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Machines (and more) in Movies, Books and Music

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Movie Title Director Date
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2001: A Space Odyssey Kubrick, Stanley 1968
    In the longest section of this movie, two spacemen, exploring the outer solar sy....
2010: The Year We Make Contact Hyams, Peter 1984
    Sequel to 2001, but more technical and less mystical. A mission to Jupiter seek....
A
A.I. Spielberg, Steven 2001
    A young android learns to bond with a human family, only to be rejected.
Android Lipstadt, Aaron 1982
    A quite humanlike android finds a creative way to avoid winding up on the scrap ....
Apollo 13 Howard, Ron 1995
    Three astronauts are trapped thousands of miles from earth in a disabled spacecr....
B
Back to the Future Series Zemeckis, Robert 1985
    A young man uses a time machine-equipped sports car to travel back and forward i....
Batteries Not Included Robbins, Matthew 1987
    A tenement of retirees face eviction, only for a pair of small robots to come an....
Battle Beyond the Stars Murakami, Jimmy 1980
    Adaptation of the _Seven Samurai_ to futuristic space warfare in which mercenari....
Battlestar Galactica Colla, Richard A. ...et al
    Facing extinction at the hands of the robotic Cylons, the inhabitants of twelve ....
Beautiful Mind, A Howard, Ron 2001
    The story of John Nash, Nobel-prize-winning mathematician, whose Nash Equilibriu....
Bicentennial Man, The Columbus, Chris 1999
    Based on one of Isaac Asimov's "I, Robot" stories, this film is the biography of....
Blade Runner Scott, Ridley 1982
    A detective has to hunt for rogue robots in futuristic Los Angles. The catch is ....
Brazil Gillam, Terry 1985
    The oppression of a bureaucratic state of the near future, where people use curv....
C
Center of the World, The Wang, Wayne 2001
    A shy (but attractive) computer genius about to make millions in the dot.com boo....
Chapman Report, The Cukor, George 1962
    Male survey researchers go to a California town to study intimate relationships ....
Charly Nelson, Ralph 1968
    The first movie of its genre: retarded person (Cliff Roberston) becomes cyborg-l....
Clear and Present Danger Noyce, Phillip 1994
    The CIA Deputy Director (Harrison Ford) uses computerized voice print analysis t....
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Spielberg, Steven 1977
    The only way to communicate with benign alien visitors to earth is via computer-....
Colossus: The Forbin Project Sargent, Joseph 1969
    A serious drama in which a computer tries to take control of the world, and its ....
Computer Beach Party Troy, Gary 1988
    The ultimate bikini-human-computer interface movie. Reportedly one of the worst ....
Computer Wore Tennis Shoes Butler, Robert 1970
    Minor comedy about a university student who receives a major shock while fixing ....
Conspiracy Theory , Richard Donner 1997
    A New York taxi driver develops conspiracy theories about many things and resear....
Contact Zemeckis, Robert 1997
    Astronomer Jodi Foster uses radiotelescopes operated by advanced signal processi....
Conversation, The Coppola, Francis Ford 1974
    A mild-mannered surveillance expert (Gene Hackman) is hired to use advanced elec....
Core, The Amiel, Jon 2003
    The Earth's core is stopping its rotation, causing natural disasters. The only ....
Cube Natali, Vincenzo 1997
    Six people are trapped in a mysterious and deadly machine, and must try to under....
D
Dark City Proyas, Alex 1998
    An instant classic of visual imagination this futuristic thriller features John ....
Dark Star Carpenter, John 1974
    Parodic dark comedy of a spaceship (Mother) that must cope with a runaway alien,....
Day the Earth Stood Still, The Wise, Robert 1951
    A space ambassador accompanied by a robot visit Washington, D.C., in a flying sa....
Demolition Man Brambilla, Marco 1993
    In this comedy - action movie, Sylvester Stallone is a cop from our era is reviv....
Demon Seed Cammell, Donald 1977
    A computer scientist creates a super-computer that falls in love with his wife (....
Desk Set Lang, Walter 1957
    An efficiency expert (Spencer Tracy) tries to rationalize and computerize the re....
Disclosure Levinson, Barry 1994
    The new boss of a male computer expert (Michael Douglas) is a woman (Demi Moore)....
Donovan's Brain Feist, Felix 1953
    The head of a rich tycoon, severed from its body, lives in a big jar. It is kept....
Dr Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Kubrick, Stanley 1963
    In this dark comedy, human stupidity and computer malfunctions and dumb programm....
