Films set in the future

1984 film by James Cameron

Interstellar is a 2014 epic science fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Jonathan Nolan. It features an ensemble cast led by Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, and Michael Caine. Set in a dystopian future where Earth is suffering from catastrophic blight and famine, the film follows a group of astronauts who travel through space in search of a new home for humanity.

1968 film by Stanley Kubrick

1991 film by James Cameron

1982 film by Ridley Scott

1979 film by Ridley Scott

2015 film directed by Ridley Scott

2009 film directed by Roland Emmerich

1971 film directed by Stanley Kubrick

1989 film by Robert Zemeckis

1986 film by James Cameron

Dune is a 2021 American epic space opera film co-produced and directed by Denis Villeneuve, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jon Spaihts and Eric Roth. It is the first of a two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel by Frank Herbert and the first installment in Legendary Pictures' Dune film series. The cast includes Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zendaya, Chang Chen, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa, and Javier Bardem. Set in the distant future, the film follows Paul Atreides as his family, the noble House Atreides, is thrust into a war for the deadly and inhospitable desert planet Arrakis.

1927 German science fiction film directed by Fritz Lang

2007 film directed by Francis Lawrence

2017 film directed by Denis Villeneuve

2013 film by Spike Jonze

2009 film directed by McG

2017 film directed by James Mangold

1984 film by David Lynch

2013 film directed by J. J. Abrams

2004 film directed by Alex Proyas

RoboCop is a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. The film stars Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Daniel O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, and Miguel Ferrer. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit in the near future, RoboCop centers on police officer Alex Murphy (Weller) who is murdered by a gang of criminals and revived by the megacorporation Omni Consumer Products as the cyborg law enforcer RoboCop. Unaware of his former life, RoboCop executes a campaign against crime while coming to terms with the lingering fragments of

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.

2014 film directed by Matt Reeves

2016 film by Morten Tyldum

1996 film directed by Jonathan Frakes

1992 film directed by David Fincher

Gattaca is a 1997 American dystopian science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol in his feature directorial debut. It stars Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman with Jude Law, Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal, and Alan Arkin appearing in supporting roles. The film presents a future society driven by eugenics where children are conceived through genetic selection to ensure they possess the best hereditary traits of their parents. The principal character, Vincent Freeman, played by Hawke, was conceived outside the eugenics program and struggles to overcome genetic discrimination to

2014 film directed by Doug Liman

2001 film by Tim Burton

1968 film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner

1979 film directed by Robert Wise

2009 comedy-drama film by Jason Reitman

1982 film directed by Nicholas Meyer

2015 film directed by Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski

2016 film directed by Justin Lin

1997 film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

2005 film directed by Michael Bay

1993 film directed by Marco Brambilla

2018 film by Jon Turteltaub

1984 film directed by Leonard Nimoy

2018 film directed by Steven Spielberg

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is a 2025 American action spy film directed by Christopher McQuarrie from a screenplay he co-wrote with Erik Jendresen. It is the direct sequel to Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) and the eighth installment in the Mission: Impossible film series. The ensemble cast includes Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Henry Czerny and Angela Bassett. In the film, Hunt and his IMF team continue their mission to prevent the Entity, a rogue artificial intelligence, from destroying all of humanity.

1989 film by James Cameron

2013 film directed by Guillermo del Toro

2012 film directed by Rian Johnson

2002 film directed by Stuart Baird

2017 film directed by Matt Reeves

2021 film directed by Adam Wingard

2015 film directed by Brad Bird

1979 film directed by George Miller

2002 film directed by Simon Wells

2018 film directed by John Krasinski

2006 American fantasy comedy film directed by Frank Coraci

1998 film directed by Jonathan Frakes

2014 film by José Padilha

1966 film directed by François Truffaut

1981 film by John Carpenter

1995 film directed by Danny Cannon