Dystopia Bucket List

Experience the dystopian classic by George Orwell

Complete the main storyline of Cyberpunk 2077, an open-world RPG set in a dystopian future

Watch Stanley Kubrick's classic dystopian film A Clockwork Orange

A masked anarchist blows up the Old Bailey in a fascist Britain; the Wachowskis wrote and produced it, James McTeigue directed.

Felix the garbage collector against a dictator who rules by loudspeaker, in a city built from folded paper.

Single people have 45 days to find a partner or be turned into animals; Lanthimos in English.

Gilliam's bureaucratic dystopia of ducts and paperwork, with a heating engineer as terrorist.

Eighteen years without a birth, and one famously unbroken shot through a war zone.

Pre-crime police in 2054 Washington, and the cop they come for.

Atmospheric shooter in an undersea dystopia (2007).

Huxley's chilling vision of an engineered utopia (1932).

Philip K. Dick rotoscoped: an undercover narcotics officer assigned to watch himself.

The last humans circle a frozen Earth on a train, and the tail carriage fights its way forward.

Taylor, the forbidden zone and the last shot on the beach.

Debtors play children's games for a fortune and their lives; the most watched Netflix series.

Elisabeth Moss as Offred in Gilead; Atwood's novel and beyond.

Humanity inside three walls against giants who eat people; the anime that ended in 2023.

Office workers whose memories are split between work and home; Lumon and the Waffle Party.

Anthology of near-future tech nightmares; "San Junipero" and "White Bear".

A class of schoolchildren forced to fight to the death on an island; the film The Hunger Games was accused of copying.

War photographers drive to a besieged Washington in a near-future America; Alex Garland.

Boarding-school children raised as organ donors; Ishiguro's quiet dystopia.

Schwarzenegger on Mars, a three-breasted woman and an eyeball-popping ending; Verhoeven and Philip K. Dick.

Manhattan as a prison and Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken; Carpenter's dystopia of 1997.

Lang's 1927 city of the future: the Maschinenmensch, the workers below and a look every sci-fi film borrowed.

The march on the Capitol, and the ending the books did not soften.