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overlaps, dystopian fiction is distinct from post-apocalyptic fiction, and an undesirable society is not necessarily dystopian. Dystopian societies appear...

Utopian and dystopian fiction are subgenres of speculative fiction that explore extreme forms of social and political structures. A utopia is a setting...

This is a list of dystopian films. Dystopian societies appear in many speculative fiction works and are often found within the science fiction and fantasy...

Dystopian is a subgenre of science fiction and political films that depicts imagined societies characterized by oppression, control, environmental degradation...

This is a list of notable works of dystopian literature. A dystopia is an unpleasant (typically repressive) society, often propagandized as being utopian...

of dystopian works: List of dystopian comics List of dystopian films List of dystopian literature List of dystopian TV programs List of dystopian music...

following lists musical artists whose discography prominently features dystopian themes. Rock band Big Black with their stark portrayals of the underside...

Dystopian Wars is a Victorian super science-fiction miniature wargame with steampunk elements published and manufactured by Warcradle Studios. It is set...

This is a list of dystopian comics. Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo American Flagg! by Howard Chaykin Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro...

Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931, and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State...

3%, 2016–2020. A Brazilian, dystopian thriller series created by Pedro Aguilera. The series is set in a future wherein people are given a chance to go...

Maurice Carlos Ruffin which features a father raising a biracial son in a dystopian future. The novel deals with themes of racism and parenthood. The novel...

In George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the world is divided into three superstates: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia, which are all...

dystopian novel written by American author Lois Lowry, and it is set in a society which at first appears to be utopian but revealed to be dystopian as...

Silo is an American science fiction dystopian drama television series created by Graham Yost, based on the Silo trilogy of novels (Wool, Shift, and Dust)...

Silo is a dystopian series of post-apocalyptic science fiction books by American writer Hugh Howey. The series started in 2011 with the short story "Wool"...

The Testaments is an American dystopian drama television series produced for Hulu, based on the 2019 novel The Testaments by Margaret Atwood. It serves...

The Empyrean Release number 1 Genre New adult fiction Fantasy romance Dystopian fiction Published May 2, 2023 (2023-05-02) Publisher Red Tower Books (Entangled...

Children of Men is a 2006 dystopian action thriller film directed and co-written by Alfonso Cuarón. The screenplay, based on P. D. James' 1992 novel The...

Despot's Game: Dystopian Battle Simulator is a tactical roguelike videogame released in 2022. The title was developed by Konfa Games and published by...

The Handmaid's Tale is a futuristic dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England in a...

science fiction, whether utopian, emphasising the potential benefits, or dystopian, emphasising the dangers. The notion of machines with human-like intelligence...

The Long Walk is a 2025 American dystopian survival thriller film directed by Francis Lawrence and written by JT Mollner. It is based on the 1979 novel...

is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary...

Series, is a series of young adult dystopian novels by American novelist Veronica Roth set in a post-apocalyptic dystopian Chicago. The trilogy consists of...

American dystopian television series created by Bruce Miller, based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood. The plot features a dystopian future...

Anniversary is a 2025 American dystopian political thriller film directed by Jan Komasa and starring Diane Lane, Kyle Chandler, Madeline Brewer, Zoey...

improvement on the 1987 Schwarzenegger movie, but he did not find the dystopian themes unique or compelling. Gleiberman wrote that "because we’ve seen...

Samantha Shannon-Jones (born 8 November 1991) is a British author of dystopian and fantasy fiction. Her debut novel, The Bone Season, was published in...

The Running Man is a dystopian thriller novel by American writer Stephen King, first published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1982 as a paperback...

Golden Globe Award. She gained further recognition for her roles in the dystopian drama film Civil War (2024), the science fiction horror film Alien: Romulus...

Mad Max is a 1979 Australian dystopian action film directed by George Miller in his directorial debut, who co-wrote the screenplay with James McCausland...

of a simultaneous release whose main theme would be both utopian and dystopian, with Hades mainly exploring the latter theme. After her social media...

the British writer Kazuo Ishiguro, published on 2 March 2021. It is a dystopian science fiction story. Set in the U.S. in an unspecified future, the book...

film Get Out, Roger Peralta in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, President Gray in the dystopian science fiction film The Darkest Minds and Rick Stanton in the monster...

Soylent Green is a 1973 American dystopian thriller film directed by Richard Fleischer, and starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, and Edward G...

Red Rising is a 2014 dystopian science fiction novel by American author Pierce Brown. It is the first book and eponym of the series. The novel, set in...

Kyung, Jung Man-sik, and Yoo Su-bin. The series depicts a post-earthquake dystopian world where a surviving apartment becomes a marketplace. It premiered...

television writer who is best known as the author of the young adult dystopian fiction book series The Hunger Games. She is also the author of the children's...

The Matched trilogy is a young adult, dystopian fiction series written by American author Ally Condie, set in a centrally governed society. The Society...

The Sweet Idleness is an upcoming dystopian film. It is touted by director Andrea Iervolino as "the world's first AI-directed feature film". A futuristic...

a plague that allows people to become demonically possessed. In this dystopian future, Meter Readers, a select group of people with natural immunity...

Civil War is a 2024 dystopian war-thriller film written and directed by Alex Garland, and starring Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen...

The Kill Order is a 2012 young adult dystopian science fiction novel written by American author James Dashner and published on August 14, 2012, by Delacorte...

Walk is a dystopian horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1979, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. Set in a dystopian alternative...

" and the entire concept of the complex is frequently referred to as "dystopian." Residing in a "self-sufficient living environment" can negatively affect...

We (Russian: Мы, romanized: My) is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin (often anglicised as Eugene Zamiatin) that was written in 1920–1921...

'The Boys' Final Season Was Written Before 2024 Election, Notes Some Dystopian Plot Points Have 'Already Happened'". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from...

the Empire State Building, and Vinyl (1965), a loose adaptation of the dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. Warhol's films didn't have...

It Can't Happen Here is a 1935 dystopian political novel by the American author Sinclair Lewis. Set in a fictionalized version of the 1930s United States...

This is a list of secret police organisations and intelligence agencies which are fictional: The list is not exhaustive. 1.^Rainbow originates from the...

2026, she will release Seek the Traitor's Son, the first in an adult dystopian duology. In April 2026, Roth announced at BookCon that she would return...

Cho, John Boyega, Winston Duke, and LaKeith Stanfield. Set in a nearby dystopian future, the film follows Muna, a broke young woman who gets injected with...

Hector Hewer, Maria Ressa, Carole Cadwalladr and Rana Ayyub. Set in a dystopian future, the film is inspired by Chris Marker's 1962 featurette La Jetée...

The Iron Heel is a dystopian and political novel in the form of science fiction by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. The main premise...

3% (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈtɾe(j)s puʁ ˈsẽtu]) is a Brazilian dystopian thriller television series created by Pedro Aguilera, starring João Miguel and...

Turn Me On is a 2024 American dystopian romantic comedy film directed by Michael Tyburski and written by Angela Bourassa. It stars Bel Powley and Nick...

Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction set in a dystopian future. It is characterized by its focus on a combination of "lowlife and high tech". It...

Sunrise on the Reaping is a 2025 dystopian novel written by American author Suzanne Collins and the second prequel novel to the original The Hunger Games...

(2011), the dystopian science fiction adventure series The Hunger Games (2013–present), the spy thriller Red Sparrow (2018), and the dystopian horror drama...

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a dystopian young adult action-adventure novel written by the American author Suzanne Collins. It is a prequel to...

Royale (Japanese: バトル・ロワイアル, Hepburn: Batoru Rowaiaru) is a Japanese dystopian horror novel by journalist Koushun Takami. Battle Royale is the first...

"The Last Question" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the November 1956 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly;...

Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian speculative fiction novel by the English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June...

Starring Norman Reedus, Djimon Hounsou and Sandrine Holt, the film depicts a dystopian future following a biochemical weapons disaster which has wiped out most...

School (Korean: 방과 후 전쟁활동) is a 2023 South Korean military sci-fi thriller dystopian teen drama television series created by Lee Nam-gyu [ko], written by Yoon...

