36 Sci-Fi Movies About the Future: List of Rated Films

To know what the future will be is a cherished and unattainable dream of mankind. People tend to look ahead, to look beyond the horizon. And sci-fi movies about the future are a great option to speculate what awaits our planet in a hundred, two hundred years.

So what will be tomorrow’s humanity, according to filmmakers? Check out our selection of great sci-fi movies.

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Crimes of the Future

IMDB Rating – 5.9
Genre: Sci-fi, thriller
Production: Canada, Greece, UK / 2022
World Box Office grossed: $4,551,565
Director David Cronenberg
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Lea Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Leahy Kornowski, Scott Speedman, Don McKellar, Nadia Litz, Tanaya Beatty, Michalis Valashoglu, Welkett Bunge

In the not-too-distant future, the human body has evolved. People no longer feel pain and infections no longer affect them. But some people’s changes have become quite amazing. They can grow artificial organs on their bodies.

Among them is the artist Sol Tenser, who, together with a colleague, makes entire performances out of his gift. In the sarcophagus of a forensic autopsy, Sol’s partner carves out his newly formed organs for the amusement of the public.

One of the new films about the future that awaits mankind. The lead actor Viggo Mortensen suffered an injury during filming that allowed him to stay on his feet for only a few minutes. This is the reason why his character is constantly sinking to his knees.

The Tomorrow War

IMDB Rating – 6.5
Genre: Sci-fi, action, horror
USA Production / 2021
Budget: $200,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $14,400,000
Director Chris McKay
Starring: Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, J.K. Simmons, Betty Gilpin, Sam Richardson, Jasmine Matthews, Edwin Hodge, Ryan Keira Armstrong, Keith Powers, Mary Lynn Rajskab

The year is 2022. Right in the middle of the soccer field at the World Cup in Qatar, messengers from the future appear. They report that in 2048, Earth was attacked by aliens, and by early 2052, the aliens had nearly wiped out humanity. The people of the future need help.

Scientists have developed technology to “flip” recruits from the past into the future. Each recruit must spend only a week in 2052, but the number of those who return does not exceed 30%.

Winter scenes in Russia were filmed on Iceland’s largest glacier, Vatnaöküdl. Some scenes from Game of Thrones, the spy thrillers Die Another Day and License to Kill were filmed in the same natural location.

Ready Player One

IMDB Rating – 7.4
Genre: Sci-fi, action, adventure
Produced by USA, India / 2018
Budget: $175,000,000
Worldwide gross of: $582,890,172
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Starring: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, Philip Zhao, Vin Morisaki, Hannah John Kamen

The near future. The year 2045. Human society is in decline. Widespread poverty forces people into virtual reality, namely the OASIS cyberuniverse.

The creator of OASIS died a few years ago, but in one section of the game he hid three keys and an Easter egg. Whoever finds them becomes the owner of OASIS and gets a multibillion-dollar fortune. Millions of people on the planet are trying to solve the riddle of OASIS. Among them is teenager Wade Watts with the avatar “Parsifal.

According to statistics from 2004 to 2022, the top five most popular online games are as follows: Minecraft, World of Warcraft, Grand Theft Auto, Fortnite, Counter-Strike.

This is one of the best films about virtual reality.

Passengers

IMDB Rating – 7.0
Genre: Sci-fi, thriller, drama, melodrama
Produced by USA, Australia / 2016
Budget: $110,000,000
World Box Office: $303,144,152
Directed by Morten Tyldum
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne, Andy Garcia, Vince Foster, Kara Michelle Wilder, Conor Brophy, Julie Cerda, Aurora Perrino

A beautiful movie about space and the future. The spaceship Avalon heads across the universe to a planet called Abode. It is destined to become a new home for humanity. There are five thousand people aboard the Avalon. Since the flight should last 120 Earth years, all passengers of the new “Noah’s Ark” are immersed in artificial sleep.

A sudden collision with asteroids damages the ship’s defenses, and mechanic Jim Preston is awakened from his sleep. Now he has to live his whole life alone on board the ship.

Despite the fact that there were only four actors in the film, the makeup team consisted of nine people.

Her

IMDB Rating – 8.0
Genre: Melodrama, Sci-Fi, Drama
Produced by USA / 2013
Budget: $23,000,000
World Box Office grossed: $48,517,427
Directed by Spike Jones
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Chris Pratt, Olivia Wilde, Matt Letscher, Kristen Wiig, Portia Doubleday, Laura Kay Chen

Unlike the others, in this film about artificial intelligence, the future is almost perfect. The world is bright, comfortable, and simply beautiful. But the people in this perfect picture are plagued by banal loneliness.

