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51. Jubilee (1978)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Queen Elizabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk.
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Adam Ant, Richard O'Brien, Ian Charleson, Jayne County
Votes: 3,715
52. Crime Zone (1988)
R | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Helen and Bone live in a repressive futuristic dystopian society they badly want to escape from. Mysterious Jason hires them to steal a disc for him. It's practically a suicide mission, but he claims he can smuggle them out, in return.
Director: Luis Llosa | Stars: David Carradine, Peter Nelson, Sherilyn Fenn, Michael Shaner
Votes: 719
53. Wild Palms (1993)
300 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A multi-national corporation attempts to take over America while small pockets of resistance hold out against rampant technology.
Stars: Jim Belushi, Dana Delany, Robert Loggia, Kim Cattrall
Votes: 2,409
54. Total Recall 2070 (1999)
R | 44 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A detective for a police agency is teamed with a naive new officer, who is secretly an android, and often conflicts with the Assessor's Office and the security forces of "the Consortium", a small number of extremely powerful companies.
Stars: Michael Easton, Karl Pruner, Cynthia Preston, Michael Anthony Rawlins
Votes: 1,429
55. Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966)
Not Rated | 84 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Dr. Who and his companions arrive on Earth in the year 2150 AD, only to discover that the planet has been invaded and its population enslaved by the dreaded Daleks.
Director: Gordon Flemyng | Stars: Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, Ray Brooks, Andrew Keir
Votes: 4,552
56. Nemesis 4: Death Angel (1996 Video)
R | 80 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Alex shoots again. She has to kill a man, but shoots the wrong one. A high ransom is set on her, so she is visited by some head hunters. Well, she only could sit and wait and hope for a ... See full summary »
Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Blanka Copikova, Andrew Divoff, Michal Gucík, Nicholas Guest
Votes: 1,597
57. The Sisterhood (1988)
R | 75 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In the year 2021, women have been enslaved by men, with their only hope for freedom lying in the hands of a nomadic band of maiden warriors. The maiden warriors Alee and Vera tap Marya and her hawk to help them.
Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Rebecca Holden, Chuck Wagner, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Barbara Patrick
Votes: 761
58. LX 2048 (2020)
103 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A fatally ill man tries to secure the future of his family in a world where the toxicity of the sun forces people to stay inside during the daytime.
Director: Guy Moshe | Stars: Juliet Aubrey, Anna Brewster, Gabrielle Cassi, James D'Arcy
Votes: 2,001
59. Crash and Burn (1990 Video)
R | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Unicom is a powerful organization overseeing most of the world after its economic collapse. They have banned computers and robots in an attempt to insure "life, liberty, and the pursuit of ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Band | Stars: Paul Ganus, Megan Ward, Ralph Waite, Bill Moseley
Votes: 1,399
60. Curfew (2019)
TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A group of amateur drivers from all over the world compete in an illegal night-time street race.
Stars: Phoebe Fox, Andi Osho, Billy Zane, Aimee-Ffion Edwards
Votes: 1,927
61. Mindwarp (1991)
R | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In post-apocalyptic 2037, Judy rebels against the AI-ruled utopia where people live in a happy VR simulation. She's exiled to a post-nuclear wasteland where she meets drifter Stover. Mutated cannibals capture them for their leader Seer.
Director: Steve Barnett | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Angus Scrimm, Marta Martin, Elizabeth Kent
Votes: 2,920
62. The Stakelander (2016)
TV-MA | 81 min | Action, Drama, Horror
When his home of New Eden is destroyed by a revitalized Brotherhood and its new Vamp leader, Martin finds himself alone in the badlands of America with only the distant memory of his mentor and legendary vampire hunter, Mister, to guide him.
Directors: Dan Berk, Robert Olsen | Stars: Connor Paolo, Nick Damici, Laura Abramsen, A.C. Peterson
Votes: 3,954
63. Cyborg 2087 (1966)
86 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Earth's civilization of the future sends a cyborg back to the 1960s to change the future.
Director: Franklin Adreon | Stars: Michael Rennie, Karen Steele, Wendell Corey, Warren Stevens
Votes: 663
64. The Demolitionist (1995)
R | 93 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A murdered police officer is brought back to life by a cold-hearted scientist to serve as "The Demolitionist", the ultimate crime-fighting weapon in a city overrun by criminals and internal corruption.
