Sci-fi movies featuring Cyborgs, killer robots and other technology gone haywire.
by jhpstrydom | created - 18 Oct 2011 | updated - 28 Sep 2017 | PublicThis is a list of movies featuring mainly Cyborgs or killer robots and other forms of technology gone haywire, these are films I can remember from my childhood up until now, these films are in no particular order.
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1. The Terminator (1984)
R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Paul Winfield
Votes: 923,562 | Gross: $38.40M
2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
R | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick
Votes: 1,173,258 | Gross: $204.84M
3. 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: 418,373 | Gross: $150.37M
4. Terminator Salvation (2009)
PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In 2018, a mysterious new weapon in the war against the machines, half-human and half-machine, comes to John Connor on the eve of a resistance attack on Skynet. But whose side is he on, and can he be trusted?
Director: McG | Stars: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood
Votes: 377,157 | Gross: $125.32M
5. Shadowchaser (1992 Video)
R | 97 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Terrorists with an indestructible robot take over a high-rise hospital in order to kidnap the president's daughter.
Director: John Eyres | Stars: Martin Kove, Meg Foster, Frank Zagarino, Paul Koslo
Votes: 840
6. Project Shadowchaser II (1994)
R | 94 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Terrorists led by an android take over a nuclear plant and threaten to launch a missile at Washington. While the authorities desperately attempt to negotiate, the terrorists pursue their ... See full summary »
Director: John Eyres | Stars: Frank Zagarino, Bryan Genesse, Beth Toussaint, Daniel Bonjour
Votes: 405
7. Project Shadowchaser III (1995 Video)
R | 99 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
It has been 25 years since the ore spaceship Siberia was last heard from. Unfortunately, it is now on a collision course with the communications station Comstat 5 which is orbiting Mars. ... See full summary »
Director: John Eyres | Stars: Sam Bottoms, Musetta Vander, Christopher Atkins, Frank Zagarino
Votes: 509
8. Orion's Key (1996)
R | 99 min | Action, Sci-Fi
After two archaeologists discover an ancient alien artifact in Africa, they must run for their lifes from both the unstoppable guardian and protector that awakens as a result, and their ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Roper | Stars: Frank Zagarino, Todd Jensen, Jennifer MacDonald, Greg Melvill-Smith
Votes: 420
9. Cyborg (1989)
R | 86 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future.
Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Deborah Richter, Vincent Klyn, Alex Daniels
Votes: 34,194 | Gross: $10.17M
10. Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow (1993 Video)
R | 99 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
2 companies battle for Cyborg domination. One's built a cyborg/Angelina Jolie so human, that they hope, she'll get into the competition's HQ and explode. But she escapes with her human martial arts instructor.
Director: Michael Schroeder | Stars: Elias Koteas, Angelina Jolie, Jack Palance, Billy Drago
Votes: 5,143
11. Cyborg 3: The Recycler (1994 Video)
R | 90 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Prepare yourself for the all too deadly future. Cash, the heroine of Cyborg 2, is living safe in the free zone. But not for long. Biomechanical problems are taking down her systems and a ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Schroeder | Stars: Zach Galligan, Khrystyne Haje, Richard Lynch, Andrew Bryniarski
Votes: 931
12. American Cyborg: Steel Warrior (1993)
R | 94 min | Action, Sci-Fi
After a devastating nuclear war, the last fertile woman on Earth joins forces with a tough renegade warrior to fight a team of deadly cyborgs and save the human race from extinction.
Director: Boaz Davidson | Stars: Joe Lara, Nicole Hansen, John Saint Ryan, Yosef Shiloach
Votes: 1,627 | Gross: $0.45M
13. Nemesis (1992)
R | 95 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Alex, a burned out LA cyborg cop, is forced by commissioner Farnsworth to find his former cyborg partner and lover Jared who's about to deliver sensitive data to cyborg terrorists who wish to wage war against humans. Is he being played?
Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Olivier Gruner, Tim Thomerson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Merle Kennedy
Votes: 6,755 | Gross: $2.00M
14. Nemesis 2: Nebula (1995 Video)
R | 83 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
It has been 73 years since Alex failed and the Humans lost the Cyborg Wars. Since then, the Humans have been enslaved. Scientists have developed a new DNA strain, which could signal the end... See full summary »
Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Sue Price, Chad Stahelski, Tina Cote, Earl White
Votes: 2,042
15. Nemesis 3: Time Lapse (1996 Video)
R | 91 min | Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi
Alex again fighting the cyborg mercenaries in 1998 East Africa. This time, Alex finds that she has 20 half sisters who are waiting for her to return to 2077. Central Command wants Alex ... See full summary »
Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Sue Price, Tim Thomerson, Norbert Weisser, Xavier Declie
Votes: 1,549
16. Nemesis 4: Death Angel (1996 Video)
R | 80 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Alex shoots again. She has to kill a man, but shoots the wrong one. A high ransom is set on her, so she is visited by some head hunters. Well, she only could sit and wait and hope for a ... See full summary »
Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Blanka Copikova, Andrew Divoff, Michal Gucík, Nicholas Guest
Votes: 1,587
17. Cyber Tracker (1994)
R | 91 min | Action, Sci-Fi
This is the future. A secret service agent is framed by his own and becomes the target of the seemingly indestructible Cyborg-Executioners.
Director: Richard Pepin | Stars: Don Wilson, Richard Norton, Stacie Foster, Joseph Ruskin
Votes: 1,474
18. Cyber-Tracker 2 (1995 Video)
R | 97 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A Secret Service agent (Wilson) battles an arms dealer who is creating a cyborg army.
Director: Richard Pepin | Stars: Don Wilson, Stacie Foster, Tony Burton, Jim Maniaci
Votes: 720
19. Screamers (1995)
R | 108 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A military commander stationed off planet during an interplanetary war travels through the devastated landscape to negotiate a peace treaty, but discovers that the primitive robots they built to kill enemy combatants have gained sentience.
Director: Christian Duguay | Stars: Peter Weller, Roy Dupuis, Jennifer Rubin, Andy Lauer
Votes: 29,435 | Gross: $5.78M
20. Screamers: The Hunting (2009 Video)
R | 95 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of humans arrive on Sirius 6-B to investigate an SOS signal sent out from the planet, which has been supposedly deserted since the destruction of the man-made weapons known as "... See full summary »
Director: Sheldon Wilson | Stars: Gina Holden, Jana Pallaske, Lance Henriksen, Greg Bryk
Votes: 5,723
21. A.P.E.X. (1994)
R | 98 min | Action, Sci-Fi
In postapocalyptic war-torn 2073, a scientist from another timeline must help a resistance group stop the army of indestructible A.P.E.X. terminator robots he'd mistakenly created, even if it means risking erasing himself from existence.
Director: Phillip J. Roth | Stars: Richard Keats, Mitchell Cox, Lisa Ann Russell, Marcus Aurelius
Votes: 1,202 | Gross: $0.05M
22. Death Machine (1994)
R | 120 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
After a mad genius inventor of killer robots and cyborgs at Chaank Armaments Corp. kills execs, he unleashes his ultimate death machine on the new cute CEO firing him.
Director: Stephen Norrington | Stars: Brad Dourif, Ely Pouget, William Hootkins, John Sharian
Votes: 4,838 | Gross: $1.42M
23. Chopping Mall (1986)
R | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of young shopping mall employees stay behind for a late night party in one of the stores. When the mall goes on lock-down before they can get out, the robot security system malfunctions, and goes on a killing spree.
Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: Kelli Maroney, Tony O'Dell, Russell Todd, Karrie Emerson
Votes: 17,220
24. RoboCop (1987)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox
Votes: 282,899 | Gross: $53.42M
25. RoboCop 2 (1990)
R | 117 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Belinda Bauer, Dan O'Herlihy
Votes: 93,117 | Gross: $45.68M
26. RoboCop 3 (1993)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Fred Dekker | Stars: Robert John Burke, Nancy Allen, Mario Machado, Remy Ryan
Votes: 54,345 | Gross: $10.70M
27. Eyeborgs (2009)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Horror
A federal agent investigates when inconsistencies turn up in the photographic evidence of several murders recorded by mobile robotic cameras.
Director: Richard Clabaugh | Stars: Adrian Paul, Dale Girard, Mikey Wiseman, John S. Rushton
Votes: 2,301
28. Universal Soldier (1992)
R | 102 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Soldiers who were killed in action are brought back to life in a top secret military experiment that creates superhuman warriors.
Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Ally Walker, Ed O'Ross
Votes: 96,141 | Gross: $36.30M
29. Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
R | 83 min | Action, Sci-Fi
The "universal soldiers" must fight the whole army, when the military's supercomputer S.E.T.H gets out of control.
