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🤖 Dystopian future & cyberpunk films and TV shows
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What happens when rebellion, oppression, revolutions, wars, overpopulation, disasters, and artificial intelligence take over the world? Here is a list of plausible bleak futures that film makers have envisioned for us.


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TV Show: Amerika ( 1987 )
America has been bloodlessly taken over by the Soviet Union, leading to slave-labor camps for some, collaboration for others and rebellion for yet others.
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TV Show: Fear the Walking Dead: Dead in the Water ( 2022 )
Set on the eve of the outbreak, Dead in the Water centers on new father Riley and his shipmates aboard the USS Pennsylvania submarine and their fight for survival as the vessel becomes a nuclear-fueled, walker-filled death-trap.
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TV Show: Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace ( 2016 )
Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace is a quarter-hour live-action comedy series features sketch comedy troupe Million Dollar Extreme. A super pure tragicomedy rosary of pious prayers bringing unity, joy and excellent living to the people of all sizes, sexualities and colors, this series stars misandrous comedioterrorists Sam Hyde, Nick Rochefort, Charls Carroll, and is directed by Andrew Ruse. World Peace will unlock your closeted bigoted imagination, toss your inherent racism into the burning trash and cleanse your intolerant spirit with pure unapologetic American comedy. Open your eyes or you'll get thumb goggles, for what naive slob expects hemlock medicine to taste of milkshake? For the record, none of us plan on killing ourselves, and if we do it's CIA or Mossad.
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TV Show: Fist of the North Star ( 1984 )
In a post-nuclear future, human race has made many steps. Normal people have become slaves, while genetically modified giants rule the world. Gunpowder is a distant memory and martial arts is the only weapon a man can count on. Two schools face each other in the battle for dominion: Hokuto and Nanto. Kenshiro is the rightful successor of Hokuto school, while Shin is Nanto's. Shin stole Ken's girlfriend Julia and Ken is looking for her. Kenshiro travels the barren wasterland of post-apocalyptic Earth as seeks to rescue Julia. As the series progresses, we are introduced to the six Grand Masters of the Nanto Seiken school, as well as Kenshiro's three adoptive brothers, also trained in the art of Hokuto Shinken. Eventually, Kenshiro's ultimate rival becomes none other than his eldest brother, Raoh, a would-be conqueror who does not recognize Kenshiro as a worthy succcessor.
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TV Show: No Tomorrow ( 2016 )
No Tomorrow centers on Evie, a risk-averse quality-control assessor who falls for free-spirited thrill seeker Xavier - only to find out he lives his life that way because he believes the apocalypse is coming.No Tomorrow is described as a romantic comedy with the ultimate ticking clock (8 months and 12 days, to be exact).
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TV Show: La Zona ( 2017 )
Three years after a meltdown in the nearby nuclear power plant devastated a rural, wooded area close to a major city in the north of Spain, Inspector Hector Uria returns to the police force after his treatment and recovery from being the only survivor among those who were the first to go in and help. But when a mutilated body turns up in the forbidden zone, Hector is drawn into an investigation that will put in question the new order established outside of the zone ever since the catastrophe took place.
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TV Show: Knights of God ( 1987 )
Set in the year 2020, shows a Britain ruled by the Knights of God, a fascist and anti-Christian religious order that came to power during a brutal civil war twenty years previously.
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TV Show: Black Knight ( 2023 )
In a dystopian 2071 devastated by air pollution, a refugee fights to join the ranks of the powerful delivery men for access to food and survival.
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TV Show: The Martian Chronicles ( 1980 )
Earth sends its first manned probe to Mars in 1999, and a jealous Martian murders the two astronauts when his wife has erotic dreams of meeting them. Members of a subsequent expedition are hypnotized into believing that they have landed in the childhood community of their leader and have been reunited with deceased family and friends, and they are poisoned by the Martians. Col. John Wilder leads a third expedition and learns that a chicken pox virus brought to Mars by the first two expeditions has almost eradicated the Martian population. A member of Wilder's team becomes obsessed with protecting Mars from Earthman and murders some of the others in Wilder's party, before Wilder kills him. Colonists arrive on Mars to settle, among them priests seeking God, and a lone Martian masquerades as the most desired persons of various settlers. Global war on Earth reduces man's natal planet to radioactive waste, and most of the settlers returned there prior to the holocaust. Wilder struggles to assemble the remaining humans on Mars, who cope with their loneliness in different ways and will not leave their piece of Mars, before Wilder meets a Martian of past or future who tells him the secret of simple Martian life and convinces him to abandon the Earth lifestyle.
