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Utopia/Dystopia
see all genres ›The eternal struggle to create ideal (or at least halfway decent) socio-political systems has inspired no lack of literary and cinematic art depicting models for better, more equitable societies. At the opposite end of these utopian dreams are dystopian visions in which society's worst extant tendencies warp into nightmares of fascistic control and unisex fashion. Why conjoin these apparent opposites? The division between "utopia" and "dystopia" is rather narrow, it seems. One person's notion of utopia often leads to a dystopia for others.
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Altitude Falling
In the year 2029, everyone has been injected with an identification chip originally for medical emergencies which the corporate run government uses to track travel patterns, purchases, political affiliations, relationships and diseases. Greg Forrester perfected this technology but fled to a remote mountain...Start your free trial to watch
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Animal Room
Set in the future, the film focuses on Arnold Mosk (Neil Patrick Harris), a high school student caught abusing drugs. When he's put in a controversial isolation program nicknamed the "Animal Room," his life is threatened. It's a classroom where no rules apply. Arnold is terrorized by a gang leader, Doug Van Housen (Matthew...Start your free trial to watch
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Black Night
Oscar, a conservator at the Natural Sciences Museum, passes the days indulging his passion for studying insects; if only there were still days. As long as people can remember, the sun only releases a few pathetic rays for fifteen seconds before noon. The rest of the time, the world is plunged into a night without end, a...Start your free trial to watch
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Car Cemetery
Combining punk rock and post-apocalyptic mayhem, Arrabal's outrageous adaptation of his infamous stage play is a gallows-humor romp in a wretched dystopia. The inhabitants of a junkyard at the edge of a nuclear crater live hand to mouth all the while being hounded by authorities from a corrupt government. Among them is Emanou...Start your free trial to watch
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Glen and Randa
Independent filmmaker Jim McBride (DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY) follows a hedonistic, innocent young couple as they roam the post-apocalyptic world in search of a fabled, unspoiled city of dreams. The record of the journey is GLEN AND RANDA, a primitive, desperate odyssey by the last bewildered survivors of an atomic holocaust,...Start your free trial to watch
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The Juche Idea
Jim Finn's THE JUCHE IDEA is an uproarious and provocative deconstruction of North Korean propaganda and philosophy. Mixing together eye-popping archival footage with deadpan re-enactments, Finn has created a complex docu-fiction that is equally thought-provoking and entertaining. Translated as "self-reliance," Juche...Start your free trial to watch
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Metropolis
Incorporating more than twenty-five minutes of newly discovered footage, this 2010 restoration of METROPOLIS is the definitive edition of Fritz Lang’s science fiction masterpiece. Backed by a new recording of Gottfried Huppertz’s 1927 score, the film’s dazzling visual design and special effects are more striking than ever....Start your free trial to watch
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Metropolis
In 1984, Academy Award®-winning composer Giorgio Moroder introduced Fritz Lang’s science fiction epic METROPOLIS to a new generation of moviegoers. Working in collaboration with film archives around the world, he supervised a special reconstruction of the film, with color tinting, fewer inter-titles and newly restored...Start your free trial to watch
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Mock Up on Mu
A radical hybrid of multiple genres, Craig Baldwin's MOCK UP ON MU cobbles together a feature-length "collage-narrative" based on (mostly) true stories of California's post-War sub-cultures of rocket pioneers, alternative religions and Beat lifestyles. Pulp-serial snippets, industrial-film imagery, and B- (and Z-) fiction...Start your free trial to watch
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Riki-Oh
Ricky (Fan Siu-wong) is sentenced to prison for the pulpy murder of a lowlife responsible for his girlfriend's suicide. In the dystopian future of 2001, the prison system has been privatized and run by monsters far worse than the criminals they keep locked up. Ricky finds himself up against the Gang of Four, super-powered...Start your free trial to watch
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SpaceDisco One
In this sequel of sorts to both LOGAN’S RUN and 1984, George Orwell's Winston Smith runs into the daughters of Logan 5 and Francis 7 as they're busy running amok in a park, shooting laser beams at one another. A roller-skating rink in space, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA references and a Ministry of Truth (also known as Universal...Start your free trial to watch
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Stacy
In the early 21st century, teenage girls between the ages of 15 and 17 begin dying all over the world. Shortly before they die, girls succumb to NDH (Near Death Happiness), a “pre-death” state of absolute bliss and joy. Once dead, a girl comes back as a flesh-eating zombie nicknamed a “Stacy.” The world is in chaos. Countries...Start your free trial to watch
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A Stolen Moment
In the future, the world has fallen victim to viruses and diseases. There is no human touch, no eye contact and no socialization. Everything is cold and clinical. But after catching the eyes of a stranger, Sophie finds herself longing for human interaction.Start your free trial to watch
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Teknolust
Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton plays four roles in this award-winning science fiction film about Rosetta Stone and her three Self-Replicating Automatons (SRAs) which she clones from her own DNA. Though they look human, the SRA cyborgs were bred as intelligent machines and are immortal. In order to survive, they need...Start your free trial to watch
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Todo modo
This striking mix of science fiction, religious and political allegory was one of the most unusual projects by adventuresome late Italian director Elio Petri (the fellow behind the 1971 Academy Award® winner for Best Foreign Language Film, INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION). Marcello Mastroianni plays a priest in...Start your free trial to watch
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Tokyo Gore Police
Blood and guts are the ultimate weapon! In the near future, the Tokyo Police Corporation is locked in a bloody war with the "engineers." These genetically modified super-criminals can bio-fuse their open wounds with weapons, turning self-mutilation into a combat form. Ruka, the daughter of the police...Start your free trial to watch
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Virtual Love
A love story for the 90s: Valery falls in love with an identical twin, a virtual reality scientist, and finds she can have a more intimate relationship with him through the computer screen than in person. Or is it really him? Commissioned by ZDF German Television, VIRTUAL LOVE features a number of virtual reality experts such...Start your free trial to watch
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Visioneers
First time feature filmmaker Jared Drake makes his directorial debut with this quirky black comedy set in the near future, and concerning a curious spike in cases of spontaneous human combustion. The Jeffers Corporation is the largest business in the history of mankind, and they got that way thanks to their strict philosophy...Start your free trial to watch