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1984
Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes 1984) is a British film, released in 1984, based upon George Orwell's novel of the same name, following the life of Winston Smith in Oceania, a country run by a totalitarian government. The film was directed by...
Initial release date:
- 1984
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A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 British/American satirical futuristic film adaptation of Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name. The film concerns Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell), a charismatic, psychopathic delinquent whose pleasures are...
Initial release date:
- 1971
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A Scanner Darkly
A Scanner Darkly is a 2006 film directed by Richard Linklater based on the novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick. The film tells the story of identity and deception in a near-future dystopia constantly monitored by intensive high-technology...
Initial release date:
- Jul 7, 2006
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Akira
Akira (アキラ) is a 1988 anime film co-written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo based on his hit manga. The film is set in a futuristic and post-war city, Neo-Tokyo, in 2019. While most of the character designs and basic settings were adapted from the...
Initial release date:
- 1988
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Alphaville
Alphaville is a 1965 black-and-white French science fiction film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Its original French title is Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (Alphaville, a Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution). The film stars Eddie...
Initial release date:
- 1965
Directed by:
Avalon
Avalon (アヴァロン, Avaron) is a Japanese-Polish science fiction film by Japanese filmmaker Mamoru Oshii. It was released in 2001. The name of the film originates from the island Avalon in the legend of King Arthur.
The film is set in a bleak future,...
Initial release date:
- Jan 20, 2001
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Æon Flux
Æon Flux is a 2005 science fiction film released on December 2, 2005. The film is a loose adaptation of the animated science fiction television series of the same name, which was created by animator Peter Chung (who had a minor role in this film...
Initial release date:
- Dec 2, 2005
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Batoru rowaiaru II: Chinkonka
Battle Royale II: Requiem (バトル・ロワイアルＩＩ 【鎮魂歌】, Batoru rowaiaru tsū: "Rekuiemu"), abbreviated as BRII (Bii āru tsū), is a 2003 Japanese, dystopian, action-thriller film. It is a sequel to the 2000 film, Battle Royale, which in turn was based upon a...
Initial release date:
- Jul 5, 2003
Blade Runner
Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is based on the novel Do Androids Dream of...
Initial release date:
- 1982
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Brazil
Brazil is a 1985 film directed by Terry Gilliam. It was written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard and stars Jonathan Pryce. The film also features Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, and Ian Holm....
Initial release date:
- 1985
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Children of Men
Children of Men is a 2006 British dystopian science fiction film co-written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón. The Strike Entertainment production was loosely adapted from P. D. James's 1992 novel of the same name by Cuarón and Timothy J. Sexton with...
Initial release date:
- Dec 25, 2006
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Code 46
Code 46 is a 2003 British film directed by Michael Winterbottom, with a screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce. It was produced by BBC Films and Revolution Films. It is a disquieting science fiction love story with biopunk themes. The soundtrack was...
Initial release date:
- Sep 2, 2003
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Dark City
Dark City is a 1998 American science fiction film directed by Alex Proyas. The film was written by Proyas, Lem Dobbs, and David S. Goyer, and stars Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland, and Jennifer Connelly. While it was not a major box...
Initial release date:
- Feb 27, 1998
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Death Machine
Death Machine is a 1994 sci-fi action horror film starring a largely unknown cast, written and directed by Stephen Norrington, who filmed it before his other, more known film, Blade. The movie falls into a B-rated category due to its seemingly...
Initial release date:
- 1994
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Death Race 2000
Death Race 2000 is a 1975 Cult Science Fiction action film directed by Paul Bartel, and starring David Carradine, Simone Griffeth and Sylvester Stallone. The movie takes place in a dystopian American society in the year 2000, where the murderous...
Initial release date:
- 1975
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Dragon Fire
Dragon Fire is a 1993 martial arts film set in a dystopian Los Angeles in the year 2050. It is notable for heavily using actual kickboxing champions for the actors.
