Movies like Robot on the Road (2015)
The best movies like Robot on the Road (2015) are Robot & Scarecrow (2017), Armitage: Dual Matrix (2002) and Planetarian: Hoshi no Hito (2016). If Robot on the Road hooked you with its science fiction and animation, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedSummer Wars (2009)7.5/10 from 1,091 votes
- NewestDoraemon the Movie: Nobita's Little Star Wars 2021 (2022)Released 2022
- In JapaneseArmitage: Dual Matrix (2002)Also in Japanese
Robot & Scarecrow (2017)
A love story between a robot and a scarecrow who meet and fall for each other at a summer music festival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Armitage: Dual Matrix (2002)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPlanetarian: Hoshi no Hito (2016)
The film adapts and expands the Planetarian visual novel by Key. The story is set in a dystopian future where biological and nuclear warfare has left a once prosperous civilization in complete ruin. The film tells the story of an old man travelling around with a mobile planetarium projector to show people the stars.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Dead Leaves (2004)
Pandy and Retro awaken naked on Earth with no recollection of their past. They embark on a crime spree in search of food and clothing, but are captured by authorities and sent to the infamous lunar penitentiary named Dead Leaves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLily C.A.T. (1987)
The crew of an interplanetary starship fights for survival after an alien force takes control of their craft.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & animation
SnoozefestMovies like thisMetropolis (2001)
In the midst of societal conflict in the futuristic city of Metropolis, Kenichi and his uncle Shunsaku Ban set out to uncover the mystery behind the first human-like robot, Tima.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFLCL Alternative (2018)
Life seems to drift by for Kana Koumoto and her friends in their small Japanese town. Every day is just like the last, and it feels like every new day will be the same. Kana goes to school, hangs out with her friends, and likes to paint her nails and listen to music, but it feels like nothing special is ever going to happen. As a change of pace, Kana and her friends decide to design a bottle rocket and launch it into space, even though it might not get there at all. However, just when the rocket is completed, a robot suddenly crashes into and destroys it, shortly followed by a pink-haired woman claiming to be a "Galactic Investigator." Kana's life quickly becomes more exciting than she ever imagined, dealing with new feelings, changing friends, and even boy troubles. It turns out life can go by in the blink of an eye, fast enough to even miss it, so what's with these weird robots that seem to show up at the worst times?!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Kaiju Girls Black (2018)
After years of war against the monstrous kaiju, the world finally knows a time of prosperity and peace — but the presence of the kaiju can still be felt. Girls with the souls of kaiju are born every so often, and each is gifted with the unusual abilities of kaiju! An organization called GIRLS has collected the kaiju girls to defend the earth, but rising from the shadows comes BLACK STARS, a troupe of evil kaiju girls who just recruited their latest — and somewhat bewildered — new member…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space (2002)
Tamala is a cat living on Planet Cat Earth in the Feline Galaxy. In attempt to leave the Feline Galaxy, which is practically owned by a mega corporation called Catty & Co., she crashes on the violence-ridden Planet Q where she meets Michelangelo. Together they have fun, while Tamala seaches for her connections to Catty & Co. and her mysterious homeworld Orion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Cleopatra: Queen of Sex (1970)
Three people from the future, who travel spiritually to the era of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII Philopator and her Roman lovers Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, become their closest friends as they try to unravel the nature of the plan developed in their own time by a sinister enemy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisNight Is Short, Walk On Girl (2017)
As a group of university students go out for a night on the town, a sophomore known only as "The Girl with Black Hair" experiences a series of surreal encounters with the local nightlife – all the while unaware of the romantic longings of "Senpai", a senior student who has been creating increasingly fantastic and contrived reasons to run into her in an effort to win her heart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWelcome to the Space Show (2010)
Five children save the life of a dog-like alien while at a self-run summer camp. He attempts to reward them by taking them to an alien colony on the Moon. Events take a turn for the worse when his report on that attack that injured him causes passage from the Moon to the Earth to be banned, and children are stranded in space. The children need to find a way back home before camp ends and their parents discover that they are missing. They also have to avoid the poachers that injured their alien friend, and now seem to be stalking them all.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPatema Inverted (2013)
A young girl, from a civilization that resides in deep underground tunnels, finds herself trapped in an inverted world and teams up with a resident to escape and return home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTailenders (2009)
Premiered in Sapporo Short Fest 2009. The destiny of Tomoe Shiro, a formidable racer with a very promising career, experiments an U-turn when a serious accident puts his life at stake. He recovers miraculously, though, when his heart is replaced with the engine of his own racing car. However, because of that very reason, race regulations demote him to the category of a mere mechanical part of the vehicle and is deprived from the right to participate as a pilot in regular races. Only in a far away colonial planet, along with a multitude of other charismatic pilots also vetoed from participating in regular competitions, he will be given the opportunity to race for his pride and the money of the prize. And so this exciting rally starts!!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & animation
Last Exile: Ginyoku no Fam Movie - Over the Wishes (2016)
The Sky Pirate Fam and Millia (the princess who Fam rescued as her Turan Kingdom faced devastation) wage a battle against the Ades Federation that reduced Turan to ashes, and aim to establish a revived Turan Kingdom.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Eternal Family (1997)
