Dystopia
"dystopia" Movies and TV Shows
#1
The Last of Us
Synopsis:
Twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed, Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse the United States and depend on each other for survival.
Starring:
Pedro Pascal,
Bella Ramsey
#2
The Barrier
Synopsis:
One family’s fight for survival in a future dystopian Madrid illustrates the disparity between two worlds separated by a fence — and so much more.
Starring:
Ángela Molina,
Unax Ugalde,
Olivia Molina
#3
Silo
Synopsis:
In a ruined and toxic future, a community exists in a giant underground silo that plunges hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them.
Starring:
Common,
Rebecca Ferguson,
Tim Robbins
#4
The Host
Synopsis:
A parasitic alien soul is injected into the body of Melanie Stryder. Instead of carrying out her race's mission of taking over the Earth, "Wanda" (as she comes to be called) forms a bond with her host and sets out to aid other free humans.
Starring:
Chandler Canterbury,
Frances Fisher,
Boyd Holbrook
Plot:
based on novel or book,
mass murder,
dystopia,
genocide,
alien invasion,
alien,
alien creature,
parasite,
body snatching,
desert
...
#5
Twelve Monkeys
Synopsis:
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly, and patient…
Starring:
Christopher Plummer,
Brad Pitt,
Bruce Willis
Plot:
time travel,
virus,
plague,
underground,
epidemic,
psychiatrist,
future,
ecoterrorism,
psychiatric hospital,
bald man
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#6
Badland Hunters
Synopsis:
After a deadly earthquake turns Seoul into a lawless badland, a fearless huntsman springs into action to rescue a teenager abducted by a mad doctor.
Starring:
Ma Dong-seok,
Jang Young-nam,
Ahn Ji-hye
Plot:
disaster,
post apocalypse,
apocalypse,
earthquake,
wasteland,
violence,
disaster action,
hunter,
doctor,
sequel
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#7
Foxtrot Six
Synopsis:
Escalating climate change is turning the world economy upside down. With crops dying and food price spiking, FOOD has replaced oil as the world's most valuable commodity. Among the very few lands still left fertile, Indonesia is quickly rising as the next economic superpower, when its government is suddenly and ruthlessly overtaken by a popular rogue political party. In just three days, six for…
Starring:
Chicco Jerikho,
Julie Estelle,
Arifin Putra
#8
Reign of Chaos
Synopsis:
When the world is gripped by a plague unleashed by the evil lord Chaos, and humans are turned into rabid creatures, mankind can only be saved by three young women, descendants of a Goddess, with the power to stop Chaos' evil.
Starring:
Peter Cosgrove,
Georgia Woodthorpe,
Ray Whelan
Plot:
evil,
plague,
chaos,
dystopia,
warrior woman
...
#9
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Synopsis:
64 years before he becomes the tyrannical president of Panem, Coriolanus Snow sees a chance for a change in fortunes when he mentors Lucy Gray Baird, the female tribute from District 12.
Starring:
Viola Davis,
Jason Schwartzman,
Peter Dinklage
Plot:
origin of villain,
prequel,
mentor,
arena,
singing,
divided into chapters,
execution,
betrayal,
based on novel,
fight to the death
...
#10
Mondocane
Synopsis:
In the near future, the southern Italian city of Taranto is surrounded by barbed wire that no one, not even the police, dares to cross. The poorest are left fighting for survival, while gangs compete for the territory. Two thirteen-year-old orphans who grew up together, dream of joining one of the gangs.
Starring:
Alessandro Borghi,
Dennis Protopapa,
Giuliano Soprano
Plot:
dystopia,
future,
industrial town,
gang,
friendship,
southern italy,
taranto italy,
urban decay,
italy,
boy girl relationship
...
#11
Red Dawn
Synopsis:
It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town—and their country—from invading Soviet forces.
Starring:
Harry Dean Stanton,
Lea Thompson,
Patrick Swayze
#12
Black Knight
Synopsis:
In a dystopian 2071 devastated by air pollution, the survival of humanity depends on the Black Knights — and they’re far from your average delivery men.
Starring:
Song Seung-heon,
Jin Kyung,
Kim Eui-sung
Plot:
dystopian sci fi,
based on webcomic,
based on comic,
2070s,
year 2071,
future,
driver,
delivery,
peninsula,
survival
...
#13
JUNG_E
Synopsis:
On an uninhabitable 22nd-century Earth, the outcome of a civil war hinges on cloning the brain of an elite soldier to create a robot mercenary.
Starring:
Kim Hyun-joo,
Ryu Kyung-soo,
Kang Soo-youn
Plot:
artificial intelligence,
clone,
future,
mercenary,
dystopia,
character name as title,
22nd century,
robot,
futuristic,
civil war
...
#14
Zardoz
Synopsis:
In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
Starring:
Charlotte Rampling,
Sean Connery,
Bosco Hogan
#15
Videodrome
Synopsis:
As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that th…
Starring:
Julie Khaner,
James Woods,
Jack Creley
Plot:
snuff film,
hallucination,
surrealism,
suicide,
satire,
cyberpunk,
cult,
body horror,
canuxploitation,
illegality
...
#16
Tron
Synopsis:
When brilliant video game maker Flynn hacks the mainframe of his ex-employer, he is beamed inside an astonishing digital world...and becomes part of the very game he is designing. In his mission through cyberspace, Flynn matches wits with a maniacal Master Control Program and teams up with Tron, a security measure created to bring balance to the digital environment.
Starring:
Jeff Bridges,
Vince Deadrick Jr.,
David Warner
#17
Total Recall
Synopsis:
Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Recall, a company who manufacture memories. Something goes wrong during his memory implant turning Doug's life upside down and even to question what is reality and what isn't.
Starring:
Michael Ironside,
Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Sharon Stone
#18
THX 1138
Synopsis:
People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.
Starring:
Donald Pleasence,
Robert Duvall,
Sid Haig
#19
They Live
Synopsis:
Nada, a wanderer without meaning in his life, discovers a pair of sunglasses capable of showing the world the way it truly is. As he walks the streets of Los Angeles, Nada notices that both the media and the government are comprised of subliminal messages meant to keep the population subdued, and that most of the social elite are skull-faced aliens bent on world domination. With this shocking dis…
Starring:
Keith David,
Roddy Piper,
Meg Foster
#20
The War of the Worlds
Synopsis:
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
Starring:
Cedric Hardwicke,
Ann Robinson,
Lewis Martin
Plot:
alien,
martian,
invasion,
atomic bomb,
panic,
alien invasion,
invasion of earth,
national film registry,
flashlight,
california
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