E
Electric Dreams Barron, Steve 1984
    An architect and his computer each vie for the affections of the same woman.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Gondry, Michel 2004
    A computerized Lacuna program does a brain scan and obliterates selected memorie....
e
eXistenZ Cronenberg, David 1999
    A designer creates an electronic game that taps directly into the players' minds....
F
Fail-Safe Lumet, Sidney 1964
    An electrical malfunction in the Strategic Air Command's mainframe computer caus....
Fantastic Voyage Fleischer, Richard 1966
    Raquel Welsh and associates are computer-shrunk to fit into the bloodstream of a....
Fifth Element, The Besson, Luc 1997
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Flash Gordon Stephani, Frederick ...et al 1936
    Flash Gordon himself is boring, but Ming the Merciless, the evil emperor of the ....
Flatliners Schumacher, Joel 1990
    Medical students (notably Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts and Kevin Bacon) crea....
Forbidden Planet Wilcox, Fred 1956
    In this free adaptation of Shakespeare's _The Tempest_, a space crew (led by Les....
G
Galaxina Sachs, William 1980
    Famous for starring Dorothy Stratten as an android sex slave with feelings, deal....
Gattaca Nichol, Andrew 1997
    In this cautionary tale of avoiding over-perfection, one of the last natural men....
General's Daughter, The West, Simon 1999
    Soldier-detective (John Travolta) solves the murder of a woman soldier, using co....
Ghost in the Machine Talalay, Rachel 1993
    A serial killer escapes into cyberspace at the moment of his death. He continues....
H
Hackers Softley, Ian 1995
    A young boy is arrested by the Secret Service for writing a virus, and banned fr....
Hedwig and the Angry Inch Mitchell, John Cameron 2001
    The story of a German transgender man-woman who tours the U.S. with a rock group....
Hot Millions Till, Eric 1968
    Hot Millions, released in 1968, when mainframe computers filled a room and PCs w....
Hunt for Red October, The McTiernan, John 1990
    It's a battle of computers and sonar as a U.S. and a Soviet submarine hunt for e....
I
I, Robot Proyas, Alex 2004
    Will Smith stars as a detective in the year 2035 who is called on to investigate....
Independence Day Emmerich, Roland 1996
    Earth wins when hero Jeff Goldblum defies all known laws of operating systems by....
J
Johnny Mnemonic Longo, Robert 1995
    A cyborg courier(Keanu Reaves) is hunted by a pharmaceutical conglomerate that w....
L
Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace Mann, Farhad 1995
    A legless man gets greater intelligence and tries to create the city of the futu....
Lawnmower Man, The Leonard, Brett 1992
    Drugs and computer technology make a super-genius out of a retarded gardener, wi....
M
Mars Attacks Burton, Tim 1996
    Martians attack and conquer the earth. In a subplot, probably modeled after Dono....
Masala Krishna, Srinivas 1991
    In this romantic comedy of migrant assimilation to multicultural Toronto, an (Ea....
Matrix, The Wachowski, Larry ...et al 1999
    A young hacker, named Neo, discovers that the world is actually a computer progr....
Max Headroom Morton, Rocky ...et al 1986
    This British cyberpunk film concerns a news reporter whose personality is upload....
Mercury Rising Becker, Harold 1998
    This thriller implausibly contends that a nine-year old autistic boy can crack s....
Metropolis Lang, Fritz 1926
    In the first great science-fiction movie, workers in a hyper-modern city (set in....
Minority Report Spielberg, Stephen 2002
    Tom Cruise plays a wrongly accused detective in the near American future. He and....
Mission: Impossible de Palma, Brian 1996
    Among the many plot twists, secret agents (led by Tom Cruise) use human ingenuit....
Monsoon Wedding Nair, Mira 2001
    Modern urban upper-class India is a mix of modern and traditional, as signified ....
My Science Project Beteul, Jonathan 1995
    High school students find a UFO containing a machine that can materialize object....
N
Negotiator, The Gray, F. Gary 1998
    In an unintentional parody of human-computer interaction in a climactic scene, w....
Net, The Winkler, Irwin 1999
    Shy female computer expert discovers a conspiracy that allows criminals to gain ....
P
Patriot Games Noyce, Phillip 1992
    In one episode of this Tom Clancy story, U.S. intelligence and military agencies....
Pi Aronofsky, Darren 1998
    A reclusive genius builds a supercomputer in his tiny New York apartment in orde....
Poltergeist Hooper, Tobe 1982
    In this horror story, a young girl releases evil forces that come through her TV....
R
Revenge of the Nerds Kanew, Jeff 1984
    Computer-using studious outcasts are harassed by preppy college students, but ex....
