The Best Futuristic Movies and TV Shows on Kanopy
Finding a good Futuristic movie and TV show to watch can be hard, so we've ranked the best ones and included where to watch them. Check out our list of the best Futuristic movies and TV shows of all time streaming on Kanopy.
1. Automata
What it's about: Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.
Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi & IMDb TV) & stream on a subscription service (Hoopla & Kanopy).
2. Metropolis
What it's about: In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (PlutoTV), stream on a subscription service (Hoopla & Kanopy) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 2 services (iTunes & Google Play).
3. Freejack
What it's about: Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Kanopy & Cinemax) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).
4. Equals
What it's about: A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (fuboTV, Showtime, Hoopla & 1 other), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Showtime) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).
5. eXistenZ
What it's about: A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Paramount+ & Kanopy) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).
6. Things to Come
What it's about: The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi), stream on a subscription service (The Criterion Channel, Hoopla, Kanopy & 1 other) & rent or buy from $1.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).
7. Natural City
What it's about: Two cops, R and Noma, hunt down renegade cyborgs. Cyborgs are used as commandos by the military, as lust objects and for companionship. Normaly they have a limited lifespan of three years but black market technology is being developed to be able to transfer a cyborg's artificial intelligence into human host. This drives R to find a suitable host for his expiring cyborg Ria.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Kanopy).
8. Turkey Shoot
What it's about: In the near future, after an unspecified holocaust, survivors are herded into prison camps. There, they are hunted for sport by the leaders of the camp. Paul, one of the newest prisoners, is determined not to go down as quietly as the others.
Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (PopcornFlix), stream on a subscription service (Shudder, Kanopy & Shout Factory TV) & rent or buy from $1.99 on 2 services (Prime Video & Microsoft).
9. Woman in the Moon
What it's about: A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon, he builds a rocket to fly there, but there's too much rivalry among the crew to have a sucessful expedition.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Kanopy).
10. Bringing Up Bobby
What it's about: Bringing Up Bobby is the story of a European con-artist and her son Bobby, who find themselves in Oklahoma in an effort to escape her past and build a better future. Olive and Bobby blithely charm their way from one adventure to another until Olive's criminal past catches up with her. Consequently, she must make a choice: continue with a life of crime or leave the person she loves most in an effort to give Bobby a proper chance in life.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Fandor, Hoopla & Kanopy) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 3 services (iTunes, Google Play & Prime Video).
11. King Charles III
What it's about: Prince Charles' accession to the throne following the Queen's death. When he refuses to sign a controversial bill into law, political chaos ensues: a constitutional crisis, rioting on the streets and a tank in front of Buckingham Palace.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Hoopla & Kanopy) & rent or buy from $4.99 on 2 services (iTunes & Prime Video).