W2.0 is a 2018 Indian Tamil-language science fiction action film written and directed by S. Shankar, and co-written by B. Jeyamohan. Produced by Subaskaran under the banner of Lyca Productions. As the second instalment in the Enthiran franchise, 2.0 is a standalone sequel to Enthiran (2010), featuring Rajinikanth reprising the roles of Vaseegaran and Chitti, alongside Akshay Kumar and Amy Jackson. Sudhanshu Pandey, Adil Hussain, Kalabhavan Shajohn, and K. Ganesh appear in supporting roles. The film follows the conflict between Chitti, the once dismantled humanoid robot, and Pakshi Rajan, a former ornithologist who seeks vengeance upon cell phone users to prevent avian population decline. The soundtrack is composed by A. R. Rahman, with lyrics written by Madhan Karky and Na. Muthukumar.
WAutómata is a 2014 English-language science fiction action film directed by Gabe Ibáñez and starring Antonio Banderas. The film is co-written by Ibáñez with Igor Legarreta and Javier Sánchez Donate, and co-stars Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Melanie Griffith, Dylan McDermott, Robert Forster, and Tim McInnerny.
WThe Automatic Motorist is a 1911 British short silent comedy film, directed by Walter R. Booth, featuring a robot chauffeur taking an inventor and a young honeymooning couple on a wild ride around the planets and under the sea. The trick film is a, "virtual remake of The '?' Motorist (1906)," according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "but on a bigger scale."
WAutomatons is a 2006 black-and-white horror film directed by James Felix McKenney, and starring Christine Spencer, Angus Scrimm, and Brenda Cooney. John Levene, Don Wood and Executive Producer Larry Fessenden have supporting roles. The plot is about a war against robots. The movie was made under the working title Death to the Automatons.
WBlinkyTM is a 2011 Irish-American short science fiction-horror film written, edited, and directed by Ruairí Robinson. The film stars Max Records, Robinson, Jenni Fontana, and James Nardini. It tells the story of a boy who adopts a robot and begins neglecting it, until the robot complies with commands to murder. The film was released on March 20, 2011.
WLaputa: Castle in the Sky , known as simply Castle in the Sky in North America, is a 1986 Japanese animated fantasy-adventure film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It was the first film animated by Studio Ghibli and was animated for Tokuma Shoten. It follows the adventures of a young boy and girl in the late 19th century attempting to keep a magic crystal from a group of military agents, while searching for a legendary floating castle. The film was distributed by Toei Company.
WDeath Machine is a 1994 Japanese-British cyberpunk horror film written and directed by Stephen Norrington. It stars Brad Dourif, Ely Pouget, William Hootkins, John Sharian, and Richard Brake. Rachel Weisz, still early in her career at the time of the film's release, appears briefly in the role of a Junior Executive. The film was the directorial debut of Norrington, who had previously worked as a special effects artist on films such as Lifeforce, Aliens, Hardware, The Witches, and Split Second. However, Norrington infamously expressed distaste in the original cut, and the film has undergone numerous re-edits since.
WDevil Girl from Mars is a 1954 UK black-and-white science fiction film, produced by the Danziger Brothers, directed by David MacDonald and starring Patricia Laffan, Hugh McDermott, Adrienne Corri, and Hazel Court. The film was released by British Lion.
WDoraemon the Movie: The New Record of Nobita's Spaceblazer , also known as Doraemon: The Hero 2009 then later as Doraemon: The New Record of Nobita Spaceblazer is an anime film, released in Japan It's the 29th of Doraemon films series. It is a remake of the 1981 movie The Records of Nobita, Spaceblazer. This is the first film released during the celebration of TV Asahi's 50th Anniversary. It was voted the No.1 Movie in Japan as of March 9, 2009. It ranked as the 4th highest grossing Japanese animated film in 2009.
WThis list of Doraemon films features both feature-length and short films based on the manga and anime series Doraemon. Since 1980, all of these films to date have been released by Toho. Toho currently holds worldwide distribution and licensing rights for all of the films in the series.
