List of dystopian films

This is a list of dystopian films. A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος, alternatively, cacotopia,^[1] kakotopia, cackotopia, or anti-utopia) is an imaginary community or society that is undesirable or frightening.^[2][3] It is literally translated as "not-good place", an antonym of utopia. Such societies appear in many artistic works, particularly in stories set in a future. Dystopias are often characterized by dehumanization,^[2] totalitarian governments, ruthless megacorporations, environmental disaster,^[3] or other characteristics associated with a dramatic decline in society. Dystopian societies appear in many subgenres of fiction and are often used to draw attention to potential as well as real-world trends and issues in society, which can range from environmental, cultural, political, economical, religious, psychological, ethical, scientific to technological issues, which if unaddressed could potentially lead to dystopia.

List

Title	Year	Comments	References
The 10th Victim	1965	In the near future, wars are avoided by giving people a chance to kill in the Big Hunt, which is also the most popular form of entertainment. Based on Robert Sheckley's short story, "Seventh Victim" (1953).	[4]
12 Monkeys	1995	A convict is sent back in time to gather information about a virus that wiped out most of the human population. Based on Chris Marker's short film La Jetée (1962).	[5][6][7]^:34
The 100	2014	Armageddon destroys civilization on Earth; the only survivors are those on the 12 international space stations in orbit at the time. Three generations later, the ark's leaders send 100 juvenile prisoners back to the planet to test its habitability.
1984	1956	Loosely based on George Orwell's 1949 novel of the same name about a bureaucrat who falls in love in a futuristic totalitarian surveillance state.	[8]
2081	2009	Short film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron (1961). "Everyone is finally equal".	[9]
A.I.	2001	Based on Brian Aldiss' short story "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" (1969). A robot boy has emotions but is not understood by the rest of society.	[10][11]
Æon Flux	2005	Loosely based on Peter Chung's 1991 animated television series of the same name. Aeon Flux is a mysterious assassin working for the Monicans, a group of rebels trying to overthrow the government.	[12]
The Age of Stupid	2009	An unnamed archivist (Pete Postlethwaite) lives alone in the devasted world of 2055, looking back at “archive” footage from 2007 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?
Akira	1988		[6][12]
Alphaville	1965	A secret agent is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler.	[13]
The Animatrix	2003		[14]
Antiviral	2012		[15][16]
Atlas Shrugged: Part I	2011	Based on Ayn Rand 1957 novel. An alliance forms to fight the increasingly authoritarian government of the United States.	[17]
Automata	2014		[18][19][20]
Babylon A.D.	2008	Veteran-turned-mercenary Toorop takes the high-risk job of escorting a woman from Russia to America. Little does he know that she is host to an organism that a cult wants to harvest in order to produce a genetically modified Messiah.	[21][22]
Back to the Future Part II	1989	Alternative 1985 of hill valley ran by Biff Tannen.
Batman	1989	Based on the DC Comics character of the same name, directed by Tim Burton.	[23]
Battle Royale	2000	Based on the novel and manga of the same name.	[6]
Battlefield Earth	2000	film adaptation of L. Ron Hubbard's 1982 novel, starring John Travolta.	[10]
Blade Runner	1982	Loosely based on Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968).	[12][24][25][26][27]
Blindness	2008		[28]
The Blood of Heroes	1989	"In a post apocalyptic world there is a violent game similar to football, that has become a way of life.	<[29]
Book of Eli	2010	A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.	[30]
The Bothersome Man	2006	In a strange city where every person seems content beyond reason a new man arrives in town and stirs up trouble by asking too many questions.	[31][32]
A Boy and His Dog	1974	Focus on the survival of a boy and a intelligent dog on post-apocalyptical wasteland in 2024. Based on the 1969 cycle of narratives by fantasy author Harlan Ellison titled "A Boy and His Dog".	[10]
Brave New World	1980	In a futuristic totalitarian society, people have no control of their roles in society or lives/destiny.	[10]
Brazil	1985	A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state.	[4][7]^:39[12][24][33][34]
Cargo	2009		[35]
Casshern	2004		[36]
CHAPPiE	2015	The film was directed by Neill Blomkamp (who also directed District 9) and based on his short film Tetra Vaal (2004).[37] In it the South African government purchases a squadron of high-tech, autonomous robots (AI) in response to a record high crime rate in Johannesburg and uses them as a mechanized police force. One of these police droids, "Chappie", is stolen and given new programming which causes him to be the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself.	[20][38][39]
