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Movies similar to The Terminator
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 century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
It has a 66% affinity with The Terminator, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and the same director.
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. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse.
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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
It has a 53% affinity with The Terminator, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic assassin ordered to finish what T-1000 started. Good thing Connor's former nemesis, the Terminator, is back to aid the now-adult Connor … just like he promised.
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The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
It has a 50% affinity with The Terminator, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
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Terminator Salvation (2009)
It has a 50% affinity with The Terminator, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether Wright has come from the future or the past -- and whether he's friend or foe.
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Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
It has a 49% affinity with The Terminator, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
Decades after Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, a lethal new Terminator is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to save mankind, battle-hardened Sarah Connor teams up with an unexpected ally and an enhanced super soldier to stop the deadliest Terminator yet.
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The 6th Day (2000)
It has a 48% affinity with The Terminator, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
A world of the very near future in which cattle, fish, and even the family pet can be cloned. But cloning humans is illegal - that is until family man Adam Gibson comes home from work one day to find a clone has replaced him. Taken from his family and plunged into a sinister world he doesn't understand, Gibson must not only save himself from the assassins who must destroy him to protect their secret, but uncover who and what is behind the horrible things happening to him.
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Blade Runner (1982)
It has a 45% affinity with The Terminator, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and its story and themes.
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
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Upgrade (2018)
It has a 41% affinity with The Terminator, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
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. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.
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Monsters of Man (2020)
It has a 39% affinity with The Terminator, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
A robotics company vying to win a lucrative military contract team up with a corrupt CIA agent to conduct an illegal live field test. They deploy four weaponized prototype robots into a suspected drug manufacturing camp in the Golden Triangle, assuming they'd be killing drug runners that no one would miss. Six doctors on a humanitarian mission witness the brutal slaughter and become prime targets.
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The Matrix (1999)
It has a 37% affinity with The Terminator, driven mainly by shared genres, its story and themes and country of origin.
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
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57 Seconds (2023)
It has a 37% affinity with The Terminator, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and country of origin.
When a tech blogger lands an interview with a tech guru and stops an attack on him, he finds a mysterious ring that takes him back 57 seconds into the past.
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Chappie (2015)
It has a 36% affinity with The Terminator, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and its story and themes.
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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Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
It has a 31% affinity with The Terminator, driven mainly by shared genres, its story and themes and country of origin.
When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to The Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected action pave the way for an epic and unique global adventure.
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The Dark Knight (2008)
It has a 31% affinity with The Terminator, driven mainly by its story and themes, shared genres and country of origin.
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)
It has a 29% affinity with The Terminator, driven mainly by shared genres, its story and themes and country of origin.
Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.
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