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In the not-so-far future the polar ice caps have melted and the resulting rise of the ocean waters has drowned all the coastal cities of the world. Withdrawn to the interior of the continents, the human race keeps advancing, reaching the point of creating realistic robots (called mechas) to serve thβ¦em. One of the mecha-producing companies builds David, an artificial kid which is the first to have real feelings, especially a never-ending love for his "mother", Monica. Monica is the woman who adopted him as a substitute for her real son, who remains in cryo-stasis, stricken by an incurable disease. David is living happily with Monica and her husband, but when their real son returns home after a cure is discovered, his life changes dramatically. (Read More)
Subgenre: | fairy tale tech noir allegory cyberpunk dystopia |
Themes: | end of mankind artificial intelligence cruelty racism memory fear suicide |
Mood: | myth affection |
Locations: | swimming pool sea motorcycle snow helicopter forest train new york city |
Characters: | robot human relationship self referential boy mother son relationship |
Period: | far future 22nd century future |
Story: | ice age statue of liberty new york city future shock robot as pathos sex with robot artificially created boy blond boy reference to hansel and gretel year 2035 technology gone amok self repair flooded city synthetic human reference to pinocchio 2140s β¦technophobia decapitated child flying machine stasis spectacle coney island brooklyn new york city public execution lock of hair asthma attack oedipus complex reference to frankenstein caught in a net rite of passage neon tear indifference pity wish fulfillment fetishism armageddon cryogenics child abandonment entire title is capitalized acronym tragic ending persecution perfume xenophobia patricide dolphin world trade center manhattan new york city global warming nanny pajamas laughing bigotry hologram sibling rivalry lion child's point of view irony manhunt hatred misunderstanding fairy promise cannon android brooklyn new york city genocide teddy bear pool pop culture hat cage ice moon underwater tragic event statue based on short story coffee acronym in title no opening credits false accusation child abuse dinner toilet manhattan new york city prostitution robot birthday three word title knife singing (See All) |
David, a robotic boyβthe first of his kind programmed to loveβis adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final acceptance by humans or machines, Daviβ¦d embarks on a journey to discover where he truly belongs, uncovering a world in which the line between robot and machine is both vast and profoundly thin. (Read More)
Subgenre: | fairy tale allegory cyberpunk dystopia |
Themes: | artificial intelligence cruelty racism memory fear suicide |
Mood: | myth affection |
Locations: | swimming pool sea motorcycle helicopter forest train new york city |
Characters: | robot human relationship self referential boy mother son relationship |
Period: | far future 22nd century future |
Story: | ice age future shock robot as pathos artificially created boy blond boy reference to hansel and gretel year 2035 self repair flooded city synthetic human decapitated child flying machine coney island brooklyn new york city public execution asthma attack β¦oedipus complex reference to frankenstein caught in a net wish fulfillment child abandonment tragic ending world trade center manhattan new york city global warming nanny pajamas laughing bigotry hologram sibling rivalry lion irony manhunt hatred misunderstanding fairy promise android brooklyn new york city teddy bear pool pop culture hat cage ice moon tragic event statue based on short story coffee false accusation child abuse dinner toilet manhattan new york city robot birthday three word title knife singing (See All) |
Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as "Tomoβ¦rrowland." (Read More)
Subgenre: | dystopia |
Themes: | artificial intelligence memory fear |
Locations: | swimming pool motorcycle forest new york city |
Characters: | self referential boy |
Period: | future |
Story: | future shock robot as pathos hologram android moon no opening credits robot |
In 2035, technophobic homicide detective Del Spooner of the Chicago PD heads the investigation of the apparent suicide of leading robotics scientist, Dr. Alfred Lanning. Unconvinced of the motive, Spooner's investigation into Lanning's death reveals a trail of secrets and agendas within the USR (Uniβ¦ted States Robotics) corporation and suspicions of murder. Little does he know that his investigation would lead to uncovering a larger threat to humanity. (Read More)
Subgenre: | dystopia |
Themes: | artificial intelligence suicide |
Locations: | motorcycle train |
Period: | future |
Story: | robot as pathos technophobia caught in a net hologram android no opening credits robot |
This is the story of a nine-year-old boy named Hogarth Hughes who makes friends with an innocent alien giant robot that came from outer space. Meanwhile, a paranoid U.S. Government agent named Kent Mansley arrives in town, determined to destroy the giant at all costs. It's up to Hogarth to protect hβ¦im by keeping him at Dean McCoppin's place in the junkyard. (Read More)
Themes: | fear |
Locations: | forest train |
Characters: | boy mother son relationship |
Story: | robot as pathos child's point of view coffee no opening credits dinner toilet robot three word title |
Caleb, a 26 year old programmer at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and faβ¦scinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl. (Read More)
Themes: | artificial intelligence cruelty memory |
Locations: | helicopter |
Characters: | robot human relationship |
Story: | sex with robot reference to frankenstein no opening credits robot knife |
One of the few remaining drone repairmen assigned to Earth, its surface devastated after decades of war with the alien Scavs, discovers a crashed spacecraft with contents that bring into question everything he believed about the war, and may even put the fate of mankind in his hands.
