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Tomorrow's World

From the seemingly far-flung dystopias where ultraviolent gangs roam post-apocalyptic wastelands, to more immediately recognisable futures in which our megacities grow out of control.

Tomorrow’s World collects the films that imagine our futures for us – shaping our days to come and filling them with fear and wonder. This is perhaps science fiction best understood as what Ray Bradbury described as ‘sociological studies of the future.’

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Dune Dune

Science Fiction 1984 131 mins Director: David Lynch

David Lynch brings Frank Herbert’s powerful novel and rich fantasy world to life in this cinematic spectacle.

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Blindness Blindness

Thriller 2008 121 mins Director: Fernando Meirelles

Fernando Meirelles (City of God) presents a haunting dystopian allegory about a sudden epidemic of blindness affecting humanity.

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Children of Men Children of Men

Science Fiction 2006 109 mins Director: Alfonso Cuarón

In an apocalyptic future Britain, a civil servant is unexpectedly entrusted with the fate of humanity in Alfonso Cuarón’s gripping and thoughtful sci-fi.

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The Matrix The Matrix

Science Fiction 1999 136 mins

Hacker Neo (Keanu Reeves) is drawn into a burgeoning underground rebellion against the machines that enslave humanity, in the hugely influential action sci-fi.

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Franklyn Franklyn

Fantasy 2009 98 mins Director: Gerald McMorrow

Eva Green, Ryan Phillippe and Sam Riley star in an intricate, ambitious sci-fi drama that follows four parallel realities, each based around characters searching for salvation.

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Silent Running Silent Running

Science Fiction 1972 89 mins Director: Douglas Trumbull

Douglas Trumbull’s ecological sci-fi, eulogised by Mark Kermode as the best science fiction film ever made.

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Welcome II the Terrordome Welcome II the Terrordome

Drama 1995 94 mins Director: Ngozi Onwurah

A ferocious dystopian nightmare, this was the first film directed by a Black British woman to receive a UK theatrical release.

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Child's Play Child's Play

Comedy 1954 68 mins Director: Margaret Thomson

Splitting the atom is as easy as ABC in this family-friendly adventure.

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Pumzi Pumzi

Science Fiction 2010 22 mins

Kenya’s first science-fiction film takes a dazzling trip into a post-apocalyptic world in which water has almost run out.

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Memoirs of a Survivor Memoirs of a Survivor

Science Fiction 1981 111 mins Director: David Gladwell

Julie Christie stars in an award-winning adaptation of Doris Lessing's famous dystopian novel.

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Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five

Comedy 1972 103 mins Director: George Roy Hill

This adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel follows Billy Pilgrim’s journeys in time as he flits between WWII Dresden and a future on planet Tralfamadore.

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The Final Programme The Final Programme

Science Fiction 1973 86 mins Director: Robert Fuest

Wild adaptation of Michael Moorcock's novel about a playboy's search for the lost designs of the perfect self-replicating human.

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Back to the Future Back to the Future

Crime 1985 116 mins Director: Robert Zemeckis

The beloved 1980s classic transports Marty McFly back to the 1950s, where he has to ensure his parents fall in love and get himself back to the future.

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Back to the Future Part II Back to the Future Part II

Comedy 1989 108 mins Director: Robert Zemeckis

Marty McFly and Doc return for the fast-paced sequel that flits between 2015, 1955 and an alternate 1985 where the dastardly Biff has become rich and powerful.

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Back to the Future Part III Back to the Future Part III

Comedy 1990 118 mins Director: Robert Zemeckis

In the series’ final entry, Marty travels back to 1885 to rescue Doc but becomes similarly stuck in the Western era when the DeLorean runs out of gas.

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Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.

Science Fiction 1966 84 mins Director: Gordon Flemyng

In a far flung future, the monstrous metallic Daleks are inhuman alien overlords of Earth. Can interplanetary time traveller Dr Who thwart them?

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Marjorie Prime Marjorie Prime

Science Fiction 2016 99 mins Director: Michael Almereyda

In the near future, holograms of late loved ones provide comfort for their surviving relatives, in this intelligent and moving sci-fi exploring memory, identity, love and loss.

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Fahrenheit 451 Fahrenheit 451

Science Fiction 1966 112 mins Director: François Truffaut

In the near future books are banned and reading is outlawed, forcing rebels to commit literary classics to memory.

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Woman in the Moon Woman in the Moon

Science Fiction 1929 170 mins Silent Director: Fritz Lang

Fritz Lang’s second silent sci-fi classic after Metropolis is a space exploration saga about scheming scientists searching for gold on the moon.

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Timeslip Timeslip

Science Fiction 1955 93 mins Director: Ken Hughes

A high-octane tale of atomic-era espionage on the rain-spattered streets of 1950s London.

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The Rover The Rover

Crime 2014 103 mins Director: David Michôd

Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson star in a post-apocalyptic thriller set in the Australian outback, from the director of Animal Kingdom.

Film: 2001: A Space Odyssey

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2001: A Space Odyssey 2001: A Space Odyssey

Science Fiction 1968 149 mins Director: Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick took science fiction cinema in a grandly intelligent new direction with this epic story of man’s quest for knowledge.

Film: A Clockwork Orange

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A Clockwork Orange A Clockwork Orange

Crime 1971 137 mins Director: Stanley Kubrick

Malcolm McDowell stars in Kubrick’s chilling, thrilling and unsettling cinematic vision of nihilistic violence and social control.

Film: Artificial Intelligence A.I.

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Artificial Intelligence A.I. Artificial Intelligence A.I.

Science Fiction 2001 146 mins Director: Steven Spielberg

A robotic boy longs to become real to regain his mother's love, in this powerful Kubrick project completed by Spielberg.

Film: Interstellar

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Interstellar Interstellar

Science Fiction 2014 169 mins Director: Christopher Nolan

A group of explorers attempt to navigate a wormhole in space, with the hope of saving humanity, in this sci-fi epic from Christopher Nolan.

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