The main character named Theodore composes touching letters for his family and friends to order. After parting with his wife, the man suddenly falls in love with … an operating system with artificial intelligence.

“Her” was the first project in which actors Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara starred together. After completion, the artists began communicating via email, and a romance ensued between them. In 2020, Phoenix and Mara became parents to an adorable baby boy.

Dune: Part One

IMDB Rating – 8.0
Genre: Sci-fi, action, drama, adventure
Production: USA, Canada, Hungary / 2021
Budget: $165,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $402,027,830
Director Denis Villeneuve
Starring: Timothy Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Jason Momoa, Zendaya, Stellan Skarsgard, Javier Bardem, Dave Batista, Charlotte Rampling

Control of the planet Arrax passes from House Harkonnen to their longtime rivals, House Atreides. Arrax is the only place where the mind-expanding spice mélange is mined. But Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is unwilling to give up the fabulous income that his tyrannically tortured planet brings him.

Harkonnen’s select troops stage a military coup that kills the head of the House of Atreides, Duke Leto. But his son Paul and his mother manage to escape into the desert to the planet’s aborigines, the Fremen tribe.

In order to convey the content of the source material as closely as possible, director Denis Villeneuve divided the story into two feature-length films. The world premiere of the second part is scheduled for November 1, 2023.

In Time

IMDB Rating – 6.7
Genre: Sci-fi, melodrama, action
USA production / 2011
Budget: $40,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $173,930,596
Director Andrew Niccol
Starring: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Syfred, Cillian Murphy, Alex Pettyfer, Vincent Carteiser, Olivia Wilde, Matt Bomer, Johnny Galecki, Penny Collins, Ethan Peck

In the future, mankind has found the way to immortality. But a person can exist for free only up to the age of 25. After that, every minute of life has to be paid for. Time has become the only unit of payment on Earth.

Minutes and hours can be used to buy any commodity, they can be earned, donated or inherited. The rich began to live indefinitely, while the poor are forced to risk dying every day. The main character, a slum boy named Will Salos, is falsely accused of murder. He is forced to flee, taking the wealthy heiress Sylvia as a hostage.

This fantasy action film is set in the “anti-utopia” genre, that is, it shows a pessimistic version of events in the future. The ancestor of the genre in 1920 was the Russian and Soviet writer Yevgeny Zamyatin.

Anti-utopias are currently very popular. It is in this genre that such popular films as “Mad Max. Fury Road”, the series “Black Mirror”, “A Clockwork Orange” and most of the films about the future from our list.

The Giver

IMDB Rating – 6.4
Genre: Sci-fi, thriller, drama, melodrama
Produced by USA, South Africa, Canada / 2014
Budget: $25,000,000
World Box Office: $66,980,456
Director Phillip Noyce
Starring: Brenton Tewates, Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Odeya Rush, Katie Holmes, Alexander Skarsgard, Taylor Swift, Cameron Monahan, Emma Tremblay, Alexander Gillings

Human civilization has finally come to peace and harmony. But at what cost! In an ideal world, people have lost history, memory, emotion, and freedom of choice. Now there is no need to distinguish colors: everything around is perfectly gray. All events are pre-regulated, and everyone knows their future.

Jonas, a 17-year-old teenager, is given a special destiny. He is a Time Keeper and must retrieve memories from his predecessor. But what to do if they are horrible?

The 1993 adaptation of Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver. According to the writer, the impetus for writing the novel was the situation with her father. As he grew older, the man, having lost memories of his past, came to be in full harmony with himself and the world around him.

Oblivion

IMDB Rating – 7.0
Genre: Sci-fi, action, thriller, adventure, melodrama
Produced by USA / 2013
Budget: $120,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $286,168,572
Director Joseph Kosinski
Starring: Tom Cruise, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Morgan Freeman, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Melissa Leo, Zoe Bell, Abigail Lowe, Isabel Lowe, David Madison

The year 2077. After a war with aliens, Earth was uninhabitable. Mankind moved to Saturn’s satellite, Titan. Only two people work on the desolate planet: technician Jack and his partner Victoria. They repair the drones that guard the equipment for converting seawater into thermonuclear fuel.