Subgenre: | cyberpunk dystopia |
Themes: | artificial intelligence memory |
Locations: | swimming pool motorcycle forest new york city |
Period: | future |
Story: | hologram no opening credits robot knife |
It is the year 2029. Technology has advanced so far that cyborgs are commonplace. In addition, human brains can connect to the internet directly. Major Motoko Kasunagi is an officer in Section 9, an elite, secretive police division that deals with special operations, including counter terrorism and β¦cyber crime. She is currently on the trail of the Puppet Master, a cyber criminal who hacks into the brains of cyborgs in order to obtain information and to commit other crimes. (Read More)
Subgenre: | tech noir cyberpunk dystopia |
Themes: | artificial intelligence |
Locations: | motorcycle helicopter |
Period: | future |
Story: | future shock robot as pathos synthetic human hologram android robot knife |
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner whβ¦o has been missing for 30 years. (Read More)
Subgenre: | tech noir cyberpunk dystopia |
Themes: | artificial intelligence memory fear |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | boy mother son relationship |
Period: | future |
Story: | future shock tragic ending hologram cannon tragic event statue no opening credits three word title knife |
Set in the year 1999 during the last days of the old millennium, the movie tells the story of Lenny Nero, an ex-cop who now deals with data-discs containing recorded memories and emotions. One day he receives a disc which contains the memories of a murderer killing a prostitute. Lenny investigates aβ¦nd is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of blackmail, murder and rape. Will he survive and solve the case? (Read More)
Subgenre: | tech noir cyberpunk dystopia |
Themes: | racism memory suicide |
Locations: | swimming pool motorcycle helicopter train |
Characters: | mother son relationship |
Period: | future |
Story: | no opening credits prostitution knife |
Earth's future has been riddled by disasters, famines, and droughts. There is only one way to ensure mankind's survival: Interstellar travel. A newly discovered wormhole in the far reaches of our solar system allows a team of astronauts to go where no man has gone before, a planet that may have the β¦right environment to sustain human life. (Read More)
Subgenre: | dystopia |
Themes: | artificial intelligence |
Locations: | snow |
Period: | future |
Story: | future shock cryogenics ice no opening credits robot birthday |
In the futuristic year of 2019, Los Angeles has become a dark and depressing metropolis, filled with urban decay. Rick Deckard, an ex-cop, is a "Blade Runner". Blade runners are people assigned to assassinate "replicants". The replicants are androids that look like real human beings. When four repliβ¦cants commit a bloody mutiny on the Off World colony, Deckard is called out of retirement to track down the androids. As he tracks the replicants, eliminating them one by one, he soon comes across another replicant, Rachel, who evokes human emotion, despite the fact that she's a replicant herself. As Deckard closes in on the leader of the replicant group, his true hatred toward artificial intelligence makes him question his own identity in this future world, including what's human and what's not human. (Read More)
Subgenre: | tech noir cyberpunk dystopia |
Themes: | artificial intelligence memory |
Period: | future |
Story: | robot as pathos technology gone amok bigotry hatred android robot |
Back when the Earth was being overrun by glaciers, and animals were scurrying to save themselves from the upcoming Ice Age, a sloth named Sid, a woolly mammoth named Manny, and a saber-toothed tiger named Diego are forced to become unlikely heroes. The three reluctantly come together when they have β¦to return a human child to its father while braving the deadly elements of the impending Ice Age. (Read More)
Locations: | snow |
Story: | ice age global warming ice no opening credits |
When his brother is killed in a robbery, paraplegic Marine Jake Sully decides to take his place in a mission on the distant world of Pandora. There he learns of greedy corporate figurehead Parker Selfridge's intentions of driving off the native humanoid "Na'vi" in order to mine for the precious mateβ¦rial scattered throughout their rich woodland. In exchange for the spinal surgery that will fix his legs, Jake gathers intel for the cooperating military unit spearheaded by gung-ho Colonel Quaritch, while simultaneously attempting to infiltrate the Na'vi people with the use of an "avatar" identity. While Jake begins to bond with the native tribe and quickly falls in love with the beautiful alien Neytiri, the restless Colonel moves forward with his ruthless extermination tactics, forcing the soldier to take a stand - and fight back in an epic battle for the fate of Pandora. (Read More)