WDoraemon the Movie 2017: Nobita's Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi is a Japanese animated science-fiction film. It is the 37th movie in Doraemon movie series. It is directed and written by Atsushi Takahashi. Takahashi was an assistant director on Hayao Miyazaki's Academy Award-winning Spirited Away. It was released on March 4, 2017 in Japan. A video game based on the film for Nintendo 3D was released in Japan on March 2, 2017.
WDoraemon: Nobita's Treasure Island , also known as Doraemon the Movie 2018, is a Japanese science fiction anime film. It is the 38th Doraemon film. The story is based on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island, with a screenplay written by Genki Kawamura - the producer of Your Name and The Boy and the Beast. Kazuaki Imai, an episode director on the Doraemon television anime, directed the project as his first Doraemon franchise film. This film was released on March 3, 2018 in Japan.
WDoraemon: New Nobita's Great Demon—Peko and the Exploration Party of Five is a 2014 Japanese anime film. It is a remake of the 1982 film, Doraemon: Nobita and the Haunts of Evil. The film was released on 8 March 2014 in Japan. It's the 34th Doraemon film. This movie was the 5th highest grossing animated film of 2014 anime in Japan. The opening theme song is "Yume o Kanaete Doraemon", performed by MAO and the ending theme song is "Hikari no Signal" performed by Kis-My-Ft2.
WDoraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan 2016 is a 2016 Japanese animated science fiction adventure film written and directed by Shinnosuke Yakuwa. It is the 36th feature film of Doraemon franchise. It is a remake of the 1989 film Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan. The film is about the adventure of Nobita and his friend in Japan, 70,000 years ago. The taglines were "Friendship could cross over space-time", "Daddy, I saw the birth of Japan in 21st century", "We can see the birth of Japan in 21st Century" and "Some of the secrets only have in Japan".
WNobita and the Winged Braves , also known as Doraemon and the Winged Warriors, is a feature-length Doraemon film which premiered in Japan on 10 March 2001, based on the 21st volume of the same name of the Doraemon Long Stories series. It's the 22nd Doraemon film. This is the first new millennium and new century-era Doraemon movie.
WDoraemon: Nobita's Chronicle of the Moon Exploration is a Japanese science-fiction anime film. It was premiered on March 1, 2019 It is directed by Shinnosuke Yakuwa and screenplay by Mizuki Tsujimura. This is the last Heisei-era Doraemon movie, released two months before the 2019 Japanese imperial transition.
WDoraemon: Nobita's Space Heroes , also known as Doraemon The Super Star 2015 and later as Doraemon the Movie 35th is a Japanese anime superhero film and the 35th Doraemon film. It was released in Japan on 7 March 2015. This movie commemorates the 35th anniversary of the Doraemon (1979) anime series and 10th anniversary of the Doraemon (2005) anime. This movie is similar to Doraemon's 6th movie, Nobita's Little Star Wars (1985).
WDoraemon: Nobita's Three Visionary Swordsmen is a feature-length Japanese animated film which premiered in Japan on March 12, 1994, based on the 14th volume of the same name of the Doraemon Long Stories series. This film marks the 15th anniversary of the Doraemon television series on TV Asahi. It's the 15th Doraemon film.
WEnthiran is a 2010 Indian Tamil-language science fiction action film written and directed by S. Shankar. It is the first instalment in the Enthiran franchise. The film stars Rajinikanth and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan; Danny Denzongpa, Santhanam and Karunas play supporting roles. The soundtrack album and background score were composed by A. R. Rahman while the dialogues, cinematography, editing and art direction were handled by Madhan Karky, R. Rathnavelu, Anthony and Sabu Cyril respectively.
WEva is a 2011 science fiction film directed by Kike Maíllo. It had its world premiere on 7 September 2011 at the 68th Venice International Film Festival, where it was screened out of competition. The film stars Daniel Brühl, Marta Etura, Lluís Homar and Alberto Ammann.
