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1. The Matrix (1999)
R | 136 min | Action, Sci-Fi
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.
Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
Votes: 2,055,776 | Gross: $171.48M
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
G | 149 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter
Votes: 720,297 | Gross: $56.95M
3. The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
R | 138 min | Action, Sci-Fi
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.
Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
Votes: 631,195 | Gross: $281.49M
4. WALL·E (2008)
G | 98 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.
Director: Andrew Stanton | Stars: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard
Votes: 1,201,633 | Gross: $223.81M
5. Tron (1982)
PG | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.
Director: Steven Lisberger | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan
Votes: 129,392 | Gross: $33.00M
6. The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
R | 129 min | Action, Sci-Fi
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.
Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
Votes: 543,975 | Gross: $139.31M
7. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
R | 109 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A machine from a post-apocalyptic future travels back in time to protect a man and a woman from an advanced robotic assassin to ensure they both survive a nuclear attack.
Director: Jonathan Mostow | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Kristanna Loken, Claire Danes
Votes: 418,759 | Gross: $150.37M
8. WarGames (1983)
PG | 114 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood, Dabney Coleman
Votes: 110,875 | Gross: $79.57M
9. I, Robot (2004)
PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
In 2035, a technophobic cop investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity.
Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Bruce Greenwood, Alan Tudyk
Votes: 575,976 | Gross: $144.80M
10. Terminator Genisys (2015)
PG-13 | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When John Connor, leader of the human resistance, sends Sgt. Kyle Reese back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor and safeguard the future, an unexpected turn of events creates a fractured timeline.
Director: Alan Taylor | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Clarke, Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney
Votes: 292,695 | Gross: $89.76M
11. Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)
PG | 94 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A woman transformed into a giant after she is struck by a meteorite on her wedding day becomes part of a team of monsters sent in by the U.S. government to defeat an alien mastermind trying to take over Earth.
Directors: Rob Letterman, Conrad Vernon | Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Rainn Wilson, Stephen Colbert, Seth Rogen
Votes: 176,221 | Gross: $198.35M
12. Superman III (1983)
PG | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Synthetic kryptonite laced with tar splits Superman in two: good Clark Kent and bad Man of Steel.
Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Margot Kidder, Jackie Cooper
Votes: 74,823 | Gross: $59.95M
13. Eagle Eye (2008)
PG-13 | 118 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller
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, using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move.
Director: D.J. Caruso | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Michael Chiklis
Votes: 195,289 | Gross: $101.11M
14. Stealth (2005)
PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Rob Cohen | Stars: Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx, Sam Shepard
Votes: 56,283 | Gross: $32.12M
15. The Animatrix (2003)
Unrated | 100 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
A collection of nine short films featuring stories related to The Matrix (1999).
Stars: James Arnold Taylor, Julia Fletcher, Dwight Schultz, Kevin Michael Richardson
Votes: 82,103
16. Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
M | 100 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
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.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, William Schallert
Votes: 10,170
17. Electric Dreams (1984)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
An artificially intelligent PC and his human owner find themselves in a romantic rivalry over a woman.
Director: Steve Barron | Stars: Lenny von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, Maxwell Caulfield, Bud Cort
Votes: 10,032 | Gross: $2.19M
18. Demon Seed (1977)
Approved | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist creates Proteus--an organic super computer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creator's wife.
Director: Donald Cammell | Stars: Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham, Berry Kroeger
Votes: 10,016
19. Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future (1987–1988)
Not Rated | 30 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A group of guerrilla fighters battles the evil machine forces that dominate a future Earth.
Stars: Tim Dunigan, Peter MacNeill, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Maurice Dean Wint
Votes: 1,459
20. Summer Wars (2009)
PG | 114 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A student tries to fix a problem he accidentally caused in OZ, a digital world, while pretending to be the fiancé of his friend at her grandmother's 90th birthday.
Director: Mamoru Hosoda | Stars: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Nanami Sakuraba, Mitsuki Tanimura, Takahiro Yokokawa
Votes: 31,808 | Gross: $0.08M
21. Hands of Steel (1986)
R | 94 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A cyborg is programmed to kill a scientist who holds the fate of mankind in his hands. He fails and hides in a diner in a desert run by a woman who likes him. The people who sent him are after him and so is the local arm wrestling champ.
Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Daniel Greene, Janet Agren, Claudio Cassinelli, George Eastman
Votes: 2,878
22. Open Windows (2014)
Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A jilted fan soon finds himself pulled into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse after he accepts the opportunity to spy on his favorite actress via his laptop.
Director: Nacho Vigalondo | Stars: Sasha Grey, Elijah Wood, Neil Maskell, Adam Quintero
Votes: 15,101
23. Code Lyoko (2003–2007)
TV-Y7 | 26 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
When a group of four boarding school students discover a supercomputer housed inside an abandoned factory, they find a virtual world called Lyoko and awaken a sentient multi-agent system virus that tries to take over the real world.
