Mech Movies from power suits to giants

I'm trying to find some movies with some great Mecha in them. I can probably find some kind of list on Wiki but people add all kinds of things so easily that only fit the bill using a stretch of logic.

Here are a few rules...

I want it to be a mechanical not a biomechanical suit like the one on Independence Day that the alien uses.

I want it to be shaped like a bipedial humanoid. Alien Mech suits can work like the one on District 9 as long as it has two arms and two legs with a torso between them and the head at the top kind of thing. So the tripods from tom criuse War of the Worlds are disqualified.

I have nothing against animated or CG movies. But I prefer the suits are in a live-action movie even if the suit itself is CG.

It can be of any size as long as it is a mechanical augmentation of the person using it.

Here are some examples and the format that would be great to get some more movies added. This will give you a better idea of the kinds of things that I think qualify for my rules and do not. Thank you.

CLOSE FITTING SUITS
Iron Man
Edge of Tomorrow

PERSON FITS IN TORSO
Iron Man 2
Avatar
Matrix Revolutions
District 9
Aliens

PERSON FITS IN HEAD
Robot Jox
Pacific Rim

Thanks as I look through and confirm movies fit rules I will repost updated lists in the comments. I did not list all the ones I can possibly think of but feel free to add sequels like the other Iron Man movies.

I was thinking back to this film the other day. I don't know whether I knew this years ago but Crash and Burn was apparently not a proper sequel to Robot Jox. It felt like it at the time .

Perhaps not a mention you'd be expecting but there was a Doctor Who audio drama several years ago, Exotron, that involved giant robots being used to defend humans.

Guyver
Elysium

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Great! Some that I haven't heard of or thought of.

Is Crash and Burn the one with the giant scorpion machine?

Was Guyver a series? That works too if it was. A vaguely can't remember if it was a movie or series because I never saw it. Can you give me a few sentence plot summary?

If I'm not remembering right in Crash and Burn wasn't the title of the Scorpion one I'd like to know which movie that was with a giant scorpion.

And was exotron about bipedal robots piloted by beings inside of them?

...and here I was ready to recommend Evangelion, Escaflowne, and Gundam Unicorn.

Oops looks like I quoted the wrong comment on that last one haha. Whatever I don't feel like correcting it right now

Manga series and then US movie

I know calling specifically for Live Action and also preferring movies on this list does narrow the field a bit. But I really like live action Mecha and if I leave those two qualifiers out it's going to end up one big freaking list hahaha

It seems so long ago…

It was .

Some more I've just thought of: the large 'gate guard' robot piloted by goblins in Labyrinth (1986); the robot in Voltron; and the robots of Zoids all had people driving them, although I don't think they were ever humanoid.

Oh my goodness! I love Labyrinth as a kid and thought it was cool they had some kind of mechanical and steam powered next thing attached to that gate. But I didn't think of the connection when I was trying to make this list. Great!

Yeah, almost a steampunk robot .

I liked the mechanical suits the aliens used in Battleship (2012).

Another Doctor Who example is that the Ice Warriors were retconned a few years ago. They were always the classic 'man in a suit' alien but their familiar, bulky humanoid armour was revealed to be an exoskeleton piloted by a thin, spindly Martian inside. So it's essentially Mark Gatiss drawing on War of the Worlds to reinvent them, which I thought was quite clever even though I liked them as they were.

Oh yeah Battleship. I saw that once but I remember now. Good.

I've probably almost committed a sin by not watching any Doctor Who but I'm on the fence about watching it. I've heard so many great things about it and the only reason why I do not want to watch it is because there is so many freaking Renditions and seasons of it and I am a binge Watcher that it seems like a huge commitment to get into it lol

Yeah, I imagine it could be incredibly overfacing now for any new fan. When I became a proper fan it was 1992, the series had ended and there were still only seven Doctors .

Yeah whenever I go back to Portland there's a place called movie Madness where they rent out pretty much any movie or series you can think of. The Doctor Who DVDs they have available show that I will age a bit to see them all.

Imagine when they were videos .