Children of Men
In a future where no child has been born for eighteen years, a weary bureaucrat must protect the first pregnant woman in a generation.
- Type
- Film
- Released
- 2006
- Director
- Alfonso Cuarón, P. D. James
- Length
- 106 min · One sitting
- Rated
- MPA R
- Critics' average
- 84/100 across 4 published scores
Genres
Dystopian · Science fiction · Thriller · Survival thriller
What it feels like
Migration & diaspora · Surveillance & authoritarianism · Survival · Tense · Bleak
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