Stars: Sharon Mann, Mirabelle Kirkland, Matthew Géczy, Barbara Scaff
Votes: 5,760
24. Enter the Matrix (2003 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The game's story picks up just before The Matrix Reloaded and runs parallel to that of the film. Bend the rules of the Matrix with martial arts, pilot the fastest hovercraft in the fleet, or just fight with lots of guns.
Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Mary Alice, Christine Anu, Steve Bastoni, Don Battee
Votes: 4,122
25. Delete (2013)
TV-14 | 180 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A reporter and a young hacker uncover an artificial intelligence which has become sentient. It has one goal. Self preservation. Humans are trying to destroy it. So it's 'it' or them.
Stars: Keir Gilchrist, Erin Karpluk, Ryan Robbins, Gil Bellows
Votes: 1,505
26. How to Make a Monster (2001 TV Movie)
R | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An evil video game comes to life and hunts the group of developers.
Director: George Huang | Stars: Clea DuVall, Steven Culp, Tyler Mane, Jason Marsden
Votes: 1,867
27. I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1995 Video Game)
Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
CD-ROM adventure starring an omnipotent supercomputer calling itself AM (as in "I think, therefore I am."). Built by the Americans as the ultimate defense system, AM accidentally became self-aware and eventually goes insane.
Director: David Mullich | Stars: Harlan Ellison, Tom Myers, Julio Jeinson, Anton Latreque
Votes: 303
28. Lifepod (2020)
90 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
The first interplanetary cruise ship malfunctions halfway to Jupiter, forcing most of the crew and passengers to abandon ship. A handful of people are trapped onboard.
Director: Bruce Bryant | Stars: Joe Penny, Kristine DeBell, Carl Lumbly, Sandy Kenyon
Votes: 328
29. The Tower (1993 TV Movie)
91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A man working at an ultramodern corporate building finds himself and a colleague trapped inside with a homicidal security system hell-bent on killing them both after perceiving them as a "threat".
Director: Richard Kletter | Stars: Paul Reiser, Susan Norman, Richard Gant, Annabelle Gurwitch
Votes: 651
30. Terminal Error (2002)
PG-13 | 90 min | Thriller, Sci-Fi
A disgruntled computer hacker, uses the rebellious son of a major software company president, to create Havoc.
Director: John Murlowski | Stars: Michael Nouri, Marina Sirtis, Matthew Ewald, David Wells
Votes: 562
31. The Mangler 2 (2002 Video)
R | 97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A teenager girl mistakenly downloads the Mangler 2.0 computer virus into her highschool's new state of the art computer system and all hell breaks loose.
Director: Michael Hamilton-Wright | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Chelse Swain, Philippe Bergeron, Dexter Bell
Votes: 1,953
32. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (I) (1991 Video Game)
Unrated | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An on-rails light-gun shooter based on Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991).
Directors: Jack Haeger, George Petro | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Patrick, Edward Furlong, Peter Kent
Votes: 1,937
33. Intimate Enemy (2018)
108 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Andrej, a programmer, is developing his project of an intelligent home. To make his program perfect he moved with his wife Zuzana to the test house. He is striving to implement a bonus into... See full summary »
Director: Karel Janák | Stars: Gabriela Marcinková, Vojtech Dyk, Zuzana Porubjaková, Ondrej Malý
Votes: 268
34. Terra e... (1980)
113 min | Animation, Action, Drama
A young boy learns he is part of a powerful race of psionic humans who must fight the normal humans determined to keep them from Earth.
Director: Hideo Onchi | Stars: Jun'ichi Inoue, Masaya Oki, Kumiko Akiyoshi, Tarô Shigaki
Votes: 367
35. The Tower (1985 TV Movie)
102 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An office building's security system goes after the employees to supply its energy.
Director: Jim Makichuk | Stars: Jackie Wray, Ray Paisley, George West, Kenner Ames
Votes: 80
36. Toward the Terra (2007)
TV-PG | Animation, Action, Drama
When 14-year-old Jomy begins to question how society is run, he suddenly becomes a target for both the government and the Mu, an outcast race with extra-sensory abilities who have been fighting against the government for generations.
Stars: Mitsuki Saiga, Takehito Koyasu, Jûrôta Kosugi, Yousuha Akimoto
Votes: 301
37. Savior of the Earth (1983)
69 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Acts of terrorism are happening in the USA, Japan, France and the Pacific Ocean. The man behind these events is Dr. Butler, who tries to rule the world with his powerful computers. To save ... See full summary »
Directors: Su-yong Jeong, Roy Thomas
Votes: 135
38. Dino Crisis 3 (2003 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Horror
It is the year 2548, more than 300 years since Earth lost contact with the colony ship Ozymandias. Somehow, the ship has reappeared near Jupiter. A team is sent aboard the probe ship Seyfert to investigate.
