Dystopian society movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant dystopian society movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, tense, captivating, serious, bleak and suspense films and TV shows about / with dystopian society, dystopia, distopia, dystopian future, survival, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, social commentary, apocalypse and isolation plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, West Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as dystopian society: Radioflash (2019), Severance (2022), Kamikaze 1989 (1982), Idiocracy (2006), Arknights: Prelude to Dawn (2022), Last Sentinel (2023), Escape from New York (1981), The Park (2023), South of Hope Street (2024), Box: Metaphor (2023).
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When a nuclear device causes an electromagnetic pulse that kills power to more than 200 million people, a teenage girl must help lead her family to survival in a dark new world.
Style:
futuristic, apocalyptic, thought provoking, epic, psychotronic ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, survival, post apocalypse, apocalypse, dystopian society, teenager, blackout, trick, darkness, female protagonist, doomsday, disaster ...
Time:
future
Place:
america, idaho, montana, ireland
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375K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.
Style:
tense, existential, breathtaking, captivating, philosophical ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
office, memory, distopia, alternate world, mind control, satire, memory loss, conspiracy, colleague, double life, dystopian society, split personality ...
Time:
2020s, future
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings, and finds out more than he bargained for.
Style:
art house, parody, intellectual, detective
Plot:
dystopia, dystopian society, cyberpunk, killed in a car crash, totalitarian regime, police officer, bomb threat, resistance fighter, crime investigation, totalitarian state, surrealism, post apocalypse ...
Time:
future, year 1982, year 1989
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213K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a ...
Style:
futuristic, thought provoking, satirical, funny, absurd ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dystopian future, time travel, distopia, stupidity, social satire, satire, dystopia, absurdism, social decay, dimwit, hibernation, dark humor ...
Time:
future, year 2006, year 2005, distant future, y2k ...
Place:
texas, usa, washington d.c.
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, War
Country: China, Japan
TV show
Story:
In the wake of unknown Catastrophes in the heart of Terra, a mineral of unimaginable power has been discovered. With it, society's technology has made huge leaps and bounds, but the substance causes a deadly incurable disease, leading to a ...
Style:
anime, suspenseful, captivating, seinen, 2d animation
Plot:
post apocalypse, struggle for survival, humanity, fantasy world, apocalypse, dream world, dystopian society, fighting illness, magic, war, tragedy, amnesia ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Estonia, Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Set in the future on a war-ravaged Earth, four exhausted soldiers man Sentinel - a remote military base in a vast ocean that separates two warring continents. While their tour of duty ended three months ago, the relief crew still hasn't arrived ...
Style:
disturbing, minimal cast, suspenseful, captivating, action thriller ...
Plot:
storm at sea, distopia, dystopian society, enemy, planet earth, military base, soldier, earth, planet, dystopian future, rainstorm, dystopia ...
Time:
future, near future
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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: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A dystopian coming-of-age movie focused on three kids who find themselves in an abandoned amusement park, aiming to unite whoever remains. With dangers lurking around every corner, they will do whatever it takes to survive their hellish Neverland.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, dark, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
dystopia, distopia, coming of age, children, virus, post apocalyptic, survival, dystopian society, battles, post-apocalyptic future, fate of humanity, deadly virus ...
Time:
near future
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
There is a strange event in the sky. Only a young woman, and some of her more alienated friends...notice. But they are voiceless, as it just gets stranger - even as below - on the ground, it gets more, what is ominously called, 'normal'.
Style:
captivating, mysterious, atmospheric, existential, surreal ...
Plot:
survival, alternate history, distopia, dystopian society, struggle for survival, dystopian future, problem, dystopia, mysterious event, outsider, walled city, social commentary ...
Time:
near future, 2020s
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Box Metaphor is a compelling dystopian journey where unjust imprisonment unveils societal conformity and defiance’s profound impact. It’s about breaking free from metaphorical boxes and the resilience of the human spirit.
Style:
surreal, suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
dystopia, resilience, metaphor, prison, distopia, social problems, dystopian society, locked in a cage, surrealism, locked in, social issues, oppression ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: Greece, Germany, USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
In a dystopian future where criminals take over, detective Jimmy Cloud gets a deadly case around a kidnapping carried out by a brutal crime syndicate.
Style:
detective, disturbing, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
dystopia, true crime, love, distopia, fighting crime, dystopian future, organized crime, abduction, crime investigation, criminal, escapades, dystopian society ...
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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
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
TV show
Story:
A series of murders take place in 16th-century Seville, where the plague has taken hold; a condemned man faces the Inquisition as he attempts to save the son of a friend by speaking out.
Style:
tense, bleak, psychological, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
dystopia, dystopian future, quarantine, pandemic, plague, dystopian society, death, distopia, society, dystopic future, danger, government conspiracy ...
Time:
near future, future
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Izi's close to escaping The Kitchen, one of London's last remaining housing estates. But when young Benji enters his life, he faces some hard decisions.
Style:
thrilling, tense, captivating, suspenseful, futuristic
Plot:
political oppression, social issues, dystopia, urban setting, distopia, dystopian society, dystopian future, social problems, robbery, burglar, class differences, life is a bitch ...
Time:
2040s, near future, future, 21st century
Place:
london
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The future. The corrupt regime broadcasts the illusion of a beautiful city to the chip in your head, when in fact the city is in ruins. The rebels know the truth and seek to foment revolution.
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, serious, captivating, futuristic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dystopia, post apocalypse, evil computer, city, virtual reality, rebellion, dystopic future, demolished city, dystopian future, distopia, power, destruction ...
Time:
future, near future
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, France
Duration: 385 min.
