Dystopian films (Film Guide)

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 271. Chapters: The Matrix, Brazil, Metropolis, Blade Runner, THX 1138, 12 Monkeys, Threads, Gattaca, Soylent Green, La jetée, Minority Report, Total Recall, Escape from New York, Things to Come, Network, Alphaville, Zardoz, Joe Versus the Volcano, Demolition Man, Super Mario Bros., Richard III, WALL-E, V for Vendetta, Serenity, Children of Men, A Clockwork Orange, Blindness, Dark City, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Akira, A Scanner Darkly, RoboCop, Southland Tales, Battle Royale, The Age of Stupid, Avalon, Death Race, Idiocracy, Back to the Future Part II, Mad Max, Screamers, Godkiller, They Live, The Postman, Titan A.E., Nineteen Eighty-Four, Rollerball, The Island, The Handmaid's Tale, Videodrome, Logan's Run, Tank Girl, Battle Royale II: Requiem, Tekken, Escape from L.A., Silent Running, Equilibrium, Daybreakers, Ai City, Casshern, The Time Machine, The Running Man, List of dystopian films, Pleasantville, Code 46, The Trial, Repo Men, Strange Days, City of Ember, Æon Flux, Death Race 2000, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, District 13, End of Days, It Happened Here, Robot Jox, The Voice of the Moon, Death Racers, Soldier, Damnation Alley, Fahrenheit 451, Star Trek: Of Gods and Men, Tokyo Gore Police, The Parallax View, The Omega Man, Hardware, Matrubhoomi, Fortress, Parts: The Clonus Horror, The Airzone Solution, Barb Wire, A Pumpkin Full of Nonsense, Sleeper, Megaville, The Bothersome Man, Robot Monster, Pulse, Freejack, Harrison Bergeron, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Revenge Quest, Zenith, Immortal, Metropia, Death Machine, Turkey Shoot, Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, Brave New World, Last Woman on Earth, Born in Flames, The Gene Generation, FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions, Week End, Warrior of the Lost World, The City of Lost Children, Class of 1999 II: The Substitute, Closet Land, Me and the Big Guy, Philadelphia Experiment II, Revengers Tragedy, Warlords of the 21st Century, Maximum Shame, Pulse 2: Afterlife, Aachi & Ssipak, Highway to Hell, Deathlands: Homeward Bound, The Final Programme, Invasión, Surf Nazis Must Die, Kafka, Alien Apocalypse, The Terminators, Encrypt, Natural City, Le Dernier Combat, Terminal City Ricochet, Novaya Zemlya, 20 Years After, Crash and Burn, Dark Metropolis, Downstream, Pulse 3: Invasion, Any Day Now, Bunker Palace Hôtel, Dragon Fire. Excerpt: Minority Report is a 2002 American neo-noir science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg and loosely based on the short story "The Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick. It is set primarily in Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia in the year 2054, where "PreCrime", a specialized police department, apprehends criminals based on foreknowledge provided by three psychics called "precogs". The cast includes Tom Cruise as PreCrime officer John Anderton, Colin Farrell as Department of Justice agent Danny Witwer, Samantha Morton as the senior precog Agatha, and Max von Sydow as Anderton's superior Lamar Burgess. The film is a combination of whodunit, thriller, and science fiction. Spielberg has characterized the story as "fifty percent character and fifty percent very complicated storytelling with layers and layers of murder mystery and plot." The film's central theme is the question of free will vs. determinism. It examines whether free will can exist if the future is set and known in advance. Other themes include the role of preventative government in protecting its citizenry, the role of medi...