The 10 Best Utopian Sci-Fi Films

"It is surprisingly difficult to find examples of science-fiction films which you could call optimistic. There are several reasons for this. One is that it is harder to tell stories about futuristic worlds in which everybody is happy. It also tends to be a symptom of how the popular imagination reflects the world shaping it. The current abundance of dystopian or post-apocalyptic films and shows is likely due to viewers finding the possibility of worlds even bleaker than ours to be more comforting than imagining a brighter one.Here are ten works of science-fiction that celebrate a hopeful outlook, most of them now several decades old. Given that the future will probably look very different to what was widely imagined half a century ago, it is likely these will only continue to grow in popularity as objects of nostalgia."