Films set in 2022

2022 superhero film by Matt Reeves

2022 American film directed by Colin Trevorrow

2023 film directed by Andy Muschietti

2023 superhero film by James Wan

2022 film directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett

2013 film directed by James DeMonaco

1973 film directed by Richard Fleischer

2023 film directed by David F. Sandberg

Geostorm is a 2017 American science-fiction action film directed, cowritten, and coproduced by Dean Devlin (in his feature directorial debut). The film stars Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Ed Harris, and Andy García. It follows a satellite designer who tries to save the world from a storm of epic proportions caused by malfunctioning climate-controlling satellites.

2022 film directed by Jared Stern

2022 film directed by Jordan Peele

2022 film directed by Parker Finn

2022 film directed by Olivia Wilde

2016 film by James DeMonaco

Barbarian is a 2022 American horror film written and directed by Zach Cregger in his solo screenwriting and directorial debut. It is produced by Arnon Milchan, Roy Lee, Raphael Margules, and J. D. Lifshitz. The film stars Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård, and Justin Long. The story follows a woman who rents a house on Airbnb and discovers a dark secret inside.

2022 film directed by David Gordon Green

Saltburn is a 2023 dark comedy thriller film written, directed, and produced by Emerald Fennell, starring Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe and Carey Mulligan. Set in Oxford and Northamptonshire, it focuses on a student at the University of Oxford who becomes fixated with a popular, aristocratic fellow student, who later invites him to spend the summer at his eccentric family's estate.

2023 film directed by Michael B. Jordan

2021 film directed by Chris McKay

2023 film by Ari Aster

2024 film by Parker Finn

2024 film directed by Mohammad Rasoulof

2022 film directed by Shawn Levy

2023 Indian film by Siddharth Anand

2023 film by Nick Johnson and Will Merrick

2023 film by Eli Roth

2022 film directed by Anne Fletcher

1994 film directed by Martin Campbell

2020 film directed by Dean Parisot

2022 film directed by Alex Hardcastle

2023 film directed by Kenya Barris

2023 film directed by John Woo

Gunbuster, known in Japan as , is a Japanese original video animation (OVA) series produced by Bandai Visual, Victor Entertainment, and Gainax. It was released from October 1988 to July 1989. It was the directorial debut of Hideaki Anno, best known as the creator and director of Neon Genesis Evangelion. The title is a combination of the titles of classic tennis manga and anime Aim for the Ace! and hit action drama film Top Gun, whose plots inspired Gunbusters.

2020 film directed by Matt Peters and Christina Sotta

Alienoid () is a 2022 South Korean science fiction action film written and directed by Choi Dong-hoon. It features an ensemble cast, including Ryu Jun-yeol, Kim Woo-bin, Kim Tae-ri, So Ji-sub, Yum Jung-ah, Jo Woo-jin, Kim Eui-sung, Lee Hanee, and Shin Jung-geun. The film depicts an extraordinary story that unfolds as the gates of time open between late Goryeo and the present in 2022, when aliens appear. It was released on July 20, 2022, in IMAX and 4DX formats. The continuation, Alienoid: Return to the Future, was released on January 10, 2024.

2023 film directed by Brian Duffield

animated film by Mike Judge

1990 film directed by D. J. Webster

2017 anime short film by Shinichirō Watanabe directed by Shin'ichirō Watanabe

2023 American film

2022 film directed by Lee Seok-hoon

2022 film directed by Stig Svendsen

2022 film directed by Maryus Vaysberg

iHostage is a 2025 Dutch thriller film directed by Bobby Boermans and written by Simon de Waal. Released on April 18, 2025, on Netflix, the film is inspired by the real-life that occurred at an Apple Store in Amsterdam on February 22, 2022. The movie stars Soufiane Moussouli as the gunman, Admir Šehović as the main hostage, and features a supporting cast including Loes Haverkort, Marcel Hensema, and Emmanuel Ohene Boafo. The narrative unfolds through the perspectives of the attacker, the hostages, and the police, blending suspense with emotional depth to depict a tense standoff.

2022 anime film

2021 film directed by Ayako Kōno

2021 film directed by Kwak Jae-yong

1993 film by Michael Mazo

2022 film directed by Seo Eun-young

2023 Spanish science fiction comedy film directed by Olga Osorio

2017 film directed by Han Han

2022 film directed by Lakshya Raj Anand

film directed by Tiago Mesquita

Dobaaraa (), also stylized as 2:12, is a Hindi-language science-fiction mystery thriller film directed by Anurag Kashyap. The film stars Taapsee Pannu, Pavail Gulati and Rahul Bhat.

2022 film directed by Nacho G. Velilla

2024 film by Damian Kocur

2022 film directed by Enrique Gato

2023 film directed by Thiti Srinuan

2022 Japanese film

2022 film directed by Karen Lam