space exploration, space opera, alien life-form, good versus evil, escapades, adventurer ...
Time: future, 22nd century
Place: space western
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Jupiter Ascending (2015)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In a universe where human genetic material is the most precious commodity, an impoverished young Earth woman becomes the key to strategic maneuvers and internal strife within a powerful dynasty…
Style: visually stunning, exciting, serious, suspenseful, fairy tale ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: space opera, life turned upside down, save the lady, genetics, good versus evil, outer space, space and aliens, destiny, imaginary, space wars, interspecies romance, space travel ...
Time: future, 2010s
Place: chicago, st. petersburg russia
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 6.0
 2K
The Lottery (2014)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: Set in a dystopian future when women have stopped having children, "The Lottery" reveals a world staring down the barrel of impending extinction. Remarkably, 100 embryos are successfully fertilized and a national lottery is held to decide ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, bleak, cerebral, mind bending ...
Plot: children, infertility, conspiracy, dystopian future, embryo, pandemic, chaos, society, government agency, human nature, extinction, post apocalypse ...
Time: future
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Teenage Caveman (2002)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In a post-apocalyptic future mankind is lives in a prehistoric manner. After killing his father for sexually assaulting his girlfriend, the son of a tribal leader runs away with a group of his teenage friends. They are taken in by Neil and Judith ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: deadly creature, chaos and mayhem, danger, caveman, bare chested male, lesbianism, decapitation, plague, teenage life, youth, dystopian future, apocalypse ...
Time: future, stone age
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 7.1
 3K
Logan's Run (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In a futuristic society where reaching the age of 30 is a death sentence, a rebellious law enforcement agent goes on the run in search of Sanctuary.
Style: captivating, serious, exciting, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Plot: dystopian future, on the run, chase, chases and races, androids and robots, escapades, danger, secret place, chaos, post apocalypse, survivor, hiding place ...
Time: future, 23rd century
Place: usa
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 6.9
 54K
Enemy Mine (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds ...
Style: futuristic, cult classic, stylized, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: alien, stranded, evil alien, space exploration, space and aliens, friendship, space wars, space, extraterrestrial, alien life-form, space opera, dystopian future ...
Time: future, 20th century, 80s, 21st century
Place: space western
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 6.2
 25K
Impostor (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Gary Sinise plays Spencer Olham, a top-secret government weapons designer who is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth.
Style: futuristic, exciting, psychological thriller, thought provoking, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, alien, cyborgs, androids and robots, manhunt, dystopian future, space, on the run, save the world, imaginary, rivalry, race against time ...
Time: future, year 2001, 21st century
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 7.0
 30K
Alphaville (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet which is ruled by an evil scientist named Von Braun, who has outlawed love and self-expression.
Style: neo noir, cerebral, atmospheric, futuristic, detective ...
Plot: surrealism, dystopia, satire, distopia, artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, dystopian future, private detective, spy, imagination, existentialism, obsession ...
Time: future, year 1965, 50s, 1950s
Place: france, paris france
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A Boy and His Dog (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog Blood are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War 4, where survivors must battle for food, shelter, and sexual companionship in the ...
Style: cult classic, surreal, humorous, futuristic, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dog, post apocalypse, dystopia, desert, distopia, nuclear holocaust, wedding, survival, wasteland, dystopian future, violent, escape ...
Time: future, year 1975, 2020s, 21st century
Place: phoenix arizona, oklahoma
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 7.8
 221K
Brazil (1985)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent ...
Style: surreal, cult classic, mind bending, psychological, futuristic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: dystopia, dream, satire, distopia, cyberpunk, surrealism, surveillance, absurdism, fighting the system, bureaucracy, christmas, hallucination ...
Time: future, year 1985, year 1984
Place: england, london, britain, europe, brazil ...
