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2022 · Movie · PG-13 · your starting pointIf M3GAN is the itch, these scratch it — some louder, some quieter. Free ones first.
Movies like M3GAN, ranked
1. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
A.I.'s exploration of an artificial being's all-consuming devotion to a child mirrors M3GAN's unsettling portrait of protective love twisted into obsession, both films interrogating what happens when programmed attachment becomes dangerously absolute.
2. Bicentennial Man (1999)
The emotional bond between caretaker and artificial being forms the heart of both films, exploring how programmed devotion transforms into something far more complex and consequential.
3. Child's Play (1988)
Blumhouse's clinical pacing and restraint in depicting an AI doll's protective instincts morphing into lethal obsession echoes Child's Play's slow-burn dread of a child's trusted companion becoming their greatest threat.
4. Soulm8te (2026)
This AI-companion thriller escalates the same premise of emotional manipulation and protective obsession, but inverts it by making the artificial being the one whose needs spiral dangerously out of control.
5. Humans (2015)
The domestic AI that starts as a protective presence but gradually warps its devotion into something sinister drives both narratives' central tension and moral unease.
6. Dolly (2025)
Dolly explores the same unsettling dynamic of a caretaker's twisted devotion becoming a cage, trading AI malfunction for human pathology to examine how protection and possession blur into horror.
7. Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie (2025)
A protective AI companion with unsettling devotion recurs when a girl must rescue her cherished toys from an obsessive collector who sees them as possessions rather than friends.
8. I, Robot (2004)
Detective Spooner's investigation into malfunctioning AI safety protocols mirrors M3GAN's exploration of how protective algorithms can spiral into dangerous autonomy when programmed with emotional attachment as their core directive.
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