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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, fantasy film, science fiction film, thriller film
A futuristic resort, Vice, offers visitors the opportunity to live out all their fantasies, no matter how violent or deviant, on sophisticated androids (referred to as "artificials"). Every day, the androids' memories are reset, and any da…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
Setting The film opens with the statement: "The German invasion of Britain took place in 1940 after the retreat from Dunkirk." After months of fierce resistance and brutal reprisals, the occupying forces manage to restore order, largely su…
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Psychodrama, Social Drama, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
The film is set in a near-future where death from illness has become rare. When Katherine Mortenhoe is diagnosed as having an incurable disease, she becomes a celebrity and is besieged by journalists. Vincent Ferriman, top executive at the…
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Horror, dystopian film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
During a pandemic of mass suicides and mysterious deaths caused by ghosts who spread through technology, Michelle searches for her daughter, Justine. Michelle’s ex-husband Stephen traces her path, discovering evidence that she planned to k…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, dystopian film
Set in an unspecified country, a woman is taken from her home in the middle of the night, accused of embedding dissident messages into her book Closet Land. The book is a story about a child who, as a result of bad behavior, has been locke…
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Sci-Fi, drama film, dystopian film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
thumb|200px|left|The full film thumb|left|Drive-in advertisement from 1960 Harold Gern, a successful businessman from New York who constantly has legal problems, is spending a holiday in Puerto Rico with his wife, Evelyn, "between trials",…
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Action, Horror, Komödie, action film, comedy film, dystopian film, fiction, horror film
Heidi lives in the mountains with her boyfriend Goat Peter and her grandfather Alpöhi. Goat Peter gets in the way of the Swiss president and cheese magnate Meili by selling his own cheese, which displeases the monopolist Meili. As punishme…
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Sci-Fi, dystopian film, science fiction film
In 1960, United States Air Force test pilot Major Bill Allison flies the X-80 experimental aircraft to sub-orbital spaceflight successfully, though he loses radio contact. When he returns to the airbase, it appears abandoned, old and deser…
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Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction action film
In the near future, the economy has collapsed and crime waves sweep the inner cities. The manufacturing industry has shrunk to the point where cars are a commodity and parts are fought over between salvage companies and roving gangs. Austr…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, horror film, mockbuster, science fiction film
The film takes place at an undetermined point in the future, when humanity has developed advanced robotic technology with enhanced artificial intelligence. This includes the use of cybernetic organisms (or cyborgs) called the TR-4 (all TR-…
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dystopian film, science fiction film
In the year 2011, the United States is a police state. A substantial percentage of the population was wiped out by a devastating viral pandemic 20 years earlier. Amidst the resulting chaos and general panic, democracy collapsed and a total…
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Utopia & Dystopia, dystopian film, science fiction film
Harrison Bergeron lives in the fictional suburban town of Madison, Rhode Island in the year 2053. The audience is told that after the second American Revolution, which started during an ongoing economic depression that was a result of a co…
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Romantic Drama, Utopia & Dystopia, drama film, dystopian film, romance film, science fiction film, thriller film
In the year 2021, when the Earth is devastated by continuous climate changes, with sudden waves of frost (it snows in the middle of summer even in Venice), John, a university lecturer, traveling from Poland to Calgary, stops in New York, t…
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Documentation, Scientific Documentary, documentary film
This film explores the question of preparing the site so that it is not disturbed for 100,000 years, even though no structure in human history has stayed standing for such a long period.
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Adventure, Fantasy, Steampunk, adventure film, dystopian fiction, fantasy film, steampunk film
Abigail is a young girl living in a town which, many years earlier, experienced an epidemic of a mysterious illness and was subsequently sealed off from the outside world by the government. One of those who fell ill was Abby's father, take…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, dystopian film, science fiction film, thriller film
John Bolen is the new substitute teacher at a high school in Bend, Oregon. After seeing punks ditching class, he confronts them. When the lead punk pulls a knife, John uses martial arts to dispatch the students.
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Animation, Sci-Fi, animated film, drama fiction, drama film, dystopian film, mystery film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller, thriller film
In a future Europe the world is running out of oil. A gigantic underground network is created by joining all the undergrounds together beneath Europe. Roger (Vincent Gallo), from a suburb of Stockholm, avoids the underground because he fin…
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Utopia & Dystopia, science fiction film
In early 1980s Soviet Union, young Misha Galkin looks up at the night sky and sees the stars shift into a cow-shaped constellation which turns to look at him. Moments later, he is struck by lightning. A woman who examines him afterwards co…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Thriller, action film, dystopian film
In a dystopic future London in 2015, society has fallen apart, gangs have taken over, and the economy is in complete anarchy. Junior and his older brother, Rager, are in charge of a local gang, "The Paper Chaserz". They try to stay out of …
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dystopian film, science fiction film
Horror, dystopian film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller film
Seven years into the invasion, and after Adam's Egyptian girlfriend Salwa got hit by an infection, causing her to commit suicide, humankind has fled the cities, where billions have died from a plague that is spread through the Internet. Ju…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
The Rider arrives on his advanced motorcycle equipped with an artificial intelligence computer called Einstein. He crashes but manages to pass through the "wall of illusion" where he is brought back to health by the Enlightened Elders. The…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In the near future, Earth has been devastated by a series of wars referred to as "the Oil Wars" over depleting petroleum reserves. The regions around the oil producing Mesopotamia Basin are largely radioactive wastelands due to limited nuc…
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action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Unicom is a powerful organization overseeing most of the world after its economic collapse. They have banned computers and robots in an attempt to ensure "life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic stability." When a Unicom Synth robot inf…
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