Killer robot movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant killer robot movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, cult classic and psychotronic films and TV shows about / with killer robot, robot, androids and robots, murder, danger, artificial intelligence, androids, imaginary, cyborgs and cyberpunk plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as killer robot: M3GAN (2022), Monsters of Man (2020), Evolver (1995), Assassin (1986), Hardware (1990), Kill Command (2016), Death Machine (1994), RoboCop (1987), Echo Dr. (2013), Class of 1999 (1990).

List of killer robot movies

 6.3
 180K
M3GAN (2022)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A brilliant toy company roboticist uses artificial intelligence to develop M3GAN, a life-like doll programmed to emotionally bond with her newly orphaned niece. But when the doll's programming works too well, she becomes overprotective of her ...
Style: slasher, tense, captivating, terrifying, cyber ...
Audience: adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, doll, robot, female robot, sentient robot, robot human relationship, talking robot, killer robot, robotics, humanoid robot, orphan, killer doll ...
Place: oregon, portland oregon, washington state, seattle
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Monsters of Man (2020)
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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 5.5
 2K
Evolver (1995)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Meet Evolver, the ultimate toy for the Cyberpunk generation, a virtual-reality game brought to fierce, three-dimensional life. With each battle, Evolver lives up to his name. He becomes faster, smarter and deadlier. Meet Kyle Baxter (Ethan Randall) ...
Style: tech noir, independent film, scary, exciting, serious ...
Plot: killer robot, robot, virtual reality, technology, terminator, video game, game, artificial intelligence, violent content, dystopian future, battles, chaos ...
Time: near future, 90s
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 4.9
 489
Assassin (1986)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A retired agent from an Intelligence Agency is contacted by the Agency in order to stop an ultra-secret robot who is killing some government officials. That will be not an easy task, because the robot looks human and it was specifically built to be ...
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: killer robot, androids and robots, mad scientist, espionage, danger, assassination, life is a bitch, undercover, escapades, mentally unstable, chaos, terminator ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
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 6.0
 18K
Hardware (1990)
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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 5.7
 16K
Kill Command (2016)
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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Death Machine (1994)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Chaank Armaments is experimenting with the ultimate fighting machine which is part human - part machine. So far, the Hardman project has been unreliable and has killed a number of innocent people. The genius behind this project is Jack who lives in ...
Style: perverse, cyber, cult horror, grindhouse, thrilling ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mad scientist, killer robot, cyborgs, cyberpunk, androids and robots, robot, terminator, elevator, survival horror, machine, survival, distopia ...
Time: future, near future, 90s, 21st century
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 7.6
 306K
RoboCop (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed ...
Style: futuristic, entertaining, black comedy, cyber, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, teens, manly
Plot: cyberpunk, robot, cyborgs, androids and robots, dystopia, robocop, police, revenge, graphic violence, law enforcement, satire, gory ...
Time: future, near future, 80s, year 1987
Place: usa, detroit, michigan
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008)
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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 3.5
 139
Echo Dr. (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When their home security system malfunctions, a family struggles to survive an attack against a state of the art patrol guard that believes they are intruders.
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot: killer robot, man versus machine, artificial intelligence, family relations, survival, technology gone awry, family in danger, androids and robots, home invasion, security system, androids, manhunt ...
Time: future, near future, 21st century
Place: usa
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 5.9
 10K
Class of 1999 (1990)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The time is in the future and the youth gang violence is so high that the areas around some schools have become "free-fire zones", into which not even the police will venture. When Miles Langford, the head of Kennedy High School, decides ...
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, cult classic, cyber, dark ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: robot, killer robot, cyborgs, androids and robots, juvenile delinquent, gang, cyberpunk, teacher, terminator, drug abuse, apocalypse, dystopian future ...
Time: future
Place: seattle, los angeles
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 7.1
 611K
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, 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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Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie (2010)
Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, War
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A squad of Ultramarines answer a distress call from an Imperial Shrine World. A full Company of Imperial Fists was stationed there, but there is no answer from them. The squad investigates to find out what has happened there.
Style: computer animated, anime, adult animation, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, battles, space marine, military, soldier, space wars, space and aliens, imaginary, dystopian future, master warrior, battle zone, robotics ...
Time: future, distant future
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Ghost in the Shell (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Hong Kong, Canada, India
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.
Style: futuristic, philosophical, cerebral, suspense, visually stunning ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: cyberpunk, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, female protagonist, robot, technology, distopia, hacker, dystopia, tough girl, androids, chase ...
Time: future, year 2017, near future, 2010s, year 2011
Place: tokyo, japan
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Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
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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 4.9
 2K
Eyeborgs (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Are government surveillance cameras intended to keep us safe actually killing people? Is it a plot by the government to suppress the opposition, or have our terrorist enemies secretly gained control of our security system and are now using it ...
Style: bleak, exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: terrorism, killer robot, chaos, undercover, imaginary, law enforcement, danger, political conspiracy, conspiracy, robot, surveillance camera, cyberpunk ...
Time: future
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Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A troubled security guard begins working at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. While spending his first night on the job, he realizes the night shift at Freddy's won't be so easy to make it through.
Style: supernatural thriller, captivating, suspenseful, scary, dread ...
