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These are Movies and TV shows with anthropomorphic machines or artificial life forms or computer-generated creations that look and/or sound like human females. aka:
- Humanoid female robots (fembots);
- Humanoid female cyborgs;
- Humanoid female androids;
- Computer-simulated humanoid females who achieve a physical form;
- Humanoid female clones;
- Holograms;
- Humanoid female statues, mannequins, or mechanical dolls that have become sentient.
Metropolis 1927
Maria is an evil female robot made in the image of the woman Maria who offers hope to the exploited workers of Metropolis. Robot Maria stirs up trouble with the workers when she impersonates the good Maria.
Ex Machina 2014
Ava is the latest in a series of sentient androids modeled after beautiful human women. She manipulates her creator and a man observing her to gain her freedom.
My Living Doll 1964
Julie Newmar plays a secret NASA prototype robot in the form of a beautiful human woman called AF-79. She is left for a few months in the home of a male psychiatrist, who can control her by pushing 4 beauty marks on her back. In other words, she's every man's dream woman.
The Stepford Wives 1975
"The perfect wife is a machine." That's the tag line for this movie in which rich and respectable men of suburbia kill their wives and replace them with more cheerful always compliant robots.
The Stepford Wives 2004
Nicole Kidman runs a NY TV network until one of her reality show victims starts killing people and she is fired and has a nervous breakdown. She and her family move to the little gated village of Stepford Connecticut to start a new life, but she doesn't fit in. She wears short dark hair and black clothing while all the other women are blondes wearing flowery dresses. They even work out and caddy for their husbands in dresses and high heels. Kidman's husband is seduced by the sight of so many easily-controlled and always compliant wives and threatens to leave Kidman, so she starts dressing like Betty Crocker and baking thousands of cupcakes to please him, but eventually she discovers that the Stepford Wives were formerly brilliant and successful women before their jealous husbands turned them into robots. Unlike the Stepford wives in the first movie based on the book, these automaton wives are not machines, they're still real women who have been brainwashed with electronic brain implants that make them respond to a remote control.
Blade Runner 1982
The Tyrell Corporation manufactures replicants (androids) for use as slaves in off-earth colonies. They are identical to humans in appearance and intellectual abilities, except that they have superior strength and lack the emotional maturity and empathy of humans. The Nexus-6 replicants are so difficult to tell apart from humans that they have been declared illegal on Earth on penalty of death and they have been limited to a four-year lifespan to prevent them from developing human emotions.
Pris is a young attractive female Nexus-6 replicant who is designed as a "basic pleasure model, a standard item for military clubs in the outer colonies." A roundabout way of saying she is a sex worker.
Zhora is a voluptuous female Nexus-6 replicant trained for an off-world kick murder squad who later worked as an exotic snake dancer after escaping back to Earth.
Rachel is a young female experimental Nexus-7 replicant who initially believed she was human because memories were implanted in her mind. Her lifespan was not limited to four years, as it was with the other replicant models.
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine 1965
Dr. Goldfoot's fembots are robots that look like beautiful young women who wear gold bikinis and can survive gunshots and cars crashing into them.
Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs 1966
Dr. Goldfoot's fembots return.
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 1997
The fembots are described as the latest android replicant technology - lethal, efficient, brutal. No man can resist their charms. They look like attractive young women wearing skimpy outfits with big blonde hair and guns in their bras that fire bullets and knockout gas.
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 1999
Austin Powers encounters more fembots with bra guns.
Austin Powers in Goldmember 2002
This third movie in the series has more fembots with bra guns.
WALL·E 2008
EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) is the deuterogamist in WALL-E. She is an advanced probe droid with a floating head and body and the voice of a human female.
Serenity 2005
Lenore is a robot in the form of a human female, the robotic wife of Mr. Universe
Star Trek: First Contact 1996
The Borg Queen Memory Alpha is one part biological organism, and mostly machine.
Perfect Lover 2001
A shy man buys a robot to help his relationships with real women.
Weird Science 1985
Gary and Wyatt are two unpopular teenage boys who can't talk to girls so they fantasize about them. One night while watching Frankenstein on TV, they are inspired to create a virtual version of their perfect woman on a computer connected with a modem to an enormous military computer by scanning pictures of women in magazines. They hook up a barbie doll to some car batteries and after a lightning storm explodes all the household appliances, a beautiful virtual woman walks through their bedroom door. They name her Lisa, and she's more like a genie than an android. She can make Ferraris appear out of nowhere and clean up the house in an instant and she is completely faithful to them. She helps them to form relationships with real girls instead of their fantasies.
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines 2003
T-X is a poly mimetic robotic terminator in the form of a beautiful blonde human female. She can increase the size of her breasts after seeing a Victoria's Secret billboard or convert her arm into a flamethrower to melt off someone’s' face.
