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Plot Summary:
Robotic Officer Tactical Operation Research. A prototype robot intended for crime combat escapes from the development lab and goes on a killing rampage.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychotronic, tech noir, grindhouse, independent film, offbeat, suspenseful, semi serious, surprise ending, road movie
Best tv shows and movies like R.O.T.O.R. (1987):
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Warriors of the Apocalypse (2009)
Plot Summary:
After WWIII has devastated America, a small band of female warriors attempt to survive long enough to make it to the last city left. The problem is dictator Rollins doesn't want her city overpopulating so she sends out her team of mercenaries to hunt and eliminate any "survivors" in the wastelands. The females, along with the help of a man out to avenge the death of his family, fight their way to the city combating mutated scavengers, wasteland renegades, and the city's own mercenaries along the way!.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychotronic, surprise ending
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The Vindicator (1986)
Plot Summary:
An employee of a secret company operation becomes the victim of the company's special weapons project. He is transformed into a robotic killing machine that, because of his programming must destroy anything that comes near him.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, retro, independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, gothic, suspense
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Cyborg Cop III (1995)
Plot Summary:
A cop tries to stop a scientist's experiments to turn students into cyborg-mercenaries. Contains violence and strong language.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, futuristic, tech noir, independent film
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Prototype (1992)
Plot Summary:
Los Angeles - 2057 - a lawless, war-torn terrain and home to Chandra, a beautiful but deadly young woman, and Hawkiins, a tough ex-soldier whose career was terminated by crippling wounds. No longer lovers, the pair still share erotic and disturbing psychosexual derams. After a brilliant research scientist experiments on Hawkins, he is dramatically transformed into the Prototype - half-man, half-robotic machine and all-warrior. But, when the experiment gets badly out of control, the deadly Prototype escapes and goes hunting for Chandra, his prime target for elimination. In an explosive climax, the ultimate battle commences to determine whether mankind or machines will survive to rule the Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychotronic, tech noir, grindhouse, independent film, rough, serious, experimental
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Automatic (1995)
Plot Summary:
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 discovers a Robgen executive trying to rape a female employee named Nora Rochester. While trying to stop the crime, he inadvertently kills the executive. At this point, J269 then calls Goddard Marx (his creator and a Robgen chairman) to inform him of the incident. Marx tells the android to stay there with Rochester until help arrives, but Marx is intent on sweeping the fiasco under the rug by sending mercenaries to eliminate both J269 and Rochester. Now the two are fugitives on the run from a para-military hit squad.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, psychotronic, independent film, bleak
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Assassin (1986)
Plot Summary:
A retired agent from an Intelligence Agency is contacted by the Agency in order to stop an ultra-secret robot who is killing some government officials. That will be not an easy task, because the robot looks human and it was specifically built to be an efficient killer, not to mention that it is almost invulnerable.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Cyborg 3: The Recycler (1994)
Plot Summary:
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 visit to a doctor in Silica confirms her worst fears. She is more then a marvel of cyborg technology. She is the first of her kind to become a creator-she is pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 917
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspense, apocalyptic, tech noir, independent film, exciting, suspenseful
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Cyborg Cop II (1994)
Plot Summary:
A fancy, loner cop loses his partner to a crazed terrorist during a hostage rescue. He settles for the terrorist going to Death Row in jail. What Jack doesn't know is that the terrorist will be taken and turned into a cyborg for the "Anti-Terrorist Group". When the Cyborg "Spartacus" wakes up accidentally, he kills the scientists and their guests, then goes to set things up for a Cyborg Empire. Only Jack and a few friends know how to stop.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 952
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, rough, bleak, futuristic, suspenseful, tech noir, action thriller, independent film
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Vice (2015)
Plot Summary:
Julian Michaels has designed the ultimate resort: VICE, where anything goes and the customers can play out their wildest fantasies with artificial inhabitants who look, think and feel like humans. When an artificial becomes self-aware and escapes, she finds herself caught in the crossfire between Julian's mercenaries and a cop who is hell-bent on shutting down Vice, and stopping the violence once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense, futuristic, detective, neo noir, cyber, independent film
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Cyborg Cop (1993)
Plot Summary:
Ex-DEA agent Jack receives an emergency message from his brother Phillip, whose team was ambushed on the Caribbean island of St. Keith. Jack goes to St. Keith to find his brother, who has been turned into a cyborg by the drug runner he was after.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychotronic, suspenseful, semi serious, tech noir, cult classic, action thriller, independent film, humorous, fast
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Nemesis (1992)
Plot Summary:
In the future, chaos is rampant as 'information terrorists' threaten to destroy order in society. Alex is a part-man, part-machine LAPD cop who is the best at what he does. When one of the terrorists calls him a machine, Alex questions his humanity and decides to leave the force. His final assignment is to apprehend an old colleague who has stolen some data. However, there is more than meets the eye and Alex must question his allegiance.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Denmark
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: futuristic, serious, suspenseful, stylized, cyber, retro, apocalyptic, psychotronic, cult classic, independent film
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Solo (1996)
Plot Summary:
An android fighting-machine (Mario Van Peebles) is charged with destroying a small brigade of rebels in a Latin American war who are fighting to maintain their freedom and protect their village. Contrary to his programming, Peebles decides to stay and assist the rebels in their plight. Having gained this information, his "creators" develop a more powerful android to try and defeat him.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger, suspense, tech noir, independent film, rough, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, sexy, clever
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Cyber-Tracker 2 (1995)
Plot Summary:
A Secret Service agent (Wilson) battles an arms dealer who is creating a cyborg army.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, tech noir, independent film, futuristic, fast
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Digital Man (1995)
Plot Summary:
An out-of-control robot is inadvertently set loose in a small community, and a crack squad of soldiers are sent to hunt it down. Gradually, the members of the squad begin to suspect that some of them are robots.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tech noir, independent film, exciting, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, fast, computer animated
