Man versus machine movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant man versus machine movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, serious, futuristic, apocalyptic, suspense and surprise ending films and TV shows about / with man versus machine, artificial intelligence, robot, apocalypse, cyborgs, danger, technology, androids, androids and robots and chase plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as man versus machine: Kill Command (2016), Ex Machina (2014), Robot Overlords (2014), Westworld (2016), I, Robot (2004), Saturn 3 (1980), Screamers: The Hunting (2009), Terminator Genisys (2015), Westworld (1973), Armed Response (2017).
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List of man versus machine movies
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Set in a near future, technology-reliant society that pits man against killing machines. Against this backdrop an elite army unit is helicoptered to a remote, off-the-grid island training facility. What starts out as a simple training exercise for ...
Style:
futuristic, intense, suspense, minimal cast, surprise ending ...
Plot:
robot, killer robot, man versus machine, computer program, military, female warrior, cyborgs, cyberpunk, battles, rescue, laboratory, death ...
Time:
near future, future
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633K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Caleb, a 26 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds ...
Style:
psychological, futuristic, twist ending, philosophical, mind bending ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
artificial intelligence, robot, androids, technology, existentialism, cyborgs, cyberpunk, isolation, manipulation, androids and robots, female robot, consciousness ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s, year 2015, year 2014 ...
Place:
england
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Earth has been conquered by robots from another galaxy and the human survivors must stay in their homes, or risk incineration.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, disgusting ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
androids and robots, man versus machine, robot, dystopian future, good versus evil, alien invasion, save the day, danger, rivalry, life is a bitch, youth, escapades ...
Time:
2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
england
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556K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be ...
Style:
futuristic, psychological thriller, stylized, serious, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
artificial intelligence, consciousness, robot, androids, murder, moral dilemma, man versus machine, technology gone awry, escapades, scientist, sex, sex scene ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, san francisco
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611K
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, philosophical, exciting, apocalyptic, serious ...
Audience:
manly, teens, family friendly, boys' night
Plot:
artificial intelligence, robot, cyberpunk, cyborgs, distopia, androids and robots, dystopia, dystopian future, androids, technology gone awry, fate of humanity, hi-tech ...
Time:
future, year 2004, 2030s, 20th century, near future ...
Place:
chicago, usa, north america
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11K
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In the future, Earth is overcrowded and the population relies on distant bases to be fed. In the Saturn 3 station, Major Adam and the scientist Alex, who is also his lover and has never been on Earth, have been researching hydroponics for three ...
Style:
futuristic, serious, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
man versus machine, robot, cyborgs, scientist, killer robot, saturn the planet, outer space, chess, artificial intelligence, psychopath, infatuation, spaceship ...
Time:
future, year 1980, year 2016, distant future
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A group of humans arrive on Sirius 6-B to investigate an SOS signal sent out from the planet, which has been supposedly deserted since the destruction of the man-made weapons known as "screamers." Once the squad arrives, they find a group ...
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, tech noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
androids and robots, rescue, apocalypse, danger, technology gone awry, chaos and mayhem, distant planet, deadly creature, man versus machine, space travel, survival, artificial intelligence ...
Time:
future
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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, entertaining, serious, suspenseful, saga ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
time travel, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, androids and robots, apocalypse, robot, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, man versus machine, dark future, terminator, killer robot ...
Time:
future, near future, year 2017, year 1997, 70s ...
Place:
san francisco, los angeles
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67K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In a futuristic resort, wealthy patrons can visit recreations of different time periods and experience their wildest fantasies with life-like robots. But when Richard Benjamin opts for the wild west, he gets more than he bargained for when a ...
Style:
tense, sexy, philosophical, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
old west, man versus machine, artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, computer, life philosophy, robot, technology gone awry, vacation, dystopia, villain played by lead actor, cyborgs ...
Time:
future, 20th century, near future, year 1973, 19th century ...
Place:
space western, usa
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Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story follows a team of highly trained operatives who find themselves trapped inside an isolated military compound.
Style:
suspense, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
man versus machine, military, trapped, chase, rescue, danger, team, gunfight, deception, fear, panic, mercilessness ...
Place:
afghanistan
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18K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a ...
Style:
bleak, apocalyptic, suspenseful, rough, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, apocalypse, post apocalypse, cyborgs, killer robot, robot, androids, dystopia, man versus machine, desert, artificial intelligence, wasteland ...
Time:
future, year 2016, 90s
Place:
new york
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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, cyborgs, androids and robots, robot, man versus machine, secret laboratory, female robot, distopia, laboratory, inventions and discoveries, programmer, technology gone awry ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s
Place:
england
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
After a 40-year armistice in a war between the Twelve Colonies and the Cylons, the Cylons launch a surprise nuclear attack intended to exterminate the human race. Virtually all of the population of the Twelve Colonies are wiped out.
Style:
futuristic, cerebral, philosophical, tense, talky ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space travel, space wars, outer space, cyborgs, space battle, imaginary, space and aliens, escapades, society, androids and robots, space, space opera ...
Time:
future, 70s
Place:
space western
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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, retro, stylized, scenic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
robot, androids and robots, post apocalypse, man versus machine, piloted giant robot, survival, cyborgs, stop motion, post apocalyptic, androids, giant robot, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time:
future, near future, year 2016, 80s
Place:
usa, tucson arizona, alaska
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Genre: Adventure, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
An artificial intelligence escapes her spaceship to turn into a female ghost and challenges two blade runners to a galactic chase.
