The Birth of the Robot (1936)

(6.8) based on 11 votes
This experiment was a “prestige advertisement” for Shell Motor Oil. As conventional animation became dominated by Walt Disney, many European filmmakers turned to puppets as an alternative, and Lye enlisted the help of avant-garde friends such as Humphrey Jennings and John Banting to make the amusing puppets. Exploring the still-complex color process, which involved the combination of three separate images, Lye creates such a vivid storm scene that reviewers hailed it as “proof that the color film has entered a new stage.” The music is Holst’s The Planets. - Harvard Film Archive
Directors
Release Date
Oct 01, 1936
Runtime
00h 06m
Actors
N/D
Genre
Available in streaming on

This experiment was a “prestige advertisement” for Shell Motor Oil. As conventional animation became dominated by Walt Disney, many European filmmakers turned to puppets as an alternative, and Lye enlisted the help of avant-garde friends such as Humphrey Jennings and John Banting to make the amusing puppets. Exploring the still-complex color process, which involved the combination of three separate images, Lye creates such a vivid storm scene that reviewers hailed it as “proof that the color film has entered a new stage.” The music is Holst’s The Planets. - Harvard Film Archive

Movies like The Birth of the Robot

F

A group of teachers must defend themselves from a gang of murderous kids when their school comes under siege after hours.
Search similar movies
6.1
F
After the Pandemic

Set in a post-apocalyptic world where a global airborne pandemic has wiped out 90% of the Earth's population and only the young and immune have endured as scavengers. For Ellie and Quinn, the daily challenges to stay alive are compounded when they become hunted by the merciless Stalkers.
Search similar movies
5.1
After+the+Pandemic
After the Pandemic

2022

Search similar movies
Death Wish 3

Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.
Search similar movies
6.2
Death+Wish+3
Death Wish 3

1985

Search similar movies
Sri Asih

Alana discover the truth about her origin: she’s not an ordinary human being. She may be the gift for humanity and become its protector as Sri Asih. Or a destruction, if she can’t control her anger.
Search similar movies
6.5
Sri+Asih
Hunters

As John T. Wrecker continues his task of protecting a group of refugees from a virus, the threat of something new and even more dangerous grows ever closer in the form of monstrous mutants.
Search similar movies
5.8
Hunters
Lion

A young lonely lion crosses an arid and desert Savannah. He discovers that the only source of water is kept by a tyrannical buffalo.
Search similar movies
6.5
Lion
Weekend in Taipei

A former DEA agent and a former undercover operative revisit their romance during a fateful weekend in Taipei, unaware of the dangerous consequences of their past.
Search similar movies
6.4
Weekend+in+Taipei
Weekend in Taipei

2024

Search similar movies
Thelma

When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her.
Search similar movies
6.9
Thelma
The Out-Laws

A straight-laced bank manager is about to marry the love of his life. When his bank is held up by infamous Ghost Bandits during his wedding week, he believes his future in-laws who just arrived in town, are the infamous Out-Laws.
Search similar movies
6.0
The+Out-Laws
The Out-Laws

2023

Search similar movies
The Adventures

Joy, a secretary at a large multinational company, has an online shopping problem, likes to read adventure novels and watch travel and adventure shows. She daydreams about living a life of adventure.
Search similar movies
5.9
The+Adventures
The Adventures

2023

Search similar movies
Damsel

A young woman's marriage to a charming prince turns into a fierce fight for survival when she's offered up as a sacrifice to a fire-breathing dragon.
Search similar movies
7.0
Damsel
Attack

With the Parliament under siege, India’s first super soldier Arjun Shergill is tasked to get hold of the terrorists in time, save the Prime Minister from their clutches and stop a dirty bomb from exploding and destroying Delhi.
Search similar movies
6.8
Attack
Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead 2

A strange virus turns 90% of the world population into Lust eating Zombies. However, in Akihabara, Japan, some males were found to be uninfected. These men team up with the Zombies to go after the flesh and blood of surviving young women to fill their lust. The women survivors must fight to survive in an apocalyptic Japan.
Search similar movies
6.2
Rape+Zombie%3A+Lust+of+the+Dead+2
Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead 2

2013

Search similar movies
1000 Miles From Christmas

An auditor who completely despises Christmas is sent to a small town for work, where he meets a woman determined to change his view about the holiday.
Search similar movies
6.3
1000+Miles+From+Christmas
1000 Miles From Christmas

2021

Search similar movies
Licorice Pizza

The story of Gary Valentine and Alana Kane growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
Search similar movies
7.0
Licorice+Pizza
Licorice Pizza