Initial release date:
- 1993
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Equilibrium
Equilibrium is a 2002 science fiction/action film written and directed by Kurt Wimmer, originally released as Cubic in Scandinavian countries and as Rebellion in Japan. It stars Christian Bale as John Preston, a high-ranking enforcement officer in a...
Initial release date:
- Dec 6, 2002
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John Carpenter's Escape from L.A.
Escape From L.A. (also known as John Carpenter's Escape From L.A.) is a 1996 film directed by John Carpenter. The sequel to the action film Escape from New York, the film follows war hero Snake Plissken, played by Kurt Russell. It co-stars Steve...
Initial release date:
- Aug 9, 1996
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Escape from New York
Escape from New York is a 1981 science fiction/action film directed and scored by John Carpenter. He also co-wrote the screenplay with Nick Castle. The film is set in the near future in a crime-ridden United States that has converted Manhattan...
Initial release date:
- Jul 10, 1981
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FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions is a feature-length dystopia movie, written and directed by Carlos Atanes and released in 2004.
France, sometime in the near future. The Sisterhood of Metacontrol governs Europe. Angeline, an exemplary and...
Initial release date:
- Oct 12, 2004
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Fortress
Fortress is a 1993 science fiction film directed by Stuart Gordon and shot at Warner Brothers Movie World in Queensland, Australia. The story takes place in a dystopian future. The main character in the movie, John Henry Brennick (Christopher...
Initial release date:
- Sep 3, 1993
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Freejack
Freejack is a 1992 science fiction film directed by Geoff Murphy. It stars Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Rene Russo, Jonathan Banks, and Anthony Hopkins. Upon its release in the United States, the film received harsh reviews. The story was adapted...
Initial release date:
- Jan 17, 1992
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Gattaca
Gattaca is a 1997 science fiction drama film written and directed by Andrew Niccol, starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law with supporting roles played by Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal and Alan Arkin. The film was a 1997 nominee...
Initial release date:
- Oct 24, 1997
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Hardware
Hardware (1990), also known as M.A.R.K. 13 is a post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Richard Stanley and starring Dylan McDermott.
The 21st century world is a radioactive wasteland as a result of a nuclear war. A travelling scavenger...
Initial release date:
- Jan 11, 1990
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Harrison Bergeron
Harrison Bergeron is a 1995 cable television movie film loosely adapted from Kurt Vonnegut's 1961 short story of the same name. It was produced for Showtime, and first screened on August 13, 1995.
The film takes place in a dystopic future in which...
Initial release date:
- Aug 13, 1995
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Immortel
Immortal (French: Immortel (ad vitam)) is a 2004 English language, but French-produced science fiction film, directed by artist Enki Bilal and based upon his graphic novel La Foire aux immortels (The Carnival of Immortals). The film combines live...
Initial release date:
- 2004
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Land of the Dead
Land of the Dead (also known as George A. Romero's Land of the Dead) is a horror film by director George A. Romero, the fourth of Romero's six Living Dead movies. It is preceded by Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead, and...
Initial release date:
- Jun 24, 2005
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Logan's Run
Logan's Run is a 1976 science fiction film based on the novel of the same name by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. It depicts a Dystopian future society in which population and the consumption of resources are managed and maintained in...
Initial release date:
- Jun 23, 1976
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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Mad Max 2, the second film in the Mad Max (franchise), (also known as The Road Warrior in the U.S., and Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior) is a 1981 Australian post-apocalyptic action film directed by George Miller. This sequel to Miller's 1979 film Mad...
Initial release date:
- Dec 24, 1981
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Metropolis
Metropolis is a 1927 silent German expressionism science fiction film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Lang and Thea von Harbou. Lang and von Harbou, who were married, wrote the screenplay in 1924, and published a novelization in 1926, before...
Initial release date:
- 1927
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Minority Report
Minority Report is a 2002 science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg and loosely based on the short story "The Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick. It is set primarily in Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia in the year 2054, where "Precrime...
Initial release date:
- Jun 21, 2002
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Natural City
Natural City (내츄럴 시티) is a 2003 South Korean science fiction film about a colony world that integrates robots, androids and cyborgs amongst the population.