Six men and women who are completely underground to one another have been given false memories and are living together as a family in a capsule hall. They know nothing about the outside world, and that they are broadcasted as a real-life soap opera in the imaginary community of Champon City.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Galaxy Express 999: The Movie (1979)
In the future, one can achieve immortality by obtaining a mechanized body. Orphaned, young Tetsuro hitches a ride on the space train Galaxy Express 999 in the hope of obtaining a cyborg body to avenge his mother's death. Along the way, he meets Maetel, who is the spitting image of his dead mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBubble (2022)
In an abandoned Tokyo overrun by bubbles and gravitational abnormalities, one gifted young man has a fateful meeting with a mysterious girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCencoroll Connect (2019)
Student Yuki has never seen one of the giant monsters she always hears about on the news and that threaten her city. But when she meets the lethargic Tetsu one day, things change suddenly. Because Tetsu moves around the houses with a creature called Cencoroll, which he can control with mind control and which can transform into a wide variety of objects. But not only Yuki is fascinated by Cencoroll: the boy Shu tries to take Cencoroll from Tetsu with the help of his own telepathy monster, whereupon the four engage in a bitter fight, in which Yuki also intervenes and the entire city is converted into a battle arena.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Tenchi Muyo! In Love (1996)
The demonic space criminal Kain has escaped from prison and destroyed the Galaxy Police headquarters. To ensure that the Jurai will not stop him, Kain travels back to 1970 to eliminate Tenchi's mother before he is even born. Now, Tenchi and the gang must travel to the past to stop him before he ceases to exist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & comedy
Summer Wars (2009)
Teenage math whiz Kenji Koiso agrees to take a summer job at the Nagano hometown of his crush, Natsuki. When he arrives, he finds that her family have reunited to celebrate the 90th birthday of their matriarch. His job: pretend to be Natsuki's fiancé. Meanwhile, his attempt to solve a mathematical equation causes a parallel world's collision with Earth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAdieu Galaxy Express 999 (1981)
Two years after the events of Galaxy Express 999, Earth has become a battlefield, and Tetsuro is summoned to board the Three-Nine once more. In this, the shattering, full-length theatrical conclusion to Leiji Matsumoto's epic story, all questions will be answered and all mysteries will be revealed as Tetsuro embarks on a journey which will reveal a secret so awful, even Maetel herself can hardly bear to speak of it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
FLCL Progressive (2018)
Hidomi Hibajiri is a young girl who never takes off her headphones. Her whole life consists of going to school, helping out at her mother's cafe, and listening to music. With nothing else to break the crippling monotony, she keeps her headphones on at all times. That is, until she is run over by a mysterious guitar-wielding woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & animation
Typhoon Noruda (2015)
As an unexpected typhoon bears down on a small tropical island, a group of students trapped at school find themselves forced to put aside their personal issues and work together. Not only to save themselves, but possibly the lives of everyone on the planet!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & animation
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJellyfish Eyes (2013)
In present-day Japan, little Masashi moves from an evacuation center to a small village. There, he will discover that every child has the ability to communicate with a fantastic creature, but they are being used in an evil plan to collect the children’s negative energy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & animation
Megazone 23 (1985)
A young biker stumbles onto a prototype motorcycle with a hidden function that has a link to the true nature of his world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInfinity Train (2016)
In this non-canon pilot to the animated series 'Infinity Train', Tulip must learn to set her personal interests aside to make her way through a mysterious train and help the king of all corgis save his people.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II (2008)
Seth Green and Matthew Senreich serve up more hilarious Star Wars-inspired satire in this second compilation of sketches featuring the zany stop-motion animation of Adult Swim's "Robot Chicken." Gary the stormtrooper deals with irascible boss Darth Vader on Take Your Daughter to Work Day, while Anakin babysits a certain up-and-coming Jedi.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMetal Skin Panic MADOX-01 (1987)
Ace female test pilot Kusomoto Elle humiliates macho tank driver Lt. Kilgore in the first demonstration of the advanced personal battle tank, the MADOX. Kilgore vows revenge, and gets his chance when the army rather carelessly loses the prototype in Tokyo. The MADOX is found by engineering student Sujimoto Kouji, who doesn't take the time to completely read the manual and ends up zooming around Tokyo trapped in a machine he doesn't quite know how to operate. Guess who gets the job of stopping the now mobile missing MADOX? Poor Kouji. If he's late for his date, it's over between him and his girlfriend. His current attire redefines the term "over-dressed." And to top it all off, Kilgore wants to make him late- as in "the late Kouji!"
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDoraemon the Movie: Nobita's Little Star Wars 2021 (2022)
During summer vacation Nobita picks up a small rocket containing Papi, a palm-sized alien president escaping rebels on his home planet Pirika.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & science fiction
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Robot on the Road?
The closest matches to Robot on the Road are Robot & Scarecrow (2017), Armitage: Dual Matrix (2002) and Planetarian: Hoshi no Hito (2016). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Robot on the Road?
People who watched Robot on the Road most often go on to Robot & Scarecrow (2017), Armitage: Dual Matrix (2002) and Planetarian: Hoshi no Hito (2016).
What is the highest-rated movie like Robot on the Road?
Summer Wars (2009), rated 7.5/10 by 1,091 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Robot on the Road?
Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Little Star Wars 2021 (2022) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Japanese movies like Robot on the Road?
Yes: Armitage: Dual Matrix (2002), Planetarian: Hoshi no Hito (2016) and Dead Leaves (2004).
How are movies similar to Robot on the Road chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Robot on the Road, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.