Cherry 2000	1987		[40]
Children of Men	2006	Directed by Alfonso Cuarón, based on P.D. James' 1992 novel of the same name. In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have become somehow infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea.	[12][24][25][41]
City of Ember	2008	After a war on earth the remaining future generations are sent to an underground world to live until the earth surface can support life, an unfortunate set of circumstances keeps them underground for longer than planned but they eventually find the way out after 2 brave children discover the way.	[42]
City of Lost Children	1995	French film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.	[6]
A Clockwork Orange	1971	Adapted from Anthony Burgess' 1962 novella of the same name. In a future England ruled by gangs, the government brainwashes one particular hoodlum into subservience.	[10][24][43]
Cloud Atlas	2012		[20][44][45]
Code 46	2003	A futuristic 'Brief Encounter', a love story in which the romance is doomed by genetic incompatibility.	[4]
Colossus: The Forbin Project	1970	The film which is based upon Dennis Feltham Jones' science fiction novel Colossus (1966), is about a massive American defense computer, named Colossus, becoming sentient after being activated and deciding to assume control of the world and all human affairs for the good of mankind[46] during the imminent threat of nuclear war.[47]	[47][48][49][50]
The Congress	2013	The Congress is a late-capitalist dystopia in which a corporate media behemoth "Miramount" has effectively usurped control of all human consciousness.[51] In it an aging actress decides to scan her body to sign over to Miramount Studios which allows the company to digitize every trait that she possesses and use it in any movie they choose. The hallucinogenic live-action/animation film represents corporate interests taking advantage of the individual and was partly inspired by Stanisław Lem's novel The Futurological Congress.	[51][52][53][54]
Dark City	1998	A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.	[6][10]
Dark Metropolis	2010	Mankind has lost a 300-year war against a genetically enhanced race that man created, abused and finally tortured. Now the descendants of that race - known as the 'Ghen' control the planet Earth from advanced underground cities.	[55][56][57]
The Day the Earth Caught Fire	1961		[26]
Daybreakers	2009	In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival.	[58][59]
Dead End Drive-In	1986		[60]
Death Race	2008	Remake of the film Death Race 2000 (1975). Ex-con Jensen Ames is forced by the warden of a notorious prison to compete in our post-industrial world's most popular sport: a car race in which inmates must brutalize and kill one another on the road to victory.	[61]
Death Race 2000	1975	The film takes place in a dystopian American society in the year 2000, where the murderous Transcontinental Road Race has become a form of national entertainment.	[4][62][63][64]
Death Watch	1980		[48]
Demolition Man	1993	A cop is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent enemy who is loose in a nonviolent future society.	[26][65]
Le Dernier Combat	1983		[66][67][68]
District 9	2009	An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly finds a kindred spirit in a government agent who is exposed to their biotechnology.	[11][20]
Divergent	2014	Based on the adaption of Veronica Roth's novels of the same names, In a world divided by factions based on virtues, Tris learns she's Divergent and won't fit in.	[4][20][69][70][71][72][73]
The Divergent Series: Insurgent	2015	After the series of events and death of her parents in Divergent, Tris Prior tries to figure out what the Abnegation were trying to protect and why the Erudite leaders will do anything to stop them.	[20][74][75]
Downstream	2010		[76]
Dredd	2012	Adapted from the comic book of the same name.	[20][77][78]
Ellcia	1993		[79]
Elysium	2013	In this film wealth inequality, the alienation of the super-rich and class conflict are taken to the extreme: in the year 2154, the very wealthy live on a man-made luxurious space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth. A man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds. It explores political and sociological themes such as immigration, overpopulation, health care, exploitation, the justice system, and social class issues.[80]	[20][81][82]
The End of Evangelion	1997		[25]
Ender's Game	2013	Based on the novel of the same name by Orson Scott Card.	[83]
Equals	2015	Two people infected with a disease regain their ability to feel compassion and emotion in a society where emotions no longer exist.