Subgenre: | allegory cyberpunk |
Themes: | cruelty racism fear |
Locations: | helicopter forest |
Period: | 22nd century future |
Story: | cryogenics hologram genocide moon underwater coffee no opening credits robot |
In 1944 falangist Spain, a girl, fascinated with fairy-tales, is sent along with her pregnant mother to live with her new stepfather, a ruthless captain of the Spanish army. During the night, she meets a fairy who takes her to an old faun in the center of the labyrinth. He tells her she's a princessβ¦, but must prove her royalty by surviving three gruesome tasks. If she fails, she will never prove herself to be the the true princess and will never see her real father, the king, again. (Read More)
Subgenre: | fairy tale |
Themes: | cruelty memory fear |
Locations: | forest train |
Story: | child's point of view fairy promise tragic event statue no opening credits child abuse knife singing |
In the near future, Major Motoko Kusanagi (Scarlett Johansson) is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible terrorist attack, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals. When terrorism reaches a new level that includes the abilitβ¦y to hack into people's minds and control them, Major Kusanagi is uniquely qualified to stop it. As she prepares to face a new enemy, Major Kusanagi discovers that she has been lied to: her life was not saved, it was stolen. She will stop at nothing to recover her past, find out who did this to her and stop them before they do it to others. (Read More)
Subgenre: | tech noir cyberpunk dystopia |
Themes: | artificial intelligence memory fear suicide |
Locations: | motorcycle helicopter |
Period: | future |
Story: | robot as pathos hologram android false accusation robot knife |
This film follows the 'life' and times of the lead character, an android who is purchased as a household robot programmed to perform menial tasks. Within a few days the Martin family realizes that they don't have an ordinary droid as Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought. In a stβ¦ory that spans two centuries, Andrew learns the intricacies of humanity while trying to stop those who created him from destroying him. (Read More)
Themes: | artificial intelligence |
Period: | 22nd century |
Story: | robot as pathos hologram android based on short story robot |
Almost eleven years after the futile and disastrous expedition on the distant moon LV-223, the deep-space colonisation vessel Covenant equipped with more than 2,000 colonists in cryogenic hibernation, sets a course for the remote planet Origae-6 with the intention to build a new world. Instead, a roβ¦gue transmission will entice the crew to a nearby habitable small planet which resembles The Earth. The unsuspecting members of Covenant will have to cope with biological foes, beyond human comprehension. Ultimately, what was intended as a peaceful exploratory mission, will soon turn into a desperate rescue operation deep into the cold infinite space. (Read More)
Themes: | artificial intelligence fear |
Locations: | forest |
Period: | future |
Story: | robot as pathos stasis cryogenics hologram android genocide moon tragic event statue robot knife |
In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling, and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit roβ¦oftops through a galaxy of stars and to the lush jungles of Neverland. Wendy and her brothers join Peter and the Lost Boys in an exhilarating life--free of grown-up rules--while also facing the inevitable showdown with Hook and his bloodthirsty pirates. (Read More)
Themes: | fear |
Locations: | snow |
Characters: | boy mother son relationship |
Story: | nanny child's point of view fairy cannon teddy bear hat ice underwater no opening credits |
When monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously⦠by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes - a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi) - who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting apocalypse. (Read More)
Subgenre: | dystopia |
Themes: | artificial intelligence memory |
Locations: | sea snow helicopter |
Period: | future |
Story: | hologram cannon ice no opening credits robot knife |
"2001" is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past, someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith on Earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well). Evolution then enabled humankind to reach the moon's surface, where yet another monolith is found, one that signaβ¦ls the monolith placers that humankind has evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and human (Bowman) to reach the monolith placers. The winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be. (Read More)
