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Nothing on this site is recommended because people liked it. Films are described by what they are (how heavy, how fast, how far from the real world), and you get the ones closest to what you asked for.
Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
21 films tagged dystopia
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2015 · Action
A driver hauling a stolen war rig runs for the desert with five women escaping a warlord, and picks up a drifter on the way. Nearly the whole film is one chase, out across a stretch of desert and back again.
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1999 · Science fiction
A software developer who moonlights as a hacker is told the world he lives in is not the real one, and is offered a look at it. Kung fu, long coats, and a lot of talk about what is actually there.
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2017 · Science fiction
A police officer whose job is retiring old synthetic humans turns up a buried secret and goes looking for a man who disappeared thirty years earlier. Slow, very large, and mostly quiet.
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1990 · Science fiction
A construction worker who keeps dreaming of Mars buys an implanted memory of a holiday there and wakes up with people trying to kill him. Practical effects throughout, and a high body count.
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1982 · Science fiction
A retired policeman in a permanently raining Los Angeles is brought back to hunt four artificial humans who have come to Earth looking for their maker. Slow, wet, and more interested in the question than the chase.
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2000 · Action
A class of Japanese ninth-graders is taken to an island, handed weapons, and told that in three days only one of them may be left. It moves fast and does not soften what the kids do to each other.
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2006 · Science fiction
Nobody has been born anywhere on earth for eighteen years, and Britain has become a locked-down state rounding up refugees. A tired civil servant is asked to get one woman to the coast.
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2024 · War
Four journalists drive from New York to Washington through a United States at war with itself, trying to reach the president before the fighting does. A road trip, with quiet stretches between loud ones.
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2009 · Science fiction
Twenty years after an alien ship stalls above Johannesburg, its passengers live in a fenced-off slum and a company man is sent in to hand out eviction notices. It starts as a fake documentary and turns into a chase with a lot of gunfire.
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2024 · Action
A girl is stolen from a green, hidden place and grows up among the warlords of the wasteland, working her way back toward home. Told in chapters over many years, with long stretches of vehicles chasing each other.
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2018 · Animation
A Japanese city banishes every dog to a rubbish island, and a boy flies out there alone to find his. The dogs talk in flat deadpan, and the whole thing is stop-motion built like a doll's house.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2002 · Science fiction
In a Washington where murders are stopped before they happen, the cop who runs the unit is named by the system as a future killer and has to run from his own team. It is a chase with a mystery underneath it.
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2018 · Science fiction
In a future where almost everyone spends the day inside a vast online world, its dead creator has hidden three keys in it for whoever wants his fortune. A treasure hunt at full speed, stuffed with references to old films and games.
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2013 · Science fiction
The last people alive circle a frozen Earth on a train that never stops, and the ones at the back decide to fight their way to the front. Each carriage is its own set piece and it only goes one way.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2012 · Science fiction
In a country where every district must send two teenagers to a televised fight to the death, a girl volunteers in her younger sister's place. The first half is preparation and television, the second is the arena.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2015 · Science fiction
In a world where single people are sent to a hotel and given forty-five days to pair off or be turned into an animal of their choosing, a newly dumped man checks in. Everybody speaks flatly, on purpose, and the rules are followed to the letter.
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2019 · Horror
In a tower prison where a table of food is lowered floor by floor, the people at the top eat first and the people below get what is left. One cell, two men at a time, and it is not shy about the point.
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2009 · Drama
A man and his young son walk south through a burnt-out America years after everything died, pushing a shopping trolley and hiding from other people. Grey, quiet, and bleak from start to finish.
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2008 · Animation
Seven hundred years after people left, one small robot is still tidying up the rubbish on Earth, until a sleek probe drops out of the sky. The first forty minutes are almost wordless.
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2009 · Action
In a 1985 where costumed heroes have been outlawed and the world is close to nuclear war, one of them is thrown out of a window and an old colleague starts asking why. Long, slow and very violent.
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2014 · Action
With mutants hunted to near extinction in the future, one of them is sent back to 1973 to stop the thing that started it. Two time periods running at once, and a lot of faces from the earlier films.
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