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The Absolutely Outrageous Adventures of the Politically Incorrect Bikini Babes of Arizona (1997)

Nuclear scientist Peter Testube (?) tries to stop giant robots from destroying the Earth.

Aelita/Aelita Queen of Mars/Aelita: The Revolt of the Robots (1924)

An inventor kills his wife then, together with a soldier and a detective who's investigating his wife's murder, escapes to Mars. There, the inventor meets and falls in love with the Queen of Mars, while the soldier tries to incite a revolution. The revolution fails and... it all turns out to have been a dream! (I have never seen this film, and have yet to discover whether it actually featured robots or not.)

A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001)

A 'coming of age' story of the 'perfect' child robot, David, who is adopted and raised by a caring couple. The film also features half-faced refugee robots, and Jude Law as Gigolo Joe (a kind of 'robo-stud').

Alien (1979)

When the space tug Nostromo investigates what seems to be a distress call on an unexplored planet, one of the crew is infected by an alien creature which attaches itself to his face. Contrary to regulations, Ash (the ship's science officer) allows the crewman - and the alien - to board the ship. Once aboard, the alien reaches its full potential and starts to kill all of the (human) crew. When one of the crew (Ellen Ripley) investigates, Ash turns out to be an android placed on the ship by its owners, with orders to bring back a specimen of the alien at all costs. Eventually, the crew destroy Ash, and the alien destroys all of the crew except for Ripley, who manages to escape in a lifeboat and finally destroy the alien.

Alienator (1989)

Kol escapes from a prison planet, and is pursued by an Alienator hunter-unit: an extremely powerful female android that (Kol says) will stop at nothing to recapture him.

Aliens (1986)

60 years after the events of Alien, Ripley is revived from suspended animation, and is horrified to find out that the planet on which she encountered the alien has now been colonised... and that all contact with the colony has now been lost. Against her better judgement, she joins a troop of colonial marines on the spaceship Sulacco on an expedition to the planet, en-route to which she discovers that one of her companions - Bishop - is an android. On the planet, virtually everyone is killed by the aliens, only Ripley and Newt (a young girl colonist) managing to escape back to the Sulacco where - at the cost of his own life - Bishop saves Ripley from the Alien Queen. Only Ripley and the girl survive the alien encounters, and go into suspended animation aboard the ship.

Alien³ (1992)

The escape pod from the Sulacco crash lands on a penal-colony planet, and only Ripley survives. After a mysterious killing, she suspects that an alien may also have been aboard the escape pod, and she reactivates Bishop the android's head to assist in her investigations. Eventually, she discovers that she has been impregnated by an alien foetus while in suspended animation, and throws herself into a white hot crucible rather than 'give birth' to her alien offspring.

Alien Resurrection (1997)

200 years after the events of Alien³, scientists on a spaceship have managed to clone Ripley, but the alien DNA has combined with her own DNA, giving her some formidable powers. The scientists manage to breed the aliens, but they escape and begin to kill everyone on board. It's up to Ripley and a motley band of space 'pirates' - one of whom (Annalee Call) is an android - to destroy the ship before it reaches Earth.

All You Zombies (2001)

I know little about this film, other than it is about a film being made with robot actors, one of whom - Miriam - appears to be more 'live' than she should be.

American Cyborg: Steel Warrior (1994)

Following a nuclear war, most of humankind are sterile, and their lives are ruled by artificial intelligences they have created. When a baby is born, in order that it can survive, its mother and a male protector, journey through the city towards a spaceship, all the time pursued by a killer robot.

An Animated Doll (1908)

A young boy steals a life-size animated doll from an inventor's shop, to give to his sister.

Android (1982)

Max 404, a robot created by a scientist, dreams of becoming human, and falls in love with a woman, one of three convicts who arrive at the space station where Max lives. The scientist also creates Cassandra, a female android, who kills the scientist when he attempts to have sex with her (it?). When police arrive from Earth, everyone is killed except Max, who - believed by the police to be human - is taken back to Earth where he (presumably) 'lives happily ever after'.

And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird/En Robot Till Farsa (1997)

Two boys, Josh and Max, invent a robot called Newman, whose memory chips are 'invaded' by the spirit of their dead father after a halloween party. (Newman resembles a cross between R2-D2 and Dusty Bin, a mechanised character familiar to any Brit over a certain age.)

