100+ Robots Movies, TV series & Anime of All Time

by | May 16, 2023 | News

In this article are all the best movies with robots, androids and cyborgs divided into categories, starting from the first appearances of automatons on screen to the most recent films, TV series, documentaries and anime

Early appearances

  • Gugusse et l’Automate (1897) aka The Clown and the Automaton – The first screen Robot
  • A Clever Dummy (1917)

  • The Master Mystery (1919) – Starring Harry Houdini

The word “Robot” was invented later in 1920 before “Automaton” was used.

  • The Golem (1920)
  • The Mechanical Man (1921)
  • Metropolis (1927)
Metropolis
  • The Lord Of The World (1934) aka Master of the World
  • The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  • Mysterious Doctor Satan (1940) aka Doctor Satan’s Robot

Important

  • Westworld (1973 Film & 2016 TV series)
  • Short Circuit (1986)
Short Circuit

  • Black Mirror (2011)
  • Real Steel (2011)
  • Chappie (2015)

Based from the novels of Isaac Asimov

  • Robocop (1987)
  • Bicentennial Man (1999)
  • I, Robot (2004)
I-Robot
  • Foundation (2021)

Women Robot

  • Maria – Metropolis (1927)
  • Alita – Alita: Angelo della Battaglia (2019)
  • Pris – Blade Runner (1982)
  • Ava – Ex Machina (2015)
Ex Machina
  • Nebula – Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
  • Motoko Kusanagi – Ghost in the Shell (2017)
  • Borg Queen – Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
  • Morgan – Morgan (2016)
  • Mother – Raised by wolves (2020)

Killer Robot

  • Terminator – The Terminator (1984)
the terminator
  • Mark 13 – Hardware(1990) 
  • Warbeast – Death Machine (1994)
  • Hardin, Connors e Bryles – Class of 1999 (1990)
  • Eve VIII – Eve Of Destruction (1990)
  • Amee – Red Planet (2000)
  • ED-209 – RoboCop (1987)
  • BeeBee/Sam – Deadly Friend (1986)
  • Kill Command (2016)
  • Megan – M3GAN (2022)

Thriller

  • Blade Runner (1982)
  • Automata (2014)
  • Upgrade (2018)
  • Replicas (2018)
  • I Am Mother (2019)
I Am Mother
  • Mother/Android (2021)
  • The Peripheral (2022)

Giant Robots

  • Transformers (2007)
Transformers
  • Pacific Rim (2013)
  • Power Rangers (1995)
  • Bumblebee (2018)
  • Robot Overlords (2014)

Animation with Robot

  • Iron Giant (1999)
  • Robots (2005)
  • WALL-E (2008)
  • Next Gen (2018)
  • Treasure Planet (2002)
  • Meet The Robinsons (2007)
  • Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001)
  • Cody The Robosapien (2013)
  • Big Hero 6 (2014)

An examples of Soft-Robot

  • Love, Death & Robots (2019)
  • The Mitchells Vs. The Machines (2021)
  • Ron’s Gone Wrong (2021)

AI & Robot

  • Matrix (1999)
  • A.I. – Intelligenza Artificiale (2001)
  • Her (2013)
Her (2013)

  • The Imitation Game (2014)
  • A.I. Rising – Il futuro è adesso (2018)

Cyborg

  • Iron Man (2008)
  • The Machine (2013)
  • Elysium (2013)
Elysium (2013)

Comedy

  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
  • Robot and Frank (2012)
Robot and Frank
  • The Adventures of RoboRex (2014)
  • Robo (2019)
  • Bigbug (2022)
  • Brian e Charles (2022)

Robot and AI Documentaries

  • TechnoCalyps (2006)
  • Future Intelligence (2009)
  • The Smartest Machine On Earth (2011)
  • Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)
  • NOVA: Rise of the Robots (2016)
  • Mind and Machine (2017)
  • Hyper Evolution: Rise of the Robots (2017)
  • The Age of A.I. (2019)
  • iHuman (2019)
  • Hi, A.I. – Love Stories from the Future (2019)
  • Artificial intelligence and its ethics (2019)
  • AlphaGo – The Movie (2020)
  • AI and Language
  • Agree to Disagree! The Robots After Our Jobs
  • Unknown: Killer Robots (2023)

All Remaining

  • Robot Jox (1990)
  • Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009)‍
  • The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
  • Surrogates (2009)
  • Moon (2009)
  • Robotropolis (2011)
  • Eva (2011)
  • Robot Overlords (2014)
  • Humans (2015)
  • Tomorrowland (2015)
  • Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
  • Kill Command (2016) aka Identify
  • Singularity (2017)

What is the singularity concept?

singularity

  • Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams (2017)
  • Better than Us (2018)
  • Lost in Space (2018)
  • A.X.L. (2018)
  • Loop (2020)
  • The Adventure of A.R.I.: My Robot Friend (2020)
  • Monsters of Man (2020)
  • Monsters of Man – Killerobots (2020)
  • Finch (2021)
Finch

  • I’m Your Man (2021)
  • Outside the Wire (2021)
  • Outside the Wire (2021)
  • Robots (2023)
  • Jung_E (2023)

Anime

  • Koukaku Kidoutai ( aka Ghost in the Shell)
  • Mazinger Z (aka Tranzor Z)

  • Astro Boy (1963)
Astro Boy

  • The Big O
  • Broken Blade
  • Eureka Seven
  • Giant Robo
  • Voltron: Defender of the Universe
  • Gunbuster / Diebuster
  • Gurren Lagann
  • Super Dimension Fortress Macross
  • Martian Successor Nadesico
  • Patlabor aka Mobile Police Patlabor
  • Mobile Suit Gundam
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion

  • RahXephon
  • Rideback
  • Sakura Wars
  • Super Dimension Century Orguss / Orguss 02
  • Tiger and Bunny
  • Yukikaze
  • UFO Robot Grendizer
  • Steel Jeeg (aka Kotetsu Jeeg)
  • Hoshi no Koe (Voices of a Distant Star)
  • Appleseed
  • Aldnoah.Zero
  • Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor (Patlabor: The Mobile Police)
  • Koukyoushihen Eureka Seven (Eureka Seven)
  • Chou Denji Machine Voltes V (Super Electromagnetic Machine Voltes V)
  • Macross
Macross

  • SSSS.Gridman
  • Full Metal Panic!
  • Magic Knight Rayearth
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
  • Promare
  • Sidonia no Kishi (Knights of Sidonia)
  • Mobile Suit Gundam
  • Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch
  • Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

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