The story revolves around two cops, R and Noma, who hunt down renegade cyborgs. The cyborgs...
Initial release date:
- Sep 2003
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Parts: The Clonus Horror
Parts: The Clonus Horror, also known as Clonus, is a 1979 science fiction horror film about an isolated community in a remote desert area, where clones are bred to serve as a source of replacement organs for the wealthy and powerful. It was produced...
Initial release date:
- Aug 1979
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Pink Floyd The Wall
Pink Floyd The Wall is a 1982 musical film by British director Alan Parker based on the 1979 Pink Floyd album The Wall. The screenplay was written by Pink Floyd vocalist and bassist Roger Waters. The film is highly metaphorical and is rich in...
Initial release date:
- Aug 13, 1982
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Pleasantville
Pleasantville is an Academy Award-nominated 1998 film written, produced, and directed by Gary Ross. Released by New Line Cinema in New Zealand on September 17, and stars Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, Marley Shelton, William H. Macy, Joan Allen,...
Initial release date:
- Sep 17, 1998
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Quintet
Quintet is an post-apocalyptic science fiction film by Robert Altman produced in 1979. It features among others Paul Newman, Brigitte Fossey, Bibi Andersson, Fernando Rey and Vittorio Gassman.
The story takes place in a future where the world is...
Initial release date:
- Feb 9, 1979
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Robot Jox
Robot Jox is a 1990 science fiction film directed by Stuart Gordon, and starring Gary Graham, Anne-Marie Johnson, and Paul Koslo.
Fifty years after a nuclear holocaust, conflict in the form of open war is strictly forbidden by the surviving nations...
Initial release date:
- Nov 21, 1990
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Serenity
Serenity is a 2005 space western film written and directed by Joss Whedon. It is considered a continuation of the cancelled Fox science fiction television series Firefly, taking place after the events of the final episode. Set 510 years in the...
Initial release date:
- Sep 29, 2005
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Silent Running
Silent Running is a 1972 ecologically-themed science fiction film, directed by Douglas Trumbull, who had previously worked as a special effects supervisor on such science fiction films as 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Andromeda Strain.
Silent...
Initial release date:
- Mar 10, 1972
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Sin City
Sin City (full title: Frank Miller's Sin City) is an ensemble cast 2005 American action/crime/thriller film written, produced, and directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez. It is a film noir based on Miller's graphic novel series of the same...
Initial release date:
- Apr 1, 2005
Sleeper
Sleeper (1973) is a futuristic science fiction comedy film, written by, directed by, and starring Woody Allen. It is loosely based on the H. G. Wells novel The Sleeper Awakes.
Miles Monroe, a jazz musician and health-food store owner living in...
Initial release date:
- 1973
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Soldier
Soldier is a 1998 science fiction-action film directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. The film stars Kurt Russell as Sgt. Todd, a soldier trained from birth. The film also features Gary Busey, Jason Scott Lee, Jason Isaacs, Connie Nielsen, Sean Pertwee and...
Initial release date:
- Oct 23, 1998
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Soylent Green
Soylent Green is a 1973 science fiction movie depicting a dystopian future in which overpopulation leads to depleted resources, which in turn leads to widespread unemployment and poverty. Real fruit, vegetables and meat are rare, expensive...
Initial release date:
- May 9, 1973
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Strange Days
Strange Days is a 1995 cyberpunk science fiction film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and produced and co-written by James Cameron and Jay Cocks, starring Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott and Vincent D'Onofrio...
Initial release date:
- 1995
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Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. is a 1993 science fiction adventure film loosely based on the video game of the same name and its entire franchise. The film follows the exploits of Mario (Bob Hoskins) and his brother Luigi (John Leguizamo) in a comical dystopia...
Initial release date:
- May 28, 1993
The City of Lost Children
The City of Lost Children (French: La Cité des enfants perdus) is a dystopian French fantasy/drama film by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet released in 1995. The film is stylistically related to the previous and subsequent Jeunet films, Delicatessen...