Themes: | artificial intelligence |
Period: | future |
Story: | future shock technophobia cryogenics moon based on short story no opening credits toilet birthday singing |
Miles, a nebbishy clarinet player who also runs a health food store in NYC's Greenwich Village, is cryogenically frozen, and brought back - 200 years in the future, by anti-government radicals in order to assist them in their attempt to overthrow the oppressive government. When he goes off on his owβ¦n, he begins to explore this brave new world, which has Orgasmatron booths to replace sex and confessional robots. (Read More)
Subgenre: | dystopia |
Locations: | forest |
Period: | 22nd century future |
Story: | future shock stasis cryogenics android robot |
In a world where both Mutants and Humans fear each other, Marie, better known as Rogue, runs away from home and hitches a ride with another mutant, known as Logan, a.k.a. Wolverine. Charles Xavier, who owns a school for young mutants, sends Storm and Cyclops to bring them back before it is too late.β¦ Magneto, who believes a war is approaching, has an evil plan in mind, and needs young Rogue to help him. (Read More)
Themes: | racism fear |
Mood: | affection |
Locations: | helicopter forest train new york city |
Period: | future |
Story: | statue of liberty new york city world trade center manhattan new york city ice manhattan new york city |
Groups of people - colonies - are forced underground due to another ice age. Colony 7 goes to check on Colony 5, which they lost contact with. When they get there they find that the colony has fallen and there is a whole new enemy that they have to face on their way back.
Subgenre: | dystopia |
Themes: | fear suicide |
Locations: | snow helicopter |
Period: | future |
Story: | ice age global warming manhunt ice knife |
After young Katniss Everdeen agrees to be the symbol of rebellion, the Mockingjay, she tries to return Peeta to his normal state, tries to get to the Capitol, and tries to deal with the battles coming her way...but all for her main goal: assassinating President Snow and returning peace to the Distriβ¦cts of Panem. As her squad starts to get smaller and smaller, will she make it to the Capitol? Will she get revenge on Snow or will her target change? Will she be with her "Star-Crossed Lover," Peeta, or her long-time friend, Gale? Deaths, bombs, bow and arrows, a love triangle, hope... What will happen? (Read More)
Subgenre: | cyberpunk dystopia |
Themes: | fear |
Locations: | snow forest train |
Period: | future |
Story: | public execution caught in a net hologram genocide no opening credits false accusation knife |
After the Kingsman headquarters are blown up by a psychotic criminal named Poppy Adams. The surviving agents find their way to an allied secret organisation based in Kentucky, named Statesman. The two agencies must now work together in order to save the world and take down the so called 'Golden Circβ¦le'. (Read More)
Themes: | fear |
Locations: | snow helicopter forest new york city |
Story: | statue of liberty new york city cryogenics hologram android tragic event statue no opening credits false accusation dinner toilet robot knife singing |
In 2044, solar storms have killed 99.7 % of the world's population and only 21 million people survive. The ROC Corporation has designed and built robots called Automata Pilgrim 7000 to help to rebuild the world. These robots have two security protocols; they can neither harm humans nor alter themselβ¦ves or other robots. When police officer Sean Wallace shoots a robot and claims that it was altering itself, ROC insurance agent Jacq Vaucan is placed in charge of the investigation. Soon he believes that there is a "clocksmith" illegally modifying the robots. Jacq wants to live in the coast and asks his boss and friend Robert Bold to transfer him with his pregnant wife Rachel Vaucan to the coast. Robert offers the possibility if Jacq resolves the case. Jacq and Wallace go to a brothel where the modified robot Cleo attends and Wallace shoots its leg, expecting that the owner will lead them to the clocksmith. They meet Dupre but she is not the clocksmith that is modifying the robots. Soon Jacq discovers who is the responsible for modifying the robots but the Powers that Be in ROC believe that Jacq is the one to be blamed. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cyberpunk dystopia |
Themes: | artificial intelligence fear suicide |
Characters: | robot human relationship boy |
Period: | future |
Story: | robot as pathos self repair hologram android robot knife |
