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Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred. This is her story. --
Language
English
Formats
Description
Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a Victor's Tour of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games, The Quarter Quell, and announces a...
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"Winston Smith (Hurt) endures a squalid existence in totalitarian Oceania under the constant surveillance of Big Brother. But his life takes a horrifying turn when he begins a forbidden love affair and commits the crime of independent thought. Sent to the chillingly labeled 'Ministry of Love, ' he is placed at the mercy of O'Brien (Burton), a coolly treacherous leader determined to control his thoughts ... and crush his soul"--Container.
Publisher
Visual Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In a society where pleasure and conformity are all that matter, people are conditioned to live happy, promiscuous lives with the help of a mood-enhancing drug called Soma. On the fringes of the cities, savages live in reservations, free from conditioning but subject to emotions, disease and violence.
5) Westworld
Language
English
Description
This story of a technological paradise suddenly turned nightmare is a genuine shocker. For $1,000 a day, vacationers can indulge whims at the "theme park" called Westworld where the gunhands and dance-hall girls are all robots programmed to serve the guests' violent and lustful fantasies--until something goes wrong with their circuitry.
6) Waterworld
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a future where Earth is covered with water, the human race struggles to survive on dilapidated boats and makeshift floating cities called atolls. When a mysterious drifter/adventurer known as the Mariner gets caught up in the struggle between the evil Deacon and a young girl and her adoptive mother, he finds himself catapulted into an explosive war of good vs. evil.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Set in the near future, the handmaids of the title are women who can still bear children after the ravages of war caused wide-spread sterility. One of the handmaids, Kate, is caught trying to escape the Republic of Gilead and sent to the prison-like training center. She is sent from there to the home of the commander to bear his child, but revolutionary forces have other plans for her!
8) Duck
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles, 2009. Arthur is a retired widower in a dystopian society where social services have gone the way of social graces, and another Bush occupies the White House. Forced from his home with only a duck named Joe to accompany him, Arthur embarks on a quest for purpose and community across the urban desert of Los Angeles. Arthur learns that saving the life of this duck may have led to the salvation of his own. In a duck who believes him to be...
9) 1984
Publisher
PRS
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Based on George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
12) The animatrix
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of nine short animated films set in the world of The Matrix. Written by the creators of The Matrix and featuring animation by the creators of Cowboy Bebop, Aeon Flux, and Vampire Hunter D. Contains special features.
Publisher
FUNimation
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
日本語
Description
"In the walled enclave where the remnants of humanity shelter from the Titans, giant creatures who have taken over the rest of the world, Eren and Mikasa join the fight against them after the city is breached and a Titan kills their mother." --
14) Futureworld
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Description
"Futureworld" begins where "Westworld" left off, a magnificent computerised complex where each guests' wildest fantasies are fulfilled, and robots do all the work. Two reporters feel something is not as it appears to be, and set out to investigate.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Two FBI agents search for answers in the wake of a sudden mass disappearance; after former FBI agent Adam Riley escapes from death row and reunites with Jacob, the leader of The Way, his former partner Charles Baker is forced by the Global Alliance to hunt them down, leading to an explosive confrontation.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
20 minutes into the future...Television networks battle one another in an unrelenting ratings war. Whoever controls the airwaves controls the dystopic world in which they broadcast. So when Network 23's star reporter, Edison Carter, uncovers a deadly secret that could shake up the stations dominion over its viewers, the only option is to eliminate Carter before he can make his story public. After Carter's "accident," his mind is uploaded to create...
18) Abigail
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"After her father was taken years ago during an epidemic and her city's borders were closed, Abigail sets out to find him and discovers she has magical powers."--
19) Deathsport
Series
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Deathsport: In the year 3000, there will be no more Olympic Games, World Series, or Superbowl. There will be only Deathsport.
Warlords of the twenty-first century [also known by title: Battletruck]: After the oil wars, gasoline has become a precious commodity. On his marauding search to commandeer all of the oil in existence to feed his massive, heavily armored battletruck, Colonel Straker ravages a peaceful commune.
20) Barb Wire
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"Barb Wire is the sexiest, toughest mercenary in Steel Harbor, a city of chaos and crime. If you've got a problem, Barb Wire is the solution. When Axel Hood hits town on a mission, Barb is the only one who can help him get out alive, but will she assist the man who once betrayed her? The story is loosely based on the 1942 film Casablanca." --
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