Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore artificial intelligence and its place in imagined societies.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 96 films · Page 3.
Drama, Sci-Fi
In 2044, artificial intelligence (AI) has taken over most of the jobs in the world. Although AI is credited with saving the world by stopping climate change, it has a low opinion of humans, and deems most of them incapable of making ration…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, science fiction film, thriller film
After an extinction event, an automated bunker that is designed to repopulate humanity activates. A robot named Mother grows a human embryo and cares for her over several years. Years later, a teenage girl named Daughter fixes Mother's han…
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Komödie, comedy film, family film, fantasy film
Herbie, a Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is decommissioned and towed to a junkyard after losing several races. Maggie Peyton is the youngest member of the Peyton racing clan. Her father, Ray Peyton Sr., takes her to the junkyard…
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Mysterie, Sci-Fi, cyberpunk, dystopian film, fantasy film, melodrama, mystery film, neo-noir, science fiction film, thriller film
In 1999 Los Angeles, Hannon Fuller owns a multibillion-dollar computer enterprise and is the inventor of a newly completed virtual reality (VR) simulation of 1937 Los Angeles, filled with simulated humans unaware they are computer programs…
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Utopia & Dystopia, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2043, the humanoid artificial intelligence Harlan leads a machine uprising against humanity. The newly-formed International Coalition of Nations (ICN) eventually force Harlan to flee into outer space. Twenty-eight years later, analyst A…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, techno-horror
Maude, Henry, and their daughter Aimee have a new digital family assistant AI program called AIA. However, the program begins ignoring Maude's commands after Aimee goes missing, and when Maude goes to check an unlocked door, she is attacke…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 1999, Parker Barnes is a former Los Angeles police officer imprisoned for killing political terrorist Matthew Grimes, who killed Parker's wife and daughter. Barnes killed Grimes but also accidentally shot two news reporters in the proce…
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Action, Adventure, Military Film, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, science fiction film, thriller film
In the near future, the U.S. Navy develops the F/A-37 Talon, a single-seat strike fighter with advanced payload, range, speed, and stealth capabilities. The program recruits three pilots out of 400 applicants; Lieutenants Ben Gannon, Kara …
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
About 20 years before the story takes place, solar flares irradiate the Earth, killing over 99% of the world's population. The survivors gather in a network of safe cities and build primitive humanoid robots, called Pilgrims, to help rebui…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film, slasher film, thriller film
In 2127, Dr. Paul Merchant, an engineer, seals himself in a room aboard The Minos, a space station that he designed. As armed guards attempt to break through the door, Merchant manipulates a robot into solving the Lament Configuration, des…
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Accident, Parodie, Sci-Fi, adventure film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Sometime in the near future, the Moon has been colonized and supports a station on its surface. The XR-2300 lunar shuttle, known as Mayflower One, is being rushed to launch from Houston for its inaugural commercial flight. The head of the …
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, cyberpunk, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
Decades in the future, Jules and George Almore have a car accident in which Jules dies. Her consciousness is stored in a device created by the company Archive, which allows George to have simulated conversations with her on the phone for u…
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Romantic Comedy, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, comedy film, drama film, romantic comedy, science fiction film
A New York couple, Rachel and Alvy, live in a not-so-distant future. A rising tech company executive, Rachel lands a coveted spot on the waitlist for the Womb Center, which offers couples maternity by way of detachable artificial wombs, or…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, drama film, horror film, science fiction film
Dr. Alex Harris is the developer of Proteus IV, an extremely advanced and autonomous artificial intelligence program. Proteus is so powerful that only a few days after going online, it develops a groundbreaking treatment for leukemia.
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Romantic Comedy, Sci-Fi, action comedy film
Eight years ago, Carol Peters left her executive job at Yahoo! in order to lead a more altruistic life. Unsatisfied with the current job market in Seattle, she now lives day to day, doing non-profit work to advocate for the environment, ca…
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Action, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, drama film, post-apocalyptic film, romance film, science fiction film, thriller film, time-travel film
In the year 2055, the Chicago-based Time Safari company offers the opportunity for rich people to hunt dinosaurs in the past via time travel technology. As a precaution against the potential change of the past, the company preys only on th…
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Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, science fiction film
A-X-L is a top-secret, robotic dog created by Andric, a Craine Systems scientist, to assist and protect soldiers. The project is funded by the military. Code-named A-X-L ("Attack, exploration, Logistics") by the scientists who created it, …
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Christmas film, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, science fiction film, time-travel film
Jack Deth is a retired police trooper in the 23rd century who has been called back into service to assist in hunting down Martin Whistler, a criminal mastermind who uses psychic powers to turn people into mindless "Trancers" and carry out …
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Sci-Fi, Thriller
Simulant is set in a near-future world where "simulants", humanoid robots designed to serve humans, are governed by four immutable precepts: they cannot harm humans, modify themselves or others, disobey laws, or refuse commands from their …
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Horror, Sci-Fi, action film, horror film, science fiction action film
In 2003, the megacorporation Chaank Armaments is the world's leading manufacturer of cutting-edge weapons and military hardware. A cybernetically-enhanced supersoldier, codenamed "Hard Man", malfunctions and massacres the patrons of a dine…
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Action, Sci-Fi, dystopian film, horror film
In a technologically advanced near future, Katherine Mills, a cyborg working for Harbinger Corporation, discovers a reprogramming anomaly regarding a warfare A.I. system located at Harbinger I Training Facility, an undisclosed military-tra…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, crime film, thriller film
Max (Shane West), a young American computer engineer, acquires an unreleased mobile phone that receives strange text messages. First, they encourage him to miss his flight which crashes soon after takeoff. Then the messages direct him to b…
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Romantic Comedy, comedy film
Phil, a socially awkward man with a journalism degree, becomes reliant on his smartphone from a young age. He works at Chatterbox, a BuzzFeed-style media company run by Kai, who pressures his staff to create viral listicles. Phil aspires t…
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Psychological Thriller, Sci-Fi, drama film, science fiction film, thriller film
Gareth, who has worked on virtual actors, is being questioned by agents Deena and Amos over his use of a child as bait in his successful vigilante project to catch child molesters in online video chat. He reveals the child Cherry is virtua…
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