فیلم در صحنه‌های اولیه مخاطب را به سال ۲۰۲۹ می‌برد؛ دورانی که در بحبوحه جنگ هسته‌ای، ماشین‌ها و روبات‌ها عملاً کنترل زمین را به دست گرفته‌اند و مشغول نابود کردن آخرین انسان‌های باقی‌مانده هستند. نابودگر (آرنولد شوارزنگر) که یک سایبورگ یا ربات انسان‌نما است، به سال ۱۹۸۴ فرستاده می‌شود تا زنی جوان به نام سارا کانر (لیندا همیلتون) را که مادر جان کانر ناجی بشریت در جدال با روبات‌ها خواهد بود بکشد. به دنبال او نیروهای انسان‌ها نیز …

جان کانر که در حال جنگ در برابر ماشین هاست، کایلی ریس را به گذشته می فرستد تا از جان مادرش سارا کانر محافظت کند. اما هنگامی که رییس به سال ۱۹۸۴ می رود اتفاقات مطابق انتظارش پیش نمی رود و…

In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being "renewed" in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option.

از زمانی که کانر توانست با کمک نابودگر از دست روبات جیوه ای جان سالم بدر ببرد ۱۰ سال می گذرد او هم اکنون ۲۵ سال دارد مادر او کشته شده و او تنها زندگی می کند ، کانر زندگی سختی دارد نه خانه ای و نه کاری .تی ایکس پیشرفته ترین روبات انسان پا به کره زمین می گذارد و قصد دارد با کشتن جان کانر زمین را از بین ببرد ، کانر قرار است در آینده فرمانده نیروهای زمینی شود که بر علیه روبات ها به جنگ می پردازند .نابودگر به زمین باز می گردد و این بار قصد دارد به هر طریق ممکن جان کانر را از مرگ نجات دهد در این بین جان کانر با دختری که سالها پیش با او همکلاسی بوده آشنا می شود آنها قرار است بعد ها با هم ازدواج کنند . نابودگر بعد از دشواری زیاد تی ایس را از بین می برد و خود نیز ار بین می رود . جان کانر همراه دوست دختر خود به پناهگاهی می روند که سالها پیش برای جنگهای اتمی درست شده است . در این هنگام روباتها به سیستم اتمی جهان نفوذ کرده و جنگ اتمی را آغاز می کنند.

در سال ۲۰۰۳، دکتر سرینا کوگان از شرکت «سایبرداین سیستمز»، به سلول مارکوس رایت می‌آید و این زندانی محکوم به مرگ (با تزریق) را متقاعد می‌کند تا بدن خود را پس از مرگ برای پژوهش پزشکی به آن شرکت بسپارد. یک سال بعد از این جریان، ربات‌های ساخت انسان که به درجه‌ای از هوشمندی و خودآگاهی رسیده‌اند، نوع بشر را به عنوان تهدیدی برای بقای خود به‌شمار می‌آورند و سامانه‌ای به نام «سامانه اسکای‌نت» را به منظور قلع و قمع انسان‌ها ایجاد می‌کنند. این سامانه موفق می‌شود در جریان رخدادی که «روز داوری» نامیده می‌شود بیشتر افراد بشر را نابود کند.

صهیون، شهر انسان‌ها در مقابل حملات بی امان ماشین‌ها مقاومت می کند، در حالی که نئو در میدانی دیگر، برای خاتمه دادن به این نبرد، با مامور اسمیت سرکش می جنگد.

After their father is called into work, two young boys, Walter and Danny, are left in the care of their teenage sister, Lisa, and told they must stay inside. Walter and Danny, who anticipate a boring day, are shocked when they begin playing Zathura, a space-themed board game, which they realize has mystical powers when their house is shot into space. With the help of an astronaut, the boys attempt to return home.

In the near future, a drone pilot is sent into a deadly militarized zone and must work with an android officer to locate a doomsday device.

Two years after the Westworld tragedy in the Delos amusement park, the corporate owners have reopened the park following over $1 billion in safety and other improvements. For publicity purposes, reporters Chuck Browning and Tracy Ballard are invited to review the park. Just prior to arriving at the park, however, Browning is given a clue by a dying man that something is amiss.

Georgia and her boyfriend Sam go on a treacherous journey to escape their country, which is caught in an unexpected war with artificial intelligence. Days away from the arrival of their first child, the couple must face No Man’s Land—a stronghold of the android uprising—in hopes of reaching safety before giving birth.

When gigantic robots attack New York City, "Sky Captain" uses his private air force to fight them off. His ex-girlfriend, reporter Polly Perkins, has been investigating the recent disappearance of prominent scientists. Suspecting a link between the global robot attacks and missing men, Sky Captain and Polly decide to work together. They fly to the Himalayas in pursuit of the mysterious Dr. Totenkopf, the mastermind behind the robots.

Set in a near future, technology-reliant society that pits man against killing machines. Against this backdrop an elite army unit is helicoptered to a remote, off-the-grid island training facility. What starts out as a simple training exercise for Captain Bukes and his tight-knit unit, descends into a terrifying battle to the death, as the marines discover the island is overrun by an enemy that transcends the human concept of evil.

The explorer craft USS Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extra-terrestrial life when the crew comes upon a supposedly lost ship, the USS Cygnus, hovering near a black hole. The ship is controlled by Dr. Hans Reinhardt and his monstrous robot companion, but the initial wonderment and awe the Palomino crew feel for the ship and its resistance to the power of the black hole turn to horror as they uncover Reinhardt's plans.

Recruited by the U.S. government to be a special agent, nerdy teenager Cody Banks must get closer to cute classmate Natalie in order to learn about an evil plan hatched by her father. But despite the agent persona, Cody struggles with teen angst.

In the future, Earth is overcrowded and the population relies on distant bases to be fed. In the Saturn 3 station, Major Adam and the scientist Alex, who is also his lover and has never been on Earth, have been researching hydroponics for three years in the base alone with their dog Sally. Captain Benson arrives Saturn 3 with Hector, incapable to controlling his emotions he transfers his homicidal tendency and insanity to Hector. Now Major Adam and Alex are trapped in the station with a dangerous psychopath robot.

John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him to carry suspicious cargo to Earth without questions being asked. During the flight the cargo turns out to be multitude of unstoppable and deadly killer robots.

Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a bizarre Christmas present from her boyfriend. Once inside its new home, the cyborg promptly reconstructs the rest of its body using a variety of household utensils and proceeds to go on a murderous rampage.

Dr. Vasi invents a super-powered robot, Chitti, in his own image. The scientific body, AIRD, that must approve the robot, declines it based on its not having emotions and the ability to make rational judgment. A sudden flash of lightning evokes emotions in the robot, and Chitti is seemingly ready for integration into the human world. Then, Chitti falls in love with Dr. Vasi's fiancée Sana and turns on his creator.

The time is in the future and the youth gang violence is so high that the areas around some schools have become "free-fire zones", into which not even the police will venture. When Miles Langford, the head of Kennedy High School, decides to take his school back from the gangs, robotics specialist Dr. Robert Forrest provides "tactical education units". These are amazingly human-like androids that have been programmed to teach and are supplied with devastatingly effective solutions to discipline problems. So when the violent, out-of-control students of Kennedy High report for class tomorrow, they're going to get a real education... in staying alive!

Chaank Armaments is experimenting with the ultimate fighting machine which is part human - part machine. So far, the Hardman project has been unreliable and has killed a number of innocent people. The genius behind this project is Jack who lives in a world of models, toys and magazines. When he is fired by Cale for killing a few corporate officers, he unleashes the ultimate killing machine called the 'Warbeast' against Cale and those who would help her.