Movies like Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic assassin ordered to finish what T-1000 started. Good thing Connor's former nemesis, the Terminator, is back to aid the now-adult Connor … just like he promised.
Style: futuristic, exciting, suspense, apocalyptic, action packed, serious, suspenseful, intense, action adventure, saga ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: time travel, cyborgs, robot, androids and robots, artificial intelligence, apocalypse, terminator, time machine, chaos, man versus machine, sent to the past, time traveler, post apocalypse, chase, one against many, killer robot, dystopia, computer virus, female robot, technology gone awry, car chase, androids, end of the world, destiny, resistance ...
Time: year 2003, future, 2000s, near future, 2030s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: los angeles, usa, california, beverly hills
Keyword: dreams, reboot, retrospective

Most similar movies to Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out futuristic, serious, suspenseful and exciting films with plots about cyberpunk, distopia, heroes, danger, shootout, machine gun and pistol mostly in Action, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines: The Terminator (1984), Terminator Salvation (2009), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Pacific Rim (2013), Demolition Man (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Terminator (1984)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical ...
Style: tech noir, suspenseful, neo noir, serious, breathtaking ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, teens, kids, date night ...
Plot: time travel, cyborgs, cyberpunk, man versus machine, dystopia, good versus evil, terminator, androids, artificial intelligence, androids and robots, gunfight, car chase ...
Time: 80s, future, 20th century, near future, year 1984 ...
Place: los angeles, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether ...
Style: futuristic, intense, serious, apocalyptic, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, apocalypse, robot, cyberpunk, future war, androids and robots, post apocalypse, distopia, man versus machine, dystopian future, time travel, artificial intelligence ...
Time: future, year 2009, near future, 2010s, year 2003 ...
Place: los angeles, california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has ...
Style: exciting, apocalyptic, suspense, breathtaking, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, manly, adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, time travel, terminator, robot, cyborgs, man versus machine, apocalypse, androids and robots, end of the world, violence, child in peril, time traveler ...
Time: future, 90s, 20th century, year 1991, near future ...
Place: california, los angeles, america, persia, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 6.9
 528K
Pacific Rim (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 131 min.
Story: When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, stylized, serious, visually stunning ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: giant monster, monster, robot, kaiju, creature, battles, androids and robots, invasion, chaos and mayhem, destruction, danger, survival ...
Time: future, year 2013, near future, year 2017, 2010s ...
Place: tokyo, pacific ocean, seattle, san francisco, hong kong ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Demolition Man (1993)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, has escaped during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor, John Spartan, who had also been ...
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: distopia, cyberpunk, utopia, crime fighter, time travel, dystopia, totalitarianism, maverick cop, police, violence, dystopian future, good versus evil ...
Time: future, 2030s, near future, 20th century, 70s ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow (1993)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the year 2074, the cybernetics market is dominated by two rival companies: USA's Pinwheel Robotics and Japan's Kobayashi Electronics. Cyborgs are commonplace, used for anything from soldiers to prostitutes. Casella Reese is a prototype ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, cyber, apocalyptic, erotic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, cyberpunk, on the run, robot, artificial intelligence, sex with a robot, androids and robots, corporation, assassination plot, androids, hitman, rivalry ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.7
 825
Digital Man (1995)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An out-of-control robot is inadvertently set loose in a small community, and a crack squad of soldiers are sent to hunt it down. Gradually, the members of the squad begin to suspect that some of them are robots.
Style: tech noir, independent film, fast, exciting, serious ...
Plot: robot, terminator, soldier, cyberpunk, military, terrorism, cyborgs, distopia, evil computer, heroes, community, control ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Terminator Genisys (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 126 min.
Story: The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when TECOM spies reveal a new plot by SkyNet that will attack him ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, entertaining, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: time travel, cyborgs, robot, androids and robots, apocalypse, artificial intelligence, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, man versus machine, killer robot, dark future, terminator ...
Time: future, year 1984, 2010s, year 2017, year 1997 ...
Place: san francisco, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
Style: futuristic, exciting, cyber, saga, action packed ...
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, distopia, virtual reality, dystopia, robot, freedom, fight, alternate reality, chosen one, resistance, prophecy ...
Time: future, year 2003, near future, distant future, 23rd century ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 239K
RoboCop (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years, but have been forbidden for law enforcement in America. Now OmniCorp wants ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, intense, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: cyborgs, police, robot, androids and robots, cyberpunk, urban, androids, haunted by the past, superhuman powers, graphic violence, technology, robocop ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future, 2020s ...
