Robots
themeAndroids, cyborgs, and mechanical beings of every kind.
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.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
A flying saucer lands in Washington, D.C., and out steps Klaatu, a humanoid alien with an ultimatum: abandon nuclear weapons and the violence they represent, or Earth will be destroyed as a threat to the wider galaxy. Escaping military custody to live quietly among ordinary Americans, Klaatu — accompanied everywhere by his silent, seemingly all-powerful robot Gort — searches for someone who will actually listen before his patience runs out.
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.
GemSilent Running
In a future where all plant life on Earth has gone extinct, botanist Freeman Lowell tends the last surviving forests aboard a fleet of orbiting greenhouse domes, cared for alongside three drone robots he's named Huey, Dewey and Louie. When corporate orders arrive to jettison and destroy the domes so the ships can return to commercial service, Lowell makes a desperate choice to save the only forest left in the universe — whatever the cost.
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.
Star Wars
A farm boy on a desert planet intercepts a distress call hidden in a droid, and is swept into a galactic rebellion alongside a cynical smuggler, a fugitive princess and the last of an ancient order of knights — with a moon-sized battle station waiting at the end of the run.
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.
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.
RoboCop
In a near-future Detroit run by mega-corporation OCP, officer Alex Murphy is executed by a gang on his first day in the worst precinct — then resurrected as RoboCop, a corporate-owned cyborg law-enforcement product. But fragments of Murphy remain, and they remember everything.
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.
The Iron Giant
Maine, 1957. Young Hogarth Hughes discovers a colossal robot that fell from space, its memory wiped, hiding in the woods behind his house. As Hogarth teaches the Giant about the world — and about choice — a paranoid government agent closes in, convinced the visitor is a Cold War weapon that must be destroyed before it destroys them first.
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.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
An alien visitor named Klaatu arrives on Earth inside a glowing sphere, escorted by an enormous, silent robotic guardian called Gort — this time carrying an ultimatum about humanity's environmental destruction rather than its nuclear weapons. As government agents scramble to contain him and astrobiologist Helen Benson tries to understand his true intentions, Klaatu must decide whether a species this reckless with its own planet deserves to survive at all.
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.