Soylent Green

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 18 Apr 1973 · English

In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.

1984

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 6 Mar 1956 · English

In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

Devil in a Blue Dress

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 29 Sept 1995 · English

In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 9 Nov 1984 · English

Winston Smith is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country's leaders in a charitable light. His trysts with Julia provide his only measure of enjoyment, but lawmakers frown on the relationship -- and in this closely monitored society, there is no escape from Big Brother.

The Village

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 30 Jul 2004 · English

When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.

Shutter Island

Movie · 8.2 / 10 · 14 Feb 2010 · English

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.

What Happened to Monday

Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 18 Aug 2017 · English

In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.

LOLA

Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 7 Apr 2023 · English

Sussex, England, 1938. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Thomasina and Martha Hanbury, two ingenious sisters, create LOLA, a miraculous machine.

Slaughterhouse-Five

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 15 Mar 1972 · English

Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.

Watchmen: Chapter I

Movie · 7.4 / 10 · 12 Aug 2024 · English

In 1985, the murder of a government-sponsored superhero draws his outlawed colleagues out of retirement and into a mystery that threatens to upend their personal lives and the world itself.

No Escape

Movie · 6.2 / 10 · 29 Apr 1994 · English

In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome and violent inmates: Absolom, a secret jungle island where prisoners are abandoned and left to die. But Marine Captain John Robbins, convicted of murdering a commanding officer, is determined to escape the island in order to reveal the truth behind his murderous actions and clear his name.

Under the Skin

Movie · 6.1 / 10 · 14 Mar 2014 · English

A seductive stranger prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.