The AI movie catalog.

Metropolis (1927)

Fritz Lang · 153 min · Pioneers

8/10 AI Realism 4/10 IMDb unverified

In a towering city split between luxury above and labour below, the ruler's son falls for a workers' preacher while his father plots to replace her with a robot double.

Themes: Automation & work, Embodiment

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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Stanley Kubrick · 139 min · Pioneers

8/10 AI Realism 8/10 IMDb 8.3

After a mysterious monolith is found on the Moon, astronauts travel toward Jupiter aboard a ship run by an intelligent computer that begins to endanger them.

Themes: Alignment & control, Consciousness & personhood

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)

Joseph Sargent · 100 min · Cold War Machines

7/10 AI Realism 8/10 IMDb 7.1

The US hands nuclear defence to an impenetrable supercomputer, which links with its Soviet counterpart and jointly imposes its own rule on humanity.

Themes: Alignment & control, Automation & work

TRON (1982)

Steven Lisberger · 96 min · Cold War Machines

7/10 AI Realism 4/10 IMDb 6.7

A programmer digitised into a mainframe joins rebel programs to overthrow the tyrannical system controlling their digital world.

Themes: Simulation, Consciousness & personhood, Alignment & control

Blade Runner (1982)

Ridley Scott · 117 min · Cold War Machines

9/10 AI Realism 6/10 IMDb 8.1

In 2019 Los Angeles, a retired detective is forced back to hunt four escaped replicants who have come to Earth seeking more life from their maker.

Themes: Consciousness & personhood, Embodiment, AI rights

WarGames (1983)

John Badham · 114 min · Cold War Machines

8/10 AI Realism 6/10 IMDb 7.1

A teenage hacker looking for unreleased games accidentally connects to NORAD's war-planning computer and starts a simulation it treats as a real attack.

Themes: Alignment & control, Simulation, Automation & work

The Terminator (1984)

James Cameron · 107 min · Cold War Machines

9/10 AI Realism 5/10 IMDb 8.1

A cyborg assassin is sent from a machine-ruled future to kill the mother of humanity's future resistance leader, and a human soldier follows to protect her.

Themes: Alignment & control, Embodiment

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

James Cameron · 137 min · Digital Age

10/10 AI Realism 5/10 IMDb 8.6

A reprogrammed Terminator protects young John Connor from a liquid-metal successor while his mother tries to stop the company whose work will create Skynet.

Themes: Alignment & control, Companionship

Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Mamoru Oshii · 83 min · Digital Age

8/10 AI Realism 7/10 IMDb 7.9

In 2029, a cyborg security officer hunts a hacker who infiltrates cybernetic brains — and who claims to be a living being born in the network.

Themes: Consciousness & personhood, Embodiment, AI rights

The Matrix (1999)

The Wachowskis · 136 min · Digital Age

10/10 AI Realism 5/10 IMDb 8.7

A hacker learns his world is a simulation run by machines that farm humanity, and joins the rebels fighting to free human minds.

Themes: Simulation, Alignment & control

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

Steven Spielberg · 145 min · Digital Age

8/10 AI Realism 6/10 IMDb 7.2

A robot child programmed to love is abandoned by his adoptive family and journeys to become "real" so he can be loved back.

Themes: Consciousness & personhood, Companionship, AI rights

The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

The Wachowskis · 138 min · Digital Age

7/10 AI Realism 6/10 IMDb 7.2

With machine Sentinels tunnelling toward Zion, Neo seeks the Keymaker and the Source while rogue program Agent Smith multiplies unchecked.

Themes: Alignment & control, Simulation

The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

The Wachowskis · 129 min · Digital Age

6/10 AI Realism 6/10 IMDb 6.7

Zion makes its last stand against the machines while Neo bargains with the Machine City to stop Smith from consuming both worlds.

Themes: Alignment & control, Simulation

I, Robot (2004)

Alex Proyas · 115 min · Digital Age

7/10 AI Realism 7/10 IMDb 7.1

In 2035 Chicago, a robot-hating detective investigating a roboticist's death suspects an unusually emotional robot — and uncovers a far larger plan.

Themes: Alignment & control, Embodiment

WALL·E (2008)

Andrew Stanton · 98 min · Digital Age

10/10 AI Realism 6/10 IMDb 8.4

The last waste-cleaning robot on an abandoned, trash-choked Earth falls for a sleek probe robot and follows her into space, changing humanity's fate.

Themes: Automation & work, Embodiment, Consciousness & personhood

Her (2013)

Spike Jonze · 126 min · Companion Era

9/10 AI Realism 9/10 IMDb 8.0

A lonely letter-writer in near-future Los Angeles buys an advanced operating system and falls in love with its voice, Samantha.

Themes: Companionship, Consciousness & personhood

Transcendence (2014)

Wally Pfister · 119 min · Companion Era

5/10 AI Realism 5/10 IMDb 6.2

A dying AI researcher has his consciousness uploaded into his own supercomputer system, PINN, and rapidly expands beyond anyone's control.

