Movies that could be inspirations

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In 1982, a massive star ship bearing a bedraggled alien population, nicknamed "The Prawns," appeared over Johannesburg, South Africa. Twenty-eight years later, the initial welcome by the human population has faded. The refugee camp where the aliens were located has deteriorated into a militarized ghetto called District 9, where they are confined and exploited in squalor.

District 9 (2009) - IMDb

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1136608/
A young woman who believes she's a cyborg hears voices and harms herself while at work making radios. She's hospitalized in a mental institution where she eats nothing and talks to inanimate objects. She's Young-goon, granddaughter of a woman who thought she was a mouse (and whose dentures Young-goon wears) and a mother who's a butcher without much social grace. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0497137/

I'm a Cyborg (2006) - IMDb

Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992)

Sequel to "Tetsou" this time has the Iron Man transforming into cyberkinetic gun when a gang of vicious skinheads kidnap his son. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105569/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/

Metropolis (1927) - IMDb

Sometime in the future, the city of Metropolis is home to a Utopian society where its wealthy residents live a carefree life.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084827/ Hacker/arcade owner Kevin Flynn is digitally broken down into a data stream by a villainous software pirate known as the Master Control and reconstituted into the internal, 3-D graphical world of computers. It is there, in the ultimate blazingly colorful, geometrically intense landscapes of cyberspace, that Flynn joins forces with Tron to outmaneuver the Master Control program that holds them captive in the equivalent of a gigantic, infinitely challenging computer game.

TRON (1982) - IMDb

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - IMDb

An alien (Klaatu) with his mighty robot (Gort) land their spacecraft on Cold War-era Earth just after the end of World War II. They bring an important message to the planet that Klaatu wishes to tell to representatives of all nations. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043456/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070909/

Westworld (1973)

A amusement park for rich vacationers.

Frankenstein (1931) - IMDb

Henry Frankenstein is a doctor who is trying to discover a way to make the dead walk. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021884/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066434/

THX 1138 (1971) - IMDb

George Lucas adapted this, his first film, from a short he made at University. THX 1138, LUH 3417, and SEN 5241 attempt to escape from a futuristic society located beneath the surface of the Earth. The society has outlawed sex, with drugs used to control the people.

Blade Runner (1982) - IMDb

In a cyberpunk vision of the future, man has developed the technology to create replicants, human clones used to serve in the colonies outside Earth but with fixed lifespans. In Los Angeles, 2019, Deckard is a Blade Runner, a cop who specialises in terminating replicants.
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away Planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations. The original plan was that Will Smith was to play Prot and Kevin Spacey Dr.

K-PAX (2001) - IMDb

Tetsuo (1989) - IMDb

A strange man known only as the "metal fetishist", who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by a Japanese "salaryman", out for a drive with his girlfriend.

The Thirteenth Floor (1999)

Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important.