EWs’ Top 20 Dystopian Movies
In light (or darkness) of the recent theatrical release of the dystopian Children of Men, Entertainment Weekly #917 lists…
- A Clockwork Orange (1971; set in near future)
- Brazil (1985; set in 20th century)
- The Road Warrior (1982; postapocalypse)
- Escape From New York (1981; set in 1997)
- Logan’s Run (1976; set in 23rd century)
- 12 Monkeys (1995; set in 2035)
- Metropolis (1927; set in 2026)
- The Matrix (1999, circa 2199)
- Blade Runner (1982; set in 2019) [see SF Signal book review]
- Akira (1988; set in 2019)
- THX-1138 (1971; set in near future)
- Dark City (19; set in a not-so-far-off future)
- Alphaville (1965; set in a distant time, in another world)
- Fahrenheit 451 (1966; set sometime after the 20th century) [see SF Signal book review]
- The Omega Man (1971; set in the late 1970s)
- Soylent Green (1973; set in 2022)
- Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970; set in the late 3900s)
- Death Race 2000 (1975; set in 2000)
- Back to the Future II (1989; set in 2015)
- Gattaca (1997; set in the near future)
