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...
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