Style:
surreal, tense, exciting, unusual plot structure, thought provoking ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, man versus machine, female nudity, space wars, amazon, twists and turns, rebellion, space travel, space, space opera, space mission, emancipation ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
The story of a race of immortal beings who lived on Earth and shaped its history and civilizations.
Style:
cerebral, saga, captivating, exciting, tense ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, adult
Plot:
superhero, alien race, alien attack, space and aliens, death, alien encounter, artifact, lgbt, multiverse, desert, archaeologist, valet ...
Time:
1940s, 16th century, 2020s, year 1945, 21st century
Place:
london, usa, south dakota, mumbai india, india ...
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.
Style:
futuristic, scary, cyber, bad ending, suspense ...
Plot:
cyberpunk, cyberspace, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, man versus machine, eye, vengeance, internet, computer, computer hacker, intelligence, animal experimentation ...
Time:
future, 90s
Place:
arizona, washington d.c.
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, Canada, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
After Katie Mitchell is accepted into the film school of her dreams, her family decides to use this opportunity to drive Katie to school as a road trip. When their plans are interrupted by a tech uprising, the Mitchells realize that they must work ...
Style:
funny, feel good, light, 3d animation, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens, family friendly ...
Plot:
robot, father daughter relationship, parents and children, road trip, dog, family relations, family life, husband, wife, journey, fish out of water, pug ...
Time:
2020s, future, 21st century
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A robotics company vying to win a lucrative military contract team up with a corrupt CIA agent to conduct an illegal live field test. They deploy four weaponized prototype robots into a suspected drug manufacturing camp in the Golden Triangle, ...
Style:
ambiguous ending, suspense, psychotronic, suspenseful, intense ...
Plot:
androids and robots, human versus robot, killer robot, man versus machine, artificial intelligence, experiment gone awry, corporation, death, robot vs. robot, computer cracker, danger, survival ...
Time:
2020s, near future
Place:
new york, washington d.c., brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, cambodia ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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, cyber ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terminator, cyborgs, female killer, time travel, killer robot, androids and robots, changing the past or future, female robot, female warrior, kickass women, kick-butt women, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany, USA
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 ...
Style:
futuristic, intense, sexy, suspense, saga ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
time travel, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, androids and robots, robot, dystopia, time machine, apocalypse, terminator, chase, chaos, time traveler ...
Time:
year 2003, future, 2000s, 2030s, near future ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, beverly hills
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156K
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Luxembourg, UK, Russia
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their ...
Style:
adult animation, surreal, apocalyptic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot:
steampunk, post apocalypse, dystopia, apocalypse, survival, technology gone awry, vestiges of humanity, robot, fate of humanity, heroes, distopia, danger ...
Time:
future, 1940s, year 2009
Place:
canada
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
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, apocalyptic, intense, serious, saga ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyborgs, apocalypse, robot, cyberpunk, future war, androids and robots, time travel, man versus machine, post apocalypse, dystopian future, terminator, dystopic future ...
Time:
future, year 2009, near future, 2010s, year 2003 ...
Place:
los angeles, san francisco, california
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875K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
Style:
neo noir, futuristic, tech noir, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, dystopia, existentialism, dystopian future, distopia, androids, cyborgs, fugitive, police detective, fugitives, flying car ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2019, 20th century, near future ...
Place:
los angeles, california, bolivia, usa
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105K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A teenage girl is raised underground by a robot "Mother", designed to repopulate the earth following an extinction event. But their unique bond is threatened when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news.
Style:
futuristic, suspense, philosophical, apocalyptic, cerebral ...
Audience:
teens, toddlers, adult
Plot:
robot, artificial intelligence, post apocalypse, bunker, apocalypse, mother, daughter, end of the world, mission, technology, man versus machine, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
australia, adelaide south australia, south australia
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385K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, India, UK, Mexico, Japan, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy and daring son of Kevin Flynn, investigates his father's disappearance and is pulled into The Grid. With the help of a mysterious program named Quorra, Sam quests to stop evil dictator Clu from crossing into the real ...
Style:
stylized, visually stunning, cyber, exciting, visual ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, family friendly, boys' night
Plot:
artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, computer program, cyberspace, disappearance, chase, virtual reality, dystopic future, dystopia, hacker, distopia, computer genius ...
Time:
future, year 2010, 2010s, near future, 80s ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, France
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, suspenseful, suspense, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, kids, adult
Plot:
artificial intelligence, terminator, time travel, robot, man versus machine, cyborgs, dystopia, apocalypse, androids and robots, cyberpunk, chase, time traveler ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s, near future, year 1997 ...
Place:
california, los angeles, persia, america, usa ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, 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, apocalyptic, suspenseful, cult classic, breathtaking ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night, kids, teens, manly ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, cyborgs, time travel, cyberpunk, man versus machine, terminator, androids, androids and robots, dystopia, time machine, on the run, sent to the past ...
Time:
80s, future, 20th century, near future, year 1984 ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, north america, mexico, california
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Singapore, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A group of reporters are covering the unveiling of a new facility that is completely maintained by robot prototypes. When one of the robots goes haywire, the reporters find themselves not just reporting on the malfunction, but fighting for their ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, cult classic, fast ...
Plot:
androids and robots, man versus machine, technology gone awry, technophobia, chaos, danger, escapades, journalism, space, imaginary, media, malfunction ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hungary, Spain, China
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:
saga, action adventure, apocalyptic, tech noir, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
terminator, time travel, robot, androids and robots, gunfight, technology, artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, hand to hand combat, killer robot, escape, shapeshifter ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, year 2019, future, 90s ...
Place:
mexico, texas, mexico city, guatemala
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