Director: Mic Rodgers | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bill Goldberg, Heidi Schanz, Michael Jai White
Votes: 30,764 | Gross: $10.43M
30. Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009)
R | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Terrorists kidnap the Russian Prime Minister's 2 kids, take Chernobyl nuclear power plant and threaten to blow up a reactor. 4 Universal Soldiers go in but are no match to a Next Gen. UniSol Luc (Jean-Claude Van Damme) goes in but faces 2 NGUs.
Director: John Hyams | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Andrei Arlovski, Mike Pyle
Votes: 26,537
31. Hologram Man (1995 Video)
R | 101 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Criminal mind in an indestructible body
Director: Richard Pepin | Stars: Joe Lara, Evan Lurie, Michael Nouri, John Amos
Votes: 739
32. Deadly Friend (1986)
R | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
After his friend is killed by her abusive father, the new kid in town attempts to save her by implanting a robotic microchip into her brain.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Matthew Labyorteaux, Kristy Swanson, Michael Sharrett, Anne Twomey
Votes: 8,728 | Gross: $8.99M
33. Android Apocalypse (2006 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 95 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
In an age when Machines dominate the world, the fate of man rests in the hands of an outlaw and an android.
Director: Paul Ziller | Stars: Wendy Anderson, Scott Bairstow, Ian Black, Brian Dueck
Votes: 1,613
34. Blade Runner (1982)
R | 117 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos
Votes: 822,612 | Gross: $32.87M
35. Automatic (1995)
R | 90 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Robgen industries newest security system is "The J Series Automatic", an android model designed and programmed to protect humans from violent attacks. But one night, an Automatic named J269... See full summary »
Director: John Murlowski | Stars: Olivier Gruner, Daphne Ashbrook, John Glover, Jeff Kober
Votes: 856
36. 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
37. Surrogates (2009)
PG-13 | 89 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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.
Director: Jonathan Mostow | Stars: Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Ving Rhames, Rosamund Pike
Votes: 180,252 | Gross: $38.58M
38. 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: 574,996 | Gross: $144.80M
39. Short Circuit (1986)
PG | 98 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Number 5 of a group of experimental robots in a lab is electrocuted, suddenly becomes intelligent, and escapes.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton
Votes: 66,289 | Gross: $40.70M
40. Short Circuit 2 (1988)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Robot Johnny Five comes to the city and gets manipulated by criminals who want him for their own purposes.
Director: Kenneth Johnson | Stars: Fisher Stevens, Michael McKean, Tim Blaney, Cynthia Gibb
Votes: 26,849 | Gross: $21.63M
41. Virtuosity (1995)
R | 106 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
When a virtual reality simulation created using the personalities of multiple serial killers manages to escape into the real world, an ex-cop is tasked with stopping its reign of terror.
Director: Brett Leonard | Stars: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Kelly Lynch, Stephen Spinella
Votes: 32,370 | Gross: $24.05M
42. The Lawnmower Man (1992)
R | 108 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.
Director: Brett Leonard | Stars: Jeff Fahey, Pierce Brosnan, Jenny Wright, Mark Bringelson
Votes: 39,007 | Gross: $32.10M
43. Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1995)
PG-13 | 93 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
They thought they had destroyed him, but the simple gardener-turned-superkiller has found a way to reboot himself in Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace.
Director: Farhad Mann | Stars: Patrick Bergin, Matt Frewer, Austin O'Brien, Ely Pouget
Votes: 10,293 | Gross: $2.41M
44. Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
R | 96 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza.
Director: Robert Longo | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Dolph Lundgren, Dina Meyer, Ice-T
Votes: 76,143 | Gross: $19.08M
45. Hardware (1990)
R | 94 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
The head of a cyborg reactivates, rebuilds itself, and goes on a violent rampage in a space marine's girlfriend's apartment.
Director: Richard Stanley | Stars: Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis, John Lynch, Carl McCoy
Votes: 16,440 | Gross: $5.73M
46. Class of 1999 (1990)
R | 99 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Three ex-military robots are reprogrammed as teachers and secretly placed in a school where most students are part of organized gangs. They begin to respond violently to unruly students, and their military training starts to take over.
Director: Mark L. Lester | Stars: Bradley Gregg, Traci Lind, Malcolm McDowell, Stacy Keach
Votes: 8,633 | Gross: $2.46M
47. Class of 1999 II: The Substitute (1994)
R | 87 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
The substitute teacher of the future is a robot who answers spit-wads with bullets. He'll clean up the gang situation at the school, too, if a government agent doesn't catch him first for an experimental robot army.
Director: Spiro Razatos | Stars: Sasha Mitchell, Caitlin Dulany, Nick Cassavetes, Gregory West
Votes: 1,779
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