But one day the man discovered a crashed spaceship with cryo-capsules on board. In one of them, Jack saw a woman whose image he constantly sees in his dreams. And that’s not the only discovery he’ll make in the near future.

In creating the fantasy, the most effort and time was spent on the scene of the flight over the ice canyon. All in all, more than 200 people worked on the scene for 15 months.

Predestination

IMDB Rating – 7.4
Genre: Sci-fi, action, drama, detective
Production: Australia, USA / 2013
World Box Office grossed: $4,824,499
Director: Michael Spearig, Peter Spearig
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor, Christopher Kirby, Christopher Sommers, Kuni Hashimoto, Sarah El-Yaafi, Paul Moder, Grant Pirot, Christopher Banworth

Sometimes the events of a person’s life are predetermined and cannot be changed. In the future, after the invention of the time machine, the police were able to prevent terrible crimes. One such is the 1975 terrorist attack in New York that killed 11,000 people.

A Time Bureau agent manages to prevent the explosion, but he himself receives severe burns. After his recovery, the agent is sent back to the early 1970s on one last mission, during which he must learn the hard truth about himself.

The screenplay for this sci-fi movie about time travel is based on Heinlein’s story “You’re all zombies. The story is devoted to the causal loop, one of the time paradoxes. According to it, the repeating sequence of events are the mutual cause of each other.

Total Recall

IMDB Rating – 6.2
Genre: Sci-fi, action, thriller, adventure
Production: USA, Canada / 2012
Budget: $125,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $198,467,168
Director Len Wiseman
Starring: Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston, Bochim Woodbine, Bill Nye, John Cho, Will Eun Lee, Milton Barnes, James McGone

The year is 2132. Tired of the mundane, a simple laborer named Doug Quaid turns to Recall, a firm that engrafts artificial memories into his clients’ memories. Quaid chooses to have the memories of a special agent.

Suddenly, right during the procedure, armed unknown assailants burst into the room and attack Quaid. Unexpectedly, the unarmed worker skillfully fights off the attackers and escapes from his pursuers.

The fantasy action film is based on the story “We Will Remember You All” by American writer Philip K. Dick and is a remake of the 1991 film of the same name starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I, Robot

IMDB Rating – 7.1
Genre: Sci-fi, action, thriller, detective
Production: USA, Germany / 2004
Budget: $120,000,000
World Box Office grossed: $347,198,023
Director Alex Proyas
Starring: Will Smith, Bridget Moinehan, Alan Tudyk, James Cromwell, Bruce Greenwood, Chi McBride, Shia LaBeouf, Adrian Rickard, Jerry Wasserman, Fiona Hogan.

The next movie in the selection of films about robots. Alternative Future. Robots have become widespread on the planet, facilitating the everyday problems of mankind. But not all people are certainly happy about the mechanized helpers. Some believe that the machines are dangerous for humans. Among them is a detective Del Spooner, who has objective reasons not to trust robots.

Spooner is assigned to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr. Lanning, one of the leading developers of intelligent machines. In his home, the detective discovers an unregistered robot Sonny, which is fundamentally different from all existing robots.

The main character of the fantasy, Detective Spooner, drives an Audi RSQ concept car specially designed for this project.

Repo Men

IMDB Rating – 6.3
Genre: Sci-fi, action, thriller
USA production / 2009
Budget: $32,000,000
World Box Office: $18,409,891
Director Miguel Sapochnik
Starring: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alicia Braga, Liv Schreiber, Carice van Houten, Chandler Canterbury, Joe Ping, Lisa Lapira, Tiffany Espensen, Yvette Nicole Brown

In the near future, mankind has learned to create artificial organs. A private company Union sells them, including on credit. But if a customer of the company delays the payment, the organ is subject to withdrawal. Even if it results in his death.

The extraction of unpaid organs from living people is handled by so-called “Rippers,” one of whom is a man named Remy. The cold-blooded mercenary doesn’t think much about what it’s like for Union’s clients and their relatives after his visits. But one day he himself became in need of a heart transplant.

The first artificial heart transplant was performed in 1969 by scientists D. Liotta and D. Cooley. The implanted organ kept the patient alive for 64 hours before the donor organ was transplanted.

