Lists of Bests: Movie Dystopias

Send to Printer Movie Dystopias 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.		Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition) by Fritz Lang
	2.		Animal Farm by Joy Batchelor
	3.		1984 by Michael Radford
	4.		A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick
	5.		Fahrenheit 451 by François Truffaut
	6.		Blade Runner (The Director's Cut) by Ridley Scott
	7.		Gattaca by Andrew Niccol
	8.		The City of Lost Children by Marc Caro
	9.		The Matrix by Larry Wachowski
	10.		Total Recall
	11.		The Running Man by Paul Michael Glaser
	12.		Robocop by Paul Verhoeven
	13.		Minority Report by Steven Spielberg
	14.		Logan's Run by Michael Anderson
	15.		V for Vendetta (Widescreen Edition) by James McTeigue
	16.		Brazil - The Criterion Collection - (Single Disc Editon)
	17.		THX 1138 - The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) by George Lucas
	18.		Zardoz
	19.		Demolition Man by Marco Brambilla
	20.		Judge Dredd by Danny Cannon
	21.		A.I. - Artificial Intelligence (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
	22.		Equilibrium
	23.		Code 46 by Michael Winterbottom
	24.	?	Brave New World by Leslie Libman, Larry Williams
	25.		Idiocracy by Mike Judge
	26.	?	Harrison Bergeron by Bruce Pittman & Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
	27.		Sleeper
	28.		Firefly - The Complete Series
	29.		Serenity (Widescreen Edition)
	30.		Soylent Green by Richard Fleischer
	31.		Freejack by Geoff Murphy
	32.		The Island by Michael Bay
	33.		Rollerball by Norman Jewison
	34.		The Stepford Wives by Bryan Forbes
	35.		Death Race 2000 - Special Edition
	36.		The Truman Show by Peter Weir
	37.	?	Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into the Future by Victor Lobl
	38.		A Scanner Darkly by Richard Linklater
	39.	?	Sleeping Dogs by Roger Donaldson
	40.		They Live by John Carpenter
	41.		Alphaville - Criterion Collection by Jean-Luc Godard
	42.		The Prisoner - Complete Series Megaset (40th Anniversary Edition)
	43.	?	FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions by Carlos Atanes
	44.		Born in Flames by Lizzie Borden
	45.	?	Rain Without Thunder by Gary Bennett
	46.	?	Wonderful Days (a.k.a. Sky Blue) by Moon-saeng Kim
	47.		Appleseed (Widescreen) (2004) by Shinji Aramaki
	48.		Casshern by Kazuaki Kiriya
	49.		Metropolis by Rintaro
	50.	?	Keeper of the Flame (1942) by George Cukor
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