A couple undergo a weeklong series of tests that decides if they are appropriate to have a child in The Assessment. In a dystopian future with heavy population control, married couple Mia (Elizabeth Olsen) and Aaryan (Himesh Patel)Â have applied for a weeklong assessment to decide if they can become parents. They are greeted by their […]
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A traumatized woman joins forces with a psychotic former police officer to locate her kidnapped son in Steppenwolf. In a dystopian future, Kazakhstan has turned into a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where lawlessness rules. Tamara (Anna Starchenko) is a despondent woman, so consumed by trauma that she can barely speak. She wanders into a police station and
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An office drone sublets his bathroom to an odd and eccentric couple in The Tenants. Shin Dong (Kim Dae Geon) lives a soulless existence in a near-future Seoul ravaged by pollution and overpopulation. When Shin is threatened with eviction, he decides the use the Wolwolse system, which allows tenants to sublet a portion of their
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A group of journalists try to make their way through a country at war to attempt to interview the president in Civil War. After the President of the United States (Nick Offerman) threw the country in disarray the Florida Alliance and Western Forces of Texas and California split off from the country and declared war
A deaf and mute boy is trained for vengeance against a murderous family in Boy Kills World. The world has become a dystopian wasteland thanks to the yearly culling put on by Hilda Van Der Koy (Famke Janssen) and her family, including sister Melanie Van Der Koy (Michelle Dockery) and her husband Gideon (Sharlto Copley),
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Lin-Manuel Miranda directs this film adaptation of the autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson with tick, tick…BOOM! Jonathan Larson (Andrew Garfield) is a struggling musical theatre writer on the cusp on his 30th birthday, who has been developing the dystopian sci-fi rock musical Superbia for the past eight years. Jon has finally been given the chance
