Dystopian Movies
Dystopia is the future seen through the suspicion of the present. Controlled societies, individuals crushed by an invisible power, worlds collapsing after a catastrophe: dystopian cinema takes our fears of today and pushes them to their extreme, to force us to look them in the face.
Here you will find a selection of dystopian movies to stream, from literary adaptations to portraits of isolation and the pandemic, up to post-apocalyptic tales. There are emptied cities, lockdowns that turn into nightmares, lonely men facing systems bigger than themselves. Every film works on one question: what remains of the human when everything around us breaks?
Dystopia offers no reassurance. It does not predict the future, it uses it as a mirror, and it does so with a cinema that is often small, independent, free to imagine the worst. A genre for those who love stories that disturb and make you think.
-
Artificial Chronicles
Movie + 1 extra
Drama, science fiction, directed by Fabio Del Greco, Italy, 2026.
Giuseppe Vitale is a journalist working in a newsroom where the news is manipulated by artificial intelligence, which is rapidly replacing human reporters. As AI extends its control over every aspect of collective life, from propag... -
1984
Movie
Drama, science fiction, by Michael Anderson, United Kingdom, 1956.
Orwell's most controversial film adaptation of 1984, which prompted questions in the British Parliament about its alleged subversive nature. The planet is divided into 3 states: Oceania, Eurasia and Estasia, which have always been... -
A Life At Stake
Movie
Thriller, noir, by Paul Guilfoyle, United States, 1955.
The unfortunate Los Angeles engineer and contractor Edward Shaw (Keith Andes) is approached by Doris Hillman (Angela Lansbury) with a proposal: to buy land, on which he could surely build houses using his experience. Doris' husband, Gus Hill... -
The last man on earth
Movie
Horror, sci-fi, by Ubaldo Ragona, Sidney Salkow, United States / Italy, 1964.
Unnoticed at the time of its release and considered today a masterpiece, it is the first and best film adaptation of Richard Matheson's book of the same name, released in 1954. Shot back in 1964, in Rome, with an Italia... -
The Lost Poet
Movie
Drama, by Fabio Del Greco, Italy, 2024.
Dante Mezzadri wants to see an old friend, nicknamed the Iguana, whom he has lost sight of for many years, and who has managed to turn their shared youthful passion for poetry into a job, becoming a famous writer and poet. The man escapes from his bourgeois... -
B-52
Movie
Short film, drama, by Flavio Nani, Italy, 2021.
In the near future, new technology makes us even more alienated and hyper-connected. Marco, crushed by a boring and monotonous life, seeks his place in the world. When he meets Nico at a bar counter, he thinks he has finally found him. But it will e... -
Ballad of Hypochondria
Movie
Short movie, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy, 2016.
A path for music and images suspended between narration and experimentation, technology and tribalism. “Ballad of hypochondria (or Vibrio in love)” primarily focuses on symbolic work on the color scheme, materialize in the form of photographic mas... -
Children Of A Darker Dawn
Movie
Drama, horror, sci-fi, by Jason Figgis, United States, 2012.
In a post-apocalyptic Ireland, a pandemic has wiped out the adult population, struck down by a mutant strain of flu that turns them paranoid and violent before killing them. Nine months later, the surviving children wander through aband... -
Corona days
Movie
Drama, by Fabio Del Greco, Italy, 2020.
A man remains alone at home due to the Corona virus emergency measures. Solitude, time, and space become his adversaries, while imagination, memories, and the yearning for freedom become his allies. Director Fabio Del Greco intimately and personally documen... -
Dear Beasts
Movie
Drama, by Andrea Malandra, Italy, 2023.
The protagonist, Trudy, is an influencer who "showcases" the lives of pets on social networks to promote their well-being. But his love is not sincere. A video of her mistreating the homeless Narco and her dog suddenly ruins her reputation.Dear Beasts, Ma...
-
Lockdown trilogy of mine - Stage II: Claustrophobia or Everbody is herodoc
Movie
Short film, by Rachele Studer, Italy, 2021.
A quarantined writer (who can no longer write) seems to accept the government measures, even if they deprive him of his freedom, privacy, strenght, joy and, most of all, his job. So it happens that at some point he can't breathe anymore. Strange sensati... -
Mystery of an Employee
Movie
Drama, thriller, by Fabio Del Greco, Italy, 2019.
Someone wants to control the life of the employee Giuseppe Russo: the products he buys, his political and religious faith, his private life, even his dreams. But he will do anything to escape control and find his true self. Giuseppe is a man of ar... -
Occidente
Movie
Drama film, by Jorge Acebo Canedo, 2019, Spain.
Torino Underground Cinefest 2020, Ponferrada International Film Festival 2019. A fugitive director in exile named H returns to the industrial city he fled from long ago, in an unknown time and place. Gloria, the worker he left behind and whom she lo... -
Tao
Movie
Short film, sci-fi, by Edo Tagliavini, Italy.
In the near future, Europe and USA are united in a "Democratic Federation": the only way to become a member of this federation is to attend the TV show "Tao" and to fight against other competitors for the green card.Food for thought
Tao means "the w... -
The Sands
Movie + 1 extra
Science fiction, by Noah Paganotto, Argentina, 2022.
In an undetermined location on planet Earth, in an unknown time, Zoilo lives with his family in a wasteland surrounded by ruins. They live uprooted, without mothers, knowing that pregnancy for women is synonymous with death. For them there is o...