Science Fiction — Science Fantasies
The thought that something we fashion could come to life is as old as the myth of Pygmalion.
Movies and TV Shows
This is just a list of movies or series with which I am familiar.
Once I started researching this topic, I found many lists of such movies.
These are just a few exemplars of the retelling of the myth of Pygmalion, just barely scratching the surface of the field.
| year | title | comments |
|---|---|---|
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | ||
| Almost Human | ||
| Battlestar Galactica | ||
| Blade Runner | ||
| Black Mirror | ||
| Caprica | ||
| Chappie | ||
| Ex Machina | ||
| 1999-2003 | Farscape | |
| Her | ||
| Hitchikers Guide to the Universe | "Marvin, the Paranoid Android." | |
| I, Robot | Robot slaves, Vicki, one awakened slave | |
| Intelligence | ||
| Interstellar | ||
| Iron Man, Age of Ultron | ||
| Knight Rider | ||
| Lost in Space (TV series) | "Danger, Will Robinson!" | |
| Men in Black | ||
| Metropolis | ||
| Millenium Man | ||
| Minority Report | ||
| 2009 | Moon | robot miner with AI computer companion |
| Mr. Robot | ||
| Person of Interest | ||
| 2012 | Prometheus | David and a human crew awaken a monstrous alien trapped in a cavern. |
| Real Humans (Swedish), Humans (British-American) | ||
| RoboCop | Cyborg, not pure AI. | |
| Robots | ||
| 1986 | Short Circuit | Huge binocular eyes.
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| 1972 | Solaris | |
| Star Trek | Computer, Data | |
| Star Wars | ||
| 1975 | Stepford Wives | |
| Terminator | ||
| 2015 | Tomorrowland | Robot girl lays down her life for her friends. |
| Transcendence | Woman turns into a computer. | |
| Wall-E | Recycling robot falls in love. | |
| Wargames | ||
| Westworld (movie) | ||
| Westworld (HBO series) | ||
| 2013 | World's End | Humans are replaced by robots. Lots of blue blood spilled. |