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This is a list of films commonly regarded as dystopian.

Many of the listed works are not controversial, in the sense that their dystopian character is generally acknowledged. However, some are not universally classified as dystopias. Critics do not always agree whether a particular work is genuinely dystopian or whether - despite the more menacing and dehumanising elements in the society it portays - it is really an attempt to depict a heterotopia, a society that is neither utopian nor entirely bad, but different from our own.

Such debates frequently surround literary and cinematic works that do not show the classic characteristics of dystopian fiction, such as a government like entity that seeks total control of individuals' lives.

In addition, the following movie list is broken down into categories: those which display an obvious distopia theme, post-apocolyptic (i.e. Hobbesian), those which ultimately follow a more cyberpunk theme, and those which are more miscellaneously categorized, being that they are in between dystopia/cyberpunk and something else, as previously noted, "not like our society." While the movies appearing under the miscellaneous theme may have dystopia-like qualities they do not focus on a dystopian society in their plot. Fight Club originally appeared on this list, but has been thus removed as it does not fit into any of the categories or a definition of dystopia. The Matrix appears under the heading Dystopia and Cyber-punk as its story line features qualities that define both headings. Many of the movies under the miscellaneous heading are subjective and up for more careful scrutinty when considering the definition of dystopia.

Dystopia (Governmental/Societal)

A Clockwork Orange

Aeon Flux

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Dark City

Equilibrium

Fahrenheit 451

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Gattaca

Judge Dredd

Logan's Run

The Matrix
trilogy and The Animatrix
series

Demolition Man (film)

Escape from New York
and its sequel, Escape from L.A.

1984 filmed on two occasions, in 1956 by Michael Anderson and in 1984 by Michael Radford, based on the George Orwell novel of the same name

THX 1138

V for Vendetta (film)

Metropolis by Fritz Lang

Brazil

Cyber-Punk/Techno

Akira

Appleseed

Blade Runner
, adapted from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Ghost in the Shell

The Matrix
trilogy and The Animatrix
series

Tron

Metropolis by Osamu Tezuka

Strange Days

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