Technology gone awry movies and TV shows – page 4

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Real Playing Game (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Portugal
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In a future not too far away, Steve Battier, an elderly, terminally ill multi-millionaire, accepts the offer of a company - RPG - that in exchange for a high monetary sum, provides a very select group of clientèle the chance to be young again. For ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, futuristic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, dystopian future, escapades, danger, life is a bitch, contests and competitions, terminal illness, chaos, technology gone awry, cyberpunk, switching bodies, survival game ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: portugal
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Android Insurrection (2012)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: In the distant future high-tech man colonized the world and leaves all the dirty work of an army of androids and robots. Now, somewhere rebelling robots, and a heavily armed special forces, led by Major Fox well to look after things. Locally it is ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, futuristic, exciting, suspense ...
Plot: danger, chaos, soldier, escapades, save the world, man versus machine, computers and web, survival, technology gone awry, imaginary, space and aliens, post apocalypse ...
Time: future
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 2.8
 1K
Scavengers (2013)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A team of space scavengers discovers superior alien technology that threatens the balance of the known universe. Hotly pursued by a rival crew of intergalactic mercenaries, the Revelator crew must fight through the deepest reaches of space to locate ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: outer space, good versus evil, save the world, danger, chase, space wars, technology gone awry, chaos, rivalry, escapades, heroes, alien invasion ...
Time: future, 2010s
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 6.1
 6K
Looker (1981)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, sexy, futuristic, psychological ...
Plot: murder, model, plastic surgeon, serial killer, murder mystery, obsession, greed, doctor, technology gone awry, amateur detective, dishonesty, mind game ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: california, los angeles, beverly hills
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 5.3
 2K
Teknolust (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Anxious to use artificial life to improve the world, Rosetta Stone, a bio-geneticist creates a Recipe for Cyborgs and uses her own DNA in order to breed three Self Replicating Automatons, part human, part computer named Ruby, Olive and Marine.
Style: futuristic, semi serious, humorous, sexy, exciting ...
Plot: experiment gone awry, man versus machine, cloning, fall in love, androids and robots, danger, dystopian future, artificial intelligence, apocalypse, technology gone awry, siblings relations, survival ...
Place: san francisco
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Transmorphers (2007)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: About a race of alien robots that have conquered Earth and forced humanity underground. After 400 years, a small group of humans develop a plan to defeat the mechanical invaders in the ultimate battle between man and machine.
Style: mockbuster, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, benign alien, evil alien, chaos, save the world, alien encounter, dystopian future, heroes, space and aliens, imaginary, time travel, heroic mission ...
Time: near future
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 5.7
 4K
The Big Bus (1976)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear powered bus is making it's maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby. Will the down on ...
Style: parody, road movie, spoof, absurd, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: disaster, bus, sabotage, bowling, road trip, nuclear power, priest, veterinarian, bomb, nuclear, nothing goes right, daring rescue ...
Time: 70s, year 1976
Place: new york, usa, colorado
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 6.8
 1K
.hack//SIGN (2002)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: .hack follows several young players as they navigate the vast, mysterious MMORPG known as “The World” – a place, it turns out, that is sometimes impossible to leave.
Style: anime, suspenseful, stylized, psychological, serious ...
Plot: cyberspace, isekai, time travel, ghost, supernatural, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, chaos, technology gone awry, heroes, man versus machine, androids and robots ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010
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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
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Roger Corman's Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817 in Switzerland where he meets Dr. Victor ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, gothic, suspense, enigmatic ...
Plot: time travel, mad scientist, frankenstein, supernatural, destiny, murder, mutant, deadly creature, vengeance, save the world, chaos, disorder ...
Time: future, 90s, 20th century, 19th century, 2030s ...
Place: geneva switzerland, switzerland, los angeles
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 5.4
 7K
Nemesis (1992)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the future, chaos is rampant as 'information terrorists' threaten to destroy order in society. Alex is a part-man, part-machine LAPD cop who is the best at what he does. When one of the terrorists calls him a machine, Alex questions his ...
