This week's hottest release The Hunger Games presents a dystopian vision of the future of the United States. The country as we know it is no more. It's land is carved up into 12 districts. And, every year two teens from each district square off in a hellish Olympiad, where the victor is the one who outlasts and survives; all for pure entertainment. We've seen dystopian futures play out before, and for this channel we present the most iconic of them all. Choose your future wisely and enjoy these films.

Directed by:Stanley Kubrick
Starring:Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Aubrey Morris, Warren Clarke, and Michael Bates
Genre: Drama
Stanley Kubrick dissects the nature of violence in this darkly ironic, near-future satire, adapte...
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Directed by:Richard Linklater
Starring:Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder, and Rory Cochrane
Genre: Sci Fi
The war on drugs has been lost, and when a reluctant undercover cop is ordered to spy on those he...
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Directed by:Steven Spielberg
Starring:Haley Joel Osment, Frances O'Connor, Jude Law, Sam Robards, and Jake Thomas
Genre: Sci Fi
Based on the 1969 short story Super-Toys Last All Summer Long, by Brian Aldiss, this science fict...
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Directed by:Karyn Kusama
Starring:Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller, Sophie Okonedo, and Frances McDormand
Genre: Sci Fi
Based on the animated series by Peter Chung, Aeon Flux imagines a future in which 99 percent of t...
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Directed by:Katsuhiro Otomo
Starring:Mitsuo Iwara, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, and Taro Ishida
Genre: Drama
One of the most influential examples of anime, Akira is based on the manga (comic book) by Katsuh...
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Directed by:James Cameron
Starring:Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, and Paul Reiser
Genre: Sci Fi
Big-budget special effects, swiftly paced action, and a distinct feminist subtext from writer/dir...
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Directed by:Ridley Scott
Starring:Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, and M. Emmet Walsh
Genre: Sci Fi
A blend of science fiction and noir detective fiction, Blade Runner (1982) was a box office and c...
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Directed by:Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
Starring:Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, and Jennifer Beals
Genre: Action/Adventure
In a post-apocalyptic America where the once-picturesque countryside has become a desolate and vi...
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Directed by:Terry Gilliam
Starring:Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Michael Palin, Kim Greist, and Katherine Helmond
Genre: Comedy Drama
Brazil constitutes Terry Gilliam's enormously ambitious follow-up to his 1981 Time Bandits. It al...
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Directed by:Alfonso Cuarón
Starring:Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Charlie Hunnam
Genre: Sci Fi
Y Tu Mamá También and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban director Alfonso Cuarón returns to...
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Directed by:Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
Starring:Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet, and Dominique Pinon
Genre: Sci Fi
This visually inventive French sci-fi/fantasy tale began winning a cult following practically fro...
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Directed by:Alex Proyas
Starring:Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt, and Richard O'Brien
Genre: Sci Fi
Alex Proyas (The Crow) directed this noir-styled futuristic thriller, scripted by Proyas, Lem Dob...
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Directed by:Paul Bartel
Starring:David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone, Simone Griffeth, Mary Woronov, and Roberta Collins
Genre: Sci Fi
Cult hero Paul Bartel directed this low-budget satire in which America's passion for cars, violen...
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Directed by:Marco Brambilla
Starring:Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne, and Benjamin Bratt
Genre: Science Fiction
The plot of this action film begins in 1996, with Los Angeles in a violence-crazed conflagration....
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Directed by:Kurt Wimmer
Starring:Christian Bale, Emily Watson, Taye Diggs, Angus Macfadyen, and Sean Pertwee
Genre: Action/Adventure
A man who dares to feel finds his life in danger in this cautionary science fiction drama. In the...
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Directed by:John Carpenter
Starring:Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, and Donald Pleasence
Genre: Action/Adventure
The year is 1997. Manhattan Island is now a heavily guarded maximum-security prison, where the sc...
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Directed by:John Carpenter
Starring:Kurt Russell, Stacy Keach, Steve Buscemi, Peter Fonda, and Georges Corraface
Genre: Action/Adventure
Escape from L.A. finds Kurt Russell once again in the role of Snake, which he played in the 1981 ...
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Directed by:Francois Truffaut
Starring:Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack, Jeremy Spenser, and Anton Diffring
Genre: Sci Fi
In the future, an oppressive government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literatu...
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Directed by:Rene LaLoux
Starring:
Genre: Sci Fi
A French/Czech co-production, the dream-like La Planete Sauvage concerns the degradation of the O...
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Directed by:Andrew Niccol
Starring:Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Gore Vidal, and Alan Arkin
Genre: Sci Fi
New Zealand screenwriter Andrew Niccol (The Truman Show) made his feature directorial debut with ...
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Directed by:Mamoru Oshii
Starring:
Genre: Sci Fi
In the year 2029, the world has become interconnected by a vast electronic network that permeates...
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Directed by:Mike Judge
Starring:Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Alan Crews, and David Herman
Genre: Comedy
Mike Judge wrote and directed this offbeat sci-fi comedy which gives a new meaning to the express...
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Directed by:Andrew Niccol
Starring:Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy, Johnny Galecki, and Vincent Kartheiser
Genre: Sci Fi
When scientists unlock the secret to immortality, time becomes the new currency and one desperate...
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Directed by:Danny Cannon
Starring:Sylvester Stallone, Armand Assante, Diane Lane, and Rob Schneider
Genre: Action/Adventure
A violent, effects-heavy science fiction adventure, Judge Dredd depicts a nightmarish future in w...
