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
  2. 2.
    Animal Farm
    by John Halas
  3. 3.
    1984

  4. 4.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Stanley Kubrick
  5. 5.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by François Truffaut
  6. 6.
    Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
    by Ridley Scott
  7. 7.
    Gattaca
    by Andrew Niccol
  8. 8.
    The City of Lost Children
    by Marc Caro
  9. 9.
    The Matrix

  10. 10.
    Total Recall
    by Paul Verhoeven
  11. 11.
    The Running Man

  12. 12.
    Robocop
    by Paul Verhoeven
  13. 13.
    Minority Report
    by Steven Spielberg
  14. 14.
    Logan's Run
    by Michael Anderson
  15. 15.
    V for Vendetta (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by James McTeigue
  17. 17.
    THX 1138 (Two-Disc Director's Cut Special Edition)
    by George Lucas
  18. 18.
    Zardoz
    by John Boorman
  19. 19.
    Demolition Man
    by Marco Brambilla
  20. 20.
    Judge Dredd

  21. 21.
  22. 22.
    Equilibrium
    by Kurt Wimmer
  23. 23.
    Code 46
    by Michael Winterbottom
  24. 24.
    Brave New World
    by Leslie Libman, Larry Williams
  25. 25.
    Idiocracy
    by Mike Judge
  26. 26.
    Harrison Bergeron
    by Bruce Pittman & Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  27. 27.
    Sleeper
    by Woody Allen
  28. 28.
    Firefly - The Complete Series
    by Joss Whedon
  29. 29.
    Serenity (Widescreen Edition)
    by Joss Whedon
  30. 30.
    Soylent Green

  31. 31.
    Freejack
    by Geoff Murphy
  32. 32.
    The Island

  33. 33.
    Rollerball

  34. 34.
    The Stepford Wives
    by Bryan Forbes
  35. 35.
    Death Race 2000 - Special Edition
    by Paul Bartel
  36. 36.
    The Truman Show
    by Peter Weir
  37. 37.
    Max Headroom: The Complete Series

  38. 38.
    A Scanner Darkly
    by Richard Linklater
  39. 39.
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    Sleeping Dogs
    by Roger Donaldson
  40. 40.
    They Live
    by John Carpenter
  41. 41.
    Alphaville (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean-Luc Godard
  43. 43.
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    by Carlos Atanes
  44. 44.
    Born in Flames

  45. 45.
    Rain Without Thunder
    by Gary Bennett
  46. 46.
    Wonderful Days (a.k.a. Sky Blue)
    by Moon-saeng Kim
  47. 47.
    Appleseed (Widescreen) (2004)
    by Shinji Aramaki
  48. 48.
    Casshern (DVD)

  49. 49.
    Metropolis
    by Rintaro
  50. 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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