WGen-Y Cops is a 2000 Hong Kong science fiction action film directed by Benny Chan and starring Edison Chen, Stephen Fung and Sam Lee. The film is a sequel to the 1999 film Gen-X Cops.
WGodzilla vs. King Ghidorah is a 1991 Japanese kaiju film written and directed by Kazuki Ōmori and produced by Shōgo Tomiyama. The film, produced and distributed by Toho Studios, is the 18th film in the Godzilla franchise, and is the third film in the franchise's Heisei period. The film features the fictional monster characters Godzilla and King Ghidorah, and stars Kōsuke Toyohara, Anna Nakagawa, Megumi Odaka, Katsuhiko Sasaki, Akiji Kobayashi, Yoshio Tsuchiya, and Robert Scott Field.
WGodzilla vs. Megalon is a 1973 Japanese kaiju film directed by Jun Fukuda, written by Fukuda and Shinichi Sekizawa, and produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka, with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano. Produced and distributed by Toho Studios, it is the 13th film in the Godzilla franchise, and features the fictional monster characters Godzilla, Megalon, and Gigan, along with the mecha character Jet Jaguar. The film stars Katsuhiko Sasaki, Hiroyuki Kawase, Yutaka Hayashi, and Robert Dunham, alongside Shinji Takagi as Godzilla, Hideto Date as Megalon, Kenpachiro Satsuma as Gigan, and Tsugutoshi Komada as Jet Jaguar.
WGodzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. is a 2003 Japanese kaiju film directed by Masaaki Tezuka, written by Tezuka and Masahiro Yokotani, and produced by Shogo Tomiyama. Produced and distributed by Toho Studios, it is the 28th film in the Godzilla franchise, the fifth film in the franchise's Millennium series, the 27th Godzilla film produced by Toho, and a direct sequel to the 2002 film Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla. The film features the fictional monster characters Godzilla and Mothra, along with the mecha character Mechagodzilla, who is referred to in the film by the name Kiryu.
WGUNHED , is a 1989 Japanese science fiction action film directed by Masato Harada.
WHinokio (ヒノキオ) is a 2005 Japanese science fiction film directed by Takahiko Akiyama and starring Masatoshi Nakamura, Kanata Hongo and Mikako Tabe. Its tagline is "Inter Galactic Love".
WHollywood is a 2002 Indian Kannada science fiction film written by Upendra and directed by Dinesh Babu. Hollywood is the first Indian robot film. It starred Upendra in a triple role as Surendra, Upendra and US 47 along with the Australian actress Felicity Mason as Manisha. The movie was shot entirely in Gold Coast, Australia with a very few support cast, including Ananth Nag and a monkey called Lakshmi, voiced by Ramesh Bhat. The movie was also dubbed into Telugu, retaining the same title.
WI Love Maria is a 1988 Hong Kong science fiction film directed by David Chung, produced by Tsui Hark and John Shum, and starring Hark and Shum alongside Sally Yeh, Tony Leung and Lam Ching-ying.
WInquest of Pilot Pirx is a joint Polish-Soviet 1979 film directed by Marek Piestrak. It is based on the story "The Inquest" by Stanisław Lem from his 1968 short story collection Opowieści o pilocie Pirxie. It was adapted for film by Vladimir Valutsky. It is a joint production by Zespoly Filmowe, and Tallinnfilm. Some of the studio-based filming was done at the Dovzhenko Film Studios.
WIsland of Rusty General is a 1988 Soviet children's science fiction film directed by Valentin Khovenko, based on the Island of the Rusted Lieutenant from the short story collection Adventures of Alisa by Kir Bulychov.
WJapon İşi is a 1987 Turkish science fiction-comedy film, directed by Kartal Tibet and written by Erdoğan Tünaş, starring Kemal Sunal.
WKill Command is a 2016 British science fiction action horror film written and directed by Steven Gomez, and starring Thure Lindhardt and Vanessa Kirby. The story focuses on a group of U.S. Marines attempting to survive after a training mission against warfare A.I. goes wrong.