Initial release date:
- May 17, 1995
The Final Programme
The Final Programme was a 1973 British comedy-thriller film directed by Robert Fuest, and starring Jon Finch and Jenny Runacre. It was based on the first Jerry Cornelius novel (also called The Final Programme) by Michael Moorcock. It was distributed...
Initial release date:
- 1973
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The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale is a 1990 film adaptation of the Margaret Atwood novel of the same name. Directed by Volker Schlöndorff the film stars Natasha Richardson (Kate/Offred), Faye Dunaway (Serena Joy), Robert Duvall (The Commander, Fred), Aidan Quinn ...
Initial release date:
- Feb 15, 1990
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The Island
The Island is a 2005 science fiction film directed by Michael Bay and starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson. It was released on July 11, 2005 in the US. It was nominated for 3 awards including the Teen Choice award. It is described as a...
Initial release date:
- Jul 22, 2005
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The Omega Man
The Ωmega Man (1971) is an English language science fiction film directed by Boris Sagal and released in 1971. Starring Charlton Heston, it is based on the novel I Am Legend (1954) by American writer Richard Matheson. The screenplay is by John...
Initial release date:
- 1971
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The Parallax View
The Parallax View is a 1974 American thriller film directed by Alan J. Pakula and starring Warren Beatty, who was also a producer. The film was adapted by David Giler, Lorenzo Semple Jr and an uncredited Robert Towne from the 1970 novel by Loren...
Initial release date:
- 1974
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The Time Machine
The Time Machine (also known as H.G. Wells' The Time Machine) is a 1960 science fiction film based on H. G. Wells's 1895 novel of the same name about a man from Victorian England who constructs a time travelling machine and uses it to travel to the...
Initial release date:
- Aug 17, 1960
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They Live
They Live is a 1988 film directed by John Carpenter, who also wrote the screenplay under the pseudonym "Frank Armitage." The movie is based on Ray Nelson's 1963 short story "Eight O’Clock in the Morning."
Part science fiction thriller and part dark...
Initial release date:
- Nov 4, 1988
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Threads
Threads is a 1984 BBC television play set in the city of Sheffield in Yorkshire, depicting the effects of a nuclear war and its aftermath on the United Kingdom. Written by Barry Hines and directed by Mick Jackson, Threads was filmed in late 1983 and...
Initial release date:
- 1984
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THX 1138
This article is about the 1971 film. For the high fidelity sound company, see THX.
THX 1138 is a 1971 science fiction film directed by George Lucas, from a screenplay by Lucas and Walter Murch. It depicts a dystopian future in which a high level of...
Initial release date:
- Mar 11, 1971
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Total Recall
Total Recall is a 1990 American science fiction action film. The film features Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone, based on the Philip K. Dick story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale". The film was directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by...
Initial release date:
- 1990
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Twelve Monkeys
12 Monkeys is a 1995 science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam and inspired by the French short film La Jetée (1962). 12 Monkeys stars Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt and Christopher Plummer. The film depicts a future world in 2035...
Initial release date:
- Dec 27, 1995
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Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet is a 2006 science fiction/action film. The film was written and directed by Kurt Wimmer and produced by Screen Gems. It stars Milla Jovovich as Violet Song jat Shariff and Cameron Bright as Six. It was released in North America on March...
Initial release date:
- Mar 3, 2006
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V for Vendetta
V for Vendetta is a 2006 dystopian science fiction-thriller film directed by James McTeigue and produced by Joel Silver and the Wachowski brothers, who also wrote the screenplay. The film is an adaptation of the graphic novel V for Vendetta by Alan...
Initial release date:
- Mar 17, 2006
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Videodrome
Videodrome is a 1983 Canadian psychological thriller film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring James Woods and singer Debbie Harry from Blondie.
Max Renn (James Woods) is the president of CIVIC-TV (Channel 83, Cable 12), a sleazy...
Initial release date:
- 1983
