Last Updated on 24 December 2025

The following list is a compilation of the 200 best dystopian movies of all time.

I found 20 different ranked lists online of “best dystopian movies of all time” and pulled them all into Excel and merged them all to get this definitive compilation.  See my Methodology page for the research process that was used, including links to all 20 lists that were averaged. Below is a checklist you can print to track which ones you’ve seen, followed by the ranked list with links to IMDb. This list is also on IMDb.

Best Dystopian Movies – Viewing ChecklistDownload
  1. Blade Runner (1982)
  2. Children of Men (2006)
  3. The Matrix (1999)
  4. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  5. V for Vendetta (2005)
  6. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
  7. Alien (1979)
  8. WALL-E (2008)
  9. Metropolis (1927)
  10. Brazil (1985)
  11. Minority Report (2002)
  12. Gattaca (1997)
  13. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
  14. Snowpiercer (2013)
  15. 12 Monkeys (1995)
  16. Stalker (1979)
  17. Akira (1988)
  18. The Terminator (1984)
  19. 1984 (1984)
  20. The Hunger Games (2012)
  21. Battle Royale (2000)
  22. Interstellar (2014)
  23. Planet of the Apes (1968)
  24. Total Recall (1990)
  25. The Road (2009)
  26. RoboCop (1987)
  27. Escape from New York (1981)
  28. Ghost in the Shell (1995)
  29. Fight Club (1999)
  30. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
  31. Dark City (1998)
  32. The Road Warrior (1981)
  33. District 9 (2009)
  34. The Lobster (2015)
  35. Equilibrium (2002)
  36. The Trial (1962)
  37. The City of Lost Children (1995)
  38. Soylent Green (1973)
  39. Never Let Me Go (2010)
  40. Logan’s Run (1976)
  41. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
  42. Mad Max (1979)
  43. X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
  44. 28 Days Later (2002)
  45. The Truman Show (1998)
  46. Serenity (2005)
  47. Idiocracy (2006)
  48. High-Rise (2015)
  49. The Running Man (1987)
  50. Looper (2012)
  51. The Time Machine (1960)
  52. Delicatessen (1991)
  53. The Fifth Element (1997)
  54. Strange Days (1995)
  55. THX 1138 (1971)
  56. Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
  57. They Live (1988)
  58. Isle of Dogs (2018)
  59. The Handmaid’s Tale (1990)
  60. Watchmen (2009)
  61. The Lego Movie (2014)
  62. I Am Legend (2007)
  63. Ready Player One (2018)
  64. Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
  65. Death Race 2000 (1975)
  66. Dredd (2012)
  67. Sleeper (1973)
  68. Alphaville (1965)
  69. Logan (2017)
  70. Starship Troopers (1997)
  71. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
  72. A Scanner Darkly (2006)
  73. I, Robot (2004)
  74. Fantastic Planet (1973)
  75. Oblivion (2013)
  76. Videodrome (1983)
  77. Scanners (1981)
  78. Wings of Desire (1987)
  79. Daybreakers (2009)
  80. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
  81. Silent Running (1972)
  82. World on a Wire (1973)
  83. A Quiet Place (2018)
  84. War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
  85. The Maze Runner (2014)
  86. Avengers: Endgame (2019)
  87. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
  88. The Book of Eli (2010)
  89. Upgrade (2018)
  90. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000)
  91. The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
  92. Back to the Future Part II (1989)
  93. Southland Tales (2006)
  94. Elysium (2013)
  95. On the Beach (1959)
  96. Cloud Atlas (2012)
  97. Punishment Park (1971)
  98. Pleasantville (1998)
  99. Rollerball (1975)
  100. The Island (2005)
  101. The Man in the High Castle (2015)
  102. Memories (1995)
  103. Divergent (2014)
  104. A Boy and His Dog (1975)
  105. The Platform (2019)
  106. Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999)
  107. The Wave (2008)
  108. Demolition Man (1993)
  109. Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007)
  110. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015)
  111. Sexmission (1984)
  112. District B13 (2004)
  113. Vampire Hunter D (1985)
  114. The Purge (2013)
  115. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
  116. eXistenZ (1999)
  117. The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
  118. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
  119. 28 Weeks Later (2007)
  120. In Time (2011)
  121. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014)
  122. They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
  123. Metropolis (2001)
  124. The Adam Project (2022)
  125. Split Second (1992)
  126. Patema Inverted (2013)
  127. I Am Mother (2019)
  128. The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
  129. The Bothersome Man (2006)
  130. The Element of Crime (1984)
  131. Death Race (2008)
  132. City of Ember (2008)
  133. The Omega Man (1971)
  134. Repo Men (2010)
  135. RoboCop 2 (1990)
  136. Zombieland (2009)
  137. The Animatrix (2003)
  138. Doomsday (2008)
  139. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
  140. Seconds (1966)
  141. Escape from L.A. (1996)
  142. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
  143. Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
  144. Weekend (1967)
  145. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  146. Aniara (2018)
  147. Freejack (1992)
  148. Groundhog Day (1993)
  149. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)
  150. Waterworld (1995)
  151. Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
  152. Her (2013)
  153. Infinity Chamber (2016)
  154. Repo Man (1984)
  155. What Happened to Monday (2017)
  156. Warm Bodies (2013)
  157. White God (2014)
  158. Captive State (2019)
  159. The Postman (1997)
  160. Eraserhead (1977)
  161. Automata (2014)
  162. Judge Dredd (1995)
  163. Resident Evil (2002)
  164. Turbo Kid (2015)
  165. The Fool (2014)
  166. The Quiet Earth (1985)
  167. Titan A.E. (2000)
  168. Planet of the Apes (2001)
  169. Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
  170. The Double (2013)
  171. Surrogates (2009)
  172. The Bad Batch (2016)
  173. Code 8 (2019)
  174. Terminator Salvation (2009)
  175. Zombie Strippers! (2008)
  176. Blindness (2008)
  177. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
  178. Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
  179. Tomorrowland (2015)
  180. Bird Box (2018)
  181. Screamers (1995)
  182. Cyborg (1989)
  183. Possessor (2020)
  184. Renaissance (2006)
  185. Ghost in the Shell (2017)
  186. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
  187. Hardware (1990)
  188. The Purge: Anarchy (2014)
  189. Code 46 (2003)
  190. Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2008)
  191. Okja (2017)
  192. Fortress (1992)
  193. The War of the Worlds (1953)
  194. Total Recall (2012)
  195. Zardoz (1974)
  196. District 13 (2004)
  197. Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
  198. The Thing (1982)
  199. Ex Machina (2014)
  200. The Warriors (1979)

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