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1. Hazbin Hotel (2019– )
TV-MA | 32 min | Animation, Comedy, Crime
In an attempt to find a non-violent alternative for reducing Hell's overpopulation, the daughter of Lucifer opens a rehabilitation hotel that offers a group of misfit demons a chance at redemption.
Stars: Erika Henningsen, Stephanie Beatriz, Blake Roman, Keith David
Votes: 22,688
2. Blade Runner (1982)
R | 117 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos
Votes: 827,274 | Gross: $32.87M
3. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
PG-13 | 149 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Avengers and their allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe.
Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans
Votes: 1,208,916 | Gross: $678.82M
4. Dredd (2012)
R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO.
Director: Pete Travis | Stars: Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey, Rachel Wood
Votes: 295,877 | Gross: $13.41M
5. Capernaum (2018)
R | 126 min | Drama
While serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents for neglect.
Director: Nadine Labaki | Stars: Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Kawsar Al Haddad
Votes: 105,906 | Gross: $1.66M
6. Elysium (I) (2013)
R | 109 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
In the year 2154, the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth. A man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.
Director: Neill Blomkamp | Stars: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga
Votes: 473,613 | Gross: $93.05M
7. Utopia (I) (2013–2014)
TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
After a group of people, who meet online, discover a bizarre graphic novel which seems to hold mysterious answers, they find themselves being tracked down by a merciless organization known merely as 'The Network'.
Stars: Adeel Akhtar, Paul Higgins, Neil Maskell, Fiona O'Shaughnessy
Votes: 51,460
8. What Happened to Monday (2017)
TV-MA | 123 min | Action, Crime, Fantasy
In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.
Director: Tommy Wirkola | Stars: Noomi Rapace, Glenn Close, Willem Dafoe, Marwan Kenzari
Votes: 135,237
9. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
PG | 104 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
When Hiccup discovers Toothless isn't the only Night Fury, he must seek the Hidden World, a secret Dragon Utopia before a hired tyrant named Grimmel finds it first.
Director: Dean DeBlois | Stars: Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, F. Murray Abraham, Cate Blanchett
Votes: 151,201 | Gross: $160.80M
10. Downsizing (2017)
R | 135 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A social satire in which a man realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself to five inches tall, allowing him to live in wealth and splendor.
Director: Alexander Payne | Stars: Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Kristen Wiig
Votes: 125,063 | Gross: $24.45M
11. Soylent Green (1973)
PG | 97 min | Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A nightmarish futuristic fantasy about the controlling power of big corporations and an innocent cop who stumbles on the truth.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors
Votes: 70,947 | Gross: $7.92M
12. Inferno (I) (2016)
PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Dr. Sienna Brooks and they race across Europe together against the clock to foil a deadly global plot.
Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Irrfan Khan, Ben Foster
Votes: 190,831 | Gross: $34.34M
13. The Titan (2018)
TV-MA | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A military family takes part in a ground-breaking experiment of genetic evolution and space exploration.
Director: Lennart Ruff | Stars: Sam Worthington, Taylor Schilling, Tom Wilkinson, Agyness Deyn
Votes: 33,659
14. Fortress (1992)
R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
In a future, private underground prison/Fortress, the inmates are computer controlled with CCTV, dream readers and devices that can cause pain or death. John and his illegally pregnant wife are inside but want to escape before birth.
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Loryn Locklin, Kurtwood Smith, Clifton Collins Jr.
Votes: 30,625 | Gross: $6.74M
15. The Thinning (2016)
Not Rated | 81 min | Action, Drama, Horror
In a future, overcrowded, dystopian society, students with the lowest test scores are culled. Two students discover errors with the test.
Director: Michael J. Gallagher | Stars: Logan Paul, Peyton List, Lia Marie Johnson, Calum Worthy
Votes: 10,576
16. Death Race 2050 (2017 Video)
R | 93 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Five long decades after Death Race 2000 (1975), in the overpopulated United Corporations of America, the annual Death Race is about to begin. This time, Frankenstein is up against no-nonsense challengers. How many points will he score?
Director: G.J. Echternkamp | Stars: Manu Bennett, Malcolm McDowell, Marci Miller, Burt Grinstead
Votes: 5,153
17. Tarantula (1955)
Approved | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A spider escapes from an isolated Arizona desert laboratory experimenting in gigantism and grows to tremendous size as it wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Nestor Paiva
Votes: 10,835 | Gross: $1.10M
18. Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief (2015)
Not Rated | 119 min | Documentary
A documentary looking at the inner-workings of the Church of Scientology.
Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Paul Haggis, Jason Beghe, Spanky Taylor, David Miscavige
Votes: 41,158
19. Code 46 (2003)
R | 93 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
A futuristic Brief Encounter (1945), this is a love story in which the romance is doomed by genetic incompatibility.
Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Om Puri, Togo Igawa
Votes: 21,268 | Gross: $0.20M
20. The Devil-Doll (1936)
Passed | 78 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
An escaped convict uses miniaturized humans to wreak vengeance on those who framed him.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Rafaela Ottiano
Votes: 4,978
21. What the Health (2017)
97 min | Documentary
An intrepid filmmaker on a journey of discovery as he uncovers possibly the largest health secret of our time and the collusion between industry, government, pharmaceutical and health organizations keeping this information from us.
