History CrapsackWorld / LiveActionFilms

** ''Film/TheCrow'''s Detroit.

* ''Film/CSATheConfederateStatesOfAmerica'' depicts a world where the South won the UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar. Slavery is still legal and has grown to include Asians. The Confederacy conquered the Union shortly after the Civil War, and then conquered most of Latin America. Having even one drop of non-Caucasian blood means you are automatically put into slavery - unless you're Latino, in which case you live under an apartheid system. Women have not been liberated and sexism still rules. They enter UsefulNotes/WorldWarII as allies of the Axis and launch a war against Japan, rather than the other way around. One line suggests they've conquered parts of the Middle East as well. All religions not based in Christianity are banned, with the exception of Judaism, and even they have been ghettoized onto Long Island. Many of the people responsible for America's cultural advancement, such as Creator/MarkTwain and Music/ElvisPresley, flee to [[CanadaEh Canada]], resulting in that country becoming the entertainment powerhouse. Plus, the two countries are in a Cold War with one another because the country accepts runaway slaves. Being gay also results in blacklisting or some other penalty, it isn't made clear which. In short, not the place you'd want to live.

* ''Film/TwelveMonkeys'': The future, where a plague has killed 99% of humanity and the rest live in an underground {{Dystopia}} where prisoners are treated like animals.

* ''Film/TheABCsOfDeath'': "V is for Vagitus (The Cry of a Newborn Baby)" is set in a dystopian future where, due to overpopulation, reproduction is only allowed by permit. Any unapproved babies are taken and killed. Meanwhile, the government has instituted a campaign of genocide and human experimentation against psychics, to the point of declaring them legally not alive.

* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'': The nameless European city where the film begins is exactly this, being constantly bombarded by the Turkish army. The titular hero blames [[ScienceIsBad science and the age of reason]] for the world's ills. This is confirmed later in the movie when it is revealed that [[spoiler: the city leaders have been negotiating all along with the Turkish Sultan to keep the war going indefinitely with the winner of each battle decided beforehand, which is intended as a critique of modern thinking.]]

* ''Film/AndroidCop'': The Zone is a section of future Los Angeles that's contaminated by radiation. In response, it was quarantined under pain of death for anybody who tries to enter or leave without a special bypass. The population are mostly mutants and criminals. The rest of LA isn't much better, since poverty is rampant and the government is incredibly corrupt. Also, euthanasia and organ harvesting is legal.

* ''Film/{{Antichrist}}'' is a film that opens up with the unintentional suicide of an infant and just gets worse from there. Everyone in the film is horribly miserable and the film is shot in an ugly gray palette. Hell, even the acorns are miserable. And possibly vicious. Then again, this is a Creator/LarsVonTrier movie, so this is to be expected.

* ''Film/{{Avatar}}'': We can tell that Earth has become this - or GaiasLament to be more specific - even though we never actually see it. However, an extended version of the first scene is available on the DVD, showing how crappy life on Earth is. Also, it can be inferred from conversations that the US has been involved in at least two more conflicts in different parts of the world, which are implied to have been [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything invasions to secure oil]].
* ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' shows that five years after half the life on Earth was wiped out by Thanos, while the environment and resources bounced back, the combination of grief, loss of life, unsupported infrastructure and the resulting power vaccuum is eroding humanity steadily. And through Carol Danvers, it's clear other worlds are under the same loss of stability.
* ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'': Had a memorable version of this with the alternate version of 1985 Hill Valley. Biff became immensely rich and powerful with the [[TimelineAlteringMacGuffin Gray's Sports Almanac]], and then turned Hill Valley into a heavily polluted city infested with trigger-happy gangs, armed militias and bikers.

* ''Film/BatmanBegins'', Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/Batman1989'':
** Those two films set Gotham up quite solidly as this; [[FromBadToWorse it gets worse]] in ''Film/TheDarkKnight''.

** In the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, we haven't seen much of Gotham yet, but its reputation precedes it.
-->'''Perry White''': 'Crime wave in Gotham!' Other breaking news: 'Water, wet!'

** The Gotham's incarnation in ''Film/Joker2019'' is possibly the worst movie depiction of the city yet, thanks in no small part of dose of WorldOfJerkass. People are generally unpleasant one to another, the economic crisis is palpable, high criminality and the richer class doesn't seem to care about the lower class. Even Thomas Wayne is shown here in more negative light. Joker himself actually [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] it.

