Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "dystopian-society"

1. Severance (2022– )

TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.

Stars: Adam Scott, Zach Cherry, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman

Votes: 205,620

2. Hazbin Hotel (2019– )

TV-MA | 32 min | Animation, Comedy, Crime

In an attempt to find a non-violent alternative for reducing Hell's overpopulation, the daughter of Lucifer opens a rehabilitation hotel that offers a group of misfit demons a chance at redemption.

Stars: Erika Henningsen, Stephanie Beatriz, Blake Roman, Keith David

Votes: 24,171

3. Dark City (1998)

R | 100 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A man struggles with memories of his past, which include a wife he cannot remember and a nightmarish world no one else ever seems to wake up from.

Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt

Votes: 213,055 | Gross: $14.38M

4. Escape from New York (1981)

R | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

In 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.

Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence

Votes: 158,327 | Gross: $25.24M

5. Allegiant (2016)

PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

After 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.

Director: Robert Schwentke | Stars: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Jeff Daniels, Naomi Watts

Votes: 134,927 | Gross: $66.18M

6. Uglies

PG-13 | Action, Adventure, Drama | Completed

A world in which a compulsory operation wipes out physical differences and makes everyone pretty.

Director: McG | Stars: Joey King, Laverne Cox, Chase Stokes, Jillian Murray

7. BioShock Infinite (2013 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Drama

A man is sent to the flying city of Columbia to find a missing girl. However, upon arrival he discovers that the city, its people, and his objective are all not what they seem.

Director: Ken Levine | Stars: Troy Baker, Courtnee Draper, Kiff VandenHeuvel, Laura Bailey

Votes: 22,260

8. The Maze Runner: Finding the Gang (2014)

2 min | Documentary, Short

Every year children are dumped in this dystopian society where they make their own rules and try to survive. With no memory from their life before. They set up specific jobs for everyone ... See full summary »

Votes: 15,464

9. The White Meadows (2009)

92 min | Drama

Rahmat has been asked to meet the inhabitants of these islands to collect their tears. Although for years people have been giving their tears to Rahmat, no one knows exactly what he has been doing with them.

Director: Mohammad Rasoulof | Stars: Hassan Pourshirazi, Younes Ghazali, Mohammad Rabbani, Mohammad Shirvani

Votes: 1,074

10. Plandemic (2020– )

99 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

Documentary series that shows the connections and conflicts of interest between the media, the medical industry, politics and the financial industry during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Stars: David Martin, Judy Mikovits

Votes: 1,892

11. Trouble in Mind (1985)

R | 111 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the fictional and hypnotic Rain City.

Director: Alan Rudolph | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Keith Carradine, Lori Singer, Geneviève Bujold

Votes: 2,442 | Gross: $0.02M

12. Radioflash (2019)

Unrated | 103 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

When a nuclear device causes an electromagnetic pulse that kills power to more than 200 million people, a teenage girl must help lead her family to survival in a dark new world.

Director: Ben McPherson | Stars: Brighton Sharbino, Dominic Monaghan, Will Patton, Fionnula Flanagan

Votes: 5,522

13. Rhino Season (2012)

88 min | Drama, Thriller

Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks him dead for over twenty years.

Director: Bahman Ghobadi | Stars: Behrouz Vossoughi, Monica Bellucci, Yilmaz Erdogan, Caner Cindoruk

Votes: 7,312

14. Turkey Shoot (2014)

TV-MA | 90 min | Action, Thriller

In the near future, a Navy SEAL framed for war crimes is offered a chance for freedom by participating in a TV show that requires him to outwit other professional killers to survive.

Director: Jon Hewitt | Stars: Dominic Purcell, Viva Bianca, Robert Taylor, Belinda McClory

Votes: 1,420

15. Sample People (2000)

Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

This edgy Australian film stars an ensemble cast headed up by pop superstar Kylie Minogue, David Field, and Simon Lyndon. Various characters interact under strange circumstances, calling to mind movies such as GO and PULP FICTION.