Nineteen Eighty-Four (stylized as 1984) is a 1984 British dystopian film written and directed by Michael Radford, based on George Orwell's 1949 novel...

fiction television movie film loosely adapted from Kurt Vonnegut's 1961 dystopian short story of the same name. It was produced for Showtime and first screened...

financial aid, which Brenna Cooper of LADbible labelled as "genuinely dystopian". This set list was taken from the show in Perth on February 4, 2025....

Years and Years is a dystopian science fiction drama television miniseries written by Russell T Davies. Taking place between 2019 and 2034, the six-part...

conditions described in J. G. Ballard's novels and stories, especially dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes, and the psychological effects of...

Agent Man (2000) and Point Pleasant (2005). She appeared as Kellie in the dystopian movie Amerigeddon in 2016. Meyer was born to a Jewish family in Queens...

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is a 2026 post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Nia DaCosta and written by Alex Garland. It is the direct sequel to...

editions of both poetry and fiction. Her best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for...

Happyend (stylized in all caps) is a 2024 dystopian coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Neo Sora. Set in a near-future Tokyo, it stars Kurihara...

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is an upcoming American dystopian action film directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Billy Ray. Based...

Alien: Earth is an American science fiction horror television series created by Noah Hawley. It is the first television series in the Alien franchise and...

adult fiction author. He is best known for New York Times bestselling dystopian young adult novel Hell Followed with Us (2022). White began writing stories...

The Bad Batch is a 2016 American dystopian thriller film directed and written by Ana Lily Amirpour. The film is about a young woman (Suki Waterhouse)...

The Marrow Thieves is a young adult dystopian novel by Métis Canadian writer Cherie Dimaline, published on September 1, 2017, by Cormorant Books through...

which often takes place in tangible dataspheres, virtual landscapes, and dystopian urban environments. Solarpunk draws inspiration from Bohemian style. The...

(film) – 2000 Japanese film by Kinji Fukasaku Brave New World – 1932 dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley "Bread and Circuses" (Star Trek: The Original Series)...

of objecting, to having their organs removed are a recurring theme in dystopian fiction. In contrast to unwilling organ donors, there is the theme of...

Niccol. Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried star as inhabitants of a dystopian future, that uses time as its primary currency; each individual possessing...

WALL-E (stylized with an interpunct as WALL·E) is a 2008 American animated romantic science fiction film directed by Andrew Stanton, who co-wrote the screenplay...

The Maze Runner is a 2014 American dystopian science fiction film directed by Wes Ball, in his feature directorial debut, based on James Dashner's 2009...

She is best known for her role as LJ Folger in the post-apocalyptic dystopian thriller series Snowpiercer (2020–2022). She started her career as a child...

taken from earlier Queen music videos on a cinema screen akin to the dystopian film Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984). The music videos for "Flash" (from Flash...

"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" is a post-apocalyptic short story by American writer Harlan Ellison. It was first published in the March 1967 issue...

Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in some later printings) is a 1968 dystopian science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. It is set in...

1984 is a 2023 Finnish-Russian sci-fi dystopian black comedy drama film directed by Diana Ringo. The film is based upon George Orwell's 1949 novel of...

The Electric State (Swedish: Passagen, lit. 'The Passage') is a 2018 dystopian science fiction illustrated novel by Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag. Set...

Blechman following Facebook's rebrand to Meta Platforms. It refers to dystopian or allegorical elements in science fiction that technologists pursue as...

Matthew Glave, Michael Traynor, and Stacey Dash. The film is set in a dystopian future in which population control is enforced through a school aptitude...

2026 and began streaming on Netflix on 27 March 2026. Set in 2046 in a dystopian Kochi, the film follows Bimal Raj, a grieving father who enters a virtual-reality...

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Io (stylized as IO) is a 2019 American post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Jonathan Helpert. It stars Margaret Qualley, Anthony Mackie, and...

original on October 28, 2019. Retrieved October 28, 2019. Key sound: Dystopian world rap Friedman, Roger (October 11, 2007). "Britney Spears' 'Blackout'...

corporation is a term which frequently appears in science fiction and or dystopian works to refer to corporations that ignore ethics, morality, laws and...

Korean dystopian action thriller film written and directed by Yoon Sung-hyun. It was released worldwide on April 23, 2020 by Netflix. Set in a dystopian South...

Your Friends & Neighbors (2025). He also took supporting roles in the dystopian anthology Black Mirror: White Christmas (2014), the superhero series Legion...

pressed majority Liberal Party leader Mark Carney to outlaw such "downright dystopian" practices. The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 allows...

The Compound is a 2025 dystopian novel by Irish author Aisling Rawle. It was published by The Borough Press on 3 July 2025. It won a Goodreads Choice...

Klara and the Sun is an upcoming dystopian science fiction film directed by Taika Waititi and written by Waititi and Dahvi Waller, based on Kazuo Ishiguro's...

"'Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga' Review: Chris Hemsworth and Anya Taylor-Joy Take Dystopian Franchise to New Levels – Cannes Film Festival". Deadline Hollywood. Archived...

was an American author known for his science fiction works, often with dystopian and drug-related themes. Some of his works have gone on to be adapted...

DMZ is an American dystopian drama miniseries created by Roberto Patino. It is based on the comic book series by Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli. DMZ...

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The Darkest Minds is a 2018 American dystopian science fiction film directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson (in her live action feature length directorial debut)...

terrifyingly, prove prescient." Hong explained: "What might seem to be a dystopian nightmare is even more terrifying because Adjei-Brenyah brilliantly broadcasts...

Prophet Song is a 2023 dystopian novel by Irish author Paul Lynch, published by Oneworld. The novel depicts the struggles of the Stack family, in particular...

January 11, 2023. Cumming, Ed (January 10, 2023). "The Last of Us, review: dystopian thriller is the greatest video game adaptation ever made". The Telegraph...

Falls (2005). He also starred as William / The Man in Black on the HBO dystopian sci-fi western series Westworld (2016–22). Harris was born at Englewood...

linguistics. She became known for her first novel Vox and is recognized for her dystopian novels. Dalcher grew up in New Jersey and studied at Georgetown University...

The Circle is a 2013 dystopian novel written by American author Dave Eggers. The novel chronicles tech worker Mae Holland as she joins a powerful Internet...

Söhne Der Erde EP (Dystopian, 2015) Kinder Der Ringwelt EP (Dystopian, 2015) Khan, Barney (12 February 2015). "Rødhåd: Dystopian's unstoppable force"...

purchased the documents in 1971. It is considered one of the most influential dystopian books. In 2022, the novel was included on the "Big Jubilee Read" list...

The Giver Quartet is a series of four books about a dystopian world by American author Lois Lowry. The quartet consists of The Giver (1993), Gathering...

storylines, offbeat and fourth-wall humor, and exploration of cyberpunk, dystopian, political and philosophical themes, as well as references to Hollywood...

Orwell's allegory from Stalinism to modern corporate corruption, trading a dystopian tone for "something a little more uplifting." He praised the visuals and...

The Maze Runner is a series of young adult dystopian science fiction novels written by American author James Dashner. The series consists of the trilogy...

February 2023). "'The Shift' director Brock Heasley discusses filming dystopian movie…". 1819 News. Retrieved 20 April 2024. McCormick, Colin (11 August...

directing the critically acclaimed crime drama Animal Kingdom (2010) and dystopian drama The Rover (2014). He also co-wrote Hesher (2010). Michôd was educated...

Divergent is a 2014 American dystopian science fiction action film directed by Neil Burger, based on the 2011 novel by Veronica Roth. The film is the...

The Handmaid's Tale is an American dystopian television series created by Bruce Miller, based on the 1985 novel The Handmaid's Tale by Canadian author...

Station Eleven is an American post-apocalyptic dystopian fiction television miniseries created by Patrick Somerville based on the 2014 novel of the same...

film Pleasantville (1998), the sports drama film Seabiscuit (2003), the dystopian action film The Hunger Games (2012), and the heist comedy film Ocean's...

Based on the webtoon of the same title by Lee Yun-kyun, it depicts a dystopian future where extensive air pollution has become a huge problem after a...

