Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore dystopian societies and unsettling imagined futures.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 421 films · Page 11.
Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Social Drama, disaster film, drama film, dystopian film
The film begins with a young professional suddenly going blind in his car while at an intersection, with his field of vision turning white. A seemingly kind passerby offers to drive him home. However, he then steals the blind man's car.
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Action, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, heist film, prison film, science fiction film
A gang robs a bank on behalf of crime boss Markus Kane. When two police officers unexpectedly enter the building, getaway driver Carl "Luke" Lucas urges his accomplices to abort the robbery, but they refuse. Luke intervenes, resulting in t…
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Horror, dystopian film, horror film, monster film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
A meteor shower blinds most of the world's population and spreads spores that cause triffid plants to become animated. Bill Masen, an American merchant marine, escapes the catastrophe after spending the night in a hospital with his eyes ba…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, disaster film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
First Lieutenant Jake Tanner shares ICBM silo duty at a US Air Force missile base in the Mojave Desert in eastern California with Major Eugene "Sam" Denton. Denton notifies Tanner he's requesting that command reassign him, considering Tann…
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Action, action film, crime film, drama film, dystopian film, thriller film
In 2018, in a crime-ridden dystopian Detroit, a particularly notorious neighborhood has grown so dangerous that law enforcement is overwhelmed. Unable to control the crime, city officials build a -tall containment wall around this area, kn…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, biopunk, dystopian film, neo-noir, rape and revenge film, science fiction film
A man is in a hospital bed (John) distressed from dreaming intruders in the house brutally assault him, then watching as the leader shoots his wife and child dead. John awakens from a many-months coma to learn that his wife and daughter we…
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dystopian film
thumb|right|Students attempt to flee lethal microdrones. The dramatization, seven minutes in length, is set in a Black Mirror-style near future. Palm-sized autonomous drones using facial recognition and shaped explosives can be programmed …
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Romantic Comedy, Sci-Fi, dystopian film, romantic comedy film
In the near future human emotion has been eradicated by a government-imposed daily vitamin but two young lovers skip their daily dose.
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Sword And Sorcery, action film, adventure film, dystopian film, fantasy film
In a possible future, parts of human society have fallen to violence and chaos, with many now living as homeless scavengers and gangs fighting over territory. A group of immortals still has resources and access to advanced technology. It i…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, body horror film, comedy film, comedy horror film, dystopian film, experimental film, horror film, independent film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film
Set in 1997, the film follows Adrian Tripod, an occasional director of the House of Skin, a dermatological clinic. He embarks on a quest to find his mentor, the insane dermatologist Antoine Rouge. Rouge has vanished after a devastating pla…
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Drama, Romantic Drama, Utopia & Dystopia, drama film, dystopian film, romance film, science fiction film
In a futuristic dystopian society, citizens, known as "members", live under the Collective, the legislative body which monitors and controls the people's actions. Citizens are mentally stabilized and all emotions and most illnesses are era…
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drama television series, dystopian film, romance film, science fiction film
USS Charleston (SSN-704) is equipped with a caterpillar drive and is on station following a nuclear exchange, under the command of Dwight Towers. A devastating war that contaminated the northern hemisphere was preceded by a standoff betwee…
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Animation, comedy film, dystopian film, family film, musical film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film, teen film
To celebrate the five-year anniversary of Perry becoming their pet, Phineas and Ferb create an enormous shuttlecock to play giant badminton. When Perry's hovercraft accidentally collides with their shuttlecock, the boys crash into Dr. Doof…
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Animation, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, science fiction film
The film opens with footage from the planet Mithron with a group of Space Marines of the Imperial Fists Chapter under attack from an unknown enemy. A Space Marine by the name of Nidon is told to protect "the Codex" and races to obey his or…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, biopunk, dystopian film, science fiction film
A group of terrorists called the Pasalan Liberation Front, led by Commander Topov, kidnap the Ukrainian Prime Minister's son and daughter and hold them hostage, demanding the release of their imprisoned comrades within 72 hours. In additio…
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dystopian film
A week after the events of the first film, Governor Dean Redding prepares to run for the next presidential election. He attempts to get Laina Michaels' support for his campaign to mitigate his own controversy surrounding the Thinning. She …
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Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, mecha, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Fifty years after a nuclear holocaust, mankind is decimated and the surviving nations—the American western-influenced Market and the Soviet-Russian-influenced Confederation—have agreed to outlaw traditional open war. In their place, disput…
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Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, biographical film, drama film, dystopian film
In Prague in 1919, Franz Kafka works as an insurance adjuster while moonlighting as a writer. He gets involved with an underground group after one Eduard Rabin, of his co-workers, is murdered. The underground group, responsible for bombing…
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Utopia & Dystopia, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In the mid-1960s, a nuclear war and devastation of Earth gave rise to three superstates: Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. By 1984, London, with its bomb-proof ministry, is designated as the capital of Airstrip One, a province of Oceania, co…
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Action, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, prison film, science fiction film
Death Race owner R. H. Weyland has been forced to sell the rights to Niles York, a British billionaire who acquired the rights by a hostile takeover and intends to relocate the Death Race to South Africa.
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Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, action film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, science fiction film
In the 1990s, youth gangs take over areas in major North American cities. Two major gangs, the Blackhearts and the Razorheads, vie for control. In 1999, while working with MegaTech head Dr.
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Drama, Thriller, War Film, drama film, dystopian film, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, war film
The story transpires in a non-linear fashion, following U.S. Marine Gabriel Drummer in training, in battle in Afghanistan, in counseling in Afghanistan, while searching for his family after returning to a devastated United States, and in h…
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Sex Film, Utopia & Dystopia, comedy film, drama film, horror film, pornographic film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In the aftermath of nuclear apocalypse, 99% of the survivors are sex Negatives – they become violently ill if they attempt to have sex. The minority sex Positives are forced to engage in carnal theater for the entertainment of the Negative…
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Computeranimation, Drama, Hard Science Fiction, drama film, dystopian film, live-action/animated film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
Robin Wright is an aging actress whose career suffered because of her erratic behavior and reputation for being fickle and unreliable. Her son, Aaron, suffers from Usher syndrome, which is slowly destroying his sight and hearing. Aided by …
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