The Best Movies about Artificial Intelligence of the Last Two Decades, Ranked

Artificial Intelligence is the future of the world. Have a look at the movies in this list to find out more about how filmmaker are using Artificial Intelligence as a tool to see the far world and beyond boundaries.

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Interstellar

Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway
Christopher Nolan
2014

Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

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8.6 IMDB
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WALL·E

Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin
Andrew Stanton
2008

WALL·E is the last robot left on an Earth that has been overrun with garbage and all humans have fled to outer space. For 700 years he has continued to try and clean up the mess, but has developed some rather interesting human-like qualities. When a ship arrives with a sleek new type of robot, WALL·E thinks he's finally found a friend and stows away on the ship when it leaves.

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8.4 IMDB
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Her

Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams
Spike Jonze
2013

In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every needs. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.

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8 IMDB
4

Blade Runner 2049

Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas
Denis Villeneuve
2017

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, 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, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

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8 IMDB
5

Moon

Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott
Duncan Jones
2009

With only three weeks left in his three year contract, Sam Bell is getting anxious to finally return to Earth. He is the only occupant of a Moon-based manufacturing facility along with his computer and assistant, GERTY. When he has an accident however, he wakens to find that he is not alone.

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7.9 IMDB
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Ex Machina

Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac
Alex Garland
2015

Caleb, a 26 year old coder 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 fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

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7.7 IMDB
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Minority Report

Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton
Steven Spielberg
2002

John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.

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7.6 IMDB
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Alita: Battle Angel

Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly
Robert Rodriguez
2019

When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past.

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7.3 IMDB
9

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Haley Joel Osment, Frances O\'Connor, Sam Robards
Steven Spielberg
2001

David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is 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, David 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.

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7.2 IMDB
10

I, Robot

Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Alan Tudyk
Alex Proyas
2004

In 2035, where robots are common-place and abide by the three laws of robotics, a techno-phobic 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.

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7.1 IMDB
11

Robot & Frank

Frank Langella, Liv Tyler, James Marsden
Jake Schreier
2012

A delightful dramatic comedy, a buddy picture, and, for good measure, a heist film. Curmudgeonly old Frank lives by himself. His routine involves daily visits to his local library, where he has a twinkle in his eye for the librarian. His grown children are concerned about their father’s well-being and buy him a caretaker robot. Initially resistant to the idea, Frank soon appreciates the benefits of robotic support – like nutritious meals and a clean house – and eventually begins to treat his robot like a true companion. With his robot’s assistance, Frank’s passion for his old, unlawful profession is reignited, for better or worse.

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7.1 IMDB
12

Chappie

Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Ninja
Neill Blomkamp
2015

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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6.8 IMDB
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TRON: Legacy

Garrett Hedlund, Jeff Bridges, Olivia Wilde
Joseph Kosinski
2010

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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6.8 IMDB
14

Ghost in the Shell

Scarlett Johansson, Takeshi Kitano, Michael Pitt
Rupert Sanders
2017

In the near future, Major (Scarlett Johansson) is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, 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 ability to hack into people's minds and control them, Major is uniquely qualified to stop it. As she prepares to face a new enemy, Major 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. Based on the internationally acclaimed Japanese Manga, "The Ghost in the Shell."

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6.3 IMDB