Fictional examples showcasing robosexuality
by FutureStudier | created - 17 May 2021 | updated - 3 months ago | PublicMovies, tv-series, and animes that in some form showcases the subject of robosexuality (romantic love and/or sex) between humans and artificial individuals.
I'll add movies/series even if there's just a few scenes in the whole movie that's robosexual in its nature, with A.I from 2001 as one example. I'll also add controversial and/or non-consensual examples to this list, with Blade Runner from 1982 as one controversial example, and Demon Seed from 1977 as one non-consensual example.
Those movies will later on be analyzed at my blog (which I have yet to set up) that'll be focusing on studying how robosexuality "is allowed to exist" in filmed medias.
Notes:
1. I believe "A Mechanical Husband" from 1910 was the first movie ever to represent robosexuality, but I am not 100% sure.
2. I've added "Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Offspring" to this list, aware that it is a bit of a stretch, but I've decided to include it anyway.
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1. A Mechanical Husband (1910)
Short, Comedy
A girl objects to her father's choice and falls in love with an automaton.
Director: S. Wormald
2. Hoffmanns Erzählungen (1916)
67 min | Fantasy
Characteristic for Hoffmann's work is his life-long fight against rationalism and for the revelation of nature morte, culminating mostly in carnival-like scenes anticipating literary techniques
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Kurt Wolowsky, Erich Kaiser-Titz, Max Ruhbeck, Paula Ronay
Votes: 58
3. Metropolis (1927)
Not Rated | 153 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Votes: 185,587 | Gross: $1.24M
4.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Lonely
(1959)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A convict, living alone on an asteroid, receives from the police a realistic woman-robot.
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Rod Serling, Jack Warden, John Dehner, Jean Marsh
Votes: 5,368
5.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
From Agnes - with Love
(1964)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A computer technician begins to take advice for his love life from Agnes, the computer he works with.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Wally Cox, Ralph Taeger, Sue Randall, Raymond Bailey
Votes: 1,848
6. My Living Doll (1964–1965)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A psychiatrist is given care of Rhoda Miller "real name 'AF 709'", a lifelike sophisticated but naïve android that eventually learns how human society works and begins showing "or at least emulating" rudimentary emotions.
Stars: Julie Newmar, Robert Cummings, Jack Mullaney, Doris Dowling
Votes: 282
7. Westworld (1973)
PG | 88 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.
Director: Michael Crichton | Stars: Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin, Norman Bartold
Votes: 62,988 | Gross: $16.06M
8. Lifesize (1974)
X | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Michel is a middle aged man with a troubled marriage. He feels lonely, has been unfaithful to his wife Isabelle in various occasions, and despite she seems to accept this situation, they ... See full summary »
Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Valentine Tessier, Rada Rassimov, Lucienne Hamon
Votes: 451
9. Demon Seed (1977)
Approved | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist creates Proteus--an organic super computer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creator's wife.
Director: Donald Cammell | Stars: Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham, Berry Kroeger
Votes: 10,011
10. Blade Runner (1982)
R | 117 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos
Votes: 823,371 | Gross: $32.87M
11. Electric Dreams (1984)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
An artificially intelligent PC and his human owner find themselves in a romantic rivalry over a woman.
Director: Steve Barron | Stars: Lenny von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, Maxwell Caulfield, Bud Cort
Votes: 10,024 | Gross: $2.19M
12. Cherry 2000 (1987)
PG-13 | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
In 2017, a successful businessman travels to the ends of the earth to find that the perfect woman is always under his nose. He hires a sexy renegade tracker to find an exact duplicate of his android wife.
Director: Steve De Jarnatt | Stars: Melanie Griffith, David Andrews, Pamela Gidley, Jennifer Balgobin
Votes: 10,592 | Gross: $0.01M
13. Making Mr. Right (1987)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
A reclusive scientist, Jeff Peters (Malkovich), builds a robot, Ulysses, which looks exactly like himself and is set to go on a long-term space mission. Since the (real) scientist seems to ... See full summary »
Director: Susan Seidelman | Stars: John Malkovich, Ann Magnuson, Glenne Headly, Ben Masters
Votes: 3,109 | Gross: $1.58M
14.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Naked Now
(1987)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The crew of the Enterprise is infected with a virus that causes them to behave as though they were intoxicated.
Director: Paul Lynch | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby
Votes: 4,712
15. I Love Maria (1988)
96 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
The Hero Gang is a nasty group of thugs terrorizing Hong Kong with their killer robots, Pioneers 1 and 2. While Pioneer 1 looks like an oridinary robot, Pioneer 2 has been modelled on Maria... See full summary »
Directors: David Chung, Hark Tsui | Stars: John Sham, Sally Yeh, Hark Tsui, Tony Leung Chiu-wai
Votes: 653
16.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Ensigns of Command
(1989)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After 111 years of silence, an extremely litigious alien race asserts its agreed upon right to wipe out a Federation colony in its territory.