The Unwanteds is a dystopian fantasy novel series by Lisa McMann. In Quill, an annual tradition categorizes thirteen-year-olds into three groups: Wanted...

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Artus, it follows a crime investigation in a dystopian Paris. The film had its world premiere out of competition at the 82nd...

officially attached to develop the film adaptation of Sky's End, a YA dystopian fantasy novel written by Marc J. Gregson, with Fuqua serving as a producer...

serialized on Comico from July 11 to August 18, 2021. The series is set in a dystopian version of South Korea, where people harbor hatred towards their leaders...

The Camp of the Saints (French: Le Camp des Saints) is a 1973 French dystopian fiction novel by Jean Raspail. A speculative fictional account, it depicts...

Soma is a fictional drug in Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian sci-fi novel Brave New World. In the novel, soma is an "opiate of the masses" that replaces...

Shatter Me is a young adult fiction dystopian romantic thriller written by Tahereh Mafi, published on November 15, 2011. The book is narrated by Juliette...

The Hunger Games is a series of young adult dystopian novels written by American author Suzanne Collins. The series consists of a trilogy that follows...

Truitt, Brian (February 1, 2014). "Red Rising ascends above a crowded dystopian field". USA Today. Retrieved January 29, 2015. Michaelian, Britt (January...

Margaret Atwood, published on 29 August 2013. MaddAddam concludes the dystopian trilogy that began with Oryx and Crake (2003) and continued with The Year...

Fantasy Gothic Southern Horror Magic realism Science Hard Utopian and dystopian Underwater Superhero Theological Thriller Urban Nonfiction Autobiography...

The Death Cure (also known simply as The Death Cure) is a 2018 American dystopian science fiction film directed by Wes Ball and with a screenplay by T....

The Fever Code is a 2016 young adult dystopian science fiction novel written by American author James Dashner and published on September 27, 2016, by...

teen and adult roles. His notable roles include Ben Burke in the Fox dystopian mystery thriller series Wayward Pines (2015–16), the young Jonathan Crane...

for the New York Times. In 2014, he wrote, directed and produced the dystopian sci-fi Western Young Ones. Rudolph, Ileane (November 11, 2004). "Blythe...

Ally Condie, is the first novel in the Matched trilogy. The novel is a dystopian young adult novel about a tightly controlled society in which young people...

the efforts of a secret group of Allomancers who attempt to overthrow a dystopian empire and establish themselves in a world covered by ash. The second...

The Man in the High Castle is an American dystopian alternate history television series created for the streaming service Amazon Prime Video, depicting...

The Ferryman is a 2023 dystopian fiction novel by Justin Cronin. The protagonist, Proctor Bennett, is a titular "ferryman", responsible for transporting...

Alive (Catalan: Viva) is a 2026 Spanish drama film directed by Aina Clotet (in her directorial debut feature), co-written with Valentina Viso [fr]. Clotet...

Aquí is a 2026 dystopian drama film directed by Tiago Guedes, co-written with Luís Araújo and based on the Jesús trilogy by J. M. Coetzee. It stars Álex...

The third and final season of the South Korean dystopian survival thriller television series Squid Game, marketed as Squid Game 3 (Korean: 오징어 게임 3) and...

Motohiro aimed to explore psychological themes in society's youth using dystopian storylines. Multiple books and movies influenced Psycho-Pass, the most...

introduction (2010) The opposite of a utopia is a dystopia. Utopian and dystopian fiction has become a popular literary category. Despite being common parlance...

Plan 75 is a 2022 dystopian drama film directed by Chie Hayakawa, starring Chieko Baisho, Hayato Isomura and Stefanie Arianne. It was selected as the...

ensemble cast. The film was released in theatres on 9 May 2025. Set in a dystopian future, Kaliyugam explores themes of survival, morality, and human resilience...

バトル・ロワイアルII 鎮魂歌, Hepburn: Batoru Rowaiaru Tsū Rekuiemu) is a 2003 Japanese dystopian action film directed by Kinji Fukasaku and Kenta Fukasaku, who co-wrote...

Chaos Walking is a 2021 American dystopian science-fiction action-thriller film directed by Doug Liman and written by Patrick Ness and Christopher Ford...

Attack on Titan (Japanese: 進撃の巨人, Hepburn: Shingeki no Kyojin; lit. 'The Advancing Giant') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hajime...

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also published in Dutch, French, and German. Her second book was the dystopian sci-fi novel Natural Law (2022). Throughout the 2020s, de Winter has become...

Adjustment Day is a 2018 dystopian novel by Chuck Palahniuk. In a near-future United States, a corrupt Senator plans to reinstate the draft to send young...

In the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, the Thought Police (Thinkpol in Newspeak) are the secret police of the superstate of...

Ballard Language English Genre Postmodern novel, transgressive fiction, dystopian Publisher Jonathan Cape Publication date June 1973 Publication place United...

Scottish hacker, in the U.S. animated web series Gen:Lock that is set in a dystopian future, which is broadcast on the Rooster Teeth subscription service....

Goodbye Earth (Korean: 종말의 바보) is a 2024 South Korean sci-fi dystopian television series written by Jung Sung-joo, directed by Kim Jin-min, and starring...

speculative fiction with a tone, style, or setting that is particularly dystopian, amoral, and violent. The term is inspired by the tagline of the tabletop...

Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End (Spanish: Apocalipsis Z: El principio del fin) is a 2024 Spanish zombie action thriller film directed by Carles...

High-Rise is a 2015 British science-fiction dystopian-thriller film directed by Ben Wheatley from a screenplay by Amy Jump, based on the 1975 novel of...

Crystallization" or "Quiet Crystallization") is a 1994 science fiction dystopian novel by Yōko Ogawa. The novel, dream-like and melancholy in tone in a...

Study and Science Fiction, Walter E. Meyers stated that whether a work is dystopian or utopian is a matter of perspective. To decide if a science fiction...

actor Randy Quaid. He made his acting debut with a minor role in the dystopian film The Hunger Games (2012). Quaid was part of the main cast of the drama...

novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The protagonist Winston Smith, living in a dystopian society governed by the Party, feels strangely drawn to Inner Party member...

in each scenario. From a cutlery battle in a Western restaurant to a dystopian gunfight, they transform into assassins, warriors, and ninjas, engaging...

November 2023, and was released on 10 April 2025. Episodes are usually dystopian, often with unhappy endings, and many are set in a futuristic world with...

Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Russian-born American writer Ayn Rand, written in 1937 and first published in 1938 in the United Kingdom. The...

American dystopian science-fiction action film directed by Paul Bartel and produced by Roger Corman for New World Pictures. Set in a dystopian American...

edition cover Author Tom Perrotta Language English Genre Supernatural, dystopian, satire, psychological Publisher St. Martin's Press Publication date August...

Bear Head is a dystopian sci-fi, cyberpunk political thriller by Adrian Tchaikovsky, published in 2021 by Bloomsbury Publishing. Although the novel stands...

illustration by Alan Aldridge. Author Harry Harrison Language English Genre Dystopian science fiction Publisher Doubleday Publication date November 2, 1966...

2021 adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand and warrior Charlotte in the dystopian series See. Cheng was born in Edmonton, Alberta, to parents who immigrated...

Master, Elango Kumaravel, Thalaivasal Vijay and Mahanadi Shankar. Set in a dystopian 2028, it revolves around the war in India after it refused to alliance...

2021 Canadian-New Zealand science fiction dystopian film written and directed by Danis Goulet. Set in a dystopian version of North America in the year 2044...

adaptations. Judge Dredd is a law enforcement and judicial officer in the dystopian future city of Mega-City One, which covers most of the east coast of North...

action film Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023), Lucy Gray Baird in the teen dystopian drama The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023), and the...

video for their song "Spice Up Your Life", which depicts a futuristic dystopian city covered in billboards and adverts featuring the group. Similarly...

"emphasize[s] threats to the well-being of families." Tor.com, in a piece on dystopian science fiction, called Testament "a realistic vision of the world we...

as a lyrical influence. More specifically, she cites the young adult dystopian novel Feed (2002) by M. T. Anderson as well as authors J. D. Salinger...