Director: Clinton Smith | Stars: Kylie Minogue, Ben Mendelsohn, Simon Lyndon, David Field

Votes: 439

16. Kamikaze 89 (1982)

Not Rated | 106 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the press, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings, and finds out more than he bargained for.

Director: Wolf Gremm | Stars: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Günther Kaufmann, Boy Gobert, Arnold Marquis

Votes: 831 | Gross: $0.02M

17. Memory of Water (2022)

101 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

In this dystopian literary adaptation, a courageous young woman fights for fresh water in the Scandinavian Union, an area that has dried up due to environmental disaster and a repressive military government.

Director: Saara Saarela | Stars: Saga Sarkola, Mimosa Willamo, Lauri Tilkanen, Pekka Strang

Votes: 598

18. My

120 min | Drama, Sci-Fi | Completed

200 years have passed after The Great War. The remnants of humanity live in the perfect One State. Despite an authoritarian system of serial numbers, uniforms, glass houses, and scheduled sex, happiness and harmony reign in the society.

Director: Hamlet Dulyan | Stars: Egor Koreshkov, Elena Podkaminskaya, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Dmitriy Chebotaryov

19. The Wanting Mare (2020)

89 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

In Whithren, a line of women pass a recurring dream through multiple generations.

Director: Nicholas Ashe Bateman | Stars: Jordan Monaghan, Yasamin Keshtkar, Christine Kellogg-Darrin, Edmond Cofie

Votes: 590

20. Metal Messiah (1978)

76 min | Musical, Sci-Fi

A dystopian rock opera about an enigmatic metallic-skinned stranger, who is trying to stop society's self-destructive obsession with rock and roll hedonism, and a rock promoter who plans to corrupt him too and keep the society decadent.

Director: Tibor Takács | Stars: John Paul Young, Richard Ward Allen, David Jensen, Liane Hogan

Votes: 57

21. Photon (2017)

107 min | Animation, Drama, Mystery

A scientist explains to a journalist how atoms formed in the early universe and how the world has developed to the present day. When pressed, he gives his opinion on what's going to happen in the future.

Director: Norman Leto | Stars: Andrzej Chyra, Karolina Kominek-Skuratowicz, Lukasz Grudzinski, Alex Mru Kijania

Votes: 644

22. Zombie Fighter (2020)

71 min | Action, Drama, Horror

In a world where mankind's recovering from a zombie epidemic, a new sport called 'zombie fighter' becomes popular in the slums. A father and a daughter try to use the game to their advantage to escape to the safe-zone.

Director: Lim Jihwan | Stars: Lee Bo-Yeong, Park Byung-jin, Seung-woo Chae, Kim Danmi

Votes: 28

23. The Last Protestor (2018)

Short, Drama, Sci-Fi

A father must come to terms with the oppressive government he works for upon finding out his daughter is rebelling against it.

Director: Nicole Castillo | Stars: Elizabeth Lambert, Ivy Beech, Cary Brayboy, William Pappas

24. 2084 (II)

Thriller | Announced

A young couple discovers a rebellious movement against the only authoritarian society left on Earth.

25. Mara (II) (2014)

30 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi

MARA is a sci-fi thriller in which an ex-government agent must complete one last job for a mysterious old flame in order to escape a dystopian metropolis. The themes of corruption, ... See full summary »

Director: Taylor High | Stars: Melissa Young, Brian Anderson, Teri Austin, Maggie Knoedelseder

Votes: 6

26. The Feeble Files (1998 Video Game)

T | Adventure, Comedy, Mystery

Feeble, an observant alien who does menial pointless work for the Ministry of Galactic Uncertainty, accidentally becomes the key player in rebels' plans to take down OmniBrain, the ... See full summary »

Directors: Jonathan Woodroffe, Mike Woodroffe | Stars: Robert Llewellyn, Peter Tuddenham, Laurel Lefkow, Alec Linstead

