1970s dystopian films

1971 film directed by Stanley Kubrick

1979 film directed by George Miller

1973 film directed by Richard Fleischer

1973 film directed by Michael Crichton

1971 film directed by George Lucas

1976 film by Michael Anderson

1972 film directed by J. Lee Thompson

1973 film directed by J. Lee Thompson

1970 film directed by Ted Post

1972 film directed by Douglas Trumbull

1971 film directed by Don Taylor

1975 film directed by Paul Bartel

Zardoz is a 1974 science fantasy film written, produced, and directed by John Boorman and starring Sean Connery and Charlotte Rampling. It depicts a post-apocalyptic world where barbarians (the Brutals) worship the stone idol Zardoz while growing food for a hidden elite, the Eternals. The Brutal Zed, driven by curiosity about Zardoz, instigates a confrontation between the two peoples.

1978 US film by Philip Kaufman

1975 film by Norman Jewison

1976 British science fiction film by Nicolas Roeg

1973 animated film directed by René Laloux

Futureworld is a 1976 American cyberpunk thriller film directed by Richard T. Heffron and written by Mayo Simon and George Schenck. It is a sequel to the 1973 Michael Crichton film Westworld, and is the second installment in the Westworld franchise. The film stars Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner, Arthur Hill, Stuart Margolin, John Ryan, and Yul Brynner, who makes an appearance in a dream sequence; no other cast member from the original film appears. ''Westworld's'' writer-director, Michael Crichton, and the original studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer were not involved in this production. Composer Fred Karl

1973 television serial directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

1978 film by Marco Ferreri

1970 film by David Cronenberg

1969 film by Joseph Sargent

Z.P.G. (short for "Zero Population Growth") is a 1972 British-American dystopian science fiction film directed by Michael Campus and starring Oliver Reed and Geraldine Chaplin. It was inspired by the best-selling 1968 non-fiction book The Population Bomb, by Paul R. Ehrlich. The film concerns an overpopulated future Earth whose world government executes those who violate a 30-year ban on having children. Filmed in Denmark, the film is almost entirely set-bound featuring art direction designed to reflect a bleak, oppressive future.

1971 film by Peter Watkins

1970 film by Cornel Wilde

Deathsport is a 1978 science fiction action sports B-film produced by Roger Corman and directed by Allan Arkush and Nicholas Niciphor. The film stars David Carradine and Playboy Playmate Claudia Jennings. It would be one of Jennings' last films before her death.

1973 film by Johannes Schaaf

1970 film by Robert Kramer