Plenty are the four ministries of the government of Oceania in the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell. The Ministry of Peace concerns...

humanitarian crises, literary and film works critiquing social injustices, dystopian fiction exploring societal control, rap music highlighting racial and...

The Divergent Series is an American dystopian science fiction action film series based on the Divergent novels by the American author Veronica Roth. Distributed...

collaboration with Dark Horse Comics in 2024. In deliberate contrast to dystopian settings, Lancer is inspired by classic science fiction set in post-scarcity...

(1898), the military science fiction The War in the Air (1907), and the dystopian When the Sleeper Wakes (1910). Novels of social realism such as Kipps...

as the opposite of grimdark, which is a subgenre that is particularly dystopian, amoral, or violent. Their initial Tumblr post, "The opposite of grimdark...

Boualem Sansal, published by Éditions Gallimard on 20 August 2015. A dystopian novel, 2084 was inspired by George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four and is...

the fantasy film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), the dystopian drama Children of Men (2006), the science fiction film Gravity (2013)...

UI is a 2024 Indian Kannada-language sci-fi dystopian surrealist psychological action comedy film written and directed by Upendra in his directorial final...

in 2011. The first in the Divergent series, a trilogy of young adult dystopian novels (plus a book of short stories), the novel is set in a post-apocalyptic...

The Platform (Spanish: El hoyo, lit. 'The Hole') is a 2019 Spanish dystopian thriller film directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia. The film is set in a large...

Rollerball is a 1975 American dystopian science-fiction sports film directed and produced by Norman Jewison, and starring James Caan, John Houseman, Maud...

actress. She is known for her portrayal of Primrose Everdeen in the sci-fi dystopian adventure film series The Hunger Games (2012–2015). She earned nominations...

Divergent Series: Insurgent (simply known as Insurgent) is a 2015 American dystopian science fiction action film directed by Robert Schwentke, based on the...

extraterrestrial life, time travel, and robotics; to parallel universes, dystopian societies, and biological manipulations; and, most lately, to information...

for young adults, such as paranormal romance, evangelical romance, and dystopian romance, became popular in the twenty-first century. Parents and educators...

Brazil is a 1985 dystopian science fiction black comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard. A co-production...

George Orwell's 1949 dystopian political novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, has been adapted for the cinema, radio, television, theatre, opera and ballet. The...

The Postman is a post-apocalyptic dystopian science fiction novel by David Brin. It is about a man wandering the desolate Oregon countryside who finds...

Daybreakers is a 2009 dystopian sci-fi action-horror vampire film written and directed by Michael and Peter Spierig. The film takes place in a futuristic...

comedic and dystopian novel is set in the near future. It is about a ten year old Korean-American girl named Vera living in a dystopian United States...

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Humane is a 2024 horror thriller film directed by Caitlin Cronenberg, and written and produced by Michael Sparaga. It stars Jay Baruchel, Emily Hampshire...

Hitpig! is a 2024 animated comedy film directed by Cinzia Angelini and David Feiss. The film comes from an original story by Berkeley Breathed, rooted...

The Merge is a 2025 dystopian novel by Grace Walker. The UK and Commonwealth publications rights for the novel were acquired by Oneworld Publications...

Gaganachari (transl. Celestial traveller) is a 2024 Indian Malayalam-language science fiction mockumentary film directed by Arun Chandu, who wrote the...

Michael Crichton Language English Genre Science fiction, Techno-thriller, Dystopian novel Publisher HarperCollins Publication date December 7, 2004 Publication...

The Children of Men is a dystopian novel by English writer P. D. James, published in 1992. Set in England in 2021, it centres on the results of mass infertility...

Natasha Lyonne as the voice of Gaz Digzy, an athletic superstar in a dystopian future where humanity is satiated by a violent sport simply known as "The...

Domination of the Draka (also called the Draka series or the Draka saga) is a dystopian science fiction alternate history series by American author S. M. Stirling...

Fool Night First tankōbon volume cover フールナイト (Fūru Naito) Genre Dystopian Post-apocalyptic Science fiction thriller Manga Written by Kasumi Yasuda Published by...

In the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, thoughtcrime, also known as crimethink in the official language of Newspeak, is the offense of thinking...

Rosendoy which stars Anna Castillo alongside Tamar Novas. Taking place in a dystopian setting, the plot follows Mia (Castillo), separated from her husband after...

Minds, written by American author Alexandra Bracken, is a young adult dystopian fiction series consisting of four novels and several novellas compiled...

Aire: Just Breathe, or simply Aire, is a 2024 post-apocalyptic science fiction drama film co-written, co-produced and directed by Leticia Tonos. Starring...

Among the Barons is a 2003 middle grade dystopian novel by American writer Margaret Peterson Haddix, about a time in which drastic measures have been...

fantasy author. She is best known for the Legend series, novels set in a dystopian and militarized future, as well as the Young Elites series, the Warcross...

Swedish epic poem of the same name by Harry Martinson. The film is set in a dystopian future where Earth has been rendered uninhabitable, prompting mass migration...

Uglies is a 2005 dystopian science fiction novel by Scott Westerfeld. It is set in a futuristic post-scarcity world in which everyone is considered an...

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is a 2023 American dystopian action film produced and directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay...

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and supporting roles in the screwball comedy Meatballs (1979) and the dystopian sci-fi film The Last Chase (1981), during his teen and young adult years...

is an American writer best known as the author of Manacled, an adult dystopian fan fiction based on the Harry Potter and The Handmaid's Tale intellectual...

First tankōbon volume cover アフターゴッド (Afutā Goddo) Genre Dark fantasy Dystopian Supernatural Manga Written by Sumi Eno [ja] Published by Shogakukan English...

Southland Tales is a 2006 dystopian black comedy thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly. It features an ensemble cast that includes Dwayne...

a version of the United States during 1992. The country has become a dystopian technocracy under the exclusive control of the corporation Eden. The corporation...

Up!. In July 2024, Odjick was cast in a role as Collie Parker on the dystopian horror film The Long Walk, based on the 1979 novel of the same name by...

feminist portrayal of the exploitation film genre and takes place in a dystopian reality, where non-compliant women are sent to an off-planet prison. The...

Retrieved 2023-05-27. Bloom, Madison (2023-05-05). "Mandy, Indiana Combat Our Dystopian Hellscape With Menacing Post-Punk". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2023-05-27. Hughes...

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Twilight Zone, first airing on January 24, 1964. The story is set in a dystopian future in which everyone, upon reaching adulthood, has their body surgically...

The Sheep Look Up is a 1972 dystopian science fiction novel by British author John Brunner, dealing with the deterioration of the environment in the United...

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The Kitchen is a 2023 British dystopian drama film directed by Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya from a screenplay from Kaluuya and Joe Murtagh. The film...

released as The City's Edge (1983) The Running Man (1987 film), an American dystopian action film loosely based on the Stephen King novel and starring Arnold...

"Harrison Bergeron" is a satirical dystopian science-fiction short story by American writer Kurt Vonnegut, first published in October 1961. Originally...

Gliff is a 2024 dystopian novel by Scottish author Ali Smith. It was shortlisted for the 2024 Highland Book Prize. The follow-up, Glyph, was published...

contemporary discussion of future military human enhancement (often with dystopian connotations). Weapons and other technologies have long been used to enhance...

district to the game's open world, as well as a new quest line. In a dystopian cyberpunk setting, the player assumes the role of V, a mercenary who must...

singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo from the soundtrack to the 2023 American dystopian action film The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. Rodrigo...

Zone 414 is a 2021 American tech noir thriller film directed by Andrew Baird in his feature-film debut, and written by Bryan Edward Hill. It stars Guy...

follows Katniss Everdeen as she competes in a televised battle royale in dystopian Panem. The play premiered at the purpose-built Troubadour Canary Wharf...

Chappie (stylized as CHAPPiE) is a 2015 dystopian science fiction action film directed by Neill Blomkamp and written by Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell. A...

president offering humor and heart in flashbacks. He stated that the show's dystopian setting and soap opera elements provide an engaging, though at times confusing...