Directors: Hiroyuki Maruhama, Tetsuro Oyama | Stars: Michael Yurchak, Kevin Killebrew, Vanessa Marshall, Wally Wingert
Votes: 190
39. The Making of 'Tron' (2002 Video)
88 min | Documentary, Sci-Fi
People who worked on Tron (1982) talk about how it was made and what events led up to it.
Director: Robert Meyer Burnett | Stars: Roger Allers, Bruce Boxleitner, Jeff Bridges, Billy Crystal
Votes: 201
40. The Terminator (1991 Video Game)
Unrated | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Take on the role of Kyle Reese and his quest to save Sarah Connor from termination.
Director: Julian LeFay
Votes: 485
41.
Probe (1988)
Episode:
Computer Logic
(1988)
Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A misanthropic scientist and his quirky new secretary attempt to shut down an artificially intelligent computer that has decided to start killing people.
Director: Sandor Stern | Stars: Parker Stevenson, Ashley Crow, Jon Cypher, William Phipps
Votes: 108
42.
ABC Weekend Specials (1977–1995)
Episode:
The Trouble with Miss Switch
(1980)
TV-Y | 60 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
When Rupert and his friend Amelia find the new substitute teacher doing odd things, they discover that she is actually a witch with a magical talking cat who sought them out in order to stop an evil coven of witches from destroying her.
Director: Charles Nichols | Stars: Janet Waldo, Eric Taslitz, Nancy McKeon, June Foray
Votes: 129
43.
MacGyver (1985–1992)
Episode:
The Human Factor
(1986)
TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The military asks MacGyver to check out a new high-tech security system at one of their bases. Complications arise when the computer traps MacGyver inside and attempts to kill him.
Director: Charles Correll | Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Dana Elcar, June Chadwick, Peter Haskell
Votes: 415
44.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Brain of Colonel Barham
(1965)
TV-14 | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
For the Mars space program, scientists transplant he brain of an embittered, egotistical, dying colonel into a computer, with predictable, inhuman results.
Director: Charles F. Haas | Stars: Grant Williams, Elizabeth Perry, Anthony Eisley, Douglas Kennedy
Votes: 379
45.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Ultimate Computer
(1968)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Kirk and a sub-skeleton crew are ordered to test out an advanced artificially intelligent control system - the M-5 Multitronic system, which could potentially render them all redundant.
Director: John Meredyth Lucas | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, William Marshall
Votes: 3,485
46.
Centurions (1986)
Episode:
The Incredible Shrinking Centurions
(1986)
TV-Y7-FV | 30 min | Animation, Action, Family
Crystal and the Centurions visit the INTERTECH computer which controls everything on Earth and recently causes heavy malfunctions. The Centurions get shrunk and send inside the computer to eliminate the virus.
Stars: Pat Fraley, Neil Ross, Vince Edwards, Ron Feinberg
Votes: 18
47.
Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode:
The Face of Evil: Part Four
(1977)
TV-PG | 25 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
As the Saveteem and Tesh finally close in for a fight to the death, the powerful but long-suffering Xoanon ignores their strife to commit its full resources toward killing the Doctor, even to the extent of destroying everyone.
Director: Pennant Roberts | Stars: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Brendan Price, Leslie Schofield
Votes: 508
48.
Lupin the 3rd (1977–1980)
Episode:
Will It Be the Computer or Lupin?
(1978)
TV-PG | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A safe, guarded by a defense computer programmed with all data relating to Arsène Lupin III, is confounded when Inspector Zenigata robs the safe.
Director: Kyôsuke Mikuriya | Stars: Robert Axelrod, Richard Cansino, Richard Epcar, Makio Inoue
Votes: 34
49.
Frontline (1983– )
Episode:
In the Age of AI
(2019)
TV-14 | 113 min | Documentary, News
FRONTLINE explores the promise and perils of AI. The documentary traces a new industrial revolution that will reshape and disrupt our lives, our jobs and our world, and allow the emergence of the surveillance society.
Directors: Neil Docherty, David Fanning | Stars: Will Lyman, Lee Sedol, Pedro Domingos, Fu-Kai Lee
Votes: 126
50.
Nova (1974– )
Episode:
Smartest Machine on Earth
(2011)
TV-G | Documentary
Watson, an IBM computer with a brain the size of 2,400 home computers and a database of 10 million documents, competes on the game show Jeopardy! (1984) against champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Will Watson win?
Director: Michael Bicks | Stars: Rodney Brooks, Eric Brown, Todd Crain, David Ferrucci
Votes: 46