Equilibrium	2002	In a totalitarian future where all forms of feeling are illegal and citizens are required to take daily drug-injections to suppress emotion and encourage obedience, a man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.	[12]
Escape from L.A.	1996	Sequel to the 1981 film, Escape from New York.	[20][84]
Escape from New York	1981	In 1997, when the US President crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in for a rescue. It extrapolates the crime and decay of inner cities.[47]	[10][24]
eXistenZ	1999	Directed by David Cronenberg.	[71]
Fahrenheit 451	1966	Based on Ray Bradbury's novel of the same name. In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.	[10][12][41]
Fantastic Planet	1973		[48]
FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions	2004		[85]
The Fifth Element	1997	A big ball of evil, in collaboration with a corporate kingpin, plots Earth's destruction.	[86]
Forbidden Planet	1956	A manned mission looks for a scientist on a strange planet.	[26]
Fortress	1993	A futuristic prison movie. Protagonist and wife are nabbed at a future US emigration point with an illegal baby during population control.	[65]
Freejack	1992	In the future, the rich extend their lives by stealing other peoples' lives.	[26]
Futureworld	1976	Sequel to Westworld.	[87]
Gamer	2009	In a future mind-controlling game, death row convicts are forced to battle. A convict controlled by a skilled teenage gamer must survive 30 sessions in order to be set free.	[88]
Gattaca	1997	In this biopunk dystopia genetic engineering creates an underclass. One of these so-called genetically inferior "in-valids" assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.	[6][10][12][89]
Ghost in the Shell	1995		[90]
The Giver	2014	A dark, quiet, but powerful futuristic political tale in which a 12-year-old boy must search for the truth in a world free of war, crime, disease, poverty, unfairness, and injustice.	[20][69][70][71][72]
The Handmaid's Tale	1990	In a dystopically polluted rightwing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.	[10][12][72]
Hardware	1990		[91]
Harrison Bergeron	1995	A cable television movie adapted from the short story of the same name by Kurt Vonnegut.	[9]
Hobo with a Shotgun	2011	Directed by Jason Eisener, starring Rutger Hauer in a despotic future where anarchy rules and one man with a shotgun aims to bring back some form of justice. Rated R.	[92]
The Hunger Games	2012	Directed by Gary Ross, Based on Suzanne Collins' novel of the same name. Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games, a televised fight to the death in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to compete.	[20][24][64][69][70][72]
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire	2013	Directed by Francis Lawrence, Based on Suzanne Collins' Catching Fire.	[10][20]
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1	2014	Directed by Francis Lawrence, Based on Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay.	[20][69][71]
I Am Legend	2007	The third adaptation of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel I Am Legend.	[10][93]
I, Robot	2004	Adapted from a series of short stories by Isaac Asimov.	[10]
Idaho Transfer	1973	Directed by Peter Fonda in his directorial debut and starring Keith Carradine.	[94]
Idiocracy	2006	An average man is selected for a top-secret hibernation program. When he wakes up 500 years later to discover he's the smartest person in a radically dumbed-down society.	[65]
In Time	2011	In a future where people stop aging at 25, but are engineered to live only one more year, having the means to buy one's way out of the situation is a shot at immortal youth.	[10][93]
The Inhabited Island	2009	Based on the 1969 book Prisoners of Power by Strugatskies. The most expensive Russian science fiction film to date (2015) is set on another planet (hence the title), with a country that is ruled by a totalitarian regime that brainwashes its citizens by towers that send a special kind of radiation erected across the country.	[95][96]
Invasion of the Body Snatchers	1978		[48]
The Island	2005	A man goes on the run after he discovers that he is actually a "harvestable being", and is being kept as a source of replacement parts, along with others, in a facility.	[97][98]
La Jetée	1962	In the aftermath of World War III scientists in Paris research time travel, hoping to send test subjects to different time periods "to call past and future to the rescue of the present". The short film by Chris Marker was constructed almost entirely from still photos and inspired the 1995 film 12 Monkeys.	[99][100][101][102]
Johnny Mnemonic	1995		[103][104]
Judge Dredd	1995	Based on the comic of the same name: in a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.	[105][106][107]
Kin-dza-dza!	1986	A 1986 Soviet sci-fi dystopian black comedy cult film.	[7]^:184[108]
Kite	2014	An orphaned assassin hunts down child slavery cartel members. Stars India Eisley.
