Malfunction
"malfunction" Movies and TV Shows
#1
The Stepford Wives
Synopsis:
Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
Starring:
Katharine Ross,
Judith Baldwin,
Peter Masterson
Plot:
robot,
female protagonist,
women's liberation,
social commentary,
feminism,
android,
small town,
suburb,
photography,
photographer
...
#2
The Stepford Wives
Synopsis:
What does it take to become a Stepford wife, a woman perfect beyond belief? Ask the Stepford husbands, who've created this high-tech, terrifying little town.
Starring:
Glenn Close,
Jon Lovitz,
Nicole Kidman
#3
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Synopsis:
When a destructive space entity is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine, and hopefully stop it.
Starring:
George Takei,
Nichelle Nichols,
Leonard Nimoy
#4
Short Circuit
Synopsis:
After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to get to Number 5 before the military does. In the meantime, a spunky animal lover mistakes the robot for an alien and takes him in, teaching her new guest about life on Earth.
Starring:
Austin Pendleton,
Fisher Stevens,
Steve Guttenberg
#5
RoboCop
Synopsis:
In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company's …
Starring:
Peter Weller,
Miguel Ferrer,
Kurtwood Smith
Plot:
robot,
police,
cyborg,
graphic violence,
cyberpunk,
robocop,
future,
violence,
weapon,
cyborg versus robot
...
#6
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Synopsis:
Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins. The situation worsens when the devilish green creatures invade a top-secret laboratory and develop genetically altered powers, making them even harder to destroy!
Starring:
Robert Picardo,
Christopher Lee,
Haviland Morris
#7
Brazil
Synopsis:
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identiti…
Starring:
Bob Hoskins,
Ian Holm,
Robert De Niro
Plot:
bureaucracy,
wrongful arrest,
dystopia,
dream,
clerical error,
absurdism,
black comedy,
terrorist,
bureaucrat,
technology
...
#8
Barbarella
Synopsis:
In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.
Starring:
Jane Fonda,
John Phillip Law,
Anita Pallenberg
Plot:
future,
41st century,
angel,
sexuality,
space opera,
laser gun,
sexy suit,
scientist,
queen,
city
...
#9
Apollo 13
Synopsis:
The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from Earth, the astronauts work furiously with the ground crew to avert tragedy.
Starring:
Bill Paxton,
Tom Hanks,
Chris Ellis
Plot:
1970s,
survival,
astronaut,
space mission,
rescue,
apollo program,
trapped in space,
cape kennedy,
duct tape,
disaster
...
#10
Westworld
Synopsis:
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.
Starring:
Thandiwe Newton,
Tessa Thompson,
Jeffrey Wright
#11
Why Him?
Synopsis:
A dad forms a bitter rivalry with his daughter's young rich boyfriend.
Starring:
Cedric the Entertainer,
Keegan-Michael Key,
Kaley Cuoco
#12
Upgrade
Synopsis:
A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.
Starring:
Harrison Gilbertson,
Betty Gabriel,
Logan Marshall-Green
Plot:
microchip,
dystopia,
revenge,
surgery,
artificial intelligence,
violence,
widower,
near future,
cyborg,
body enhancement
...
#13
Underwater
Synopsis:
After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.
Starring:
T. J. Miller,
Mamoudou Athie,
Kristen Stewart
Plot:
sea monster,
lovecraftian,
ocean,
monster,
survival,
heroine,
researcher,
research facility,
woman in jeopardy,
comic relief
...
#14
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Synopsis:
Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens, New York City, with fighting crime as his superhero alter ego Spider-Man as a new threat, the Vulture, emerges.
Starring:
Jon Favreau,
Robert Downey Jr.,
Tom Holland
#15
Phantom
Synopsis:
The haunted Captain of a Soviet submarine holds the fate of the world in his hands. Forced to leave his family behind, he is charged with leading a covert mission cloaked in mystery.
Starring:
Lance Henriksen,
William Fichtner,
Ed Harris
#16
Passengers
Synopsis:
A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.
Starring:
Michael Sheen,
Laurence Fishburne,
Andy García
Plot:
spacecraft,
trapped in space,
malfunction,
asteroid,
outer space,
android,
space,
spaceship,
isolation,
robot
...
#17
Pacific Rim: Uprising
Synopsis:
It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human history. The PPDC now calls upon the best and brightest to rise up and become the next generation of heroes when the Kaiju threat returns.
Starring:
Adria Arjona,
Burn Gorman,
Zhang Jin
Plot:
sequel,
chinese,
china,
mecha,
alien parasite,
teenage hero,
giant monster,
alien creature,
alien monster,
robot as menace
...
#18
Igor
Synopsis:
A cliché hunchbacked evil scientist's assistant aspires to become a scientist himself, much to the displeasure of the rest of the evil science community.
Starring:
John Cusack,
Eddie Izzard,
Jennifer Coolidge
Plot:
character name as title,
movie flop,
dna,
scientist,
slimehouse,
evil scientist,
science,
mad scientist,
assistant,
invention
...
#19
Godzilla vs. Kong
Synopsis:
In a time when monsters walk the Earth, humanity’s fight for its future sets Godzilla and Kong on a collision course that will see the two most powerful forces of nature on the planet collide in a spectacular battle for the ages.
Starring:
Demián Bichir,
Eiza González,
Lance Reddick
#20
Geostorm
Synopsis:
After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: the system built to protect Earth is attacking it, and it becomes a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out e…
Starring:
Gerard Butler,
Andy García,
Eugenio Derbez
Plot:
near future,
global warming,
malfunction,
disaster,
failure,
nasa,
tsunami,
u.s. president,
disaster film,
kidnapping
...