Fantastic films about discrimination

List of the best science fiction films about discrimination according to the audience: The Time Machine, District B13, Sexmission, Donnie Darko, Kin-dza-dza!, Koi... Mil Gaya, Solaris, The Hunt for the Hidden Relic, Closed Circuit, Cyborg She.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.

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: 7.6
    Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure
    CountryPoland, Czechoslovakia
    Duration02:01

    Two scientists are chosen as guinea pigs for a time experiment: they are placed in hibernation and should be brought back to life after three years. In the meantime, however, World War III breaks out and life has been wiped off the surface of Earth. When they wake up, it turns out that not only 50 years have passed but also that they are the only living specimens of the male sex in a new, underground society composed exclusively of women.

    Duration01:53

      After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
      CountrySoviet Union
      Duration02:15

      The story takes place on the desert planet "Pluke" in the "Kin-dza-dza" galaxy, where two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other ("Uncle Vova", a gruff construction foreman from Moscow, and "The Fiddler", a student from Georgia) are stranded due to an accidental encounter with an alien teleportation device. The movie describes their long quest to find a way back home.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrefantastic, action, melodrama, drama
      CountryIndia
      Duration02:51

      A developmentally disabled man meets an extraterrestrial after a huge spacecraft leaves it behind.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrefantastic, drama, detective
      CountrySoviet Union
      Duration02:49

      A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, detective
      CountryGermany
      Duration03:02

      STEFFEN VOGT, aged around 25, is helping out at a German archeological excavation in Israel when he finds a 2,000-year-old skeleton holding the instructions for a video camera dating from the year 2003. The bones also show traces of the present day. His theory of a time-traveler who made a video of Jesus is laughed at by everyone, however, including SHARON, an attractive Israeli woman he adores. Although no one appears to believe him, his find certainly seems to have generated interest: Steffen is attacked shortly afterwards in his hotel room by strange men; then he discovers that the German embassy and the secret service are after him; and when his friend DAN is murdered, he goes into hiding.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrefantastic, thriller, western, crime, detective
      CountryItaly

      During a spaghetti western screening a man is shot dead, the doors are locked and the police is called in to investigate.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrefantastic, action, comedy, melodrama
      CountrySouth Korea, Japan
      Duration01:55

      Cyborg She follows the burgeoning romance between an ordinary college student and his sassy love interest - who happens to be a time-traveling cyborg with superhuman powers. One day, a beautiful cyborg girl appears in front of a dull university student. Even though the cyborg starts to like him, she can’t truly feel emotions, so the boy has no choice but to say goodbye. Missing her, he continues his lonely existence. One day, a disastrous earthquake hits Tokyo and the cyborg girl saves his life. In that moment, she starts to have feelings like a real human being.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryHong Kong, China, France, Italy, Germany
      Duration02:09

      Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life, over the course of a few years, after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrefantastic, drama
      CountryJapan
      Duration01:56

      In the year 1716 a mysterious epidemic stickens men in the country of Japan, dropping the population of men to 1/4th of its prior state. With the drastic reduction of men, the gender roles have become reversed in Japan. Woman become the dominant members of society and males are sought out for the ability to produce children. A young man named Unoshin Mizuno (Kazunari Ninomiya) hopes to marry childhood sweetheart Onobu (Maki Horikita), but due to class differences realizes this is almost impossible. To raise his social status and also save his poor family, Unoshin Mizuno enters the Ohoku (inner chambers of the Shugun's castle) and attempts to vie among 3,000 other men for the affection of the female shogun. What Unoshin Mizuno quickly learns about the Ohoku is that the men there are all beautiful, but highly ambitious and conniving. In this environment, the 7th shogun Tokugawa passes away and the new shogun Yoshimune Tokugawa (Kou Shibasaki) takes the thrown and enters the Ohoku.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrefantastic, comedy
      CountryCzechoslovakia

      In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's dream on a screen; disaster soon follows when the machine malfunctions and the cartoon-like dream characters become very real!

