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Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell's terrifying vision comes to the screen.

6.8(1,735)19841h 53m5

Winston Smith is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country's leaders in a charitable light. His trysts with Julia provide his only measure of enjoyment, but lawmakers frown on the relationship -- and in this closely monitored society, there is no escape from Big Brother.

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Status
Released
Budget
$7.4M
Box office
$8.4M
Language
English
  • based on novel or book
  • dystopia
  • fascism
  • totalitarian regime
  • anarchist
  • brainwashing
  • orwellian
  • totalitarianism
  • future vision
  • future noir
  • authoritarian
  • george orwell

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United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalR14 Dec 1984
  • United KingdomGB

    • Premiere1510 Oct 1984
    • Physical15DVD7 Apr 2014
  • CanadaCA

    • TVR9 Nov 1984
  • BrazilBR

    • Theatrical147 Nov 1985
  • CzechiaCZ

    • Digital / OTT15+24 Jan 2002
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical1214 Nov 1984
    • Theatrical (limited)Rétrospective Raoul Peck, Institut Lumière, Lyon17 Feb 2026
    • Theatrical (limited)Mondes possibles : la science-fiction sur grand écran, Institut Lumière, Lyon10 Jul 2026
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical169 Nov 1984
  • IrelandIE

    • Theatrical159 Nov 1984
  • ItalyIT

    • Theatrical14+17 Nov 1984
  • NetherlandsNL

    • Theatrical1215 Nov 1984
    • Physical12Blu-ray23 Mar 2015
  • PortugalPT

    • PremiereM/169 Nov 1984
    • Theatrical (limited)M/169 Nov 1984
    • PhysicalM/169 Nov 1984
  • SwedenSE

    • Theatrical1530 Nov 1984

Frequently asked questions

Nineteen Eighty-Four was released on 9 November 1984.

Audience reviews

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    CharlesTheBold

    2/22/2017

    Based on George Orwell's dystopian novel from the 1940s, the movie was produced in the very year that Orwell had set it, 1984. Horrified by the recent atrocities by the Germans and Russians, and fearing that England and America might take a similar turn, Orwell had painted a frightening portrait of the ultimate dictatorship, and the movie faithfully followed him. Some of the details were: (1) Continual survei…

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    Peter McGinn

    3/1/2021

    7/10

    Do not watch this movie if you are feeling pessimistic or depressed, because the kind of catharsis won’t help you. Nineteen-eighty-four is a bleak movie based on a dark novel that paints a totalitarian world that really sucks. Although they don’t merely tell lies over and over until devotees believe them - instead they actually rewrite historical details in newspapers — still it bears a striking and chilling parallel…

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    CinemaSerf

    1/27/2025

    7/10

    This adaptation is a fairly faithful, if a little too abridged, version of the Orwellian story of absolute power, sedition and oppression but it's really John Hurt who makes this version stand out. His performance as the weedy "Winston" - a low level bureaucrat in the Ministry of Truth, is visceral as he depicts a character who has found his own way to rebel against the not so benevolent rule of "Big Brother". Everyt…

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