TV show
Story:
Following a major catastrophe, a new society, Arcadia, is born. Resources have become scarce and a point system, known as the Citizen Score, is introduced. It determines what you can and may do and what a citizen is entitled to.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, captivating, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
dystopia, female nudity, lesbian interest, lesbian, family secret, family drama, dystopic future, daughter, father and daughter, dystopian future, dystopian society, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
near future, future
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the not too distant future where a deadly disease has gripped the world, Arcadia has been built as safe disease-free haven for the privileged. Outside Arcadia, the average life lasts merely 40 years - unless they can earn a place amongst the ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, social ...
Plot:
totalitarianism, distopia, family relations, dystopia, disease, pandemic, dystopian future, social commentary, social injustice, illness, totalitarian state, dystopian society ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
london
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Pursued by loan sharks, Aoyama is rescued by a mysterious man in orange overalls, and spirited away to “The Town,” where other dropouts hide out from debtors, abusive partners or the police. It’s a perpetual holiday resort where every need is ...
Style:
serious, dramatic, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
conspiracy, dystopia, debt, distopia, social relations, relationships, loan shark, evil plot, city, dystopian society, pursuit, hunted ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the near future, the areas between major cities are lawless wastelands. Atolladero is a town run with an iron fist by a corrupt tyrant named The Judge and his murderous enforcer, Madden. One decent cop decides to leave town, but the powers that ...
Style:
grim, bleak, neo western, neo noir, independent film ...
Plot:
dog sex, zoophilia, dystopia, lawlessness, corruption, tyranny, dystopian society, con artists, wasteland, post apocalyptic, corrupt judge, anti establishment ...
Time:
near future, 90s, 2040s
Place:
mexico, sonora
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, West Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, psychological, cult classic, political ...
Plot:
distopia, dystopia, politics, totalitarianism, dystopian future, brainwashing, technology, fascism, totalitarian state, satire, surveillance, political corruption ...
Time:
future, 80s, year 1984, near future, 20th century ...
Place:
london, england, europe, britain, united kingdom
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Star Maidens is a British-German science-fiction television series made by Portman Productions for the ITV network. Produced in 1975, and first broadcast in 1976, it was filmed at Bray Studios and on location in Windsor and Bracknell, Berkshire, and ...
Style:
cult classic
Plot:
matriarchy, alien contact, culture clash, battle of the sexes, alien planet, fish out of water, sexism, dystopian society, underground city, social satire, star wars, invasion ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Patty is lying awake one night in a church basement, distraught and scared. She is to be executed the next morning for refusing to take the Mark of the Beast. Patty knows what lies ahead if she takes the mark but can still not believe in Christ.When ...
Style:
apocalyptic, religious drama, independent film, bleak, tension ...
Plot:
end of the world, christian, salvation, persecution, judgment, prophecy, evangelical christianity, evangelist, doomsday, moral dilemma, female protagonist, dystopian society ...
Time:
year 1970, future
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Final and least well-known installment in the Mark IV series of fundamentalist apocalypse films. About to executed by the forces of the Antichrist, fundamentalist Christian guerrilla David is rescued by Connie, an Antichrist agent pretending to be a ...
Style:
christian film, independent film, dark, suspenseful, cult classic
Plot:
christian, end of the world, antichrist, armageddon, betrayal, double agent, evangelical christianity, post apocalyptic, conspiracy, rescue mission, religious conversion, underground movement ...
Time:
near future
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Shy, thirteen year old Xenia doesn't feel comfortable in the overly-regulated society she lives in. In search of a place for herself she discovers an island on which time doesn't seem to exist. This is where she finds the key to her future.
Style:
reflective, contemplative, surreal, poetic, independent film ...
Plot:
island, adolescence, coming of age, self discovery, magic realism, isolation, dystopian society, solitude, friendship, newspaper, bicycle, school ...
Time:
future
Is relevant?
498
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The people of the planet Aeon, blessed with six suns, have never experienced night. When an archeological excavation uncovers evidence of an ancient catastrophe, all signs point towards the impending darkness of the very first Nightfall. Panic ...
Style:
apocalyptic, sinister, tense, melancholic, independent film ...
Plot:
end of the world, mass hysteria, adaptation, doomsday, survival, dystopian society, claustrophobia, cosmic horror, prophecy, astronomy, planet, space ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Desperate to save his sick daughter, working-class Ben Richards is convinced by The Running Man's charming but ruthless producer to enter the deadly competition game as a last resort. But Ben's defiance, instincts, and grit turn him into ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, bleak, dark comedy, game show ...
Plot:
dystopia, survival, social commentary, fictional game show, violence, money problems, most dangerous game, race against time, megacorporation, media manipulation, escape, satire ...
Time:
near future
Place:
maine, boston, new york
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In a dystopian, alternate-America ruled by a totalitarian regime, 50 teenage boys take part in a deadly annual walking contest, forced to maintain a minimum pace or be executed, until only one survivor remains.
Style:
ambiguous ending, teen horror, psychological horror, suspense, psychotronic ...
Plot:
stephen king, self sacrifice, teenage boy, friendship, male protagonist, death of protagonist, suicide, survival, dystopian society, camaraderie, corporal punishment, sole survivor ...
Time:
70s, near future
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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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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the fictional and hypnotic Rain City.
Style:
neo noir, independent film, tech noir, offbeat, perverse ...
Plot:
dystopia, shootout, dystopian society, restaurant, sex scene, robbery, female nudity, rain, big city, diner, gangster, dystopian future ...
Time:
year 1985, future, 1940s
Place:
seattle, usa
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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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