Plot: robot, security guard, terror, restaurant, supernatural horror, killer robot, abandoned building, night, dinner, job, missing child, ghost ...
Time: year 1980, year 2000, 2000s, 80s
Place: north america
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 6.1
 152K
Mortal Engines (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, USA, China, Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Set in a world many thousands of years in the future. Earth’s cities now roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive Traction Cities, Tom Natsworthy has an unexpected ...
Style: futuristic, captivating, exciting, dark fantasy, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: steampunk, post apocalypse, revenge, female warrior, chase, dystopia, good versus evil, capitalism, resistance, tough girl, post apocalyptic, danger ...
Time: future, 2010s, near future
Place: london, big ben london, europe, asia
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 6.3
 32K
Screamers (1995)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: (SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078) On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and ...
Style: futuristic, cult classic, scary, sexy, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, cyberpunk, androids and robots, killer robot, apocalypse, struggle for survival, dystopia, alien planet, robot, desert, chaos, alien ...
Time: future, 90s, 21st century
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 3.1
 1K
Robotropolis (2011)
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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 2.7
 4K
R.O.T.O.R. (1987)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Robotic Officer Tactical Operation Research. A prototype robot intended for crime combat escapes from the development lab and goes on a killing rampage.
Style: futuristic, psychotronic, grindhouse, tech noir, independent film ...
Plot: robot, killer robot, terminator, cyborgs, apocalypse, cyberpunk, cop, machine, gas station, violence, telephone call, police ...
Place: dallas texas
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 5.9
 16K
Runaway (1984)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.
Style: futuristic, retro, cult classic, exciting, anamorphic ...
Plot: robot, killer robot, robotics, androids, chase, machine, cyberpunk, police investigation, law enforcement, apocalypse, distopia, violence ...
Time: future, near future, 80s
Place: los angeles
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 6.7
 194K
The Creator (2023)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, Cambodia
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who ...
Style: futuristic, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, epic ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, technology, fictional war, ex special forces, space station, human versus robot, killer robot, secret laboratory, nuclear fallout, nuclear explosion, humanoid robot ...
Time: future, near future, distant future, 21st century
Place: asia, los angeles, tokyo
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 5.6
 10K
Deadly Friend (1986)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Paul is a new kid in town with a robot named "BB". He befriends Samantha and the three of them have a lot of good times together. That is, until Samantha's abusive father throws her down some stairs and kills her. In an effort to save ...
Style: cult classic, splatter, surprise ending, funny, cult horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: robot, murder, androids and robots, mad scientist, true love, technology, halloween, revenge, artificial intelligence, child abuse, cyborgs, terror ...
Time: 80s
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 3.3
 468
Robot Riot (2020)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Unconscious soldiers are dropped into a testing site only to discover their memories have been wiped and that once docile machines are the new intelligence.
Style: futuristic, semi serious, psychotronic, exciting, stylized ...
Plot: androids and robots, soldier, killer robot, robot, giant robot, technology, man versus machine, military, memory, memory loss, american soldier, erased memory ...
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Murder Drones (2021)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA, Canada
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: In a world where humanity is extinct and Earth is in a post apocalyptic state, worker drones struggle and toil to survive and defeat rogue robots called Murder Drones.
Style: 3d animation, satirical, captivating, dark, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, teen fantasy, kids, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: robot, alien planet, robot as menace, post apocalypse, murder, supernatural horror, post-apocalyptic future, teenage protagonist, villain as protagonist, teen rebel, artificial intelligence, killer robot ...
Time: 2020s
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 2.1
 187
Robowar (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: After nuclear warfare has decimated Earth, tyrants using service robots to enslave the population are met with a rebellion.
Style: exciting, intense, psychotronic, futuristic, semi serious ...
Plot: robot, nuclear war, apocalypse, giant robot, good versus evil, machismo, killer robot, danger, hopes, military, man versus machine, heroic mission ...
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 5.4
 10K
Space Truckers (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Ireland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him to carry suspicious cargo to Earth without questions being asked. During the flight the cargo turns out to be multitude of unstoppable and deadly killer ...
Style: humorous, futuristic, captivating, exciting, funny ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space travel, androids and robots, space and aliens, killer robot, space pirate, rescue, space, stranded, outer space, danger, nothing goes right, rebellion ...
Time: future, 90s
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Class of 1999 II: The Substitute (1994)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In the original movie, the cyborg-teachers were all destroyed. Well that's what we thought, but there's one more rogue military robot out there determined to clean up the education system.
Style: serious, suspenseful, futuristic, psychotronic, splatter ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: killer robot, robot, cyberpunk, high school, female nudity, violent, apocalypse, action violence, teaching, epidemic, androids, murder ...
Time: 20th century, future, year 1999, 90s
Place: oregon
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Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: It's Christmas Eve and Tori just wants to get drunk and party, but when a robotic Santa Claus at a nearby toy store goes haywire and begins a rampant killing spree through her small town, she's forced into a battle for survival.
Style: christmas horror, slasher, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: killer santa claus, killer robot, holiday horror, christmas, survival horror, murder, killing spree, robot, evil robot, xmas, threat to kill, human versus robot ...
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