Topic: Dystopia

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Brazil

1985 · Movie · 138 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Gilliam

Cast Jonathan Pryce · Kim Greist · Michael Palin · Katherine Helmond

Plot The film centers on Sam Lowry, a young man trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living a...

7.3

34K votes

7.3

34K votes

Civil War

2024 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Alex Garland

Cast Kirsten Dunst · Wagner Moura · Cailee Spaeny · Stephen Henderson

Plot In a near future where America is engulfed in a bloody civil war, a team of journalists and war photographers embark on a road trip to Washington DC. Their mission:...

7.2

5K votes

7.2

5K votes

The Second Renaissance Part II (S)

2003 · Movie · 10 min. · United States

Direction Mahiro Maeda

Plot With the robot city isolated and it's ambassadors ejected form the United Nations, a trade war begins to protect the human economy from superior products. When the trade war escalates...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Punishment Park

1971 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Peter Watkins

Cast Patrick Boland · Kent Foreman · Carmen Argenziano · Luke Johnson

Plot "Punishment Park" is a pseudo-documentary purporting to be a film crews's news coverage of the team of soldiers escorting a group of hippies, draft dodgers, and anti-establishment types across the...

7.2

829 votes

7.2

829 votes

The Twilight Zone: Number 12 Looks Just Like You (TV)

1964 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Abner Biberman

Cast Collin Wilcox Paxton · Richard Long · Pamela Austin · Suzy Parker

Plot In a future society, everyone must undergo an operation at age 19 to become beautiful and conform to society. One young woman desperately wants to hold onto her own identity.

7.2

75 votes

7.2

75 votes

Children of Men

2006 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alfonso Cuarón

Cast Clive Owen · Julianne Moore · Michael Caine · Chiwetel Ejiofor

Plot Year 2027. Children of Men envisages a world one generation from now that has fallen into anarchy on the heels of an infertility defect in the population. The world's youngest...

7.1

68K votes

7.1

68K votes

Moon

2009 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Duncan Jones

Cast Sam Rockwell · Kaya Scodelario · Matt Berry · Malcolm Stewart

Plot It is the near future. Astronaut Sam Bell is living on the far side of the moon, completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth’s primary source of...

7.1

51K votes

7.1

51K votes

World on a Wire (TV)

1973 · Movie · 205 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Klaus Löwitsch · Barbara Valentin · Mascha Rabben · Karl Heinz Vosgerau

Plot Somewhere in the future there is a computer project called Simulacron one of which is able to simulate a full featured reality, when suddenly project leader Henry Vollmer dies. His...

7.1

324 votes

7.1

324 votes

Love, Death + Robots. Vol. 2: Pop Squad (S)

2021 · Movie · 17 min. · United States

Direction Jennifer Yuh

Cast Nolan North · Elodie Yung · Emily O'Brien

Plot In a future where resources are controlled by the rich, "unregistered offspring" are forbidden by the state. A police officer charged with enforcing population control faces a crisis of conscience.

7.1

3K votes

7.1

3K votes

Silo (TV Series)

2023 · Series · 46 min. · United States

Direction Graham Yost · Morten Tyldum · David Semel · Adam Bernstein

Cast Rebecca Ferguson · Common · Tim Robbins · Harriet Walter

Plot TV Series (2023-). 1 Season. 10 Episodes. Men and women live in a giant silo underground with a lot of regulations which they think are supposed to protect them from...

7.1

4K votes

7.1

4K votes

Love, Death & Robots: The Witness (S)

2019 · Movie · 11 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alberto Mielgo

7.1

5K votes

7.1

5K votes

The Plot Against America (TV Miniseries)

2020 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction David Simon · Ed Burns · Minkie Spiro · Thomas Schlamme

Cast Morgan Spector · Zoe Kazan · Winona Ryder · John Turturro

Plot TV Miniseries (2020). 6 Episodes. In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected President. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates a cordial "understanding" with Adolf Hitler, while the...

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7.0

4K votes

7.0

4K votes

Squid Game (TV Series)

2021 · Series · 60 min. · South Korea

Direction Hwang Dong-hyuk

Cast Lee Jung-jae · Park Hae-soo · Jung Ho-yeon · Oh Yeong-su

Plot TV Series (2021-). 9 Episodes. Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits- with deadly high stakes.

7.0

30K votes

7.0

30K votes

Sleeper

1973 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen · Diane Keaton · John Beck · Mary Gregory

Plot After 200 years in hybernation, clarinet-playing health food store owner Miles Monroe wakens in 2174 in a police-controlled America that keeps watch on its citizens day and night.

7.0

16K votes

7.0

16K votes

Minority Report

2002 · Movie · 144 min. · United States

Direction Steven Spielberg

Cast Tom Cruise · Colin Farrell · Samantha Morton · Max von Sydow

Plot In the year 2054 A.D. crime is virtually eliminated from Washington D.C. thanks to an elite law enforcing squad "Precrime". They use three genetically altered humans (called "Pre-Cogs") with special...

6.9

84K votes

6.9

84K votes

Logan

2017 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

Direction James Mangold

Cast Hugh Jackman · Patrick Stewart · Dafne Keen · Boyd Holbrook

Plot In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hide out on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and...

6.9

34K votes

6.9

34K votes

Dark City

1998 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Alex Proyas

Cast Rufus Sewell · Kiefer Sutherland · William Hurt · Jennifer Connelly

Plot Upon awakening with a start in an icy bathtub in a strange room--with a woman's dead body inconveniently nearby--John Murdoch can't remember how he got there. With a police detective...

6.9

27K votes

6.9

27K votes

Total Recall

1990 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Paul Verhoeven

Cast Arnold Schwarzenegger · Sharon Stone · Michael Ironside · Rachel Ticotin

Plot Earth in the year 2084. Construction worker Doug Quaid goes to Rekall Inc, which advertises that clients can pay to have synthetic memories of a holiday implanted in lieu of...

6.8

70K votes

6.8

70K votes

Alphaville

1965 · Movie · 99 min. · France

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Eddie Constantine · Anna Karina · Akim Tamiroff · Valérie Boisgel

Plot Lemmy Caution, an American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet. His very American character is at odds with the city's ruler, an evil scientist named Von...

6.8

5K votes

6.8

5K votes

The Halt

2019 · Movie · 279 min. · Philippines

Direction Lav Diaz

Cast Joel Lamangan · Piolo Pascual · Shaina Magdayao · Pinky Amador

Plot Madmen control Manila in 2034 after massive volcanic eruptions have plunged Southeast Asia into darkness.

6.8

62 votes

6.8

62 votes