Movies Like 1984

If you liked 1984 (2023), a science fiction and drama movie directed by Diana Ringo, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and science fiction
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…
2
V for Vendetta (2006)
★ 7.9/10Also science fiction
In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When V rescues a young woman from the secret…
3
Equilibrium (2002)
★ 7.1/10Also science fiction
In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
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1984 (1956)
★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and drama
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
5
Insurgent (2015)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction
Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.
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Blade Runner (1982)
★ 7.9/10Also science fiction and drama
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their…
7
Allegiant (2016)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction
Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.
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2073 (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also science fiction and drama
Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and…
9
The Running Man (1987)
★ 6.5/10Also science fiction
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which…
10
The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and science fiction
In a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
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Children of Men (2006)
★ 7.6/10Also science fiction
In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the…
12
THX 1138 (1971)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and drama
People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As…
13
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
★ 6.8/10Also science fiction
An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
14
Demolition Man (1993)
★ 6.8/10Also science fiction
In 1996, brash L.A. detective John Spartan and maniac killer Simon Phoenix are both sentenced to decades in a cryogenic prison as punishment for a rescue mission gone wrong. When Phoenix escapes 36 years later to wreak…
15
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and science fiction
In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to…
16
The Hunger Games (2012)
★ 7.2/10Also science fiction
In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, a girl volunteers to take her sister’s place, setting the stage for a struggle of…
17
Knight Rider (2008)
★ 6.3/10Also science fiction
When a group of ruthless mercenaries kill a reclusive scientist, his creation, a new model of artificially intelligent supercar, escapes to find his daughter and recruit a ex-soldier to thwart them. Pilot for the…
18
Minority Report (2002)
★ 7.4/10Also science fiction
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
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The Giver (2014)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and science fiction
In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
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Land of the Blind (2006)
★ 5.8/10Also drama
A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.