* ''Film/BlackDeath'': If the plague doesn't get you the bandits or the witch-burners will.
* ''The Blade'': The far west/south west of old China as portrayed in Tsui Hark's film is as crapsack as old China gets. Marauding bandits? Check. Abundant opium? Check. Insane bounty hunters? Check. Enslaved prostitutes? Check. Villains killing monks and trapping dogs in bear clamps for sport? Check....
* ''Film/BladeRunner'':
** Los Angeles. Homicidal {{Artificial Human}}s? Implied post-WorldWarIII CyberPunk setting? Always raining? ''Film/BladeRunner'' is the flagship example of a filmic Crapsack World.
** "Always raining" is what happens in London. No, in this Crapsack World, it's always raining water mixed with ''radioactive particles and/or acids''.

* ''Film/BlondieJohnson'' was set and made during [[TheGreatDepression the Depression era]], so everything goes wrong for poor Blondie. She then resorts to petty crime to survive, and eventually becomes a ruthless gangster.

* ''Film/ABoyAndHisDog'': The film considers a post-apocalyptic violent "above ground" as the better alternative to the Dystopian repressive underground world.
* ''Film/{{Brazil}}''. This Creator/TerryGilliam film. Imagine if Creator/MontyPython directed ''[[Literature/NineteenEightyFour 1984]]'', and you should get the general idea of how dark and twisted this movie is. Only the wealthy are happy, but they're all decadent and utterly moronic. And while the government in ''1984'' is so terrifying because of its efficiency in surveillance and skill in the use of state terror and propaganda, in ''Brazil'' the horror comes from its mix of willingness to use torture combined with incompetence and a Kafkaesque bureaucracy that can drive even the most ordinary people to insanity and terrorism, [[spoiler: if the latter even exists]].

* ''Film/BulletInTheHead'': Nearly every character in the film is a criminal. Hong Kong is full of pro-Communist riots. Vietnam is in the middle of a civil war with both sides committing war crimes with impunity.

* ''Film/ChildrenOfMen'': Massive environmental pollution, heavy-handed authoritarian police\military presence, a largely apathetic and indifferent population that knows it's [[DepopulationBomb the last generation of humanity]]. Only Britain maintains the semblance of a functioning society, and barely at that.
* ''Franchise/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'': This universe, as first introduced in ''Film/PitchBlack'' and expanded on in later films and games, is... well, let's just put it this way: The eponymous Riddick is a sociopathic, amoral mass murderer, and he's the setting's premier ''[[AntiHero good guy]].'' Alien monsters, ravaging hordes, renegade mercenaries turned slavers with a heavy helping of BodyHorror, prisons that almost make real-world ones look pleasant by comparison...it's not a nice place.

* ''Film/{{Coffy}}'': The city the film's set in has a drug problem so bad there's a rehab center for children, with the entire government being in on it. Even the supposed young crusader pretending to fight the system.

* ''Film/CoolWorld'': Let's just say Cool World is similar to Toontown from ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' if it had been created by a deranged comic book writer to pass the time while he was in jail for murdering his wife's boyfriend. The urban section of Toontown itself wasn't a very safe place to be a human. Or a car.
* ''Film/CosmosWarOfThePlanets'': The alien world was once a technologically-advanced utopia, until the computer gained sapience and destroyed civilization in an atomic blast. Now the world is a barren wasteland, the people are forced to live savage and brutish lives, and the computer stalks the planet, killing any living thing it sees.

* ''Film/CryFreedom'': The film holds nothing back from showing just how awful life in Apartheid-era South Africa was for black citizens, with most living in crippling poverty, working as the servants for rich white people, dealing with regular harassment from police that could easily end in being brutally assaulted, wrongfully arrested or outright killed and knowing you have no hope of ever escaping the slums. Just surviving all that is the ''best'' case scenario.
* ''Film/CSATheConfederateStatesOfAmerica'': This independent film depicts a world where the South won the UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar. Slavery is still legal and has grown to include Asians. The Confederacy conquered the Union shortly after the Civil War, and then conquered most of Latin America. Having even one drop of non-Caucasian blood means you are automatically put into slavery - unless you're Latino, in which case you live under an apartheid system. Women have not been liberated and sexism still rules. They enter UsefulNotes/WorldWarII as allies of the Axis and launch a war against Japan, rather than the other way around. One line suggests they've conquered parts of the Middle East as well. All religions not based in Christianity are banned, with the exception of Judaism, and even they have been ghettoized onto Long Island. Many of the people responsible for America's cultural advancement, such as Creator/MarkTwain and Music/ElvisPresley, flee to [[CanadaEh Canada]], resulting in that country becoming the entertainment powerhouse. Plus, the two countries are in a Cold War with one another because the country accepts runaway slaves. Being gay also results in blacklisting or some other penalty, it isn't made clear which. In short, not the place you'd want to live.

