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Cyberpunk, Japanese Animation Film, Utopia & Dystopia
In 2032, three years after Major Motoko Kusanagi disappeared, Public Security Section 9 cybernetic operative Batou is teamed with Togusa, an agent with very few cybernetic upgrades. Section 9 is asked to investigate a series of deaths due …
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Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
The orangutan Lawgiver, in "North America – 2670 A.D.", explains to an unseen audience some key events of ape and human events in the late 20th century, then moves forward to the story of the chimpanzee Caesar in the early 21st century, ye…
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Animation, Super Hero, action film, drama film, dystopian film, mystery film, speculative fiction film, superhero film, thriller, time-travel film
While visiting the grave of his mother Nora Allen, Barry Allen, known as the Flash, is alerted to a break-in by Captain Cold, Heat Wave, Mirror Master, Captain Boomerang, and Top at the Flash Museum. Battling the rogues, he discovers that …
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Adventure, Drama, Thriller, adventure film, coming-of-age film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film, thriller film
In the prologue, told through photographs, a group of schoolboys are evacuated from England following the outbreak of an unidentified war. Their aircraft is shot down by a briefly-glimpsed fighter plane and ditches near a remote island. Th…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film
Following a North American pandemic from a space-borne disease that wiped out all dogs and cats in 1983, the government has become a series of Schutzstaffel-patterned police states that took chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans as pets be…
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Action, action film, cyberpunk, prison film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2034, computer programmer Ken Castle invents self-replicating nanites that replace brain tissue and allow humans to control other humans' actions and see through their eyes. The first application of Castle's "Nanex" technology is a virt…
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Drama, End Times Road Movie, Late Western, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, drama film, thriller film
The movie begins with Harry, an actor who hasn't worked in over a year, and his wife Buffy, an ex-showgirl, traveling by car on their "second honeymoon". After staying overnight at a motel, the owner informs Harry of previous nuclear testi…
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Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, adventure film, drama film, science fiction film
Humanity tried to prevent the impending ecological crisis by investing massively in genetic technology. It failed. Engineered viruses and organisms escaped into the wild.
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, dystopian film, mystery film, psychological thriller, science fiction film
In 2017, widespread use of remotely controlled androids called "surrogates" enables people to operate an idealized body (a more youthful version of their own, or a wholly different one) from the safety of their homes, becoming slovenly and…
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dystopian fiction, science fiction
The U.S.S. Enterprise, under the command of Captain Christopher Pike, receives a distress call from the fourth planet in the Talos star group. Despite Pike's misgivings, he authorizes a rescue mission and assembles a landing party, includi…
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Mysterie, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, cyberpunk, detective film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2035, Leo, a bartender mute from a childhood accident, works at a Berlin strip club owned by Maksim. Leo dates waitress Naadirah, who is secretly in desperate need of money. After rowdy customer Stuart sexually harasses Naadirah, Leo as…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
About 20 years before the story takes place, solar flares irradiate the Earth, killing over 99% of the world's population. The survivors gather in a network of safe cities and build primitive humanoid robots, called Pilgrims, to help rebui…
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Sci-Fi, arthouse science fiction film, comedy drama, drama film, dystopian film, fantasy film, mystery film, science fiction film
In the bizarre cyberpunk future of the mid-21st century, Qohen Leth, an eccentric and reclusive programmer who refers to himself in the plural, works crunching "entities" for the ontological research division of a large company called Manc…
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Drama, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film
Ten years after a global economic collapse that caused worldwide turmoil, the Australian outback is a lawless wasteland, crime and poverty are common and small military units patrol the outback attempting to maintain what little law and or…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, adventure film, dystopian film, fantasy film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller film, war film
In the year 2078, the planet Sirius 6B, once a thriving mining hub, has been reduced to a toxic wasteland by a war between the mining company the New Economic Block (N.E.B.) and "The Alliance", a group of former mining and science personne…
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Action, Martial-Arts, action film, dystopian film, fantasy film, science fiction film
After World War III (or the Terror Wars), governments dissolved. Megacorporations took over and fought for control until eight survived and divided their territories, with North America falling under the control of the strongest company - …
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, crime film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, neo-noir, science fiction film
On June 21, 2028, a riot breaks out in Los Angeles over the city's water privatization. Taking advantage of the chaos, professional criminal Sherman attempts a bank robbery that leaves half his team dead with his brother Lev and another ac…
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action film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In a dystopian near future, a Russian mobster, Gorsky, hires the mercenary Toorop to bring a young woman known only as Aurora from Asia to New York City. Gorsky gives Toorop a variety of weapons and a subdermally implanted UN passport. Too…
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Action, Fantasy, Girls with Guns, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, girls with guns, science fiction film, vampire film
In the mid-21st century, an accident occurs in an illegal U.S. biotechnological laboratory, where they tried to create super-soldiers to subjugate and exterminate the third world, but the project goes horribly wrong. As a result, part of t…
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Action, Thriller, action film, biopunk, cyberpunk, dystopian film, science fiction film, thriller film
By 2025, advancements in medical technology have perfected bio-mechanical organs. The Union corporation sells these expensive "artiforgs" on credit, and when customers fail to pay on time, the company sends "repo men" to forcibly repossess…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, cyberpunk, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
Decades in the future, Jules and George Almore have a car accident in which Jules dies. Her consciousness is stored in a device created by the company Archive, which allows George to have simulated conversations with her on the phone for u…
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Drama, dystopian film, trial film
Josef K. is sleeping in his bedroom, in an apartment he shares with other lodgers. He is awakened when a man in a suit opens his bedroom door.
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Political Thriller, dystopian film, political thriller film
The film opens with a news bulletin (from Dougal Stevenson) announcing the sudden return of PM Volkner from urgent Middle East oil embargo talks to respond to New Zealand's worst union dispute "since 1951". A general strike looms with stre…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, disaster film, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
On July 5, a mysterious phenomenon briefly darkens the sky over Hamilton, New Zealand. Zac Hobson, a scientist working on Project Flashlight (an experiment designed to create a wireless global energy grid), awakens to find all radio transm…
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