RoboCop

Paul Verhoeven · 1987 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

Detroit has sold its police force to a conglomerate that intends to raze the old city, and a newly transferred officer is shot to pieces in his first week in the worst precinct. What the company builds out of what is left comes with directives, a targeting display and fragments of a life it was told to erase. Verhoeven laced the corporate satire with mock bulletins and advertisements.

Open RoboCop in the archive — filters, lineage graph and full facet browsing.

Attributes

Closest analogues

• The Jew of Malta
  Christopher Marlowe · c. 1590 CE · Play

  49% · 11 shared
  SatirePower & CorruptionJustice & RevengeAvengerVillain / TyrantRevenge CycleIronic ReversalThe Cityvs SocietySatiricalIronic
• Dirty Harry
  Don Siegel · 1971 CE · Film

  48% · 13 shared
  FilmCrime / NoirPower & CorruptionJustice & RevengeContemporaryAvengerVillain / TyrantRevenge CycleThe Cityvs SocietyIronicNoirModern / American
• Blow Out
  Brian De Palma · 1981 CE · Film

  48% · 13 shared
  FilmCrime / NoirPower & CorruptionContemporaryEverymanVillain / TyrantIronic ReversalThe MachineThe ScreenThe CityIronicNoirModern / American
• Player Piano
  Kurt Vonnegut · 1952 CE · Novel

  48% · 13 shared
  Science FictionSatirePower & CorruptionContemporaryEverymanIronic ReversalThe MachineThe Cityvs Technologyvs SocietySatiricalIronicModern / American
• Brazil
  Terry Gilliam · 1985 CE · Film

  46% · 13 shared
  FilmScience FictionSatirePower & CorruptionContemporaryEverymanVillain / TyrantIronic ReversalThe Machinevs Technologyvs SocietySatiricalIronic
• Memento
  Christopher Nolan · 2000 CE · Film

  44% · 11 shared
  FilmCrime / NoirIdentity & SelfJustice & RevengeMemory & TimeContemporaryAvengerRevenge CycleIronicNoirModern / American