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TV Show: Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future ( 1987 )
Earth, 2147. The legacy of the Metal Wars, where man fought machines—and machines won. Bio-Dreads: Monstrous creations that hunt down human survivors—and digitize them. Volcania: Center of the Bio-Dread Empire-stronghold and fortress of Lord Dread, feared ruler of this new order. But from the fires of the Metal Wars arose a new breed of warrior, born and trained to bring down Lord Dread and his Bio-Dread Empire. They were Soldiers Of The Future — mankind's last hope. Their leader, Captain Jonathan Power (Tim Dunigan), master of the incredible Power Suits, which transform each soldier into a one-man attack force, Major Matthew 'Hawk' Masterson (Peter MacNeill), fighter in the skies, Lieutenant Michael 'Tank' Ellis (Sven-Ole Thorsen), ground assault unit, Sergeant Robert 'Scout' Baker (Maurice Dean Wint), espionage and communications, and Corporal Jennifer 'Pilot'
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TV Show: Kiss Me First ( 2018 )
Kiss Me First moves between the real and virtual animated worlds. When Leila stumbles across Red Pill, a secret paradise, hidden on the edges of her favourite game, she meets Tess. Tess is everything that Leila is not: hedonistic, impulsive and insatiable. So when Tess turns up in Leila's real life uninvited, Leila's world is forever changed. But then a member of the group mysteriously disappears and Leila begins to suspect that maybe the hidden sanctuary isn't the digital Eden its creator Adrian claims it to be. Now, Leila's real journey begins.
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TV Show: Last Hope ( 2018 )
The new series is set in a near-future world where the boundary between human being and AI is vague. A rapid biological evolution, similar to "Cambrian Explosion," is caused by one incident. This incident turns into the genesis of a new jostle for supremacy, and the influence of the evolution goes beyond biological framework and spreads to various kinds of materials and technologies. The era of massive evolution involving diverse existences, such as human, machines, and biotechnologies, is coming. Characters fight an existential war in such a world.
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TV Show: Ultraviolet: Code 044 ( 2008 )
In 2140, rebels infected with Phage are fighting for independence from corporate government on a space-station-turned-metropolis. Genetically modified melancholic 19-year-old dying corporate female assassin will decide the outcome.
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TV Show: Аванпост ( 2020 )
No asteroid struck the Earth, no terrorists put the world in danger, no atomic war started, but something has still gone very wrong. Contact between most towns and cities on Earth has been severed. A small ring-like area in Eastern Europe still has electricity, and life signs are still being reported from Space. But what military forces find outside this Ring is shocking. There are dead corpses everywhere: in stores, in cars, on roads, in hospitals and railway stations. Who or what is destroying all life on Earth. Who or what is destroying all life on Earth. How long will the last Blackout of humankind survive?
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TV Show: Harsh Realm ( 1999 )
A month before leaving the army, Lieutenant Tom Hobbes is rousted from bed in the middle of the night and taken to a secret location for one last mission: test a simulated virtual reality game used to teach situation war strategy. After being briefed on the top-secret project, code-named Harsh Realm, Hobbes is given his objective: eliminate Major Omar Santiago, who has taken the game hostage. But upon entering Harsh Realm, Hobbes discovers he is trapped there - and the deadly game will never end unless he completes his mission.
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TV Show: Refugiados ( 2015 )
Mankind is suffering the biggest exodus in history. 3,000 million people from the future have traveled to the present to escape from an imminent global disaster. All the refugees must obey two rules: they must not talk about the future and they must not contact their families.

The arrival of the refugees takes everyone by surprise, including the Cruz family. The series centers on their story, the story of Samuel, Emma and little Ani. A shift in their existence after the arrival of a mysterious refugee, Alex, who has an incredible mission that will change their lives, and in order to accomplish his mission, he will not hesitate to do what there is to do: including breaking the rules.
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TV Show: Spooks: Code 9 ( 2008 )
In an alternative 2013, London has been evacuated following a nuclear bomb. Six new MI5 recruits take up the challenge of gathering intelligence in the fightback.
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TV Show: Shinsekai Yori ( 2012 )
The story is set in Japan a millennium from now. Five children—the protagonist Saki, Satoru, Maria, Mamoru, and Shun—have been born and raised in a tranquil town that can be described as a utopia, overflowing with water and green foilage.After a certain incident, Saki and the others come to realize the true nature of their world. The five throw themselves into life-threatening adventure and fighting to protect friends and a world on the brink of collapse.
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TV Show: Cold Lazarus ( 1996 )
Cold Lazarus is a mini-series set in 24th century Britain. The ruined streets are unsafe and society is run by powerful commercial corporations. Experiences are almost all virtual, and anything deemed authentic has either been banned or replaced by synthetic substitutes.At a cryonics research institute in London, a group of scientists led by Dr. Emma Porlock are working on reviving the mind of the 20th-century writer Daniel Feeld, whose head was frozen after his death.
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TV Show: exception ( 2022 )
Space horror anime series based on a new story by Hirotaka Adachi.

In the distant future, human beings have been forced to leave earth and migrate to another galaxy. An advanced team of spacecraft arrives at a planet that is to be terraformed. Each member of the team is output by a biological 3D printer.
