20 film-dystopia that thought-provoking

1. Metropolis

Metropolis

• The Weimar Republic, 1927.
• Dystopia, drama.
• Duration: 147 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,3.

Huge futuristic city of Metropolis is divided into two levels according to the social classes living there: A haven for the rich and a hell for the proletariat. The son of the ruler of Metropolis Freder falls in love with a girl from a working layer. And it changes his life forever.

In this dumb big-budget statement to the German director Fritz Lang managed to create organic synthesis such areas as Expressionism and new materiality. Therefore, the "Metropolis" and is now considered one of the greatest film works. And the images of this film can be found even in the "Blade Runner" and "Star Wars."

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2. V - for Vendetta

V for Vendetta

• US, UK, 2006.
• Thriller, fantasy, drama dystopia.
• Duration: 132 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,2.

In an alternate future ruled by Britain neo-fascist party. But amid the general chaos there is a freedom fighter, who calls himself a «V».

Sign dystopia, shot by cult comics, thanks to which Guy Fawkes mask has become a clearly identifiable symbol of protest. Ironic detail: the legendary John Hurt, who in the role of Winston Smith fought against the regime in "1984", here plays the main antagonist.

The role of Evey Hammond became one of the most significant of his career while still very young Natalie Portman. But behind the mask of V fugitive Hugo Weaving, who is also known as Agent Smith from "The Matrix" and the king of the elves Elrond of the "Lord of the Rings."

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3. Blade Runner

Blade Runner

• USA, 1982.
• Thriller, dystopia, neo-noir.
• Duration: 117 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,2.

In an alternate future, black work is done by androids, which is also called replicants. Externally, they are no different from people, but exceed the physical strength and intelligence. And not all replicants willing to put up with the position of slaves.

For the destruction of the rebels, there are special forces of law enforcement agencies - "Blade Runner." In the center of the plot - hunter Rick Deckard replicants. He prepares to retire, but had to return to service for the sake of catching escaped from prison a dangerous gang of androids.

One of the most beautiful films in the history based on the book by the great-grandfather of all kiperpanka Philip K. Dick "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?". This tape was never "popular" movies like "The Matrix" and at one time even failed at the box office. But in the end she found a loyal audience, has become a cult and influenced many of the paintings in the style of neo-noir and cyberpunk.

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4. Blade Runner 2049

Blade Runner 2049

• United States, 2017.
• Science fiction, action, cyberpunk.
• Duration: 163 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,0.

Direct continuation of "Blade Runner." In 2049 androids still exploit to do hard and humiliating work. In the center of the plot this time replicant Detective Kay. And in order to prevent a plot that can lead to a war between humans and robots, he must find the disappeared many years ago, Rick Deckard.

Ill fate pursues franchise, "Blade Runner." Continued captured talented Canadian director Denis Villeneuve ( "Arrival"), failed at the box office, despite the enthusiasm of critics, and two awards "Oscar". But that's nothing: the sequel is all so deliciously beautiful. Is that deliberate plot diminishes the film points.

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5. Brazil

Brazil

• United Kingdom, 1985.
• Tragi-comedy, drama dystopia.
• Duration: 142 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,0.

Small clerk Sam Lowry lives in a society fettered total bureaucracy. One case brings the hero with the girl, whom he constantly dreams. And in order to meet her again, Laurie is ready to deal. But it turns out that the bureaucratic system is trying to literally wipe the heroine into a powder because of her complaints about erroneous arrest neighbor.

Exemplary retrofuturisticheskaya dystopia. After its release to Terry Gilliam first came real success. And yet this movie is full of great black humor, dignity inherits the tradition of the comic group "Monty Python", Which Gilliam was more than one year.

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6. 12 monkeys

Twelve Monkeys

• USA, 1995.
• Fiction, thriller, drama, dystopia.
• Duration: 129 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,0.

The future after a nuclear explosion. BaboutMost of humanity is destroyed by the virus. The survivors moved underground and travel back in time to get food and medicine.

The protagonist - a felon James Cole agrees to take part in a dangerous experiment in exchange for amnesty. And it is sent in 1996, which was recorded the first surge of the virus.

Full of humor and absurdity linear story with a surprise ending. Here Terry Gilliam successfully returns to his favorite themes of dystopia ( "Brazil") and time travel ( "Time Bandits"). It seems that it is better already and can not be. But no, you can! After starring are Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt. And this picture can not be accurately overlook.

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7. Ghost in armor

Ghost in the Shell

• Japan, 1995.
• Cyberpunk thriller.
• Duration: 80 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,0.