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,707
17.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Offspring
(1990)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After returning from a cybernetics conference to the Enterprise, Data creates his own "child," much to the chagrin of his captain, and without regards to the ramifications with Starfleet.
Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 4,586
18. Edward Scissorhands (1990)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
The solitary life of an artificial man - who was incompletely constructed and has scissors for hands - is upended when he is taken in by a suburban family.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall
Votes: 524,010 | Gross: $56.36M
19.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
In Theory
(1991)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When a female crew member is infatuated with Lieutenant Commander Data, he decides to give a romantic relationship a try. Also, the Enterprise finds itself having to maneuver through a dangerous nebula.
Director: Patrick Stewart | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,121
20. The Companion (1994 TV Movie)
R | 94 min | Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Writer catches her boyfriend cheating on her. Infuriated, she buys an android companion and takes him with her to a remote cabin in the woods to keep her company as she writes. She starts a romance with him, which turns into a nightmare.
Director: Gary Fleder | Stars: Kathryn Harrold, Bruce Greenwood, Talia Balsam, Brion James
Votes: 293
21. Hand Maid May (2000–2003)
23 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Saotome Kazuya is a computer whiz. One day his friend Nanbara, threatens him with a computer virus. Trying to stop the virus, Kazuya ends up making a special order. May is a cyberdoll that ... See full summary »
Stars: Rie Kugimiya, Sayaka Ôhara, Ken'ichi Suzumura, Sanae Kobayashi
Votes: 223
22.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003)
Episode:
I Was Made to Love You
(2001)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
Buffy and her friends encounter an incredibly strong female robot with only one thing on its mind - love.
Director: James A. Contner | Stars: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Emma Caulfield Ford
Votes: 2,847
23.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003)
Episode:
Intervention
(2001)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
A weary Buffy seeks to regain focus by embarking on a quest with the First Slayer; Spike cavorts with his very own "Buffybot" and Glory instructs her minions to spy on Buffy's friends in the hopes of ascertaining the Key's true identity.
Director: Michael Gershman | Stars: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Emma Caulfield Ford
Votes: 3,102
24. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
PG-13 | 146 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Sam Robards
Votes: 323,111 | Gross: $78.62M
25. MahoRomatic (2001–2003)
TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Action, Comedy
A military robot is decommissioned and works as a loyal maid for the young son of her late creator.
Stars: Bridget Hoffman, Richard Cansino, Mona Marshall, Doug Stone
Votes: 381
26. She, the Ultimate Weapon (2002)
TV-MA | 25 min | Animation, Drama, Romance
A teenage boy and girl struggle to stay in love when the girl's body is transformed into Japan's ultimate weapon.
Stars: Nick Shakoour, Melissa Hutchison, Mark Atherlay, Amy Provenzano
Votes: 731
27. Monique (2002)
92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Alex (Albert Dupontel) and Claire (Marianne Denicourt) are living a boring and tedious life after years of marriage. They do not communicate to each other anymore, and Alex is almost ... See full summary »
Director: Valérie Guignabodet | Stars: Albert Dupontel, Marianne Denicourt, Philippe Uchan, Marina Tomé
Votes: 749
28. Chobits (2002–2003)
TV-14 | Animation, Comedy, Drama
Hideki finds the discarded and malfunctioning Persocom Chi, a personal computer that looks like a girl. While trying to fix and care for Chi, Hideki discovers that she might be a Chobits, a robot of urban legend that has free will.
Stars: Sarah Hauser, Rie Tanaka, Crispin Freeman, Tomokazu Sugita
Votes: 4,711
29. Love Object (2003)
R | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Kenneth is a socially awkward office worker who has little experience with romance. He buys a life-like sex doll in an attempt to rid him of his loneliness, but soon finds there may be a dark side to 'Nikki'.
Director: Robert Parigi | Stars: Desmond Harrington, Melissa Sagemiller, Udo Kier, Rip Torn
Votes: 3,737
30. Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A delusional young man strikes up an unconventional relationship with a doll he finds on the Internet.
Director: Craig Gillespie | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider, R.D. Reid
Votes: 155,445 | Gross: $5.97M
31. Absolute Boyfriend (2008–2009)
54 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Unlucky in love office lady Riiko Izawa is ready to give up on relationships when a mysterious man who offers her the perfect boyfriend.
Stars: Miki Maya, Hiro Mizushima, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Eisuke Sasai
Votes: 695
32. Eve no jikan (2008–2009)
15 min | Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
In the not too distant future androids have come into common usage. Taking the androids for granted, humans treat them as if they were common everyday tools, while on the other hand, some ... See full summary »
Stars: Tomokazu Sugita, Miyuki Sawashiro, Jun Fukuyama, Rie Tanaka
Votes: 1,439
33. Air Doll (2009)
Unrated | 125 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A life-size blow-up doll develops a soul and falls in love with a video store clerk.
