Movies like Programmed to Kill
If Programmed to Kill's mix of cyborg and dystopia stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Programmed to Kill's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991 · Directed by James Cameron · 137 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: cyborg, dystopia · Also action and science fiction
Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000.
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The Terminator
1984 · Directed by James Cameron · 108 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: cyborg, dystopia · Also action and science fiction · From the same decade (1980s)
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st…
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Upgrade
2018 · Directed by Leigh Whannell · 100 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: cyborg, dystopia · Also action and science fiction
A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body.
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RoboCop
1987 · Directed by Paul Verhoeven · 102 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: cyborg, dystopia · Also action and science fiction · From the same decade (1980s)
In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force.
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Logan
2017 · Directed by James Mangold · 137 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: cyborg, dystopia · Also action and science fiction
In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark…
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Chappie
2015 · Directed by Neill Blomkamp · 120 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia · Also action and science fiction
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…
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Demolition Man
1993 · Directed by Marco Brambilla · 115 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia · Also action and science fiction
In 1996, brash L.A. detective John Spartan and maniac killer Simon Phoenix are both sentenced to decades in a cryogenic prison as punishment for a rescue mission gone wrong.
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Resident Evil
2002 · Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson · 100 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia · Also horror and action
When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain…
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Resident Evil: Apocalypse
2004 · Directed by Alexander Witt · 94 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia · Also horror and action
As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice finds out that the people that died from the previous incident at the Umbrella Corporation have turned into zombies.
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Outside the Wire
2021 · Directed by Mikael Håfström · 116 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: cyborg · Also action and science fiction
In the near future, a drone pilot is sent into a deadly militarized zone and must work with an android officer to locate a doomsday device.
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Resident Evil: Extinction
2007 · Directed by Russell Mulcahy · 94 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia · Also horror and action
Years after the Racoon City catastrophe, survivors travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against hordes of zombies and the evil Umbrella Corp.
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Repo Men
2010 · Directed by Miguel Sapochnik · 111 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia · Also action and science fiction
In the future, medical technology has advanced to the point where people can buy artificial organs to extend their lives. But if they default on payments, an organization known as the Union sends agents to repossess…