Movies like Rollerball
If Rollerball's mix of arena, sports and manager stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Rollerball's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991 · Directed by James Cameron · 137 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia · Also action and thriller
Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000.
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Equilibrium
2002 · Directed by Kurt Wimmer · 107 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia · Also action and science fiction · From the same decade (2000s)
In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
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Looper
2012 · Directed by Rian Johnson · 118 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia · Also action and thriller
In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is…
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
1984 · Directed by Michael Radford · 113 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia · Also science fiction and thriller
Winston Smith is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country's leaders in a charitable light.
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Demolition Man
1993 · Directed by Marco Brambilla · 115 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia · Also action and science fiction
In 1996, brash L.A. detective John Spartan and maniac killer Simon Phoenix are both sentenced to decades in a cryogenic prison as punishment for a rescue mission gone wrong.
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The Running Man
2025 · Directed by Edgar Wright · 133 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia · Also action and thriller
Desperate to save his sick daughter, working-class Ben Richards is convinced by The Running Man's charming but ruthless producer to enter the deadly competition game as a last resort.
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The Running Man
1987 · Directed by Paul Michael Glaser · 101 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia · Also action and thriller
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which…
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Terminator: Dark Fate
2019 · Directed by Tim Miller · 128 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia · Also science fiction and action
Decades after Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, a lethal new Terminator is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to save mankind, battle-hardened Sarah Connor teams up with an unexpected…
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The Purge: Election Year
2016 · Directed by James DeMonaco · 109 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia · Also action and thriller
Two years after choosing not to kill the man who killed his son, former police sergeant Leo Barnes has become head of security for Senator Charlene Roan, the front runner in the next Presidential election due to her…
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Death Race
2008 · Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson · 105 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia · Also action and thriller · From the same decade (2000s)
Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for…
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Land of the Dead
2005 · Directed by George A. Romero · 93 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia · Also science fiction and thriller · From the same decade (2000s)
The living dead have taken over the world, and the remaining humans live in a walled city to protect themselves as they cope with the situation.