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Coming Of Age, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, adventure film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have settled into a life of material comfort but emotional unease back in District 12 following their joint victory in the 74th Hunger Games. Katniss was traumatized by the Games and remains emotionally d…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film, superhero film, survival film
In 2029, no mutants have been born in 25 years, and an aging Logan suffers as his healing ability is failing, slowly poisoned by his adamantium skeletal grafts. Working as a limousine driver in El Paso, Texas, he and the mutant tracker Cal…
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Coming Of Age, Destiny, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, drama film, science fiction film
Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway arrives at the SETI program at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The film's prologue reveals that she was encouraged to pursue science by her father, who died in her youth.
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Destiny, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, Time Travel, Utopia & Dystopia, dystopian film, neo-noir, post-apocalyptic film
In 2035, twenty-nine years after a virus killed 99 percent of the global human population, James Cole is a prisoner in a compound underneath the ruins of Philadelphia. He is selected by scientists for a mission to travel to 1996 and collec…
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Time Travel, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In 2044, 25-year-old Joe works for a Kansas City crime syndicate as an assassin or "looper". Since tracking systems in the future of 2074 have made it nearly impossible to dispose of bodies undetected, the syndicate sends its enemies back …
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Action, Hard Science Fiction, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, biopunk, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
In 2019, Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta live with others in an isolated compound. This dystopian community is governed by a strict set of rules. The residents are told that the outside world has become too contaminated to support li…
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Action, Crime, Cyberpunk, Satire, Super Hero, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, splatter film, superhero film, thriller film
In a near-future dystopia, Detroit is on the brink of social and financial collapse. Overwhelmed by crime and dwindling resources, the city grants the mega-corporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP) control of the Detroit Police Department. …
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Action, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, chase film, cyberpunk, drama film, dystopian film, fantasy film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, suspense film, techno-thriller, thriller film, time-travel film
In 2029, Human Resistance leader John Connor launches a final offensive against Skynet, an artificial general intelligence system seeking to eliminate the human race. Before the Resistance can triumph, Skynet activates a time displacement …
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, action film, alien invasion, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2017, aliens known as Scavengers attack Earth and destroy the Moon, triggering global natural disasters. Although humanity wins the war using nuclear weapons, Earth is left uninhabitable. Sixty years later, the remnants of humanity have…
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Action, Adventure, Monumental Film, Space Opera, Utopia & Dystopia, action film
In the year 10,191, the known universe is ruled by the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV. The most valuable substance in the empire is the spice melange, which extends life and expands consciousness. The spice also allows the Spacing Guild to fo…
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Action, Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In 2500, rising sea levels have put every continent on Earth underwater. The remains of human civilization live on makeshift floating communities built out of scavenged materials known as atolls, having long forgotten about living on land.…
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Horror, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, dystopian film, horror film, mystery film
On 29 April 1973, Sergeant Neil Howie of the West Highlands Constabulary journeys by seaplane to the remote, verdant Hebridean island of Summerisle to investigate the disappearance of a young girl, Rowan Morrison, about whom he has receive…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, chase film, cyberpunk, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, techno-thriller, thriller film, war film
In 2003, Dr. Serena Kogan of Cyberdyne Systems convinces death row inmate Marcus Wright to sign over his body for medical research following his execution. Sometime later, the automated Skynet system is activated, becomes self-aware, and p…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, apocalyptic film, chase film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, suspense film, techno-thriller, thriller film, time-travel film
In the years since destroying Cyberdyne Systems, John Connor has been living as a nomad following the death of his mother, Sarah. He fears the malevolent artificial intelligence Skynet is still hunting him despite the foretold war between …
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Drama, Sci-Fi, drama film, dystopian film, romance film, science fiction film
A medical breakthrough in the 1950s has, by the late 1960s, extended human lifespan beyond 100 years. In 1978, the young Kathy H, along with her friends Tommy D and Ruth C, spent their childhood at Hailsham, a traditional boarding school. …
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Utopia & Dystopia, action film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film, war film
After being attacked by a brainwashed Peeta Mellark, Katniss Everdeen recovers from her injuries in District 13. President of District 13, Alma Coin, refuses to let Katniss go to the Capitol until they secure District 2, the last district …
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, crime film, dystopian film, fantasy film, postcyberpunk, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2169, people are genetically engineered to stop aging on their 25th birthday, when a one-year countdown on their forearm begins. When it reaches zero, the person "times out" and dies instantly. Time has thus become the universal fiat cu…
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Action, Destiny, Fairy-Tale Film, High Fantasy, Space Opera, action film, adventure film, dystopian film, epic film, fantasy film, science fiction film, space opera
Three years after the start of the Clone Wars, Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and Knight Anakin Skywalker lead a mission to rescue Supreme Chancellor Palpatine from the cyborg Separatist commander General Grievous. After infiltrating Grievous'…
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Action, Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Time Travel, dystopian film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
thumb|thumbtime=103|upright=1.5|Teaser of the film Astronauts Taylor, Landon, and Dodge awaken from deep hibernation when their spacecraft crashes into a lake on an unknown planet after a near-light-speed space voyage. Before they abandon …
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, adventure film, anthology film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, gangster film, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film, vigilante film
"The Customer Is Always Right (Part I)" The Salesman walks onto a penthouse balcony where The Customer looks out over Basin City. He offers her a cigarette and says that she looks like someone who is tired of running and that he will save …
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Christmas film, Dark Comedy, Retro Science Fiction, Utopia & Dystopia, arthouse science fiction film, comedy film, dystopian film, fantasy film, neo-noir, retrofuturism, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
In a dystopian, polluted, hyper-consumerist, overbearing, bureaucratic, totalitarian future based on elements of the 20th century, Sam Lowry is a low-level government employee who frequently dreams of himself as a winged warrior saving a d…
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Adventure, Komödie, Sci-Fi, Time Travel, comedy film, dystopian film, science fiction film, teen film, time-travel film
On October 26, 1985, Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown arrives unexpectedly in the DeLorean time machine, persuading Marty McFly and his girlfriend, Jennifer Parker, to travel to the future with him and help their future children. Once they arrive in…
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Anti-War Film, Drama, disaster film, drama fiction, post-apocalyptic film
thumb|left|Soviet troop movements into Iran as shown in a clipping from The Observer early in the film (with occupied Afghanistan in red)In the English city of Sheffield, Ruth Beckett and Jimmy Kemp, who are young adults, plan to marry aft…
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LGBTQ-related film, Sci-Fi, arthouse science fiction film, cyberpunk, drama film, dystopian film, fantasy film, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
The story jumps between eras, spanning hundreds of years, until each storyline eventually resolves. Communications from characters in prior storylines are found in some of the future storylines, connecting a few of them. Characters appear …
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