Aeon Flux (2005)

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“I just can’t seem to reach this itch.”

“The future is Flux” (not, you know, in flux…)

Directed by Karyn Kusama
Starring Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Johnny Lee Miller, Frances McDormand and a shit tonne of British character actors doing American accents for no readily apparent reason

400 years after a plague caused the collapse of civilisation, the last surviving city, Brega, is still ruled by the dynasty whose founder cured the plague. As Brega becomes an increasingly oppressive dystopia, a resistance emerges; their deadliest agent a woman named Aeon Flux (Theron).

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Ultraviolet (2006)

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“The Blood War is On”

Directed by Kurt Wimmer
Starring Milla Jovovich, Cameron Bright, Nick Chinlud and Michael Fichtner

In the wake of a plague which turns humans into superhuman ‘haemophages’, a Blood War rages between the vampires and the military medico-religious establishment known as the Arch-Ministry. When the Arch-ministry develops a new weapon to wipe out the remaining haemophages, they send their greatest fighter, Violet (Jovovich) to intercept it.

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