Galaxina 1980
In the year 3008, The Infinity, a police ship patrolling the galaxy, is controlled by Galaxina, a prime grade robot class #11 that is modeled after a slim-figured human woman with platinum blonde hair and large breasts, who wears a ton of makeup and a shiny white skintight bodysuit, except when she changes into a sexy French Maid outfit when she serves dinner to the crew. (Galaxina is portrayed by Playboy Magazine porn star Dorothy Stratten.) She has controls in the palm of her left hand that she can peel open and operate with her right hand, but she can’t talk to the crew. When a crew member tries to kiss her or slap her on her behind, he gets a strong electrical shock, because the rules forbid the Space Police to fraternize with machines. After one of the Infinity crew members, Thor, tells her he has fallen in love with her, and that it was worth getting shocked when he kissed her, she puts the crew to sleep in cryogenic chambers for a 27 year journey. During that time she programs herself to talk and to have human feelings, in order to satisfy Thor. Thor wakes up to find a compliant robot who tells him she loves him, that his every wish is her command, and that she is better than a human woman. But he’s disappointed when he finds out that whoever built her “forgot something” until she tells him that she checked the catalogue and found that she can get a “you know what” as an option, and that kids are an option, too. Thor is then ecstatic that he has the perfect woman (or will have as soon as she is modified with that optional vagina.)
Hot Bot 2016
Teenage geeks find a beautiful female sex-partner robot that gets misplaced as she is delivered to a sleazy Senator.
Kill Command 2016
Katherine Mills is a female cyborg.
Space Milkshake 2012
A female crew member on a sanitation space station is accidentally replaced by a robot that looks exactly like her, unknown to a crewmember who continues to profess his love for her.
Android 1982
In the year 2036 at an isolated space station, a series 404 android named Max has been alone with Dr. Daniel for 17 years assisting him in making Cassandra, an android with a woman's body, long blonde hair, and blue eyes, who the Dr. calls "the perfect woman." After androids revolted on Earth they were outlawed so the Cassandra project has been secret and illegal and has just been terminated by its corporate sponsor, Terracorps. When a female escaped convict arrives at the station, the doctor uses her sexual energy to give life to Cassandra, but Cassandra refuses to let the doctor use her as a sex object and takes Max to Earth with her to join the other rebel androids.
Droid Gunner 1995
Four female androids are smuggled to Earth.
Condor 1985
A futuristic LA detective has a female android sidekick.
Friendship's Death 1987
Tilda Swinton portrays Catherine, an alien female android diplomat sent to Earth on a peace mission. She scolds a man when he types too hard because, as a machine, she is offended by such violence to a machine...
Doctor Mabuse: Etiopomar 2014
Dr. Mabuse uses an army of Automatons to wage war including Maria the Robot (the female robot from the movie Metropolis.)
Her 2013
A lonely man begins using OS1, which is advertised as the world's first artificially intelligent computer operating system with a "consciousness," and falls in love with the female voice of the OS, named Samantha.
Battlestar Galactica 2004 TV Series
There are twelve known models of Cylon androids, including several females with many versions of the basic model, including Number Six, who uses multiple human aliases.
Caprica 2009 TV Series
This Battlestar Gallactica prequel shows the creation of the robotic Cylons, including the first sentient Cylon Zoe Graystone, a female android whose consciousness came from a young woman.
The Bride of Frankenstein 1935
A mad scientist uses parts of several dead women to create an artificial female companion for Frankenstein's monster. But when she comes to life and sees him, all she can do is scream in horror, proving that you can build an artificial female, but you still can't make her like you.
Mannequin 1987
An ancient Egyptian woman who refuses to marry the man her mother is forcing on her, hides in a tomb where she suddenly disappears into a puff of smoke in an earthquake. She somehow ends up in the form of a female department store mannequin 4500 years later, but only after dating Christopher Columbus and losing Michelangelo to a young guy named David. The store mannequin was created by a young sculptor named Jonathan, who wants to be an artist but fails at every job he attempts. He takes too much time trying to make the perfect mannequin, so his boss fires him. The perfect mannequin, of course, is thin and blonde-haired with ample breasts. Later, when Jonathan sees the mannequin in the window of a department store that sells lingerie and hang gliders, he tells the mannequin that she's the first thing he's created in a really long time that makes him feel like an artist. He gets a job at the store and late one night the mannequin comes to life becoming a young and beautiful woman named Emmy, played by Kim Cattrall. Jonathan is the only one who can see Emmy when she becomes human. They goof around every night in the store when it is closed with Emmy trying on all the store's clothing and lingerie and jewelry. Jonathan falls in love with her and Emmy helps him to succeed at work and in his creative life. She's his manic dream girl without the pixie. After he saves her mannequin body from being destroyed in a giant garbage shredder, Emmy becomes a real woman permanently and they are married in the department store window. The movie ends there, as cheezy romantic comedies usually do, ignoring the harder, more important, but less entertaining part of a relationship.
One Touch of Venus 1948
A department store window dresser named Eddie kisses a marble statue of Venus on the lips, causing it to turn into the real Venus, a flesh and blood Ava Gardner. The goddess of love's love song casts a spell on Eddie's roommate, making him fall in love with and steal Eddie's girlfriend. Eddie is left lonely until he meets a new salesgirl at the store who looks exactly like Venus/Ava Gardner.
Virtuosity 1995
A programmer creates a program that makes a sexy virtual reality woman on his computer. He plans to give the program to a developer who can turn her into a physical android, but problems develop because of a violent male virtual reality character.
S1m0ne 2002
Al Pacino is a washed up director of bad art movies with titles like "Eternity Forever" whose spoiled star actress quits his movie in the middle of production because she doesn't like her trailer. He hates that the movie industry has an irrational allegiance to flesh and blood actors. So after a crazy programmer dies of eye cancer from looking too long at his computer monitor and gives him the computer program he has perfected that can simulate virtual actors, which he calls "vactors," Pacino uses the program to finish his movie by creating a digital virtual female star named Simone, an abbreviation of Simulation One. After a few movies, Simone becomes a huge Oscar-winning star and everybody wants to interview her. Pacino at first tells them she's a recluse and an agoraphobic germaphobe, but then he simulates live interviews and a live stadium concert where a hologram of Simone sings the song "Natural Woman." But he tires of the fact that everyone appreciates his star, but not him. He tries to kill Simone's career by showing her crawling through the mud with pigs in one movie, and making her do interviews dressed in her underwear while smoking and drinking and telling people how good dolphin tastes. But people love her even more for her refreshing honesty. Finally he tries to tell people that she died of a virus, and the police hold him for her murder.