Elysium

IMDB Rating – 6.6
Genre: Sci-fi, action, thriller, drama
Produced by USA, Canada / 2013
Budget: $115,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $286,140,700
Director Neill Blomkamp
Starring: Matt Damon, Alisi Braga, Sharlto Copley, Jodie Foster, Wagner Moura, Emma Tremblay, Diego Luna, William Fichtner, Faran Tair, Maxwell Perry Cotton

The year is 2154. As life on Earth has become deadly due to pollution, the space station Elysium was built on the planet’s orbit. That is where the richest and most influential inhabitants of the planet now reside. Ordinary mortals have no place there.

Former criminal Max Da Costa has nothing more to lose. At the plant he received a fatal dose of radiation, and he has no more than five days to live. Max agrees to take part in an adventure that will cost him his life, but will help level the rights of the inhabitants of Elysium and ordinary earthlings.

The idea of space settlements is not new to mankind. Back in 1975, students at Stanford University proposed to NASA a project for a space settlement in the form of a torus (bagel). It was this project that was taken as the basis for the creation of the Elysium station in the film.

Surrogates

IMDB Rating – 6.3
Genre: Sci-fi, action, thriller
USA production / 2009
Budget: $80,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $122,444,772
Directed by Jonathan Mostow
Starring: Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, Boris Kojo, James Ginty, James Cromwell, Ving Rhames, Jack Noseworthy, Devin Ratray, Michael Kudlitz

The year 2057. People have completely stopped communicating with each other. Surrogates – androids controlled by their owners with a special program – do it for them. 98% of the Earth’s population no longer leave their homes, fully exercising their functions through surrogates.

Until some time it was believed that the owner of the robot is not in any danger. But one day a murder occurs, the victim of which becomes not only an android, but also the person controlling it.

The opening shots of the film show Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro and his android doppelganger Hominid. The hominid can exhibit up to 50 behavioral reactions on its own, as well as replace its creator at university lectures. Ishiguro is included in the list of “One Hundred Living Geniuses.

Edge of Tomorrow

Kinopoisk rating – 7.9/ IMDB – 7.9
Genre: Sci-fi, action, adventure, military
Production: USA, Canada / 2014
Budget: $178,000,000
World Box Office: $370,541,256
Directed by Doug Lyman
Starring: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton, Brendan Gleeson, Noah Taylor, Jonas Armstrong, Tony Way, Kick Harry, Franz Drmeh, Dragomir Mrsic

In the not-too-distant future, Earth is attacked by simulated aliens. The aliens are practically invincible, and the earthlings suffer crushing defeats time after time. Turning point in the battle for the planet must be a landing in Normandy. William Cage, a former U.S. Army spokesman who was demoted to the ranks, unwittingly becomes its participant.

During the landing Cage was mortally wounded, but did not die. He woke up alive in his body on the eve of the Normandy operation. Now Cage is forced to relive the same day anew in hopes of finding a vulnerability in the enemy’s indestructible armor.

One of the best movies about the future, and a motion picture in a selection of the best alien and time loop movies.

Decisive Operation Normandy is a reference to the famous naval landing operation Neptune or D-Day, conducted by Allied forces in June 1944. The operation marked the opening, albeit with considerable delay, of a second front.

Blade Runner 2049

IMDB Rating – 8.0
Genre: Sci-fi, action, thriller, drama
Production: USA, UK, Canada, Spain / 2017
Budget: $150,000,000
World Revenue: $259,239,658
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hooks, Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis, Carla Urie, Lenny James, Dave Batista, Jared Leto

The year 2049. It has been 30 years since the rebellion of the Replicants, androids created by mankind to oppress. To replace them, the Wallace Corporation has created a new, safe generation of robots. One of them, an android named Kay, serves in the LAPD and is engaged in destroying the hiding replicants of the previous generation.

One day Kay stumbles upon the burial of a female android who died from the aftermath of a difficult delivery. It was previously believed that all replicants were infertile. Kay is tasked with finding the child that was born.

The sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 cult neo-noir film Blade Runner. To make the plot of the sequel clear, the filmmakers made two shorts, “2036: Nexus Reborn” and “Blade Runner 2049 – 2048: Nowhere to Run” as well as the anime “Blade Runner: Blackout 2022”.

The Island

IMDB Rating – 6.8
Genre: Sci-fi, action, thriller
USA production / 2005
Budget: $126,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $162,949,164
Director Michael Bay
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean, Steve Buscemi, Michael Clarke Duncan, Ethan Phillips, Brian Stepanek, Noah Tishby, Siobhan Flynn

After a global catastrophe, life on the surface of the Earth became impossible. The remnants of humanity live in an underground bunker, where life is subject to strict rules. The inhabitants of the bunker carefully watch their food and live an exceptionally healthy lifestyle. Occasionally, the underground residents are lucky enough to be sent to the surface, to the only surviving island of paradise.

