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This is a list of dystopian films. Dystopian societies appear in many speculative fiction works and are often found within the science fiction and fantasy genres. [ 1 ] Dystopias are often characterized by dehumanization , [ 2 ] authoritarian governments, ruthless megacorporations , environmental disasters , [ 3 ] or other characteristics ...
Based on the ever-popular 2011 book series, the films star Shailene Woodley as a young woman living in a post-apocalyptic dystopia which factions citizens into virtue-based regions – the ...
This is a list of notable works of dystopian literature. A dystopia is an unpleasant (typically repressive) society, often propagandized as being utopian. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction states that dystopian works depict a negative view of "the way the world is supposedly going in order to provide urgent propaganda for a change in direction."
Made for TV movie that was designed to be a pilot for a post-apocalyptic spin-off from the original Knight Rider TV series Novel series 1994–2001 Eco The Greatwinter trilogy Sean McMullen: Trilogy comprising Souls in the Great Machine, The Miocene Arrow, and Eyes of the Calculator. The first book was originally published as two books ...
'American Psycho' (2000) Fortunately, Patrick Bateman isn't a real person, but he was introduced nearly a decade before his screen debut in the 1991 book, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. The ...
(made into movie Soylent Green), were popular in the 1970s, reflecting the widespread concern with the effects of overpopulation on the environment. The novel Nature's End by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka (1986) posits a future in which overpopulation, pollution, climate change, and resulting superstorms, have led to a popular mass-suicide ...
This is a list of apocalyptic feature-length films. All films within this list feature either the end of the world , a prelude to such an end (such as a world taken over by a viral infection), and/or a post-apocalyptic setting.
A typical dystopian film is one which is often, but not always, set in the future, in a society where the government is corrupt and/or ineffectual. The world within the film often has nightmare -like qualities, though it also usually includes elements of contemporary society.