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 13.
Sci-Fi, drama film, dystopian film, mystery film, political thriller film, science fiction film
The owner of the 20th-century Motor Company has died and his children have taken over, with a new plan to operate the company: that everyone work as hard as he can, but that salaries be "based on need". A lab engineer named John Galt objec…
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Sci-Fi, dystopian film, science fiction film
In 2020, robotics company CEO Elias VanDorne reveals Kronos, a supercomputer he has invented to end all wars. Kronos determines that mankind is responsible for all wars and attempts to use robots to kill all humans. VanDorne, along with hi…
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Action, Sport, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, sport film
In a barren world caused by wars waged in the 20th century and now forgotten, most live from hand to mouth in enclaves known as "market-towns" or "dog-towns", scrounging out a bare subsistence harvesting hardy crops, raising dogs as food, …
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Crime, Thriller, art film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
The film opens with Detective Fisher, a European expatriate in Cairo, undergoing hypnosis to process his most recent case, with the remainder of the film narrated by him in a dreamlike state. Expressionistic and surreal, the Europe of Fish…
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Action, Drama, Fantasy, Spaghetti Western, action film, dystopian film, fantasy film, martial arts film, samurai cinema, thriller film
In the aftermath of a major global conflict, which caused untold amounts of death and destruction, guns have been outlawed. However, even in spite of there not being firearms anymore, people still continue to fight and kill one another, ex…
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dystopian film
In the future, pregnancy is outlawed, and citizens are required to engage in loveless sex, and narcotics are used to ensure happiness in the population. Babies are created in the lab, and every child's future is predestined into one of fiv…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi
Part one In an alternate version of contemporary Great Britain, triffids are large carnivorous plants capable of vicious and intelligent behaviour, equipped with venomous stingers that they use to stun their prey before feeding on them. Bi…
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action film, dystopian film, horror film, science fiction film
The film takes place in an isolated desert compound called Clonus, where clones are bred as replacement parts for the elite, including a soon-to-be president-elect Jeffrey Knight. The clones are kept isolated from the real world by workers…
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Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film
"A thousand years from tomorrow" after the Neutron Wars, the world is divided into a barbaric collection of city states surrounded by wastelands where only mutant cannibals and independent warriors, known as Range Guides, can live. Led by …
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adventure film, dystopian film, mecha, science fiction film
The year is Universal Century 0223. The former Earth Federation has collapsed, and the space colonies have shaken off their colonial pasts and now refer to themselves as independent space "Settlements". In this new power scheme two faction…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, dystopian film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
Set in the then-future year of 1995, a totalitarian regime rules over the entire world and so-called "social deviants" are sent to mass prison camps for re-education and behaviour modification. The new arrivals at Camp 47 are Chris Walters…
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Utopia & Dystopia
In 2081, American society is a dystopia, in which all individual inequality has been erased by the fictional 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution and the "unceasing vigilance of the United States Handicapper General", aft…
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dystopian film, science fiction film
In an alternate reality, circa 1985, the United States of America are under the authoritarian control of President Fremont. Berkeley record store clerk Nick Brady lives modestly with his wife Rachel and their infant son. Nick has been expe…
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action film, adventure film, dystopian film
The plot, which takes place in an alternate storyline between the events of Tekken 5 and Tekken 6, begins with Anna Williams setting up a decoy for her sister, Nina Williams, who is currently working with the new head of the Mishima Zaibat…
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dystopian film
In a future dystopia, Aram Fingal, a programmer working for the conglomerate Novicorp, is caught watching Casablanca at his workstation. As a consequence, the company assigns him mandatory prophylactic rehabilitation, where subjects are "d…
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Sci-Fi, fantasy film, science fiction film
In Portland, Oregon, in the near future, George Orr is charged with abuse of multiple prescription medications, which he was taking to keep himself from dreaming. Orr volunteers for psychiatric care to avoid prosecution, and is assigned to…
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Sci-Fi, adventure film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In May 2021, the Moon is in the process of being colonized, and this new frontier is attracting a diverse human population to lunar settlements like Moon City, Farside 5, and others. Two denizens of this rough-and-tumble lunar society are …
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Utopia & Dystopia, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film, thriller film
In the future, the Earth has become severely polluted (people need to wear breathing masks when outside), with severe overpopulation affecting available resources. Because of the permanent thick smog that has settled over the dismal cities…
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Monster Film, Utopia & Dystopia
The film is set in a post-apocalyptic future, where the vast majority of humanity has died due to a viral epidemic. The remaining humans have reverted to primitive tribalism. After killing his father for sexually assaulting his girlfriend,…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, dystopian fiction, science fiction film, thriller film
In a dystopian North America in 2044, war and environmental degradation have led to the almost complete abandonment of cities and to the establishment of a totalitarian military dictatorship called the "Regime". Niska and her eleven year o…
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Sci-Fi, action film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
Nine years after David Herdeg was transported through time from 1943 to 1984, he has settled down in modern California. He married Allison Hayes, and together they had a son named Benjamin, but Allison has since passed away. Left a single …
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, apocalyptic film, disaster film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
The film opens with a montage of pollution, which, as implied by the narrator, is the cause of a virulent new disease arising in Asia, a virus that strikes all members of the grass family, including wheat, rice, and maize. It spreads to Af…
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Action, Drama, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, Sci-Fi, Thriller, drama film, dystopian film, fantasy film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
In Lapland, playboy physicist Jerry Cornelius attends the funeral of his father, a Nobel Prize–winning scientist who has developed the "Final Programme"—a design for a perfect, self-replicating human being. He is questioned by Dr Smiles, w…
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Action, B-action, Exploitation Film, action comedy film, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film, thriller film
An earthquake leaves the California coastline in ruins and reduces the beaches to a state of chaos. A group of neo-Nazis led by Adolf, the self-proclaimed "Führer of the new beach", takes advantage of the resulting chaos by fighting off se…
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