Place: detroit, usa, tehran iran, pentagon, china ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Luc Deveraux, the heroic former Universal Soldier, is about to be thrown into action once again. When Seth (Michael Jai White), the supercomputer controlled ultra-warrior, decides to take revenge and destroy its creators, only Luc can stop it. All ...
Style: futuristic, rough, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: martial arts, cyborgs, brutality, timebomb, artificial intelligence, dystopian future, experiment gone awry, terminator, chaos, technophobia, heroic mission, technology gone awry ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Escape from New York (1981)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In 1997, the island of Manhattan has been walled off and turned into a giant maximum security prison within which the country's worst criminals are left to form their own anarchic society. However, when the President of the United States crash ...
Style: apocalyptic, exciting, futuristic, grindhouse, serious ...
Audience: manly, teens, boys' night
Plot: dystopia, cyberpunk, prison, race against time, escape, post apocalypse, hostage, dystopian future, end of the world, rescue, distopia, darkness ...
Time: future, near future, 80s, year 1981, distant future ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Ultraviolet (2006)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, China
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In the late 21st century, a subculture of humans have emerged who have been modified genetically by a vampire-like disease, giving them enhanced speed, incredible stamina and acute intelligence. As they are set apart from "normal" and ...
Style: futuristic, stylized, sexy, action packed, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vampire, one woman army, female protagonist, heroic mission, rescue, heroine, cyberpunk, tough heroes, dystopia, chases and races, disease, superhero ...
Time: future, near future, year 2006
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 293K
Dredd (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, South Africa, India
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called ...
Style: futuristic, intense, neo noir, cyber, apocalyptic ...
Audience: manly, family friendly, boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, post apocalypse, one man army, dystopia, distopia, brutality, organized crime, dystopian future, violent, judge, lone hero, police ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, near future, distant future
Place: usa, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Soldier (1998)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sergeant Todd is a veteran soldier for an elite group of the armed forces. After being defeated by a new breed of genetically engineered soldiers, he is dumped on a waste planet and left for dead. He soon interacts with a group of crash survivors ...
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, entertaining, scenic, tech noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: future war, space travel, genetic engineering, space, soldier, distopia, military, terminator, alien, robot, post apocalyptic, one man army ...
Time: future, year 1998, year 1996, near future
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: The series picks up four years after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day with John and Sarah Connor trying to stay under-the-radar from the government, as they plot to destroy the computer network, Skynet, in hopes of preventing Armageddon.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, terminator, time travel, female killer, sent to the past, androids and robots, killer robot, female robot, female warrior, kickass women, dystopian future, changing the past or future ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Spain, Hungary
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The sixth film in the "Terminator" series will pick up where the second film left off, ignoring all the subsequent sequels.
Style: action adventure, apocalyptic, exciting, suspense, saga ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: terminator, time travel, robot, androids and robots, cyborgs, technology, cyberpunk, hand to hand combat, gunfight, killer robot, aeroplane, revenge ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 2020s, future, year 1998 ...
Place: mexico, mexico city, texas, guatemala
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.5
 31K
Barb Wire (1996)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A sexy nightclub owner, Barb Wire moonlights as a mercenary in Steel Harbor, one of the last free zones in the now fascist United States. When scientist Cora Devonshire wanders into Barb's establishment, she gets roped into a top-secret ...
Style: erotic, sexy, serious, apocalyptic, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: superheroine, bounty hunter, dystopian future, chase, comic book, superhero, master villain, female protagonist, post apocalyptic, gangster, good versus evil, female nudity ...
Time: near future, year 2017, 2010s, future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Eve of Destruction (1991)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Eve is a military robot made to look exactly like her creator, Dr. Eve Simmons. When she is damaged during a bank robbery, the robot becomes an unstoppable killing machine. Colonel Jim McQuade is assigned to stop the robot and with the help from Dr. ...
Style: rough, stylized, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robot, terrorism, mad scientist, androids and robots, experiment gone awry, female robot, cyborgs, space and aliens, man versus machine, chaos, danger, technology gone awry ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
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I, Robot (2004)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In 2035, where robots are common-place and abide by the three laws of robotics, a techno-phobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, philosophical, exciting, serious ...
