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The Handmaid's Tale(2017-)

TV-MA
| 50min per episode | Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
4.1/5 (with 1,271 votes)

Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship. A TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel.

With Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, Yvonne Strahovski, Alexis Bledel, Madeline Brewer, Ann Dowd, ...
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Star Trek: Discovery(2017-)

TV-14
| 1h per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama
3.6/5 (with 807 votes)

Follow the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new life forms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself.

Directed by David Semel, Adam Kane, Akiva Goldsman, Olatunde Osunsanmi, Lee Rose, Douglas Aarniokoski, ... - With Sonequa Martin-Green, Michelle Yeoh, Anthony Rapp, Doug Jones, Mary Wiseman, James Frain, ...

Black Mirror(2011-)

TV-MA
| Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery
4.2/5 (with 2,309 votes)

Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence.

Directed by Otto Bathurst, Euros Lyn, Brian Welsh, Owen Harris, Carl Tibbetts, Bryn Higgins, ... - With Daniel Lapaine, Hannah John-Kamen, Michaela Coel, Daniel Kaluuya, Toby Kebbell, Rory Kinnear, ...
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For All Mankind(2019-)

TV-MA
| Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, War & Politics
3.9/5 (with 295 votes)

Explore an aspirational world where NASA and the space program remained a priority and a focal point of our hopes and dreams as told through the lives of NASA astronauts, engineers, and their families.

With Joel Kinnaman, Michael Dorman, Wrenn Schmidt, Sarah Jones, Shantel VanSanten, Jodi Balfour, ...

Star Trek: Picard(2020-2023)

TV-14
| Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama
3.7/5 (with 791 votes)

Set twenty years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis, we follow the now-retired Admiral Picard into the next chapter of his life.

Directed by Hanelle Culpepper, Jonathan Frakes - With Patrick Stewart, Santiago Cabrera, Alison Pill, Isa Briones, Harry Treadaway, Jeri Ryan, ...

Colony(2016-2018)

TV-14
| 43min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 270 votes)

In the near future a family must make difficult decisions as they balance staying together with trying to survive. They live in Los Angeles, which has been occupied by a force of outside intruders. While some people have chosen to collaborate with the authorities and benefit from the new order, others have rebelled — and suffer the consequences.

Directed by Juan J. Campanella - With Josh Holloway, Sarah Wayne Callies, Peter Jacobson, Amanda Righetti, Tory Kittles, Isabella Crovetti, ...

The Last Man on Earth(2015-2018)

TV-14
| 22min per episode | Drama, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 393 votes)

The year is 2022, and after an unlikely event, only one man is left on earth: Phil Miller, who used to be just an average guy who loved his family and hated his job at the bank. Now, in his RV, Phil searches the country for other survivors.

With Will Forte, Kristen Schaal, January Jones, Mel Rodriguez, Cleopatra Coleman, Mary Steenburgen, ...

The Man in the High Castle(2015-2019)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Drama
3.8/5 (with 573 votes)

Explore what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States. Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel.

With Alexa Davalos, Rupert Evans, Luke Kleintank, DJ Qualls, Joel de la Fuente, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, ...

Dark Angel(2000-2002)

TV-14
| 43min per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama
3.7/5 (with 199 votes)

Super soldier Max Guevera tries to live a normal life in post-apocalyptic Seattle while eluding capture by government agents from the covert biotech facility she escaped from as a child and searching for her genetically-enhanced brothers and sisters who have dispersed after escape.

Directed by David Nutter - With Jessica Alba, Michael Weatherly, John Savage, Valarie Rae Miller, J. C. MacKenzie, Richard Gunn, ...

NieR:Automata Ver1.1a(2023-)

TV-14
| 24min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
4.1/5 (with 37 votes)

The distant future, 5012. The sudden aerial invasion of Earth by＜ Aliens ＞ and their creations ＜Machine Lifeforms＞ led mankind to the brink of extinction. The surviving number of humans who took refuge on the moon to organize a counterattack using ＜android＞ soldiers to recapture Earth. However, the war reaches a stalemate as the ＜Machine Lifeforms＞ continue to multiply infinitely. In turn, humanity deploys anew unit of android soldiers as an ultimate weapon: ＜YoRHa＞ Newly dispatched to Earth ＜2B＞ joins ＜9S＞, the analyst currently stationed there, where amid their mission, they encounter a myriad of mysterious phenomena... This is the story of these lifeless ＜androids＞ and their endless fight for the sake of mankind.

Oz(1997-2003)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Crime, Drama
4.0/5 (with 331 votes)

The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.

Directed by Adam Bernstein - With Kirk Acevedo, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Rita Moreno, Harold Perrineau, ...