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TV Show: Steins;Gate 0 ( 2018 )
The dark untold story of Steins;Gate that leads with the eccentric mad scientist Okabe, struggling to recover from a failed attempt at rescuing Kurisu. He decides to give up and abandons his lively scientist alter ego, in pursuit to forget the past. When all seems to be normal, he is seemingly pulled back into the past by meeting an acquaintance of Kurisu, who tells him that they have begun testing a device that stores the memory of a human and creates a simulation of them with their characteristics and personalities. Okabe begins testing and finds out that the simulation of Kurisu has brought back anguish and some new unexpected tragedies. Zero is a side story that explores events from the Beta Attractor Field's future that contribute in making the end of the original story possible.
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TV Show: Bubblegum Crisis ( 1987 )
BGC is the story of four mercenaries living in Tokyo in the year 2033. After a massive earthquake that destroyes much of Tokyo, the four mercenaries, dubbed the Knight Sabers, are left fighting against the GENOM Corporation, its evil androids, and everything it stands against.
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TV Show: Ingress ( 2018 )
Since he was little, Makoto had a strange power which enabled him to read the memories of objects he touched. Hiding his uncontrollable power, he works as a special agent in the police force. One day, while investigating an explosion at a laboratory that researches a unknown substance called "XM", he sees a mysterious memory. The memory was from Sarah's ring, who was the sole survivor of the accident. It was a sight of a person being swallowed into a red light and disappearing. Makoto becomes embroiled in a massive conspiracy.
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TV Show: Avenger ( 2003 )
Mars has been colonized and is a world where children have been replaced by robot servents known as 'dolls'. Layla is a skilled fighter with a tragic past who travels about the world. Her companions are Nei, a strange and unique doll with some unknown ties to Layla, and Speedy, who is a doll breeder. The founders of Mars see the trio as a threat to their world, and each time they attack Layla and Nei a bit more of their mysterious past and future is revealed.
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TV Show: Yakamoz S-245 ( 2022 )
After disaster strikes Earth, a marine biologist on a submarine research mission must fight to survive with the crew as a conspiracy comes to light.
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TV Show: Circuit Breakers ( 2022 )
Circuit Breakers is a half-hour thought-provoking futuristic anthology series about middle-schoolers in the near future that uses science fiction as a backdrop to tell universal stories about growing up. But not everything is as it seems, and their curiosity leads to chaos. Each installment of Circuit Breakers features a sci-fi twist on kid relatable stories, with the intent of kids and families asking themselves how they would act in each unique situation.
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TV Show: Revisions ( 2019 )
When Shibuya time-warps to 2388, high schooler Daisuke and his friends are conscripted by AHRV agent Milo to fight the hostile cyborg race, revisions.
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TV Show: Sıcak Kafa ( 2022 )
In a world shaken by an epidemic of madness that spreads through language and speech, a former linguist Murat Siyavus who has been at a long lasting hideout, is the only person mysteriously unaffected by this disease. Hunted by the ruthless Anti-Epidemic Institution, Murat is forced to leave the safe zone and flee within the flames and ruins of the mysterious streets of Istanbul, where he searches for the secret of his "hot skull" - a lasting mark of the disease.
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TV Show: Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 ( 1998 )
In the aftermath of the great earthquake, one ruthless corporation stands ready to take over the devastated city of Tokyo with an army of synthetic monsters. Only a single band of female vigilantes opposes the monolithic power of Genom - but in this case, four women are all it takes! Armed with the most incredible combat suits ever designed, the Knight Sabers wage a desperate war in the shadows, combating the monstrous by-products of technology run amuck with courage, sweat and blood!
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TV Show: Circle ( 2017 )
Taking place in both the present year and in the year 2037, an allien approaches earth who thinks that the emotion of humans should be controlled or they will have no future to continue, until he gets involved with them.
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TV Show: Kamen Rider Amazons ( 2016 )
Kamen Rider Amazons is a web-only Kamen Rider season based on the 1974 TV series Kamen Rider Amazon and is a part of Toei Company's Super Hero Year project. It premiered on the Japanese version of Amazon Prime on April 1, 2016. The catchphrase for the net series is "Open Your Amazons". Later in July, an edited version of Amazons featuring a new opening will be aired on two TV channels: the BS Asahi and Tokyo MX at the late night time and the catchphrase is changed into "Hunt, start".
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TV Show: Robotomy ( 2010 )
Two teenage robot outcasts coast through life on the planet Insanus, which is inhabited by super violent murderous robots who are always trying to destroy each other, for no reason.
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TV Show: An Englishman's Castle ( 1978 )
History took a different turn. Germany won World War II and the Nazis have occupied England for over 38 years. A writer of a popular British wartime soap opera discovers that his mistress is a Jewish girl and is asked to help the Resistance.
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TV Show: The Fire Next Time ( 1993 )
Set in 2017, the plot focuses on a family who, after a series of fires begins to break out due to global warming, must struggle to survive a natural disaster that devastates the earth.
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TV Show: ID-0 ( 2017 )
I-Machines are the general term for robots that operate in extreme environments. While Alliance Academy student Maya Mikuri is in the middle of operating an I-Machine, she gets involved in an incident with pirates, and ends up serving as a crew member on an excavation company's spaceship.
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TV Show: Meta Runner ( 2019 )
Meta Runner is an Australian computer animated web television series created and developed by Glitch Productions