Audience: teens, manly, family friendly, boys' night
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, cyberpunk, distopia, cyborgs, androids and robots, androids, technology gone awry, danger, computer, hi-tech, fate of humanity ...
Time: future, year 2004, 20th century, near future, 2030s ...
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Universal Soldier (1992)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all the soldier's memories, he ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, intense, rough, serious ...
Audience: manly, teens, boys' night
Plot: soldier, androids and robots, cyberpunk, martial arts, vietnam war, cyborgs, reporter, transformation, military, robot, adaptation, amnesia ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place: vietnam, utah, arizona, nevada, louisiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Bounty Killer (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: It’s been 20 years since the corporations took over the world’s governments. Their thirst for power and profits led to the Corporate Wars, a fierce global battle that laid waste to society as we know it. Born from the ash, the Council of Nine ...
Style: exciting, futuristic, grindhouse, apocalyptic, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, bounty hunter, hitman, desert, dystopian future, society, danger, female warrior, vigilante, shaolin, ford mustang, nuclear holocaust ...
Time: near future
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 127K
The 6th Day (2000)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Futuristic action about a man who meets a clone of himself and stumbles into a grand conspiracy about clones taking over the world.
Style: futuristic, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, action packed ...
Plot: cyberpunk, lookalikes, cloning, conspiracy, genetic engineering, dystopia, murder, danger, clone, rivalry, apocalypse, dishonesty ...
Time: future, year 2000, 2010s, y2k, 2000s ...
Place: argentina, patagonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.0
 7K
Trancers (1984)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Angel City trooper Jack Deth is sent back in time from 2247 to 1985 L.A. to inhabit the body of his ancestor. Deth's assignment is to find his archenemy, Whistler, who turns people into zombies, before the fiend is able to kill all the ...
Style: christmas horror, grindhouse, detective, independent film, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: time travel, cyberpunk, nemesis, terminator, dystopia, police detective, distopia, time, supernatural being, travel, buddies, law enforcement ...
Time: future, 20th century, 80s, near future
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 32K
The Machine (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Already deep into a second Cold War, Britain’s Ministry of Defense seeks a game-changing weapon. Programmer Vincent McCarthy unwittingly provides an answer in The Machine, a super-strong human cyborg. When a programming bug causes the prototype to ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, cyber ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, androids and robots, robot, cyborgs, distopia, laboratory, inventions and discoveries, female robot, secret laboratory, programmer, cyberpunk, technology gone awry ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.1
 5K
Solo (1996)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An android fighting-machine (Mario Van Peebles) is charged with destroying a small brigade of rebels in a Latin American war who are fighting to maintain their freedom and protect their village. Contrary to his programming, Peebles decides to stay ...
Style: suspense, tech noir, cliffhanger, independent film, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, robot, jungle, terminator, ak 47, soldier, heroes, artificial intelligence, apocalypse, chases and races, on the run, escapades ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 17K
Freejack (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.
Style: futuristic, entertaining, cyber, tech noir, anamorphic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: time travel, cyberpunk, on the run, chase, dystopian future, dystopia, racing, bounty hunter, apocalypse, car, auto racing, death ...
Time: future, year 1992, 90s, year 2009, year 1991 ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 327K
The Island (2005)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, psychological, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, manly, boys' night
Plot: distopia, cloning, escape, clone, conspiracy, fugitives, technology gone awry, island, dystopian future, lookalikes, utopia, on the run ...
Time: future, year 2005, year 2019, 2010s, near future ...
Place: fictional island, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 80K
Doomsday (2008)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, South Africa, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A lethal virus spreads throughout the British isles,infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. To contain the threat, acting authorities brutally quarantine the country as it succumbs to fear and chaos. The quarantine is successful. Three ...
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, suspenseful, rough, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, post apocalypse, cannibalism, infected, danger, society, epidemic, survival, rescue, chaos, infection, quarantine ...
Time: future, 2030s, year 2008, 2010s, 21st century
Place: scotland, england, britain, london, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo has proved to be a good omen for the free humans, as more and more humans are being freed from the matrix and brought to Zion, the one and only stronghold of the Resistance. Neo himself has ...
Style: saga, philosophical, futuristic, reflective, cyber ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, kids, chick flick, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, dystopia, post apocalypse, prophecy, man versus machine, chosen one, oracle, robot, martial arts, alternate reality ...
Time: future, year 2003, 2000s, near future, distant future ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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