Land of the Blind	2006		[41]
The Last Battle	1983		[109]
The Last Man on Earth	1964	The first of three adaptations of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel I Am Legend.	[26]
The Lego Movie	2014		[64][110][111]
The Lobster	2015	Somewhere in the near future, single people face a choice: join a program to find a mate in forty-five days or be transformed into an animal..	[112]
Logan's Run	1976	Depicts a dystopian future society in which population and the consumption of resources are managed by the simple notion of killing everyone who reaches the age of thirty.	[10][12][87]
Looper	2012	In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination.	[20][113]
Mad Max	1979	A lone cop is the only law in a future society run amok.	[10][26][89][106]
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior	1981		[6][10][24][89]
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome	1985		[10][71][89]
Mad Max: Fury Road	2015		[73][114]
The Man Who Fell to Earth	1976		[115]
The Matrix	1999	A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.	[10][12][24][71]
The Matrix Reloaded	2003	The second installment of The Matrix trilogy.	[10]
The Matrix Revolutions	2003	The third installment of The Matrix trilogy.	[10]
Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future	1985		[116]
The Maze Runner	2014	Thomas is deposited in a community of boys after his memory is erased, soon learning they're all trapped in a maze that will require him to join forces with fellow "Runners" for a shot at escape. Based on the first book of The Maze Runner Trilogy written by James Dashner.	[20][69][83]
Metropia	2009		[117]
Metropolis	1927	A German expressionist epic science-fiction film directed by Fritz Lang. A man living an ideal life in a big city discovers the truth about why his city seems so ideal.	[6][10][12][26]
Metropolis	2001	Animated film by Osamu Tezuka.	[48]
Minority Report	2002	Based on Philip K. Dick's short story The Minority Report. A police officer oversees a department that prevents crime with the help of beings who can predict it, but then he becomes a target.	[41][71][89]
Moon	2009		[118]
Natural City	1997		[119]
Never Let Me Go	2010	Based on Kazuo Ishiguro's 2005 novel of the same name.	[10][25]
Nineteen Eighty-Four	1984	Based on George Orwell's 1949 novel of the same name.	[10][12][24][26]
Nirvana	1997		[120]
No Blade of Grass	1970	The film is based on Samuel Youd's novel The Death of Grass (1956) and highlights the terrifying effects of environmental pollution.[121]	[47][121][122]
Oblivion	2013	Based on Joseph Kosinski's unpublished graphic novel of the same name.	[20][123][124]
The Omega Man	1971	The second of three adaptations of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel I Am Legend.	[10][26]
On the Beach	1959		[48]
Outland	1981		[89]
Paranoia 1.0 (originally One Point O)	2004	The film is a Kafkaesque nightmare in which a young computer programmer is an unwitting guinea pig in a corporate experiment to test a new advertising scheme.	[125][126]
Planet of the Apes (original series)	1968—1973	Most of humanity is extinguished in a thermonuclear war. In the course of the two following millennia, intelligent apes (chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans) become the dominant kind and establish an organized society. During the 40th century, an ultra-powerful nuclear bomb is launched as a last resort in a conflict between mutant humans and gorillas, ultimately destroying the entire planet.	[4][10]
Planet of the Apes (reboot series)	2011—present	A colony of apes in a sanctuary is affected by a viral gas which enhances their intelligence. As a result, they flee the sanctuary and form an organized society apart from humans. Ten years later, that same virus causes a massive pandemic disease called the Simian flu, which ultimately wipes out all humans with the exception of those genetically immune to the virus. A group of immune human survivors form a colony and eventually engage in a war with the apes.	[20][127][128]
Pleasantville	1998	A brother and sister get zapped into an idealistic TV show from the 1950s, but they realize that it's a sexually repressed society.	[79]
The Postman	1997		[20][127]
Priest	2011		[129]
Punishment Park	1971		[48]
The Purge	2013	In a futuristic America plagued by crime, the government sanctions a 12-hour period once a year in which all criminal activity is legal.	[130]
The Purge: Anarchy	2014		[20][20][130]
Radio Free Albemuth	2010	The film based on Philip K. Dick's novel of the same name (posthumously published in 1985) is set in an alternate reality America circa 1985 under authoritarian control. In it a record store clerk receives hallucinatory missives from the alien satellite VALIS.	[131][132]
Renaissance	2006		[133]
Repo! The Genetic Opera	2008	This rock opera musical horror film takes place in the year 2056 where an epidemic of organ failures has devastated the planet. The mega-corporation GeneCo provides organ transplants on a payment plan. Clients who default on payments are hunted down by Repo Men: skilled assassins contracted by GeneCo to repossess organs, usually killing the clients in the process.	[134][135]
Repo Man	1984	A young man gets given the task of repossessing cars.	[136]
Repo Men	2010	Based on Eric Garcia's novel The Repossession Mambo.	[137]
Resident Evil series	2002—2012	Science fiction horror franchise written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, based on the video game of the same name.	[138]
The Road	2009		[10][24][93]
RoboCop	1987	Centers on a police officer who is brutally murdered and subsequently revived as a superhuman cyborg law enforcer.	[12][89]
RoboCop	2014		[20][73][139][140]
Rollerball	1975	A future society uses an ultra-violent game as entertainment.	[20]
The Rover	2014	The contemporary western takes place in the Australian outback, ten years after a global economic collapse.[141]	[87][142][143]
The Running Man	1987	Loosely adapted from Stephen King's 1982 novel of the same name.	[10][64]
A Scanner Darkly	2006	Adapted from Philip K. Dick's 1977 novel of the same name. A dangerous new drug causes the users to begin to lose their own identity.	[144]
Seconds	1966		[48]
Serenity	2005		[145]
Silent Running	1972	In the future, Earth has eliminated all disease by paving over the natural world.	[4][26][87]
Sleep Dealer	2008		[146]
Sleeper	1973	Awakened 200 years after an experiment gone bad, a nebbish finds it hard to survive in the weird future.	[147]
Snowpiercer	2013	A plan to reverse global warming inadvertently freezes the entire planet. The survivors now live in a train that traverses the globe.	[10][20][71]
Southland Tales	2007		[25]
Soylent Green	1973	Based on Harry Harrison's novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966). It centers around the issue of overpopulation.[47]	[10][20][26][41]
The Stand	1994	Based on Stephen King's 1978 novel of the same name. A mega-virus wipes out most of humanity. The few people who are immune congregate to try and form a new society.	[93]
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones	2002		[79]
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith	2005		[79]
Strange Days	1995	Set in Los Angeles around New Years, 1999. Crime has run amok.	[148][149]
Super Mario Bros.	1993	Two plumbers are transported into a dystopian Brooklyn run by the evil King Koopa.