Best Actress. Mulligan continued to garner praise for such films as the dystopian drama Never Let Me Go (2010), the action film Drive (2011), the psychological...

The third short story presents the current state of relationships as a dystopian nightmare, its protagonist projecting himself into a distant and idyllic...

No Blade of Grass is a 1970 apocalyptic dystopian film directed and produced by Cornel Wilde and starring Nigel Davenport, Jean Wallace, and John Hamill...

The Hunger Games is a 2008 dystopian young adult novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. It is written in the perspective of 16-year-old Katniss...

"Model 101" Mineo Ōe Mattson Tomlin August 29, 2024 (2024-08-29) In a dystopian, post-apocalyptic 2022, Eiko fights a Terminator and hacks it to gather...

the Silver Lake. She had a recurring role in the second season of the dystopian drama series The Handmaid's Tale as Eden Spencer, a pious and obedient...

of good and evil, and climaxed with a finale set in an ultra-liberal dystopian future where premarital sex and homosexuality are embraced by the Church...

generation immigrant. The New York Times review states that "laced within its dystopian narrative is an encapsulation of a first-generation immigrant’s nostalgia...

series written by American-British novelist Patrick Ness. It is set in a dystopian world where all living creatures can hear each other's thoughts in a stream...

set in the fictional metropolis of Night City in California, within the dystopian Cyberpunk universe. The player assumes the role of V (voiced by Gavin...

together? In my book, not very well... the last hour of it, the cheeky dystopian alien-tech horror farce, simply isn't very good." Adrian Horton of The...

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determined theme for Ben Richards through a dark, moodily electronic dystopian soundscape, with a whistling Western-styled motif for the Hunters and...

Gaming Bolt. Retrieved June 11, 2022. Vincent, James (July 25, 2022). "Dystopian document thriller Papers, Please is coming to iOS and Android on August...

2025-06-20. Prose, Francine (2025-03-04). "The imagined future of this vivid dystopian novel feels eerily close". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2025-06-20....

August 2026. Grater, Tom (26 June 2020). "Agnieszka Smoczynska To Direct Dystopian Witchcraft Tale 'Hot Spot' For 'High Life' & 'Before Midnight' Producers"...

Tender Is the Flesh (Spanish: Cadáver exquisito) is a dystopian novel by Argentine author Agustina Bazterrica. The novel was originally published in Spanish...

Series Arc of a Scythe Genre Science fiction Biopunk Adventure Dystopia Dystopian fiction Published 2018 Publisher Simon & Schuster Publication place United...

Tower of Fantasy (Chinese: 幻塔; pinyin: Huàn Tǎ; lit. 'Fantasy Tower') is a free-to-play open world action role-playing game developed by Hotta Studio,...

Thief, Persepolis, and The Perks of Being a Wallflower. The emergence of dystopian young adult novels was seen in the early 2000s with the publication of...

Leila is an Indian Hindi-language dystopian drama series directed by Deepa Mehta, Shanker Raman and Pawan Kumar. Based on the 2017 eponymous novel by...

One Hundred Years Ahead, also in English territories titled as Guest from the Future (Russian: Сто лет тому вперёд, romanized: Sto let tomu vperyod, lit...

Kentonline. Retrieved 29 May 2024. Cork, Tristan (23 September 2024). "New dystopian BBC drama to start filming in Bristol". Bristol Post. Retrieved 10 December...

Death Race is a 2008 dystopian science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, who produced the film alongside Paula...

Divergent Series: Allegiant (simply known as Allegiant) is a 2016 American dystopian science fiction action film directed by Robert Schwentke with a screenplay...

Double-Entry First edition Author B. S. Johnson Language English Genre Dystopian metafiction Publisher Collins Publication date 1973 Publication place...

The Bone Season is a supernatural dystopian novel by British writer Samantha Shannon and is her debut novel. The novel was published on 20 August 2013...

Son is a 2012 young adult dystopian novel by American author Lois Lowry. The fourth and final book in The Giver Quartet, the story takes place during...

pretentious would-be auteurs." Margaret Atwood, author of the classic dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale, described Bunny as a form of Gothic satire...

Ritual is a horror novel by British actor and author David Pinner, first published in 1967. An English police officer named David Hanlin—a puritanical...

doublethink as part of the fictional language of Newspeak in his 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. According to Nineteen Eighty-Four by George...

Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2017) and Bojan "Boki" Boscovic on dystopian thriller series Snowpiercer (2020–2024). Paunovic is from Winnipeg, Manitoba...

Thunderdome (also known as Mad Max 3) is a 1985 Australian post-apocalyptic dystopian action film directed by George Miller and George Ogilvie and written by...

English Genre Fantasy, Fiction, novel, adventure, lost world, Utopian and dystopian fiction Set in The Kunlun Mountains of Tibet, the British Raj, and Berlin...

2025. "Starburster: Fontaines DC's thrillingly sinister new single is a dystopian belter". The Irish Times. Retrieved 27 April 2024. https://www.billboard...

comedy series Kim's Convenience (2016–2021), and Rita Blue in the Hulu dystopian drama series The Handmaid's Tale (2017–2025). In 2021, Brugel joined the...

appearing pre-publication in Kirkus Reviews, the book was classified as dystopian fiction and described as a "philosophically charged tour de force". Kevin...

Lord of the World is a 1907 dystopian science fiction novel by the English Catholic priest Robert Hugh Benson that centres upon the reign of the Antichrist...

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comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019) and as Moira in the Hulu dystopian drama series The Handmaid's Tale (2017–2025), for which she won the Primetime...

Altered Carbon is a 2002 British cyberpunk novel by the English writer Richard K. Morgan. Set in a future in which interstellar travel and relative immortality...

Shusterman Language English Series Arc of a Scythe #3 Genre Science fiction Dystopian fiction Publisher Simon & Schuster Publication date November 5, 2019 Publication...

film Into the Storm (2014). From 2014 to 2016, she portrayed Lexa on the dystopian science fiction series The 100. She co-starred as Alicia Clark on the...

Language English Series The Inheritance Cycle Genre Young adult Fantasy Dystopian Bildungsroman Publisher Paolini LLC (first edition), Alfred A. Knopf Publication...

George Orwell's noted 1949 novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, which described a dystopian future ruled by a televised "Big Brother". English athlete Anya Major...

squad‑based combat, survival mechanics, and asymmetrical combat in a dystopian world dominated by warring superstates and colossal war machines. The...

The fourth and final season of the American science fiction dystopian television series Westworld, subtitled The Choice, premiered on HBO on June 26,...

utopian, dystopian, and social-science fiction. Utopian fiction: The creation of an ideal world, or utopia, as the setting for a novel Dystopian fiction:...

Brentan Cover artist Nana An Language English Genre Magical realism, dystopian fiction Publisher Random House (US) Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK) Publication...

used in various contexts since 1728, but is best known from the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. As a theme and as a subject...

Votta, Rae (May 26, 2016). "CollegeHumor's 'Bad Internet' is a Dark, Dystopian Look at the Future". The Daily Dot. Retrieved January 30, 2017. CollegeHumor...

earlier assassination of Trask and capture in 1973 eventually lead to a dystopian future where mutants are hunted to near extinction by unstoppable super-Sentinels...

popularization of the skull emoji was related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the "dystopian pandemic nightmare" it resulted in. "The laugh-cry emoji has died a sad...

zombie plague, which leads them to risk their lives traveling across a dystopian landscape and fighting superpowered zombies to save the world. Additional...

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The Cleaner (Spanish: El limpiador) is a 2012 Peruvian dystopian drama film written and directed by Adrián Saba. The film was selected as the Peruvian...

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track, "21st Century Schizoid Man", the song's lyrics have a distinctly dystopian feel to them and are presented as a protest to the Cold War. The song's...

syncretic-messianic world religion, which will later reveal itself to be a dystopian world empire that imposes the imperial cult of an "Unholy Trinity" of...

they are smarter, let alone destroy [us]", "scoff[ing] at his peers' dystopian scenarios of supercharged misinformation and even, eventually, human extinction...

