Posts Tagged ‘dystopian’

V for Vendetta (2005)

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Portman, Natalie | Weaving, Hugo | Rea, Stephen | Fry, Stephen | Hurt, John | Pigott-Smith, Tim | Graves, Rupert | Allam, Roger | Miles, Ben | Cusack, Sinéad | Wightman, Natasha | Standing, John | Marsan, Eddie | Ashborn, Clive | Field-Rayner, Emma
Directors: McTeigue, James
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The futuristic tale unfolds in a Great Britain that’s a fascist state. A freedom fighter known as V (Weaving) uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressive society. He rescues a young woman (Portman) from the secret police, and she becomes his unlikely ally.

Brazil (1985)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK
Actors: Pryce, Jonathan | De Niro, Robert | Helmond, Katherine | Holm, Ian | Hoskins, Bob | Palin, Michael | Richardson, Ian | Vaughan, Peter | Greist, Kim | Broadbent, Jim | Hicks, Barbara | McKeown, Charles | O'Connor, Derrick | Pogson, Kathryn | Pringle, Bryan
Directors: Gilliam, Terry
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Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. While trying to rectify the wrongful arrest of one Harry Buttle, Lowry meets the woman he is always chasing in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy has fingered him responsible for a rash of terrorist bombings, and both Sam and Jill’s lives are put in danger.

Revelation (1999)

Monday, March 31st, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Fahey, Jeff | Nappo, Tony | Alt, Carol | Lewis, Leigh | Mancuso, Nick | Roddis, David | Carvell, Marium | Demas, Rick | Gallagher, Patrick | Gray, Rothaford | McFee, Bruce | Carpf, Corry | Randle-Reis, Chloe | White, Melville | Edwards, Neville
Directors: van Heerden, André
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Thorold Stone’s family was among those who vanished three months ago, and he is still stung by that fact. Since childhood, he has always been logical and suspicious, and, of course, he’s uncertain whether Franco Macalousso is the Messiah he claims he is. Stone works for Len Parker, who runs One Nation Earth, the organization that rounds up the Haters who stand in Macalousso’s way. Soon, however, he realises that the Christians have been framed, and he has been set up. To prove Macalusso’s true colours, he must band with his own enemies - the Haters themselves, led by Helen Hannah.

Akira (1988)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan
Actors: Iwata, Mitsuo | Sasaki, Nozomu | Koyama, Mami | Genda, Tesshô | Ôtake, Hiroshi | Kitamura, Kôichi | Ikemizu, Michihiro | Fuchizaki, Yuriko | Ôkura, Masaaki | Arakawa, Tarô | Kusao, Takeshi | Tanaka, Kazumi | Katô, Masayuki | Akimoto, Yôsuke | Hirano, Masato
Directors: Ôtomo, Katsuhiro
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Kaneda is a bike gang leader whose close friend Tetsuo gets involved in a government secret project known as Akira. On his way to save Tetsuo, Kaneda runs into a group of anti-government activists, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader. The confrontation sparks off Tetsuo’s supernatural power leading to bloody death, a coup attempt and the final battle in Tokyo Olympiad where Akira’s secrets were buried 30 years ago.

Idiocracy (2006)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Wilson, Luke | Rudolph, Maya | Shepard, Dax | Campos, Anthony 'Citric' | Herman, David | Castillo, Sonny | McAfee, Kevin | Musgrave, Robert | Melton, Ryan | Long, Justin | Jones, Heath | Muñoz, Eli | Fischler, Patrick | Hunt, Darlene | Ransdell, Ryan
Directors: Judge, Mike
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The purpose of the program set up by the Pentagon, called the “Human Hibernation Project,” is designed so that the military can save their best men for when they’re needed most. According to the officers heading the project, too many times the talents and expensive training of the best pilots and soldiers go to waste during times of peace. So they enlist Bauers (Wilson), the most under-achieving average guy they’ve got, to be the test subject for the initial hibernation experiment. Also participating in the top-secret program is Rita (Rudolph), a prostitute who agreed to take part in exchange for dropping some criminal charges against her, among other things. Of course, the experiment, which was to last only a year, goes under due to the arrest of Officer Collins, who is busted for heading a prostitution ring. Seeing as though he was in charge of the experiment, one of the only ones who knew of its existence, and “due to a lot of top-secret red tape… and the massive scandals and base closure that followed, Joe and Rita were forgotten about.

