Films about Totalitarian Societies (Dystopia)

By: BaalMan

Films about government control over people lives

Dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος, alternatively, cacotopia,¹ kakotopia, cackotopia, or anti-utopia) is the often futuristic vision of a society in which conditions of life are miserable and characterized by poverty, oppression, war, violence, disease, pollution, nuclear fallout and/or the abridgement of human rights, resulting in widespread unhappiness, suffering, and other kinds of pain. (source: Wikipedia)

Rules:
Only ficcitonal societies

• 01
  Strange Days
  Kathryn Bigelow
• 02
  Zardoz
  John Boorman
• 03
  Escape from New York
  John Carpenter
• 04
  Children of Men
  Alfonso Cuarón
• 05
  Brazil
  Terry Gilliam
• 06
  Alphaville
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 07
  Metropolis
  Fritz Lang
• 08
  THX 1138
  George Lucas
• 09
  La jetée
  Chris Marker
• 10
  Mad Max
  George Miller
• 11
  Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
  George Miller
• 12
  Gattaca
  Andrew Niccol
• 13
  V for Vendetta
  James McTeigue
• 14
  1984
  Michael Radford
• 15
  Fahrenheit 451
  François Truffaut
• 16
  The Matrix
  Andy Wachowski
• 17
  The Trial
  Orson Welles
• 18
  Code 46
  Michael Winterbottom
• 19
  Sleeper
  Woody Allen
• 20
  The Girl from Monday
  Hal Hartley
• 21
  The Handmaid's Tale
  Volker Schlöndorff