Future Dystopias – MovieLog

Day, The (2012)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:46:23 +0000

This film is set in the near future in a post-apocalyptic time with five survivors struggling to get through each day. They are on the move to find food and other survivors as well as a safe place to hold up for a while. They stumble across a dilapidated house in the country, so they check it out when things turn bad. The house is not as safe as they hoped, and there are other people who have morbid uses for them. Will they survive?

Day, The

Fight. Or die.

Douglas Aarniokoski

USA

5.2

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Postman, The (1997)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 10:41:23 +0000

In the year 2013 civilization has all but destroyed itself. After a war that decimated the government and most of the population of the United States (possibly the world) people struggle to survive against starvation and rogue groups of armed men. One such group is called the Holnists. This group is bigger than any other and their leader, General Bethlehem, has delusions of ruling the country. A drifter is captured by the group and forced to join. He escapes at the first chance and happens on a mail jeep with a skeleton in it. The skeleton is wearing a postal uniform and the drifter takes it to keep him warm. He also finds a mailbag and starts conning people with old letters. The hope he sees in the people he delivers to changes his plans and he decides that he must help bring the Holnists down.

Postman, The

Postman, Mensageiro, ostar, очтальон, jövő hírnöke, namesa se dyo kosmous, l mensajero, aberci, ‘uomo del giorno dopo, e facteur, ensajero del futuro (The Postman), ostman 2013, he Postman – Budbäraren, he postman – tulevaisuuden sanansaattaja, yslannik przyszlosci

It is 2013. War has crippled the Earth. Technology has been erased. Our only hope is an unlikely hero.

Kevin Costner

USA

5.6

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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 10:41:15 +0000

After being exiled from the most advanced town in post apocalyptic Australia, a drifter travels with a group of abandoned children to rebel against the town’s queen.

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

Two men enter. One man leaves.

George Miller, George Ogilvie

Australia, USA

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Blade Runner (1982)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 10:40:56 +0000

A blade runner must pursue and try to terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.

Blade Runner

Man Has Made His Match… Now It’s His Problem

Ridley Scott

USA, Hong Kong

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Planet Of The Apes (1968)

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 08:34:26 +0000

An astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.

Planet Of The Apes

Franklin J. Schaffner

USA

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Handmaid’s Tale, The (1990)

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 08:34:16 +0000

In a dystopicly polluted rightwing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.

Handmaid’s Tale, The

See it…while it’s still allowed

Volker Schlöndorff

USA, Germany

5.8

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Clockwork Orange, A (1971)

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 08:33:55 +0000

In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and later volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society’s crime problem… but not all goes to plan.

Clockwork Orange, A

Being the adventures of a young man … who couldn’t resist pretty girls … or a bit of the old ultra-violence … went to jail, was re-conditioned … and came out a different young man … or was he ?

Stanley Kubrick

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Class Of 1999 (1990)

Sat, 23 Sep 2017 12:18:48 +0000

Robot teachers have been secretly placed in the schools where the students have run riot. The teachers do a god job of controlling the unruly youngsters, until they go too far and some students get suspicious.

The ultimate teaching machine… out of control.

Mark L. Lester

Bradley Gregg, Traci Lind, Malcolm McDowell, Stacy Keach, Patrick Kilpatrick,

USA

5.2

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Escape From New York (1981)

Fri, 22 Sep 2017 10:39:34 +0000

In the future, crime is out of control and New York City is a maximum security prison. Grabbing a bargaining chip right out of the air, convicts bring down the President’s plane in bad old Gotham. Gruff Snake Plissken, a one-eyed lone warrior new to prison life, is coerced into bringing the President, and his cargo, out of this land of undesirables.

The world’s greatest leader is a hostage in the most dangerous place on Earth. Now only the deadliest man alive can save him.

John Carpenter

Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes,

UK, USA

7.1

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Fahrenheit 451 (1966)

Fri, 22 Sep 2017 08:01:23 +0000

Based on the 1951 Ray Bradbury novel of the same name. Guy Montag is a firefighter who lives in a lonely, isolated society where books have been outlawed by a government fearing an independent-thinking public. It is the duty of firefighters to burn any books on sight or said collections that have been reported by informants. People in this society including Montag’s wife are drugged into compliancy and get their information from wall-length television screens. After Montag falls in love with book-hoarding Clarisse, he begins to read confiscated books. It is through this relationship that he begins to question the government’s motives behind book-burning. Montag is soon found out, and he must decide whether to return to his job or run away knowing full well the consequences that he could face if captured.the books before burning them.

Aflame with the excitement and emotions of tomorrow!

François Truffaut

Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring, Jeremy Spenser,

7.2

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