Director: Robert Kurtzman | Stars: Nicole Eggert, Bruce Abbott, Susan Tyrrell, Peter Jason
Votes: 1,297
65. Firepower (1993)
R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
In the near future, street gangs have their own city zones where cops can't go. Two tough cops are sent undercover in one of them to investigate an illegal cure for AIDS. But they must first fight in a deathmatch, and the match is fixed.
Director: Richard Pepin | Stars: Chad McQueen, Gary Daniels, George Murdock, Joseph Ruskin
Votes: 758
66. Timestalkers (1987 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Scott McKenzie, a history professor, becomes involved with two time travelers from the year 2586 after making a discovery in an old photograph from 1886.
Director: Michael Schultz | Stars: William Devane, Lauren Hutton, John Ratzenberger, Forrest Tucker
Votes: 1,551
67. Sleeping Dogs (1977)
Not Rated | 107 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A New Zealand man recently estranged from his family gets unwittingly caught up in a revolution.
Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Sam Neill, Nevan Rowe, Ian Mune, Warren Oates
Votes: 1,664
68. 2047: Virtual Revolution (2016)
TV-14 | 92 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
In a future mega city, where most people spend most time hooked up to a virtual world, an agent, employed by a corporation supplying virtual reality, is busy tracking down killers/terrorists, both in the virtual and real world.
Director: Guy-Roger Duvert | Stars: Mike Dopud, Jane Badler, Jochen Hägele, Maximilien Poullein
Votes: 2,012
69. Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000 (1994 Video)
R | 74 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
In the future, corporations have taken over the world and banned sex. A group of rebellious high school students devise a way to go back in time and change history to prevent that from ... See full summary »
Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Morgan Fairchild, Ian Abercrombie, Brian Bremer, Christopher Wolf
Votes: 632
70. Ad Vitam (2018)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In a future where regeneration technology lets humans live indefinitely, a cop and a troubled young woman investigate a strange wave of youth suicides.
Stars: Yvan Attal, Garance Marillier, Niels Schneider, Victor Assié
Votes: 1,862
71. Dragon Fury (1995)
Not Rated | 79 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Mason, a dragon warrior from the future, returns to the year 1999 in search of a serum that can combat a disease simply known as "The Plague." In the post-apocalyptic world of 2099 -- after... See full summary »
Director: David Heavener | Stars: Richard Lynch, Robert Chapin, Chona Jason, Deborah Stambler
Votes: 250
72. Highlander: The Animated Series (1994–1996)
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
In the post-apocalyptic medieval 27th century, Ramirez mentors young Quentin MacLeod who must seek pacified Immortals, gain their knowledge through a non-lethal form of Quickening, and free the land from the evil Immortal overlord Kortan.
Stars: Miklos Perlus, Benedict Campbell, Katie Zegers, Don Dickinson
Votes: 716
73. Whispering Moon (2006)
Unrated | 75 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In a dystopia future world we follow a gay couple, Jannis and Patrick, who is filming a secret documentary in a circus.
Director: Michael Satzinger | Stars: Franz Robert Ceeh, Michael Fernbach, Mischa Fernbach, Dominik Hartl
Votes: 259
74. No Time for Nuts (2006 Video)
G | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Scrat comes across a time machine and is transported to various times all in pursuit of his beloved acorn.
Directors: Chris Renaud, Michael Thurmeier | Stars: David Crommett, Darin De Paul, Dann Fink, Vanessa Lemonides
Votes: 4,369
75. Circuitry Man (1990)
R | 93 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
In a future where most humans have moved underground to escape the pollution, one of the few pleasures left is a kind of narcotic in the form of chips which can be plugged directly into the... See full summary »
Director: Steven Lovy | Stars: Jim Metzler, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Lu Leonard, Vernon Wells
Votes: 1,013
76. Badlands 2005 (1988 TV Movie)
48 min | Action, Sci-Fi
In this unsold post-apocalyptic TV pilot, a U.S. marshal and his by-the-book cyborg partner are tasked to escort two mail order brides to a remote desert area where their husbands work, but a local bandit leader has other plans for them.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Lewis Smith, Miguel Ferrer, Sharon Stone, Caitlin O'Heaney
Votes: 63
77. Terminator: Resistance (2019 Video Game)
M | Action, Sci-Fi
First person shooter set in a nightmarish future based on the first two Terminator films, where killer robots controlled by a rogue A.I. called Skynet are hunting humans to extinction. A refugee joins the resistance to try to stop them.