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 7.9
 748K
District 9 (2009)
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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Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
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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 7.2
 1K
Charlie Jade (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: South Africa, Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Charlie Jade is a science fiction television program filmed mainly in Cape Town, South Africa. It stars Jeffrey Pierce in the title role, as a detective from a parallel universe who finds himself trapped in our universe. This is a Canadian and South ...
Style: futuristic, scary, exciting, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: dystopian future, cyberpunk, private detective, imaginary, danger, society, fish out of water, escapades, chaos, life is a bitch, parallel universe, evil ...
Place: africa, south africa
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Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: After a 40-year armistice in a war between the Twelve Colonies and the Cylons, the Cylons launch a surprise nuclear attack intended to exterminate the human race. Virtually all of the population of the Twelve Colonies are wiped out.
Style: futuristic, cerebral, philosophical, tense, talky ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, space wars, outer space, cyborgs, space battle, imaginary, space and aliens, escapades, society, androids and robots, space, space opera ...
Time: future, 70s
Place: space western
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Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When the initial Cylon attack against the Twelve Colonies fails to achieve complete extermination of human life as planned, twin Number Ones (Cavils) embedded on Galactica and Caprica must improvise to destroy the human survivors.
Style: exciting, atmospheric, stylized, intense, talky ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, space battle, vengeance, battlestar galactica, space travel, space, escapades, dystopian future, space opera, battles, man versus machine, good versus evil ...
Time: future
Is relevant?
 5.1
 6K
Moon 44 (1990)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Year 2038: The mineral resources of the earth are drained, in space there are fights for the last deposits on other planets and satellites. This is the situation when one of the bigger mining corporations has lost all but one mineral moons and many ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, futuristic, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robot, corruption, undercover agent, moon, save the world, dystopian future, heroic mission, escapades, androids and robots, rescue, chaos and mayhem, survival ...
Time: future, 2030s
Place: space western
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 7.9
 53K
Almost Human (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Almost Human is an American science fiction/crime drama on Fox. In 2048, the uncontrollable evolution of science and technology has caused crime rates to rise an astounding 400%. To combat this, the overwhelmed police force has implemented a new ...
Style: futuristic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, cyber ...
Audience: family friendly, boys' night
Plot: fighting crime, androids and robots, hi-tech, police partner, artificial intelligence, police detective, tough law enforcer, buddy cop, law enforcement, cop, haunted by the past, bonding ...
Time: future, 2040s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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 7.1
 27K
Caprica (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set 58 years before Battlestar Galactica, Caprica follows two rival families - the Graystones and the Adamas - as they grow, compete, and thrive in the vibrant world of the peaceful 12 Colonies, living in a society close to our own. Entangled in the ...
Style: futuristic, serious, atmospheric, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: artificial intelligence, battlestar galactica, cyberpunk, space, dystopian future, robot, man versus machine, androids and robots, alien planet, fate of humanity, family life, danger ...
Time: future
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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre ...
Style: apocalyptic, road movie, perverse, futuristic, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, date night
Plot: dystopia, post apocalypse, apocalypse, truck, desert, loner, car chase, planet, chase, post apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic future, oil ...
Time: future, 20th century, distant future, year 1982, near future ...
Place: australia, oceania, middle east
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 6.8
 556K
The Maze Runner (2014)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Set in a post-apocalyptic world, young Thomas is deposited in a community of boys after his memory is erased, soon learning they're all trapped in a maze that will require him to join forces with fellow “runners” for a shot at escape.
Style: exciting, suspense, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: survival, maze, memory loss, teenager, apocalypse, fantasy world, trapped, distopia, dystopia, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, youth ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.
Style: breathtaking, thought provoking, suspense, saga, powerful ...
Audience: teens, family friendly
Plot: post apocalypse, ape, dystopia, colony, planet of the apes, gorilla, monkey, animal attack, deadly virus, experiment gone awry, dystopian future, betrayal ...
Time: year 2014, future, 2020s, 2010s, near future ...
Place: san francisco, california, usa, north america
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