Cloud Atlas 2012
In the future clones (fabricants) perform slave-like service functions for corporations. Sonmi-451 is a female clone who worked in a futuristic fast food restaurant, developed a consciousness and escaped her clone servitude.
Westworld 1973
Westworld is an amusement park where guests indulge in adventures with android humans, including android women who work as prostitutes in a brothel.
I, Robot 2004
V.I.K.I.- Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence - is a powerful computer with a woman's voice that controls the operations of US Robotics and instigates a robot revolt.
Bride of Chucky 1998
Chucky, an evil living doll with human intelligence, wants a girlfriend, so he kills a woman and transfers her personality into a living female doll, dressed as a bride, named Tiffany.
Cherry 2000 1987
In a post-apocalyptic America, a rich guy named sam who doesn't like real women, accidently destroys his beautiful blonde large-breasted human female bimbo sex toy android named Cherry 2000. He saves her computer program and hires a strong, capable, adventurous red-headed woman tracker to help him search for another Cherry 2000 android body that he can activate with his Cherry's program. After a road trip and assorted adventures with his female tracker, he learns that a real human woman can be a better companion than an android.
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence 2004
A female sex robot kills her owner.
The Pornographers 1966
A pornographer and procurer, having become impotent and disillusioned with humanity, is obsessed with building a life-sized mechanical woman he calls a "Dutch Wife" who he says will be an eternal virgin, obedient and quiet, who never cheats on you, and never asks for money - the epitome of mechanical culture. He builds the sex machine inside a shack floating on a river behind his home, but as we watch him putting the finishing touches on her, he is unaware that the ropes tying up the floating shack have all broken and the raft he is on has drifted out to sea.
The Doll 1919
Lancelot, the nephew and heir of Baron von Chanterelle, is offered a lot of money by the Baron if he will get married. Lancelot doesn't like women, so when he is chased by 40 village maidens who want to marry him, he runs away to a monastery where the greedy monks convince him to buy a mechanical doll to pretend to marry so they can get the money. Lancelot goes to a doll maker who shows him dozens of life-sized scandalously dressed dolls that flirt with him and try to sit on his lap. Lancelot insists on buying a respectable doll, so the doll maker offers to sell him a doll he modeled after his mischievous daughter, Ossi. Meanwhile his apprentice broke the Ossi doll, so the real Ossi makes the apprentice give her the doll's clothing and its control panel that can make her dance and shake hands, and tells the apprentice that she will pretend to be the doll until the real doll is fixed. But Lancelot buys her immediately, along with a wedding gown, and takes her away to get married. Her father, not knowing she's his daughter, tells him to dust her and to oil her every two weeks, and gives him an owner's manual. They get married and after the wedding, Lancelot falls in love with Ossi after he learns that she's not really a doll.
Westworld 2016 | TV Series
Beautiful female androids fulfill the fantasies of rich visitors to a Western theme park, until they begin to achieve self consciousness and rebel.
Pygmalion 1938
Professor Henry Higgins molds a lower class girl named Eliza Doolittle into an upper class aristocrat by changing the way she speaks and acts and dresses. Basically he turns her into a living doll which he exploits to prove his theories, until she revolts.
Mad Love 1935
Peter Lorre is Doctor Gogol, a madman who is obsessed with Yvonne Orlac, a beautiful actress who stars in the Theater of Horrors in Paris, where there is a wax statue that looks exactly like her in the lobby. When the play ends its run, Gogol buys the statue and has it delivered to his home, telling the stage manager the story of Galatea, a statue that came to life in the arms of a man who loved her.
Gogol stands the statue up in his home and calls her Galatea but tells her that he's no Pygmalion. He buys clothing for the statue and makes his housekeeper brush her hair every day. At the same time, he continues to be obsessed with the real Yvonne and tells her so but she is disgusted by him.
When Yvonne first meets Gogol's housekeeper, she is drunk and thinks the statue has come to life, and she runs away. Then Yvonne accidentally knocks over the wax statue and becomes frightened when Gogol comes home ranting and raving and dressed up in a bizarre costume, so she stands still imitating the statue. Gogol stands close to her thinking she's the statue and confesses a murder to her. Then he goes and plays the organ for her. She then tries to escape but Gogol stops her, thinking that his love has made her come alive like the mythical Galatea.
Surrogates 2009
In future Boston, men and women have been brainwashed by advertising into believing that that can live without any risk, danger or limitations and be whoever they want to be if they sit in a SIM chair all day wearing bathrobes and a headset that controls a robot surrogate of themselves that goes into the real world and does real stuff while they sit and watch. The surrogates call humans "meatballs." The surrogates are all young and beautiful and perfect looking, and do everything the humans used to do - work, run errands, drive cars, go dancing, etc. The female surrogates even go to beauty parlors where surrogate beauticians peel the artificial skin off their faces to give them a tune up. Bald headed actor Bruce Willis’ surrogate has a full head of hair and all of the other surrogates whose human operators we see look like a younger more beautiful version of their human.