* ''Film/DarkCity'': Where it's always night, everyone remembers a sunny beach but no one knows how to get there, and [[spoiler: telekinetic aliens are experimenting with everyone's minds]].
* ''Film/{{Daybreakers}}'': Pictures a bleak future for mankind where Vampires have taken over and hunt humans. Interestingly, the vampires' future is just as bleak because their food supply is running out due to humans having been hunted to near-extinction, and blood-starved vampires regularly turn into raging monsters that threaten even their own kind.
* ''Film/DeadlyHarvest'': A catastrophic worldwide ClimateChange has led to a kind of EndlessWinter, resulting in crop failures and famine throughout North America, with less than a month's worth of food supplies remaining by the time of the film's setting. In turn, gangs of marauders roam the countryside slaughtering precious livestock and [[BlackMarketProduce selling it on the black market]], food riots are regularly breaking out in urban areas, and governments have decided that the only solution to the problem is letting their citizens starve.

* Detroit: This RealLife city gets this treatment a lot in film, usually as a crime and gang-ridden hellhole.

** Film/{{Airplane}}!'s Detroit.
--->"It was filled with every lowlife from Bombay to Calcutta... it was worse than Detroit."

** Music/{{Eminem}}'s Detroit
** ''Film/GranTorino's'' Detroit, which is a hell-hole of a big ghetto at the mercy of gangs who don't have any.
** ''Film/UpInTheAir's'' Detroit:
--> '''Ryan Bingham''', Career Transition Counselor whose job takes him to Detroit with "clients" whose careers he "transitions" into unemployment: ''Now listen, these Detroit guys can be tough. They've been getting hammered. So you don't get distracted. Stick with the simple stuff. Get these packets in their hands and get them out the door, OK?'''
** ''Film/ScaryMovie4'' set after the Martian invasion, shows Detroit with gunfire, screaming sirens and fires. Then it shows the city after the invasion, being exactly the same hellhole but with Martian tripods.

* ''Film/TheEliteSquad'': Seems to suggest that, caught between out of control criminals and a vapid, selfish middle class the only options open to the police are corruption or fascism.
* In ''Film/{{Elysium}}'' Earth is devastated and overpopulated and the people who still live on it are destitute. The very wealthy live on the titular Elysium, a space station similar in appearance to a Stanford torus, and will stop at nothing to maintain the distinct separation between the two classes of people and prevent immigration. To show how bad things are on Earth, the slum city Max lives in is ''Los Angeles''.

* ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'' takes place in a {{Dystopia}}n America where New York's Manhattan Island has been turned into a maximum-security penitentiary in response to all the crime going down, and quintessential AntiHero Snake Plissken is given the job of breaking into the place in order to rescue the President. Its sequel, ''Film/EscapeFromLA'', turns America itself into a [[OppressiveStatesOfAmerica fascist]] Crapsack World following the Big One, with anyone not following the new President's new "Moral America" laws being given a "choice" between being shipped off to Los Angeles Island, which is every bit as hellish as New York, or being executed via the electric chair. Snake gets shipped there for obvious reasons, but the President is willing to drop all charges for Snake's crimes in exchange for retrieving a superweapon that could knock out all power to the world [[spoiler:which Snake ultimately uses in the end as a final "fuck you" to the President and the system]]. There's also a unified Latin American communist army preparing to invade the United States and nobody's preparing for it.
** The [[AllThereInTheManual novelization]] also provides some additional insight on how crappy this world is. WorldWarIII, which began in the Middle East, was a chemical war instead of a nuclear one. Huge amounts of nerve gas were used in cities like New York and Leningrad, also polluting the atmosphere. The gas now seeps down in rain and slowly drives people crazy before killing them. The western U.S. is a no-man's land where the war is ''still'' being fought.