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, serious, stylized, cyber ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, cyborgs, terrorist group, cyberpunk, terrorism, conspiracy, dystopian future, police detective, chaos, man versus machine, female warrior, microchip ...
Time: future, year 1992, near future, 2020s
Place: usa, los angeles, rio de janeiro, brazil, new mexico ...
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 5.6
 824
Puzzlehead (2005)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: In a post apocalyptic world where technology is outlawed, Walter, a reclusive scientist, secretly creates a self-aware android, "Puzzlehead". Jealously erupts when Puzzlehead wins the affection of Julia, the beautiful shopgirl that Walter ...
Style: serious, futuristic, suspenseful, apocalyptic, suspense ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, man versus machine, love triangle, chaos, androids and robots, obsession, society, dystopian future, cyberpunk, technology gone awry, betrayal, post apocalypse ...
Time: future
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 5.7
 12K
Futureworld (1976)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two years after the Westworld tragedy in the Delos amusement park, the corporate owners have reopened the park following over $1 billion in safety and other improvements. For publicity purposes, reporters Chuck Browning and Tracy Ballard are invited ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, futuristic, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, conspiracy, robot, robot as menace, reporter, journalist, cloning, investigation, man versus machine, society, chaos, technology gone awry ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1976, near future, 80s ...
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 5.7
 5K
Natural City (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Two cops, R and Noma, hunt down renegade cyborgs. Cyborgs are used as commandos by the military, as lust objects and for companionship. Normaly they have a limited lifespan of three years but black market technology is being developed to be able to ...
Style: suspenseful, cyber, exciting, stylized, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, artificial intelligence, apocalypse, cyberpunk, robot as menace, dystopian future, androids and robots, computers and web, society, danger, man versus machine, save the world ...
Time: future
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Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2008)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: In the year 2029, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster'. Ghost in the Shell 2.0 is a reproduced version of its original 1995 ...
Style: anime, exciting, rough, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cyberpunk, androids and robots, anti heroine, female spy, hacker, artificial intelligence, cyberspace, female warrior, ghost in the shell, terrorism, woman fights a man, uncover truth ...
Time: future, 2020s, 21st century
Place: japan, east asia, tokyo, asia
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The Last Sentinel (2007)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: No emotion. No fear. No pain. They were the perfect soldiers to protect civilization until the drone police became the perfect enemy. With little hope left for mankind, Tallis, an electronically enhanced soldier, rescues a survivor from a failed ...
Style: exciting, serious, bleak, captivating, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: soldier, battles, danger, survival, life is a bitch, man versus machine, save the world, androids and robots, heroic mission, female warrior, chaos, daring rescue ...
Time: future, near future
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Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Under constant attack by monstrous creatures called Angels that seek to eradicate humankind, U.N. Special Agency NERV introduces two new EVA pilots to help defend the city of Tokyo-3: the mysterious Makinami Mari Illustrous and the intense Asuka ...
Style: mecha, anime, atmospheric, intense, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: post apocalypse, apocalypse, giant, mental illness, brutality, escapades, imaginary, man versus machine, good versus evil, danger, dystopian future, transformation ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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 5.9
 30K
Fortress (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A futuristic prison movie. Protagonist and wife are nabbed at a future US emigration point with an illegal baby during population control. The resulting prison experience is the subject of the movie. The prison is a futuristic one run by a private ...
Style: exciting, rough, suspenseful, cyber, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, mind control, dystopia, isolation, overpopulation, maximum security prison, androids and robots, prison escape, dystopian future, escape, heroes, prison life ...
Time: future, near future, year 1992, year 2017
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 6.8
 8K
Vexille (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: 2067: Isolation: Japan seals herself off from the eyes of the world in the face of unilateral international policy setting strict limits on the use of robotic technology. The island nation exists only behind a veil of seclusion. No soul shall ...
Style: anime, exciting, serious, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: artificial intelligence, androids and robots, cyberpunk, female warrior, apocalypse, robot, man versus machine, dystopian future, danger, save the world, heroes, heroic mission ...
