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 16.
Utopia & Dystopia, science fiction film
Ten survivors are brainwashed and put into a maze where only one can survive. They are living in a world where people put their fates in the contestants' hands, ruled by the rich. Based on an Italian TV series.
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Groteske, Melodrama, comedy film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
The film is set in a darkly surreal and dystopian version of New York City that is mostly devoid of humans and populated only by rats and a few eccentrics. Lafayette is a young French electrician, living on his own in a basement. He works …
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action film, dystopian film, thriller film
In the near future, SEAL Commander Rick Tyler is sent to Libya to assassinate its leader. After apparently completing the mission he finds himself in a prison charged with war crimes for murdering the population of a village during the cur…
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Utopia & Dystopia, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
The events take place 20 years after a nuclear war which was followed by plagues. No children have been born in 15 years, and people want to gain control of the first pregnant woman - Sara. Running out of water, Sara and her mother are for…
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dystopian film, science fiction film
In a future Britain, circa 2091, pollution has reached a point where the populace must often wear filtration masks when they venture outside. AirZone, a powerful corporation, signs a lucrative deal with the government to deal with the prob…
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Action, action film, dystopian film
Freerunner sees eight freerunners racing against time, to scan a collar on three check points across the city area within an hour. Each collar is fitted with an explosive which will detonate if they leave the green race zone, are the last …
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LGBTQ-related film, crime film, dystopian film, science fiction film
Anna Vernia, a beautiful young nurse, receives a medal of recognition for her outstanding dedication to her patients at the medical center where she works. She is going out with Victor Sender, a doctor working in the same hospital. Victor …
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Drama, Utopia & Dystopia, science fiction film
The 16mm-shot film explores an underground revolutionary group that carries out urban guerrilla attacks against a fictionalized fascist regime in the United States, while struggling against internal strife. This is intermixed with sequence…
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Cyberpunk, action film, biopunk, cyberpunk, dystopian film, girls with guns, science fiction film
An assassin named Michelle battles DNA Hackers. Her younger brother Jackie becomes involved in a robbery, propelling him into DNA Hacking and crime. As the siblings face multiple challenges, including gunfights, they must navigate their wa…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film
In the post-apocalyptic year 2044, the population has been genetically altered to live in a constant state of happiness, but without sorrow, happiness dissipates, leaving only a feeling of never-ending paresthesia. Only pain can make peopl…
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dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
The end of the world is imminent. A man goes into a parallel dimension, a limbo between reality and fantasy where the normal rules of time and space have ceased to apply. His wife goes to rescue him.
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Action, Crime, Detective Film, Drama, Girls with Guns, Heist, Mysterie, Police Film, Road Movie, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Time Travel, action film, crime film, crime thriller film, dystopian film, heist film, thriller film
San Diego in the 2040s has unemployment and crime at an all-time high. Government surveillance, mass poverty and drought has decimated much of the population. Revolutionary groups and economic divide has caused society to be on the brink o…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, science fiction film
The movie opens by explaining current events such as the passing of the "Freedom of Observation Act" and the subsequent implementation of ODIN (Optical Defense Intelligence Network), including the development of a new type of mobile camera…
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Drama, Sci-Fi, dystopian film
Adaptation of Zamyatin's ‘We’, a short film shot in the style of a Marker-esque photo novel (La Jetée), from which it borrows stylistic devices.
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action film, dystopian film, science fiction film
The year is 2015 and Big Brother is everywhere. The search for immortality is over. Science has finally achieved the impossible, undermining that most basic aspect of life: Mind, Body and Soul must be united.
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Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, science fiction film
For the Cause is set in the late 26th century on a distant planet that has two human colonies. These colonies were founded as a refuge from the wars of Earth, but the vision died when the colonies began fighting a hundred-year war, reducin…
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dystopian film
Division 19 looks at the loss of personal anonymity in 2039. The new TV show uses real record of personalities. Hackers anonymous organization has help prisoner, who filmed by hidden cameras for the TV real series, to escape from being tra…
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Drama, Family Drama, Slasher Horror, Utopia & Dystopia
In the near future, where robotics have greatly evolved, Alex is looking for the normal loving family that he doesn't have - his parents are always too busy fighting with each other to worry about the effect on him. After seeing an adverti…
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Political Satire, Utopia & Dystopia, dystopian film
A young man inadvertently witnesses a killing by his uncle, the corrupt mayor of Terminal City, who retaliates by dubbing him the "Rock and Roll Terrorist" and builds an anti-crime campaign around him.
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dystopian film, science fiction film
left|thumb|220px|From left to right: Jenya Lano, Vincent Spano, Cliff Saunders, Nathan Carter Earth is devastated by a nuclear war in 2084. The sky is red from chemical waste and what was once the United States has become "Deathlands" inha…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Action, Sci-Fi, adventure film, science fiction film
The main character, Ray Stokes (Olivier Gruner) is a down-on-his luck police officer on a distant, corruptly-ruled mining colony. He has already lost his wife Dana (Anna Karin) to his corrupt boss, John Dawson (Craig Wasson), not from any …
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dystopian film