* ''Film/{{Gabriel|2007}}'': In this Australian horror movie, Lucifer's forces have taken control of the movie's version of Purgatory. As a result, it takes the form of a filthy, corrupt and impoverished city that is locked in perpetual night. Even archangels despair after spending too much time there.
* Creator/GeorgeRomero: The world in his ''Film/LivingDeadSeries'' is a gradual display of this. Of course, this ''is'' the series [[TropeMaker that]] [[TropeCodifier defined]] the ZombieApocalypse, so it's expected. They take place in a world where even in the face of the human race crumbling into an ever-growing horde of cannibalistic zombies, the survival of the many comes second to the power and ego of the few. All of society's worst values are clung to while good will and cooperativeness rot along with the undead army, and the lawlessness of the apocalypse is something to be exploited for greed and sadism instead of remedied.
** In ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'', the emergency is just starting so it's not too bad, and there's a chance of recovery. Unfortunately, the end of the movie gives the audience a feeling of "We're fucked."
** In ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978'', it's worse and the emergency services meant to solve the crisis are quickly overwhelmed by the growing zombie population. This one ends with a feeling that societal collapse is inevitable.
** In ''Film/DayOfTheDead1985'', the collapse has happened and a group of military scientists are basically spinning their wheels because the people they were supposed to report are likely dead and all their solutions are no longer workable.
** In ''Film/LandOfTheDead'', life ''really'' sucks in the Fiddler's Green human refuge because the only good people are being squashed by folks that make it look like humanity ''deserved'' to get crushed.

* ''Film/TheGrey'': More like Crapsack Wilderness, but this film is about as dark of a movie as you can find. A harrowing survival film [[spoiler:that ends with a heartbreaking ShootTheShaggyDog]].

* ''Film/Hardware1990'': This Horror/sci-fi film is set in a post-apocalyptic world full of weirdos, perverts and psychopaths with seemingly nothing on TV but news footage of war atrocities and GWAR videos. Overpopulation problems in the remaining radiation-filled cities are leading to the government introducing large-scale sterilisation, and there's a self-repairing android killing machine on the loose. Oh, and [[Music/{{Motorhead}} Lemmy]] is in it. Lampshaded by Iggy Pop as the never seen radio dj at the end of a very downbeat new report; "And now for the good news. There's No Fucking Good News!".

* ''Film/TheHumanCondition:'' set in Manchuria nearing the close of WWII - a situation which was a RealLife living hell for soldiers and civilians.

* ''Film/IAmLegend'': This is set in a post apocalyptic world where a cynical Robert Neville is one of the last survivors of a deadly viral outbreak. Only 1% were immune to this virus, 90% were killed immediately and the other 9% were [[FateWorseThanDeath turned into ravenous vampires trying to infect the remaining survivors]]. For the first half of the movie, Neville is the only survivor you see, and his dog. Neville searches for other survivors every day to no avail. In flashbacks it's shown that Neville's wife and daughter were killed in an attempt to evacuate the city. Half way through the movie, Neville's dog gets infected and he is forced to kill her, leaving him all alone. He grows even more cynical and even suicidal. For the record, this was in fact the third adaptation of the original novel, ''Literature/IAmLegend'', by Richard Matheson. The first adaptation was ''The Last Man On Earth'' starring Creator/VincentPrice, the second was ''Film/TheOmegaMan'' starring Charleton Heston.

* ''Film/{{Interstellar}}'': Sometime in the future, Earth is stricken with a super-blight that has destroyed many of the world's crops, leading to massive worldwide famine. At the start of the film, the only sustainable crop left for agriculture is corn, and it too will soon succumb to the blight, which is also taking in nitrogen and making the atmosphere virtually unbreatheable thanks to massive dust storms. Meanwhile, the need for farmers to help sustain what is left of humanity has caused civilization to regress to an agrarian, anti-intellectual society where MRI's and other machines taken for granted are no longer being made, and Cooper says in a discussion with Murphy's teacher that an MRI would have saved his wife by finding the tumour in her brain before it killed her, and school curriculum tells students that the Apollo landings were faked. The expedition that the protagonists are undertaking is literally humanity's last resort to ensure that even a fraction of it can survive on a new homeworld.

* ''Film/LawnDogs'': In this movie, the whole town of Camelot Gardens is full of upper middle class cretins who are distrustful of outsiders, and obsessed with moving up the social ladder. Trent, one of the movie's two heroes, is suspected for crimes he didn't commit, and even physically attacked, twice, for things he didn't do. Devon, a kid, has parents who try to use her only to promote their own image within the town and help their own social status. One can hardly blame Trent and Devon for becoming {{Rebellious Spirit}}s. They are practically the only sympathetic people in the whole film!