2021

Search similar movies
A Silence

Astrid is the wife of an acclaimed lawyer. Silenced for 25 years, her family balance suddenly collapses when her children initiate their search for justice.
Search similar movies
5.1
A+Silence
Bionic

When the progress of robotics makes Paralympic athletes the new sports stars, Maria dreams of competing against her sister. For that, she will have to enter a world of crime and violence.
Search similar movies
6.0
Bionic
Boudica

Inspired by events in A.D. 60, Boudica follows the eponymous Celtic warrior who rules the Iceni people alongside her husband Prasutagus. When he dies at the hands of Roman soldiers, Boudica’s kingdom is left without a male heir and the Romans seize her land and property. Driven to the edge of madness and determined to avenge her husband’s death, Boudica rallies the various tribes from the region and wages an epic war against the mighty Roman empire.
Search similar movies
5.9
Boudica
The Contractor

After being involuntarily discharged from the U.S. Special Forces, James Harper decides to support his family by joining a private contracting organization alongside his best friend and under the command of a fellow veteran. Overseas on a covert mission, Harper must evade those trying to kill him while making his way back home.
Search similar movies
6.4
The+Contractor
The Contractor

2022

Search similar movies
Authentik

Biopic about French cult hip-hop duet Supreme NTM. A story of Paris suburbs, protests, police brutality that shaped the music of JoeyStarr and Kool Shen.
Search similar movies
6.5
Authentik
The Wrath of Becky

Two years after she escaped a violent attack on her family, 16-year-old Becky attempts to rebuild her life in the care of an older woman -- a kindred spirit named Elena. However, when a violent group known as the Noble Men break into their home, attack them and take their beloved dog, Becky must return to her old ways to protect herself and her loved ones.
Search similar movies
6.3
The+Wrath+of+Becky
The Wrath of Becky

2023

Search similar movies
Hunter x Hunter: Phantom Rouge

One day, Kurapika spots a child who looks very similar to his childhood friend, Pyro. However, when he catches up to him, the boy steals Kurapika's eyes with some kind of magical power. Gon, Leorio, and Killua promise to help find who took his eyes and get them back, but Killua is having his own problems when he is forced to face his past and whether he really is worthy to have Gon as a friend.
Search similar movies
7.0
Hunter+x+Hunter%3A+Phantom+Rouge
Hunter x Hunter: Phantom Rouge

2013

Search similar movies
Will & Harper

When Will Ferrell's good friend Harper comes out as a trans woman, they take a road trip to bond and reintroduce Harper to the country as her true self.
Search similar movies
7.3
Will+%26+Harper
Will & Harper

2024

Search similar movies
Badland Hunters

After a deadly earthquake turns Seoul into a lawless badland, a fearless huntsman springs into action to rescue a teenager abducted by a mad doctor.
Search similar movies
6.7
Badland+Hunters
Badland Hunters

2024

Search similar movies
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

64 years before he becomes the tyrannical president of Panem, Coriolanus Snow sees a chance for a change in fortunes when he mentors Lucy Gray Baird, the female tribute from District 12.
Search similar movies
7.0
The+Hunger+Games%3A+The+Ballad+of+Songbirds+%26+Snakes
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

2023

Search similar movies
The Masked Saint

The journey of a professional wrestler who becomes a small town pastor and moonlights as a masked vigilante fighting injustice. While facing crises at home and at the church, the Pastor must evade the police and somehow reconcile his violent secret identity with his calling as a pastor.
Search similar movies
5.6
The+Masked+Saint
The Masked Saint

2016

Search similar movies
Street Flow 2

Struggling to overcome cycles of betrayal, revenge and violence, the Traoré brothers continue to fight for a brighter future in a seedy Paris suburb.
Search similar movies
6.2
Street+Flow+2
Street Flow 2

2023

Search similar movies
Mea Culpa

A criminal defense attorney must choose between family, duty and her own dangerous desires when she takes on the case of an artist accused of murder.
Search similar movies
5.6
Mea+Culpa
Noah's Ark

A pair of mice attempt to board Noah's Ark: Vini, a charismatic poet with terrible stage fright, and Tito, a talented and charming guitarist. When the rains come, only one male and one female of each species is allowed on Noah's Ark. With the help of an ingenious cockroach and fate's good luck, Vini and Tito sneak their way onto the Ark and together avert a showdown among the ships carnivores and plant eaters. All the while, the animals perform a series of classic songs inspired by world renowned poet, Vinicius de Moraes. Can these talented stowaways use music to break the tension and help these cooped up creatures survive the 40 days and 40 nights together?
Search similar movies
7.0
Noah%27s+Ark
Noah's Ark

