Movies Like 1984

If you liked 1984 (1953), a tv movie and science fiction movie directed by Paul Nickell, 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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1984 (1956)
★ 6.5/10Also science fiction
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
2
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
★ 6.8/10Also 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…
3
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954)
★ 7.3/10Also science fiction and tv movie
A man who works for 'The Party' (an all powerful empire led by a man known only as 'Big Brother') begins to have thoughts of rebellion and love for a fellow member. Together they look to help bring down the party.
4
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.
5
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…
6
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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What Happened to Monday (2017)
★ 7.1/10Also science fiction
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…
8
THX 1138 (1971)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction
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…
9
The Giver (2014)
★ 6.6/10Also 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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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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Watchmen: Chapter I (2024)
★ 7.4/10Also science fiction
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.
12
Blackadder: Back & Forth (1999)
★ 7/10Also science fiction and tv movie
What was a cunning plan from Lord Edmund Blackadder V to fake a time machine on his gullibly incompetent friends, turns out to be the real thing and hurls him and his imbecile underling, Baldrick, through the course of…
13
LOLA (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction
Sussex, England, 1938. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Thomasina and Martha Hanbury, two ingenious sisters, create LOLA, a miraculous machine.
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The Running Man (2025)
★ 6.7/10Also science fiction
Desperate to save his sick daughter, working-class Ben Richards is convinced by The Running Man's charming but ruthless producer to enter the deadly competition game as a last resort. But Ben's defiance, instincts, and…
15
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 (2013)
★ 7.9/10Also science fiction
Batman has stopped the reign of terror that The Mutants had cast upon his city. Now an old foe wants a reunion and the government wants The Man of Steel to put a stop to Batman.
16
Year 10 (2024)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction
After the fall of civilization, the few survivors have been driven to cannibalism. A young man must confront a violent tribe that has murdered his father and stolen the medicine that keeps his girlfriend alive.
17
Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction
The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817 in…
18
Sleeper (1973)
★ 6.8/10Also science fiction
Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.
19
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
★ 7.1/10Also 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…
20
4 Horsemen: Apocalypse (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and tv movie
A small team of scientists must race against time to stop what seems to be a cascade of global disasters signaling the possible apocalypse and end of days.