# The best dystopian movies of all time

Surveillance states, corporations and broken future worlds: the dystopian films that top Moviepilot, Vodafone Featured and JustWatch.

- 11 votes · 15 items
- Aug 21, 2023 · Thorsten Klein
- https://even.best/en/l/2070/the-best-dystopian-movies-of-all-time

## Top 14

1. **Blade Runner (1982)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Harrison Ford hunts replicants in the Los Angeles of 2019.
2. **The Matrix (1999)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The world is a simulation and Neo takes the red pill.
3. **Brazil (1985)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Terry Gilliam's bureaucratic nightmare.
4. **Gattaca (1997)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A society sorted by genes.
5. **The Hunger Games (2012)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Teenagers fight to the death on live TV.
6. **Fahrenheit 451 (1966)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Firemen burn books; François Truffaut.
7. **Metropolis (1927)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fritz Lang's city split between the elite and the workers.
8. **V for Vendetta (2005)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A masked rebel against a fascist Britain.
9. **Snowpiercer (2013)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The last humans on a train, divided by class.
10. **Minority Report (2002)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Crimes are stopped before they happen.
11. **Children of Men (2006)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — A world without children and one pregnant woman.
12. **A Clockwork Orange (1971)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Alex and the Ludovico technique; Stanley Kubrick.
13. **WALL-E (2008)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — A robot cleans up a rubbish-covered Earth.
14. **The Truman Show (1998)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Jim Carrey unknowingly lives inside a TV show.
15. **Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Big Brother from George Orwell, with John Hurt.

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