Far future. Transhumanism as never popular, and the boundary between humans and robots is becoming increasingly blurred. However, technologies carry with them a risk: the international hacker nicknamed Puppeteer hacks into other people's minds and subordinates. And capture it sent Major Motoko Kusanagi.

"Ghost in the Shell" is often compared to "Blade Runner." They really enjoy the general methods of creating an atmosphere of cyberpunk. So feel free to consult "Phantom ..." even those who are far from anime.

Monumental and contemplative work of Mamoru Oshii has already become a classic. But American film adaptation 2017 strongly not recommended for viewing.

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8. Children of Men

Children of Men

• United Kingdom, United States, 2006.
• Fantasy, adventure, thriller, drama, dystopia.
• Duration: 114 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,9.

Humanity is slowly dying from mass infertility. The world was plunged into chaos, and a semblance of order is maintained only in the UK, who lives by the laws of war camp. The authorities are deporting migrants, using the most brutal methods.

Former political activist Theo indifferent to everything going on until it bursts into life is not an urgent need to bring to safety the young refugee.

There are two important reasons to see "Children of Men." First - direction of Alfonso Cuaron, Laureate Award "Oscar». It seems that he is able to cope with any creative challenge, whether it's dystopia, black-and-white intellectual drama, "Harry Potter" or cosmic techno-thriller.

The second reason - it Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki, which is always - a real feast for the eyes.

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9. Gattaca

Gattaca

• United States, 1997.
• Drama, Science Fiction.
• Duration: 106 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,8.

In the future elimination of genetically flawless people put on stream. Stratified society into two classes, which were born artificially "fit" and born in the usual way "worthless."

The protagonist - the "worthless" Vincent is suffering from myopia and congenital heart disease. But he wants to go to space, and for this goes to deal with a representative of the class "fit."

Directorial debut of Andrew Niccol ( "The Truman Show"" Terminal ") - one of the most underrated at the time antiutopian films. But for today's audience shot in the spirit of retro-futurism "Gattaca" can be a real discovery.

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10. battle Royale

Batoru rowaiaru

• Japan, 2000.
• Drama, dystopia.
• Duration: 114 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,7.

Meditation on an alternate history. Japan, the victory in the Second World War, suffers from a serious economic crisis. During the state of the project a group of students kidnap and bring to a desert island. There they explain the rules: they must kill each other for three days, until there is only one who gets the freedom.

Farewell work director Kinji Fukasaku become a cult not only in Japan but also in the West. Comparison with "The Hunger Games" is inevitable, but "Battle Royale" is more appropriate film fans and fans of niche movies.

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11. City of Lost Children

La cité des enfants perdus

• France, Germany, Spain, 1995.
• Adventure, drama, fantasy.
• Duration: 112 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,6.

Creepy professor kidnaps children in the hope to learn to see their dreams. In the meantime, a good athlete, enlisting the help of a serious little girl, everywhere looking for her missing brother.

For those who know Jean-Pierre Jeunet only "Amelie", "City of Lost Children" can be a culture shock. This anti-utopian tale at the time was a commercially unsuccessful, and deprived of awards. And the film took time to find a few, but loyal fans. Be sure to watch everyone who breathes unevenly to surrealism.

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12. Equilibrium

Equilibrium

• United States, 2002.
• Dystopia, postapokaliptika, drama, postkiberpank, noir.
• Duration: 107 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,5.

The main enemy of the totalitarian government are human emotions. For the sake of controlling the senses is practiced widespread forced receiving medicines "Prozium". The protagonist - a cynical and hard John Preston is in the unit to prevent "emotional crimes". But once the circumstances forced him to miss the next pill "Proziuma".

The film speaks to the audience at a very interesting topic of sterile emotionless society. However, doing so with a teenage maximalism that becomes even a little ashamed.

However, sometimes we really need such naive and sincere film. Even if they fail miserably at the box office, as happened with the "Equilibrium". But thanks anyway director Kurt Wimmer!

13. 451 ° F

Fahrenheit 451

• France, Great Britain, 1966.
• Dystopia.
• Duration: 109 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,3.

In a totalitarian society, the future of reading is prohibited by law. Hereditary worker Guy Montag is a lifetime in the fire brigade, burning books. And he blindly obey orders, until he meets a young girl Clarissa.

The film 1988 is interesting primarily as a single picture in the career of French director Francois Truffaut, filmed in English. He's just like the fans of the "new wave" and disappoint those who are waiting for verbatim adaptation of the novel.

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14. 1984

Nineteen Eighty-Four

• United Kingdom, 1984.
• Dystopia.
• Duration: 113 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,2.