WKing Kong Escapes, released in Japan as King Kong's Counterattack , is a 1967 Japanese-American science-fiction kaiju film featuring King Kong, co-produced by Toho and Rankin/Bass. The film was directed by Ishirō Honda with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya and stars Rhodes Reason, Linda Jo Miller, Akira Takarada, Mie Hama, Eisei Amamoto, with Haruo Nakajima as King Kong and Yū Sekida as Mechani-Kong and Gorosaurus. The film is a loose adaptation of the Rankin/Bass Productions Saturday morning cartoon TV series The King Kong Show and was the second and final Toho-produced film featuring King Kong. King Kong Escapes was released in Japan on July 22, 1967 and released in the United States on June 19, 1968.
WKung Fury is a 2015 English-language Swedish martial arts comedy featurette written and directed by David Sandberg. It pays homage to 1980s martial arts and police action films. The film stars Sandberg in the title role, Jorma Taccone, Leopold Nilsson, and a cameo appearance by David Hasselhoff.
WRobots and androids have frequently been depicted or described in works of fiction. The word "robot" itself comes from a work of fiction, Karel Čapek's play, R.U.R. , written in 1920 and first performed in 1921.
WLoss of Sensation, alternatively titled Robot of Jim Ripple is a 1935 Soviet science fiction sound film directed by Alexandr Andriyevsky.
WThe Machine is a 2013 British science fiction thriller film directed and written by Caradog W. James. It stars Caity Lotz and Toby Stephens as computer scientists who create an artificial intelligence for the British military.
WThe Master of the World is a German science fiction movie made in 1934. Its themes are the ethical replacement of human labor by robots, and the threat to humanity by robots used as war machines. It was directed by Harry Piel and made by Ariel production.
WThe Mechanical Man is a 1921 Italian science fiction film directed by André Deed. It was produced in 1920, and released in November 1921. It is one of the first science fiction films produced in Italy, and the first film that showed a battle between two robots. The cinematographer was Alberto Chentrens.
WMetropolis is a 2001 Japanese animated science fiction drama film based upon Osamu Tezuka's 1949 manga of the same name. The film was directed by Rintaro, written by Katsuhiro Otomo, and produced by Madhouse, with conceptual support from Tezuka Productions.
WMr Hublot is a Luxembourgish/French animated short film by Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares with/after the characters of Stephane Halleux. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 86th Academy Awards on 2 March 2014.
WThe Mysterians is a 1957 Japanese science fiction film directed by Ishirō Honda and stars Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa and Takashi Shimura. The film begins with a giant fissure destroying an entire village. This leads to an investigation whereby the source is discovered to be Moguera, a giant robot, who is then destroyed by the military. The remains are analyzed and discovered to be of alien origin. Shortly after, an alien race known as the Mysterians arrive, declaring they have taken some Earth women captive and that they demand both land and the right to marry women of Earth.
WNatural City is a 2003 South Korean science fiction film, set in a dystopian future, about a colony world that integrates robots, androids and cyborgs amongst the population.
WNemesis 2: Nebula, also known as Nemesis 2, is a 1995 science fiction film by director Albert Pyun, who also directed the film Cyborg. It is the sequel to Nemesis and was followed in 1996 by Nemesis 3: Prey Harder and Nemesis 4: Death Angel later that year. The film was shot in Globe, Arizona, along with part three. A compilation version exists which combined the four Nemesis films into one 100 minute version that Scanbox was going to release before the company went bankrupt in 2000. This version was released only in Eastern Europe in 2003, primarily in Poland.
WNeo Tokyo , also titled Manie-Manie on its title card, is a 1987 anime science fiction anthology film produced by Project Team Argos and Madhouse. Conceived and produced by Madhouse founders Masao Maruyama and Rintaro, it adapts short stories by Taku Mayumura featured in the 1986 collection of the same Japanese title and is executive produced by publisher Haruki Kadokawa.
WOMG, I'm a Robot?!, also known as Robot Awakening, is an Israeli science fiction comedy film directed by Tal Goldberg and Gal Zelezniak.
