Artificial Intelligence
themeThinking machines, rogue computers, and the question of digital consciousness.
Metropolis
In a vertical city where the wealthy live in tower gardens and the workers labor unseen in the machine rooms below, industrialist's son Freder falls for Maria, a worker who preaches peace between the classes — and follows her underground into a conspiracy involving a mad inventor, a stolen face, and a robot built to end the dream of unity for good.
Forbidden Planet
A starship crew is sent to the planet Altair IV to check on a colony expedition that vanished twenty years earlier — and finds only two survivors: reclusive scientist Dr. Morbius, his daughter Altaira, and Robby, a robot of his own design. Morbius has uncovered the remains of a vanished super-civilization and its incomprehensible technology, but something invisible and murderous is still guarding its secrets — something that may be coming from inside Morbius himself.
2001: A Space Odyssey
From the discovery of a mysterious black monolith among prehistoric apes to a lunar excavation that uncovers another, buried and broadcasting toward Jupiter, humanity follows a trail it doesn't understand toward a destination it can't imagine. Aboard the spacecraft Discovery One, astronauts Dave Bowman and Frank Poole share their mission with HAL 9000, an artificial intelligence of perfect, calm confidence — until HAL begins making decisions of its own.
Westworld
At Delos, a luxury resort populated entirely by lifelike androids, wealthy guests live out fantasies in perfectly recreated Western, medieval and Roman worlds — free to gunfight, romance, or duel robotic hosts programmed to lose every time. When a software failure begins spreading through the park's systems, the hosts stop following the script, and a implacable, silent Gunslinger android starts hunting a guest for real.
Logan's Run
In a domed city of endless pleasure centuries after civilization's collapse, every citizen lives in comfort until the age of thirty — at which point they're required to submit to Carousel, a ritual execution disguised as reincarnation. Logan 5, an enforcer tasked with hunting down citizens who try to run rather than submit, is ordered to go undercover as a runner himself — and begins to question everything his society has told him about what actually happens after the crystal in his palm turns black.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
A massive, unidentified energy cloud is on a direct collision course with Earth, destroying every ship that tries to stop it. Admiral James T. Kirk resumes command of a newly refitted USS Enterprise and reassembles his original crew for one more mission — one that will force them to confront what's actually inside the cloud, and what it wants.
Blade Runner
Los Angeles, 2019: perpetual rain, perpetual night, perpetual advertising. Burned-out cop Rick Deckard is forced back to work hunting four escaped replicants — bioengineered humans with four-year lifespans who have come to Earth to meet their maker and demand more life.
TRON
Video game programmer Kevin Flynn breaks into his former employer's mainframe to find evidence a rival executive stole his game designs — and is instead digitized by an experimental laser, pulled physically inside the computer system itself. Trapped in a neon-lit digital world where programs are living beings forced to compete in gladiatorial games by a tyrannical AI called the Master Control Program, Flynn allies with the security program Tron to fight his way back to the real world.
The Terminator
In 2029, the machines that exterminated most of humanity lose the war — so they send an unstoppable cyborg assassin back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, the mother of the resistance leader who beat them. The resistance sends one soldier to protect her. He has a photograph, a sawed-off shotgun, and no way home.
GemBrazil
In a retro-futuristic, totalitarian bureaucracy choking on paperwork and ductwork, low-level government clerk Sam Lowry spends his days processing forms and his nights escaping into elaborate flying dreams. When a literal typing error — a squashed fly jamming a printer, turning 'Tuttle' into 'Buttle' — sends the wrong man to his death, Sam's attempt to correct the paperwork pulls him into a nightmarish collision between his fantasies and a state that treats a clerical mistake as more dangerous than the person it actually kills.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Two terminators arrive in Los Angeles: a reprogrammed T-800 sent to protect ten-year-old John Connor, and the T-1000 — a liquid-metal prototype that can look like anyone — sent to kill him. With Sarah Connor institutionalized for telling the truth, the future's only hope is a boy, his mother, and the machine that once hunted her.
Ghost in the Shell
New Port City, 2029. Major Motoko Kusanagi, a cyborg security officer whose body is entirely artificial, hunts an elusive hacker known as the Puppet Master — an entity that ghost-hacks human minds and rewrites their memories. But the closer she gets, the more the case turns inward: if her body is manufactured and her memories can be edited, what exactly is the 'ghost' in her shell that makes her her?
The Matrix
By day, Thomas Anderson writes software; by night, as the hacker Neo, he chases a phrase that haunts the net: the Matrix. The answer — that reality is a simulation run by machines farming humanity for power, and that he may be the anomaly foretold to end it — arrives with sunglasses, a red pill, and the best action cinema of the decade.
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
John Connor, now 25 and off the grid, has spent a decade waiting for a Judgment Day that never seems to come. When a new, shape-shifting Terminatrix — the T-X — is sent back to finish what the T-1000 couldn't, an aging T-850 arrives to protect him and Kate Brewster, the woman fate has chosen to stand beside him when the missiles finally fly.
Terminator Salvation
2018. Judgment Day has happened, and John Connor is a field commander in humanity's war against Skynet's machines — not yet the prophesied leader of legend. When Marcus Wright, a death-row inmate who doesn't understand what he's become, walks out of the wasteland searching for a future he doesn't remember signing away, Connor's hunt for a teenage Kyle Reese collides with the truth about what Skynet is really building.
Terminator Genisys
Kyle Reese is sent back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor exactly as he always has — except this time she's waiting for him, already trained by an aging Terminator guardian, and the timeline he remembers has been rewritten out from under him. As a new digital threat called Genisys prepares to launch as humanity's most trusted piece of software, Reese, Connor and the machine that raised her race to stop an apocalypse that no longer looks anything like the one he was warned about.
Blade Runner 2049
Thirty years after the original, K is a new-model replicant working as a blade runner for the LAPD, retiring older rogue models without complaint — until a routine job unearths a buried secret: evidence that a replicant once gave birth. The discovery could break the wall between the born and the built, and it sends K hunting for a child hidden decades ago, for a vanished blade runner named Deckard, and for an answer about himself he wants too badly to trust.
Terminator: Dark Fate
Decades after stopping Judgment Day, Sarah Connor is still hunting Terminators alone — and still grieving the future she thought she'd saved. When a new machine, the shape-splitting Rev-9, is sent back to kill a young factory worker in Mexico City, Sarah crosses paths with Grace, an augmented super-soldier from a future that was never supposed to exist, and with an old, unexpected face who has spent years quietly living with what he did.