Movie Dystopias

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These are dark futures resulting from "utopias gone bad." This includes societies like "City of Lost Children" in which creating one person’s Utopia results in nightmare for everyone else. Nightmare-societies primarily resulting from disaster, like "Mad Max," I have categorized as "Post-Apocalypse."

  1. 1.
    Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)
    by Fritz Lang

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  2. 2.
    Animal Farm
    by Joy Batchelor

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  3. 3.
    1984
    by Michael Radford

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  4. 4.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  5. 5.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by François Truffaut

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  6. 6.
    Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
    by Ridley Scott

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  7. 7.
    Gattaca
    by Andrew Niccol

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  8. 8.
    The City of Lost Children
    by Marc Caro

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  9. 9.
    The Matrix
    by Larry Wachowski

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  10. 10.
    Total Recall

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  11. 11.
    The Running Man
    by Paul Michael Glaser

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  12. 12.
    Robocop
    by Paul Verhoeven

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  13. 13.
    Minority Report
    by Steven Spielberg

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  14. 14.
    Logan's Run
    by Michael Anderson

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  15. 15.
    V for Vendetta (Widescreen Edition)
    by James McTeigue

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  16. 17.
    THX 1138 - The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by George Lucas

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  17. 18.
    Zardoz

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  18. 19.
    Demolition Man
    by Marco Brambilla

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  19. 20.
    Judge Dredd
    by Danny Cannon

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  20. 22.
    Equilibrium

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  21. 23.
    Code 46
    by Michael Winterbottom

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  22. 24.
    Brave New World
    by Leslie Libman, Larry Williams

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  23. 25.
    Idiocracy
    by Mike Judge

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  24. 26.
    Harrison Bergeron
    by Bruce Pittman & Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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  25. 27.
    Sleeper

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  26. 28.
    Firefly - The Complete Series

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  27. 29.
    Serenity (Widescreen Edition)

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  28. 30.
    Soylent Green
    by Richard Fleischer

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  29. 31.
    Freejack
    by Geoff Murphy

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  30. 32.
    The Island
    by Michael Bay

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  31. 33.
    Rollerball
    by Norman Jewison

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  32. 34.
    The Stepford Wives
    by Bryan Forbes

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  33. 35.
    Death Race 2000 - Special Edition

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  34. 36.
    The Truman Show
    by Peter Weir

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  35. 37.
    Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into the Future
    by Victor Lobl

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  36. 38.
    A Scanner Darkly
    by Richard Linklater

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    Sleeping Dogs
    by Roger Donaldson

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  38. 40.
    They Live
    by John Carpenter

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  39. 41.
    Alphaville - Criterion Collection
    by Jean-Luc Godard

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  40. 43.
    ?
    FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
    by Carlos Atanes

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  41. 44.
    Born in Flames
    by Lizzie Borden

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  42. 45.
    Rain Without Thunder
    by Gary Bennett

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  43. 46.
    Wonderful Days (a.k.a. Sky Blue)
    by Moon-saeng Kim

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  44. 47.
    Appleseed (Widescreen) (2004)
    by Shinji Aramaki

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  45. 48.
    Casshern
    by Kazuaki Kiriya

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  46. 49.
    Metropolis
    by Rintaro

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  47. 50.
    Keeper of the Flame (1942)
    by George Cukor

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Created by Anitra Freeman on Dec 17, 2006.
 

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