2024

Search similar movies
Boruto: Naruto the Movie

The spirited Boruto Uzumaki, son of Seventh Hokage Naruto, is a skilled ninja who possesses the same brashness and passion his father once had. However, the constant absence of his father, who is busy with his Hokage duties, puts a damper on Boruto's fire. He ends up meeting his father's friend Sasuke, and requests to become... his apprentice!? The curtain on the story of the new generation rises!
Search similar movies
7.5
Boruto%3A+Naruto+the+Movie
Boruto: Naruto the Movie

2015

Search similar movies
Prescription for Danger

Ivy Fisher is at the top of her game; A whip-smart, devastatingly attractive upstart business owner. She is your typical thirty something, with a stalled personal life and overactive career. But during a crucial investor meeting, Ivy's body begins to fail her. Plagued with an onset of dizziness and a crippling headache, Ivy crashes. Enter Dr. Mark Ryan - a corrupt doctor ready to feed his desire for power, and Ivy is his perfect subject. This rock-hard business woman is now about to confront her mortality. But much to Ivy's shock, she is about to find out that Dr. Ryan, a person she trusts, has the recipe to finally break her.
Search similar movies
5.7
Prescription+for+Danger
Prescription for Danger

2018

Search similar movies
Reign of Chaos

When the world is gripped by a plague unleashed by the evil lord Chaos, and humans are turned into rabid creatures, mankind can only be saved by three young women, descendants of a Goddess, with the power to stop Chaos' evil.
Search similar movies
5.4
Reign+of+Chaos
Reign of Chaos

2022

Search similar movies
The Tiger's Apprentice

After the death of his grandmother, Tom Lee discovers he is part of a long lineage of magical protectors known as the Guardians. With guidance from a mythical tiger named Hu and the other Zodiac animal warriors, Tom trains to take on an evil force that threatens humanity.
Search similar movies
7.3
The+Tiger%27s+Apprentice
The Tiger's Apprentice

2024

Search similar movies
Touch

Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try to find out what really happened when his Japanese girlfriend mysteriously vanished without a trace from London fifty years earlier.
Search similar movies
7.4
Touch
New

Outskirts of Moscow. A girl comes to an unfamiliar apartment to look after a dog. After a while, she realizes that the owner of the apartment has disappeared. She finds herself into a series of people that have been taking care of the dog for years in that same apartment, creating a weird community around this strange absence of the owner.
Search similar movies
8.2
New
Like or Die

Fatima, a woman in her forties, becomes an online overnight sensation. Sofi and Cami, a pair of young influencers, will try to take advantage of Fatima's sudden popularity by pretending to be her friends, unbeknownst to them that they messed with the wrong person!
Search similar movies
7.6
Like+or+Die
Like or Die

2023

Search similar movies
Road House

Ex-UFC fighter Dalton takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, only to discover that this paradise is not all it seems.
Search similar movies
6.9
Road+House
Road House

2024

Search similar movies
Dear David

Shortly after comic artist Adam responds to Internet trolls, he begins experiencing sleep paralysis. As he chronicles increasingly malevolent occurrences in a series of tweets, Adam begins to believe he is being haunted by the ghost of a dead child named David.
Search similar movies
4.6
Dear+David
Dear David

2023

Search similar movies
A Grand Day Out

Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, and this provides an excellent excuse for the duo to take their holiday to the moon, where, as everyone knows, there is ample cheese. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Search similar movies
7.5
A+Grand+Day+Out
A Grand Day Out

1990

Search similar movies
The Wrong Trousers

Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno pants created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wanted criminal. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Search similar movies
7.8
The+Wrong+Trousers
The Wrong Trousers

1993

Search similar movies
A Close Shave

Wallace's whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot.
Search similar movies
7.6
A+Close+Shave
A Close Shave

1996

Search similar movies
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal, Gromit, investigate a mystery in Nick Park's animated adventure, in which the lovable inventor and his intrepid pup run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods that turn their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.
Search similar movies
7.1
Wallace+%26+Gromit%3A+The+Curse+of+the+Were-Rabbit
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

2005

Search similar movies
Urbanissimo

A comic allegory in which a runaway "city" on legs matches wits with a wily farmer. A farmer has an encounter with a runaway "city" (which devours its environs). He deserts his rural home for the imagined joys of urban life.
Search similar movies
6.0
Urbanissimo
Urbanissimo

1967

Search similar movies
Bad Exorcist: Christmas Eve

Boner and his crew must rescue Santa on Christmas Eve when a demon determined to steal all of his presents raids a school assembly and kidnaps him.
Search similar movies
Bad+Exorcist%3A+Christmas+Eve
Bad Exorcist: Christmas Eve

2023

Search similar movies
Yuck!

