Most Popular "Dark Future" Titles

1. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

R | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in postapocalyptic Australia in search for her home-land with the help of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshipper, and a drifter named Max.

Director: George Miller | Stars: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Zoë Kravitz

Votes: 550,342 | Gross: $153.63M

2. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)

PG-13 | 137 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

As the war of Panem escalates to the destruction of other districts, Katniss Everdeen, the reluctant leader of the rebellion, must bring together an army against President Snow, while all she holds dear hangs in the balance.

Director: Francis Lawrence | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson

Votes: 165,104 | Gross: $281.67M

3. Terminator Genisys (2015)

PG-13 | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

When John Connor, leader of the human resistance, sends Sgt. Kyle Reese back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor and safeguard the future, an unexpected turn of events creates a fractured timeline.

Director: Alan Taylor | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Clarke, Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney

Votes: 187,902 | Gross: $89.73M

4. The Scorch Trials (2015)

PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

After having escaped the Maze, the Gladers now face a new set of challenges on the open roads of a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles.

Director: Wes Ball | Stars: Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Giancarlo Esposito

Votes: 137,594 | Gross: $81.69M

5. X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.

Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy

Votes: 513,147 | Gross: $233.91M

6. The Expanse (2015– )

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A police detective in the asteroid belt, the first officer of an interplanetary ice freighter and an earth-bound United Nations executive slowly discover a vast conspiracy that threatens the Earth's rebellious colony on the asteroid belt.

Stars: Thomas Jane, Steven Strait, Cas Anvar, Dominique Tipper

Votes: 17,892

7. Terminator Salvation (2009)

PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

In 2018, a mysterious new weapon in the war against the machines, half-human and half-machine, comes to John Connor on the eve of a resistance attack on Skynet. But whose side is he on, and can he be trusted?

Director: McG | Stars: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood

Votes: 285,807 | Gross: $125.32M

8. Elysium (I) (2013)

R | 109 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

In the year 2154, the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth. A man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.

Director: Neill Blomkamp | Stars: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga

Votes: 337,672 | Gross: $93.05M

9. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 (2012 Video)

PG-13 | 76 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Batman has not been seen for ten years. A new breed of criminal ravages Gotham City, forcing 55-year-old Bruce Wayne back into the cape and cowl. But, does he still have what it takes to fight crime in a new era?

Director: Jay Oliva | Stars: Peter Weller, Ariel Winter, David Selby, Wade Williams

Votes: 36,134

10. WALL·E (2008)

G | 98 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.

Director: Andrew Stanton | Stars: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard

Votes: 717,639 | Gross: $223.81M

11. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 (2013 Video)

PG-13 | 76 min | Animation, Action, Crime

The Batman has returned after a 10-year absence. The Gotham authorities want to arrest him. An old foe wants a reunion. The Feds want the Man of Tomorrow to put a stop to him.

Director: Jay Oliva | Stars: Peter Weller, Ariel Winter, Michael Emerson, David Selby

Votes: 29,957

12. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008–2009)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Set after the events in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Sarah Connor and her son, John, try to stay under-the-radar from the government, as they plot to destroy the computer network, Skynet, in hopes of preventing Armageddon.

Stars: Lena Headey, Thomas Dekker, Summer Glau, Richard T. Jones

Votes: 51,239

13. Click (2006)

PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A workaholic architect finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices.

Director: Frank Coraci | Stars: Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken, David Hasselhoff

Votes: 246,223 | Gross: $137.34M

14. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)

PG | 76 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Batman is wrongly implicated in a series of murders of mob bosses actually done by a new vigilante assassin.

Directors: Eric Radomski, Bruce Timm, Kevin Altieri, Boyd Kirkland, Frank Paur, Dan Riba | Stars: Kevin Conroy, Dana Delany, Hart Bochner, Stacy Keach

Votes: 29,438 | Gross: $5.62M

15. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

PG | 117 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy

Warrior/pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet.

Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Sumi Shimamoto, Mahito Tsujimura, Hisako Kyôda, Gorô Naya

Votes: 96,104

16. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)

PG-13 | 106 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A scientist makes a last stand on Earth with the help of a ragtag team of soldiers against an invasion of alien phantoms.

Directors: Hironobu Sakaguchi, Motonori Sakakibara | Stars: Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Ming-Na Wen, Ving Rhames

Votes: 72,215 | Gross: $32.13M

17. Power/Rangers (2015)

14 min | Short, Action, Sci-Fi

A dark and gritty re-imagining of the classic franchise.

Director: Joseph Kahn | Stars: Katee Sackhoff, James Van Der Beek, Russ Bain, Will Yun Lee

Votes: 2,227

18. Wizards (1977)

PG | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy

On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a wizard and his faire folk comrades fight an evil wizard who's using technology in his bid for conquest.

Director: Ralph Bakshi | Stars: Jesse Welles, Bob Holt, Richard Romanus, David Proval

Votes: 7,469

19. Millennium (1989)

PG-13 | 108 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

An NTSB investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster meets a warrior woman from 1000 years in the future.

Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd, Daniel J. Travanti, Robert Joy

Votes: 4,746 | Gross: $5.78M

20. Life After People (2009– )

TV-PG | Documentary, Sci-Fi

What would happen to planet earth if the human race were to suddenly disappear forever? Would ecosystems thrive? What remnants of our industrialized world would survive? What would crumble ... See full summary »

Stars: James Lurie, Steven S. Ross, Gordon Masterton, Tanya Wattenburg Komas

Votes: 863

21. Avalon (2001)

R | 107 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

In a future world, young people are increasingly becoming addicted to an illegal (and potentially deadly) battle simulation game called Avalon. When Ash, a star player, hears of rumors that... See full summary »

Director: Mamoru Oshii | Stars: Malgorzata Foremniak, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Jerzy Gudejko, Dariusz Biskupski

Votes: 11,498

22. Texhnolyze (2003– )

TV-MA | Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi

In a man-made underground society, descendants of a banished generation vie for control of the crumbling city of Lux. Ichise, an orphan turned prize fighter, loses a leg and an arm to ... See full summary »

Stars: Justin Gross, Satoshi Haga, Shizuka Itô, Carrie Savage

Votes: 1,493

23. Sky Blue (2003)

Unrated | 86 min | Action, Fantasy, Animation

Civilization has been destroyed by war and pollution, but the survivors have built the last city of Ecoban. As most natural resources have been exhausted, Ecoban is powered by pollution. ... See full summary »

Director: Moon-saeng Kim | Stars: Andrew Ableson, Cathy Cavadini, Joon-ho Chung, Mark Lindsay

Votes: 8,073

24. Retrograde (2004)

R | 93 min | Action, Sci-Fi

Two time travelers with opposing views are sent back to the present aboard a research ship in the Antarctic to prevent a global biological disaster from occuring.

Director: Christopher Kulikowski | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Silvia De Santis, Joe Montana, Gary Daniels

Votes: 1,282

25. Life After People (2008 TV Movie)

108 min | Documentary, Sci-Fi

Visit the ghostly villages surrounding Chernobyl (abandoned by humans after the 1986 nuclear disaster), travel to remote islands off the coast of Maine to search for abandoned towns that ... See full summary »

Director: David de Vries | Stars: Struan Rodger, John Anderson, David Brin, Bill Bruninga

Votes: 2,559

26. Habitat (1997)

R | 120 min | Sci-Fi

In a future world where Earth's ozone layer has been completely destroyed, a brilliant but obsessed scientist, Hank Symes uses illegally obtained biological materials for an experiment that... See full summary »

Director: Rene Daalder | Stars: Balthazar Getty, Tchéky Karyo, Alice Krige, Kenneth Welsh

Votes: 727

27. Future Kick (1991)

R | 76 min | Action, Sci-Fi

On Earth in the future Don "The Dragon" Wilson takes on a sinister corporation that trades in black market human body parts. He single handedly manages to restore law and order in a motion ... See full summary »

Director: Damian Klaus | Stars: Don Wilson, Meg Foster, Chris Penn, Eb Lottimer

Votes: 248

28. Droid Gunner (1995)

R | 90 min | Action, Sci-Fi

In the future, the threat of global takeover by cyborg units has forced Earth to outlaw their use. But when four female androids are smuggled to Earth, Jack Ford is assigned to track them ... See full summary »

Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Marc Singer, Matthias Hues, Rochelle Swanson, Robin Clarke

Votes: 457

29. The Fire Next Time (1993– )

Not Rated | 195 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

2017: The greenhouse effect and global warming take their toll as droughts, floods, and hurricanes wreak mass destruction in a world gone mad, one family struggles to survive against all odds...

Stars: Craig T. Nelson, Bonnie Bedelia, Richard Farnsworth, Jürgen Prochnow

Votes: 232

30. Hybrid (1997 Video)

R | 86 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

After an apocalyptic alien attack on Earth, an ion storm hits the planet. A small team of male and female commandos takes shelter in an abandoned research facility. However, something worse than the aliens awaits them in there.

Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: John Blyth Barrymore, Brinke Stevens, J.J. North, Tim Abell

Votes: 462

31. Damnatus (2008)

108 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

Fan movie based on Warhammer 40k universe. A holy Inquisitor is sent to a distant planet to inspect rumors of heresy. A band of mercenaries is hired to find the heretics' base in an abandoned industrial complex, but something awakens.

Director: Huan Vu | Stars: Benjamin Ade-Thurow, Günther Arnulf, Ernst Bamert, Norbert Bauschatz

Votes: 71

32. Intrepid (II)

Action | Completed

Time is a corrupted resource held in a bleak future. Phoenix should have died before he was born but has a gift to control the odds. With everyone he trusts now taken from his life he must harness a power born in him or time is up forever.

Director: Cyrus Hogg | Stars: Booboo Stewart, Louis Mandylor, Brittany Curran, Jessika Van

33. The Last Child (1971 TV Movie)

73 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Van Heflin As Sen. Quincy George.

