Movies

A Chronology of Recommended Dystopian Movies

Source: Adams, John J. Brave New Worlds. San Francisco: Night Shade Books, 2011. Print.

Metropolis, Fritz Lang (1927)
Things To Come, William Cameron Menzies (1936)
1984, Michael Anderson (1956); filmed again as Nineteen Eighty-Four by
Michael Radford (1984)
Alphaville, Jean-Luc Godard (1965)
Fahrenheit 451, Francis Truffaut (1966)
Privilege, Peter Watkins(1967)
A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick (1971)
THX 1138, George Lucas (1971)
Z.P.G., Michael Campus (1972)
Sleeper, Woody Allen (1973)
Soylent Green, Richard Fleischer (1973)
A Boy and His Dog, L.Q. Jones (1974)
Death Race 2000, Paul Bartel (1975)
Rollerball, Norman Jewison (1975), remade in 2002 by John McTiernan
Logan’s Run, Michael Anderson (1976)
Mad Max, George Miller (1979), and sequels The Road Warrior (1981) and
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
Escape from New York, John Carpenter (1981)
Blade Runner, Ridley Scott (1982)
Brazil, Terry Gilliam (1985)
RoboCop, Paul Verhoven (1987)
The Running Man, Paul Michael Glaser (1987)
They Live, John Carpenter (1988)
Akira, Katsuhiro Ôtomo (1988)
Tank Girl, Rachel Talalay (1995)
Twelve Monkeys, Terry Gilliam (1995)
Gattaca, Andrew Niccol (1997)
Brave New World, Leslie Libman (1998)
The Matrix, Andy and Larry Wachowski (1999), with later sequels
Minority Report, Steven Spielberg (2002)
Equilibrium, Kurt Wimmer (2002)
District 13, Pierre Morel (2004)
The Island, Michael Bay (2005)
Children of Men, Alfonso Cuarón (2006)
A Scanner Darkly, Richard Linklater (2006)
Idiocracy, Mike Judge (2006)
V for Vendetta, James McTeigue (2006)
The Road, John Hillcoat (2009)
In Time, Andrew Niccol(2011)
The Hunger Games, Gary Ross (2012)