Movies like D.A.R.Y.L.
If D.A.R.Y.L.'s mix of computer, baseball and autopilot stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what D.A.R.Y.L.'s fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 146 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: robot, robot boy · Also science fiction and adventure
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…
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How to Build a Better Boy
2014 · Directed by Paul Hoen · 90 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: robot, robot boy · Also family and science fiction
After inadvertently inputting the qualities of the ideal boyfriend into a high-tech government computer, two social outcasts named Mae and Gabby must contend with Albert, a cybernetic sweetheart with only one…
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Interstellar
2014 · Directed by Christopher Nolan · 169 min8.5
Why you'll like itShares: family relationships · Also adventure and science fiction
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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The Iron Giant
1999 · Directed by Brad Bird · 86 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: robot · Also family and science fiction
In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices.
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Finch
2021 · Directed by Miguel Sapochnik · 116 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: robot · Also science fiction and adventure
On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a robot, built to protect the life of his dying creator's beloved dog, learns about life, love, friendship, and what it means to be human.
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
2023 · Directed by Steven Caple Jr. · 127 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: robot · Also science fiction and adventure
When a new threat capable of destroying the entire planet emerges, Optimus Prime and the Autobots must team up with a powerful faction known as the Maximals.
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The Creator
2023 · Directed by Gareth Edwards · 134 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: robot · Also science fiction and adventure
Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive…
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Transformers
2007 · Directed by Michael Bay · 144 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: robot · Also adventure and science fiction
Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons.
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Bumblebee
2018 · Directed by Travis Knight · 114 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: robot · Also adventure and science fiction
On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie, on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and…
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Short Circuit
1986 · Directed by John Badham · 98 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: robot · Also science fiction and family · From the same decade (1980s)
After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to get to Number 5 before the military does.
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The Electric State
2025 · Directed by Joe Russo · 125 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: robot · Also adventure and science fiction
An orphaned teen hits the road with a mysterious robot to find her long-lost brother, teaming up with a smuggler and his wisecracking sidekick.
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A-X-L
2018 · Directed by Oliver Daly · 98 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: robot · Also science fiction and adventure
The life of a teenage boy is forever altered by a chance encounter with cutting edge military technology.