WPlaneta Bur is a 1962 Sovcolor Soviet science-fiction film scripted by Alexander Kazantsev from his novel, and co-scripted and directed by Pavel Klushantsev.
WPsycho-Pass: The Movie is a 2015 Japanese anime science fiction crime film that was produced by Production I.G. It features the voices of Kana Hanazawa, Tomokazu Seki, Hiroshi Kamiya, Ayane Sakura, Kenji Nojima, and Shizuka Itō. The film focuses on Akane Tsunemori, the Public Safety Bureau's Criminal Investigation Division Inspector, who thwarts a terrorism plot by illegal immigrants from the Southeast Asia Union (SEAUn), a war-torn superstate that imports the Sibyl System technology to police its population. After obtaining evidence her former colleague Shinya Kogami trained them, Akane is granted permission to travel to the SEAUn to investigate and arrest him. Psycho-Pass: The Movie premiered in Japan on January 9, 2015.
WRoboGeisha (ロボゲイシャ) is a 2009 Japanese sci-fi action B movie written and directed by Noboru Iguchi, visual effects directed by Tsuyoshi Kazuno, and special effects directed by Yoshihiro Nishimura. All three had previously worked together on The Machine Girl, and Nishimura worked on Tokyo Gore Police. The film premiered in theaters on October 3, 2009. The film's theme song is "Lost Control" by Art-School.
WRobot Carnival is a Japanese anthology original video animation (OVA) released in 1987 by A.P.P.P.. In North America, it was released in 1991 in theaters by Streamline Pictures with the order of the segments slightly rearranged.
WThe Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy is a Mexican horror film, the third in a trilogy, directed by Rafael Portillo, starring Ramón Gay and Rosa Arenas. It blends elements of science fiction and horror. The film is the sequel to The Aztec Mummy and The Curse of the Aztec Mummy, and a large portion of it consists of an extended recap of the events from the first two films in the series. The three films were all shot in 1957, one after another without a break in the production schedule.
WRottweiler is a 2004 science fiction horror film directed by Brian Yuzna and starring William Miller, Paulina Gálvez, Paul Naschy and Ivana Baquero.
WSaturn 3 is a 1980 British science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Donen, and starring Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas and Harvey Keitel. The screenplay was written by Martin Amis, from a story by John Barry. Though a British production, the film has an American cast and director.
WThe Snow Queen: Mirrorlands is a 2018 Russian 3D computer-animated fantasy comedy family film written by Andrey Korenkov, Robert Lence and directed by Robert Lence, and Aleksey Tsitsilin. Wizart Animation took charge of design and production while Boris Mashkovtsev, Yuri Moskvin, Vladimir Nikolaev, Pavel Stepanov, and Vadim Vereshchagin produced the film. The film stars Lina Ivanova as Gerda and Nikolay Bystrov, Filipp Lebedev, Lyasan Utiasheva, Vladimir Zaystev, Irina Bezrukova, Nadezhda Angarskaya, Vsevolod Kuznetsov, Olga Zubkova, Nikita Prozorovsky, Anton Eldarov, Mikhail Yuryevich Tikhonov in supporting roles.
WStar Odyssey is a 1979 Italian film directed by Alfonso Brescia. The film is also known as Space Odyssey, Metallica and Captive Planet in other video markets.
WTears of Steel is a short science fiction film by producer Ton Roosendaal and director/writer Ian Hubert. The film is both live-action and CGI; it was made using new enhancements to the visual effects capabilities of Blender, a free and open-source 3D computer graphics app. Set in a dystopian future, the short film features a group of warriors and scientists who gather at the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam in a desperate attempt to save the world from destructive robots.
WWar of the Robots is an Italian science fiction film directed by Alfonso Brescia. It was released internationally as Reactor.
WWarriors of Future, previously known as Virtus, is an unreleased Hong Kong science fiction action film directed by visual effects artist Ng Yuen-fai in his directorial debut and starring Louis Koo, Sean Lau and Carina Lau. Having been in development for three years, the film began production on 12 February 2017 and was set for release in 2019.