Ex Machina

Alex Garland writes and directs this sci-fi thriller starring Oscar Isaac and Domhnall Gleeson.

Gleeson plays Caleb, a promising young programmer, who is selected by the CEO (Isaac) of a large Internet company to spend a week at his retreat in the mountains.

When he arrives, Caleb soon learns that the retreat is in fact the location of a laboratory involved in pioneering research into artificial intelligence and robotics and is home to the world's first fully sentient robot (Alicia Vikander).

However, as the two men interact more and more with the AI, it becomes apparent that she is more sophisticated than they imagined...

The film was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects and Best Original Screenplay.