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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Cyberpunk, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, martial arts film, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film
Six months after escaping the Matrix, Neo and Trinity are now romantically involved. Morpheus receives a message from Captain Niobe of the Logos calling an emergency meeting of all ships of Zion. An army of Sentinels is tunneling towards Z…
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Utopia & Dystopia, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In a dystopian future where technological advances in genetic engineering have divided humans into strict, isolated social classes, an obsolete companion android named Klara tries to bond with Josie, a sick girl for whom she was purchased.
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Monster Film, Sci-Fi, alien invasion, dystopian film, horror film, mystery film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
An amorphous parasitic alien race abandons its dying planet and travels across space, eventually coming to Earth. Upon settling, the spores take the form of small pods with fragrant pink flowers. Elizabeth Driscoll, a laboratory scientist …
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Action, Cyberpunk, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, prison film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 1988, amidst war between the United States and an alliance of China and the USSR, Manhattan has been converted into a maximum security prison to address a 400% increase in crime. In 1997, while flying President John Harker to a peace su…
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Thriller, Time Travel, drama film, dystopian film, intersex film, science fiction film, thriller film, time-travel film
In 1975, a time-traveling agent, whose face is not seen, suffers severe burns while trying and failing to disarm a bomb in a public building's basement. An unseen person helps him activate his time-travel device, called a "field kit", allo…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, dystopian film, fantasy film, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film
Thomas, Newt, and Frypan, the last of the free "Gladers", join with the Right Arm resistance to retrieve other Immunes from a carriage of a train operated by WCKD, the organization responsible for capturing and experimenting on immune chil…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, adventure film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, romance film, thriller film
In a futuristic dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions: Abnegation (the selfless), Amity (the kind), Candor (the honest), Dauntless (the brave), and Erudite (the intelligent). The remaining population, the Factionless, ho…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Utopia & Dystopia, drama film, post-apocalyptic film
A man and his young son struggle to survive after an unspecified catastrophe results in an extinction event, which causes the death of all plant life and virtually all animal life. The man and boy travel on a road to the coast in hope that…
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Komödie, Silly Movie, Sitcom, action film, buddy film, dystopian film, fantasy film, science fiction film
Following the impact of a meteorite into Earth 65million years ago, the universe is split into a pair of parallel dimensions. Surviving dinosaurs escape into the new dimension, evolving into a humanoid race and founding a city known as Din…
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Utopia & Dystopia, action film, drama film, science fiction film, war film
After being rescued from the destroyed arena in the 75th Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Beetee, and Finnick Odair are taken to District 13, an underground district isolated from Panem that has been spearheading the rebellion. Katniss is i…
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Action, Social Drama, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, action thriller, cyberpunk, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2154, Earth is overpopulated, diseased, and heavily polluted from ecocide. The planet's citizens live in extreme poverty. In contrast, the rich and powerful live on Elysium, an orbiting space station just outside Earth's atmosphere, wit…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In San Francisco, pharmaceutical chemist Will Rodman tests the viral-based drug ALZ-112 on chimpanzees at the biotechnology company Gen-Sys to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease. ALZ-112 is given to a chimpanzee named Bright Eyes, greatly…
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Action, Action Comedy, Adventure, Animation, action film, adventure film, comedy film, crossover fiction, dystopian film, family film, fantasy film, teen film
In a Lego universe, a wizard named Vitruvius fails to protect a superweapon called the Kragle—a tube of Krazy Glue—from the maniacal Lord Business, who blinds him in the process. Vitruvius prophesies that someone called "the Special" will …
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, drama film, dystopian film, fantasy film, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film
In a flashback, a woman leaves her son, Thomas, with the scientist Ava Paige and armed operatives from the World Catastrophe Killzone Department (WCKD) to ensure his survival. Thomas, along with other children, is eventually placed in a co…
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Komödie, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In 1996 Los Angeles, psychopathic criminal Simon Phoenix kidnaps a busload of passengers. Police officer John Spartan, nicknamed "The Demolition Man" for the collateral damage he often causes in apprehending suspects, mounts an unauthorize…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, buddy cop film, dystopian film, science fiction film
The future United States is a dystopic irradiated wasteland known as the Cursed Earth. On the east coast lies Mega-City One, a violent metropolis with 800 million residents and 17,000 serious crimes reported daily. The only force for order…
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Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, action film, science fiction film
The film opens to a scene of modern-day female soldiers in a battle, armed with firearms and swords, preparing to fight monsters known as "breakers" that emerge from an underground opening called the "stitch". The scene is narrated by an u…
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Action, Time Travel, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, time-travel film
In 2029, aboard the United States Air Force space station Oberon, Leo Davidson works closely with apes who are trained for space missions. His favorite is a chimpanzee named Pericles. With a deadly electromagnetic storm approaching the sta…
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Animation, Komödie, comedy film, dystopian film, fantasy comedy, fantasy film, musical film
Twelve-year-old Theodore "Ted" Wiggins lives in Thneedville, a walled city where all vegetation is artificial. Ted's love interest Audrey longs to see a real tree, so Ted undertakes to find her one. His grandmother Norma tells him about a …
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Sci-Fi, arthouse science fiction film, dystopian film, film noir, horror film, neo-noir, science fiction film, thriller film
John Murdoch awakens in a hotel bathtub with amnesia. He receives a phone call from Dr. Daniel Schreber, who urges him to flee the hotel to evade a group of men who are after him.
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Animation, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Fantasy, Thriller, action film, adventure film, dystopian film, fantasy film, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller
A scientist is commissioned by his government to create a highly intelligent robot in the name of peaceful progress, which the government then seizes and turns into the Fabrication Machine, an automaton that can construct an army of war ma…
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Action, Utopia & Dystopia
A dystopian near-future Australia is facing a breakdown of civil order primarily owing to widespread oil shortages and ecocide. The berserk motorbike gang member Crawford "Nightrider" Montazano kills a rookie officer of the poorly funded M…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, war film
In 2028, two years after the Battle of San Francisco, an American battalion known as "Alpha-Omega" aided by apes derogatorily called "donkeys", searches for Caesar's ape colony. A platoon assaults an ape outpost, but the apes repel the att…
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Cyberpunk, Japanese Animation Film, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia
In 2029, with the advancement of cybernetic technology, the human body can be augmented or even completely replaced with cybernetic parts. Another significant achievement is the cyberbrain, a mechanical casing for the human brain that allo…
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