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Futureworld (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two years after the Westworld tragedy in the Delos amusement park, the corporate owners have reopened the park following over $1 billion in safety and other improvements. For publicity purposes, reporters Chuck Browning and Tracy Ballard are invited to review the park. Just prior to arriving at the park, however, Browning is given a clue by a dying man that something is amiss.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: serious, futuristic, suspenseful, tense, suspense, grindhouse, captivating, depressing, tech noir, esoteric
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Cyber Tracker (1994)
Plot Summary:
Eric is a secret agent currently working as security guard for senator Dilly. The senator is the main advocate for a new kind of police officer: the Tracker, an perfect and nearly invulnerable android. When Eric realizes that senator Dilly is playing dirty games, he does not only have Dilly's security chief Ross after him, but also those nearly undefeatable Trackers.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: futuristic, tech noir, independent film, rough, bleak, serious, fast, surprise ending, black comedy, dark comedy
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RoboCop 3 (1993)
Plot Summary:
The mega corporation Omni Consumer Products is still bent on creating their pet project, Delta City, to replace the rotting city of Detroit. Unfortunately, the inhabitants of the area have no intention of abandoning their homes simply for desires of the company. To this end, OCP have decided to force them to leave by employing a ruthless mercenary army to attack and harass them. An underground resistance begins and in this fight, Robocop must decide where his loyalties lie.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: futuristic, intense, stylized, tech noir, cyber, retro, suspense, apocalyptic, grindhouse, disgusting
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American Cyborg: Steel Warrior (1993)
Plot Summary:
After the nuclear war people are sterile and ruled by the artifical intelligences they created in this violent world. The only woman who was able to give life to a child has to take the child through the dangerous city to the ship to save it. She is followed by an immortal killer robot through all the dangers, and only one guy tries to help her survive and protect her from the killing machine.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, tech noir, grindhouse, perverse, cult classic, independent film, psychotronic, exciting, rough
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Runaway (1984)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: futuristic, cult classic, exciting, retro, psychological thriller, offbeat, tech noir, anamorphic, atmospheric, rough
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Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow (1993)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2074, the cybernetics market is dominated by two rival companies: USA's Pinwheel Robotics and Japan's Kobayashi Electronics. Cyborgs are commonplace, used for anything from soldiers to prostitutes. Casella Reese is a prototype cyborg developed for corporate espionage and assassination. She is filled with a liquid explosive called Glass Shadow. Pinwheel plans to eliminate the entire Kobayashi board of directors by using Casella.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, cyber, apocalyptic, erotic, suspense, tech noir, action thriller, spectacular, independent film
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The One (2001)
Plot Summary:
A sheriff's deputy fights an alternate universe version of himself who grows stronger with each alternate self he kills.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 95000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful, entertaining, futuristic, action packed, mind bending, grindhouse, cult classic
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Cyborg (1989)
Plot Summary:
A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: stylized, grindhouse, cult classic, apocalyptic, homoerotic, rough, bleak, suspenseful, futuristic, independent film
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Eve of Destruction (1991)
Plot Summary:
Eve is a military robot made to look exactly like her creator, Dr. Eve Simmons. When she is damaged during a bank robbery, the robot becomes an unstoppable killing machine. Colonel Jim McQuade is assigned to stop the robot and with the help from Dr. Simmons they have to predict where she will go next.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, stylized, serious, exciting, tech noir, independent film, bleak, fast, psychological
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RoboCop (2014)
Plot Summary:
In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years, but have been forbidden for law enforcement in America. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity to do it. When Alex Murphy – a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit – is critically injured, OmniCorp sees their chance to build a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 237000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, intense, rough, stylized, cyber, bleak, action packed, serious
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Terminator Genisys (2015)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when TECOM spies reveal a new plot by SkyNet that will attack him from both fronts; past and future, and will ultimately change warfare forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 290000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, entertaining, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, cyber, action adventure, surprise ending, bleak
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RoboCop (1987)
Plot Summary:
In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company's nefarious plans, he turns on his masters.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 277000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: futuristic, entertaining, black comedy, cyber, bloody, intense, humorous, dark comedy, brutal, satirical
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I, Robot (2004)
Plot Summary:
In 2035, where robots are common-place and abide by the three laws of robotics, a techno-phobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may be in danger.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 567000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: futuristic, philosophical, suspense, exciting, serious, apocalyptic, clever, entertaining, action packed, suspenseful
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RoboCop 2 (1990)
Plot Summary:
After a successful deployment of the Robocop Law Enforcement unit, OCP sees its goal of urban pacification come closer and closer, but as this develops, a new narcotic known as "Nuke" invades the streets led by God-delirious leader Cane. As this menace grows, it may prove to be too much for Murphy to handle. OCP tries to replicate the success of the first unit, but ends up with failed prototypes with suicidal issues... until Dr. Faxx, a scientist straying away from OCP's path, uses Cane as the new subject for the Robocop 2 project, a living God.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: futuristic, bloody, cyber, stylized, tech noir, retro, epic, suspense, slasher, apocalyptic
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Demolition Man (1993)
Plot Summary:
Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, has escaped during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor, John Spartan, who had also been cryogenically frozen when wrongfully accused of killing 30 innocent people while apprehending Phoenix.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 190000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, rough, entertaining, apocalyptic, humorous, epic
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Surrogates (2009)
Plot Summary:
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
IMDB Votes: 179000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: futuristic, bleak, suspenseful, surreal, cyber, exciting, entertaining, cerebral, action packed, psychological thriller