It's sometime in the future in a state controlled society, where conformity and homogeneity are the rule. What is also the rule is that the populace follows the wants of the faceless state without question. How this is achieved is through a mandatory drug regimen, which also suppresses human desire,β¦ with sexual intercourse and human relationships banned. The law of the state is policed by a force of robocops. The physical environment is totally within a manufactured enclosure, what being outside of this unknown. THX 1138 is a loyal subject, he who goes about his business as a skilled factory working building robocops. And even when he begins to have strange feelings, he does what is obliged by going to the state run confessional, which further brainwashes through its reinforced mantra of happiness, loyalty and understanding. THX 1138 is given a glimpse into the other side through his computer matched and thus appointed female roommate, LUH 3417, and her surveillance colleague SEN 5241, LUH 3417's vision which may be something that THX 1138 may want to continue despite its illegality. If THX 1138 is able to keep his activities from the authorities and the robocops, he will have to figure out what options are available to him. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cyberpunk dystopia |
Themes: | artificial intelligence fear |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Period: | future |
Story: | future shock hologram android toilet robot |
Set in futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy is about a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist in the image of the son he has lost. Unable to fulfill the grieving man's expectations, our hero embarks on a journey in search of acceptance, experiencing betrayal and a netherworlβ¦d of robot gladiators, before he returns to save Metro City and reconcile with the father who had rejected him. (Read More)
Themes: | artificial intelligence |
Characters: | boy |
Period: | future |
Story: | robot as pathos hologram manhunt cannon android no opening credits robot |
In the year 2154, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy, who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Delacourt, a government official, will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve the β¦luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium. That doesn't stop the people of Earth from trying to get in by any means they can. When unlucky Max is backed into a corner, he agrees to take on a daunting mission that, if successful, will not only save his life but could bring equality to these polarized worlds. (Read More)
Subgenre: | allegory cyberpunk dystopia |
Themes: | artificial intelligence |
Locations: | swimming pool helicopter |
Period: | 22nd century future |
Story: | hologram android teddy bear no opening credits robot knife singing |
Enzo and Jacques have known each other for a long time. Their friendship started in their childhood days in the Mediterranean. They were not real friends in these days, but there was something they both loved and used to do the whole day long: diving. One day Jacques' father, who was a diver too, diβ¦ed in the Mediterranean sea. After that incident Enzo and Jacques lost contact. After several years, Enzo and Jacques had grown up, Johanna, a young clerk in an insurance office, has to go to Peru. There she meets Jacques who is being studied by a group of scientists. He dives for some minutes into ice-cold water and the scientists monitor his physical state that is more like a dolphin than human. Johanna can not believe what she sees and gets very interested in Jacques but she's unable to get acquainted with him. Some weeks later back in her office, she finds out that Jacques will be competing in a diving championship that takes place in Taormina, Sicily. In order to see Jacques again she makes up a story so the firm sends her to Italy for business purposes. In Taormina there is also Enzo, the reigning diving world champion. He knows that only Jacques can challenge and probably beat him. This time Johanna and Jacques get closer, but Jacques, being more a dolphin than man, cannot really commit and his rivalry with Enzo pushes both men into dangerous territory... (Read More)
Themes: | suicide |
Locations: | swimming pool sea snow helicopter train new york city |
Characters: | boy mother son relationship |
Story: | dolphin ice coffee three word title |
This theatrical movie based on the television series (which was also based on a popular multiform robot toyline) did not go over very well at the box office. The movie takes place in 2005, twenty years after the television series, and chronicles the efforts of the heroic Autobots to defend their homβ¦eworld Cybertron from the evil Decepticons. Both factions are seething with anger, and that hatred has blinded them to a hideous menace headed their way. That hideous menace is the colossal planet known as Unicron, who has been ready to consume anything that stands in its way. The only thing that can stop Unicron is the Autobot Matrix of Leadership, which is possessed by the Autobots and which the Decepticons, through Unicron's orders, plan to take away from them. (Read More)
