Movies Like Robocon: Fun Friends

If you liked Robocon: Fun Friends (1975), a family and science fiction movie directed by Hidetoshi Kitamura, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
F.R.E.D.I. (2018)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and family
An intelligent, lovable robot known as "F.R.E.D.I." is stolen from a secret research facility by the project's lead scientist. The robot is found by a 15 year old teenager, James. Soon the two begin to communicate and…
2
Time Toys (2016)
★ 5.9/10Also family and science fiction
A group of middle school kids stumble upon a chest full of incredible toys from the future. The discovery takes them on an adventure using their newfound toys to save their neighborhood and ultimately the world from a…
3
A.R.C.H.I.E. (2016)
★ 6/10Also family and science fiction
A recently orphaned 15-year-old who has moved to a small town to live with her uncle befriends a robotic canine with super strength, x-ray vision and the ability to talk and the pair take on a military complex…
4
A-X-L (2018)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and family
The life of a teenage boy is forever altered by a chance encounter with cutting edge military technology.
5
Monsters of Man (2020)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction
A robotics company vying to win a lucrative military contract team up with a corrupt CIA agent to conduct an illegal live field test. They deploy four weaponized prototype robots into a suspected drug manufacturing…
6
Code 8 Part II (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction
In a world where superpowered people are heavily policed by robots, an ex-con teams up with a drug lord he despises to protect a teen from a corrupt cop.
7
Armitage: Dual Matrix (2002)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction
Naomi Armitage and Ross Sylibus have changed their names and live with their daughter Yoko as a happy and normal family on Mars — until an android riot breaks out at an anti-matter plant on Earth.
8
Short Circuit (1986)
★ 6.7/10Also science fiction and family
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…
9
Bumblebee (2018)
★ 6.7/10Also science fiction
On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie, on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and…
10
Robot on the Road (2015)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction
A perverted robot hitchhikes cross-country with an attractive woman in hopes of photographing her naked.
11
Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight (2002)
★ 6/10Also science fiction
After being punished for retreat from combat, Ranger David Martel is given command of the Liandra, a haunted 20-year old Minbari fighting ship. He's escorting ambassadors to a secret archaeological site, the oldest…
12
Wifelike (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also science fiction
A grieving detective in the near-future hunts down criminals who trade artificial humans on the black market. In the fight to end AI exploitation, an underground resistance attempts to infiltrate him by sabotaging the…
13
Superintelligence (2020)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction
When an all-powerful Superintelligence chooses to study the most average person on Earth, Carol Peters, the fate of the world hangs in the balance. As the A.I. decides to enslave, save or destroy humanity, it’s up to…
14
Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Little Star Wars 2021 (2022)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and family
During summer vacation Nobita picks up a small rocket containing Papi, a palm-sized alien president escaping rebels on his home planet Pirika.
15
Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops (1986)
★ 6.7/10Also family and science fiction
Doraemon and Nobita decide to build a perfect toy robot. However, their creation turns out to be a little more uncanny than an object of appreciation and wonder.
16
Vesper (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction
After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking…
17
Japoteurs (1942)
★ 6/10Also family and science fiction
Superman vs. Japanese spies hijacking a new super-bomber.
18
How to Build a Better Boy (2014)
★ 6.3/10Also family and science fiction
After inadvertently inputting the qualities of the ideal boyfriend into a high-tech government computer, two social outcasts named Mae and Gabby must contend with Albert, a cybernetic sweetheart with only one…
19
Real Men (1987)
★ 6/10Also science fiction
A womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes through with aliens for the future of mankind.
20
Mazinger Z: Infinity (2017)
★ 7/10Also science fiction
When the evil Dr. Hell attacks the Earth, the mighty giant mecha Mazinger Z is formed to stop him.