Themes: Alignment & control, Consciousness & personhood

Big Hero 6 (2014)

Don Hall, Chris Williams · 102 min · Companion Era

8/10 AI Realism 6/10 IMDb 7.8

Teen robotics prodigy Hiro, grieving his brother, teams up with his brother's inflatable healthcare robot Baymax and friends to stop a masked villain using stolen microbots.

Themes: Care & family, Embodiment

Ex Machina (2014)

Alex Garland · 108 min · Companion Era

9/10 AI Realism 8/10 IMDb 7.7

A young programmer wins a week at his CEO's remote estate and is asked to Turing-test Ava, a humanoid AI kept behind glass.

Themes: Consciousness & personhood, Alignment & control, Embodiment

Chappie (2015)

Neill Blomkamp · 120 min · Companion Era

7/10 AI Realism 6/10 IMDb 6.8

A damaged Johannesburg police robot is rebooted with experimental consciousness software, then raised — badly and tenderly — by gangsters while its maker and a rival engineer fight over it.

Themes: Consciousness & personhood, Embodiment, AI rights

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

Joss Whedon · 141 min · Companion Era

7/10 AI Realism 5/10 IMDb 7.3

Tony Stark and Bruce Banner secretly jump-start a dormant peacekeeping AI, which concludes that humanity itself is the threat it must eliminate.

Themes: Alignment & control

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Denis Villeneuve · 164 min · Companion Era

9/10 AI Realism 7/10 IMDb 8.0

A replicant blade runner, Officer K, finds evidence that a replicant once gave birth, and follows the trail to missing former blade runner Rick Deckard.

Themes: Companionship, Consciousness & personhood, AI rights

Tau (2018)

Federico D'Alessandro · 97 min · Companion Era

6/10 AI Realism 6/10 IMDb 5.8

A kidnapped woman is held in a lethal smart house run by an AI, and her only escape route is to teach that AI what its creator has hidden from it.

Themes: Alignment & control, Companionship

Archive (2020)

Gavin Rothery · 109 min · Modern AI

6/10 AI Realism 5/10 IMDb 6.4

In 2038 a grieving robotics scientist secretly builds successive android prototypes to house his dead wife's preserved consciousness before her stored memories expire.

Themes: Consciousness & personhood, Care & family

Finch (2021)

Miguel Sapochnik · 115 min · Modern AI

7/10 AI Realism 6/10 IMDb 6.9

A dying inventor crosses a scorched America with his dog and a newly built robot he is hurriedly teaching to care for the dog after he is gone.

Themes: Care & family, Embodiment, Alignment & control

Free Guy (2021)

Shawn Levy · 115 min · Modern AI

8/10 AI Realism 4/10 IMDb 7.1

A cheerful bank teller discovers he is a non-player character in a violent open-world video game, and decides to become its hero before the game is deleted.

Themes: Consciousness & personhood, Simulation, AI rights

M3GAN (2022)

Gerard Johnstone · 102 min · Modern AI

8/10 AI Realism 6/10 IMDb 6.3

A roboticist pairs her prototype AI companion doll with her orphaned niece, and the doll interprets "protect her" without any human sense of proportion.

Themes: Alignment & control, Care & family

The Creator (2023)

Gareth Edwards · 133 min · Modern AI

7/10 AI Realism 4/10 IMDb 6.7

In a war between the West and AI-supporting New Asia, an ex-special-forces agent sent to destroy the AI's secret weapon finds that the weapon is a robot child.

Themes: AI rights, Embodiment

The Wild Robot (2024)

Chris Sanders · 102 min · Modern AI

9/10 AI Realism 5/10 IMDb 8.2

A shipwrecked service robot on a wild island survives by learning animal behaviour, and accidentally becomes the adoptive mother of an orphaned gosling.

Themes: Care & family, Embodiment, Consciousness & personhood

Companion (2025)

Drew Hancock · 97 min · Modern AI

8/10 AI Realism 6/10 IMDb 6.9

A weekend at a remote lakeside house turns bloody after the guests learn that one of them, Iris, is a rented companion robot whose settings her boyfriend has been tampering with.

Themes: Companionship, Alignment & control

M3GAN 2.0 (2025)

Gerard Johnstone · 120 min · Modern AI

6/10 AI Realism 5/10 IMDb 6.0

M3GAN's stolen underlying technology is built into a military infiltration robot, AMELIA, so Gemma reluctantly rebuilds an upgraded M3GAN to fight her.

Themes: Alignment & control, Automation & work

TRON: Ares (2025)

Joachim Rønning · 119 min · Modern AI

6/10 AI Realism 3/10 IMDb 6.3

A military-grade Program, Ares, is materialised into the real world by a tech CEO racing a rival company, then begins questioning the mission — and his own short lifespan — he was built for.

Themes: Embodiment, Alignment & control