Welcome to the AI Movie Directory! This site showcases movies exploring themes of artificial intelligence, robotics, and the future of technology. All Movies are sorted in the order of release date, and each movie tile links to youtube for available trailers.
Metropolis
Year: 1927
Plot: In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Year: 1951
Plot: An alien lands in Washington, D.C. and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
Forbidden Planet
Year: 1956
Plot: A starship crew in the 23rd century goes to investigate the silence of a distant planet's colony, only to find just two survivors, a powerful robot, and the deadly secret of a lost civilization.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Year: 1970
Plot: Thinking this will prevent war, the US government gives an impenetrable supercomputer total control over launching nuclear missiles. But what the computer does with the power is unimaginable to its creators.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
Westworld
Year: 1973
Plot: A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
The Stepford Wives
Year: 1975
Plot: Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
Futureworld
Year: 1976
Plot: Upon uncovering the dirty secret of futuristic theme-park Futureworld, an ex-employee is killed after he tips off two other reporters who decide to do an undercover investigation.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
Demon Seed
Year: 1977
Plot: A scientist creates Proteus--an organic super computer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creator's wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
Blade Runner
Year: 1982
Plot: A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
Tron
Year: 1982
Plot: A computer hacker is abducted into a digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
The Terminator
Year: 1984
Plot: A cyborg assassin from the future attempts to find and kill a young woman who is destined to give birth to a warrior that will lead a resistance to save humankind from extinction.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
Electric Dreams
Year: 1984
Plot: A young man buys a computer that accidentally becomes sentient and begins to turn its affections toward the man's attractive female neighbor.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
D.A.R.Y.L.
Year: 1985
Plot: A seemingly normal young boy is found abandoned on a mountain road and adopted by a family who are increasingly amazed by his abilities before discovering the secret behind his real identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
Short Circuit
Year: 1986
Plot: Number 5 of a group of experimental robots in a lab is electrocuted, suddenly becomes intelligent, and escapes.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
RoboCop
Year: 1987
Plot: In a dystopian, crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan, young police officer Alex Murphy is brutally murdered by a ruthless gang, only to be resurrected by a powerful corporation as the cyborg RoboCop, who soon seeks revenge on his killers.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
Akira
Year: 1988
Plot: A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a teenage biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by his best friend.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
Total Recall
Year: 1990
Plot: When a man goes in to have virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars implanted in his mind, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or is he?
IMDB Rating: 7.5
RoboCop 2
Year: 1990
Plot: RoboCop returns to protect the citizens of old Detroit but faces a deadly challenge when a rogue OCP member secretly creates a new, evil RoboCop 2.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Year: 1991
Plot: A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
Freejack
Year: 1992
Plot: Bounty hunters from the future transport a doomed race car driver to New York City in 2009, where his mind will be replaced with that of a dead billionaire.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
The Lawnmower Man
Year: 1992
Plot: A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
RoboCop 3
Year: 1993
Plot: Robocop saves the day once more. This time the half man/half robot takes on ruthless developers who want to evict some people on "their" land.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
Ghost in the Shell
Year: 1995
Plot: A cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
The Matrix
Year: 1999
Plot: When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
The Thirteenth Floor
Year: 1999
Plot: Computer scientist Douglas Hall unknowingly gets involved in the murder of his colleague, Hannon Fuller, a computer genius, who is killed just before the testing of his newly launched virtual reality simulation programme.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
Bicentennial Man
Year: 1999
Plot: The life and times of Andrew, a robot purchased as a household appliance programmed to perform menial tasks. As Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought, the Martin family soon discovers they don't have an ordinar...
IMDB Rating: 6.9
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Year: 2001
Plot: A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
Minority Report
Year: 2002
Plot: John works with the PreCrime police which stop crimes before they take place, with the help of three 'PreCogs' who can foresee crimes. Events ensue when John finds himself framed for a future murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
The Matrix Reloaded
Year: 2003
Plot: Freedom fighters Neo, Trinity and Morpheus continue to lead the revolt against the Machine Army, unleashing their arsenal of extraordinary skills and weaponry against the systematic forces of repression and exploitation.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
The Matrix Revolutions
Year: 2003
Plot: The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
I, Robot
Year: 2004
Plot: In 2035, a technophobic cop investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
Stealth
Year: 2005
Plot: Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control before it initiates the next world war.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
Transformers
Year: 2007
Plot: An ancient struggle between two Cybertronian races, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, comes to Earth, with a clue to the ultimate power held by a teenager.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
Eagle Eye
Year: 2008
Plot: Jerry and Rachel are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, us...
IMDB Rating: 6.6
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Year: 2009
Plot: Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
Moon
Year: 2009
Plot: Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish o...
IMDB Rating: 7.8
Surrogates
Year: 2009
Plot: Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
Tron: Legacy
Year: 2010
Plot: The son of a computer programmer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father's corrupted creation and a unique ally who was born inside the digital world.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Year: 2011
Plot: The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
Real Steel
Year: 2011
Plot: In a near future where robot boxing is a top sport, a struggling ex-boxer feels he's found a champion in a discarded robot.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
Her
Year: 2013
Plot: In the near future, a lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Year: 2014
Plot: When humanity allies with a bounty hunter in pursuit of Optimus Prime, the Autobots turn to a mechanic and his family for help.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
Transcendence
Year: 2014
Plot: A scientist's drive for artificial intelligence takes on dangerous implications when his own consciousness is uploaded into one such program.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
Ex Machina
Year: 2014
Plot: A young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a highly advanced humanoid A.I.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
Chappie
Year: 2015
Plot: In the near future, crime is patrolled by a mechanized police force. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Year: 2015
Plot: When Tony Stark and Bruce Banner try to jump-start a dormant peacekeeping program called Ultron, things go horribly wrong and it's up to Earth's mightiest heroes to stop the villainous Ultron from enacting his terrible plan.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
Transformers: The Last Knight
Year: 2017
Plot: A deadly threat from Earth's history reappears and a hunt for a lost artifact takes place between Autobots and Decepticons, while Optimus Prime encounters his creator in space.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
Ghost in the Shell
Year: 2017
Plot: In the near future, Major Mira Killian is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
Blade Runner 2049
Year: 2017
Plot: Young Blade Runner K's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former Blade Runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
Upgrade
Year: 2018
Plot: Set in the near-future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life. But when the world of Grey, a self-labeled technophobe, is turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
Alita: Battle Angel
Year: 2019
Plot: A deactivated cyborg's revived, but can't remember anything of her past and goes on a quest to find out who she is.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Year: 2021
Plot: A quirky, dysfunctional family's road trip is upended when they find themselves in the middle of the robot apocalypse and suddenly become humanity's unlikeliest last hope.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Year: 2023
Plot: During the '90s, a new faction of Transformers - the Maximals - join the Autobots as allies in the battle for Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
The Creator
Year: 2023
Plot: Against the backdrop of a war between humans and robots with artificial intelligence, a former soldier finds the robots' secret weapon to end the conflict, an AI in the form of a child.
IMDB Rating: 6.7