100 Greatest Dystopian Films of All Time
1 Blade Runner 1982 dir. Ridley Scott
2 Metropolis 1927 dir. Fritz Lang
3 Stalker 1979 dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
4 A Clockwork Orange 1971 dir. Stanley Kubrick
5 The Matrix 1999 dir. The Wachowskis
6 Children of Men 2006 dir. Alfonso Cuarón
7 Minority Report 2002 dir. Steven Spielberg
8 Brazil 1985 dir. Terry Gilliam
9 Gattaca 1997 dir. Andrew Niccol
10 Soylent Green 1973 dir. Richard Fleischer
11 THX 1138 1971 dir. George Lucas
12 Fahrenheit 451 1966 dir. François Truffaut
13 Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984 dir. Michael Radford
14 V for Vendetta 2005 dir. James McTeigue
15 Akira 1988 dir. Katsuhiro Otomo
16 Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior 1981 dir. George Miller
17 The Trial 1962 dir. Orson Welles
18 WALL-E 2008 dir. Andrew Stanton
19 La Jetée 1962 dir. Chris Marker
20 Dark City 1998 dir. Alex Proyas
21 Logan’s Run 1976 dir. Michael Anderson
22 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence 2001 dir. Steven Spielberg
23 12 Monkeys 1995 dir. Terry Gilliam
24 Idiocracy 2006 dir. Mike Judge
25 Snowpiercer 2013 dir. Joon-ho Bong
26 They Live 1988 dir. John Carpenter
27 Battle Royale 2000 dir. Kinji Fukasaku
28 The City of Lost Children 1995 dir. Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
29 RoboCop 1987 dir. Paul Verhoeven
30 Alphaville 1965 dir. Jean-Luc Godard
31 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 dir. Irwin Kershner
32 Planet of the Apes 1968 dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
33 Sleeper 1973 dir. Woody Allen
34 Ghost in the Shell 1995 dir. Mamoru Oshii
35 The Running Man 1987 dir. Paul Michael Glaser
36 The Great Dictator 1940 dir. Charlie Chaplin
37 Death Race 2000 1975 dir. Paul Bartel
38 Total Recall 1990 dir. Paul Verhoeven
39 A Scanner Darkly 2006 dir. Richard Linklater
40 The Omega Man 1971 dir. Boris Sagal
41 Demolition Man 1993 dir. Marco Brambilla
42 Rollerball 1975 dir. Norman Jewison
43 The Hunger Games 2012 dir. Gary Ross
44 Metropolis 2001 dir. Rintaro
45 District 9 2009 dir. Neil Blomkamp
46 The Lobster 2015 dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
47 The Truman Show 1998 dir. Peter Weir
49 The Stepford Wives 1975 dir. Bryan Forbes
53 Animal Farm 1954 dir. Joy Batchelor and John Halas
51 Lord of the Flies 1963 dir. Peter Brook
52 Red Dawn 1984 dir. John Milius
48 The Terminator 1984 dir. James Cameron
54 Heavy Weights 1995 dir. Steven Brill
50 The Handmaid’s Tale 1990 dir. Volker Schlöndorff
55 Mad Max: Fury Road 2015 dir. George Miller
56 Interstellar 2014 dir. Christopher Nolan
57 Blade Runner 2049 2017 dir. Denis Villeneuve
58 28 Days Later… 2002 dir. Danny Boyle
59 Zootopia 2016 dir. Bryron Howard, Rich Moore
60 Serenity 2005 dir. Joss Whedon
61 Equilibrium 2002 dir. Kurt Wimmer
62 Eraserhead 1977 dir. David Lynch
63 Escape from New York 1981 dir. John Carpenter
64 Watchmen 2009 dir. Zack Snyder
65 Delicatessen 1991 dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
66 Mad Max 1979 dir. George Miller
67 Dredd 2012 dir. Pete Travis
68 X-Men: Days of Future Past 2014 dir. Bryan Singer
69 Starship Troopers 1997 dir. Paul Verhoeven
70 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 2014 dir. Matt Reeves
71 Cloud Atlas 2012 dir. Tom Tykwer, The Wachowskis
72 War for the Planet of the Apes 2017 dir. Matt Reeves
73 Isle of Dogs 2018 dir. Wes Anderson
74 The Time Machine 1960 dir. George Pal
75 Never Let Me Go 2010 dir. Mark Romanek
76 I Am Legend 2007 dir. Francis Lawrence
77 Fantastic Planet 1973 dir. René Laloux
78 Strange Days 1995 dir. Kathryn Bigelow
79 Silent Running 1972 dir. Douglas Trumbull
80 Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 1985 dir. George Miller, George Oglivie
81 Things to Come 1936 dir. William Cameron Menzies
82 On the Beach 1959 dir. Stanley Kramer
83 The Matrix Reloaded 2003 dir. The Wachowskis
84 I, Robot 2004 dir. Alex Proyas
85 28 Weeks Later 2007 dir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
86 RoboCop 2 1990 dir. Irvin Kershner
87 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 2013 dir. Francis Lawrence
88 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 2016 dir. Gareth Edwards
89 eXistenZ 1999 dir. David Cronenberg
90 Sorry to Bother You 2018 dir. Boots Riley
91 Ready Player One 2018 dir. Steven Spielberg
97 Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust 2000 dir. Yoshiaki Kawajiri
92 Gabriel Over the White House 1933 dir. Gregory La Cava
93 1984 1956 dir. Michael Anderson
94 The Prisoner 1967 dir. various
95 Colossus: The Forbin Project 1970 dir. Joseph Sargent
96 Enemy of the State 1998 dir. Tony Scott
98 Eyeborgs 2009 dir. Richard Clabaugh
99 Oblivion 2013 dir. Joseph Kosinski
100 Vampire Hunter D 1985 dir. Toyoo Ashida