English movies about the future

List of the best English movies about the future, selected by visitors to our site: Vendetta, Nostradamus, Four Lions, The Imitation Game, Super Mario Bros., Hardware, Never Let Me Go, Hollow, Gun Shy, Alien Outpost.

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

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Markimdb: 5.8
Genreaction, thriller
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:46

Special ops interrogation officer Jimmy Vickers (Danny Dyer) tracks down a gang who slaughtered his parents while at the same time avoiding being tracked down by his old unit and the cops. With police closing in and his old unit on his trail, he has to evade capture long enough to complete his gruesome crusade.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genredrama, biography
CountryFrance, United Kingdom, Germany, Romania
Duration01:59

A dramatic retelling of the life of Michel de Nostredame, from his early work as a plague doctor to his time at the court of Catherine de Medici, after he became famed for his prophetic almanacs. Stars Rutger Hauer and Julia Ormond.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, France
Duration01:37

Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce. In a storm of razor-sharp verbal jousting and large-scale set pieces, Four Lions is a comic tour de force; it shows that-while terrorism is about ideology-it can also be about idiots.

Markimdb: 8
Genrethriller, drama, military, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:54

    Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.

    Markimdb: 4.1
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Japan, France
    Duration01:44

    Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrefantastic, thriller
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:31

    Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a bizarre Christmas present from her boyfriend. Once inside its new home, the cyborg promptly reconstructs the rest of its body using a variety of household utensils and proceeds to go on a murderous rampage.

    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: 5.5
    Genrehorror
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:31

    An old monastery in a small, remote village in Suffolk, England has been haunted by a local legend for centuries. Left in ruin and shrouded by the mystery of a dark spirit that wills young couples to suicide, the place has been avoided for years, marked only by a twisted, ancient tree with an ominous hollow said to be the home of great evil. When four friends on holiday explore the local folklore, they realize that belief in a myth can quickly materialize into reality, bringing horror to life for the town.

    Markimdb: 4
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:53

    A mega-platinum, aging rock star's supermodel wife is abducted by pirates while vacationing in Chile.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller
    CountryUnited Kingdom, South Africa
    Duration01:30

    A documentary crew follows an elite unit of soldiers in the wake of an alien invasion.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genreaction, drama, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Douglas, a broken, solitary, Spitfire Ace, must overcome his past to lead a Lancaster bomber crew in the pivotal aerial war over Berlin, in 1944.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada, Spain
    Duration02:26

    Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Vatican investigators are sent to the British West Country to investigate paranormal activity, and they find the events are more disturbing than they first imagined.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrefantasy, comedy, family, military
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
    Duration01:49

    Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother, Mrs. Isabel Green, who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. But once she’s arrived, Nanny McPhee discovers that the children are fighting a war of their own against two spoiled city cousins who have just moved in. Relying on everything from a flying motorcycle and a statue that comes to life to a tree-climbing piglet and a baby elephant, Nanny uses her magic to teach her mischievous charges five new lessons.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrehorror, action, thriller
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:25

    Sarah Tyler returns to her troubled family home in the isolated countryside, for a much put-off visit. As a storm rages outside, Sarah, her family and friends shore up for the night, cut off from the outside world. But something comes out of the driving rain and darkness. Something that holds a dark secret so devastating that, in one night, it could wipe out the entire family.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:38

    Out on parole after 8 years inside Bill Hayward returns home to find his now 11 and 15 year old sons abandoned by their mother and fending for themselves. Unwilling to play Dad, an uncaring Bill is determined to move on.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryAustralia, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Canada
    Duration02:04

    Troubled psychotherapist Peter Bowers is suffering from nightmares and eerie visions. When he uncovers a horrifying secret that all of his patients share, he is put on a course that takes him back to the small hometown he fled years ago. There he confronts his demons and unravels a mystery 20 years in the making.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, United Arab Emirates
    Duration02:33

    A young woman who dreams of being a children's author makes an unlikely friendship with a cantankerous, rich old widower.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom

    On the run with the law on their trail, America's most anguished vampire family heads to England to find an ancient vampire clan. What they find instead could tear their family, and their throats, apart forever.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:53

    A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrecomedy, documentary, crime, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:27

    Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    An acutely observed, forensically honest, warts-and-all look at a working-class couple in their mid-20s.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:23

    When a young woman is cruelly and indiscriminately attacked by a notorious gang led by the violent Trey, her little 16 year old sister Kayla wants revenge and will stop at nothing to get it, even if it means joining a rival girl gang led by the volatile and damaged man-hating Danielle.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, documentary, music
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:37

    A semi-fictionalized documentary about a day in the life of Australian musician Nick Cave's persona.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, cartoon
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:25

    John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam pay tribute to their late Monty Python colleague Graham Chapman in this hilarious, 3-D animated adaptation of Chapman's brazenly fictionalized life story. (TIFF)

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genremusical, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    From the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, David Tennant, Catherine Tate and guests mark the life of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:05

    Keeping these streets clean is a Herculean task, enough to demoralize even the keenest rookie – but there’s a reason why this hotchpotch of committed cops are on this force, on this side of town. Drug labs, arsonists, neo-Nazis and notorious murderers are all in a day’s work for this close-knit team, led by the dizzyingly capable but unquestionably unhinged DI Vivienne Deering. But when a particularly twisted serial killer emerges it leaves even the most hardened of these seasoned coppers reeling.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrefantastic, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Hungary

    Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his father again.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, adventure
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland
    Duration01:38

    On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he has made an astounding discovery – fossilized evidence of bacterial life. Unwilling to let the relief crew claims all the glory, he disobeys orders to pack up and goes out on an unauthorized expedition to collect further samples. But a routine excavation turns to disaster when the porous ground collapses and he falls into a deep crevice and near certain death. His devastated colleagues attempt to recover his body. However, when another vanishes, they start to suspect that the life-form they have discovered is not without danger.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:30

    An adaptation of celebrity chef Nigel Slater's bestselling memoir, 'Toast' is the ultimate nostalgic trip through everything edible in 1960's Britain. Nigel's mother was always a poor cook, but her chronic asthma and addiction to all things canned does not help.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Drama following WPC Gina Dawson, the first Woman Police Constable to join Brinford Constabulary, a fictional police force in the West Midlands, in 1956. The show focuses on WPC Gina Dawson's struggle to gain acceptance in the male-dominated police station whilst having to deal with the sexist attitudes that were commonplace at the time.

    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: 6.4
    Genrefantastic, adventure, family
    CountryUSA, Spain, France, Canada, United Kingdom
    Duration02:22

    Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as "Tomorrowland."

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, China, USA
    Duration01:59

      Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.

      Markimdb: 8.7
      Genredrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Fierce with a pen and notorious in combat, Cyrano almost has it all - if only he could win the heart of his true love Roxane. There’s just one big problem: he has a nose as huge as his heart. Will a society engulfed by narcissism get the better of Cyrano - or can his mastery of language set Roxane’s world alight?

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      The true story of a Sunday school teacher and respectable dentist and pillar of the community, who formed a murderous partnership.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genreaction, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:28

      When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and King John's henchman, Godfrey.

      Markimdb: 3.7
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      In a rambling, isolated house, Emily’s first night-shift as carer to an elderly dementia patient turns into a nightmare as she is tormented by a vengeful spirit and uncovers the house's dark secrets.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrefantasy, adventure, family
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:25

      Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend, Albus Dumbledore. However, Dumbledore will need to seek help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryUSA, Russia, United Kingdom
      Duration02:30

      Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.

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