Surrogates	2009		[150]
Tank Girl	1995	Based on the British comic series of the same name, a tank-riding anti-heroine fights a mega-corporation which controls the world's water supply.	[151]
Tekken	2010		[152]
The Terminator	1984	A man gets sent back in time to prevent the murder of the mother of the future resistance leader.	[10]
Terminator 2: Judgment Day	1991	A cyborg gets sent back in time to prevent the murder of the future resistance leader.	[10]
Terminator 3	2003		[10]
Terminator Salvation	2009		[10]
They Live	1988	Adapted from Ray Nelson's play Eight O'Clock in the Morning.	[6][41]
The Thing	1951	A research crew in the Arctic discovers an alien.	[26]
The Thing	1982	A shape-shifting alien terrorizes the crew at a research station in Antarctica.	[26]
Things To Come	1936	Set 30–40 years in the future in the 1960s and 70s, society has broken down after years of war. A contagious disease spreads throughout the globe. Brutal warlords rule with an iron fist. Technology stagnates. But a brotherhood of engineers and mechanics works to restore civilization.	[26]
THX 1138	1971	Set in the 25th century, the story centers around a man and a woman who rebel against their rigidly controlled society. Also the first film by director George Lucas.	[10][41][65]
The Time Machine	1960	Film adoption of H. G. Wells' novel The Time Machine (1895). A scientist travels 700,000 years into the future and finds the world divided between humans and strange beings.	[153][154][155]
Total Recall	1990	Loosely based on Philip K. Dick's short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" (1966).	[89]
Total Recall	2012	Remake of the 1990 film of the same name.	[20][156][157][158]
Transcendence	2014		[159]
The Trial	1962	Based on Franz Kafka's novel of the same name, which was published in 1925. A man gets put on trial but cannot obtain any information about the charge.	[48]
V for Vendetta	2006	Based on Alan Moore's graphic novel of the same name.	[10][12][23][41]
Videodrome	1983		[64][71][160]
WALL-E	2008	Centuries in the future, Earth had become toxic due to the extreme amounts of waste produced by a megacorporation, which also endorsed consumerism and technological dependency.	[71][79]
Watchmen	2009		[12]
Waterworld	1995	Massive ice caps have melted, and all of Earth's land became submersed. The few surviving humans, who live in big ships and artificial atolls, are poor and ignorant, since they have lost most of their resources, as well as their technological and historical knowledge.	[20][106][161]
Westworld	1973	Written and directed by Michael Crichton. A theme park focusing on the Old West goes haywire when the robots turn against the humans.	[87]
When Worlds Collide	1951	An asteroid hurtles towards Earth, imperiling all life.	[26]
World on a Wire	1973	German television movie (original title Welt am Draht), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.	[48][162]
X-Men: Days of Future Past	2014	The plot toggles between the political tumult of 1973 and a not-so-distant dystopian future.	[163]
Z for Zachariah	2015		[164]
Z.P.G.	1972		[165]
Zardoz	1974	The post-apocalypse population is divided into the immortal, technologically advanced but depressive "Eternals" and mortal, food-suppling, often exterminated "Brutals".	[10][26][166]
The Zero Theorem	2014		[33]

See also

• List of dystopian literature
• List of dystopian comics
• List of dystopian music, TV programs, and games
• List of biopunk and cyberpunk works
• Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

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