Batman Beyond(1999-2001)

TV-Y7
| 24min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure, Mystery, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
4.1/5 (with 248 votes)

As new villains overrun Gotham City of the future, the aging Bruce Wayne hangs up the cape of the once invincible Batman. But when troubled teenager Terry McGinnis stumbles upon the Dark Knight's secret, a new alliance is forged. And a triumphant new Batman is born.

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Snowpiercer(2020-2022)

TV-MA
| 50min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.7/5 (with 562 votes)

More than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe as class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out.

Directed by Fred Toye, James Hawes, Sam Miller, Helen Shaver, Everardo Gout - With Jennifer Connelly, Daveed Diggs, Mickey Sumner, Annalise Basso, Alison Wright, Susan Park, ...

Attack on Titan(2013-2022)

TV-14
| Animation, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure
4.3/5 (with 2,931 votes)

Several hundred years ago, humans were nearly exterminated by Titans. Titans are typically several stories tall, seem to have no intelligence, devour human beings and, worst of all, seem to do it for the pleasure rather than as a food source. A small percentage of humanity survived by walling themselves in a city protected by extremely high walls, even taller than the biggest Titans. Flash forward to the present and the city has not seen a Titan in over 100 years. Teenage boy Eren and his foster sister Mikasa witness something horrific as the city walls are destroyed by a Colossal Titan that appears out of thin air. As the smaller Titans flood the city, the two kids watch in horror as their mother is eaten alive. Eren vows that he will murder every single Titan and take revenge for all of mankind.

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Tokyo Ghoul(2014-2018)

TV-MA
| 24min per episode | Action & Adventure, Animation
4.2/5 (with 1,057 votes)

Ken Kaneki is a bookworm college student who meets a girl names Rize at a cafe he frequents. They're the same age and have the same interests, so they quickly become close. Little does Kaneki know that Rize is a ghoul – a kind of monster that lives by hunting and devouring human flesh. When part of her special organ – "the red child" – is transplanted into Kaneki, he becomes a ghoul himself, trapped in a warped world where humans are not the top of the food chain.

Directed by Shuhei Morita

Psycho-Pass(2012-2019)

TV-MA
| 28min per episode | Animation, Crime, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure
3.9/5 (with 175 votes)

Psycho-Pass is set in a futuristic era in Japan where the Sibyl System, a powerful network of psychometric scanners, actively measures the biometrics of its citizens' minds. The resulting assessment is called a Psycho-Pass. When the calculated likelihood of an individual committing a crime, measured by the Crime Coefficient index, exceeds an accepted threshold, he or she is pursued, apprehended, and either arrested or decomposed by the field officers of the Crime Investigation Department of the Public Safety Bureau.

Fist of the North Star(1984-1988)

TV-MA
| 24min per episode | Action & Adventure, Animation, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Drama
4.2/5 (with 42 votes)

In the year 199X, human civilization has been all but destroyed by a nuclear holocaust.

Dollhouse(2009-2010)

TV-14
| 44min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama
3.7/5 (with 203 votes)

Echo is a member of a highly illegal and underground group of individuals whose personalities have been wiped clean so they can be imprinted with any number of new personas. Confined between missions to a secret facility known as the Dollhouse, the "Actives" are hired by the wealthy, powerful and connected to wholly become—with mind, personality and physiology—whomever the client wants or needs them to be. They know no other life than the specific engagements they are in at that time—or do they?

With Eliza Dushku, Harry Lennix, Fran Kranz, Tahmoh Penikett, Enver Gjokaj, Dichen Lachman, ...

Future Man(2017-2020)

TV-MA
| 30min per episode | Comedy, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.6/5 (with 220 votes)

Josh Futturman, a janitor by day/world-ranked gamer by night, is tasked with preventing the extinction of humanity after mysterious visitors from the future proclaim him the key to defeating the imminent super-race invasion.

Directed by Nisha Ganatra - With Josh Hutcherson, Eliza Coupe, Derek Wilson, Ed Begley, Jr., Glenne Headly, Haley Joel Osment, ...

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners(2022)

TV-MA
| 25min per episode | Action & Adventure, Animation, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
4.3/5 (with 554 votes)

In a dystopia riddled with corruption and cybernetic implants, a talented but reckless street kid strives to become a mercenary outlaw — an edgerunner.

Directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi
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Years and Years(2019)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Drama, War & Politics, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.8/5 (with 121 votes)

As Britain is rocked by unstable political, economic and technological advances, members of the Lyons family converge on one crucial night in 2019. Over the next 15 years, the twists and turns of their everyday lives are explored as we find out if this ordinary family could change the world.

