Fritz Lang’s 1927 German film Metropolis and Bong Joon-ho’s 2013 Korean- Czech Snowpiercer are both distinctive science-fiction films. They are incredibly useful films for the showing comparisons between both class-struggle narratives and the dystopian science fiction genre. These films have been chosen as they were made in contrasting eras and cultures so the development of these themes can be clearly seen. It can be argued that Snowpiercer is inspired by Metropolis, as many similar aspects can be seen in the two. Lang’s film portrays a lower-class violent revolution of workers in a utopian city that overworks them to the point of death while director Bong’s film deals with a lower class of environmental refugees fighting to overthrow their oppressive upper class.