Movies by Lists - Top 100 Dystopian Movies (38 [40]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 28 Days LaterFour weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary. | 2002 | Danny Boyle (*) | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.6 (399.3K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| AllegiantAfter the earth-shattering revelations of Insurgent, Tris must escape with Four beyond the wall that encircles Chicago, to finally discover the shocking truth of the world around them. | 2016 | Robert Schwentke | Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.7 (117.4K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Animatrix, TheA collection of nine short films featuring stories related to The Matrix (1999). | 2003 | Peter Chung, Andrew R. Jones, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Takeshi Koike, Mahiro Maeda | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi | 7.4 (76.8K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Clockwork Orange, AIn the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned. | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Crime, Sci-Fi | 8.3 (799.7K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Death RaceEx-con Jensen Ames is forced by the warden of a notorious prison to compete in our post-industrial world's most popular sport: a car race in which inmates must brutalize and kill one another on the road to victory. | 2008 | Paul W.S. Anderson | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.3 (205.5K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| DelicatessenPost-apocalyptic surrealist black comedy about the landlord of an apartment building who occasionally prepares a delicacy for his odd tenants. | 1991 | Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Comedy, Crime | 7.6 (83.9K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| DivergentIn a world divided by factions based on virtues, Tris learns she's Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's to | 2014 | Neil Burger | Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 6.6 (446.1K votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| GamerIn a future mind-controlling game, death row convicts are forced to battle in a 'Doom'-type environment. Convict Kable, controlled by Simon, a skilled teenage gamer, must survive thirty sessions in order to be set free. | 2009 | Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.8 (133.5K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Giver, TheIn a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world. | 2014 | Phillip Noyce | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.5 (116.9K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Hell Comes to FrogtownAfter a worldwide nuclear war, where 68% of the male population was wiped out and virile men becoming a rarity, Sam Hell, a scavenger and a highly virile man, is assigned to help rescue a group of fertile women kidnapped by humanoid | 1988 | Donald G. Jackson, R.J. Kizer | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi | 5.6 (6.1K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| InsurgentBeatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart with the help from others on her side. | 2015 | Robert Schwentke | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.2 (230.3K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| InterstellarA team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival. | 2014 | Christopher Nolan (*) | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi | 8.6 (1.7M votes) | 169 | 20211228 |
| Logan's RunA police officer in the future uncovers the deadly secret behind a society that worships youth. | 1976 | Michael Anderson | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 6.8 (55K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Mad MaxIn a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang. | 1979 | George Miller (*) | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.9 (201.7K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Mad Max 2 - The Road WarriorIn the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community escape a horde of bandits. | 1981 | George Miller (*) | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.6 (175.5K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Mad Max 3 - Beyond ThunderdomeAfter being exiled from the most advanced town in post apocalyptic Australia, a drifter travels with a group of abandoned children to rebel against the town's queen. | 1985 | George Miller, George Ogilvie | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 6.3 (133.4K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Matrix, TheWhen a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence. | 1999 | Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Action, Sci-Fi | 8.7 (1.8M votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| MetropolisIn a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences. | 1927 | Fritz Lang (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 8.3 (169.6K votes) | 153 | 20211228 |
| Omega Man, TheBiological war has decimated life on Earth. Los Angeles is a windswept ghost town where Robert Neville tools his convertible through sunlit streets foraging for supplies. | 1971 | Boris Sagal | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.5 (30.9K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Purge Anarchy, TheThree groups of people intertwine and are left stranded in the streets on Purge Night, trying to survive the chaos and violence that occurs. | 2014 | James DeMonaco | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.4 (148.2K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Purge, TheA wealthy family is held hostage for harboring the target of a murderous syndicate during the Purge, a 12-hour period in which any and all crime is legal. | 2013 | James DeMonaco | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.8 (216.7K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Resident EvilA special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident. | 2002 | Paul W.S. Anderson | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.7 (262.4K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Resident Evil AfterlifeWhile still out to destroy the evil Umbrella Corporation, Alice joins a group of survivors living in a prison surrounded by the infected who also want to relocate to the mysterious but supposedly unharmed safe haven known only as Arc | 2010 | Paul W.S. Anderson | Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.8 (168.5K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Resident Evil ApocalypseAlice wakes up in the Raccoon City hospital after the area has been overrun by zombies, and must now make it out of the city before a nuclear bomb is dropped. | 2004 | Alexander Witt | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.2 (194.9K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Resident Evil ExtinctionSurvivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against the evil Umbrella Corp. | 2007 | Russell Mulcahy | Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.2 (191.5K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Resident Evil RetributionAlice fights alongside a resistance movement to regain her freedom from an Umbrella Corporation testing facility. | 2012 | Paul W.S. Anderson | Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.4 (139.3K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Resident Evil The Final ChapterAlice returns to where the nightmare began: The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse. | 2016 | Paul W.S. Anderson | Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.5 (90.6K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Soylent GreenA nightmarish futuristic fantasy about the controlling power of big corporations and an innocent cop who stumbles on the truth. | 1973 | Richard Fleischer | Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.1 (62.7K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Starship TroopersHumans in a fascist, militaristic future wage war with giant alien bugs. | 1997 | Paul Verhoeven (*) | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.2 (284.4K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| They LiveThey influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They live. | 1988 | John Carpenter (*) | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.3 (124K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Total RecallA factory worker, Douglas Quaid, begins to suspect that he is a spy after visiting Rekall - a company that provides its clients with implanted fake memories of a life they would like to have led - goes wrong and he finds himself on t | 2012 | Len Wiseman | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.2 (249.9K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Total RecallWhen a man goes in to have virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars implanted in his mind, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or is he? | 1990 | Paul Verhoeven (*) | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 7.5 (320K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Turkey ShootIn a dystopian future where deviants are held in "re-education" camps, a freedom fighter and a wrongfully-accused prisoner form an alliance to survive their decadent oppressors' game of kill-or-be-killed - and turn the tide against t | 1982 | Brian Trenchard-Smith | Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.9 (3.6K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Underworld AwakeningWhen human forces discover the existence of the Vampire and Lycan clans, a war to eradicate both species commences. The vampire warrior Selene leads the battle against humankind. | 2012 | Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein | Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.3 (151.8K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Wall-EIn the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind. | 2008 | Andrew Stanton | Animation, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi | 8.4 (1.1M votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| WatchmenIn 1985 where former superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach into his own sprawling investigation, uncovering something that could completely change the course of history as we know it. | 2009 | Zack Snyder | Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 7.6 (533.3K votes) | 162 | 20211228 |
| WaterworldIn a future where the polar ice-caps have melted and Earth is almost entirely submerged, a mutated mariner fights starvation and outlaw "smokers," and reluctantly helps a woman and a young girl try to find dry land. | 1995 | Kevin Reynolds | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 6.2 (191.5K votes) | 177 | 20211228 |
| X-Men Days of Future PastThe X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants. | 2014 | Bryan Singer (*) | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.9 (689.3K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Andròn: The Black Labyrinth | 2015 | Francesco Cinquemani | Action, Sci-Fi | 2.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Humanity's End | 2008 | Neil Johnson | Action, Sci-Fi | 3.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |