15 best films about the future

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Traveling to distant planets, predicting crimes or total devastation - as the perspectives of humanity in the cinema show.

The creators of The 2001 Space Odyssey assumed that at the beginning of the 21st century, humanity would conquer distant planets. The movie "Back to the Future" told that by 2015 there will be self-tying sneakers and flying skateboards. And Blade Runner - that in 2019 there will be artificial replicants among us. All of these predictions turned out to be inaccurate, but there are many films that we have not yet lived to see the time of the action.

1. Matrix

• USA, Australia, 1999.
• Science fiction, thriller.
• Duration: 136 minutes.
• IMDb: 8, 7.

Thomas Anderson's life is divided into two parts. During the day he works in a regular office, and at night he turns into a hacker named Neo. But one day he learns that the whole world around him is just a computer simulation and that he will have to save people from the power of machines.

The Wachowski sisters showed one of the saddest prospects for the development of the world. In their plot, humanity began to play only the role of batteries that ensure the operation of machines.

2. Interstellar

• USA, UK, 2014.
• Drama, adventure, fantasy.
• Duration: 169 minutes.
• IMDb: 8, 6.

Climate change is setting the earth on a drought, leading to a food crisis. To save humanity, a team of researchers is sent on a space journey to find a habitable planet.

The plot of Christopher Nolan quite realistically shows the near future: climate change can lead to an ecological disaster and threaten the very survival of mankind.

3. Alien

• USA, UK, 1979.
• Science fiction, thriller, horror.
• Duration: 116 minutes.
• IMDb: 8, 4.

The crew of the small space tug "Nostromo" receives a signal from the planet LV-426. The team believes that someone is asking for help. Having landed, they find an unknown and very dangerous life form there.

Ridley Scott's film has evolved into a whole franchise over time. And there, in the world of the future, they have already shown not only contact with alien life forms, but the creation of colonies in distant space and even entire planets set aside for prisons.

4. WALL-I

• USA, 2008.
• Science fiction, adventure, melodrama, comedy.
• Duration: 98 minutes.
• IMDb: 8, 4.

By the beginning of the XXII century, mankind completely littered the Earth with non-recyclable waste. Then people flew into space, leaving the cleaning robots WALL-E to clean the planet. But gradually they all broke down. After 700 years, the last WALL-E meets the research robot EVA and immediately falls in love with her.

This animated masterpiece from Pixar shows how reckless consumption and irresponsibility in waste recycling leads to, and also demonstrates the evolution of artificial intelligence, which can even develop empathy, becoming like a person.

5. She

• USA, 2013.
• Melodrama, drama, fantasy.
• Duration: 126 minutes.
• IMDb: 8, 0.

The lonely writer Theodore acquires a new technical development - an operating system designed to help a person in all matters. Artificial intelligence takes the name Samantha and speaks in a female voice. And soon warm feelings arise between Theodore and the program.

Today, voice assistants like Siri or Alice are already very common, so the plot of Spike Jones' film seems realistic. As well as the fact that artificial intelligence cannot replace human communication.

6. Blade Runner 2049

• USA, UK, Canada, 2017.
• Science fiction, drama, thriller.
• Duration: 164 minutes.
• IMDb: 8, 0.

30 years after the events of Blade Runner, the replicant Kay is trying to investigate tangled cases, and at the same time, to understand his past. And only Rick Deckard, who disappeared many years ago, can help him in this.

The first film was set in November 2019. Fortunately, in reality, life turned out to be somewhat different than shown in the picture. In the sequel, director Denis Villeneuve suggests that by the middle of the 21st century, in addition to replicants indistinguishable from humans, there will also be holograms with artificial intelligence that can replace a housekeeper and even a loved one.

7.12 monkeys

• USA, 1995.
• Science fiction, thriller, drama.
• Duration: 129 minutes.
• IMDb: 8, 0.

By 2035, a terrible virus has wiped out almost the entire population of the planet. The few survivors are forced to dwell underground. Criminal James Cole is offered amnesty in exchange for a trip to the past. With the help of a time machine, he finds himself in 1990, where he must understand the reasons for the appearance of the virus.

In a fantasy film with Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt, they showed one of the main fears of humanity: a global pandemic that will lead to the extinction of civilization. It is not for nothing that now literally every few years the media are talking about a new dangerous virus.