Themes: | cruelty |
Locations: | motorcycle helicopter train |
Period: | future |
Story: | robot as pathos hatred android genocide moon robot |
The gangster Nino has a gang who call themselves Cash Money Brothers. They get into the crack business and not before long they make a million dollars every week. A cop, Scotty, is after them. He tries to get into the gang by letting an ex-drug addict infiltrate the gang, but the attempt fails miserβ¦ably. The only thing that remains is that Scotty himself becomes a drug pusher. (Read More)
Themes: | cruelty fear |
Locations: | swimming pool motorcycle snow new york city |
Story: | statue of liberty new york city tragic ending world trade center manhattan new york city hatred genocide false accusation manhattan new york city knife |
Over 10 years have passed since the first cyborg called The Terminator tried to kill Sarah Connor and her unborn son, John Connor. John Connor, the future leader of the human resistance, is now a healthy young boy. However another Terminator is sent back through time called the T-1000, which is more⦠advanced and more powerful than its predecessor. The Mission: to kill John Connor when he's still a child. However, Sarah and John do not have to face this threat of a Terminator alone. Another Terminator is also sent back through time. The mission: to protect John and Sarah Connor at all costs. The battle for tomorrow has begun... (Read More)
Subgenre: | cyberpunk dystopia |
Themes: | artificial intelligence suicide |
Locations: | swimming pool motorcycle helicopter |
Characters: | boy mother son relationship |
Period: | future |
Story: | robot as pathos technology gone amok promise android pool tragic event robot knife |
It's 2274 and on the surface, it all seems to be an idyllic society. Living in a city within an enclosed dome, there is little or no work for humans to perform and inhabitants are free to pursue all of the pleasures of life. There is one catch however: your life is limited and when you reach 30, it β¦is terminated in a quasi-religious ceremony known as Carousel. Some, known as runners, do try to escape their fate when the time comes and it's the job of Sandmen to track them down and kill them. Logan is such a man and with several years before his own termination date, thinks nothing of the job he does. Soon after meeting a young woman, Jessica-6, he is ordered to become a runner himself and infiltrate a community outside the dome known as Sanctuary and to destroy it. Pursued by his friend Francis, also a Sandman, Logan and Jessica find their way to the outside. There they discover a beautiful, virtually uninhabited world. Logan realizes that he must return to the dome to tell them what he's found and be set free. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cyberpunk dystopia |
Themes: | artificial intelligence fear |
Locations: | swimming pool |
Characters: | boy |
Period: | future |
Story: | future shock hologram manhunt ice statue robot |
Bato is a living cyborg. His whole body, even his arms and legs, are entirely man-made. What only remains are traces of his brain and the memories of a woman. In an era when the boundary between humans and machines has become infinitely vague, Humans have forgotten that they are humans. This is the β¦debauchery of the lonesome ghost of a man, who nevertheless seeks to retain humanity. Innocence... Is what life is. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cyberpunk dystopia |
Themes: | artificial intelligence |
Period: | future |
Story: | robot as pathos synthetic human android robot |
A rare atmospheric phenomenon allows a New York City firefighter to communicate with his son 30 years in the future via HAM radio. The son uses this opportunity to warn the father of his impending death in a warehouse fire, and manages to save his life. However, what he does not realize is that chanβ¦ging history has triggered a new set of tragic events, including the murder of his mother. The two men must now work together, 30 years apart, to find the murderer before he strikes so that they can change history--again. (Read More)
Themes: | memory |
Mood: | affection |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | mother son relationship |
Period: | future |
Story: | future shock misunderstanding tragic event coffee false accusation |