One of the bunker’s inhabitants, Lincoln Six-Echo, learns the brutal truth. In reality, the winners are killed by removing their organs. Lincoln’s girlfriend, a girl named Jordan, is about to leave for the island paradise. The young man has very little time to save his beloved.

The character traits and hobbies of clone host Lincoln-Six Echo, designer-designer Tom Lincoln, are based on the personality of the performer of these roles, actor Ewan McGregor.

City of Ember

IMDB Rating – 6.4
Genre: Sci-fi, fantasy, adventure, family
USA production / 2008
Budget: $55,000,000
World Box Office: $17,929,684
Director Gil Keenan
Starring: Harry Treadaway, Sirsha Ronan, David Ryall, Bill Murray, Mary Kay Place, Tim Robbins, Mackenzie Crook, Toby Jones, Ian McElhinney, B.J. Hogg

Two hundred years ago, disaster struck Earth, and the remnants of humanity took refuge in the special underground city of Ember. But the city’s resources are running out. To survive, the inhabitants of Ember must go upstairs, but the instructions to get to the surface are lost.

The forgotten documents are found completely by accident by a girl named Lina Mayfleet. Together with her classmate Doon Harrow, she tries to unravel the mystery of the city and find her way to the new world.

The model of the underground city was built in a former paint room at the British Harland and Wolf shipyard in Belfast. It was at this shipyard that the famous Titanic was built and launched.

Minority Report

IMDB Rating – 7.6
Genre: Sci-fi, action, thriller, crime, detective
Produced by USA / 2002
Budget: $102,000,000
World Box Office: $358,372,926
Director Steven Spielberg
Starring: Tom Cruise, Max von Sydow, Samantha Morton, Colin Farrell, Catherine Morris, Tim Blake Nelson, Peter Stormare, Steve Harris, Neil McDonough, Patrick Kilpatrick.

This is the sixth year the Washington, D.C., police have been involved in an experiment. A special preventive unit is engaged in the prevention of crimes predicted by the three mediums. The crime rate in the city has decreased significantly, and the successful experience is planned to spread throughout the country.

On the eve of this the head of the preventive department John Anderton discovers that according to the predictions of the psychics he will commit a murder very soon. But the man is sure that he is not a criminal. So is the experiment a failure?

In order to portray the future with a greater degree of authenticity, Steven Spielberg, the director of the picture, attracted 16 experts from various fields. As a result, the team actually succeeded in predicting the future.

Many objects and technologies were invented exactly as they are presented in the film. These are the touchscreen system, the Google Glass headset, the method of recognizing people by their retinas and many other things.

Equilibrium

IMDB Rating – 7.3
Genre: Sci-fi, action, thriller, drama
USA production / 2002
Budget: $20,000,000
World Box Office grossed: $5,359,645
Director Kurt Wimmer
Starring: Christian Bale, Taye Diggs, Angus McFadyen, Sean Bean, Emily Watson, William Fichtner, Matthew Harbour, Emily Sievert, Sean Pertwee, Dominick Purcell

After World War III a total dictatorship was established in the city-state of Libria. The reason for all the troubles were named human feelings and everything that causes them. Every day the inhabitants of the city are obliged to take the drug Prozium, which suppresses all human emotions.

Dissenters are brutally persecuted and exterminated by experienced soldiers, the clerics. One of the high ranking clerics is John Preston. One day John accidentally breaks a vial of Prozium and begins to experience normal human feelings.

At first, it was decided to name the drug that suppresses feelings “librium,” after the place where the events of the fantasy take place. However, it turned out that the drug with that name already existed. Then the drug’s name was formed from Prozac and Valium, real drugs used in the treatment of stress.

Prometheus

IMDB Rating – 7.0
Genre: Sci-fi, horror
US production, UK / 2012
Budget: $130,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $403,354,469
Director Ridley Scott
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce, Logan Marshall-Green, Sean Harris, Rafe Spall, Iman Elliott, Benedict Wong

Archaeologists find an ancient star map in the mountains of Scotland, which is repeated in artifacts of ancient human civilizations. Scientists believe that the map leads to the planet of the alien creators who were involved in the origin of life on Earth.

