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No Blade of Grass (1970)
5.8/10on IMDb
Released
A well-stocked family farm looks like a refuge when shops and roads stop feeling reliable. That expectation gives the trip out of London a clear destination and a social cost. The film follows the families for whom gaining or losing a place on the farm could decide everything.
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The Omega Man (1971)
6.4/10on IMDb
Released
Neville keeps a penthouse stocked and drives around empty Los Angeles during daylight. He even tries to shop for clothes. His reasons for wanting to keep recognizable routines give the film some of its saddest scenes.
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Zardoz (1974)
5.8/10on IMDb
Released
The privileged residents of the Vortex have figured out how to live indefinitely, leaving them with the problem of passing the time. The rituals around punishment and the social rank of people who have grown apathetic give this strange future a recognizable set of institutions.
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Fantastic Planet (1973)
7.6/10on IMDb
Released
Humans in this animated world can become the pets of giant blue Draags. A child treating a small human like a toy says more about the way power is handed down than an explanation of the planet could. Watch how different the same daily routine looks from the pet’s side of the room.
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Stalker (1979)
8.0/10on IMDb
Released
The Stalker earns his living guiding clients into a cordoned-off Zone. The trip begins around a shabby bar and continues on a rail trolley. Those everyday surroundings have time to settle in before the landscape starts making its own rules.
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Quintet (1979)
5.0/10on IMDb
Released
A frozen city spends what little time it has left on a board game. Watch how the rules carry over from the playing surface to the streets. The fur-lined clothes and icy rooms give the ritual a home in Robert Altman’s peculiarly quiet future.
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Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
7.1/10on IMDb
Released
Forbin’s computer can watch him at work and at home. Private time becomes something he has to negotiate, down to a request that would be awkward even with a human supervisor. The brilliant machine feels most oppressive when it takes an interest in his calendar.
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Parts: The Clonus Horror (1979)
4.1/10on IMDb
Released
The residents of an isolated community wear athletic clothes and follow a schedule. Trips to a place they call America are held out as a reward. The bland familiarity of the campus routine gives the science-fiction horror time to build.
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Idaho Transfer (1973)
5.1/10on IMDb
Released
Young researchers travel from a working Idaho lab to a landscape where the systems they grew up relying on have collapsed. The film puts planning and travel ahead of spectacle, giving you time to notice how much everyday mobility used to depend on things they took for granted.
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Glen and Randa (1971)
5.3/10on IMDb
Released
Glen and Randa grow up amid the objects of a world they never knew. Glen’s comic books give him an idea of what a city ought to be, and he goes looking for it. The reused scraps of the old society are as revealing as anything the travelers find.
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Demon Seed (1977)
6.3/10on IMDb
Released
The house computer controls appliances and other household systems. Susan’s growing fear comes from the way conveniences she already uses can be turned against her. This is a dark, disturbing take on the idea that someone might want a smarter home.
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
6.4/10on IMDb
Released
The Enterprise has been refitted, and its crew has to learn what that means while the ship is already under pressure. A disagreement over the captain’s chair and the trouble with a transporter make this enormous space adventure feel like a place where people report to work.
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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
6.1/10on IMDb
Released
Apes are trained for service jobs and sold as labor. Watch what happens when Caesar has to pass through ordinary streets and public spaces full of that labor. The setting makes the hierarchy visible before anyone lays out the rules.
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Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
5.4/10on IMDb
Released
A human teacher gives writing lessons to ape students, and a mechanic has a place in Caesar’s working community. Those scenes give the later conflict a stake you can picture: how people will learn, work, and sit in council together tomorrow.
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Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
6.0/10on IMDb
Released
Beneath the damaged city, a community has assembled a whole religious service around a relic from an old war. Above ground, an ape society argues about where its authority comes from. Both groups make the distant future feel like a place with inherited habits.
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Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977)
7.1/10on IMDb
Released
Time travel has become a service for well-off tourists, complete with a pilot going to work. When a twin unexpectedly takes over that shift, the farce depends on just how ordinary the company has made a trip into history seem.
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Eolomea (1972)
5.7/10on IMDb
Released
When cargo ships disappear, Maria Scholl has to run a meeting and order a halt to flights. The people in this East German space drama live in a world with freight schedules, regulators, and projects that have to get approved before they can go ahead.
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In the Dust of the Stars (1976)
5.3/10on IMDb
Released
A rescue crew arrives to find a government that insists it never sent a distress call. The invitation to a party is a diplomatic gesture, while one navigator stays on duty aboard ship. The difference between hosting guests and working a shift opens two views of the same planet.
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
6.5/10on IMDb
Released
Buck wakes to a future in which the capital has advanced technology and ruined land begins outside it. Earth has to negotiate for safe supply routes, while Buck is assigned a chatty little drone whose own computer talks. This is the 1979 theatrical feature.
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