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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 52% 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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Terminator Salvation (2009)
It has a 49% 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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The 6th Day (2000)
It has a 47% 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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The Running Man (1987)
It has a 47% affinity with The Terminator, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.
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Impostor (2001)
It has a 46% affinity with The Terminator, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and its story and themes.
A top-secret government weapons designer is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth.
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Looper (2012)
It has a 46% affinity with The Terminator, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
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The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
It has a 45% affinity with The Terminator, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres 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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The Book of Eli (2010)
It has a 45% affinity with The Terminator, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
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Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
It has a 45% affinity with The Terminator, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres 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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Total Recall (2012)
It has a 43% affinity with The Terminator, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for implanted memories of being a spy. When the procedure goes wrong, Quaid becomes a wanted man by the police and joins forces with a rebel fighter to stop the evil Chancellor Cohaagen.
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Doomsday (2008)
It has a 42% affinity with The Terminator, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.
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Blade Runner (1982)
It has a 42% 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 40% 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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RoboCop (1987)
It has a 40% affinity with The Terminator, driven mainly by shared genres, its story and themes and country of origin.
In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company's nefarious plans, he turns on his masters.
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