The scientific spacecraft “Prometheus” sails to the coordinates indicated in the ancient message. The expedition manages to find the Creators. But it turns out that they are not at all happy to see the visitors.

One of the most exciting films about other planets and the future. The sci-fi film was conceived as a prequel to the 1979 cult film Alien, but was later spun off into a separate original film.

Upgrade

IMDB Rating – 7.5
Genre: Sci-fi, action, thriller, detective, crime
Australia, USA / 2018
Budget: $5,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $16,593,554
Director Lee Wonnell
Starring: Logan Marshall-Green, Melanie Vallejo, Steve Danielsen, Abby Kraden, Harrison Gilbertson, Benedict Hardy, Richard Cawthorne, Christopher Kirby, Richard Anastasios, Kenny Lowe

In the near future, technology is so advanced that people will enhance their bodies with various chips and implants. But mechanic Gray belongs to that minority that prefers naturalness in everything.

One day, Grey and his wife are attacked by bandits. The mechanic’s wife is killed and he is confined to a wheelchair. The owner of a technology company offers to implant a Stam chip in Gray’s spine. The electronic device has not yet passed all stages of testing, but it will help Gray regain motor activity.

To avenge his wife’s death, the man agrees to the gamble. But it turns out that Stam is endowed with considerable intelligence.

The sci-fi action movie will have a sequel in the form of a series in which Stam will be used to fight crime.

Idiocracy

IMDB Rating – 6.5
Genre: Sci-fi, comedy, adventure
USA production / 2005
World Box Office: $485,199
Director Mike Judge
Starring: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dex Shepard, Terry Crews, Anthony Campos, David Herman, Sonny Castillo, Kevin McAfee, Robert Musgrave, Michael McCafferty

The year 2505. Humanity has degenerated so badly that the average IQ has fallen by more than five times in five hundred years. Along with the dumbing down of mankind came the economic and cultural crises.

It was at this time that army librarian Joe and prostitute Rita, who were frozen in an experiment back in 2005, awoke from their artificial slumber. Now Rita and Joe are the smartest people on the planet.

The film shows that in the future all people wear Crocs on their feet. It’s all about the fact that the film’s costumer thought that the rubber slippers, invented by a small company called Crocs, looked rather futuristic and…silly.

Divergent

IMDB Rating – 6.6
Genre: Sci-fi, detective, action, melodrama
USA production / 2014
Budget: $85,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $288,885,818
Director Neil Burger
Starring: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Jai Courtney, Kate Winslet, Zoe Kravitz, Miles Teller, Ashley Judd, Tony Goldwyn, Maggie Q, Ray Stevenson

Beatrice, 16, lives in post-apocalyptic Chicago, which has become a totalitarian city-state. Freedom and dissent are persecuted, and people must follow once and for all established rules.

After adulthood, each teenager must choose one of the five factions and serve it faithfully for life. On a special test that reveals predispositions, it turns out that Beatrice is a divergent. The girl is equally suited to each of the five factions. What will Beatrice choose?

A screen adaptation of the novel of the same name by the contemporary writer Veronica Roth. The sci-fi action movie has sequels: “Divergent, Chapter 2: The Insurgent” in 2015 and “Divergent, Chapter 3: Beyond the Wall” in 2016.

r. Nobody

IMDB Rating – 7.7
Genre: fantasy, melodrama, fantasy, drama
Production: Belgium, Germany, Canada, France, UK, Luxembourg, USA / 2009
Budget: $47,000,000
World Box Office: $2,903,622
Directed by Jaco Van Dormael
Starring: Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger, Pham Linh Dan, Rhys Evans, Natasha Little, Toby Regbo, Juno Temple, Claire Stone, Thomas Byrne

Is everything in life predetermined or is one free to live life as he or she sees fit? The year is 2092. There is only one mortal man left on the planet Earth. He is 118 years old, and his name is Nemo, or Mr. Nobody.

Nemo is on the brink of death, but he is not afraid to die. He worries about one thing: has he lived his life correctly? Did he make the right choice at the decisive moment of his life?

The color in the painting has a symbolic meaning. The period of depression and despondency in the life of the main character is colored blue, the time of material prosperity and tranquility – yellow, and love and passion – red.