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Michael Cole, Van Heflin, Harry Guardino, Janet Margolin

Votes: 121

34. Chrysalis (2008)

PG-13 | 88 min | Sci-Fi

As our world suffers the ravages of humankind, scientists look for ways to sustain life. When one of them falls ill and a chrysalis forms around him, a tug of war ensues about the future of the stricken scientist.

Director: Tony Baez Milan | Stars: John Klemantaski, Darren Kendrick, Glen Vaughan, Corey Landis

Votes: 269

35. Timesplitters 2 (2002 Video Game)

T | Action, Adventure, Comedy

In 2401, humanity is at war with relentless aliens, TimeSplitters. Space marines Cortez and Hart travel through time to stop the aliens in various spots, including Wild West, zombie-infested Gothic church and Blade Runner-esque future.

Directors: David Doak, Stephen Ellis | Stars: Tom Clarke Hill, Anna Burford, Kevin Clarke, Imme Dahlberg

Votes: 513

36. Sonic CD (1993 Video Game)

E | Animation, Action, Adventure

Sonic must save the past, present, and future of Little Planet, as well as rescue Amy Rose from his evil double, Metal Sonic.

Director: Naoto Ohshima | Star: Lynn Harris

Votes: 262

37. The Gunslinger Grifter Logan

73 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | Post-production

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Director: Stephen Rubac | Stars: Steve Polites, Vincent De Paul, Danny Gavigan, Lawrence Whitener

38. Skint (2013– )

Documentary

A true account of life on an English housing estate. With those on Government handouts, drugs, booze & long-term unemployment.

Star: Ralph Ineson

Votes: 32

39. Nightsatan and the Loops of Doom (2013)

24 min | Short, Action, Sci-Fi

A post-holocaust action adventure set on the deserted wastelands of Eastern Finland in 2034. A trio of synthesizer warriors calling themselves Nightsatan conduct musical rituals in order to maintain what is left of their sanity.

Director: Christer Lindström | Stars: Inhalator II, Mazathoth, Tomi Tuominen, Miska Kaukonen

Votes: 139

40. The Airzone Solution (1993 Video)

65 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

It is the near future and, thanks to the Industrial age, an environmental catastrophe looms. The public is given gas masks as Toxic Air Alerts increase and it looks like the Earth is slowly... See full summary »

Director: Bill Baggs | Stars: Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison, Sylvester McCoy, Heather Tracy

Votes: 113

41. Smog (1973 TV Movie)

86 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

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Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Marie-Luise Marjan, Wolfgang Grönebaum, Heinz Schacht, Michaela Henner

Votes: 131

42. Levity: Xero Error Minus1 (2010)

8 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy

Scientists from the future create Project Xero Error to track lost history. An advanced Natural Intelligence Cyborg XE7 witnesses an unexplained event in time.

Director: Ashraf Ghori | Stars: Mouna Abbassy, Adnan Arif, Nasser Chhipa, Rhiannon Downie

Votes: 14

43. Lost Memories (2012)

3 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi

A beautiful couple, a city over-saturated by holograms and digital stream. A Polaroid camera. Tomorrow will never be the same.

Director: François Ferracci | Stars: Luka Kellou, Magali Heu

Votes: 72

44. The 3rd Letter (2010)

15 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi

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Director: Grzegorz Jonkajtys | Stars: Rodrigo Lopresti, Dulcie Anne Rosales, Can Tuncer

Votes: 146

45. No Vacancy (2005)

90 min | Documentary

Global responses to the Human Population Explosion; impact on the environment and biodiversity.

Director: Michael Tobias | Stars: Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, Kalpana Apte, Rofina Asuru, John Awoonor-Williams

Votes: 13

46. Second Wind (2012 Video)

7 min | Short, Sci-Fi

The Earth is uninhabited any more. There is no air to breathe. No water, no vegetation. But from time to time among waste and barren soils there appears strange metal flowers - as if it is ones desperate effort to revive the dead nature.

Director: Sergey Tsyss | Star: Artyom Parhomenko

Votes: 12

47. Happy Days (2012)

8 min | Short, Drama

A post-apocalyptic tale of a brother and sister who at the most desperate moment of their lives meet a mysterious man that will change their life.

Director: Shant Dolbakian | Stars: Adrian Jaworski, Alexandra Morgan, Andrew Rotilio

Votes: 8

48. Mayhem's Razor (2008)

16 min | Short, Crime, Sci-Fi

It is the year 2012. Gina Tally, widow to a murdered cop, is awoken Christmas Eve night to loud sounds coming from downstairs. She discovers wounded Barkley Rains, a gang member to Mayhem's... See full summary »

Director: Chase Kuertz | Stars: Deanna Glasser, Shawn Whitsell, Rashad Rayford, Marc Allen

49. Canopy (2011)

Short, Fantasy

In the not too far off future, the world has started to decay. Forests are dying, and the sap of a certain tree becomes very valuable. Conflict arises between those trying to protect the ... See full summary »

Director: Ben Chwirka | Stars: Chris Chavez, Kristen Rakes, Amy Baklini, Lava Buckley

50. Dream (II) (2010)

Short, Drama

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Director: Khoroldorj Choijoovanchig | Stars: Narankhand.Ts, Yalalt.n

Votes: 8