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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America (NFFA) test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community. But when the violence of oppressors meets the rage of the marginalized, the contagion will explode from the trial-city borders and spread across the nation.
22) A quiet place
Pub. Date
2018
Formats
Description
A family of four must navigate their lives in silence after mysterious creatures that hunt by sound threaten their survival.
23) Plan 75
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be euthanized to remedy an aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a Filipino laborer face life-and-death choices.
Description
Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity's final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began, The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.
25) Chaos walking
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
On a dystopian planet without women, Viola crash-lands in the middle of an all-male colony and together with Todd, its young member, they set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.
26) Branded
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
In a dystopian society where mega-corporations rule, a terrifying conspiracy has been unleashed-one that controls the minds of the citizens. One man is determined to unlock the truth behind the conspiracy. His quest to find it will plunge him into a tangled web of power and intrigue, leading to a shocking revelation and an epic battle with the hidden forces and creatures that threaten the fate of mankind.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Formats
Description
"In this prequel to The Hunger Games, a young Coriolanus is the last hope for the once-proud Snow family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. Snow reluctantly takes an assignment to mentor Lucy Gray Baird, a tribute from the impoverished District 12. But after Lucy Gray's charm captivates Panem's audience, Snow unites with Lucy Gray to turn the odds in their favor. Battling his instincts for both good and evil, Snow races against time...
28) The Road
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
A holocaust has destroyed the world. Civilization lies in ruins. Nothing grows. The Man and his young son, the Boy, struggle across the devastated, post-apocalyptic landscape, pushing their belongings in a shopping cart, hoping to reach the coast. It is almost impossible to find any food. Life on the road is a deadly game of hide, seek, and devour with bloodthirsty bands of roving, starving, survivalist types, many of whom have fallen into cannibalism....
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
In the futuristic Republic of Gilead, where ecological disasters have ravaged the land, only a few women, called Handmaids, can still bear children. Handmaid Kate is sent to the home of the 'Commander' to bear his child for his infertile wife; but, revolutionaries seeking to overthrow the government plan to use Kate to assassinate the Commander. Kate risks her life to break free and strike a fatal blow for the revolution.
30) The zero theorem
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
The story about a computer hacker in a dystopian sci-fi world. Living under constant surveillance by 'Management,' he strives to solve The Zero Theorem, a mathematical formula that may hold the key to the meaning of life.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Planet of the apes: Taylor, an astronaut whose ship lands on a planet where intelligent primates hunt primitive humans for sport, must depend of the kindness of two chimpanzee scientists in order to escape to the Forbidden Zone.
Beneath the planet of the apes: Sequel to The Planet of the Apes. An astronaut gets thrown through a portal and into the ape planet, where he finds mutated humans in former New York's subway system.
Escape from the planet...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Set in the near future where climate change has wreaked havoc in parts of the American Midwest, a government agency exiles members of society deemed unproductive to a colony known as New Eden. An ambitious and impartial caseworker, Noah Kross investigates a case appealed by a single mother and her son. Determined to expose government secrets, Kross sets off to save the lives of the mother and child.
33) Logan
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hide out on the Mexican border while earning a living as a chauffeur. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are up-ended when a young mutant arrives, being pursued by dark forces
34) The survivalist
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
After a viral pandemic decimates the world, a survivalist is forced to take on a group of heavily armed religious fanatics who believe that he is harboring a woman who could be the key to ending the virus and repopulating the world.
35) In time
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
In a future where people stop aging at 25, but are engineered to live only one more year, having the means to buy your way out of the situation is a shot at immortal youth. Here, Will Salas finds himself accused of murder and on the run with a hostage. Together, they must bring down the corrupt system before their time runs out.
Pub. Date
[2017], ©2017
Description
Divergent : A thrilling action-adventure film set in a world where people are divided into distinct factions based on human virtues. Tris Prior is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy by a faction leader to destroy all Divergents, Tris must learn to trust in the mysterious Four and together they must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it's too late.
Insurgent : Tris and...
Pub. Date
2019
Description
When Alita awakens with no memory in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman. Doctor Ido tries to shield Alita from her mysterious history while her street-smart new friend Hugo offers instead to help trigger her memories. But when the deadly and corrupt forces that run the city come after Alita, she discovers...
38) Repo man
Series
Criterion collection volume 654
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
About a weathered repo man in desolate downtown Los Angeles, and the nihilistic middle-class punk he takes under his wing. The job becomes more than either of them bargained for when they get involved in reclaiming a mysterious, and other worldly, Chevy Malibu with a hefty reward attached to it. Featuring the ultimate early-eighties L.A. punk soundtrack, this grungily hilarious odyssey is a politically trenchant take on President Reagan's domestic...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived. She awakens from the cruel and haunting Quarter Quell deep inside the bunkered catacombs of District 13. Separated from some of her closest allies and fearing for their safety in the Capitol, Katniss finally agrees to be the Mockingjay, the symbolic leader of the rebellion. Still uncertain as to whom she can trust, Katniss must help 13 rise from the shadows, all the while knowing that President Snow has...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived. She awakens from the cruel and haunting Quarter Quell deep inside the bunkered catacombs of District 13. Separated from some of her closest allies and fearing for their safety in the Capitol, Katniss finally agrees to be the Mockingjay, the symbolic leader of the rebellion. Still uncertain as to whom she can trust, Katniss must help 13 rise from the shadows, all the while knowing that President Snow has...