Judge Dredd

IMDB Rating – 5.6
Genre: Sci-fi, action, thriller, crime
Production: USA, Netherlands, UK / 1995
Budget: $90,000,000
World Revenue: $113,493,481
Directed by Danny Cannon
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Armand Assante, Rob Schneider, Jurgen Prochnow, Max von Sydow, Diane Lane, Joanne Miles, Joan Chen, Balthazar Getty, Maurice Royves

The year is 2139. The earth has become a barren wasteland, and life is concentrated in a few mega-cities. Due to rampant crime, the so-called judges have been given great powers. They independently investigate crimes, look for villains and punish them on the spot.

Joseph Dredd is the most respected judge, a real menace of crime. But one day, Dredd crosses the path of a powerful politician and finds himself under suspicion.

The fantasy based on the comic book of the same name was filmed in England, which is known for its rainy and unpredictable weather. In case of unpredictable precipitation, the streets where the shooting took place were constantly kept wet.

Demolition Man

Kinopoints rating – 7.5/ IMDB – 6.7
Genre: Sci-fi, action, thriller
USA production / 1993
Budget: $57,000,000
Worldwide box office receipts: $159,055,768
Directed by Marco Brambilla
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne, Benjamin Brett, Bob Gunton, Glenn Shadix, Denis Leary, Grand L. Bush, Pat Skipper

In 1992, thug Simon Phoenix took over all of Los Angeles. Only Sergeant John Spartan, nicknamed “The Destroyer”, could cope with the scumbag. John arrested the villain, but the hostages died during his apprehension. As a result, both Phoenix and Spartan were sentenced to a 70-year freeze.

In 2032, during a parole hearing, Phoenix managed to escape. That’s when the authorities remembered the Destroyer.

If you’re still intrigued by the purpose of the three seashells in the restroom, good news. The mystery is solved, and you can easily find it on the Web. I warn you, it won’t be pleasant.

Moon

IMDB Rating – 7.8
Genre: Sci-fi, drama
Production: UK, USA / 2009
Budget: $5,000,000
World Box Office: $9,760,104
Director Duncan Jones
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominic McAlligott, Rosie Shaw, Adrienne Shaw, Kaya Scodelario, Benedict Wong, Matt Berry, Malcolm Stewart, Robin Chock

The near future. Astronaut Sam Bell, whose three-year contract with Lunar is about to expire, is working alone on the other side of the Moon. Due to interference, the astronaut’s communication with Earth is poor, and messages from his relatives arrive to him with a delay of several days.

One day Sam has an accident and loses consciousness. Waking up in the station’s medical bay, the astronaut goes to the crash site, where he finds his double. Soon both Sam Belles realize that they are merely clones of the first astronaut who signed a contract with Lunar.

Quality sci-fi and a great movie about the future. Aside from Sam Rockwell in the title role and the voice of the robot Gertie, voiced by Kevin Spacey, there are no other actors involved in the fantasy.

Self/less

IMDB Rating – 6.5
Genre: Sci-fi, thriller, action
Produced by USA / 2015
Budget: $26,000,000
Worldwide gross of: $31,807,156
Director Tarsem Singh
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Ben Kingsley, Natalie Martinez, Matthew Goode, Victor Garber, Derek Luke, Janie-Lynn Kinchen, Melora Hardin, Michelle Dockery, Samuel Page

The days of businessman Damian Hale are numbered; very soon he will die of a fatal disease. But with money there is a way out even of this hopeless situation. The brilliant scientist Albright offers Hale to transfer his consciousness into a specially created artificial body. But the transplant has side effects in the form of hallucinations that must be suppressed by special drugs.

The dying businessman agrees to the experiment. To his horror, he soon realizes that the images appearing in his mind are the memories of a certain Mark Bitwell. And that Professor Albright has provided him not with an artificial body, but the body of another man.

In the sci-fi thriller you can see the interior of Donald Trump’s own apartment. The 45th president of the United States was the owner of the apartment in which the main character resides from 2017 to 2021.

Ghost in the Shell

IMDB Rating – 6.3
Genre: Sci-fi, action, thriller, drama, crime, detective
Produced by USA, India, Hong Kong, China, Canada / 2017
Budget: $110,000,000
Worldwide Box Office: $169,801,921
Director Rupert Sanders
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Pilu Asbek, Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche, Michael Pitt, Chin Han, Danushya Samal, Lazarus Ratuere, Yutaka Izumihara, Tawanda Manimo

Mira Killian’s parents were killed by terrorists, and the girl’s own body was badly damaged. The scientists of the Hanka Robotics Corporation saved Mira by putting her consciousness and brain into the body of an android.