* ''Film/TheMagdaleneSisters'': The world of this film. 1960s Ireland where women who are deemed "corrupt" by the Church are sent to Magdalene Laundries where they are put to work and abused by the cruel nuns while their families disown them and society looks down on them as sinners. They are punished cruelly for many things. Bear in mind that the women the Church called corrupt in this film were a) raped by a cousin that appears to get off scot-free, b) had a baby out of wedlock (and was forced to put the baby up for adoption) and c) simply was too flirty with the local boys (said girl was still a virgin too). What makes this worse? That was how Ireland actually ''was'' back then. The last of the laundries closed in '''1998'''. One Magdalene inmate spoke up saying that the reality was much worse than the film depicted.

* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'': This is a really extreme example. During a RobotWar, humanity arranged for a self-replicating cloud of {{nanomachines}} to be released into the atmosphere in order to deprive the Machines of solar energy. However, the humans were using that too so when the Machines found [[PoweredByAForsakenChild a new power source]], the humans were quickly defeated. With their defeat and the total destruction of any and all infrastructure, the technology to dissipate the Darkstorm shroud was lost forever. That was [[spoiler:over six hundred]] years ago which means a clean [[ApocalypseHow class 5]] as the constant nighttime killed off the biosphere. Aside from the humans enslaved by the Machines and the humans in Zion who live off of protein supplements and geothermal energy, the Earth is dead. There are no known survivors of the war aside from these two groups (actually one because [[spoiler:the Machines created Zion and are running a [[TheMasquerade masquerade]] aimed at periodically debugging the Matrix by expelling rebel elements who will eventually harbor the next [[TheChosenOne One]] who in turn will be bluffed into restarting the Matrix then taking a bunch of people out to repopulate a destroyed Zion and telling them they're the first ones out of the Matrix]]).

* ''Film/MenaceIISociety'': The film's version of Watts, Los Angeles is a hellish world of drugs and gang violence shaped by a history of institutional racism, with the boys who are born there growing up to be gangsters who perpetuate the vicious cycle--often with no way to escape their fate. It functions as a [[SpiritualAntithesis response]] and companion to the portrayal of Crenshaw, Los Angeles in ''Film/BoyzNTheHood'', where drugs and gang violence are also commonplace but the young protagonist has a fair chance of making it out, unlike in ''Menace''.
* ''Film/{{Network}}'': Creator/PaddyChayefsky's film, in which the only character that doesn't end up utterly corrupted is the lunatic, [[spoiler:and he pays for it with his life.]]

* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'': The whole film series presents a very dangerous and inhospitable take on the Age of Sail, even worse that real history, where human life has little to no value in all human societies (unless a certain social standing is involved) and value only as prey for the various supernatural entities of nautical folklore that are very real and roam the seas in search of wayward travellers.