Directed by Simon Cellan Jones - With Emma Thompson, Rory Kinnear, Russell Tovey, Jessica Hynes, Anne Reid, Jade Alleyne, ...

TRIGUN(1998)

TV-14
| 24min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Animation
4.1/5 (with 203 votes)

Trigun takes place in the distant future on a desert planet. Vash the Stampede is a gunfighter with a legend so ruthless he has a $$60,000,000,000 bounty on his head. Entire towns evacuate at the rumor of his arrival. But the real Vash the Stampede, the enigmatic and conflicted lead character, is more heroic, even though he usually acts like a complete idiot.

Ergo Proxy(2006)

TV-MA
| 25min per episode | Animation, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 142 votes)

In a futuristic world almost barren of life, mankind is confined to mechanized domed cities where A.I.’s control all aspects of life. In this world, humans are no longer born, they are manufactured in a production line; and alongside them live androids known as autoreivs. Within one of these domed sanctuaries named Romdeau lives Re-l Mayer, one of a few citizens who aren’t entirely prevented from thinking. Her grandfather's prominent position and the affection of the scientist Daedalus have left her more free will than is normally allowed, but Re-l has started to question the sanctity of the city and the citizens' perfect way of life. With mysterious beings known as proxies causing havoc and a man named Vincent causing great influence on her life, Re-l must travel outside of the city to find the answers she seeks and discover the mystery behind "the awakening".

Directed by Shukō Murase

Brave New World(2020)

TV-MA
| 48min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Drama
3.3/5 (with 82 votes)

In a utopia whose perfection hinges upon control of monogamy and privacy, members of the collective begin to question the rules, putting their regimented society on a collision course with forbidden love and revolution.

Directed by Owen Harris - With Alden Ehrenreich, Jessica Brown Findlay, Harry Lloyd, Kylie Bunbury, Joseph Morgan, Hannah John-Kamen, ...

TRIGUN STAMPEDE(2023-)

TV-14
| 24min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.7/5 (with 16 votes)

Vash the Stampede’s a joyful gunslinging pacifist, so why does he have a $$6 million bounty on his head? That’s what’s puzzling rookie reporter Meryl Stryfe and her jaded veteran partner when looking into the vigilante only to find someone who hates blood. But their investigation turns out to uncover something heinous—his evil twin brother, Millions Knives.

Texhnolyze(2003)

TV-MA
| 23min per episode | Animation, Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 22 votes)

Denizens of Lux have come to call it "The City" and treat it as a sentient force. Three factions vie for control of the city: the Organo, a strictly professional conglomerate with ties to the criminal underworld in the prosthetics business; the Union, a fanatical populist group interfering with Organo's affairs; and Racan, a marauding group of Texhnolyzed youths.

Dimension W(2016)

TV-14
| 24min per episode | Animation, Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Crime
3.4/5 (with 24 votes)

Humanity has found a way to achieve infinite energy by using coils to draw it from the fourth plane: dimension "W". With the production of coils having been monopolized by the New Tesla energy company, freelance collectors are hired to find and remove any illegal, unofficial coils. This is the story of collector Kyōma, who also happens to have a huge hatred towards coils. During one of his missions he stumbles upon a female android that perceives herself as being human, leading the two to enter an unlikely partnership.

Directed by Kanta Kamei

Akame ga Kill!(2014)

TV-MA
| 24min per episode | Animation, Drama, Action & Adventure
4.2/5 (with 469 votes)

Young Tatsumi travels to the capital of the Empire in order to earn money for his starving people and encounters a world of unimaginable depravity, dominated by the ruthless Prime Minister who controls the child Emperor. Tatsumi is recruited by Night Raid, a group of assassins dedicated to eliminating corruption by mercilessly killing officials and privileged nobles.

Directed by Tomoki Kobayashi

Arknights(2022-)

TV-14
| 24min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Drama
3.3/5 (with 9 votes)

In the wake of unknown Catastrophes in the heart of Terra, a mineral of unimaginable power has been discovered. With it, society's technology has made huge leaps and bounds, but the substance causes a deadly incurable disease, leading to a worldwide enslavement of the infected. As a rebellion is now on the rise, a pharmaceutical company races for a cure to save humanity.

[C] The Money of Soul and Possibility Control(2011)

TV-14
| 22min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.9/5 (with 37 votes)

Kimimaro works two jobs to make ends meet. He could go from pauper to prince in a parallel world called the Financial District—if he’ll invest his future as collateral in a dangerous game. Winning gets you more wealth, but losing could erase you from existence. When the destructive forces at play compel Kimimaro to confront the most powerful player, can he save the real world from total collapse?

Directed by Kenji Nakamura
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