In the future, the mutants and the humans that help them are slaughtered by powerful robots named Sentinels. Professor Xavier, Wolverine, Magneto, Storm, Kitty Pryde and her friends meet at a monastery in China and Xavier explains that the invincible Sentinels were created using the DNA of Mystique β¦that was captured in 1973 when she tried to assassinate their creator Dr. Bolivar Trask. Xavier tells that their only chance is return to 1973 using Pryde's ability to join Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr to convince Mystique to give up of her intention. . However, only Wolverine can withstand the damages of the time travel. Will he succeed in stopping Mystique and the Sentinel Program and save the mutants and their human friends from annihilation? (Read More)
Subgenre: | cyberpunk dystopia |
Themes: | artificial intelligence |
Locations: | snow train new york city |
Period: | future |
Story: | hologram ice no opening credits false accusation robot knife |
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hoods are skidding out of control. Benjamin Hood reels from drink to drink, trying not to think about his trouble at the office. His wife, Elena, is reading self help books and losing patience with her husband's lies. Their son, Paul, home for the holidays,β¦ escapes to the city to pursue an alluring rich girl from his prep school. And young, budding nymphomaniac, Wendy Hood roams the neighborhood, innocently exploring liquor cabinets and lingerie drawers of her friends' parents, looking for something new. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century. Things get bad... (Read More)
Locations: | swimming pool snow train new york city |
Characters: | boy mother son relationship |
Story: | pajamas ice tragic event dinner manhattan new york city three word title |
As Paleoclimatologist named Jack Hall is in Antartica, he discovers that a huge ice sheet has sheared off. But what he does not know is that this event will trigger a massive climate shift that will affect the world population. Meanwhile, his son Sam is with friends in New York to attend an event. Tβ¦here they discover that it has been raining non-stop for the past 3 days, and after a series of weather-related disasters begin to occur over the world, everybody realizes the world is entering a new Ice Age and the world population begins trying to evacuate to the warmer climates of the south. Jack makes a daring attempt to rescue his son and his friends who are stuck in New York and who have managed to survive not only a massive wave but also freezing cold temperatures that could possibly kill them. (Read More)
Locations: | snow helicopter new york city |
Characters: | mother son relationship |
Story: | ice age statue of liberty new york city global warming ice manhattan new york city |
A group of aliens return to earth to retrieve cocoons containing the people they'd left behind from an earlier trip. These cocoons had been resting at the bottom of the ocean. Once retrieved, they stored these recovered cocoons in the swimming pool of a house they'd rented in a small Florida town. Tβ¦heir mission is hampered by a number of elderly people from a nearby retirement community who had been secretly using the pool, and who discover unusual powers from within these cocoons. (Read More)
Locations: | swimming pool helicopter |
Characters: | boy mother son relationship |
Story: | dolphin pool moon underwater singing |
In the future, crime is out of control and New York City's Manhattan is a maximum security prison. Grabbing a bargaining chip right out of the air, convicts bring down the President's plane in bad old Gotham. Gruff Snake Plissken, a one-eyed lone warrior new to prison life, is coerced into bringing β¦the President, and his cargo, out of this land of undesirables. (Read More)
Subgenre: | dystopia |
Locations: | helicopter train new york city |
Period: | future |
Story: | statue of liberty new york city future shock world trade center manhattan new york city manhattan new york city |
Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn, looks into his father's disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 20 years. Along with Kevin's loyal confidant Quorra, father and son embark on a β¦life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous. Meanwhile, the malevolent program CLU, who dominates the digital world, plans to invade the real world and will stop at nothing to prevent their escape. (Read More)
Subgenre: | allegory cyberpunk dystopia |
Themes: | artificial intelligence |
Locations: | swimming pool sea motorcycle |
Story: | child abandonment hologram genocide no opening credits dinner |
Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. They are put to the test, however, when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requirβ¦ing genuine courage. (Read More)
Subgenre: | fairy tale |
Themes: | fear |
Locations: | snow forest |