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Directed by:Michael Anderson
Starring:Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan, and Farrah Fawcett-Majors
Genre: Sci Fi
In a hermetically sealed post-apocalyptic urban environment several centuries hence, Logan 5 (Mic...
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Directed by:Fritz Lang
Starring:Alfred Abel, Gustav Froelich, Brigitte Helm, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, and Theodor Loos
Genre: Sci Fi
The biggest-budgeted movie ever produced at Germany's UFA, Fritz Lang's gargantuan Metropolis con...
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Directed by:Mark Romanek
Starring:Andrew Garfield, Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, Charlotte Rampling, and Sally Hawkins
Genre: Drama
Director Mark Romanek (One Hour Photo) and writer Alex Garland (28 Days Later) team up to adapt R...
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Directed by:Michael Radford
Starring:John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack, and Gregor Fisher
Genre: Drama
Directed by British filmmaker Michael Radford, Nineteen Eighty-Four is the second film adaptation...
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Directed by:Peter Watkins
Starring:
Genre: Drama
While Peter Watkins' films of the 1960s reflected the political turmoil and tumult of that decade...
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Directed by:Alex Cox
Starring:Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Tracey Walter, Olivia Barash, and Sy Richardson
Genre: Comedy Drama
Alex Cox's directorial debut was a wickedly funny and willfully bizarre story that became a major...
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Directed by:Paul W.S. Anderson
Starring:Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Eric Mabius, James Purefoy, and Martin Crewes
Genre: Horror
The director of Mortal Kombat (1995) adapts another popular video game for the big screen with th...
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Directed by:Paul Verhoeven
Starring:Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, and Miguel Ferrer
Genre: Sci Fi
Paul Verhoeven's American breakthrough film, Robocop, is an exceedingly violent blend of black co...
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Directed by:Joss Whedon
Starring:Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, and Adam Baldwin
Genre: Action/Adventure
A band of renegades on the run in outer space get in more hot water than they anticipated in this...
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Directed by:Woody Allen
Starring:Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck, Don Keefer, and Don McLiam
Genre: Comedy
In 1973, health-food store owner Miles Monroe (Woody Allen) enters the hospital for a routine gal...
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Directed by:Richard Fleischer
Starring:Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, and Joseph Cotten
Genre: Sci Fi
Richard Fleischer directed this nightmarish science fiction vision of an over-populated world, ba...
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Directed by:Kathryn Bigelow
Starring:Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, and Michael Wincott
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
Set in Los Angeles two days before the end of 1999, Strange Days introduces us to Lenny Nero (Ral...
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Directed by:Jonathan Mostow
Starring:Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, Boris Kodjoe, and James Francis Ginty
Genre: Sci Fi
The filmmaking trio behind the hit sci-fi sequel Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines re-team to ex...
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Directed by:Luc Besson
Starring:Bruce Willis, Ian Holm, Gary Oldman, Chris Tucker, and Luke Perry
Genre: Action/Adventure
Good and evil battle for the future of 23rd century Earth in this visually striking big-budget sc...
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Directed by:Gary Ross
Starring:Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, and Stanley Tucci
Based on the best-selling young-adult novel by author Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games tells the...
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Directed by:Michael Bay
Starring:Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean, and Steve Buscemi
Genre: Sci Fi
Blockbuster action director Michael Bay delivers a striking look at a strange world of the future...
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Directed by:Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski
Starring:Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and Hugo Weaving
Genre: Sci Fi
What if virtual reality wasn't just for fun, but was being used to imprison you? That's the dilem...
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Directed by:Boris Sagal
Starring:Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash, and Paul Koslo
Genre: Sci Fi
This second film adaptation of Richard Matheson's science-fiction novel I Am Legend (the first ve...
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Directed by:Paul Michael Glaser
Starring:Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonzo, Yaphet Kotto, Richard Dawson, and Jim Brown
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
Directed by former Starsky and Hutch TV star Paul Michael Glaser, this post-apocalyptic science f...
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Directed by:John Carpenter
Starring:Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, George Flower, and Raymond St. Jacques
Genre: Sci Fi
John Carpenter wrote and directed this science fiction thriller about a group of aliens who try t...
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Directed by:George Lucas
Starring:Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie, and Ian Wolfe
Genre: Sci Fi
Based on his award-winning student short, George Lucas's debut feature cerebrally celebrates the ...
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Directed by:Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
Starring:Matt Damon, Drew Barrymore, Bill Pullman, John Leguizamo, and Nathan Lane
Genre: Sci Fi
Titan A.E. combines cel and CG imagery in this science fiction saga. In 3028, after the Earth is ...
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Directed by:Paul Verhoeven
Starring:Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, and Michael Ironside
Genre: Sci Fi
In Paul Verhoeven's wild sci-fi action movie Total Recall, Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a 21st-cen...
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Directed by:James McTeigue
Starring:Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, John Hurt, and Stephen Fry
Genre: Action/Adventure
Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore, V for Vendetta takes place in an alternate vision of Br...
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Directed by:David Cronenberg
Starring:James Woods, Sonja Smits, Deborah Harry, Peter Dvorsky, and Les Carlson
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
Hardcore pornography, sadomasochism, mind control, and living televisions all play crucial roles ...
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Directed by:Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Starring:Eddie Constantine, Karl Heinz Vosgerau, Heinz Meier, Ingrid Caven, and Joachim Hansen
Genre: Science Fiction
A scientist in charge of a project that could usher in a bold new era of technology begins experi...
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