Yuck. Couples kissing on the mouth are gross. And the worst is, you can't miss them: when people are about to kiss, their lips become all pink and shiny. Little Léo laughs at them, just like all the kids at the summer camp. But he has a secret he won't tell his friends: his own mouth has actually begun glistening. And, in reality, Léo desperately wants to give kissing a try.
Search similar movies
7.1
Yuck%21
Women's Letters

On the front lines of the Great War, nurse Simon repairs the broken faces of the soldiers every day with love letters, words from women that have the power to heal the wounds of these paper soldiers. Simon himself seems impervious to holes, uncreasable, untearable in his white coat. His secret is his war godmother, who occupies all his thoughts whenever he has a moment to breathe. But when death strikes where it is least expected, can words written on paper still erase the pain?
Search similar movies
8.2
Women%27s+Letters
Women's Letters

2014

Search similar movies
Me

Living in a strict and very regulated world, a man has to hide his homosexuality and dance, dance, until the moment he finds the strength to face these rules and reveal who he really is.
Search similar movies
7.0
Me
The Song

A woman is forced by her husband to be shut-up for ever. But when she listens to nature's song, she refinds her own song and the hope of a different life.
Search similar movies
8.0
The+Song
Touch Air

An homage to the influential practice and philosophy of artist Nasreen Mohamedi. The film incorporates Mohamedi’s personal notes and her unique singular vision, drawing upon the aesthetics of the bare line, and its metaphysical journey eliminating physical borders/barriers.
Search similar movies
Touch+Air
Isabella

This film aims to capture the stories of the aging Isabella, but also captures her condition and loss of cohesiveness as she loses herself into dementia and Parkinson's. It is also a very personal film since the subject is the grandmother of one of the co- directors. The idea is interesting as it links one strong clear memory, told several times, to other fragments and truths of her condition. Animation is sparingly but cleverly used to complement the delivery and avoid it just being a talking head.
Search similar movies
5.0
Isabella
My Small Doll House

My Small Doll House features a woman’s fear, fantasy, and anxious psychology toward the world by contrasting a doll and a girl playing with it in a box. The small box is a safe place hidden in her deep conscious world, but she must open it and step out of the world.
Search similar movies
8.0
My+Small+Doll+House
My Small Doll House

2006

Search similar movies
Contacts... Conflicts...

A satirical film for adults about communication problems.
Search similar movies
9.0
Contacts...+Conflicts...
Contacts... Conflicts...

1984

Search similar movies
Contacts... Conflicts... 2

Comic stories for adults about the problems of family life.
Search similar movies
10.0
Contacts...+Conflicts...+2
Contacts... Conflicts... 2

1985

Search similar movies
The Little Seed

A little girl catches floral patterns with a magic cloth and uses them to make her own pretty dresses. Every night, ants move her house from one field to the next. One day, a seed drops into her mouth and a young shoot sprouts from her navel.
Search similar movies
8.0
The+Little+Seed
The Little Seed

2015

Search similar movies
Contacts... Conflicts... 3

Comic stories for adults about the problems of family life.
Search similar movies
9.0
Contacts...+Conflicts...+3
Contacts... Conflicts... 3

1986

Search similar movies
Contacts... Conflicts... 4

Comic stories for adults about the problems of family life.
Search similar movies
9.0
Contacts...+Conflicts...+4
Contacts... Conflicts... 4

1987

Search similar movies
Candy Boy

Children are mysteriously falling ill at an orphanage. Candy Boy, the most valiant of the orphans, investigates, but the arrival of a new boarder complicates his inquiries.
Search similar movies
3.4
Candy+Boy
Luxna

A man named Tom, who as a young boy, was passionate about astronomy and always dreaming about outer space.
Search similar movies
6.0
Luxna
The Nightmare Before Christmas

Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Christmas approaches, Jack's rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans.
Search similar movies
7.8
The+Nightmare+Before+Christmas
The Nightmare Before Christmas

1993

Search similar movies
Apocalypsis

Set in a parallel universe entering a black hole, a woman reading the book of Revelation has visions of regeneration during Anthropocene.
Search similar movies
6.2
Apocalypsis
Apocalypsis

2018

Search similar movies
Butterfly

The film is devoted to the theme of careful attitude to the nature. It tells us how one of butterflies which are caught by the boy, grows till the huge sizes and the hunter appears in the net. Having tested bondage, the boy lets out the captives.
Search similar movies
6.4
Butterfly
In a Heartbeat

A closeted boy runs the risk of being outed by his own heart after it pops out of his chest to chase down the boy of his dreams.
Search similar movies
8.0
In+a+Heartbeat
In a Heartbeat