8. Child of man

• UK, USA, Japan, 2006.
• Science fiction, thriller, drama.
• Duration: 104 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 9.

The film is set in 2027. Humanity was struck by mass infertility - the last child was born 18 years ago. The world is in chaos, and Great Britain has become a military camp. Former activist Theo has already become disillusioned with people, but suddenly there is hope for a change.

In the dark film by Alfonso Cuarona, another version of the extinction of humanity is shown - the problem of childbirth. Lack of prospects and instability in the economy can lead to the most dire consequences.

9. Moon 2112

• UK, USA, 2009.
• Science fiction, drama, dystopia.
• Duration: 97 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 9.

Sam has been working all alone on the moon for three years now. He monitors the production of rare gas. The hero can only communicate with a talking robot and everything is waiting for the contract to come to an end. But suddenly Sam meets a replacement - himself.

Extraction of minerals on satellites and other planets is another model for the development of civilization in the future. In addition, director Duncan Jones (son of David Bowie) touched on the important topic of human cloning.

10. Avatar

• USA, 2009.
• Science fiction, action, adventure.
• Duration: 162 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 8.

Former Marine Jake Sully, confined to a wheelchair, becomes a member of Project Avatar. Earthlings want to colonize the planet Pandora in order to extract a rare and very valuable mineral. But they are opposed by local residents of Na'vi.

James Cameron has repeatedly addressed the environmental theme in his films. In Avatar, people learned to fly to other planets, but still treat nature carelessly, destroying other worlds just like the Earth.

11. Mr. Nobody

• Belgium, Canada, France, USA, 2009.
• Drama, fantasy.
• Duration: 138 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 8.

118-year-old Nemo Nobody is the only mortal person at the end of the 21st century where people have overcome aging. He is living out his last days in the hospital, talking about his past. But often his words contradict each other, as if Mr. Nobody recalls the options for his own destiny.

Although this film is more philosophical than fantastic, it shows the victory of humanity over age, as well as a theme closer to the modern viewer - a reality show. Nemo is just becoming the star of one of these programs.

12. Time loop

• USA, China, 2012.
• Action, science fiction, drama.
• Duration: 118 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 4.

In 2074, the mafia finds a way to get rid of their opponents: they are sent 30 years in the past to the killers who erase victims from history. One day it turns out that Joe Simmons has to kill himself. But he lets his old version escape and tries to change his own future.

In the center of the plot is the influence of the past on the future and the changes to which a person's knowledge of his fate leads. But also two worlds are shown here: 2044, where complete anarchy reigns, and the opposite year 2074 with strict control of society by the state.

13. Fifth Element

• USA, France, 1997.
• Science fiction, adventure, thriller.
• Duration: 126 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 7.

Every 5,000 years, the dark forces try to destroy the world. This time, they will have to confront Corben Dallas - a taxi driver from New York in the XXIII century. He must collect four important elements, and then add to them the main, fifth, - a fragile girl Leela.

The famous film by Luc Besson describes the distant future. In his version, flying cars will be used with might and main on Earth, and cruises will be sent on space liners. But they will not give up smoking until the end.

14. Dissenting opinion

• USA, 2002.
• Science fiction, thriller.
• Duration: 145 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 6.

By the middle of the XXI century, the police had a special department dealing with crime prevention. The seers predict the place and time, and the police detain the person before he breaks the law. Captain John Anderton is confident in the effectiveness of this method until he himself is accused of uncommitted murder.

The adaptation of the fantasy story by Philip K. Dick from Steven Spielberg shows the development of forensic science. Although with such a future, a moral dilemma invariably arises: a person is arrested before he has committed a crime, which means that he is still innocent.

15. Total recall

• USA, 1990.
• Science fiction, action, adventure.
• Duration: 113 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 5.

Builder Doug Quaid is tired of the usual boring life. He decides to go to Recoll, which invites clients to implant fake memories. But it turns out that Doug is indeed a secret agent who visited Mars, and his real memories have been erased. Remembering everything, the hero tries to figure out his past.

Another film adaptation of Philip Dick is devoted to technology that will allow you to create fake memories. This could be a great help for burnout.