Film - Brazil
Or Terry Gilliam's Brazil, to be exact. Yeah, it's a film by that most imaginative of the (Monty) Pythons, the one who came up with those funny doodled cartoons, and had (has?) an obsession with large feet squashing stuff.
There're no cartoons here, although there are numerous moments of similarly dark humour.
The future world Brazil is set in is about as dystopian as they come. Almost every aspect of life is ruled over by a humungous system of beauracracy, but there's at least one group of rather successful terrorists determined to fight back. At the time the film is set, these guys have been setting off bombs for more than 10 years, although the minister being interviewed on TV just replies that this means the government is closer than ever to stopping them for good(!), shortly before a shop explodes - yet more handiwork of the terrorists.
The story itself follows one of the beauracrats, Sam Lowry, himself a bit of a daydreamer (but nevertheless good at his job) as he gets dragged into a series of events mostly beyond his control. What starts out as a job to correct a simple administrative error (in itself an ironic consequence of one worker's carelessness whilst trying to swat a fly) soon becomes a chase as Sam tries to catch up with a mysterious, good-looking woman he first spotted whilst at work. In an unrelated series of events, he gets to meet up with an underground repair man, something of a legend in this world full of steam pipes, where you usually have to wait weeks for an offically-sanctioned repair man. Ably played by Robert De Niro (before he was reduced to advertising credit cards), Archibald "Harry" Tuttle arrives to fix Sam's pipes after he makes a desparate call for a repairman, only to be told there won't be one available for weeks. They need fixing so badly because this dystopian future is also somewhat "steampunk" in that almost all the features of a flat rely on steam, somehow or other. At this point, if you've been paying attention to the film, you'll notice another of the great ironies in the story, but I won't spoil it here; suffice to say, it'll likely have you laughing out loud.
While this is going on, Sam gets it into his head that the woman is involved with the terrorists, and decides he'd like to join the cause. He also has to deal with his interfering mother, who keeps trying to get him to hook up with the rather plain-looking, and almost-never-speaking, daughter of a good friend of hers, who he really doesn't like. A good laugh comes from the moment we finally hear her speak properly.
Sam eventually cracks good and proper shortly after landing a new, better job in the beauracracy (thanks to his mum, who knows some powerful men).
Not forgetting the slightly nasty, very petty, pair of official heating engineers sent to fix Sam's flat (after Harry Tuttle has done his business). These guys really have it in for Harry, and as a consequence, pretty soon they have it in for Sam too. Although they get their comeuppance - in one of the funniest and most disgusting moments of the film - eventually.
Once he's got the girl safely in hiding (at his mother's flat), he thinks of a way to save her. The only problem is, it turns out it's rather more difficult to escape the suspecting eyes of the beauracracy than Sam thought. In the end, of course, it all works out...in a way. But you can (and should) find that out for yourselves, because Brazil is a top-notch film, and a damn good companion to George Orwell's 1984. A full 5/5
Ah, 1984. There are obvious similarities between 1984 and Brazil, indeed, imdb.com has it that Brazil's working title was 1984 1/2. However, there are also some rather large differences:
1)The beauracractic system in Brazil is woefully inefficient at getting stuff done.
2)Technology in the world of Brazil has, largely, not advanced far beyond that of the 1970s, we assume as a result of the beauracracy (technological advances still happen in 1984, where they benefit Big Brother)
3)Finally, in Brazil, the system appears to be in place more just to keep people in check, rather than to out-and-out control every aspect of their lives. It is meant to restrict them, just not control them entirely.

We also don't see evidence in Brazil of the government actually trying to control basic human instinct - you could say that in Brazil, the system wants control of peoples' minds, whereas in 1984, it wants control of peoples' minds AND hearts.
There are, of course, other differences, aside from the downright obvious difference in focus and characters of each, but I think those cited above demonstrate the general difference in tone between 1984 and Brazil.