Films about rebellions

Avatar is a 2009 epic science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron. It features an ensemble cast including Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sigourney Weaver. It is the first in the Avatar film series. It is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are colonizing Pandora, a lush habitable moon, in order to mine the valuable mineral unobtanium. The expansion of the mining colony threatens the existence of a local tribe of Na'vi, a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora. The title of the film refers to an "avatar", which is a genetically engineered Na'vi body remotely operated from the brain of a human, and which is used to interact with the Na'vi.

1999 American science fiction action thriller film

1977 film directed by George Lucas

2007 film directed by David Yates

2007 film directed by Gore Verbinski

1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner

1983 film directed by Richard Marquand

2011 film directed by David Yates

2003 film by The Wachowskis

2003 film by The Wachowskis

2003 film directed by Edward Zwick

2023 animated film by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson

2002 film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson

2011 film directed by Rupert Wyatt

Dune: Part Two is a 2024 American epic space opera film co-produced and directed by Denis Villeneuve, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jon Spaihts. The sequel to Dune (2021), it is the second of a two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel Dune by Frank Herbert and the second installment in Legendary Pictures' Dune film series. It follows Paul Atreides as he unites with the Fremen people of the desert planet Arrakis to wage war against House Harkonnen. Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Zendaya, Charlotte Rampling, and Javier Bardem reprise their roles from the first film, with Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Christopher Walken, and Léa Seydoux joining the cast.

1990 film directed by Paul Verhoeven

2021 film directed by Lana Wachowski

2013 film directed by Neill Blomkamp

2002 film directed by Kurt Wimmer

Wicked is a 2024 American musical fantasy film directed by Jon M. Chu and written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox. It adapts the first act of the 2003 stage musical by Stephen Schwartz and Holzman, which was loosely based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel, a re-imagining of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 film adaptation. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande star as Elphaba Thropp and Glinda Upland, respectively; while Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Yeoh, and Jeff Goldblum appear in supporting roles. Set in the Land of Oz before the events of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the film explores the early relationship between Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West, and her schoolmate Galinda, who becomes Glinda the Good.

1998 film directed by Jonathan Frakes

2012 film directed by Len Wiseman

2012 film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson

2014 film directed by Brett Ratner

1951 film directed by Mervyn LeRoy

2016 film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson

2018 film directed by Otto Bathurst

1971 film directed by George Lucas

2024 film directed by Alex Garland

1972 film directed by J. Lee Thompson

1924 film by Yakov Protazanov

film series

2001 film directed by Gil Junger

American media franchise

1961 film by Sergio Leone

Avatar is an American epic science fiction media franchise created by James Cameron, which began with the 2009 film Avatar. Produced by Lightstorm Entertainment and distributed by 20th Century Studios, it consists of associated merchandise, video games, and theme park attractions.

2024 film by Nag Ashwin

2009 animated film directed by Sam Liu

2018 film directed by Rupert Wyatt

2013 film by Arnaud des Pallières

1996 Tamil film directed by S. Shankar

1940 film by Cecil B. DeMille, Arthur Rosson

1972 film directed by Miklós Jancsó

Bigbug is a 2022 French science fiction black comedy film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. It stars Elsa Zylberstein, Isabelle Nanty, Youssef Hajdi, Alban Lenoir and François Levantal. Set in an alternate retrofuturistic world in 2045, where communities have domestic robots in daily routines and family lives, a group of suburbanites are locked in for their own protection by their household robots, while a rogue, sentient AI android uprising takes place outside. The film was released on Netflix on 11 February 2022.

1981 film by Shūji Terayama

2023 film by Prashanth Neel

2011 film directed by Akan Satajew

Resident Evil is an upcoming horror film directed by Zach Cregger, who co-wrote the screenplay with Shay Hatten. Based on the video game series by Capcom, the film is the second reboot and eighth overall installment in the Resident Evil film series and will tell an original story unrelated to the previous films and inspired by the early video games of the series. It stars Austin Abrams, Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, and Paul Walter Hauser. It is a co-production of Constantin Film, Vertigo Entertainment, and PlayStation Productions.

2019 film directed by Andrei Kravchuk

1990 film by Ching Siu-tung

1958 film by Vladimir Kaplunovskiy

1947 film by Mario Camerini

1977 film by John Waters

Khadaan (; ) is a 2024 Indian Bengali-language action thriller film written and directed by Soojit Rino Dutta. Produced by Nispal Singh and Dev under the banners of Surinder Films and Dev Entertainment Ventures respectively, the film stars Dev in dual roles, alongside Jisshu Sengupta in the lead, with an ensemble cast of Anirban Chakrabarti, Barkha Bisht, Idhika Paul, John Bhattacharya, Partha Sarathi Chakraborty, Sneha Bose, Sujan Neel Mukherjee, Sumit Ganguly and Raja Dutta. In the film, an ordinary fair organizer from a coal mine near the Damodar Valley, is recruited by his dead father's li

2007 South Korean film

2005 film by Josh Stolberg

1978 film by Martyn Burke

1969 film by Volker Schlöndorff

1936 film by Lloyd Corrigan

2021 short film directed by Kevin Nolting