Votes: 34

27. Static (II) (2020)

12 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi

Set in an isolated dystopian Perth, Australia, corporate empires rule globally and civil liberty has become a distant memory. When a bio-chemical weapon attacks the city, a Baltic woman is ... See full summary »

Director: Georgia Jardine | Stars: Priiya Taylor, Andre Rodrigues, Jeremy Darling, Angelina Curtis

28. The Contract (II) (2022)

Short, Sci-Fi

The year 2039. Stan has lived a comfortable life as a banker under the supervision of an experimental Government run program. Today he will meet with the Founding Doctors in charge and the ... See full summary »

Director: Sean Heyman | Stars: Nick Heyman, Sean Heyman, Doug Kaback, Kaine Koltoniuk

29. Insufficient Grief

Short, Drama, Thriller | Announced

A couple plot to escape their totalitarian society after the public grief they exhibit over the death of the state's dictator has been deemed "insufficient" by the state's bureaucrats.

Director: Angel Connell | Star: Angel Connell

30. Vaccine Induced (2022)

29 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

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Director: Robert Bailey | Star: Shaun Mulldoon

31. The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode: Treehouse of Horror V (1994)

TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy

The family's job at Mr. Burns' country estate goes awry when Homer goes mad; Homer's attempt to repair a toaster results in inadvertent time travel; The school staff turn cannibalistic.

Director: Jim Reardon | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith

Votes: 5,275

32. The Starlost (1973–1974)
Episode: The Goddess Calabra (1973)

60 min | Sci-Fi

Searching for a way to repair the Ark, Devon, Rachel and Garth arrive at the Omicron biosphere, which may have some ancient technical books. All the women died long ago, and Rachel is mistaken for the goddess the men worship.

Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Keir Dullea, Gay Rowan, Robin Ward, John Colicos

Votes: 54

33. Robotech (1985)
Episode: Crisis Point (1985)

TV-Y7 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Outright rebellion becomes the first order of the day, as Musica and Zor reject the teachings of the Robotech Masters and turn to aid the human captives. It is a fantastic journey in ... See full summary »

Stars: Robert Axelrod, Bill Capizzi, Frank Catalano, Richard Epcar

Votes: 81

34. Robotech (1985)
Episode: Dana in Wonderland (1985)

TV-Y7 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Trying to escape from the Robotech Masters, Dana and her friends discover many secrets concerning the true nature of the civilization living aboard the flagship of the Robotech Masters and the entire process of biogenetic engineering.

Stars: Robert Axelrod, Bill Capizzi, Frank Catalano, Richard Epcar

Votes: 80

35. Robotech (1985)
Episode: The Big Apple (1985)

TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

The ragtag band of rebels travel to New York City to replenish their dwindling supplies of protoculture, arriving just as Corg carries out an execution order on the city's residents. Yellow Dancer holds a morale-boosting concert.

Stars: Robert Axelrod, Emilie de Azevedo Brown, Bill Capizzi, Frank Catalano

Votes: 91

36. Plandemic (2020– )
Episode: Part 1 - Dr. Judy Mikovits (2020)

26 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

Dr. Judy Mikovits, talks with documentary-maker Mikki Willis about her work and her allegations that she was discredited by the pharmaceutical industry.

Votes: 272

37. Plandemic (2020– )
Episode: Part 2 - Dr. David Martin (2020)

75 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

Guided by the work of Dr. David E. Martin, Plandemic II: Indoctornation, alleges a three decade-long money trail that leads directly to the key players behind the COVID 19 pandemic.

Star: David Martin

Votes: 278

38. Red Dwarf (1988– )
Episode: Timewave (2017)

TV-14 | 27 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

A time phenomenon ripples through time, revealing a ship heading straight into the path of an oncoming gas moon. The crew venture on-board, but the ship's unorthodox anti-criticism law proves hard to handle.

Director: Doug Naylor | Stars: Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Robert Llewellyn

Votes: 437