Brave New World is a 1998 television movie loosely based on Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel of the same name. The film stars Peter Gallagher and Leonard Nimoy...

2023). "'Vivarium' director Lorcan Finnegan taking Cannes meetings on dystopian project 'Goliath' (exclusive)". Screen Daily. Retrieved November 15, 2024...

drama television series Neighbours (2005–2008), as Clarke Griffin on the dystopian science fiction series The 100 (2014–2020), and as Hannah Carson in the...

whether The Zero Theorem is considered the third part of a satirical dystopian trilogy ("Orwellian triptych") that began with 1985's Brazil and continued...

Megan Crane (born c. 1973) is an American novelist who also writes as Caitlin Crews. She is also one half of upmarket paranormal women's fiction author...

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ranch." The following year he produced and starred as the title role in dystopian drama The Giver and acted in the action fantasy film Seventh Son, which...

difficult and demanding novels, often labeled postmodern, which explore dystopian and melancholic themes. Several of his works, including his novels Satantango...

and denial of truth. It is commonly used in reference to Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four which describes an oppressive fictional totalitarian...

The Book of Disappearance (Arabic: سفر الاختفاء) is a novel by Palestinian writer and journalist Ibtisam Azem [ar]. It follows the stories of Alaa Assaf...

Mockingjay is a 2010 dystopian young adult fiction novel by American author Suzanne Collins. It is chronologically the last installment of The Hunger...

the list is Xi Jinping Dodds, Laurence (12 July 2020). "Inside TikTok's dystopian Chinese censorship machine". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived...

Russell then played the surly anti-hero Snake Plissken in the acclaimed dystopian science fiction film, Escape from New York (1981), directed by Carpenter...

"'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" is a 1965 dystopian science fiction short story by American writer Harlan Ellison. First published in the...

Payback: Money and Power. That same year, he appeared in the Netflix dystopian series Black Knight. Kang played Yoon Sa-wol, a refugee desperate to become...

released "Sexually Rated Programming", a short starring White "set in a dystopian world that sees Angela free a submissive society brainwashed by anti-erotic...

crime drama series Sneaky Pete (2015–2019) and as Ruth Wardell in the TNT dystopian thriller series Snowpiercer (2020–2024). She has also appeared in various...

Gathering Blue is a young adult-dystopian novel written by American author Lois Lowry and was published on September 25, 2000. A companion book to The...

One World Under Doom is a 2025 comic book event, focused on the villain Doctor Doom who brings about a new world order after gaining the title of the Sorcerer...

Kerr, Philip. A Philosophical Investigation, Chatto & Windus, 1992, a dystopian thriller set in 2012. Markson, David. Wittgenstein's Mistress. Dalkey...

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February 2023). "James Graham, Michael Sheen & Adam Curtis Combine On Dystopian Drama 'The Way' For The BBC". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original...

28 Years Later is a 2025 post-apocalyptic coming-of-age horror film produced and directed by Danny Boyle, and written by Alex Garland. The third film in...

has a steampunk theme and is set in a city in a dystopian future. Clockwork is set in the dystopian future city of Watchtower; As Atto you try to get...

Among the Free is a 2006 middle grade dystopian novel by American writer Margaret Peterson Haddix, about a time in which drastic measures have been taken...

ハイランダー：復讐の探索, Hepburn: Hairandā: Fukushū no tansaku) is a 2007 adult animated dystopian fantasy action film and an anime installment in the Highlander franchise...

(2009) and its prequel Orphan: First Kill (2022). She played Clove in the dystopian adventure film The Hunger Games (2012), Alex in the independent film The...

social issues. The stories are set in a variety of twisted near-future and dystopian settings. The book received an overall positive reception, including the...

science fiction film, directed by Min Byeong-cheon [ko]. It is set in a dystopian future, about a colony world that integrates robots, androids and cyborgs...

alternate future counterparts to Cyclops and Jean Grey-Summers from the dystopian Days of Future Past timeline. Although there are other characters bearing...

to journalist April Spisak's article on "What Makes a Good Young Adult Dystopian Novel?" Spisak claims, "Cory Doctorow's Little Brother probably represents...

2021). "'Wool': Harriet Walter, Avi Nash & Chinaza Uche Join Apple's Dystopian Drama As Series Regulars". Deadline. Archived from the original on 6 March...

It uses a modified version of the Quake II engine. Sin is set in the dystopian future of 2037, where John Blade, a commander in a security force named...

A.I. Rising (also known as Ederlezi Rising and Ederlezi ébredése) is a 2018 English-language Serbian science fiction film directed by Lazar Bodroža and...

Delicatessen is a 1991 French post-apocalyptic black comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, starring Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac...

Billboard By Company Selling AI Digital Workers Triggers The Internet: 'Dystopian AF'". Mashable. Council, Stephen. "'They hate people': Bleak tech billboards...

film's producer, Walter Seltzer, went on to work with Heston again in the dystopian science-fiction film Soylent Green in 1973. The Omega Man is the second...

CD Projekt, and premiered on Netflix on September 13, 2022. Set in the dystopian Cyberpunk universe created by Mike Pondsmith, the anime serves as a standalone...

Nicole Dörmer on the second and third seasons of the Amazon Prime Video dystopian alternate history series The Man in the High Castle (2016–18), Susan Parsons...

the following year. Poulter starred in the first and third films of the dystopian science fiction trilogy The Maze Runner (2014–2018), the period film The...

wider prominence as the creator, writer, and executive producer of the dystopian anthology series Black Mirror. His other work includes writing for comedy...

taught texts in United States' middle schools. The novel is set in a dystopian future in which families are limited to two children due to food shortages...

28 Days Later (sometimes stylized with an ellipsis as 28 Days Later...) is a 2002 British post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Danny Boyle and written...

Time as an early feminist innovation in the traditionally male genre of dystopian fiction. Depictions of sexuality and relations between the genders were...

attention for its fast-paced action sequences, Muay Thai choreography, and dystopian setting. The film was released worldwide on Netflix, received positive...

May 2026. Stone, Eric R. (28 November 2023). "Redacted Fantasy: China's Dystopian Censorship of Online Fiction". Lacuna Magazine. Retrieved 22 May 2026...

British culture, with developer Compulsion Games seeking inspiration on dystopian societies from various influences in the media, such as Brazil, Nineteen...

pioneers exploring and colonizing uncharted planets). Some stories depict dystopian terraforming situations where the pastoral setting was created using immoral...

The Last Woman on Earth (also referred to as Last Woman on Earth, as The does not appear in the film's title card) is a 1960 American science fiction film...

home with deep secrets, a woman is punished by serving others in the dystopian future. Sélynne Silver as Daphne George Griffith as Paul Lia Barnett as...

The Wanting Seed is a dystopian novel by the English author Anthony Burgess, written in 1962. Although the novel addresses many societal issues, the primary...

parody of the Marvels series by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross, is set in a dystopian version of the Marvel Universe. Like Marvels, the comic features reporter...

Maggie McOmie, and Ian Wolfe in supporting roles. The film is set in a dystopian future in which the citizens are controlled by android police and mandatory...

cast as the lead character's mother in The Darkest Minds, a young adult dystopian thriller directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson. She also was cast in the Paramount...

Miller and Byron Kennedy. It centres on a series of post-apocalyptic and dystopian action films. The franchise began in 1979 with Mad Max, and was followed...

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post-apocalyptic Afrofuturism Africanfuturism Christian Comedy Utopian and dystopian Dystopian: fiction set in a society that the author views as being worse than...

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GRM. Brainfuck (with GRM pronounced as Grime) is a dystopian novel by the German-Swiss author Sibylle Berg, published in April 2019 by Kiepenheuer & Witsch...

Ismail Kadare Original title Pallati i ëndrrave Language Albanian Genre Dystopian, historical fiction, political fiction Publisher Onufri Publication date...

The Last Chase is a 1981 Canadian-American dystopian science fiction film produced and directed by Martyn Burke for Argosy Films. The film stars Lee Majors...

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(2013–2015). His first major American role was in the Robert Schwentke-directed dystopian The Divergent Series: Allegiant (2016). Skarsgård won multiple nominations...

