1,570 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 21st Century
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Out of Time
California The 2080sA cop from the future goes back in time to Los Angeles and teams up with his grandfather to capture a master criminal.
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The Running Man
California The 2010s2019. A game nobody survives. This year might be the exception. — 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 convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.
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RoboCop
Michigan The 2020sPart man. Part machine. All cop. The future of law enforcement. — In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company's nefarious plans, he turns on his masters.
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The Terminator
California The 1980s The 2020sYour future is in its hands. — In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?
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2019: After the Fall of New York
New York The 2010sIn The Year 2019, The Future Depends on One Man. — After a nuclear war society breaks down into two groups, the evil Euraks, and the rebel Federation. A mercenary named Parsifal is hired by the Federation to infiltrate New York City, which is controlled by the Euraks, to rescue the only fertile woman left on Earth.
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Endgame
New York The 2020sA future world where violence explodes in duels to the death... — In the year 2025, a nuclear holocaust has left New York City an irradiated, but not abandoned, wasteland. The ruined city is inhabited now by scavenger packs and telepathic mutants, who are persecuted by the elite survivors. Keeping the people pacified is the reality television program Endgame, where hunters and gladiators fight to the death.
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2020 Texas Gladiators
Texas The 2020sWhen earth becomes an arena... murder becomes a way of life. — In a post-apocalyptic Texas, a band of warriors fight against a fascist regime that is trying to take control of all surviving population.
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Mexico 2000
🇲🇽 Mexico The 2000sMexico, the best country in the world! — It's the year 2000. Finally, Mexico has entered the 21st century. Now everything works as planned.
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Blade Runner
California The 2010sMan has made his match... now it's his problem. — In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
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The Last Chase
Massachusetts The 2010sThe oil finally ran out... and somewhere in the future, the chase has begun. — Twenty years after the American people have been told the oil has run out and disease has scared them into complacency, the United States has become a fascist state. One man, former race car driver Franklyn Hart, now a puppet spokesman for public transportation, rebuilds his race car and sets off to California from Boston where people have returned to living life like they were twenty years prior.
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A Boy and His Dog
🇺🇸 United States of America The 2020sA rather kinky tale of survival. — Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog, Blood, are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War IV, where survivors must battle for food, shelter, and sexual companionship in the desert-like wasteland. Vic and Blood eke out a meager existence, foraging for food and fighting gangs of cutthroats.
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Rollerball
New York Texas Tokyo Prefecture The 2010sIn the not-too-distant future, wars will no longer exist. But there WILL be...The Game — In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.
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Death Race 2000
California New York New Mexico Missouri The 2000sA Cross Country Road Wreck! — In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians. Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using cars equipped with deadly weapons. Frankenstein, the mysterious returning champion, has become America's hero, but this time he has a passenger from the underground resistance.
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The Ultimate Warrior
New York The 2010sA Film of the Future — Only a few people still live in New York in 2012. They are organized in gangs with their own turf. One of them is led by Baron, another one by Carrot, and they are constantly at war with each other.
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Soylent Green
New York California The 2020sWhat is the secret of Soylent Green? — In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff.
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Thunderbird 6
New York Arizona 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇮🇳 India 🇪🇬 Egypt New South Wales 🇲🇦 Morocco 🇧🇷 Brazil The 2060sThe International Rescue team is faced with one of its toughest challenges yet, as the revolutionary lighter-than-air craft Skyship One is hijacked while on her maiden voyage around the world. Against backdrops including the Statue of Liberty and the Sphinx, Lady Penelope, Parker, Alan and Tin-Tin fight the hijackers from on-board, while the rest of the team tries to stop the airship crashing.
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Flint Strong
Michigan The 2010sFlint Strong tells the true story of 17-year-old Claressa “T-Rex” Shields, a Flint, Mich., native whose dreams of becoming the first woman in history to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing were realized at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, Shields won a second gold medal in women’s middleweight boxing.
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Texas The 2020sIn 1974, the world witnessed one of the most bizarre crimes in the annals of American history. In 2021, the face of madness returns. — Melody, a 25-year-old San Francisco moneymaker, drags her teenage sister Dreama, a wheelchair-bound amateur photographer, with her to Texas on a business trip, out of fear of leaving her alone in the city. Once there, it's not long until they're fighting for their lives against a 60-year-old Leatherface.
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Fire Island
New York The 2020sDescribed as a modern day take on Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” the film will center on two best friends embarking on a weeklong vacation to Fire Island — the historic gay escape off the southern shore of Long Island — with the help of cheap rosé and a cadre of eclectic friends.
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Lost in the Game
California The 2000sNavigating the sketchy terrain of record companies and street hustlers, Playboy T. undertakes to promote his protégé and cash in on him in the process. When the rich but extremely dangerous gangster The Vill (MC Ren) gets out of jail, Playboy T. puts it all on the line and asks him for help in making the Nitetrain record.