A.P.E.X./Apex (1994)

A robot probe is sent from the year 2073 back to 1973 as part of a time travel experiment that goes wrong. As a result, Sinclair - a scientist - is sent into a plague-ridden alternate time-line where humans are battling killer robots sent from his own laboratory.

Armageddon: The Final Challenge (1994)

In a post-holocaust future, the world is controlled by the New World Order Bank, who maintain law and order using 'fear permutator clones'. (I kid you not.) The film features a number of androids, including Voyou, an attractive female android. In the film, the hero sees an advert for a new range of sex-droids, and decides to trade in one of his older models.

Asylum/House of Crazies (1972)

A compendium of four different horror stories, set in a lunatic asylum. In one of the stories (Mannikins of Horror), a man builds tiny robots with human-looking heads.

Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)

After discovering that his bride is really a Fem-Bot (a female robot), 'International Man of Mystery' Austin Powers has to travel back in time to foil a plot by the evil Dr. Evil, who has stolen Powers' 'mojo' (his life force/libido).

Los Automatas de la Muerte/Neutron vs the Death Robots (1960)

Neutron (the masked wrestler) battles against the army of killer robots created by the evil Doctor Caronte, who is blackmailing the world into domination under the threat of a neutron bomb,

Automatic (1994)

J269 - a 'J series automatic' model android - witnesses an attack on Nora Rochester and, in the process of protecting her as it's programmed to do, accidentally kills her assailant. He tells Marx, his creator, who - in order to protect his own interests - then tries to have J269 and Nora eliminated.

The Automatic Motorist (1911)

A young couple set off on honeymoon in an automobile chauffeurred by the automatic motorist. (The word "robot" didn't exist in its modern sense when this film was made, and the automatic motorist of the title was described as a "clockwork man".)

Autopsia de un Fantasma /Autopsy of a Ghost (1967)

A strange film which features a ghost whose skeleton often goes off to 'do its own thing', Satan, and an eccentric scientist whose household includes a female robot which develops feelings for its master.

