Malfunction movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant malfunction movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, suspense, serious, tense, exciting and psychotronic films and TV shows about / with malfunction, danger, survival, chase, catastrophe, murder, robot, technology, mission and heroes plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as malfunction: Passengers (2016), Geostorm (2017), Gremlins (1984), Lazer Team (2015), Apollo 13 (1995), Short Circuit (1986), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), Deep Shock (2003), Turbulent Skies (2010), Westworld (2016).
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List of malfunction movies
491K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Hong Kong
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.
Style:
futuristic, romantic, scenic, thought provoking, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
space travel, outer space, isolation, survival, love story, space program, trapped in space, love, loneliness, space station, malfunction, spaceship ...
Time:
future, year 2016, 2010s
Place:
america, los angeles, space western
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132K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: ...
Style:
apocalyptic, psychotronic, exciting, suspenseful, disgusting ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
end of the world, apocalypse, catastrophe, disaster, tsunami, humanity in peril, storm, ecological disaster, malfunction, climate change, hurricane, natural disaster ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s, year 2017, year 2019 ...
Place:
afghanistan, hong kong, orlando florida, rio de janeiro, new york ...
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272K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mogwai, and unleashes a horde of mischievous gremlins on a small town.
Style:
black comedy, frightening, funny, horror comedy, dark comedy ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot:
christmas, monster, small town, supernatural, transformation, creature, holiday, gremlin, father son relationship, winter, swimming pool, bank ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984, 90s, future
Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In the late 1970's, the SETI project received a one time signal from outer space. It looked exactly as theorists thought a communication from an alien civilization would -- unfortunately it has never been decoded. Or so we were told. ...
Style:
parody, melancholic, futuristic, humorous, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
malfunction, technology, twists and turns, farce, parallel universe, misfit, teamwork, space opera, fight scenes, training, superhero, alien ...
Time:
70s
Place:
ireland
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334K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1971, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from ...
Style:
factual, realistic, inspirational, suspense, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, boys' night
Plot:
astronaut, nasa, survival, space travel, moon, disaster, rescue, space program, space exploration, race against time, trapped in space, against the odds ...
Time:
70s, year 1970, 20th century, year 1969, 60s ...
Place:
houston texas, usa, north america, texas, pacific ocean ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to get to Number 5 before the military does. In the meantime, a spunky ...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, sentimental, light, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, teen drama
Plot:
artificial intelligence, robot, military, androids and robots, animal lover, struck by lightning, lightning, childhood, talking robot, malfunction, cyborgs, androids ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, future
Place:
oregon, usa, astoria oregon, montana
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Canada
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, realistic, intense, harsh ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
cold war, submarine, navy, nuclear submarine, radiation, courage, underwater, radiation sickness, nuclear, radioactivity, sea, sea disaster ...
Time:
60s, year 1989, year 2002, 20th century, 80s ...
Place:
soviet union, nova scotia, russia, moscow russia, atlantic ocean ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When an unknown underwater object disables an American nuclear-powered submarine and attacks a submerged Arctic research complex, a scientific expedition flies to the North Pole to investigate these incidents as well as the sudden, inexplicable rise ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, bleak, natural horror, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
dangerous animal, eel, apocalypse, disaster, collision, save the world, investigation, danger, rescue, heroic mission, chaos, deadly creature ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When a new airplane that's equipped with a new computer that can fly the plane on its own, is about to have its first flight. But the son of the owner decides to upload more software, he doesn't bother to check if there are any viruses ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
airplane accident, airplane, boeing 747, computer virus, save the day, danger, chaos, escapades, rivalry, race against time, space travel, aviation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, los angeles
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
1K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
In the 1960s, a nurse's last day on her job is ruined when a doctor inadvertently creates a cyst monster that terrorizes the office.
Style:
medical horror, psychotronic, bleak, suspenseful, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
creature, monster, body horror, doctor, xmas, man versus machine, killing, fear, malfunction, violence, evil, supernatural ability ...
Time:
year 1960, 60s
Place:
usa
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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:
scary, suspense, tense, captivating, psychological
Plot:
artificial intelligence, technology gone awry, using others, murder mystery, memory, partner, uncover truth, death, inventions and discoveries, police detective, vengeance, rivalry ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
canada
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3K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Six young computer hackers sent to work on a derelict space freighter, are forced to match wits with a vengeful artificial intelligence that would kill to be human.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, hacker, computer, androids and robots, spacecraft, mission, hacking, man versus machine, escape attempt, graphic violence, computer hacker, characters killed one by one ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
canada
Is relevant?
292
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In the near future, life-like androids with artificial intelligence have been created to help people with menial household tasks. The prototype, One, created by Roger Marshall and tested by his family, proves to be popular but flawed. Roger has been ...
Style:
suspenseful, indie film, serious, disturbing, sinister ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
artificial intelligence, androids, distopia, robot as menace, humanoid robot, human versus robot, threat, androids and robots, death threat, robot, malfunction, family home ...
Time:
near future
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Ermus Daglek, retired Empathtek engineer, commandeers a defunct factory where he creates androids based on persons from his past and recreates a dinner party where he lost the love of his life - until they malfunction and escape.
Style:
futuristic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
androids, robot human relationship, human android relationship, robot, love, memory, obsession, science runs amok, hi-tech, problem, scientist, troubled past ...
