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Movies that feel likeI, Robot (2004)

In 2035, where robots are commonplace and abide by the three laws of robotics, a technophobic 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.

If you loved I, Robot, the closest films we have are Dredd (2012), The Matrix (1999) and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023). All three share I, Robot's kinetic and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is District B13 (2004).

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Dredd
2012 · dir. Pete Travis
🍅 80%★ 7.1action · science fiction

A by-the-book enforcer discovering how rotten the system is

The difference: Ultraviolent and boxed-in — one tower block, zero big ideas

In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called Judges, who combine the duties of judge, jury and executioner to deliver a brutal brand of swift justice. But even the top-ranking Judge, Dredd, discovers that taking down Ma-Ma isn’t as easy as it seems in this explosive adaptation of the hugely popular comic series.

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The Matrix
1999 · dir. Lana Wachowski
🍅 83%★ 8.7action · science fictionRent or buy

Waking up to how completely the machines already won

The difference: Trades the whodunit for philosophy — and asks more of you

Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.

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🍅 64%★ 6.6science fiction · actionNetflix

A gleaming dystopia whose order rests on quiet cruelty

The difference: A villain's slow origin story — long, talky and grim

64 years before he becomes the tyrannical president of Panem, Coriolanus Snow sees a chance for a change in fortunes when he mentors Lucy Gray Baird, the female tribute from District 12.

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Edge of Tomorrow
2014 · dir. Doug Liman
🍅 91%★ 7.9action · science fictionParamount+

Both are built on the same subject: dystopia

Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.

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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
2003 · dir. Jonathan Mostow
🍅 70%★ 6.3action · thriller · science fiction

Machines slipping human control with apocalypse on the clock

The difference: No mystery to solve — just a chase toward judgment day

It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic assassin ordered to finish what T-1000 started. Good thing Connor's former nemesis, the Terminator, is back to aid the now-adult Connor … just like he promised.

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Children of Men
2006 · dir. Alfonso Cuarón
🍅 92%★ 7.9science fiction · thriller · action

A reluctant man forced to protect the future itself

The difference: Devastating realism — despair this film never asks you to sit in

In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.

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Surrogates
2009 · dir. Jonathan Mostow
🍅 37%★ 6.3science fiction · action · thriller

A detective in a robot-run world where a murder breaks the rules

The difference: Thinner take on a similar setup — ideas sketched, not explored

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.

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Chappie
2015 · dir. Neill Blomkamp
🍅 32%★ 6.8crime · action · science fiction

A robot whose emerging mind upends everyone's assumptions

The difference: Grubby Johannesburg chaos — sentiment and squalor, no sleek future

Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one thing that makes Chappie different from any one else: he is a robot.

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Snowpiercer
2013 · dir. Bong Joon Ho
🍅 94%★ 7.1action · science fiction · drama

The same preoccupation in both: dystopia

The difference: Sits closer to drama than I, Robot does

In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.

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Logan's Run
1976 · dir. Michael Anderson
🍅 58%★ 6.8action · science fiction

The same mix in both: momentum, then ideas

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being "renewed" in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option.

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District B13
2004 · dir. Pierre Morel
🍅 81%★ 7.1action · thriller · science fictionPrime Video

Bleak action in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than I, Robot does

Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.

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TRON: Legacy
2010 · dir. Joseph Kosinski
🍅 51%★ 6.8adventure · action · science fictionDisney+

One thread runs through both: artificial intelligence

Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy and daring son of Kevin Flynn, investigates his father's disappearance and is pulled into The Grid. With the help of a mysterious program named Quorra, Sam quests to stop evil dictator Clu from crossing into the real world.

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