Dystopian movies

Dystopian movies
List of the best dystopian movies selected by visitors to our site: The Book of Eli, The Hunger Games, V for Vendetta, Ghost in the Shell, What Happened to Monday, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Strange Days, District B13, The Thinning, Nineteen Eighty-Four.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrefantastic, action, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:57

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.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:22

    Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Part twisted entertainment, part government intimidation tactic, the Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which “Tributes” must fight with one another until one survivor remains. Pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives, Katniss is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy. If she’s ever to return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. The world will be watching.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
    Duration02:12

      In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as 'V' conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When 'V' rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her an ally with whom he can continue his fight to free the people of Britain.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, India, Hong Kong, China, Canada
      Duration02:13

      In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA, Belgium
      Duration02:31

      In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.

      Genrefantastic, drama
      Duration02:26

      A robotic boy, the first programmed to love, David is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final acceptance by humans or machines, David embarks on a journey to discover where he truly belongs, uncovering a world in which the line between robot and machine is both vast and profoundly thin.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:25

      Set in the year 1999 during the last days of the old millennium, the movie tells the story of Lenny Nero, an ex-cop who now deals with data-discs containing recorded memories and emotions. One day he receives a disc which contains the memories of a murderer killing a prostitute. Lenny investigates and is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of blackmail, murder and rape. Will he survive and solve the case?

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:25

        Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:22

        In a post-apocalyptic future where population control is dictated by a high-school aptitude test, two students discover the test is smoke and mirrors hiding a larger conspiracy.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrefantastic, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration02:00

        George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

        Markimdb: 8.7
        Genrefantastic, action
        CountryUSA, Australia
        Duration02:16

        Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.

        Markimdb: 8.3
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
        CountryGermany
        Duration02:25

        In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

        Markimdb: 8.1
        Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:57

        In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:54

        Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, adventure
        CountryUSA, Canada

        A bank teller called Guy realizes he is a background character in an open world video game called Free City that will soon go offline.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrefantastic, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:52

        In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA, Luxembourg, United Kingdom
        Duration02:05

        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.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, melodrama, adventure, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:14

          In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late.

          Markimdb: 7.9
          Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:18

          Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrefantastic, action, drama
          CountrySouth Korea, Czech Republic
          Duration02:06

          In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.

          Markimdb: 7.9
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Japan
          Duration01:44

          In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrefantastic, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:21

          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.

          Markimdb: 7.8
          Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:46

          Science fiction drama about a future society in the era of indefinite eugenics where humans are set on a life course depending on their DNA. The young Vincent Freeman is born with a condition that would prevent him from space travel, yet he is determined to infiltrate the GATTACA space program.

          Markimdb: 8.8
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA, Germany
          Duration02:11

          A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

          Markimdb: 7.8
          Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure, family
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:48

          Marty and Doc are at it again in this wacky sequel to the 1985 blockbuster as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud. But things go awry thanks to bully Biff Tannen and a pesky sports almanac. In a last-ditch attempt to set things straight, Marty finds himself bound for 1955 and face to face with his teenage parents -- again.

          Markimdb: 7.9
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, cartoon, crime, detective, anime
          CountryJapan
          Duration01:23

          In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.

          Markimdb: 5.6
          Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Belgium
          Duration02:31

            Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genrefantastic, action, adventure
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:59

            An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: All citizens get a chance of being 'renewed' in a Civic Ceremony at their 30th birthday, unless they run and escape before their time comes.

            Markimdb: 8.3
            Genrefantastic, crime
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
            Duration02:17

            Demonic gang-leader Alex goes on the spree of rape, mugging and murder with his pack of "droogs". But he's a boy who also likes Beethoven's Ninth and a bit of "the old in-out, in-out". He later finds himself at the mercy of the state and its brainwashing experiment designed to take violence off the streets.

            Markimdb: 7.6
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
            CountryJapan
            Duration01:54

            In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

            Markimdb: 7
            Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
            CountryFrance, Italy
            Duration01:39

            An American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet which is ruled by an evil scientist named Von Braun, who has outlawed love and self-expression.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom
            Duration01:53

            Set in a post-apocalyptic world, young 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.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama
            CountryUnited Kingdom
            Duration01:43

            As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one another while also preparing for the haunting reality awaiting them.

