Soylent Green

Soylent Green

1973 · 97 min · EN · PG · 6.9 (1,420 votes)
Dir. Richard Fleischer · Starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten, Brock Peters, Paula Kelly · Music Fred Myrow

It's the year 2022. People are still the same. They'll do anything to get what they need. And they need Soylent Green.

Science FictionCrimeMystery

In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.

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This film delivers a suffocating sense of urban decay and environmental collapse. It's a grim, paranoiac journey through a future where resources are scarce and humanity struggles for survival. The atmosphere is thick with desperation and a creeping dread, making for a profoundly unsettling and thought-provoking experience.

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