Directors: Kip Andersen, Keegan Kuhn | Stars: Kip Andersen, Larry Baldwin, Neal Barnard, Tia Blanco
Votes: 30,774
22. City of Joy (1992)
PG-13 | 132 min | Drama
An American doctor, a British nurse, and an illiterate Indian farmer unite to transform a Calcutta ghetto in this uplifting, inspirational movie starring Patrick Swayze and Pauline Collins.
Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Patrick Swayze, Pauline Collins, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi
Votes: 5,665 | Gross: $14.68M
23. No Blade of Grass (1970)
R | 96 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
An environmental catastrophe destroys civilization. Led by father John and mother Ann, the Custance clan sets out on a quest for safety in a savage world that may just end up turning them into the very thing they are fleeing.
Director: Cornel Wilde | Stars: Nigel Davenport, Jean Wallace, John Hamill, Lynne Frederick
Votes: 2,064 | Gross: $0.35M
24. Z.P.G. (1972)
PG | 97 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
Concerned with population over-growth, the Earth government bans, under the penalty of death, all pregnancies but one couple decides to risk having a real baby rather than legally adopt a cyborg child.
Director: Michael Campus | Stars: Oliver Reed, Geraldine Chaplin, Don Gordon, Diane Cilento
Votes: 1,580
25. Planet of the Humans (2019)
100 min | Documentary
Planet of the Humans takes a harsh look at how the environmental movement has lost the battle through well-meaning but disastrous choices.
Director: Jeff Gibbs | Stars: Jeff Gibbs, David Joos, Kristin Zimmerman, J. Peter Lark
Votes: 3,355
26. The Last Child (1971 TV Movie)
73 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In a badly-overpopulated future, where each couple is only allowed one child and where people over 65 are forbidden medical care under a very draconian set of laws, a young couple, pregnant... See full summary »
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Michael Cole, Van Heflin, Harry Guardino, Janet Margolin
Votes: 231
27. The Late Great Planet Earth (1978)
PG | 91 min | Documentary, Drama
Events that are prophesied in the Bible are illustrated to show that civilization is headed for doomsday.
Directors: Robert Amram, Rolf Forsberg | Stars: Orson Welles, Hal Lindsey, Babetta, Emile Benoit
Votes: 367 | Gross: $19.50M
28. Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories (2015)
102 min | Crime, Drama
It is the late nineties, Vietnam is in economic turmoil and overpopulation has sparked political concern. Vu, a photography student, arrives in the sprawling metropolis of Saigon and moves ... See full summary »
Director: Dang Di Phan | Stars: Do Thi Hai Yen, Ha Phong Nguyen, Hoang Le Cong, Truong The Vinh
Votes: 425
29. Genkai jinkô keisû (1995)
54 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A man sees a murder in the subways and is soon pursued by the killer, who wants him to join a group called The Engineers, who have taken it upon themselves to reduce Japan's overpopulation.
Director: Yoshihiro Nishimura | Stars: Kisei Ishizuka, Jun Sasaki, Chikako Tone, Tomoko Haseyama
Votes: 181
30. Bye Bye Jupiter (1984)
130 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
While extracting water from the Martian polar ice caps, ancient carvings are uncovered describing an alien spacecraft crashing into Jupiter, postponing plans to turn Jupiter into a second Sun.
Directors: Koji Hashimoto, Sakyô Komatsu, Ishirô Honda | Stars: Tomokazu Miura, Dangely Diane, Miyuki Ono, Rachel Huggett
Votes: 281
31. Calcutta (1969)
105 min | Documentary
With minimal narration by the director and very little context this is a kaleidoscope of stunning visuals from Calcutta, a city of 8,000,000 in the late 1960's: rich and poor, exotic and ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Malle | Star: Louis Malle
Votes: 786
32. Badlands 2005 (1988 TV Movie)
48 min | Action, Sci-Fi
In this unsold post-apocalyptic TV pilot, a U.S. marshal and his by-the-book cyborg partner are tasked to escort two mail order brides to a remote desert area where their husbands work, but a local bandit leader has other plans for them.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Lewis Smith, Miguel Ferrer, Sharon Stone, Caitlin O'Heaney
Votes: 63
33. DNA²: Dokokade nakushita aitsu no aitsu (1994)
TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A female time traveler must work with a teenage boy who is in danger of becoming a future menace because of her interference.
Stars: Keiichi Nanba, Mîna Tominaga, Hiroko Kasahara, Hekiru Shiina
Votes: 380
34. It's a Girl! (2012)
Not Rated | 64 min | Documentary
Every year in India and China, millions of babies are killed, neglected or abandoned simply because they are girls.
Director: Evan Grae Davis
Votes: 534
35. Surviving Progress (2011)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary
Theorists consider the evolution of human society and question the sustainability of the current paradigm.