Time: future
Place: japan, seattle, asia
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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
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Parallel Minds (2020)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In the near future, technology firm Red-Eye is on the verge of developing a revolutionary contact lens that records human sight to replicate memories. When the company’s lead researcher is murdered, Detective Thomas Elliot, and researcher Margo ...
Style: suspense, captivating, psychological, tense, scary
Plot: murder mystery, technology gone awry, using others, memory, artificial intelligence, partner, uncover truth, inventions and discoveries, police detective, death, investigation, society ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: canada
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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
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 6.3
 105K
Small Soldiers (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.
Style: humorous, talky, exciting, light, intense ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: toys, toy comes to life, soldier, childhood, small town, children, heroes, suburbs, boy, danger, good versus evil, store ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: usa, ohio
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 7.3
 82K
The Animatrix (2003)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story: Straight from the creators of the groundbreaking Matrix trilogy, this collection of short animated films from the world's leading anime directors fuses computer graphics and Japanese anime to provide the background of the Matrix universe and ...
Style: anime, philosophical, atmospheric, cyber, stylized ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, distopia, virtual reality, hacker, save the world, technology gone awry, alternate reality, man versus machine, apocalypse, artificial intelligence, female warrior, robot ...
Time: future, year 2003, near future, 22nd century, 21st century
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 5.4
 7K
Robot Jox (1989)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: 50 years after a nuclear war, the two superpowers handle territorial disputes in a different way. Each fields a giant robot to fight one-on-one battles in official matches, each piloted by a man inside, known as robot jockeys or jox. The contest for ...
Style: cult classic, apocalyptic, stylized, mecha, scenic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: robot, androids and robots, post apocalypse, man versus machine, survival, cyborgs, piloted giant robot, post apocalyptic, stop motion, androids, dystopian future, giant robot ...
Time: future, near future, year 2016
Place: usa, tucson arizona, alaska
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My Science Project (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Michael and Ellie break into a military junkyard to find a science project for Michael's class, and discover a strange glowing orb which absorbs electricity. When the orb begins to blend past, present, and future, its up to Michael and Ellie to ...
Style: semi serious, offbeat, humorous, fast, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, dinosaur, teenager, school, high school, coming of age, technology gone awry, mutant, science, time loop, science and technology, reptiles ...
Time: future, year 1985
Place: vietnam
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 6.3
 180K
Surrogates (2009)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
Style: futuristic, bleak, suspenseful, surreal, cyber ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, robot, distopia, utopia, androids and robots, dystopia, technology gone awry, cloning, virtual reality, cyborgs, dystopic future, dystopian future ...
Time: future, year 2009, year 2017, 2010s, near future
Place: san diego california
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 3.6
 12K
Singularity (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Switzerland, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When Elias van Dorne, CEO of the world's largest robotics company, introduces his most powerful invention, Kronos-a super-computer designed to end all wars-it determines that humans are the biggest threat and launches a worldwide attack on ...
Style: disturbing, exciting, suspense, tense, thought provoking ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, robotics, super computer, robot as menace, survival, sentient robot, human versus robot, giant robot, post apocalypse, humanity in peril, technology gone awry ...
Time: future, near future, 2020s
Is relevant ?
 6.7
 6K
Next (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
TV show
Story: A Silicon Valley pioneer discovers that one of his own creations – a powerful A.I. – might spell global catastrophe, and teams up with a cybercrime agent to fight a villain unlike anything we’ve ever seen – one whose greatest weapon against ...
Style: apocalyptic, futuristic, tense, thought provoking, detective ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, computers and web, technology, hi-tech, technology gone awry, cyberspace, inadvertently, moral dilemma, scientist, science, chaos and mayhem, escapades ...
Place: san francisco
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 5.5
 2K
T.I.M. (2023)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Prosthetics scientist Abi and her adulterous husband Paul adjust to life outside the city as Abi begins working for high-tech company Integrate, developing a humanoid AI - T.I.M.
Style: psychological, futuristic, captivating, thrilling
Plot: sentient robot, problem, futuristic technology, village life, robot human relationship, science runs amok, technology, technology gone awry, advanced technology, experimental technology, science, humanoid robot ...
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