Director: Piotr Latocha | Stars: Eric Meyers, Christopher Ragland, Laurence Bouvard, Kosha Engler
Votes: 599
78. Marvel Wastelanders: Old Man Star-Lord (2021 Podcast Series)
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Star-Lord and Rocket Raccoon are a little slower and more seasoned than they were during their Guardians of the Galaxy glory days, finding themselves back on Earth, now 30 years after all the world's super villains have seized control.
Stars: Chris Elliott, Danny Glover, Vanessa Williams, Dylan Baker
Votes: 99
79. Cold Lazarus (1996)
300 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Writer Daniel Feeld, first seen in Dennis Potter's "Karaoke," returns three centuries later as a disembodied head.
Stars: Albert Finney, Ciarán Hinds, Frances de la Tour, Grant Masters
Votes: 774
80. Meet the Hollowheads (1989)
PG-13 | 86 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
The Hollowheads, a slightly darker and more satirical 80s take on The Jetsons (1962), have their hands full when the head of the family's sleazy and abusive boss invites himself to their family dinner.
Director: Thomas R. Burman | Stars: John Glover, Nancy Mette, Richard Portnow, Matt Shakman
Votes: 867
81. Blade Runner (1997 Video Game)
T | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
You play a blade runner investigating a series of violent replicant crimes, only to discover far more than you bargained for.
Director: Joseph D. Kucan | Stars: Martin Azarow, Mark Benninghoffen, Warren Burton, Gwen Castaldi
Votes: 2,006
82. Grey Eyes (2021)
100 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A girl has the ability to see in color in a dystopian world where people can only see in black and white.
Director: Santiago Ventura | Stars: Bruno Acevedo, Fernando Amaral, Fiorella Bottaioli, Natalia D'Alena
Votes: 166
83. Leila (2019– )
48 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a near-future world where an oppressive regime segregates society, one woman skirts the system to search for the daughter taken from her years ago.
Stars: Huma Qureshi, Rahul Khanna, Siddharth, Leysha Mange
Votes: 9,322
84. Godless Youth (2017)
114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
German students compete to enter one of the country's elite schools.
Director: Alain Gsponer | Stars: Jannis Niewöhner, Fahri Yardim, Emilia Schüle, Alicia von Rittberg
Votes: 1,892
85. Mafia: Game of Survival (2016)
Not Rated | 91 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Moscow, 2072. Twelve contestants, each with their own story and motives, play a televised game of Mafia. Those eliminated must enter a virtual reality to conquer their worst fear - or die trying.
Director: Sarik Andreasyan | Stars: Vadim Tsallati, Violetta Getmanskaya, Venyamin Smekhov, Viktor Verzhbitskiy
Votes: 3,346
86. 009-1: The End of the Beginning (2013)
Not Rated | 82 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Marking the 75th anniversary of his birth, Shotaro Ishinomori's classic spy heroine manga "009-1" has been adapted into a live-action motion picture for the first time ever.
Director: Kôichi Sakamoto | Stars: Mayuko Iwasa, Minehiro Kinomoto, Nao Nagasawa, Mao Ichimichi
Votes: 689
87. Firebird 2015 AD (1981)
PG | 97 min | Action, Romance, Sci-Fi
In one of many unpopular and unsupported policy decisions, the US government of the near future outlaws vehicle petrol in an effort to curb the overuse of limited natural resources - except... See full summary »
Director: David M. Robertson | Stars: Darren McGavin, Doug McClure, George Touliatos, Robert Wisden
Votes: 344
88. Bulletstorm (2011 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Commando Grayson Hunt, his team, and their evil boss General Sarrano, whom they want dead, crash land on the planet Stygia, a former elite resort now overrun with killer plants, feral cannibal gangs and monsters with acid for blood.