Robocop Verhoeven, Paul 1987
    In the near future, a slain policeman is revived as a cyborg: a human brain in a....
S
Silent Running Trumbull, Douglas 1972
    A loner crew member (Bruce Dern) serves on a spaceship that is Earth's last natu....
Simone Niccol, Andrew 2002
    Al Pacino plays a fading Hollywood director, who has dealt with one too many tem....
Sleeper Allen, Woody 1973
    In this comedy, a nerdish clarinet player (Woody Allen) revives 200 years in the....
Sliver Noyce, Philip 1993
    This murder mystery is set in a skinny, sliver of a New York apartment building,....
Sneakers Robinson, Phil Alden 1992
    Technologically adept heroes use their computer skills. Robert Redford, Sydney P....
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Hand, David 1937
    The movie contains the first visual display screen with intelligence although no....
Soldier Anderson, Paul 1998
    Kurt Russell, "Sergeant Todd 3465" is a cyber-enhanced, but largely human, soldi....
Space Children Arnold, Jack 1958
    A glowing brain-like creature arrives on a beach near a rocket test site via a t....
Space Cowboys Eastwood, Clint 2000
    Four aged former astronauts are recalled into service to deal with a space emerg....
Spaceballs Brooks, Mel 1987
    The hero in this Brooksian parody of Star Wars is protected by the wisdom of Yog....
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over Rodriguez, Robert 2003
    In this sequel, the Spy Kids enter a virtual reality videogame. Most of the fil....
Star Trek: The Motion Picture Wise, Robert 1979
    The first of the Star Trek series of movies, this film depicts a human encounter....
Star Wars Series Lucas, George 1979
    A young farmboy finds himself embroiled in a galactic war between the evil Empir....
Stepford Wives, The Forbes, Bryan 1975
    In this quietly-building horror story, boring suburban men create even more bori....
Swordfish Sena, Dominc 2002
    Ace computer hacker (Hugh Jackman) is blackmailed by mastermind (John Travolota)....
T
Technical Writer, The Saunders, Scott 2003
    The hero is a technical writer of computer manuals (twitchy and agoraphobic of c....
Terminator 2: Judgment Day Cameron, James 1991
    In this sequel to the original time-travel story, the Terminator robot returns, ....
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines Mostow, Jonathan 2003
    Another action thriller about conflict between humans and nearly invulnerable ma....
Terminator, The Cameron, James 1984
    An invincible cyborg is sent from the future to kill the mother of its master's ....
Things to Come Menzies, William Cameron 1936
    An alternative world history of 1936-2036. First, war reduces the world to small....
Thirteenth Floor, The Rusnak , Josef 1999
    To solve a murder mystery, the hero enters a virtual reality world where the com....
Total Recall Verhoeven, Paul 1990
    In the near future, a computer process has replaced the hero's memory and person....
Tron Lisberger, Steven 1982
    A computer expert is kidnapped into a computer world and can only escape with th....
U
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory Murphy, Geoff 1995
    At the end of this Steven Seagal action-thriller, the mad scientist, computer ge....
Universal Soldier Emmerich, Roland 1992
    Jean-Claude Van Damme is a super soldier who was killed in Vietnam but resurrect....
Until the End of the World [Bis ans Ende der Welt] Wenders, Wim 1991
    A woman (Solveig Dommartin) and a man (William Hurt) travel across much of the w....
V
Videodrome Cronenberg, David 1983
    The ultimate human-video interface movie: Videodrome is an experiment that uses ....
Virtual Sexuality Hurran, Nick 1999
    In this teenage comedy, a gorgeous seventeen-year-old young woman goes with her ....
Virtuosity Leonard, Brett 1995
    A computer-created psychopathic killer enters the real world. Starring Denzel Wa....
W
War Games Badham, John 1983
    Matthew Broderick is a teenager who uses his home computer to impress Ally Sheed....
Warriors of the Net Stephansson, Tomas 1999
    The thirteen-minute-long animated film provides an unique and powerful imaginati....
Weird Science Hughes, John 1985
    A teenage movie with a cyber difference: Two boy nerds build a robot as their lo....
Westworld Crichton, Michael 1973
    In a community (and holiday resort) populated by robots, there is a bug in the p....
When Worlds Collide Mate, Rudolph 1951
    In this tale about a scientist who tries to convince the world that the Earth is....
Who Is Julia? Grauman, Walter 1986
    A made-for-TV movie with an unbelievable premise for its time (1986)- a brain tr....
Y
You've Got Mail Ephron, Nora 1998
    Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan get romantic by e-mail. They own two competing nearby boo....


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