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The Trial (1993)

22 February 20057 May 2025

Rating: ★★★½

Bureaucratic Nightmare World/Kafka Adaptation

Director: David Jones
Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Jason Robards, Anthony Hopkins, Polly Walker, …
Category: Fantasy

Tribulation (2000)

26 February 200730 July 2024

Rating: ★

Christian End Times/Anti-Christ Dystopia

Director: Andre van Heerden
Actors: Gary Busey, Margot Kidder, Nick Mancuso, Howie Mandel, …
Category: Fantasy

Turkey Shoot (1983)

15 July 200217 August 2024

Rating: ★

Future Prison/Human Bloodsports

Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith
Actors: Steve Railsback, Olivia Hussey, Michael Craig, Carmen Duncan, …
Category: Science Fiction

Ultraviolet (2006)

1 September 200718 July 2023

Rating: ★★★

Dystopian Future Action/Vampire Mutations

Director: Kurt Wimmer
Actors: Milla Jovovich, Cameron Bright, Nick Chinlund, William Fichtner
Category: Science Fiction

V for Vendetta (2006)

2 April 20061 March 2025

Rating: ★★★★

Graphic Novel Adaptation/Totalitarian Future England

Director: James McTeigue
Actors: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Wall (1998)

14 November 19995 June 2025

Rating: ★★

Belgian Dystopia/Magical Realism

Director: Alain Berliner
Category: Fantasy

The War of the Worlds – Next Century (1981)

29 June 201421 August 2024

Rating: ★★★

Polish Satire/Alien Invasion/Authoritarian Regime and Media Control

Director: Piotr Szulkin
Actors: Roman Wilhelmi, Krystyna Janda, Wieslaw Drzewicz, Mariusz Dmochowski, …
Category: Science Fiction

What Happened to Monday (2017)

3 September 201728 April 2025

Rating: ★★

Overpopulated Dystopian Future

Director: Tommy Wirkola
Actors: Noomi Rapace, Glenn Close, Willem Dafoe, Marwan Kenzari, …
Category: Science Fiction

The White King (2016)

5 June 20195 June 2019

Rating: ★★

Future Totalitarian Regime

Director: Alex Helfrecht, Jorg Tittel
Actors: Lorenzo Allchurch, Agyness Deyn, Jonathan Pryce, Fiona Shaw, …
Category: Science Fiction

Z.P.G. (Zero Population Growth) (1972)

20 December 201222 November 2019

Rating: ★★★

Dystopian Future Where Childbirth is Outlawed

Director: Michael Campus
Actors: Oliver Reed, Geraldine Chaplin, Diane Cilento, Don Gordon
Category: Science Fiction

Zardoz (1974)

26 January 201118 June 2025

Rating: ★

Barbarian Disrupts Utopia of Immortals

Director: John Boorman
Actors: Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman, John Alderton, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Zero Theorem (2013)

3 August 201418 June 2025

Rating: ★★★

Dystopian Future/The Meaning of It All

Director: Terry Gilliam
Actors: Christoph Waltz, Melanie Thierry, David Thewlis, Matt Damon, …
Category: Science Fiction

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