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Bae Doona, Arata Iura, Itsuji Itao, Joe Odagiri
Votes: 8,137
34.
Futurama (1999– )
Episode:
Proposition Infinity
(2010)
TV-14 | 22 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Amy gets together with Bender after Kif breaks up with her, which catches the ire of Dr. Farnsworth and others who oppose human-robot relationships.
Director: Crystal Chesney | Stars: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Tress MacNeille
Votes: 2,329
35. Absolute Boyfriend (2012– )
90 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
When hopelessly single, Guan Xiao Fei (Hye-Sun Koo) returns a lost item to Lei Wu Wu (Wei-Hsun Na), he shows his gratitude by revealing that he is a sales-representative for Kronos Heaven. ... See full summary »
Stars: Jiro Wang, Ku Hye-Sun, Kunda Hsieh, Wei-hsun Na
Votes: 96
36. Äkta människor (2012–2014)
60 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In an alternative present, companion robots are commonplace. When humans make copies of themselves so lifelike that they form emotional bonds, questions and ethical dilemmas arise.
Stars: Lisette T. Pagler, Pia Halvorsen, Johan Paulsen, Natalie Minnevik
Votes: 6,789
37.
Black Mirror (2011– )
Episode:
Be Right Back
(2013)
TV-MA | 48 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
After learning about a new service that lets people stay in touch with the deceased, a lonely, grieving Martha reconnects with her late lover.
Director: Owen Harris | Stars: Hayley Atwell, Domhnall Gleeson, Claire Keelan, Sinead Matthews
Votes: 53,208
38. Her (2013)
R | 126 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
In a near future, a lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need.
Director: Spike Jonze | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson, Rooney Mara
Votes: 669,894 | Gross: $25.57M
39. Ex Machina (2014)
R | 108 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a highly advanced humanoid A.I.
Director: Alex Garland | Stars: Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Sonoya Mizuno
Votes: 589,944 | Gross: $25.44M
40. Plastic Memories (2015)
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Drama, Romance
After failing his college exams, 18 year old Tsukasa Mizugaki is offered a position at the renowned SAI corporation due to his father's connections. SAI corporation is known for its ... See full summary »
Stars: Yasuaki Takumi, Sora Amamiya, Chinatsu Akasaki, Sayuri Yahagi
Votes: 2,823
41. Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn (2016– )
TV-MA | 25 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
A super-powered terrorist has threatened the island of Cenancle. To fight him off, Nene Nanakorobi, a cybernetic girl-next-door, will have to team up with famous inventor Delilah Uzal and her adorably grumpy cyborg assistant, Clarion.
Stars: Megan Shipman, Lara Woodhull, Alex Moore, Sonny Strait
Votes: 82
42. Westworld (2016–2022)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
At the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, waits a world in which every human appetite can be indulged without consequence.
Stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Jeffrey Wright, Ed Harris, Thandiwe Newton
Votes: 533,109
43. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
R | 164 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
Young Blade Runner K's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former Blade Runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.
Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas, Dave Bautista
Votes: 665,677 | Gross: $92.05M
44. My Absolute Boyfriend (2019)
35 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Dan Dan, is a woman who works as a special effects make-up artist but has a very cold-heart. She then, unexpectedly, falls in love with Yeong Goo, a humanoid robot programmed to be a ... See full summary »
Stars: Yeo Jin-goo, Bang Minah, Hong Jong-hyun, Seo-Young Hong
Votes: 389
45. My Holo Love (2020)
TV-14 | 55 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
A successful woman has inability to recognize faces and this interferes with her social life.
Stars: Dahlia Salem, Lee Jeong-eun, Hwang Chan-sung, Yoon Hyun-min
Votes: 3,616
46. Romance Doll (2020)
123 min | Drama, Romance
It was a pre-destined love and marriage for Sonoko and Tetsuo. They tied the knot and became husband and wife no questions asked. All is well then. Well, perhaps not. Each holds a secret ... See full summary »
Director: Yuki Tanada | Stars: Yû Aoi, Issei Takahashi, Kenta Hamano, Kitarô
Votes: 882
47. Dummy (2020)
TV-MA | 6 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
An aspiring writer befriends her boyfriend's sex doll and the two take on the world together.
Stars: Anna Kendrick, Meredith Hagner, Donal Logue, Wayne Federman
Votes: 2,418
48. Friend of Sophia (2021)
6 min | Short, Sci-Fi
Inspired by the queer experience of the 1950s and 60s, a woman attempts a discreet encounter in a not-too-distant future where attraction to androids is considered a sickness and punished as a crime.
Director: Alden Peters | Stars: Chakendra Fennell, Janine Hartmann, Michael Aaron
49. I'm Your Man (2021)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In order to obtain research funds for her studies, a scientist accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment: for three weeks, she is to live with a humanoid robot, created to make her happy.
Director: Maria Schrader | Stars: Maren Eggert, Dan Stevens, Sandra Hüller, Hans Löw
Votes: 12,635
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