Now the girl fights the terrorists on her own. Her main target is a hacker nicknamed Puppeteer, who takes turns to take out the developers of Hanka Robotics. But for some time now, Mira has been plagued by visions that she really needs to figure out.

This fantasy is based on the 1989 Masamune Shiro manga of the same name, which has many fans and fans all over the world. Among them are Steven Spielberg himself, James Cameron and the Wachowski sisters.

The Book of Eli

IMDB Rating – 6.8
Genre: Sci-fi, action, drama
USA production / 2009
Budget: $80,000,000
World Box Office: $157,107,755
Directed by Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
Starring: Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Jennifer Beals, Malcolm McDowell, Frances de La Tour, Michael Gambon, Tom Waits, Ewan Jones

After a universal catastrophe, the Earth lies in ruins, with survivors wandering among them. Among them is the mysterious wanderer Eli. In the man’s bag lies a treasure – the only surviving copy of the Bible.

Eli is on his way to the West, where there are still enlightened people. But to reach the blessed land, he must pass through California, where the ruthless bandit Carnegie is rampaging.

All the tricks in the philosophical thriller actor Denzel Washington performed by himself. To do this, he lost about twenty kilograms of weight and daily mastered the basics of hand-to-hand combat.

Voyagers

IMDB Rating – 5.4
Genre: Sci-fi, drama, thriller
Production USA, Czech Republic, Romania, UK / 2020
Budget: $29,000,000
Worldwide gross of: $4,298,184
Director Neil Burger
Starring: Tye Sheridan, Finn Whitehead, Lily-Rose Depp, Colin Farrell, Shante Adams, Quintessa Swindell, Archie Madekwe, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Viveik Kalra, Madison Hu

The year 2063. Due to climate change, life on planet Earth will soon become impossible. Scientists discover a planet in the universe that could become a new home for earthlings. But it will take 86 years to reach it.

It was decided to send children into space, whose grandchildren should repopulate the planet. Ten years after the start of the flight, the children turned into teenagers and began to ask inconvenient questions of their supervisor, the scientist Richard Alling. And soon it wasn’t just questions.

At about the 47th minute of the film, you can hear the famous sound effect of Wilhelm screaming. For the voiceover of the cult film Star Wars, the project’s sound engineer was looking for interesting sounds and stumbled upon the desperate scream of a private named Wilhelm from Attack on the Feather River. Since then, the use of this effect in movies has been considered a good joke and a sign of Hollywood.

Last and First Men

IMDB Rating – 6.7
Genre: Sci-fi, fantasy, detective
Production Iceland / 2020
World Box Office: $13,475
Director Johan Johansson
Starring: Tilda Swinton

After two billion years and eighteen evolutions, humanity was on the verge of extinction. Due to the gradual cooling of the Sun, humans first moved to Venus and then to Neptune. A representative of the “last” people, having lost all hope of exploring the planets outside the solar system, addresses a message to us, the “first” people.

The black-and-white visuals were shot in the former Yugoslavia. Monochrome 16mm film captured from unusual angles the majestic and silent monuments of the 1950s and 70s erected to commemorate the victory over fascism.

On the orders of Josef Broz Tito, these giant monuments were erected in picturesque, remote places and were deliberately given an intimidating, bizarre form.

Tomorrowland

IMDB Rating – 6.4
Genre: Sci-fi, adventure, family
Produced by USA, Spain, France, Canada, UK / 2015
Budget: $190,000,000
World Box Office grossed: $209,035,668
Director Brad Bird
Starring: Britt Robertson, George Clooney, Raffey Cassidy, Hugh Laurie, Tim McGraw, Katharine Hahn, Keegan-Michael Key, Christopher Bauer, Thomas Robinson, Pierce Ganon

The sci-fi original script is filled with ideas and events, turning the film into a fascinating puzzle for the audience to solve.

Somewhere in space there exists an “Earth of the Future” with a futuristic city where only the best of humanity is allowed. Scientist Frank once visited that utopian world among skyscrapers and monorail roads.

In our time, inquisitive Casey accidentally finds herself in “Future Land,” and then seeks out Frank, who may know what it all means and how to return to that wondrous world.

Walt Disney Pictures named the movie Tomorrowland after its futuristic amusement parks.

36 Sci-Fi Movies About the Future