All Time 10 Best Dystopian Movies
1.
V for Vendetta
This famous movie is a Dystopian political
thriller film directed by James McTeigue
and written by The Wachowski Brothers. The film is set in an alternate future
where a neo-fascist regime has subjugated the United Kingdom. Hugo Weaving
portrays V, an anarchist freedom fighter who attempts to ignite a
revolution through elaborate terrorist acts and Natalie Portman
plays Evey, a young, working-class woman caught up in V's mission,
while Stephen Rea portrays the detective leading a desperate quest
to stop V.
2.
A Clockwork Orange
Dystopian
crime film
adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick,
based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange. It employs disturbing,
violent images to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and other social,
political, and economic subjects in a dystopian near-future Britain.
3. InTime
In Time is a 2011 American dystopian
science fiction action
thriller film written, directed, and produced by Andrew Niccol.
The movie takes place in a society where people stop aging at 25 and each has a
clock on their arm that counts down how long they have to live.
4.
Idiocracy
Idiocracy is a 2006 American dystopian satirical
science fiction comedy film directed by Mike Judge.
The film tells the story of two people who take part in a top-secret military
hibernation experiment, only to awaken 500 years later in a dystopian
society where advertising, commercialism,
and cultural anti-intellectualism have run rampant and that is devoid of intellectual
curiosity, social responsibility, and coherent notions of justice and human rights.
5.
Gattaca
Gattaca is a 1997 American dystopian science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol.
The film presents a biopunk vision of a future society driven by eugenics
where potential children are conceived through genetic manipulation to ensure
they possess the best hereditary traits of their parents.[3] The
film centers on Vincent Freeman, played by Hawke, who was conceived outside the
eugenics program and struggles to overcome genetic discrimination to realize his dream of traveling into
space.
6.
The Matrix
is a 1999 American-Australian dystopian
neo-noir
science fiction martial arts
film written and directed by The Wachowski Brothers, It depicts a dystopian
future in which reality as perceived by most humans is actually a simulated
reality called "the Matrix", created by sentient machines
to subdue the human population, while their bodies' heat and electrical
activity are used as an energy source. Computer programmer "Neo"
learns this truth and is drawn into a rebellion against the machines, which
involves other people who have been freed from the "dream world".
7.
1984
is a 1984 British dystopian
drama film written for the screen and directed by Michael Radford,
based upon George Orwell's novel of the same name. the film follows the life of Winston Smith
in Oceania, a country run by a totalitarian government.
8.
The Island
Is a 2005 American dystopian science fiction action
thriller drama film directed by Michael Bay,
It is described as a pastiche of "escape-from-dystopia"
science fiction films of the 1960s and 1970s such as Fahrenheit 451, THX 1138, Parts: The Clonus Horror, and Logan's Run. The film's plot revolves
around the struggle of McGregor's character to fit into the highly structured
world he lives in, isolated in a compound, and the series of events that unfold
when he questions how truthful that world is. After he learns the compound
inhabitants are clones used for organ harvesting
and surrogate motherhood for wealthy people in the outside world,
he escapes.
9.
I, Robot
is a 2004 American neo-noir
dystopian
science
fiction action film directed by Alex Proyas.
Humans are protected from the robots by the Three Laws of Robotics. Del Spooner (Smith), a Chicago police detective, hates and distrusts robots because
one of them rescued him from a car crash, leaving a young girl to die because
her survival was statistically less likely than his. Spooner's critical
injuries were repaired via a cybernetic left arm, lung, and ribs, personally implanted by
the co-founder of U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men (USR), Dr. Alfred Lanning
(Cromwell).
10.
The Planet of the Apes
Planet of the Apes is an American dystopian science fiction
media
franchise consisting of films, books, television series and other
media about a world where humans and intelligent apes clash for control. Planet of the Apes has had a wide
influence on subsequent films, media, and art, as well as popular culture and
political discourse.