            Markimdb: 6.7
            Genrefantastic, action, melodrama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:49

            In the not-too-distant future the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man who comes into a fortune of time, though too late to help his mother from dying. He ends up on the run from a corrupt police force known as 'time keepers'.

            Markimdb: 7.5
            Genrefantastic, fantasy, drama, adventure
            CountryFrance, Germany, Spain, Belgium, USA
            Duration01:52

            A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.

            Markimdb: 7.4
            Genrefantastic, action, adventure
            CountryUSA, India
            Duration01:58

            When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
            CountryFrance, United Kingdom, Singapore, New Zealand, Canada, USA, United Arab Emirates, Germany, Belgium, China, Thailand
            Duration01:47

            In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis where species from across the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence, and cultures. At the center of Alpha is a mysterious dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.

            Markimdb: 7.4
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:47

              In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.

              Markimdb: 6.6
              Genrefantastic, action, thriller
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:41

              By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.

              Markimdb: 7.2
              Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
              CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, Greece, France, Netherlands, USA
              Duration01:36

                In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.

                Markimdb: 6.1
                Genrefantastic, thriller, crime
                CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA, Germany
                Duration01:16

                Set in a near-future world where there is no privacy, ignorance or anonymity, our private memories are recorded and crime almost ceases to exist. In trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, Sal Frieland stumbles onto a young woman who appears to have subverted the system and disappeared. She has no identity, no history and no record. Sal realizes it may not be the end of crime but the beginning. Known only as 'The Girl', Sal must find her before he becomes the next victim.

                Markimdb: 8.1
                Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
                CountryAustralia, South Africa
                Duration02:30

                An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order. There's Max, a man of action and a man of few words, who seeks peace of mind following the loss of his wife and child in the aftermath of the chaos. And Furiosa, a woman of action and a woman who believes her path to survival may be achieved if she can make it across the desert back to her childhood homeland.

                Markimdb: 5
                Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
                CountryFinland, Germany, Australia, France, Norway, Belgium, Denmark, United Kingdom
                Duration02:23

                Twenty years after the events of Iron Sky, the former Nazi Moonbase has become the last refuge of mankind. Earth was devastated by a nuclear war, but buried deep under the wasteland lies a power that could save the last of humanity - or destroy it once and for all. The truth behind the creation of mankind will be revealed when an old enemy leads our heroes on an adventure into the Hollow Earth. To save humanity they must fight the Vril, an ancient shapeshifting reptilian race and their army of dinosaurs.

                Markimdb: 5.6
                Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure, crime
                CountryFrance, United Kingdom, USA
                Duration01:40

                In Babylon A.D Vin Diesel stars as a veteran-turned-mercenary who is hired to deliver a package from the ravages of post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe to a destination in the teeming megalopolis of New York City. The "package" is a mysterious young woman with a secret.

                Markimdb: 6.2
                Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, cartoon, detective
                CountrySweden, Denmark, Norway
                Duration01:26

                In the near future, oil reserves are nearly depleted and Europe is connected by series of underground tunnels. While navigating these tunnels, Roger hears voices, one in particular. Seeking a way to rid himself of the voice only leads Roger deeper into a bizarre conspiracy of control - mind and body.

                Markimdb: 5.7
                Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
                CountryUSA, Canada, Hong Kong, Luxembourg

                Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.

                Markimdb: 7.5
                Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
                CountryCanada, Germany, USA
                Duration01:53

                Construction worker Douglas Quaid discovers a memory chip in his brain during a virtual-reality trip. He also finds that his past has been invented to conceal a plot of planetary domination. Soon, he's off to Mars to find out who he is and who planted the chip.

                Markimdb: 6.1
                Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
                CountryUSA, New Zealand, Japan
                Duration02:25

                Many thousands of years in the future, Earth’s cities roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive traction cities, the old London, Tom Natsworthy has an unexpected encounter with a mysterious young woman from the wastelands who will change the course of his life forever.

                Markimdb: 5.8
                Genrefantastic, action, thriller
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:35

                Mind-control technology has taken society by a storm, a multiplayer on-line game called "Slayers" allows players to control human prisoners in mass-scale. Simon controls Kable, the online champion of the game. Kable's ultimate challenge becomes regaining his identity and independence by defeating the game's mastermind.

                Markimdb: 6
                Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:19

                Nearly a decade after occupation by an extraterrestrial force, the lives of a Chicago neighborhood on both sides of the conflict are explored.




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