** In fact Davy Jones himself believes in the cruelty of life and proceeds to ensure that his philosophy will be proven true in his dealings with Jack (which he got into in the first place by getting branded as a pirate by Beckett for releasing slaves) by asking for one-hundred souls in return for his freedom. Thus rescuing souls will be a man's doom and damning souls will be a salvation. By the end of the film, even an idealist like Elizabeth has been forced to compromise her morals and take a ruthless, undesirable action as a last shot at survival and it is only the start, since as of ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'' ''everyone'' has made questionable choices either because of plain selfishness or because the stakes have become so high that survival isn't a luxury that can be afforded without a toll.
* ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'': "IT'S A MADHOUSE, A MADHOUSE!!!"
* ''Film/{{Priest|2011}}'': The world in this movie is a world where humans and [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] are at war for as long as they can both remember. Despite humanity's superior technology, the vampires continued to hold the advantage except for the fact that [[AchillesHeel sunlight kills them]]. In the end, the humans won the war but the planet is still devastated and most of humanity is still confined to one single city where the pollution is so thick that the city has a perpetual night. The humans either lived in the city which is ruled by a CorruptChurch whose rule is reminiscent of [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour Oceania]] or in the middle of the desert where they're at the mercy of being attacked by vampires. The Church won't do anything and instead covers it up because... actually, no one really knows why the church indirectly helps its worst enemy.
* ''The Red Spectacles'': Not only is the movie the usual Mamoru Oshii tripfest, but Japan has ''banned stand-and-eat soba.'' And it only gets worse from there.
* ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'': Has an epidemic of organ failures, a country ruled by a corporation that had murder sanctioned by law, and legions of people addicted to painkillers and/or surgery. It's small wonder Nathan locked his daughter in her bedroom.
* ''Film/TheRoad'': It's a post-apocalyptic world where a cataclysm has killed off almost ALL plant and animal life, all civilization is long gone, everything is ashen and filthy and cold, and the few survivors left are cannibals, thieves, starving scavengers, or some combination thereof. The hero's only goal is the keep himself and his son alive long enough to reach the coast, and even he doesn't know if it'll be any warmer or easier to find food there. [[spoiler:It isn't.]]
* ''Film/RoadToPerdition'': Being a FilmNoir setting, has this kind of world.
* ''Film/RobotMonster'': There are only two life-bearing planets in the Universe. One is Earth, the other is a mechanical dystopia. The dystopic planet attacked Earth, and has won. There are only eight people left at the start of the film, relentlessly pursued by a robotic fiend.
* In the cheesy sci-fi movie ''Film/{{ROTOR}}'', everyone takes it for granted that the future (30 to 40 years out) will be a hellish dystopia where killer robots will be the last hope of humanity.
* ''Film/{{Samson and Delilah|1949}}'' depicts the Land of Dan as this, as the Philistines oppress the Jewish people with a military dictatorship that abolishes most of their culture and makes them serve their conquerors hand and foot.
* ''Film/Se7en'': The depiction of the world is pretty half empty, but the last lines of the film say it best:

* ''Film/TheSeventhSeal'': This film is pretty Crapsack. It involves the Plague, Witch Burnings, a horrific scene of self-flagellation, and lots of death. The protagonist's squire saves a young woman from a rapist (who is also a priest) and then says he would rape her himself, but he doesn't feel like it. There is mention of strange events, such as when "two horses ate each other," which leads to almost every character fearing it is the End Times. The protagonist also playing ChessWithDeath throughout, and when he tells a Priest in confessional that he is on the verge of winning (by playing "a combination of Bishop and Knight")[[spoiler: the priest is revealed to be Death in disguise. Knowing his strategy, Death is able to win, and the film ends with all but three 'good' characters dying.]]
* ''Film/SilentNight2012'': Turns out the small town is one, even lampshaded by Sheriff Cooper when he expresses since when the town has gotten so sleazy.
* ''Film/SororityRow'': This is a SlasherMovie and therefore not a pleasant scenario anyway, but even aside from this nearly every 'normal' character is a supremely horrible {{Jerkass}} from the therapist who buys sex from his clients in exchange for drugs to the corrupt senator who threatens his potential daughter-in-law to the sadistic backstabbing sorority sisters themselves. When one of the more sympathetic characters in the film is a date rapist you know you are in Crapsack World.

** Tatooine in this universe. On top of being populated by monsters, mob bosses, wanted criminals, violent tribesmen, and con artists, it's on its own ''one big desert.'' Anyone with any money or power can freely exploit their employees, slavery isn't even seen as a problem, Jawas live by stealing and cheating, and anyone who ventures outside city limits may get kidnapped and/or murdered by Tuskens. Neither the Republic, the Jedi, or the Empire ever bothered to bring any kind of order, so the closest thing to governments are crime syndicates running protection rackets. It seems that the only people who ever lifted a finger to try to improve conditions on Tatooine are Cobb Vanth and Boba Fett, earning them both the UndyingLoyalty of the people.

** Nar Shaddaa too, seen how it's basically the criminal capital of the whole galaxy ([[AllThereInTheManual pre-release material]] for ''VideoGame/JediOutcast'' actually singles out one Rodian as "the only legitimate businessman" on the ''entire planet'', and even his business is a front for criminal activity). The scenery is somewhat like a ruined, decaying Coruscant, crime is the order of the day and the value of life approaches zero. It's also the moon of Nal Hutta, which is home to the Hutts, some of the most inherently evil creatures in the SW universe. The Hutts had an infamous stronghold in Tatooine above.

