Movies (practically) without Fembot Content that Could/Should:
- Advantageous (2015): In the near-future, a company makes a technique to transfer one's consciousness to a new body. The new bodies are organic, though.
- After Yang (2022): "A family's AI helper breaks down." Good movie, but no fembots to be found.
- A.I. Assault (2006), a.k.a. Shockwave (post): Based on the name, one might expect a chance of female androids, but nope. "When a plane carrying a pair of top secret military robots crashes on a deserted Pacific island, a team of Navy seals must find them and turn them off as soon as possible for the longer they are activated, the smarter they become."
- Atlas (2024) (post): "In a bleak-sounding future, an A.I. soldier has determined that the only way to end war is to end humanity." One brief, nudity-blurred-out shot of a female android, but no other fembots.
- Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022):"A robotic Santa Claus begins a rampant killing spree through a small town." Comic-horror Terminator parody; not even a robot elf, though.
- Class of 1999 II: The Substitute (1994)(post): "The substitute teacher of the future is a robot..." No fembots in this one, and (spoilers) even he's not a robot but a PTSD murderous dude.
- The Companion (1994)(post): "Writer [...] 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." One brief GINO appearance: a female secretary, but otherwise not worth watching.
- Cutie Honey: Tears (2016)(post): "Scientist Dr. Kisaragi creates Cutie Honey, an android that possesses human emotions, in order to stop an evil organization." From Windblade's post: "There is no 'real' robot content in this movie, only some very small scenes."—glowing eyes, erratic eye movements, and a "small scene where various ports on Jill's back were shown." ["Jill is this movie's main villain, an evil emotionless android"]
- Действуй, Маня (Deystvuy, Manya!, literal "Take Action, Manya!", 1992)(post): "A biologist and a programmer create a superman robot to fight crime that looks like a photo model from a poster." "She acts more like a woman with super-strength than like a robot. The only one robotic thing about her is her blank / glassy stare."
- Don't Worry Darling (2022): "A 1950s housewife living with her husband in a utopian experimental community begins to worry that his glamorous company could be hiding disturbing secrets." Could have something to do with female robots with its Stepford Wives vibes, but doesn't at all.
- Foe (2023)(post): "Hen (Saoirse Ronan) & Junior's (Paul Mescal) life is thrown into turmoil when a stranger shows up at their door with a startling proposal[...]that they can have an AI robot/clone stand in for Junior while he's away building a space station. A familiar-to-this-board trope twist is suggested toward the end, but ultimately the whole film is just a bleak dialogue slog.
- Frozen Scream (1975)(post): "Mad scientists turn people into frozen zombies and the zombies wreak havoc and kill people." (thanks, IMDb
) The zombies are vaguely hinted to have some kind of technology modification to keep them alive, but it's certainly not that they're actually androids; there are a few women though. (I'm sure it's dreadfully boring as I watched it on RiffTrax which made it fun.) - Kill Command (2016)(post): "Set in a near future, technology-reliant society that pits man against killing machines." Mills (Vanessa Kirby) makes military robots, and is sent with soldiers to a remote planet to assess some military robots that are malfunctioning. Unfortunately, it turns out she is a human with some kind of cybernetic implant that is apparently necessary to keep her conscious. (She very well could have been an android posing as a human, as it would be silly to send a robot designer on a dangerous mission.)
- Life Like (2019): "A couple buys a life-like robot." (Spoiler) the robots are actually brainwashed humans.
- Morgan (2016)(post): "A consultant must decide whether or not to terminate an artificially created humanoid being." Central character Morgan is essentially a human clone with some nanobot stuff, I guess. (Spoilers) Corporate consultant Lee is basically the same thing, only an earlier experiment. She should have been an android since she (for all intents and purposes) looked and acted like one.
- Mother/Android (2021)(post): "An android-servant uprising killing most humans; a young expectant mother and the father try to find a safe place." There is only one android that looks like it could be female (the dozens of other are all male) but its face is damaged making it look exactly like somebody wearing a slightly-mechanical-looking skull mask.
- Perfect (2018): "Garrett, an emotionally-troubled young man, is sent to a clinic, whispering soothing promises of perfection." Despite mention of artificial beings, it's all just a slow-motion metaphor for humans as animals and humans as rational.
- Realive (2016): It's about a a guy getting cured after being frozen for years. The bio-tech company grows body parts and makes artificial organs, but there are no robots at all. "Marc will die of cancer and chooses cryogenic freeze [... can] he adapt mentally and physically?"
- Replicas (2018): "A scientist becomes obsessed with bringing back his family members who died in a traffic accident." He (Keanu Reeves) is working on transferring consciousness from dying people to CGI robots but it isn't working, [spoilers:] but the next phase is to make biological duplicates—clones—which fare much better. This is what he does with his family ... the only thing of note is that he can change their memories, but they're still basically lab-grown humans.