September 2023. "Sourav Chakraborty to direct a social satire set on a dystopian society". The Times of India. 17 September 2021. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved...

different time periods – 1885, 1955, 1985, and 2015 – as well as in a dystopian alternate 1985. The films contain many sight gags, verbal innuendos and...

Seconds is a 1966 American neo-noir science-fiction psychological horror film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, and...

portal, which brings him to the year 3030. The United States has become a dystopian society ruled by a clone of rapper Lil B claiming himself to be a god...

Protagonist of Ray Bradbury's 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451...

technological failure caused nations to slip into anomie and fracture into dystopian warring tribal microstates. On the European continent, there are hundreds...

review – An AI judge decides Chris Pratt's fate in this absolutely dismal dystopian dreck". The Independent. Retrieved February 10, 2026. Simonpillai, Radheyan...

official, all-encompassing, utopian (or, depending on one's point of view, dystopian) ideology; and that used physical and mental terror and repression to...

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Code Vein II is a 2026 action role-playing video game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. A sequel to Code Vein...

all. You have to forge your own path. It’s almost like an Orwellian, dystopian computer voice saying, 'Give up on your dreams.' It even speaks to some...

Romance of the Clash of the Races in America in the Year 2228) is a work of dystopian science fiction published in 1926 and written by Monteiro Lobato, being...

Big Brother is a character and symbol in George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is ostensibly the leader of Oceania, a totalitarian...

Constantine, Anna Karina and Akim Tamiroff. The film combines the genres of dystopian science fiction and film noir. There are no special props or futuristic...

"Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move". HuffPost. Archived from the original on February 6, 2026. Retrieved...

The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments are American dystopian drama streaming television series created for Hulu by Bruce Miller, based on the 1985 novel...

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folklore as well as in works of fiction such as novels and films. Works of dystopian and (post)apocalyptic fiction convey the fears and anxieties of societies...

Code Vein is an action role-playing game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and Shift, and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It was released worldwide...

In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell, the Two Minutes Hate is the daily period during which members of the Outer and Inner...

Rockerboy is a supplement published by R. Talsorian Games in 1989 for the dystopian near-future role-playing game Cyberpunk. Rockerboy is a supplement that...

years, and Desolate, a drama based on a family of farmers living in a dystopian future, the lattermost four all in 2018. Mulvey was injured in a serious...

Selection Author Kiera Cass Language English Series The Selection Genre Dystopian, Young adult, Romance Publisher HarperCollins Publication date April 14...

adaptation of the Wattpad novel of the same name, which was inspired by the dystopian horror film series The Purge and written by KnightInBlack. The series...

Memoirs of a Survivor is a 1981 British science fiction film directed by David Gladwell, with some scenes filmed at the location of Argyle Street, Norwich...

(February 13, 2020). "Emerson alum Ben Collins finds success covering dystopian beat". The Berkeley Beacon. Archived from the original on April 29, 2023...

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villains Twilight has defeated in her timeline. After experiencing these dystopian futures alongside Twilight, Starlight realizes the destructive nature...

it to Terry Gilliam’s work, while addressing serious themes like the “dystopian power dynamics” between employers and immigrant workers. Tilda Swinton’s...

of fascism." In his monograph Desire and Empathy in Twentieth-Century Dystopian Fiction, Thomas Horan argues that Burdekin introduces sociopolitical enlightenment...

Julia is a fictional character in George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. She is the lover of the novel's protagonist Winston Smith...

marrying one another. His role as a drug addict in Richard Linklater's dystopian, rotoscoped film A Scanner Darkly (2006) was praised; Travers called his...

series is part of the Arrowverse franchise and is primarily set on the dystopian Earth-X, while also partly taking place on Earth-1, a parallel universe...

by Scott Westerfeld, the plot centers around a future post-apocalyptic dystopian society in which people are considered "ugly" until they become "pretty"...

novels, The Wicked Years is aimed at mature audiences and presents a dystopian, more cynical version of the Land of Oz than in other adaptations. The...

Road to Ein Harod) is a 1990 Israeli film, adapted from Amos Kenan's dystopian novel, describing a future civil war in Israel. The title refers to the...

The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys is a post-apocalyptic comic book limited series written by Gerard Way and Shaun Simon, illustrated by Becky Cloonan...

Written over a period of almost thirty years, it combines realist and dystopian surrealist depictions of his home city of Glasgow. Its publication in...

Manga Award in the shōnen category in 2026. Gachiakuta takes place in a dystopian world where there exists a floating country-sized structure known as the...

Richards of The Washington Post called the release "rock-and-roll as dystopian junk mail". The group's press tour for the album was interrupted after...

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Wilderness (2023), and later in an episode of the final season of the dystopian series The Handmaid's Tale. According to Billboard, filmmakers are aware...

groups, often the product of human experimentation, against a typically dystopian backdrop of totalitarian governments or megacorporations which misuse...

Age placed it top of its list of the 50 greatest commercials. Set in a dystopian future modelled after George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Scott's advertisement...

short story, wrote the screenplay. The film, set in 2021, portrays a dystopian future racked by a tech-induced plague, awash with conspiracies, and dominated...

The Times said in May 2025 "The Enhanced Games may be divisive, even dystopian to some. As far as D'Souza is concerned, they are the future — and the...

patronizing aspiring writers, and @DystopianYA parodying young adult fiction such as the Hunger Games series set in a dystopian future, both of which became...

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Fantasy Gothic Southern Horror Magic realism Science Hard Utopian and dystopian Underwater Superhero Theological Thriller Urban Nonfiction Autobiography...

Woken is a 2024 dystopian science fiction thriller film starring Erin Kellyman and Maxine Peake. It is written and directed by Alan Friel in his feature...

The Blue Trail (Portuguese: O Último Azul) is a 2025 dystopian drama film directed by Gabriel Mascaro. Starring Denise Weinberg and Rodrigo Santoro, the...

avoid catching a deadly laughing plague in a growingly polarized and dystopian society. The film is Executive Produced by Emmy-winner Patton Oswalt,...

Oligarchical Collectivism is a fictional book in George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. It is supposedly written by Emmanuel Goldstein...

appeared in Jake Paltrow's science-fiction film Young Ones (2014). Set in a dystopian future where water is scarce, the film had Hoult play Flem Lever, a young...

La Belle Verte (French pronunciation: [la bɛl ˈvɛʁt]; The Beautiful Green, title in English: Visit to a Green Planet) is a 1996 French film written and...

Fantasy Gothic Southern Horror Magic realism Science Hard Utopian and dystopian Underwater Superhero Theological Thriller Urban Nonfiction Autobiography...

Into the Badlands is an American action drama television series that premiered on November 15, 2015, on AMC. Into the Badlands has been described as "a...

production #LaIra. Her breakthrough came when she portrayed Daniela in the dystopian series La valla on Netflix. She then played Almu, a rebellious and charismatic...

things" he has worked in her (see Luke 1:49)." The Handmaid's Tale, а dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid's Tale (1990 film...

Political fiction frequently employs satire, often in the utopian and dystopian genres. This includes totalitarian dystopias of the early 20th century...

Dungeon Crawler Carl is a science fantasy LitRPG book series written by American author Matt Dinniman. Initially self published by Dinniman via online...

pulses". Yorke said its themes include anxiety and dystopia; he felt that dystopian environments were "a really good way of expressing anxiety creatively"...

humanity to reach adulthood. The novel is set against the backdrop of a dystopian United States that has come under the grip of a Christian fundamentalist...

A UK edition was published by Gollancz in 2000. The novel is set in a dystopian future world of 2062, dominated by successor states of a victorious Axis...

and transported, with other combatants pulled from across history, to a dystopian future where they must fight to the death for entertainment on the titular...

Author Robert Sheckley Language English Series Store of Infinity Genre Dystopian fiction Science fiction Publisher Bantam Books Publication date 1960 Publication...

Mad Max: Fury Road is a 2015 Australian post-apocalyptic action film co-written, co-produced and directed by George Miller, who collaborated with Brendan...

media. The Guardian columnist Jessica Valenti called its music video a "dystopian feminist fairytale", playing into the "annoying, boy-crazy" tropes media...

sometimes been portrayed as the political system of choice for controlling dystopian societies in books, video games, TV and movies. Below is a list of fictional...