      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: 7.6
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
      CountryAustralia
      Duration01:35

      Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrefantastic
      CountryCanada

      "All men are not created equal. It is the purpose of the Government to make them so." This is the premise of the Showtime film adaption of Kurt Vonnegut's futuristic short story Harrison Bergeron. The film centers around a young man (Harrison) who is smarter than his peers, and is not affected by the usual "Handicapping" which is used to train all Americans so everyone is of equal intelligence.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrefantastic, comedy, crime
      CountryFrance, Italy

      The bungling inspector Cruchot (Funès) finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people, besides their constant thirst for oil-products, is that they sound like empty garbage cans when you touch them. Chaos is ahead.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrefantastic, action, adventure, military, history
      CountryRussia
      Duration01:55

      Four 21st century treasure seekers are transported back into the middle of a WWII battles in Soviet Union...

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:55

      In 2035, where robots are common-place and abide by the three laws of robotics, a techno-phobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may be in danger.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:16

      In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last uncontaminated location on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie.

      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: 7.6
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:53

      A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:40

      Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel world that's just like the 30's with seemingly real people with real emotions.

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama
      CountryIndia
      Duration02:05

      A young man tries to revive his parents' wilting marriage in a unique manner - travel to the 1970s when their romance was budding and make it bloom. This is more complex than he expects.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrefantastic, action, adventure, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:03

      Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that Hammond has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ladylove and a wildlife videographer join an expedition to document the lethal lizards' natural behavior in this action-packed thriller.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrefantastic
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:32

      The plot explores the devastation of civilization and issues of brutality, hostility and isolation. Pierre Jolivet stars as the main character (identified only as "The Man" in the end credits) who is menaced by "The Brute" (played by Jean Reno) on his journey through a world filled by people rendered nearly mute by some unknown incident.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

      A 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. Daniel McCormick wants to be frozen for a year so that he doesn't have to watch his love lying in a coma. The next thing Daniel knows is that he's been awoken in 1992.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:25

      Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrefantastic, comedy, crime
      CountryAustralia

      Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius, who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail, to move in to help pay the bills and, with Frank's help, Malcom turns to a life of crime.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrefantastic, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:20

      Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. Aided by lawyer Oliver Farnsworth, Thomas uses his knowledge of advanced technology to create profitable inventions. While developing a method to transport water, Thomas meets Mary-Lou, a quiet hotel clerk, and begins to fall in love with her. Just as he is ready to leave Earth, Thomas is intercepted by the U.S. government, and his entire plan is threatened.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

        Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrefantastic, action, adventure
        CountryUSA, France
        Duration02:10

        An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
        CountryUSA, Germany
        Duration02:06

        Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the life and times of Andrew, a robot purchased as a household appliance programmed to perform menial tasks. As Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought, the Martin family soon discovers they don't have an ordinary robot.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:11

        When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scramble to a secure laboratory and try to first isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents..

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrefantastic, comedy, drama, family
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:38

        After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to get to Number 5 before the military does. In the meantime, a spunky animal lover mistakes the robot for an alien and takes him in, teaching her new guest about life on Earth.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure, family
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        This 1986 Disney adventure tells the story of 12-year-old David who lives with his family in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. When he awakens from being accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, he finds that eight years have passed. His family is overjoyed to have him back, but just as perplexed as he is by the fact that he hasn't aged. When a NASA scientist discovers a UFO nearby, David gets the chance to unravel the mystery and recover the life he lost.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:56

        Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop of his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:31

        Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop the cataclysm.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:59

          In the future, medical technology has advanced to the point where people can buy artificial organs to extend their lives. But if they default on payments, an organization known as the Union sends agents to repossess the organs. Remy is one of the best agents in the business, but when he becomes the recipient of an artificial heart, he finds himself in the same dire straits as his many victims.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, drama, adventure
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration01:37

          SG-1 searches for an ancient weapon which could help them defeat the Ori, and discover it may be in the Ori's own home galaxy. As the Ori prepare to send ships through to the Milky Way to attack Earth, SG-1 travels to the Ori galaxy aboard the Odyssey. The International Oversight committee have their own plans and SG-1 finds themselves in a distant galaxy fighting two powerful enemies.

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