- Robot and Frank (2012)(post): "An aging thief receives a robot butler from his son." Pretty fun, solid movie overall, but there is just the one robot-like robot so no fembots.
- Robot Apocalypse (2021): "When expert hacker Tara tries to stop a powerful, sentient A.I. as it takes over the world's military, the A.I. marks her as a terrorist that must be exterminated." CG metal robots, but no fembots. They shoot chips that control humans but only one guy gets hit and you just pull it out and you're fine.
- Robot Riot (2020): "Soldiers with wiped memories arrive in a testing site to face off against giant robots." Potential in that the soldiers could have been androids, but nope. (Points for halfway decent super-cheap special effects of giant robots.)
- Ruby Sparks (2012)(post): "A novelist creates a female character he thinks will love him, then she becomes real." While being a construct from fiction, Ruby herself isn't an android at all. Since Calvin can write her as whatever he wants, I really wanted him to make her a robot, even temporarily, but that wouldn't have made sense in the film. Rather good movie; a smart morality tale about absolute power, but it hits a little close-to-home when compared to a controllable self-aware fembot.
- Screamers: The Hunting(post): Partial-credit for having a few non-human, mechanized women, but they were covered in a gooey flesh-like substance like gross Terminators. "A group of humans investigate an SOS from the 'screamers' planet[...]"
- Space Truckers (1996)(post): There is one scene where an old woman in a bathroom stall is a decoy with a keypad in her head, but IMO, that's no fembot. "A space trucker [gets hijacked and] 5000 disintegrator robots are found in the cargo."
- Transcendence (2014): "A scientist's [...] own consciousness is uploaded into [artificial intelligence]." Once he becomes a big powerful computer AI, he invites his wife to be uploaded, but that doesn't end up happening. The closest thing is people getting nano-technobabble into their bodies to heal chronic injuries, and they become part of a hive mind; a few are women, but they're really just altered humans.
- The Twilight Zone, S04E02, "In His Image" (1963): "A man (George Grizzard) is confused by a murderous impulse and a loss of his memory." He and his new fiancee (after 4 days? Oh the '60s) are going to visit his hometown, but it's all wrong. Spoilers: the guy is a robot made in the likeness of his creator, intended to be a better, perfect version. I was hoping the woman would also be a creation, but no.
- Uncanny (2015)(post): "The world's first 'perfect' Artificial Intelligence begins to exhibit startling and unnerving emergent behavior when a reporter begins a relationship with the scientist who created it." Not a bad little film at all. But I was oh so hoping the twist would be that the lovely Lucy Griffith's character was actually the android. She seems like she'd nail the mannerisms, etc.
- Under the Skin (2013)(post): "A mysterious alien woman seduces lonely men." Good movie, not a robot.
- Universal Soldier: The Return (1999): A sequel to the one about the computer-controlled beefy dudes. At some point Maggie (Kiana Tom) gets killed and implanted with the soldier chip thing, but she has only a minor scene and they're not even robots anyway. "The 'universal soldiers' must fight the whole army, when the military's supercomputer S.E.T.H gets out of control."
- Cube (2021) (CUBE 一度入ったら、最後 "Once you get the hang of it, it's the end")(post): (Japanese remake of 1997 'Cube') "Without remembering how they got there, several strangers awaken in a prison of cubic cells, some of them booby-trapped." (Spoiler) The (only) woman in the movie is supposed to be some kind of android guard as indicated by information flickering in her eyes and POV at the end.
- I'm Your Man (2021)(post): "Scientist agrees to live with a humanoid robot, created to make her happy." Primarily about the relationship of Alma and the male robot Tom. Surprising nobody, the saleswoman turns out to be a robot. Alma also meets a man on the street with an android woman.
- Kamen Rider Drive (2014)(post): "A former elite police officer battles the Roidmudes, androids who wish to take over the world by eliminating humanity." There are female androids (most prominently Medic) but when the androids are in their human form, they look, behave, even bleed like humans, so no "real" fembot content.
- Maid Droid (2023)(post): "A loser gets a sexy robot maid that will let him do whatever he wants, from a mysterious service." No robot special effects to speak of. Plus, the movie is low-budget and really quite bad. (Spoiler) The robot maid becomes more human and gets jealous of the guy's ex-girlfriend inexplicably returning to him.
- Mind and Machine (2017)(IMDb): "Set in 2024 where humanoid robots are common in society, the mob reprograms a female android to think and feel so they can use it as a contract killer." No robot special effects, aside from one metal frame that could have been stock footage. Not a good movie, either.
- The Taste of Love (Η γεύση της αγάπης / I gefsi tis agapis, Greece 2018)(IMDb): "In the future where robots live with people, a man has a robot [woman that] starts to feel feelings[...]the man tells it the story of his 'lost' love." The description over-sells it: "...the future where one robot woman lives with one man..." The woman is pretty, but no proof that she's artificial.
