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Soylent Green

10: Soylent Green (1973)

Director: Richard Fleischer
Cost to Make: Unknown, but budget-challenged
Setting: New York City, in the year 2022
Sci Fi Subgenre: Dystopic Future

Why It's On The List: The problems faced by the desperate world in the movie are even more relevant to us today: overpopulation, pollution, and rapidly diminishing resources. The film plays in to our primal fears about government and corporate corruption.







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