	The Absolutely Outrageous Adventures of the Politically Incorrect Bikini Babes of Arizona (1997)
		Nuclear scientist Peter Testube (?) tries to stop giant robots from destroying the Earth.
	Aelita/Aelita Queen of Mars/Aelita: The Revolt of the Robots (1924)
		An inventor kills his wife then, together with a soldier and a detective who's investigating his wife's murder, escapes to Mars. There, the inventor meets and falls in love with the Queen of Mars, while the soldier tries to incite a revolution. The revolution fails and... it all turns out to have been a dream! (I have never seen this film, and have yet to discover whether it actually featured robots or not.)
	A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
		A 'coming of age' story of the 'perfect' child robot, David, who is adopted and raised by a caring couple. The film also features half-faced refugee robots, and Jude Law as Gigolo Joe (a kind of 'robo-stud').
	Alien (1979)
		When the space tug Nostromo investigates what seems to be a distress call on an unexplored planet, one of the crew is infected by an alien creature which attaches itself to his face. Contrary to regulations, Ash (the ship's science officer) allows the crewman - and the alien - to board the ship. Once aboard, the alien reaches its full potential and starts to kill all of the (human) crew. When one of the crew (Ellen Ripley) investigates, Ash turns out to be an android placed on the ship by its owners, with orders to bring back a specimen of the alien at all costs. Eventually, the crew destroy Ash, and the alien destroys all of the crew except for Ripley, who manages to escape in a lifeboat and finally destroy the alien.
	Alienator (1989)
		Kol escapes from a prison planet, and is pursued by an Alienator hunter-unit: an extremely powerful female android that (Kol says) will stop at nothing to recapture him.
	Aliens (1986)
		60 years after the events of Alien, Ripley is revived from suspended animation, and is horrified to find out that the planet on which she encountered the alien has now been colonised... and that all contact with the colony has now been lost. Against her better judgement, she joins a troop of colonial marines on the spaceship Sulacco on an expedition to the planet, en-route to which she discovers that one of her companions - Bishop - is an android. On the planet, virtually everyone is killed by the aliens, only Ripley and Newt (a young girl colonist) managing to escape back to the Sulacco where - at the cost of his own life - Bishop saves Ripley from the Alien Queen. Only Ripley and the girl survive the alien encounters, and go into suspended animation aboard the ship.
	Alien³ (1992)
		The escape pod from the Sulacco crash lands on a penal-colony planet, and only Ripley survives. After a mysterious killing, she suspects that an alien may also have been aboard the escape pod, and she reactivates Bishop the android's head to assist in her investigations. Eventually, she discovers that she has been impregnated by an alien foetus while in suspended animation, and throws herself into a white hot crucible rather than 'give birth' to her alien offspring.
	Alien Resurrection (1997)
		200 years after the events of Alien³, scientists on a spaceship have managed to clone Ripley, but the alien DNA has combined with her own DNA, giving her some formidable powers. The scientists manage to breed the aliens, but they escape and begin to kill everyone on board. It's up to Ripley and a motley band of space 'pirates' - one of whom (Annalee Call) is an android - to destroy the ship before it reaches Earth.
	All You Zombies (2001)
		I know little about this film, other than it is about a film being made with robot actors, one of whom - Miriam - appears to be more 'live' than she should be.
	American Cyborg: Steel Warrior (1994)
		Following a nuclear war, most of humankind are sterile, and their lives are ruled by artificial intelligences they have created. When a baby is born, in order that it can survive, its mother and a male protector, journey through the city towards a spaceship, all the time pursued by a killer robot.
	An Animated Doll (1908)
		A young boy steals a life-size animated doll from an inventor's shop, to give to his sister.
	Android (1982)
		Max 404, a robot created by a scientist, dreams of becoming human, and falls in love with a woman, one of three convicts who arrive at the space station where Max lives. The scientist also creates Cassandra, a female android, who kills the scientist when he attempts to have sex with her (it?). When police arrive from Earth, everyone is killed except Max, who - believed by the police to be human - is taken back to Earth where he (presumably) 'lives happily ever after'.
	And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird/En Robot Till Farsa (1997)
		Two boys, Josh and Max, invent a robot called Newman, whose memory chips are 'invaded' by the spirit of their dead father after a halloween party. (Newman resembles a cross between R2-D2 and Dusty Bin, a mechanised character familiar to any Brit over a certain age.)
	A.P.E.X./Apex (1994)
		A robot probe is sent from the year 2073 back to 1973 as part of a time travel experiment that goes wrong. As a result, Sinclair - a scientist - is sent into a plague-ridden alternate time-line where humans are battling killer robots sent from his own laboratory.
	Armageddon: The Final Challenge (1994)
		In a post-holocaust future, the world is controlled by the New World Order Bank, who maintain law and order using 'fear permutator clones'. (I kid you not.) The film features a number of androids, including Voyou, an attractive female android. In the film, the hero sees an advert for a new range of sex-droids, and decides to trade in one of his older models.
	Asylum/House of Crazies (1972)
		A compendium of four different horror stories, set in a lunatic asylum. In one of the stories (Mannikins of Horror), a man builds tiny robots with human-looking heads.
	Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
		After discovering that his bride is really a Fem-Bot (a female robot), 'International Man of Mystery' Austin Powers has to travel back in time to foil a plot by the evil Dr. Evil, who has stolen Powers' 'mojo' (his life force/libido).
	Los Automatas de la Muerte/Neutron vs the Death Robots (1960)
		Neutron (the masked wrestler) battles against the army of killer robots created by the evil Doctor Caronte, who is blackmailing the world into domination under the threat of a neutron bomb,
	Automatic (1994)
		J269 - a 'J series automatic' model android - witnesses an attack on Nora Rochester and, in the process of protecting her as it's programmed to do, accidentally kills her assailant. He tells Marx, his creator, who - in order to protect his own interests - then tries to have J269 and Nora eliminated.
	The Automatic Motorist (1911)
		A young couple set off on honeymoon in an automobile chauffeurred by the automatic motorist. (The word "robot" didn't exist in its modern sense when this film was made, and the automatic motorist of the title was described as a "clockwork man".)
	Autopsia de un Fantasma /Autopsy of a Ghost (1967)
		A strange film which features a ghost whose skeleton often goes off to 'do its own thing', Satan, and an eccentric scientist whose household includes a female robot which develops feelings for its master.