Films like Nineteen Eighty-Four
Winston Smith is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country's leaders in a charitable light. His trysts with Julia provide his only measure of enjoyment, but lawmakers frown on the relationship -- and in this clo...
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Equilibrium
Film · 2002 · also science fiction and thrillerIn a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enf...
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The Running Man
Film · 1987 · also science fiction and thrillerBy 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace b...
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V for Vendetta
Film · 2006 · also science fiction and thrillerIn a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. W...
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Land of the Blind
Film · 2006 · also drama and thrillerA soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.
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A Scanner Darkly
Film · 2006 · also science fiction and thrillerAn undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
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The Handmaid's Tale
Film · 1990 · also drama and science fictionIn a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
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Children of Men
Film · 2006 · also science fiction and thrillerIn 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where...
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Zardoz
Film · 1974 · also science fiction and thrillerIn the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
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The Maze Runner
Film · 2014 · also science fiction and thrillerA teenager with no memory of his past finds himself among a group of boys living in a walled enclosure surrounded by a massive, ever-changing maze. As he struggles to ada...
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The Running Man
Film · 2025 · also science fiction and thrillerDesperate to save his sick daughter, working-class Ben Richards is convinced by The Running Man's charming but ruthless producer to enter the deadly competition game as a...
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