Androids in Film

Well-known movies featuring androids include:

• Alien Series
• Artificial Intelligence: AI
• Terminator Trilogy
• The Stepford Wives
• Blade Runner
• Metropolis
• Millennium
• Screamers
• The Star Trek franchise
• Virtuosity

Below is a more detailed chronological timeline of androids and humanoid robots in film:

1920s

• Metropolis (1927)
  Classic silent science fiction movie set in a futuristic urban dystopia. A “machine-human” (robot) is transformed into Maria, a workers’ leader, with ulterior motives.

1930s

• True Confession (1939)
  Robot murder witness.

1940s

• The Perfect Woman (1949)
  A scientist creates what he considers the perfect woman in his lab.

1950s

• The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
  With Gort, the robot.
• Robot Monster (1952)
  Ro-Man, an alien robot is bent on destroying earth.
• Devil Girl from Mars (1954)
  Features a robot named Chani.
• Forbidden Planet (1956) and The Invisible Boy (1957)
  With Robby the Robot.

1960s

• Kiss Me Quick! (1964)
  A mad scientist, Dr. Breedlove, offers Sterilox, an alien, a number of beautiful android women.
• Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)
  Sci-fi parody where a mad scientist builds a gang of female robots to seduce and rob wealthy men.
• Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966)
  Sequel to the above … more scantily-clad gynoids!
• How to Make a Doll (1968)
  A nerdy professor who has no luck with women builds female sex robots to satisfy his sexual desires.

1970s

• Sleeper (1973)
  A cryogenically resurrected store owner explore his futuristic new world that has household and confessional robots.
• Westworld (1973)
  Yul Brynner is an android in a futuristic Western-themed amusement park.
• The Stepford Wives (1975)
  Stepford’s husbands have conspired to replace all their wives with android duplicates.
• Futureworld (1976)
  Sequel to Westworld, with a cameo appearance by Yul Brynner. More android mayhem …
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
  Features C-3PO, a protocol android.
• Alien (1979)
  The character of Ash is revealed to be an android.
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
  Persis Khambatta as Ilia, the Deltan navigator of the Enterprise, is kidnapped and replaced by an android.

1980s

• Saturn 3 (1980)
  Hector, the android.
• Heartbeeps (1981)
  Val Com 17485, Aqua Com 89045, and others.
• Blade Runner (1982)
  The replicants Roy Batty, Pris, Leon Kowalski, Zhora, Rachael, and possibly Rick Deckard.
• Android (1982)
  Daniel , Max 404 and Cassandra One are androids.
• The Last Starfighter (1984)
  Beta, an android left on Earth impersonating Alex Rogan while he is in space.


Dot Matrix in Spaceballs

• Return to Oz (1985)
  Tik-Tok.
• Cherry 2000 (1987)
  Cherry 2000 is the perfect android sex machine.
• Making Mr. Right (1987)
  The android Ulysses.
• Spaceballs (1987)
  Dot Matrix, a gynoids.
• Gangster World (1988)
  With the android Astor, played by Stacey Williams.

1990s

• Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991)
  Robotic duplicates of Bill and Ted go back to the past.
• Toys (1992)
  Alsatia Zevo is the gynoid sister of Leslie Zevo and dollmaker.
• Alien 3 (1992)
  Bishop 341-B is an android character.
• Virtuosity (1995)
  “SID 6.7″, the villain in the film is a nanotech synthetic android.
• Screamers (1995)
  Various humanoid robots.


Robin Williams as robot Andrew (left) and android Andrew Martin (right) in Bicentennial Man

• Solo (1996)
  Solo is an android designed as a military killing machine.
• Alien Resurrection (1997)
  The character of Call is revealed to be an android.
• The Bicentennial Man (1999)
  A household humanoid robot, NDR-114, is more than a mechanical servant and begins to display sapient characteristics.
• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
  The character Vanessa Kensington is a fembot.
• Edward Scissorhands (1990)
  The film tells the story of an artificial man (in effect an android) who falls in love.

2000s

• A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
  A.I. tells the story of David, a child-like android uniquely programmed with the ability to love.
• Hollywood (2002)
  A sci-fi Kannada movie starring “US 47″ (an android robot).
• Goldmember (2002)
  Britney Spears plays herself as a fembot.
• Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
  The T-X, nicknamed the “Terminatrix” by John Connor, is a gynoid assassin.
• Inspector Gadget 2 (2003)
  Features a female gadget-type humanoid robot, called Gadget Model #2 (G2 for short).
• The Animatrix (2003)
  A domestic android, named B1-66ER, kills his owner.
• Star Trek Nemesis (2002)
  With B-4, Data’s brother.
• Natural City (2003)
  A South Korean science fiction film about a colony world that integrates robots, androids and cyborgs amongst the population.
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  I, Robot

  I, Robot (2004)
  Sonny and other humanoid robots.
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005).
  With Marvin the paranoid android.
• RoboDoc (2008)
  As a cost cutting measure R.I.P Healthcare has developed the perfect android doctor, MD 63 (a.k.a. RoboDoc).
• Enthiran (2010)
  A 2010 Tamil science fiction film that features Rajinikanth as an android robot.