Directors: Mathieu Roy, Harold Crooks | Stars: Ronald Wright, Mark Levine, Robert Wright, Marina Silva
Votes: 1,906 | Gross: $0.05M
36. The 3rd Letter (2010)
15 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi
In a world where people rely on implanted technology to survive the extreme pollution, a man finds himself incapable of paying for the renewal of his life-supporting batteries.
Director: Grzegorz Jonkajtys | Stars: Rodrigo Lopresti, Dulcie Anne Rosales, Can Tuncer
Votes: 191
37. Climate Refugees (2010)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary
Filmmaker Michael Nash investigates mass migration caused by our changing climate.
Director: Michael P. Nash | Stars: Lester Brown, Mariano Florentino 'Tino' Cuéllar, Yvo de Boer, Paul Ehrlich
Votes: 113
38. Earth 2100 (2009 TV Movie)
84 min | Documentary, Sci-Fi
Follows the account of Lucy, who is born into a society where people are desperate for natural resources, while the global temperature and population are highly increasing.
Director: Rudy Bednar | Stars: Jameel Ahmad, Janine Benyus, Malcolm Bowman, Reinhard Bütikofer
Votes: 1,055
39. Ten Billion (2015)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary
The Earth's population is expected to reach 10 billion people by 2050. The consequences will be catastrophic. Based on Stephen Emmott's hit theater show, Ten Billion is a wake up call to an unprecedented planetary emergency.
Director: Peter Webber | Star: Stephen Emmott
Votes: 230
40. Earth Days (2009)
90 min | Documentary
The story of our growing awareness and understanding of the environmental crisis and emergence, during the 1960's and '70's, of popular movement to confront it.
Director: Robert Stone | Stars: Stewart Brand, Rachel L. Carson, Bill Clinton, Paul Ehrlich
Votes: 202 | Gross: $0.03M
41. 8 Billion Angels (2019)
76 min | Documentary
Do we want a world of more people with less or less people with more? Today, humanity's demand for resources vastly exceeds nature's ability to supply them.
Director: Victor Velle | Stars: Jason Hall-Spencer, Katsuo Inaba, Vimlendu Jha, Bill Mai
Votes: 23
42. Endgame 2050 (2020)
93 min | Documentary
Humanity has backed itself into an ecological endgame as we approach the year 2050. Featuring Moby and prominent scientists, ENDGAME 2050 lays out the reality that, unless we act urgently now, we are hastening our own destruction.
Director: Sofia Pineda Ochoa | Stars: Sofia Pineda Ochoa, Moby, Paul Ehrlich, Boris Worm
Votes: 316
43. México, México, ra ra ra (1976)
137 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director: Gustavo Alatriste | Stars: Héctor Suárez, Abel Woolrich, Adolfo G. Rivera, Adrian Castell
Votes: 53
44. The Human Footprint (2007 TV Movie)
75 min | Documentary
Documentray examining the amount of products consumed in a lifetime and the impact it has on the environment.
Director: Nick Watts | Stars: Catherine Collins, Oliver Curry, George Monbiot, Jeremy Penzer
Votes: 98
45. Don't Panic: The Truth About Population (2013 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary
Infographic extravaganza with world famous Swedish statistician and showman Hans Rosling. His main message - that our world is profoundly changing in ways most of us simply don't realize - much of it for the better.
Directors: David Coleman, Daniel Bogado, Ashok Prasad | Star: Hans Rosling
Votes: 149
46. By Day and by Night (2010)
90 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Dystopian sci-fi about an over-populated world in which the solution has been to program people to operate solely in either day or night, meaning that the population are only conscious half the day and can never interact with each other.
Director: Alejandro Molina | Stars: Sandra Echeverría, Edgar Vivar, Gala Montes, Fernando Becerril
Votes: 81
47. Last Call (2014)
90 min | Documentary, Adventure, History
'Last Call' tells the story of the rise and fall, and today's rebirth of one of the most controversial and inspiring environmental book of all times: 'The Limits to Growth'. Its message is ... See full summary »
Director: Enrico Cerasuolo | Stars: Bill Behrens, George Bush, Jimmy Carter, Jay Forrester
Votes: 29
48. Critical Mass (I) (2012)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary
Things aren't looking good for the world's population; as we multiply at an alarming rate there is not enough food, space... or sense. This intelligent film interweaves a fascinating 1960s ... See full summary »
Director: Mike Freedman | Stars: Mike Freedman, Robert Rapier, Joseph Tainter
Votes: 78
49. Last Supper for Malthus (2009)
52 min | Documentary
With 1 billion of the world's population going to bed hungry at night, documentary film, "Last Supper For Malthus" sheds light on one of the most prevalent and alarming issues of our time, ... See full summary »
Director: Klaus Pas | Stars: Paul Bandey, Paul Barrett, Angélique Ahier, Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar
Votes: 23
50. Population Boom (2013)
91 min | Documentary
A well-known nightmarish vision of the future: The Earth's population reaches seven billion. Dwindling resources, mountains of toxic waste, hunger and climate change-the results of overpopulation? Who says that the world's overpopulated?
Director: Werner Boote | Stars: Farida Akther, Werner Boote, Benjamin Fulford, Betsy Hartmann
Votes: 168