2000s dystopian films

2005 film directed by James McTeigue

2007 animated film directed by Stephen J. Anderson

2004 film directed by Alex Proyas

2001 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2002 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2009 film directed by Zack Snyder

2006 film directed by Alfonso Cuarón

2004 film directed by Alexander Witt

2005 film directed by Michael Bay

28 Days Later is a 2002 British post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland. It stars Cillian Murphy as a bicycle courier who awakens from a coma to discover that the accidental release of a highly contagious, aggression-inducing virus has caused the breakdown of society. Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Megan Burns, and Brendan Gleeson appear in supporting roles.

2000 film directed by Kinji Fukasaku

2002 film directed by Kurt Wimmer

2002 film directed by Simon Wells

Idiocracy is a 2006 American science fiction comedy film directed and produced by Mike Judge, who co-wrote with Etan Cohen. The plot follows United States Army librarian Joe Bauers and prostitute Rita who undergo a government hibernation experiment and awake five hundred years later in a dystopian anti-intellectual society. The cast includes Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews, David Herman, Justin Long, Andrew Wilson, and Brad Jordan.

2003 American-Japanese anthology anime film

2008 film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson

2000 film directed by Roger Christian

2008 film by Mathieu Kassovitz

Surrogates is a 2009 American science fiction action film based on the 2005–2006 comic book series The Surrogates. Directed by Jonathan Mostow, it stars Bruce Willis as Tom Greer, an FBI agent who ventures out into the real world to investigate the murder of surrogates (humanoid remote-controlled robots). It also stars Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, Boris Kodjoe, James Cromwell and Ving Rhames.

2005 film by Karyn Kusama

2006 film by Neil LaBute

Daybreakers is a 2009 dystopian sci-fi action-horror vampire film written and directed by Michael and Peter Spierig. The film takes place in a futuristic world overrun by vampires, and centers around a vampiric corporation which sets out to capture and farm the remaining humans while researching a substitute for human blood. Ethan Hawke plays vampire hematologist Edward Dalton, whose work is interrupted by human survivors led by former vampire 'Elvis' (Willem Dafoe), who has a cure that can save the human species.

2006 film by Richard Linklater

2008 film directed by Fernando Meirelles

2006 film directed by Richard Kelly

2001 anime film directed by Rintarō

2007 film directed by Scott Wiper

2009 film by Franny Armstrong

2001 film by Mamoru Oshii

2002 film by Lee Si-myeong

2008/2009 Russian science fiction film by Fyodor Bondarchuk released in two parts

2003 film directed by Michael Winterbottom

2006 film by Jens Lien

2006 film by Christian Volckman

2004 film by Kazuaki Kiriya

2003 Japanese dystopian action film

2009 Swiss science fiction film directed by Ivan Engler

2008 film by Yoshihiro Nishimura

2003 film

2009 film by Chandler Tuttle

2005 television film directed by Josh Becker

2006 animated film

2004 film by Jeff Renfroe and Marteinn Thorsson

2007 film directed by Esteban Sapir

2004 film directed by Carlos Atanes

Pumzi () is a Kenyan science-fiction short film written and directed by Wanuri Kahiu. It was screened at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival as part of its New African Cinema program. The project was funded with grants from the Changamoto arts fund, as well as from the Goethe Institut and Focus Features' Africa First short film program which are also to distribute the work. Kahiu hopes to expand the short into a full-length feature. The film is in English, but the title is Swahili for "Breath".

2008 film directed by Jim Torres and Ron Harris

2009 film