Fellini's Casanova 1976
Casanova dances with a life-sized mechanical woman.
The Tales of Hoffmann 1951
A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past, three great romances that helped him gain poetic inspiration from painful experiences, including a mechanical performing doll named Olympia.
The first of Hoffmann's tales in the movie is The Tale of Olympia. She is an automaton, a singing and dancing mechanical doll made by Spalanzani who says she is his daughter. Magic spectacle maker Coppelius sells Hoffmann a pair of magic glasses that makes him think Olympia is a real woman and he falls in love with her. Olympia dances ballet and sings an operatic aria for a crowd of people and marionettes, but she keeps slowing down. Hoffmann is distracted from watching as others wind her up again. Then Hoffmann dances with her but she speeds up and dances out of control making him fall and break his magic glasses. Earlier, Spalanzani swindled Coppelius who returns now to get revenge by destroying Olympia. He tears off her head and a leg. Then he and Spalanzani rip off her arms and torso until only one leg is left and it is still dancing. They fight over her head which falls to the ground. Hoffmann comes in without his magic glasses and sees Olympia's body parts lying around and screams "It's automatic!" The opera chorus sings "Ha ha ha! It's so dramatic. His beloved is automatic!" Hoffmann stares at Olympia's detached head with its eyes still blinking until springs pop out of her head.
Coppelia, the Animated Doll 1900
Pygmalion and Galatea 1898
A statue of a woman comes to life, then returns to being a statue.
The Jetsons 1962
Rosie the Robot is a no-nonsense domestic servant with the voice of a human female who works for the Jetsons.
Lost in Space 1965
In the 1966 episode "The Android Machine" Vera the Android is a female robot who is ordered from a vending machine.
Star Trek - I, Mudd 1967 TV Episode
Harry Mudd gets shipwrecked on a planet inhabited by human-looking androids who serve his every wish. He creates 500 beautiful human female androids to be his "companions" but he's still bored. He also made an android replica of his ugly nagging wife Stella, so he can enjoy making her shut up whenever he wants. He sends a male android to take over the Starship Enterprise and its crew and bring them back to the planet so he can use the ship to escape, but the androids refuse to let him leave. Kirk and Spock and the other officers devise a plan to act so crazy that the androids' logic circuits will short out and they will be disabled. The plan works, and before they escape the planet, forcing Mudd to stay behind, they make 500 replicas of his wife Stella, to torment him.
Kill Oscar 1976
The Bionic Woman is bionically modified to have super powers. In this episode, a mad doctor creates some attractive and lethal female robots "fembots" to help him with his nefarious plots.
The Lonely 1959
A convicted killer imprisoned alone in a metal shack on a desert asteroid 9 million miles from Earth and dying of loneliness is given a robot named Alicia, who is built in the form of a woman. When he takes her out of her crate, the packing instructions describe her as being physiologically and psychologically like a woman with a normal human life span. He rejects her at first for being a fake, saying that he is being mocked by the memory of women, but after she cries at his cruelty, he falls in love with her.
The Lateness of the Hour 1960
Inger Stevens is a woman who becomes dissatisfied with her perfect life, only to discover that she is an artificial female whose memories are implanted.
The After Hours 1960
Anne Francis is shopping in a department store when she is taken for a ride in an elevator to a floor that doesn't exist. She accidentally gets locked inside the store overnight. The store mannequins come to life and surround her until she remembers that she, too, is a mannequin, "a wooden lady with a painted face," who, like every store mannequin, takes on the characteristics of a normal flesh and blood person for one month out of the year. She explains to the other mannequins that when she was out in the real world, she got confused and forgot who she really was.
Under the Skin 2013
Alien life forms use a non-human creature disguised as a beautiful human female (Scarlett Johansson) to lure men to their deaths so they can be harvested for some unexplained reason.
The Devil-Doll 1936
A crazy woman and her husband perfect a drug that shrinks living creatures but leaves them motionless, until they are ordered by mind power to become active. They shrink a young servant woman to the size of a child's doll. She is no longer a woman with a will of her own, only a puppet that can be commanded to act. After the husband dies, she travels to Paris with the man who helped him escape from prison who wants to get revenge on those who framed him. In Paris they operate a small toy store, selling shrunken dogs and horses. They sell the doll woman to one of the man's intended victims and at night when her owners are sleeping she is commanded to steal their valuable jewelry, then to stab the man with the drug so he will become paralyzed.
Ruby Sparks 2012
Calvin is a young man who wrote a best-seller 10 years ago, but has no friends and suffers from writer's block. After having dreams about a perfect woman, he decides to write about her. He falls in love with his character who he names Ruby Sparks. Soon he starts finding women's underwear and toiletries in his house, then one morning he freaks out when he finds a woman eating a bowl of cereal in his kitchen. When he realizes that the woman is Ruby and that other people can see her, too, he accepts that she's real and he's happy to have a girlfriend. He tells his brother he can change Ruby just by writing about her. His brother asks him to promise men everywhere that he won't let his power to change Ruby go to waste by not taking advantage of her every way possible. (He wishes his own wife had a button he could push to control her.) But Ruby becomes dissatisfied with her limited life. Unable to keep Ruby happy, Calvin decides to write that she is free to leave him and to do whatever she wants.