* ''Film/TankGirl''. A comet impact destroys civilization and somehow destroys most of the Earth's water. Most of the survivors are either evil employees of Water & Power or hopelessly decadent. However, there are many wacky elements as well.
* ''Film/TaxiDriver'': Showed New York City through the eyes of a young, disturbed man absolutely sickened by the prostitutes, junkies and pimps. Therefore, it comes out looking like a Hell.
* ''Film/TerminalCityRicochet'' is set in a future world where only six cities on all of Earth remain habitable, a corporate despot is in charge, birds are nearly extinct, and “meteor showers” made of flaming space junk are a regular occurrence. Needless to say, Terminal City is not a fun place to be.
* ''Film/TheTerminator'': The post-apocalyptic BadFuture that Kyle Reese came from. During the day, [[MightyGlacier huge automated HK-Tanks]] and [[DeathFromAbove HK-Aerials]] patrol around to kill humans, but one has to be careful where they are going as the robots use infrared to detect any nighttime movement. Humans live in squalid hovels hiding from the machines, which periodically get infiltrated by [[KillerRobot disguised Terminators]] occasionally. A DeletedScene shows Kyle suffering a HeroicBreakdown and lamenting how [[GaiasLament beautiful]] the world used to be compared to the hellish future he came from, especially when he and Sarah Connor hide in a wooded area.
** To clarify, {{Mechanical Abomination}}s stalk the land and roam the skies, human skulls and destroyed buildings are the dominant landscape, and humanity itself has been ReducedToRatburgers. Skynet was the [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue military AI]] that started the RobotWar by killing 3 billion humans in a single day. The survivors were either killed by Skynet's MechaMooks or were rounded up in concentration camps, but a [[LaResistance human resistance force]] rises up to fight back. The Resistance wins eventually, but in a last-ditch attempt to turn the tide, Skynet sends one of its Terminators back to the past to kill Sarah in Los Angeles, and Kyle is sent to protect Sarah from the robot.
* ''Film/TheThinning'' is set in a post-apocalyptic future where, in order to conserve dwindling nature resources, the United Nations has mandated that [[PopulationControl every member country must reduce their population sizes by 5% every year.]] America has chosen to do this by issuing [[AchievementTestOfDestiny an annual aptitude test]] for grades 1-12. Those who do poorly on the test are eliminated. [[spoiler: Or rather, they're shipped off to a factory to be used as forced labor, likely for the rest of their lives.]]

* ''Film/{{Traxx}}'': Hadleyville, Texas is an over-the-top parody of the urban hellhole that was so common in '80's action movies. The streets are literally always full of crime, the cops brazenly refuse to do anything, the ones that do condone vigilante action and the apartments just randomly explode.

* ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'': As part of de-romanticizing the Wild West, the film depicts the setting as one where misogyny, bigotry (against "injuns", "Chinamen" and Englishmen) and cruelty are rampant, where kindness, honour and the rule of law are all meaningless concepts, and the only reliable protection you can garner is [[TheDreaded having a reputation so horrible that nobody in their right mind would want to cross you]].
* ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'': This is set in the dark underworld of New York and Los Angeles. The police are either horribly corrupt or completely ignorant about civil rights. The main characters are a bunch of violent hijackers and corrupt business men and "it" never stops. The most sympathetic character in the movie is the crippled con-man Verbal. [[spoiler: Who is also the BigBad, Keyser Soze.]]

* If all the tapes from the ''Film/{{VHS}}'' series take place within the same world, everybody is screwed. It's a twisted FantasyKitchenSink home to ghosts, monsters/demons that look like digital glitches, [[SuccubiAndIncubi succubi]], an insane cult that either [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan brought a rampaging demon into the world]] or [[FalseInnocenceTrick failed]] to [[HollywoodExorcism exorcise]] it; what seems to be a ZombieApocalypse in the making, an [[EvilInc evil corporation]] (or at least a [[NoOSHACompliance neglectful one]]), and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking psycho lesbians]]. And it turns out [[spoiler: [[AliensAreBastards the evil is not limited to earth either]].]]
** ''Film/Siren2016'' takes this further - there's a SinisterMinister running a hedonistic business using demons that killed those who summoned them but failed to control them. There are enough demons running loose due to screwed-up summoning that ''someone can make a living off it.''
** ''Film/VHSViral'' goes on to include an EldritchAbomination disguised as an article of clothing, a zombie cult and the maneating demon who leads them, a [[MirrorUniverse parallel world]] that's ''even more'' of a crapsack than this one, and the videos of all these things might just have finally succeeded in bringing about [[spoiler: TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]]
** ''Film/VHS94'' continues the trend, where we learn this has been going on for quite some time, with multiple cults, vampires, zombies, and a crazed doctor [[UnwillingRoboticization turning people into cyborgs]]. There's also [[spoiler: a [[HumanoidAbomination Human-Rat creature]] living in the sewers Ohio, whom [[WordOfGod the director]] has implied is not evil, but just ''horrified'' by our world.]]

