Films like The Hunger Games (2012)

The state forcibly transports “problem” students to an isolated island, where they are forced to take part in a deadly game until only one remains. A film that, de facto, laid the foundation of the battle royale genre and spread far beyond the film industry.

In the future, the government holds an annual competition with fifty young people taking part. The goal is to walk a multi-kilometer route while maintaining a minimum speed threshold — otherwise, death. The winner earns a huge amount of money and a fairy-tale future.

In the near future, deadly games are staged for entertainment, where contestants can win a huge amount of money — at the risk of their lives. To pay for his daughter’s treatment, a desperate father joins a brutal reality show where he must survive for 30 days while professional killers hunt him.

One day, a young boy named Thomas wakes up among a group of other teenagers who have learned to survive in an enclosed space. He remembers nothing except his name. The teens have been living like this for years and are trying to find a way out of the maze that surrounds them.

In the future, society is divided into five factions based on a dominant character trait, and at age 16 every teenager takes a test that determines which faction they belong to. Beatrice’s results show multiple strong traits, so she doesn’t fit neatly into a single faction — she is Divergent.

In the future, people are forbidden to have more than one child. But in one family, seven girls are born. To protect them, their parents name them after the days of the week, so each can appear in public only on her assigned day. Then one day, Monday disappears...

After a devastating epidemic of an unknown virus, a brutal dictatorship takes hold in Britain and imposes total control over ordinary people’s lives. One day, a mysterious freedom fighter known as V launches a guerrilla war against the regime through high-profile bombings, aiming to return freedom to the people.

In the near future, after a man-made catastrophe, the Earth’s surface is covered in snow and ice. The remnants of humanity live on a massive train that races nonstop along a special track. Life on board is divided by class: the elite occupy the front cars, while the poor struggle to survive in horrific conditions at the back.

In the future, the world is divided into several zones — Zalem, where the elite and wealthy live, and Iron City, where ordinary people struggle to survive. A scientist from Iron City finds the parts of a cyborg girl in a pile of scrap and brings her back to life. Now she must recover her memories and learn what happened to her.

The film follows the rise of young Coriolanus Snow, many years before he becomes Panem’s dictator. He is assigned as the mentor of Lucy, a poor girl from District 12, and must help her win the 10th annual Hunger Games.