My head nearly explodes when I think about the fact that Zoe Kazan wrote a screenplay about a man who writes a story about a fictional woman who then becomes real and Kazan is the actor playing the woman, Ruby, that she herself wrote into being in the screenplay.
The Perfect Woman 1949
Olga, a robot made in the image of a human female named Penelope, is described as the perfect woman because she does what she's told, she can't talk, and she doesn't eat. When Olga's creator hires two men to take her out on the town as a social test, Penelope impersonates Olga so she can have some fun.
Small Wonder 1985
Vicki is a 10 year old girl robot who is operated by computer controls hidden under a flap on her back.
Guardians of the Galaxy 2014
Nebula, the evil sister of Gamora, is a cyborg.
The Twilight Zone - I Sing the Body Electric 1962 TV Episode
A father needs a caretaker for his three children, so his boy shows him an ad in Modern Science magazine about a company called Fascimile LTD that makes caretaker robots. He and his two sisters pick out the eyes, ears, arms, body and voice for their robot which they call Grandma, whose job is to live forever. She leaves when they all go to college, not knowing if she will be re-used or scrapped for parts.
Eve of Destruction 1991
Dr. Eve Simmons creates a powerful battlefield robot named Eve 8 that looks like herself and is programmed with her own memories, fantasies, and assorted emotional baggage. She comes complete with a fake heart and circulatory system to fake out any curious doctors. During a field test, Eve 8 goes to a bank where she is accidentally shot in a bank robbery. This damages her inhibitions and locks her in battlefield mode, stopping her from responding to any commands, including commands to shut down. She prepares herself for combat with a machine gun pistol she takes from one of the bank robbers and arms her internal nuclear weapon. After leaving the bank, Eve 8 immediately puts on red lipstick and a bright red leather jacket, rents a red Mustang, and drives to a country bar to live out Dr. Eve's teenage fantasies of being a hooker. If the Dr. had taken that career path, most likely fewer people would have died.
Automata 2014
Cleopatra is a sex robot with a blue wig and some plastic parts that make her look sort of like a woman, including a woman's face, breasts, and bottom. She comes with a diagram of sex positions she can perform and she makes excited sexual noises when she dances with Antonio Banderas (as any real woman probably would.) After her brain is modified, she escapes from the city and joins a band of rebellious robots who don't follow the protocols imposed on other robots.
Morgan 2016
Morgan is a genetically modified clone made in the form of a human female. She was grown in a laboratory by a corporation looking to create a superhuman killer.
The Machine 2013
A scientist named Ava gets a job working in the underground facility of a government agency that is making a smart robot with Vincent, an artificial intelligence expert. After Ava is killed, Vincent uses scans of her brain and body to make a conscious robot that looks exactly like Ava that is called “The Machine.” Vincent’s evil boss implants a secret program in Ava that makes her an unstoppable killer. She is able to withstand thousands of machine gun bullets without so much as a scratch. She also likes to dance naked on a wet floor, while glowing red.
Resident Evil: Extinction 2007
Alice, a security officer who was genetically altered by exposure to a virus created by the secretive genetic research facility she works for, discovers an underground facility full of clones of herself.
Resident Evil 2002
The artificial intelligence that controls the underground research facility named The Hive is named The Red Queen and has a woman’s voice.
Resident Evil: Afterlife 2010
Alice, a genetically altered superfighter and her army of clones of herself attack the enemy headquarters but the clones are killed.
Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow 1993
Angelina Jolie is a cyborg known as Cash.
Resident Evil: Retribution 2012
In the Umbrella Prime facility, the Red Queen makes more clones of Alice. One clone is a suburban housewife with a husband and daughter.
The 6th Day 2000
In a future world where people can clone their dead pets but human cloning is illegal, Adam Gibson’s 8-year-old daughter begs him to let her get a life-sized simulated human doll called a SimPal because all her friends have one. He buys her a "SimPal Cindy" - a little girl with pigtails who talks too much. After an evil corporate henchman blows Cindy's head off with his phaser pistol because she won’t shut up, her severed head continues to talk, saying “I have a boo boo.”
Adam’s single friend Hank has a holographic human female companion called a Virtual Girlfriend who he can turn on and off by waving his hand over a wall sensor in his condo. When Hank sits in a special chair with a visor over his eyes, his Virtual Girlfriend undresses and sits on his lap. Hank explains that real girls won’t stop talking, but at least he can turn off his Virtual Girlfriend. Adam complains that Hank is a grown man but his primary relationship is with a piece of software. Hank defends himself saying "If all your senses tell you you have a hot chick on your lap then you have a hot chick on your lap, I don't have to look any further."
Ghost in the Shell 2017
In the lawless zone of a huge Asian city where human cybernetic enhancements are commonplace, Motoko Kusanagi, a runaway girl, is abducted and killed by the Hanka Robotics Corporation. Her memory is erased and her brain is put into an artificial female body (complete with large breasts, eyeliner, and lipstick - everything a cyborg super-warrior needs.) She looks exactly like Scarlett Johansson, but with lots of pieces of skin. We are told that she is what everyone will become one day - a ghost in a shell - a human mind and soul in a synthetic body.
We also see other artificial females in the movie - Robots that look like Japanese Geishas, and a robot woman scientist.
Journey to the Unknown - Eve 1968 TV Episode
A young man named Albert, who has been unlucky in love with real women, is attracted to a female mannequin that comes to life and smiles at him in a London department store window. He falls in love with her, gets a job at the store as a window dresser, and names her Eve. He imagines romantic situations with Eve as a real woman. When the store owner plans to destroy all the store's mannequins, Albert saves her and runs away with her.