2017

Search similar movies
Flammes

Memories split in the space.
Search similar movies
6.4
Flammes
The Smortlybacks

On a tabletop mountain a mahout and his strange herd make a surprising and never-ending journey.
Search similar movies
5.0
The+Smortlybacks
The Smortlybacks

2013

Search similar movies
The Man Who Slept

A young woman lives with her sleeping husband. Prisoner of her loneliness, she refuses to accept that this man is only a memory.
Search similar movies
7.0
The+Man+Who+Slept
The Man Who Slept

2009

Search similar movies
None of That

A museum guard is doing his night patrol when a tiny nun breaks into the museum and starts censoring nude art.
Search similar movies
5.6
None+of+That
None of That

2015

Search similar movies
How Are You?

A group of animals living on a mysterious island try to overcome their personal traumas.
Search similar movies
5.0
How+Are+You%3F
How Are You?

2025

Search similar movies
Manivald

Manivald is a fox in his early 30s. He is still living at home with his mother. One day a young hot wolf called Toomas comes to fix the washing machine. A love triangle develops between the three of them. Things get out of hand and Manivald realizes that it is time to move out.
Search similar movies
6.9
Manivald
Tuk-Tuk and His Friend Zhuk

A boy named Tuk and his dog Zhuk have a vegetable garden, but their harvest is in danger from Pig and Fox who are looking for a quick profit.
Search similar movies
6.5
Tuk-Tuk+and+His+Friend+Zhuk
Tuk-Tuk and His Friend Zhuk

1935

Search similar movies
Trolls: It Takes Three

It Takes Three is a CG-and-traditionally-animated short film included on the home media releases of Trolls Band Together. Taking place after the events of the film, the short follows Poppy, Viva, and Tiny Diamond as they get sucked into the Hustle-verse, only to discover that it is devoid of hustle.
Search similar movies
6.0
Trolls%3A+It+Takes+Three
Trolls: It Takes Three

2023

Search similar movies
Spider Web

A curious spider has settled in the house of an old lace-maker. The love of weaving patterns helps them to make friends.
Search similar movies
7.0
Spider+Web
Spider Web

2014

Search similar movies
Steakhouse

The steak has been marinating for a few days now. The pan is heated. Franc's stomach is rumbling. But Liza's co-workers surprise her with a birthday party. Will she be home on time?
Search similar movies
6.8
Steakhouse
Steakhouse

2021

Search similar movies
Mad God

A figure known as "The Assassin" descends from the heavens into a nightmarish pit full of monsters, titans, and cruelty.
Search similar movies
6.9
Mad+God
The Story of Christmas

This short animation tells the familiar story of Christmas in an innovative and colourful way. Filmmaker Evelyn Lambart uses glowing zinc cut-outs to give this traditional tale a contemporary twist. Akin to a joyful medieval manuscript, the film is embellished by the artist's own whimsy—heraldic trumpet sounds, luminescent light, and wildflowers in every scene tell the message of rebirth. A film without dialogue.
Search similar movies
5.0
The+Story+of+Christmas
The Story of Christmas

1973

Search similar movies
Nube

After witnessing an old dark stormy cloud painfully rain and die in sorrow; Noma, a puffy white cloud realizes that Mixtli, her daughter, a dark stormy cloud, is in danger of raining prematurely.
Search similar movies
8.3
Nube
NO LITTERING

While enjoying a date in a park, a man carelessly tosses an empty bottle onto the ground. His selfish littering promptly summons an imposing figure wearing a white hockey mask. The gruesome events that follow tell an admonishing tale about the importance of preserving the outdoors and defending the environment from the ugly menace of litter. The short was made for the tve YouTube Relay project, but wasn't included because it's too violent.
Search similar movies
7.0
NO+LITTERING
NO LITTERING

2013

Search similar movies
A Matter of Loaf and Death

Wallace and Gromit open a bakery, accidentally getting tied up with a murder mystery in the process. But when Wallace falls in love, Gromit is left to solve the case by himself.
Search similar movies
7.3
A+Matter+of+Loaf+and+Death
A Matter of Loaf and Death

2008

Search similar movies
Peter & the Wolf

Peter is a slight lad, solitary, locked out of the woods by his protective grandfather, his only friend a duck. In town, he's bullied. When a wolf menaces the duck - as well as grandfather's fat cat and an ill-flying bird that Peter has befriended - Peter bravely tries to tree the wolf. Grandfather, the townspeople, and the hunters who have antagonized Peter figure in the dénouement.
Search similar movies
6.7
Peter+%26+the+Wolf
Peter & the Wolf

2006

Search similar movies