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Astronauts come (back?) to a city ruled by robots. Most people are dead. When people get sad the robots detect it and kill. The robots shows a happy or sad smiley corresponding to their analysis of the person being checked.

I think the dead people were used as fertilizer for the food production. The robots got their instructions wrong trying to create happiness.

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  • Welcome to the site. When did you watch this film, and when do you think it was made? Also, was it in black & white or in colour?
    – LogicDictates
    Commented Apr 26, 2021 at 12:27
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    Commented Apr 26, 2021 at 12:28
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    That is pretty much the plot of Doctor Who Series 10, "Smile", but it's likely it was used before.
    – Radhil
    Commented Apr 26, 2021 at 12:30
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    Whilst the accepted answer is correct, anyone searching on this title may also be looking for a 1980s Doctor Who series, The Happiness Patrol. People who are visibly sad are executed by Kandyman, a psychopathic robot obsessed with confectionery. (Turned an answer into a comment instead, since we have a correct answer.)
    – Graham
    Commented Apr 27, 2021 at 13:57
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    @Graham perfectly fine to leave it as an answer, as you said; other people will come here and may not be looking for the same one as op.
    – Aequitas
    Commented Apr 28, 2021 at 2:25

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Doctor Who Season 10 episode 2 "Smile"

The Doctor brings Bill to a future human colony, where cute EmojiBots work as willing servants and make sure everybody's happy, but if they're not happy, they're harvested.

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  • Exactly!! Thankyou Oni!!
    – wideseen
    Commented Apr 26, 2021 at 21:39
  • though the suggestion was that it was a movie
    – jim
    Commented Apr 27, 2021 at 18:28
  • So a bit like removing downvotes and flagging "mean" comments.
    – pipe
    Commented Apr 28, 2021 at 1:18
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    That image looks so much like that scene in Psycho Pass which does something similar.
    – DKNguyen
    Commented Apr 28, 2021 at 3:24
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    @pipe I don't see any similarity.
    – trlkly
    Commented Apr 28, 2021 at 11:14

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