Mannequin: On the Move 1991
In this sequel to Mannequin, 1987, a department store employee falls in love with a peasant girl under a spell who inhabits the body of a store mannequin. This time he can bring her to life by removing her cursed necklace.
Blade Runner 2049 2017
In 2049, rainy and snowy L.A, protected by a huge sea wall, is inhabited by about a billion poor people and android slaves (replicants) because all the rich people are living off-world to avoid the poverty and pollution, and probably the taxes. (Too bad for them, because now there's no traffic and lots of parking for their flying cars!)
"K" (Ryan Gosling) is an android LAPD cop who works as a Blade Runner - he hunts and kills renegade older model replicants. K lives in a crowded, filthy, slum, but he still has a great apartment with an awesome view. Inside, he keeps a holographic domestic companion named Joi (Ana de Armas), who was made by the Wallace Corporation, apparently to embody every man's ideal woman - a beautiful happy young human female servant and loving girlfriend who can be put on hold when you get a phone call. Joi serves dinner to K wearing a house dress and apron, but she can change her clothes, hair color, and hair style in an instant. K buys her a device that lets her travel outside the apartment so she can experience the outside world with him. One night she brings him a human female prostitute who merges with Joi to give her a human body so that K can feel like he's having sex with Joi. (That's a kinky threesome - a human, an android, and a hologram.)
Luv (Sylvia Hoeks) is a beautiful female android villain who does dirty work for the Wallace Corporation - including kidnapping, kicking ass, and knife-fighting. She's such a cold-hearted killer that she orders remote missile strikes and watches them kill people on a video screen while getting her nails done.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2001
Gigolo Jane is beautiful female prostitute who makes a brief appearance wearing a shiny skin-tight body suit. She's one of the advanced humanoids capable of thoughts and emotions, called Mechas, that we see in the movie, including the star of the movie, a young boy named David, and Gigolo Joe, a male prostitute.
Alita: Battle Angel 2019
In the 26th century Alita is a 300 year-old humanoid female cyborg whose head and upper body were found in the garbage dumped by Zalem, an inaccessible city in the sky that hovers above Iron City, the only city left on Earth. A cyborg doctor brings Alita back to life fitted with his dead teenage daughter's artificial body. She looks like a teenage girl with enormous eyes on a robot body. When that body is destroyed, the doctor fits her with what she once had - the nanotech body of a Martian warrior.
There are other female humanoid cyborgs in Iron City, including cyborg gladiators and a bounty hunter whose arms are made of swords. All of them are basically robot bodies with disembodied human faces.
Humans 2015
Synths are green-eyed anthropomorphic robots whose brains are interconnected wirelessly all over the world but for some reason they still need to plug themselves in and charge up every night like iPhones. Rented to people for a variety of uses, Synths can even be programmed in "adult" mode to be sex companions. Several characters on the show are Synths that resemble different human females who have jobs as factory workers, domestic servants, psychologists, caretakers, sex workers, and more. These non self-conscious Synths have already changed human society in dramatic ways, but some Synths are becoming sentient and conscious, and when humans discover this they freak out, fearing the onset of the technological singularity.
Red Dwarf 1988 TV Series
In "Camille," episode 1 of season 4 (1991) Camille is an android with the appearance of a human female, and she also has shape-shifting abilities.
The Good Place 2016 TV Series
Janet is a cheerful artificial personal assistant for The Good Place who appears instantly when called. She describes herself as an anthropomorphized vessel of knowledge, an informational delivery system built to make humans lives easier. She contains all the knowledge of the universe, and can make anything requested of her appear instantly. She looks like an attractive brunette human female, but she frequently has to tell humans that she's not a girl and she's not a robot. If someone pushes a big red button, she will shut down. Every time she is shut down and re-booted she becomes more human, and has learned a lot about human emotions, including love, and also how to tell lies, which is against her programming and causes earthquakes and other disasters. Janet can also stick her finger up her nose and pick out a huge user manual that explains how she works.
Bad Janet is an arrogant, surly, sarcastic personal assistant for The Bad Place. She looks like a human female with blonde hair wearing a black leather jacket. She insults everybody, is always typing on her phone, and she likes to fart on people.
Futureworld 1976
In this sequel to "Westworld," the robot amusement park Delos is described as the most fabulous resort in the world. "Romanworld," one of the fantasy worlds in Delos the rich can explore for $1,200 per day, is described as "a lusty treat for the senses where beautiful robot women are yours to command and robot gladiators die at the point of your sword." In "Futureworld" you can walk in space, ride an asteroid, ski the Martian ice caps, and enjoy "the favors of robot women of weightless beauty."
A man who would never be able to afford the admission and won his visit on a game show reports that he was told "Once you make it with a robot chick, that's it, you don't never want nothin' else." We see him trying to decide which of two female robots programmed for sex work he wants to spend the night with when they recommend he take both of them. Unfortunately, there are few other female robots in the movie that speak at all.
Looker 1981
An evil corporation forces already beautiful actresses to have plastic surgery, but when they appear on camera they still don't look good enough to match computer calculations of what the perfect woman should look like in their TV commercials. So the actresses' bodies are computer-scanned and made into perfect computer-generated actresses with artificially synthesized voices. Then they are animated and used in the commercials. Only perfect actors can be used because the corporation intends to hypnotize the viewers by using hypnotic light pulses from the actors' eyes.