Time:
near future
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Kitty Cat Vs. Dolly Buster
Style:
horror comedy, dark comedy, independent film
Plot:
robot, androids, small town, malfunction, sexploitation, graphic violence, chaos, ethical dilemma, body horror, femme fatale, desperation, satire ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young couple moves into a sophisticated "home of the future," that offers all the latest modern conveniences--including automated household appliances, lights that turn themselves on and off, and a miswired …
Style:
tech noir, thrilling, suspenseful, tense, psychotronic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
artificial intelligence, paranoia, malfunction, technophobia, claustrophobia, paranoid, surveillance, survival, isolation, family drama, disaster, technology ...
Time:
near future, 90s, future
Is relevant?
144
Genre: Short, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min.
Story:
A lazy janitor builds a robot to do his dirty work.
Style:
absurd, feel good, heartfelt, experimental
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
janitor, robot, laziness, creativity, slacker, blue collar, malfunction, inventor, killer robot, satire, underdog, workplace ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In the international race to the moon, the Norwegian mission is led by brilliant inventor Reodor from the village of Pinchcliffe. With Luca the Magpie as the brave astronaut, what could possibly go wrong?
Style:
semi serious, entertaining, feel good, captivating, light hearted ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly
Plot:
inventor, teamwork, astronaut, stop motion, space mission, travel, mission, friendship, cosmology, cosmonaut, space program, mission gone awry ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It's Friday evening. The lift repairman leaves the building and wants to finish his work on Monday. But he doesn't know there are four men in the building. They use the lift but stay in it about 100 meters from the floor. They have little ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
elevator, psychotic, trapped, jealousy, fear, money, abyss, gravity, sexual tension, falling down, malfunction, luck ...
Time:
80s
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Hong Kong
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In a time when monsters walk the Earth, humanity’s fight for its future sets Godzilla and Kong on a collision course that will see the two most powerful forces of nature on the planet clash in a spectacular battle for the ages. As Monarch embarks ...
Style:
suspense, tense, exciting, suspenseful, perverse ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
godzilla, giant monster, king kong, kaiju, giant ape, giant animal, creature, monster, monster versus monster, giant creature, dinosaur, giant lizard ...
Time:
jurassic, 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
hong kong, las vegas, usa, tokyo, japan ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A modern nightmare nearly becomes reality in this tension-filled story about an "incident" at a nuclear power plant. Jane Fonda stars as Kimberly Wells, an ambitious TV reporter covering a story on energy sources, who is present at the ...
Style:
suspense, tension, suspenseful, political, tense ...
Plot:
reporter, conspiracy, investigation, power plant, radiation, politics, journalism, nuclear power, whistleblower, disaster, murder, corruption ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, southern california, pennsylvania
Is relevant?
799K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Style:
atmospheric, dramatic, epic, cerebral, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
world war two, military, war, survival, wartime, evacuation, soldier, beach, military officer, shell shock, air attack, combat ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, 2010s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
france, england, english channel, dover england, dunkirk ...
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221K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent ...
Style:
surreal, cult classic, mind bending, psychological, futuristic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dystopia, dream, satire, distopia, cyberpunk, surrealism, surveillance, absurdism, fighting the system, bureaucracy, christmas, hallucination ...
Time:
future, year 1985, year 1984
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, brazil ...
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Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Everyone has a skeleton or two in his or her closet, but what about the director behind some of the most successful thrillers ever to hit the silver screen? Could M. Night Shyamalan be hiding a deep, dark secret that drives his macabre cinematic ...
Style:
mockumentary, serious, cult classic, fake documentary
Plot:
interview, uncover truth, showbiz, filmmaking, found footage, behind the scenes, water, crow, ouija board, conspiracy, shaman, celebrity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania
Is relevant?
6K
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After the elevators at a New York City skyscraper begin inexplicably malfunctioning, putting its passengers at risk, mechanic Mark Newman (James Marshall) and reporter Jennifer Evans (Naomi Watts) begin separate investigations. Newman gets ...
Style:
suspense, perverse, rough, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
elevator, technology gone awry, mad scientist, supernatural, gory, journalism, danger, uncover truth, race against time, psychopath, disorder, woman in danger ...
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
When wealthy executive Raymond Stone sends out his private plane to pick up his spoiled teenage daughter, Nicole, and a pair of his top-ranking employees, disaster strikes. While the jet flies through an electrical storm, the pilot and other ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
airplane, die hard, aviation, teenage girl, dysfunctional family, aeroplane, air traffic control, teenage life, school, parents and children, escapades, chases and races ...
Time:
90s
Is relevant?
18K
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
When Lois Lane is killed, an unhinged Superman decides to take control of the Earth. Determined to stop him, Batman creates a team of freedom-fighting heroes. But when superheroes go to war, can the world survive?
Style:
adult animation, anime, exciting, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
superhero, villain, female warrior, justice, alternate reality, batman, battles, superman, fight, super villain, superpower, supernatural power ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
washington d.c., pentagon
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of scientists stages a phony Mars landing. Willingly participating in the deception are a trio of well-meaning astronauts, who become liabilities when their space capsule is ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, psychotronic ...
Plot:
conspiracy, astronaut, conspiracy theory, nasa, spacecraft, paranoia, mars, whistleblower, investigative reporter, survival, desert, chase ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1978, future
Place:
houston texas, texas, arizona, usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
King Kong is brought in by an evil genius to dig for precious gems in a mine when the robot Mechani-Kong is unable to do the task. This leads to the machine and the real Kong engaging in a tremendous battle that threatens to level Japan.
Style:
daikaiju, suspense, classic horror, grindhouse, natural horror ...
Plot:
kaiju, giant monster, king kong, mad scientist, giant robot, dinosaur, giant ape, monster, ape, monkey, tokyo tower, reptiles ...
Time:
year 1967, jurassic, 60s
Place:
japan, tokyo, new york, asia, usa
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