W is a 2022 Finnish dystopian experimental film directed by Anna Eriksson. It premiered at the 2022 Locarno Film Festival out of competition. Anna Eriksson...

The Humanity Bureau is a 2018 Canadian science fiction thriller film directed by Rob W. King and written by Dave Schultz. The film stars Nicolas Cage,...

Zardoz is a 1974 science fantasy film written, produced, and directed by John Boorman and starring Sean Connery and Charlotte Rampling. It depicts a post-apocalyptic...

Soma is a 2015 survival horror video game developed and published by Frictional Games. It follows Simon Jarrett, who finds himself on an underwater remote...

1980s, including the Japanese production Virus (1980) and the Australian dystopian action film Turkey Shoot (1982). In 1990, she appeared in two horror productions...

Paradise Hills is a 2019 English-language Spanish science fantasy thriller film directed by Alice Waddington in her feature directorial debut. It stars...

a Teen Choice Award and an MTV Movie Award. Snow lives in Panem, the dystopian North America, where an elite Capitol rules over 12 Districts. Each year...

for a Darkening Island (published in the US as Darkening Island) is a dystopian novel by Christopher Priest. First published in 1972, it describes a man's...

with Timnit Gebru and others arguing that it amplified "some futuristic, dystopian sci-fi scenario" instead of current problems with AI. On May 30, 2023...

Akira Psycho Ball (アキラ・サイコ・ボール, Akira Saiko Bōru) is a 2002 digital pinball game based on the popular Akira series created by Katsuhiro Otomo. It features...

criticism of free trade agreements. Corporate rule is also a common theme in dystopian science-fiction media. Corporatocracy can manifest in different forms...

Series The Lunar Chronicles Genre Young adult, romance, science fiction, dystopian Publisher Feiwell & Friends Publication date November 10, 2015 Publication...

Wicked (titled on-screen as Wicked: Part I) is a 2024 American musical fantasy film directed by Jon M. Chu and written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox....

Cyberpunk is a tabletop role-playing game in the dystopian science fiction genre, written by Mike Pondsmith and first published by R. Talsorian Games...

X-Men: First Class (2011), and she had further franchise roles in the dystopian action film series Divergent (2014–2016), the post-apocalyptic action...

October 2022, Hoffman was cast in Francis Ford Coppola's latest film, a dystopian science fiction epic Megalopolis. The film reunited Hoffman with his Midnight...

program. The Electronic Frontier Foundation described Flock Nova as a "dystopian panopticon". After the 404 Media reporting, the company decided not to...

Ling Cage (Chinese: 灵笼, pinyin: líng lóng) is an original sci-fi action animation series produced by YHKT Entertainment (艺画开天, yì huà kāi tiān). Created...

one of the bill's most vocal opponents, has called the act "borderline dystopian" and said he would repeal it if elected to government. Fellow Reform leader...

(2007), Priest (2011) and The Protégé (2021). She portrayed Tori Wu in the dystopian science-fiction action film Divergent (2014), and reprised her role in...

parts of the Tao, supported by quotations from different cultures. The dystopian ideas in The Abolition of Man are fleshed out in Lewis's science-fiction...

Future Force is a 1989 science-fiction film written and directed by David A. Prior and starring David Carradine. A 1990 sequel to the film was made called...

Korean video game publisher Krafton. The company’s first project is a dystopian fantasy game described as "A tyrannical regime is brutally enforcing its...

Moylan; Raffaella Baccolini (eds.), Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination, Routledge, pp. 91–112, ISBN 978-0415966146 Jesser, Nancy...

000. The war is described as a major contributing factor to the game's dystopian environment. The books are published in several media by the Black Library...

Thomas-Corr, Johanna (15 January 2019). "The Wall by John Lanchester review – dystopian fable for our time". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 5 February...

27 March 2026 in Lille, France. The festival opened with the American dystopian drama series The Testaments and closed with the Canadian comedy-drama...

played the dual role of Charlotte Hale / Dolores Abernathy in the HBO dystopian science fiction series Westworld (2016–2022), for which she was nominated...

sitcom The Kominsky Method. Her first big role came playing Natalie in the dystopian series The Handmaid's Tale. She had a recurring role in the sci-fi drama...

CITY（バースト・シティ）, Hepburn: Bakuretsu Toshi Bāsuto Shiti) is a Japanese dystopian punk rock musical / action film. Released in 1982, the film was directed...

2025-07-03. Gorin, David. "REVIEW | Sky Full of Elephants: Cebo Campbell's dystopian novel is a simplistic missed opportunity". News24. Retrieved 2025-07-02...

"echoing Roosevelt's language in calling out the 'robber barons' of a new dystopian Gilded Age." These comments were made in the context of several tech billionaires...

of the Dog (2021). In 2024, following a two-year hiatus, she led the dystopian thriller film Civil War, and costarred with Channing Tatum in the true-crime...

In the Country of Last Things is a dystopian epistolary novel written by American author Paul Auster, first published in 1987. The novel takes the form...

Hell Followed With Us is a 2022 dystopian fantasy horror young adult novel by American author Andrew Joseph White. The book was White’s first published...

songs. The kind that have the power to transport your mind out of the dystopian nightmare we are all navigating, right into the Santa Cruz ocean waves...

Terminator (1984). The tech-noir presents "technology as a destructive and dystopian force that threatens every aspect of our reality". It can be characterized...

following year, he portrayed Hong Konger journalist Tony in Alex Garland's dystopian thriller Civil War. On September 19, 2025, Lee was announced as the new...

Delirium is a dystopian young adult romance novel written by Lauren Oliver, published in 2011 by HarperCollins under its HarperTeen division. The story...

that the board was similar to the Ministry of Truth from George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Maher favors having a strong military, but...

If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? is a 1971 American Christian exploitation horror film directed by Ron Ormond, featuring Southern Baptist minister...

Captive State is a 2019 American science fiction thriller film directed, co-written, and produced by Rupert Wyatt. The film stars John Goodman, Ashton...

Voyagers is a 2021 science fiction thriller film written, co-produced and directed by Neil Burger. It stars Tye Sheridan, Lily-Rose Depp, Fionn Whitehead...

end, the storyline of Year Zero borrows heavily from such well-known dystopian fiction as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (government surveillance)...

The Scarlet Empire is a dystopian novel written by David MacLean Parry, a political satire first published in 1906. The book was one item in the major...

of having a limited number of neighbors" and is "a list of hellishly dystopian tropes about city evils that seems half-borrowed from Hank Williams Jr...

premiered July 7, 2025 at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. In a dystopian alternate 1991, media conglomerate North American Assessment and Advertising...

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2023 sequel, Shazam! Fury of the Gods. He has also appeared in the 2019 dystopian science fiction film Riot Girls, and makes appearances in the 2020 Netflix...

January 11, 2023. Cumming, Ed (January 10, 2023). "The Last of Us, review: dystopian thriller is the greatest video game adaptation ever made". The Telegraph...

Pohly appeared in three consecutive 2014 short films: Theme Song Rebel, a dystopian musical comedy; Somebody, a satire on social network apps; and Meet the...

intolerable alternative worlds based on an assortment of utopian (and dystopian) premises: Eliminating over-population is disastrous after Orr dreams...

Nex Machina is a 2017 shoot 'em up video game developed and published by Housemarque. The game was released for PlayStation 4 and Windows on 20 June 2017...

many methods of audio surveillance. The movie V for Vendetta, a 2005 dystopian political thriller film directed by James McTeigue and written by the...

Ellise (5 December 2025). "Emma Corrin and Maika Monroe on starring in dystopian fairytale 100 Nights of Hero, filming in a haunted estate and the importance...

The Society is an American mystery teen drama television series created by Christopher Keyser, that was released via streaming on Netflix on May 10, 2019...

Never Let Me Go is a 2010 British dystopian romantic drama film based on Kazuo Ishiguro's 2005 novel of the same name. The film was directed by Mark Romanek...