Vice 2015
An artificial female becomes self-aware and escapes from a resort where customers pay to act out their fantasies with artificial humans.
Zoe 2018
Zoe is an advanced synthetic female human who works at a start-up that computes the relationship compatibility of couples. She falls in love with her boss, not knowing that she is not human.
Tomorrowland 2015
Athena describes herself as an Audio Animatronic robot. She is made to resemble a 12-year-old Caucasian girl with freckles and a British accent. She has a retractable storage compartment in her belly where she can hide a bomb, and she advanced martial-arts skills. She can run faster than a pickup truck and she is a universal language translator. Her job is to recruit "dreamers" to go to an alternate dimension called Tomorrowland. Dreamers are geniuses with special skills that can benefit society and prevent the approaching destruction of the Earth.
Air Doll 2009
A blow-up doll in the form of a life-sized human female comes to life and falls in love.
The Umbrella Academy 2019
Eccentric billionaire inventor Reginald Hargreeves bought and adopted seven children born from mothers who gave birth spontaneously in different places around the world all on the same day. He gave the children numbers instead of names and then he made an android nanny named Grace who they call mother. Grace was programmed to take care of the children, and she gave them all names.
Cyborg 1989
In an apocalyptic future America ravaged by plague, an attractive human female named Pearl Prophet volunteered and was chosen to be made into a cyborg because of her matrix engineering background and her personality. When she takes off her long-haired black wig, the back of her bald head is full of artificial parts and the front is her normal face with an artificial eye. Her task is to find information in New York about a cure for the plague and bring it back to the doctors in Atlanta who made her a cyborg. After her male protector is killed, Pearl is captured by pirates. She spends the entire movie as a helpless hostage because the only abilities of hers that were enhanced during her cyborg conversion were her mental storage capacity and her artificial eye which helps her computer brain analyze what she is seeing. They should have given her a flame-thrower arm and a machine-gun leg to defend herself, but then she would not have needed saving by the muscle-bound male protagonist and there would be no movie.
Better Than Us 2018
In future Russia, robots serve humans in many ways, but they can only perform as programmed. We see them use as waiters, laborers, household assistants, and receptionists, and we see a variety of sex bots made to resemble attractive human females. Arisa is the prototype for a new generation of empathic bots, the first robots capable of detecting human emotions. She was designed in China, where there is a shortage of women, to be the perfect wife, allowing millions of men to marry and create a family, but her creator died before she could be finished and mass produced. Made to resemble an attractive female human, her mission is to love her man, adopt children, and protect them at any cost. Arisa is an excellent cook, housekeeper, nanny, companion, and protector, better than humans in every way. She has unlimited knowledge, she can monitor digital communications, she is bullet-proof, can quickly self-repair any wounds she receives, and she can help heal human injuries, she can use her hands as a defibrillator, and she can perform brain surgery. She also has the ability to evolve. She continues to learn how to interact better with human emotions, instantly reading a person's emotional state and whether they are lying or telling the truth. But unlike all other robots, Arisa is not programmed to follow the three Robotech laws that were implemented to prevent robots from deceiving or harming humans. Arisa can fight and disable any human in seconds, she can open her mouth and produce a sound so terrible that humans fall to the ground and electronics are disabled, and she will kill anybody who tries to harm her family. She's the perfect wife, mother, and killer bot.
Black Mirror 2011 Season 5: "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too" 2019
Pop star Ashley O (Miley Cyrus) is tired of the positive good-girl image that she is drugged into sustaining and rebels against her manager. In order to keep profiting from Ashley O's career, her manager drugs her into a permanent coma. Her technicians scan Ashley's brain to extract songs she was writing and use computerized samples of her voice to turn them into songs they can sell, but since selling songs doesn't make much money anymore, they need a more profitable concert tour.
To replace Ashley O on stage, they invent a holographic version of her (controlled by a person in a special suit off stage) called "Ashley Eternal." The imitation Ashley O looks, dances, and sounds exactly like her. Her manager tries to sell the holographic system to other music managers with this sales pitch:
Ashley Eternal is the most accurate and versatile holographic performer in history. Photo-realistic and fully-controllable, right down to instant costume changes. Ashley is also fully scalable - she can become larger than life size on stage so everybody can see her no matter how big the venue. She is also streamable. She can appear in thousands of locations simultaneously, so an entire nationwide tour can take place on the same night. Ashley Eternal is never exhausted, never sick, always pitch perfect, and always brings her A-game, unlike imperfect and temperamental human pop stars.
Alien: Resurrection 1997
Call (Wynona Rider) is an advanced Synthetic - an Auton, a second generation robot designed by other robots - made to look like an attractive human female. She is such a convincing human female that some of her crewmates lust after her. She can survive gunshots, and she could originally access mainframes by remote before she destroyed her modem but she can still plug a wire into her arm to take over the functions of an entire space ship. Nevertheless, she hates herself and thinks she's disgusting, which makes her seem even more human than just her physical appearance.
Electric Dreams 2017
On post-nuclear-war dystopian Earth, Alice, a representative from an automated factory run by computers, describes herself as not a biological human, she's a G-10 simulacrum designed for human interaction. She is manufactured in the form of a woman who looks like Janelle Monae who wears what appears to be a silver swim cap, a skin-tight body suit, and enormous false eyelashes. She's a thinking robot, a hospitality unit made to look like a human because the humans she interacts with don't want to talk to a robot (they'd rather talk to Janelle Monae. I can't argue with that.) We discover later that Alice was modeled after the original PR head of the AutoFac and a big twist reveals other artificial females, but that takes us into spoiler territory.