Director: James D. Mortellaro | Stars: Steve Blum, Andrew Kishino, Jennifer Hale, Chris Cox
Votes: 2,232
89. Alien Nation (1989 TV Movie)
Unrated | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
A bigoted human policeman in the L.A. of the future and his alien partner learn to live with each other's differences while attempting to solve a drug conspiracy hidden in the subculture of... See full summary »
Director: Kenneth Johnson | Stars: Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Lauren Woodland
Votes: 1,271
90. A.P.E.X. (1994)
R | 98 min | Action, Sci-Fi
In postapocalyptic war-torn 2073, a scientist from another timeline must help a resistance group stop the army of indestructible A.P.E.X. terminator robots he'd mistakenly created, even if it means risking erasing himself from existence.
Director: Phillip J. Roth | Stars: Richard Keats, Mitchell Cox, Lisa Ann Russell, Marcus Aurelius
Votes: 1,207 | Gross: $0.05M
91. Observer (2017 Video Game)
M | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A burnt-out cop investigates what caused a rundown apartment building to go under automatic lockdown, which brings him face-to-face with the ghosts from his past.
Director: Mariusz Szaflik | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Brandon Fague, Kristin Lennox
Votes: 624
92. Alien Invasion: S.U.M.1 (2017)
TV-MA | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An aggressive race of aliens took over Planet Earth and humanity's at its end, living in giant bunkers below ground. Young Military rookie S.U.M.1 (Iwan Rheon) is sent to the surface to save a group of unprotected survivors.
Director: Christian Pasquariello | Stars: Iwan Rheon, André Hennicke, Rainer Werner, Zoe Grisedale-Sherry
Votes: 1,709
93. Turkey Shoot (2014)
TV-MA | 90 min | Action, Thriller
In the near future, a Navy SEAL framed for war crimes is offered a chance for freedom by participating in a TV show that requires him to outwit other professional killers to survive.
Director: Jon Hewitt | Stars: Dominic Purcell, Viva Bianca, Robert Taylor, Belinda McClory
Votes: 1,420
94. Embers (I) (2015)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
After a global neurological epidemic, those who remain search for meaning and connection in a world without memory.
Director: Claire Carré | Stars: Jason Ritter, Iva Gocheva, Greta Fernández, Tucker Smallwood
Votes: 2,303
95. Memory of Water (2022)
101 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In this dystopian literary adaptation, a courageous young woman fights for fresh water in the Scandinavian Union, an area that has dried up due to environmental disaster and a repressive military government.
Director: Saara Saarela | Stars: Saga Sarkola, Mimosa Willamo, Lauri Tilkanen, Pekka Strang
Votes: 596
96. New Crime City (1994)
R | 86 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Ricks is a criminal who is revived after execution to go into a futuristic prison to get a virus that the big prison gang has created. The prison is a squared off area of LA that the ... See full summary »
Director: Jonathan Winfrey | Stars: Rick Rossovich, Sherrie Rose, Stacy Keach, Rick Dean
Votes: 254
97. Future Sex (2018– )
50 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Sci-Fi anthology series about the future of sex, relationships and gender.
Stars: Valerie Bentson, Sahajak Boonthanakit, Ulf Pilblad, Katrina Grey
Votes: 300
98. Apocalypse (1998 Video Game)
T | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Dystopian third person shooter in which a Rambo-like scientist must battle the armies of his demonically possessed mentor who plans to bring about the Apocalypse using the Four Horsemen masked as four powerful people to corrupt the world.
Stars: Bruce Willis, Poe, Joe Frank, Tom Wyner
Votes: 842
99. Year Million (2017)
47 min | Documentary, Drama, Sci-Fi
An in depth look into what our future will look like one million years from now when technology takes over, for better or worse.
Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Negin Farsad, Olive Gray, Vinette Robinson
Votes: 690
100. Welcome to Blood City (1977)
96 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A group of people find themselves as slaves in what looks like a Wild West town, but with no memory of who they are or how they got there. In this town, people advance through killing ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: Jack Palance, Keir Dullea, Samantha Eggar, Barry Morse
Votes: 545