Characters: | boy mother son relationship |
Story: | reference to hansel and gretel laughing cannon hat cage three word title knife |
The world is divided into four kingdoms, each represented by the element they harness, and peace has lasted throughout the realms of Water, Air, Earth, and Fire under the supervision of the Avatar, a link to the spirit world and the only being capable of mastering the use of all four elements. When β¦young Avatar Aang disappears, the Fire Nation launches an attack to eradicate all members of the Air Nomads to prevent interference in their future plans for world domination. 100 years pass and current Fire Lord Ozai continues to conquer and imprison anyone with elemental "bending" abilities in the Earth and Water Kingdoms, while siblings Katara and Sokka from a Southern Water Tribe find a mysterious boy trapped beneath the ice outside their village. Upon rescuing him, he reveals himself to be Aang, Avatar and last of the Air Nomads. Swearing to protect the Avatar, Katara and Sokka journey with him to the Northern Water Kingdom in his quest to master "Waterbending" and eventually fulfill his destiny of once again restoring peace to the world. But as they inch nearer to their goal, the group must evade Prince Zuko, the exiled son of Lord Ozai, Commander Zhao, the Fire Nation's military leader, and the tyrannical onslaught of the evil Fire Lord himself. (Read More)
Locations: | snow forest |
Characters: | boy |
Period: | future |
Story: | cryogenics child's point of view cannon genocide ice moon statue no opening credits knife |
When a devastating event befalls the city of San Fransokyo and catapults Hiro into the midst of danger, he turns to Baymax and his close friends adrenaline junkie Go Go Tomago, neatnik Wasabi, chemistry whiz Honey Lemon and fanboy Fred. Determined to uncover the mystery, Hiro transforms his friends β¦into a band of high-tech heroes called "Big Hero 6." (Read More)
Themes: | artificial intelligence |
Characters: | self referential |
Story: | hologram child's point of view android ice no opening credits robot |
After The Atomic War the world is divided into three states. London is a city in Oceania, ruled by a party who has total control over all its citizens. Winston Smith is one of the bureaucrats, rewriting history in one of the departments. One day he commits the crime of falling in love with Julia. Thβ¦ey try to escape Big Brother's listening and viewing devices, but, of course, nobody can really escape... (Read More)
Subgenre: | dystopia |
Themes: | memory fear |
Locations: | helicopter forest train |
Period: | future |
Story: | public execution tragic ending tragic event coffee singing |
Two artificial intelligence engineers come together as they work to create the first ever self-aware artificial intelligence. A veteran AI engineer secretly hopes to develop technology to help his diseased daughter, even if it means funding comes from the powerful Ministry of Defence (MoD). His new β¦partner, a young woman gifted in the field of AI, is brought on after her breakthroughs are recognized by the MoD. Things go wrong when the MoD takes over and advances the researchers' work to the next level, teaching the AI to kill and follow MoD instructions with its new and nearly indestructible body. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cyberpunk dystopia |
Themes: | artificial intelligence fear |
Story: | robot as pathos hologram android no opening credits robot knife |
For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid, even though he's got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life - real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunteβ¦d man as he finds himself on the run from the police. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cyberpunk dystopia |
Themes: | artificial intelligence |
Locations: | helicopter |
Period: | future |
Story: | hologram based on short story no opening credits robot knife |
Twelve months after winning the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and her partner Peeta Mellark must go on what is known as the Victor's Tour, wherein they visit all the districts, but before leaving, Katniss is visited by President Snow who fears that Katniss defied him a year ago during the gameβ¦s when she chose to die with Peeta. With both Katniss and Peeta declared the winners, it is fueling a possible uprising. He tells Katniss that while on tour she better try to make sure that she puts out the flames or else everyone she cares about will be in danger. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cyberpunk dystopia |
Themes: | suicide |
Locations: | snow helicopter forest train |
Characters: | mother son relationship |
Period: | future |
Story: | hologram no opening credits knife |