* ''Film/WarWitch'': The unnamed African country the film is set in is besieged by civil war, with the rebels employing ChildSoldiers and killing civilians. Said civilians live in shacks and live off of subsistence farming, with money being practically nonexistent.

* ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'': The world depicted is very depraved and viewers get to see the downfall of modern society. Excerpt from Rorschach's Journal: ''"The streets are extended gutters, and the gutters are full of blood. And when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up around their waists... Now the whole world stands on the brink... staring down into bloody hell."'' Even though [[SociopathicHero he]] could be [[UnreliableNarrator exaggerating a bit]] what we do get to see supports his claims, apparently the fear of an impending nuclear holocaust has turned New York at the very least (and most likely the rest of the country) into a crime-infested chaotic hell-hole where there is very little authority and the system is in fact so corrupt that authorities are more concerned over some retired superheroes breaking the law and coming out of retirement to save children from a burning building than over violent murders that daily take place.
* ''Film/{{Waterworld}}'': Four hundred years after the Earth is completely flooded, the last remnants of humanity are small ramshackle communities on the verge of genetic extinction, traders, slavers, pirates, and marauders. Things like dirt and paper are seen as valuable commodities. There's also [[FantasticRacism a deep-seated hatred]] against mutants, people who have developed gills. Any of them who are found are sentenced to death...[[TooDumbToLive for some reason.]]

* ''Film/TheWorldOfKanako'': This film is about ex-cop Akikazu who looks for his disappeared daughter but soon learns about a DarkSecret. The film leaves no survivors. Everyone in this world is either violent, brutal, corrupt, egoistic, manipulative or has a dark past and the few people who are good are ruthlessly bullied, manipulated, corrupted or forced into isolation. Whoever tries to find a way out of this is completely screwed.
* ''Film/WristcuttersALoveStory'': Makes the afterlife (at least for those who commit suicide) into this. For instance, it is physically impossible to smile.

* ''Film/{{Wyrmwood}}'': Something in the air is making everybody with any blood type but A- turn into flesh-crazed zombies. It's also rendered all flammable liquids inert, so gasoline cars are useless in escaping. The only semblance of civilization left is a military operation bent on experimenting on the survivors.

* ''Film/ZombieWars'': After a radiation storm hits Earth, most of humanity has been consumed by the ZombieApocalypse. The only survivors are nomadic camps of warriors and corrupt dictatorships that [[spoiler:train zombies to manage slave camps of the former.]]

* ''Film/WarWitch'' The unnamed African country the film is set in is besieged by civil war, with the rebels employing ChildSoldiers and killing civilians. Said civilians live in shacks and live off of subsistence farming, with money being practically nonexistent.

* ''Film/Chicago'' portrays the titular city as a corrupt place where murderers become celebrities, [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth the one innocent prison inmate is the only one to be hanged]], and [[AmoralAttorney the most powerful lawyer in town can easily get criminals acquitted]].

* ''Film/{{Anino}}'': slums of Manila, with naked children wandering about, people starving (the photographer hasn't eaten in a day), shanty towns, garbage everywhere, and human feces floating by in the street.

* ''Film/Anino'': slums of Manila, with naked children wandering about, people starving (the photographer hasn't eaten in a day), shanty towns, garbage everywhere, and human feces floating by in the street.

* ''Film/{{Confessions}}'': The classroom is an allegory for this.

* ''Film/TheTerminator'': The post-apocalyptic BadFuture that Kyle Reese came from. During the day, automated sentry tanks patrol around to kill humans, but one has to be careful where they are going as the robots use infrared to detect any nighttime movement. Humans live in squalid hovels hiding from the machines, which get infiltrated by [[KillerRobot Terminators]] occasionally. A DeletedScene shows Kyle suffering a HeroicBreakdown and lamenting how [[GaiasLament beautiful]] the world used to be compared to the hellish future he came from, especially when he and Sarah Connor hide in a wooded area.