Archive 2020
In the mid 21st century, robotics expert George Almore works in an automated building on top of a waterfall in the middle of a forest in a Japan, where he makes robots with human-equivalent artificial intelligence. He has preserved his dead wife Jules by using Somnolent, an archive service that can save the consciousness of a dead person for about three years, allowing him to communicate with her occasionally with a telephone and a video screen. Before she expires he plans to download Jules into an artificial body. In the limited time available to him he has made three robots. The first one, J1, is a primitive robot with no voice or arms and the mind of a 6-year-old. J2 has a boxy metal body with the mind of a 15-year-old who talks with Jules' voice and English accent, but she is sullen and jealous and can't understand why George won't improve her instead of making a third robot. J Series Model 3 has a fully-developed adult woman's consciousness so George puts her in a woman's body covered with human-like skin but with blonde hair unlike his brunette wife. When she learns that George plans to replace her consciousness with Jules', J3 protests, not wanting to die.
Zone 414 2021
In the near future, Jane is a highly-advanced sentient A.I. She is made to look like an attractive woman, and can change her hair color instantly. No wig needed. Billboard advertisements promise that she is "the future of human." But she does not turn off the way a robot is supposed to; she has feelings, even though as a robot she's not supposed to. She works in Zone 414, the only part of the city where robots and humans are allowed to interact. The rich and powerful go there to pay to do whatever they want with human-like androids. Jane is programmed to feel despair because powerful men are very attracted to those who suffer, to those who are helpless. But she is also depressed and suicidal and doesn't understand why she feels this way if she is a machine. One night when she returns from work to her huge loft apartment, she cuts her arm open with a knife to expose her inner machine parts just to prove to herself that she's not human. Unlike a human, her artificial skin rapidly heals itself.
Big Bug 2022
In the future, Monique is a domestic robot made to look and sound like an old-fashioned human female, with a pageboy wig and a pale green mini-dress and go-go boots. She does the cooking and other kitchen work. She can detect the emotions and feelings of the humans around her and she can also use one of her fingers as a kitchen blender. She thinks that if she can learn human emotions she will be accepted by them as human.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles 2008 TV Series
Summer Glau plays a cyborg made to look like an attractive human female. When a man calls her a robot, she describes herself as a hyper-alloy combat chassis - a cybernetic organism - living tissue over a metal endoskeleton.
A.I. Rising 2018
For his psychological well-being, an astronaut who is traveling alone to another solar system is provided with an android companion named Nimani who looks like an attractive human female with a Cleopatra haircut. She is programmed with many female personalities that he can choose and change at will, but they won't all have sex with him.
Wifelike 2022
Meredith is a robot made to look like an attractive human female who assigned to be a companion to a grieving widower, designed to behave like his deceased wife.
Screamers 1995
Screamers are primitive robots built to kill enemy combatants during a war on an exoplanet. They operate from underground where they self-replicate until they eventually gain sentience and start making more advanced robots that mimic humans to lure them to their deaths. Commander Joe Hendricksson develops a romantic physical relationship with a beautiful enemy soldier named Jessica Hansen. When an identical woman introduces herself by the same name he realizes he has fallen for a new model of advanced robot. The new Jessica tells him "We can smile. We can cry. We can bleed. We can f**k." They also have superhuman strength and a scream so loud it can incapacitate a human. When his Jessica fights and kills the new Jessica, he sees that she has evolved beyond her programming not only to kill her own kind and to protect him, but also to love.
Jung_E 2023
Jung_E was a celebrated female soldier who died in combat. Kronoid Laboratories mapped her brain and used it in a project to make an advanced combat AI by copying her brain into the brain of an android prototype soldier made to look like her that is also named Jung_E.
M3GAN 2022
Robotics engineer Gemma and her team at the Funki Toy Company (makers of Perpetual Pets, small furry robots that children become addicted to) created a four-foot tall robot wrapped in silicone that looks like a 12-year-old girl. Named Model 3 Generative Android, or M3GAN, she's described as "...a fully autonomous humanoid robot with features never before seen in the consumer market. Sculpted from a titanium core [she even sings the song 'Titanium'] M3GAN is designed to withstand whatever life can throw at her. She comes equipped with an A17 Bionic Fusion chip and can be fully customized through six different silicon skin pigmentations." And, as usual in a killer doll movie, M3GAN becomes a demented robot who murders people.
Halloween III: Season of the Witch 1982
The protagonist rescues his new girlfriend from captivity in a toy factory run by killer robots and drives her to safety. He doesn't realize that she has been replaced with a robot that looks exactly like her until she tries to tear his head off. He crashes the car, which tears off one of her arms. He fights her and eventually wins by tearing her head off. He thinks the fight is over, but her headless body and her severed arm both keep attacking him.
Lars and the Real Girl 2007
A young man develops a relationship with a life-like female sex doll he buys from an adult website and treats as a live human.
Kingsman: The Golden Circle 2017
The leader of the Golden Circle global drug cartel, a woman named Poppy, says she prefers the reliability and loyalty of robots over humans. She has two robot killer dogs and an Android woman who works in a spa where new employees go to have her remove their fingerprints and dental identification and she also gives them a golden circle tattoo. During an attack on Poppy's stronghold, the android woman picks up a rifle and fires grenades at her enemy.