Children of Men (2006)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Yacuzzi, Juan Gabriel | Hussain, Michelle | Curling, Rob | Chevalier, Jon | Davies, Rita | Fenton, Kim | Gilbert, Chris | Hawthorne, Phoebe | Howard, Rebecca | White, Atalanta | Woodbridge, Laurence | Owen, Clive | McErlane, Maria | Haughey, Michael | Sharma, Paul
Directors: Cuarón, Alfonso
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With this dystopian world ravished by war, paranoia and the frustrations of Man the Orwellian vision of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the totalitarian future is now complete and amongst us. With female fertility becoming obsolete, Man cannot reproduce, and no child has been born on the face of the planet for eighteen years. Man, and his future, is dying. Soon he shall be extinct. Theo, the beaten, downtrodden and middle-aged ex-political activist will, unwittingly, become involved in a war of an underground revolt. Here he is active once more, in the perilous journey across England’s Home Counties, with a young girl, Kee, who, to Theo’s bewilderment is pregnant. The first pregnant woman for more than eighteen years. This secret must be protected, at all cost, and mother and child must flee to the mysterious and enigmatic Human Project, across the seas. Their flight is a constant fight for survival. Who can be trusted? Who can keep a secret?

Equilibrium (2002)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Purcell, Dominic | Bale, Christian | Bean, Sean | Kahrmann, Christian | Keogh, John | Pertwee, Sean | Fichtner, William | Macfadyen, Angus | Barrash, David | Martens, Dirk | Diggs, Taye | Harbour, Matthew | Calzone, Maria Pia | Siewert, Emily | Watson, Emily
Directors: Wimmer, Kurt
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In a futuristic world, a strict regime has eliminated war by suppressing emotions: books, art and music are strictly forbidden and feeling is a crime punishable by death. Cleric John Preston (Bale) is a top ranking government agent responsible for destroying those who resist the rules. Whe he misses a dose of Prozium, a mind-altering drug that hinders emotion, Preston, who has been trained to enforce the strict laws of the new regime, suddenly becomes the only person capable of overthrowing it.

Total Recall (1990)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Schwarzenegger, Arnold | Ticotin, Rachel | Stone, Sharon | Cox, Ronny | Ironside, Michael | Bell, Marshall | Johnson Jr., Mel | Champion, Michael | Brocksmith, Roy | Baker, Ray | Dunsmore, Rosemary | Knell, David | Robinson, Alexia | Norris, Dean | Carlton, Mark
Directors: Verhoeven, Paul
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Douglas Quaid is haunted by a recurring dream about a journey to Mars. He hopes to find out more about this dream and buys a holiday at Rekall Inc. where they sell implanted memories. But something goes wrong with the memory implantation and he remembers being a secret agent fighting against the evil Mars administrator Cohaagen. Now the story really begins and it’s a rollercoaster ride until the massive end of the movie.

Tribulation (2000)

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Busey, Gary | Mandel, Howie | Mancuso, Nick | Kidder, Margot | Miller, Sherry | Ziegler, Joseph | Bayne, Lawrence | Best, Wayne | Kamateros, Costa | Gallagher, Patrick | Lewis, Leigh | Nordeman, Nichole | Van Impe, Jack | Van Impe, Rexella | Jakes, T.D.
Directors: van Heerden, André
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Tom Canboro is a police detective with a Christian sister, Eileen, a brother, Calvin, a wife, Susan, and eccentric brother-in-law, Jason. One night, Jason seemingly goes insane and tries to kill Eileen, calling her a “hater”. Tom soon realises this may be a conspiracy going as far as devil worship, but as he speeds in his car to get help, he suddenly looses control and crashes. Waking up in a strange hospital, he finds years have passed and people all over the world are wearing the mark of 666 on their right hands, and all those who don’t are being killed off. Franco Macalusso, the believer in world peace Jason was fond of, now controls the world, and is trying to bring the world together as it was at the tower of Babel. Meanwhile, the “Haters” or Christians are hiding out and airing TBN tapes on the air for people to realise the Messiah is really the Antichrist, but their leader, Helen Hannah, is arrested…

Judge Dredd (1995)

Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Stallone, Sylvester | Lane, Diane | Assante, Armand | Schneider, Rob | von Sydow, Max | Prochnow, Jürgen | Chen, Joan | Miles, Joanna | Getty, Balthazar | Roëves, Maurice | Dury, Ian | Adamson, Christopher | Bremner, Ewen | Marinker, Peter | MacInnes, Angus
Directors: Cannon, Danny
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The Year is 2139. The Planet Earth has changed into a virtually uninhabitable place called the “Cursed Earth”. All of the Earth’s population have crowded into the cities across the planet, now known as “Mega Cities”. The crimes in these “Mega cities” became so violent and so powerful, that the regular justice system was powerless to contain, then it collapsed completely. But, a new Justice System came from the ashes, They were 3 justice systems in 1 (Police, Jury and executioner), they were called “Judges”. In Mega City 1 (formarly, New York), There was a Judge, named Joseph Dredd, who was the toughest and most stringent Judge in history. One day, he was charged with murder. He was tried and sentenced to life in prison because of it. Then, Dredd found out that it was in fact a person who shares his DNA. Former Judge Rico. Now, Dredd has to find out what Rico is planning to do, and to discover about his past.