Best Dystopian Film

1.

1984

By: jambredt     13 votes

Made fittingly in 1984, this older film expertly reflects George Orwell's classic novel about what we could become.

B.B.

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2.

V for Vendetta

By: jambredt     14 votes

In the near future a terrorist attack and biological warfare lead to a totalitarian government in Britain. V, a freedom fighter/terrorist attempts to bring down the pervasive government. Hugo Weaving and Natalie Portman.

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3.

Blade Runner

By: jambredt     13 votes

"The film depicts a dystopian Los Angeles in November 2019 in which genetically manufactured beings called replicants visually indistinguishable from adult humans are used for dangerous and degrading work on Earth's "off-world colonies". Following a small replicant uprising, replicants become illegal on Earth and specialist police called "blade runners" are trained to hunt down and "retire" (kill) escaped replicants on Earth. The plot focuses on a brutal and cunning group of replicants hiding in Los Angeles and the semi-retired blade runner, Rick Deckard (Ford), who reluctantly agrees to take on one more assignment." -Wikipedia.

So significant it was admitted to the Library of Congress.

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4.

The Matrix Series

By: jambredt     13 votes

You know these ones.

"I know kung fu."

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5.

Serenity

By: jambredt     10 votes

Based on the cancelled cult TV show "Firefly," Serenity was made by Joss Whedon of Buffy and Angel fame.

After the Earth was used up, humanity moved on, but their old habits and prejudices came with them. After a bitter civil war, the Core planets rule with an iron fist, but some still remember the idea of freedom.

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6.

Dark City

By: goodtimes     4 votes

"Dark City is a 1998 science fiction film noir written by Alex Proyas, Lem Dobbs and David S. Goyer, and directed by Proyas. It stars Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland, and Jennifer Connelly. While it was not a major box office hit when originally released, it has subsequently developed a considerable cult following within film industry and cinéaste circles. Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert is a particularly high-profile supporter of Dark City, labelling it the best film of 1998.

The story concerns a man waking in a hotel room with no memory, which soon proves to be but one of many troubles. He is sought by police, who believe him to be a serial killer, and also by a group of mysterious men with psychokinetic powers. Furthermore, something appears to be wrong with the world at large: time, memory, and identity behave in unusual ways." - Wikipedia

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7.

Equilibrium

By: jambredt     11 votes

"Following an apocalyptic Third World War, the strict government of the city-state Libria has eliminated war by suppressing all human emotion. In the monochromatic and sedated society, artifacts from the old world (works of art and music that may evoke some emotion) are destroyed and the population is required to take emotion sedatives. Grammaton Cleric Preston (Bale), a man trained to locate and arrest those guilty of feeling emotions, finds himself abandoning the drug and experiencing outlawed feelings. As he struggles to conceal his feelings from his superiors, colleagues, and family, Preston finds himself drawn into a sinister world of double-crossings and lies, and becomes an unwitting pawn in a sophisticated plot which ultimately changes the repressed society forever." -Wikipedia.

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8.

Children of Men

By: jambredt     13 votes

"The film is set in the year 2027. Due to an unexplained infertility pandemic, no human children have been born in any part of the world for more than eighteen years. The world has descended into chaos with most governments in the world collapsing, leaving the United Kingdom as one of the sole organised societies. Consequently, millions of refugees ("fugees") have flooded into the country seeking asylum. As a result of the influx, the British government has become a militarised police state. The British army occupies the streets and forcefully detains all 'illegal immigrants' and suspected sympathisers." -Wikipedia

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9.

By: AgentPendrell     0 votes

If the opposite of a perfect society were to come to pass, I imagine Will Smith would be the only survivor. The the sake of us all, I hope he's the only survivor.

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10.

The Running Man

By: jambredt     10 votes

"The Running Man is a 1987 film adaptation loosely based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. Directed by Paul Michael Glaser, the film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jesse Ventura, Jim Brown and Richard Dawson.

The film, set in a dystopic year 2017, is about a TV show called The Running Man, where "runners" must escape death at the hands of professional killers." -Wikipedia

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11.

Aeon Flux

By: jambredt     11 votes

408 years in the future, a disease ravages the human race and the survivors wall themselves in. A council of scientists rules absolutely, and something isn't right in paradise. Charlize Theron stars.

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12.

A Scanner Darkly

By: jambredt     11 votes

"A Scanner Darkly is a 2006 film directed by Richard Linklater based on the novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick. The film tells the story of identity and deception in a near-future dystopia constantly monitored by intensive high-technology police surveillance in the midst of a drug addiction epidemic. To give the film its distinct look, the movie was filmed digitally and then animated using interpolated rotoscope over the original footage.

The film was written and directed by Linklater, and stars Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Woody Harrelson, Robert Downey, Jr., and Rory Cochrane." -Wikipedia

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13.

Demolition Man

By: jambredt     10 votes

"The film is a story about two men, one an evil crime lord and the other a risk-taking police officer, who are cryonically frozen in the year 1996 and reawakened to face each other in 2032, by which point Los Angeles, now called San Angeles, has become part of a planned city. Some aspects of the movie allude to Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel, Brave New World." -Wikipedia
Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, Denis Leary.

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14.

Soylent Green

By: jambredt     10 votes

It's made of people.

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15.

Escape from New York

By: jambredt     10 votes

"n a dystopian 1997, the Soviet Union still exists, as does the threat of World War III. Manhattan was turned into a maximum security prison in 1988 due to a nationwide crime increase in the United States of 400%. Surrounded by a 50-foot containment wall, all inmates are sentenced to life imprisonment, and have formed gangs which control the crumbling, garbage-strewn city. Travelling to a three-way summit between the United States, the Soviet Union and China, Air Force One, the plane of the President of the United States, is hijacked by a member of a revolutionary organization opposed to the government. The militant crashes the plane into Manhattan but the President (Donald Pleasence) is safely sealed in an escape pod and survives. Unfortunately, the inmates quickly find him and take him hostage, cutting off one of his fingers and ordering all soldiers to leave the island immediately or they will kill him." -Wikipedia

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16.

Escape from L.A.

By: jambredt     10 votes

"In the year 2000, an earthquake reaching 9.6 magnitude hits the city of Los Angeles, causing it to be separated from the continental mainland by flooding the San Fernando Valley (now called the "San Fernando Sea") and turning it into an island from Malibu to Anaheim. Just prior to this, an American presidential candidate (an obscure reference to Jerry Falwell; played by Cliff Robertson), who is also an out-spoken Christian militant, had made a doomsday prediction of the disaster during his campaign, saying L.A. was a "city of sin", and that; 'Like the mighty hand of God, waters will rise up and separate this sinful, sinful city, from our great nation.'" -Wikipedia

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