Philip K. Dick
on screen

Blade Runner

Directed by Ridley Scott

In a rain-soaked future Los Angeles, Rick Deckard is assigned to hunt a group of escaped replicants. As he follows their search for longer lives, the distinction between artificial beings and the humans who created them becomes increasingly uncertain.

Total Recall

Directed by Paul Verhoeven

A construction worker seeks an artificial memory of a holiday on Mars, but the procedure appears to expose a buried identity. Hunted by people he thought he knew, he travels to the red planet, where rebellion, corporate power, and manufactured memories collide.

Barjo

Directed by Jérôme Boivin

After losing his home, an eccentric amateur observer moves in with his sister and her husband. His meticulous notes on their increasingly troubled marriage turn an ordinary household into a strange study of obsession and self-deception.

Screamers

Directed by Christian Duguay

On a devastated mining planet, soldiers attempt to negotiate an end to a long war. Their journey is threatened by autonomous killing machines that have continued to evolve, making it increasingly difficult to tell a human survivor from a new kind of weapon.

Impostor

Directed by Gary Fleder

During a prolonged war with an alien enemy, a weapons scientist is accused of being an artificial replacement carrying a hidden bomb. He escapes custody and searches for evidence of his humanity while the authorities close in.

Minority Report

Directed by Steven Spielberg

A police unit uses psychic predictions to arrest people before they commit murder. When its chief investigator is named as a future killer, he goes on the run to discover whether the system can be wrong—and who might be using it against him.

Paycheck

Directed by John Woo

An engineer finishes a secret assignment with his memories erased, only to discover that he has surrendered his enormous fee for a collection of ordinary objects. Pursued by former employers and federal agents, he must work out how those objects can guide him through a future he no longer remembers.

A Scanner Darkly

Directed by Richard Linklater

An undercover officer becomes entangled in the drug culture he is investigating. As Substance D fractures his perception and sense of identity, the surveillance system turns its attention toward his own household—and toward him.

Next

Directed by Lee Tamahori

A Las Vegas performer conceals his ability to see a few minutes into his own future. When federal agents seek his help against a nuclear threat, he must decide whether to remain hidden or risk the life he hopes to share with a woman he has foreseen.

Radio Free Albemuth

Directed by John Alan Simon

In an authoritarian America, record-store clerk Nicholas Brady begins receiving mysterious communications from an intelligence he calls VALIS. With his friend Philip K. Dick and a woman who shares the experience, he becomes involved in a resistance whose message may reach far beyond politics.

The Adjustment Bureau

Directed by George Nolfi

A politician’s chance encounter with a dancer brings him into conflict with an organization that quietly manages human destinies. Ordered to abandon their relationship, he challenges the plan laid out for him and tries to discover how much freedom he really has.

Total Recall

Directed by Len Wiseman

A factory worker visits a company that implants artificial memories and emerges as a hunted man. As he crosses a divided future Earth with a resistance fighter, he must piece together the identity that his memories and former allies can no longer be trusted to explain.

The Man in the High Castle

In an alternate 1960s America divided between Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, a young woman becomes involved with a resistance movement and mysterious films showing another version of history. The series follows people on both sides of the occupation as competing realities threaten the established order.

Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams

Ten standalone stories explore lives unsettled by unfamiliar technologies, shifting identities, and unreliable realities. Each episode reimagines a Philip K. Dick short story, asking what remains human when the world can no longer be taken for granted.

Your Name Here

Directed by Matthew Wilder

A struggling science-fiction writer in 1970s California finds his personal crises giving way to a bewildering succession of alternate realities. This surreal fantasy draws loosely on Philip K. Dick’s life rather than adapting a particular novel or story.