Winston Smith lives in a totalitarian future society and working in the Ministry of Truth, which ironically involved falsification of history. He has a feeling of a girl named Julia, but the state machine declares love crime.

The second film adaptation of George Orwell's novel "1984", one of the darkest among the books dystopia. Michael Radford film closely follows the plot of the novel (unlike the first film adaptation of a freestyle) and is frequently cited in the world culture.

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15. through the snow

Snowpiercer

• South Korea, Czech Republic, 2013.
• Action, dystopia, postapokaliptika, drama, thriller.
• Duration: 126 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,1.

A post-apocalyptic future. After a man-made disaster on Earth has entered a new ice age. And now, 17 years does not stop its movement round the world express train, which took refuge a few hundred people. In the first class live richer, and the "tail" has got the poor.

Modest rental has done his job: "Through the Snow" is almost a stranger to a wider audience. And in vain: for all his madness and absurdity is fantastically good movie.

Alone the cast - is an occasion to see it. Here and Captain America, Chris Evans, and John Hurt, mysteriously appears in every second dystopia, magic and Tilda Swinton.

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16. Time

In Time

• United States, 2011.
• Fiction, thriller, dystopian, cyberpunk.
• Duration: 109 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,7.

In the future, we found a way to stop aging. People always look twenty-five years, but their life is under the control of a timer which counts how many are left to die. Money is abolished, and the main currency becomes time.

The main character, Will - comes from the ghetto, where everyone concerned a matter of survival. And he, like the others, lives one day, until he meets a stranger who gives him 116 years.

Another charming dystopia director Andrew Niccol. The universe of the film is designed so that it phrases like "time - the money" or "Give me a little time," take on new meaning.

And although critics criticized the film, it is possible to see it at least in order to sink once more in the eyes of Cillian Murphy, who then have not had time to play in "acute visor».

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17. Idiocracy

Idiocracy

• United States, 2006.
• Dystopia, fantasy, comedy.
• Duration: 84 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,6.

Military Librarian Joe was selected to participate in a secret experiment to freeze people. But by chance the protagonist spends in suspended animation as much as 500 years. And waking up, he understands that the world has changed dramatically for the worse.

Humanity incredibly became stupid, culture and industry deteriorated, the country is buried in the debris. Unexpectedly for himself, Joe becomes the smartest person on the planet. And now he has to solve the pressing problems of America.

The funniest film in the compilation, which razosholsya on quotes and memes. Nemudronaya, shameless, and, alas, true comedy about the influence of natural selection on intelligence.

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18. Metropia

Metropia

• Sweden, in 2009.
• Fiction, drama, thriller, dystopia.
• Duration: 86 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,3.

European cities are connected by a cyclopean metro network. The world is dirty and dull as ever, the difference between the seasons erased. The main character, Roger works in the call center and do not travel on the subway, because it loves bike.

He lives with clear prose and Anna, but dreams of a blonde girl from shampoo commercials. One day Roger finds his broken bike. He is forced to go down to the underground, where one of the stations meets the very blonde ...

The plot of "Metropia" is clearly inspired by "Brazil" by Terry Gilliam, and the visual impact of the Soviet animator Yuri Norstein. Little noticed outside of festivals, this painting is unique in its kind.

To create characters used here are real pictures that later animated. And the "models" were ordinary people, which the studio staff are literally where necessary. As a result, the cartoon characters on the brink of the effect of "uncanny valley". And look at them and scary and exciting.

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19. Zero theorem

The Zero Theorem

• United States, 2013.
• Fiction, drama.
• Duration: 107 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,1.

Computer genius Cohen Years tired of the noisy and annoying the world. His mysterious boss allowed him to work at home, but it puts a condition: Cohen must find a solution bogglingly complex theorem Zero.

Colorful existential parable late Gilliam in the scenery of cyberpunk. Other hotly criticized, others no less ardently love this simple story that all together gives zero. One can say for sure: in the imagination of the director can not refuse.

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20. high-rise

High-Rise

• United Kingdom, 2015.
• Dystopia, drama.
• Duration: 119 minutes.
• IMDb: 5,6.

London, 1975. Young Dr. Robert Lang moved to the elite high-rise complex. The house seems ideal: its own supermarket, swimming pool, roof garden. But there are also unpleasant backing: skyscraper lives on the principle of "less than you live, the less you pay." Therefore, the "upper" tenants despise "lower".

At some point in the house starting power outages, and mutual dissatisfaction with the neighbors together develops into a real war.

Kafkaesque ironic dystopia. "Skyscrapers" are strongly encouraged to take note of all those who are able to evaluate the luxurious visual series (every single frame endlessly here can savor) and elegant atmosphere 70 years.

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