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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 421 films · Page 10.
Romantic Comedy, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, comedy film, drama film, romantic comedy, science fiction film
A New York couple, Rachel and Alvy, live in a not-so-distant future. A rising tech company executive, Rachel lands a coveted spot on the waitlist for the Womb Center, which offers couples maternity by way of detachable artificial wombs, or…
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Psychodrama, Utopia & Dystopia, arthouse science fiction film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In the future, a totalitarian government will employ a force known as Firemen to seek out and destroy all literature. They can search anyone, anywhere, at any time, and burn any books they find. One of the firemen, Guy Montag, meets one of…
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Komödie, Sci-Fi, comedy film, dystopian film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Miles Monroe is a jazz musician and owner of the Happy Carrot health-food store in New York City's Greenwich Village. He walks into the hospital in 1973 for a routine ulcer operation that goes wrong, leaving him relegated to 200 years of a…
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Drama, drama film, dystopian film
In a fictitious timeline of England in the late 1930s, a civil war (which occurs roughly 450 years later than the historical event) ends with the Lancastrian King Henry and his son Prince Edward assassinated by Yorkist Field Marshal Richar…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, girls with guns, science fiction film
In 2017, during the Second American Civil War, Barb Wire owns the Hammerhead, a nightclub in Steel Harbor, "the last free city" in a United States ravaged by the war. She earns cash as a mercenary and bounty hunter. Chief of Police Willis …
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Horror, Sci-Fi, biopunk, dystopian film, horror film, science fiction film
Syd March is employed by Lucas Clinic, a company which purchases viruses and other pathogens from celebrities, then purposefully infects paying fans who desire a connection with their idols. The company puts a copy protection on its produc…
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Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, prison film, science fiction film
In 2017, the United States is a military dictatorship. Ex-army officer John Henry Brennick and his wife Karen attempt to cross the Canada–United States border to Vancouver to have a second child. A strict one-child policy forbids a second …
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Parodie, Silly Movie, Splatstick, Utopia & Dystopia, comedy film, parody film, science fiction film
Kantmiss Evershot practices archery in the forest, but her boyfriend, Dale, surprises her; the arrow accidentally hits The Wizard of Oz. They return to District 12, where children afraid of getting picked for the Games deliberately injure …
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Action, action film, drama film, dystopian film, exploitation film, horror film, splatter film, thriller film, vigilante film
An unnamed hobo arrives by boxcar in the city of Hope Town, where its graffitied welcome sign reads "Scum Town". The city is ruled over by a ruthless crime lord named "The Drake" and his sadistic sons Ivan and Slick. The Hobo walks the tow…
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, fantasy film, martial arts film, science fiction film
A gigantic earthquake destroys southern California, greatly altering its landscape and leaving Los Angeles and dystopia area of renamed "New Angeles", in shambles after the federal government fails to help restore order or rebuild. Seven y…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, cyberpunk, dystopian film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
In the near future, humanity lives in a technologically advanced, dystopian society. The government requires that everyone receive an ocular implant that records everything they see. The implant provides an augmented-reality head-up displa…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, B movie, Fantasy, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
A nomadic scavenger treks through an irradiated wasteland and discovers a buried robot. He collects the pieces and takes them to junk dealer Alvy, who is talking with 'Hard Mo' Baxter, a former soldier, and Mo's friend Shades. When Alvy st…
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Cyberpunk, Melodrama, dystopian film, romance film, science fiction film
Adam's two-planet home world has "dual gravity", allowing the two planets to orbit each other in extremely close proximity. Three immutable laws of gravity exist for this two-planet system: All matter is only pulled by the gravity of the w…
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Horror, Thriller, dystopian film, thriller film
Amid an environmental crisis that caused the world's governments to mandate voluntary as well as conscripted euthanasia as a means of population control, former news broadcaster Charles York summons his four adult children to dinner at his…
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Action, Thriller, Time Travel, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In 2009, the super-wealthy achieve immortality by hiring "bonejackers", mercenaries equipped with time travel devices, to snatch people from the past, just prior to the moment of their deaths, for use as substitute bodies. Those who escape…
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Action, action film, dystopian film
Jack Conrad awaits execution in a corrupt Salvadoran prison. He is "purchased" by a wealthy TV producer and transported to a deserted island in the South Pacific along with nine other condemned criminals from prisons around the world. They…
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Family Drama, Zombiefilm, drama film, dystopian film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, zombie film
In the present-day Midwest United States, society struggles to function in the aftermath of a zombie pandemic (Necroambulism) barely under control. Maggie Vogel calls her father from a broken city under curfew; her voicemail urges that he …
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Thriller, dystopian film
A disease targets the richest people on Earth, starting with billionaires, then millionaires, and so on, causing people to give away their assets to avoid death. The plot of the film coincides with that of the novel "Antidystopia" publishe…
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Horror, Western, Zombiefilm, dystopian film, horror film, independent film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, zombie film
The prologue follows the actions of National Guard Sergeant "Nicotine" Crockett, who, along with Kenny, Francisco and Tomboy, desert their posts and rob the protagonists of the previous film. Meanwhile, off the coast of Delaware lies Plum …
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, dystopian film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Humans have built climate modification towers to control Earth's warming climate due to climate change. The towers, however, inadvertently cause a new ice age. By 2045, the remnants of human civilization live in underground bunkers to esca…
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Romance Film, Thriller, dystopian film, romantic thriller
By 2024, COVID-19 has been mutated into COVID-23 and the world is in its fourth quarantine year. In the United States, the nation's government is converted into a fascist police state and the people are required to take temperature checks …
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Sci-Fi, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
In 1940, businessman John Cabal, living in the city of Everytown in Southern England, cannot enjoy Christmas Day as the news speaks of possible war. His guest, Harding, shares his worries, while another friend, the over-optimistic Pippa Pa…
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Action, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, prison film, science fiction film
In 2022, the penal system is run by corporations, and prisoners are seen as assets. Highly trained ex-Marine J.T. Robbins is imprisoned for life for murdering his commanding officer after being ordered to kill innocent civilians in Benghaz…
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action film, drama film, dystopian film, political thriller film, science fiction film
In 2016, the United States is in a sustained economic depression. Industrial disasters, resource shortages, and gasoline prices at $37 per gallon have made railroads the primary mode of transportation, but even they are in disrepair. After…
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