Screenplay: Philip K. Dick

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Philip K. Dick. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Blade Runner

1982 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Ridley Scott

Cast Harrison Ford · Rutger Hauer · Sean Young · Daryl Hannah

Synopsis Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is a retired cop in Los Angeles in 2019. L.A. has become a pan-cultural dystopia of corporate advertising, pollution and flying automobiles, as well as replicants, human-like androids with short life spans built by the Tyrell...

8.1

133K votes

8.1

133K votes

Blade Runner 2049

2017 · Movie · 163 min. · United States

Direction Denis Villeneuve

Cast Ryan Gosling · Harrison Ford · Ana de Armas · Jared Leto

Synopsis Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge whats left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a...

7.0

42K votes

7.0

42K votes

Minority Report

2002 · Movie · 144 min. · United States

Direction Steven Spielberg

Cast Tom Cruise · Colin Farrell · Samantha Morton · Max von Sydow

Synopsis In the year 2054 A.D. crime is virtually eliminated from Washington D.C. thanks to an elite law enforcing squad "Precrime". They use three genetically altered humans (called "Pre-Cogs") with special powers to see into the future and predict crimes beforehand....

6.9

84K votes

6.9

84K votes

Total Recall

1990 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Paul Verhoeven

Cast Arnold Schwarzenegger · Sharon Stone · Michael Ironside · Rachel Ticotin

Synopsis Earth in the year 2084. Construction worker Doug Quaid goes to Rekall Inc, which advertises that clients can pay to have synthetic memories of a holiday implanted in lieu of actually visiting the place. Quaid chooses an Adventure Scenario where...

6.8

70K votes

6.8

70K votes

Direction Frank Spotnitz · Daniel Percival · Karyn Kusama · Brad Anderson

Cast Luke Kleintank · Arnold Chun · Alexa Davalos · Bernhard Forcher

Synopsis TV Series (2015-2019). 4 Seasons. 40 Episodes. Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel, and executive produced by Ridley Scott (Blade Runner), The Man in the High Castle explores what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost...

6.7

6K votes

6.7

6K votes

Direction David Semel

Cast Luke Kleintank · Arnold Chun · Alexa Davalos · Rupert Evans

Synopsis Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel, and executive produced by Ridley Scott (Blade Runner), The Man in the High Castle explores what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the...

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes

A Scanner Darkly

2006 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Richard Linklater

Cast Keanu Reeves · Robert Downey Jr. · Woody Harrelson · Winona Ryder

Synopsis "A Scanner Darkly" is set in suburban Orange County, California in a future where America has lost the war on drugs. When one reluctant undercover cop (Reeves) is ordered to start spying on his friends, he is launched on a...

6.6

17K votes

6.6

17K votes

Direction Peter Horton

Cast Juno Temple · Nick Eversman · David Lyons · Janelle Monáe

Synopsis Society and the world as we know it has collapsed. A massive, automatic factory operates according to the principles of consumerism; humans consume to be happy, and in order to consume continuously, they must be denied freedom of choice and...

6.5

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

Morning Patrol

1987 · Movie · 108 min. · Greece

Direction Nikos Nikolaidis

Cast Michelle Valley · Takis Spiridakis · Liana Hatzi · Nikos Hatzis

Synopsis A woman is walking alone through an abandoned city. She approaches the forbidden zone and tries to pass through. Everywhere the Morning Patrol and deceptive traps are watching. The city itself is alive but uncontrolled. Computer voices warn non-existing inhabitants...

6.4

42 votes

6.4

42 votes

Direction Dee Rees

Cast Daniel Craig Baker · Sarah Baker · Desiree Ballesteros · DuShon Monique Brown

Synopsis A man hangs dead from a lamppost, apparently murdered and inexplicably ignored by passersby, after a politician (Vera Farmiga) makes a shocking statement encouraging violence. When one Philbert Noyce (Mel Rodriguez) dares to question the situation, he becomes an instant...

6.4

809 votes

6.4

809 votes

Direction Tom Harper

Cast Timothy Spall · Anthony Boyle · Rudi Dharmalingam · Tuppence Middleton

Synopsis Ed Jacobson (Timothy Spall) is an unassuming employee at a train station who is alarmed to discover that a number of daily commuters are taking the train to a town that shouldn’t exist. When he investigates for himself, he comes...

6.3

913 votes

6.3

913 votes

Direction David Farr · Tom Harper · Marc Munden · Julian Jarrold

Cast Nicole Agada · Matthew Raymond · Ann Akin · Anthony Boyle

Synopsis TV Series (2017-2018). 10 Episodes. A sci-fi anthology series with stand-alone episodes based on the works of Phillip K. Dick.

6.3

2K votes

6.3

2K votes

Direction Alan Taylor

Cast Annalise Basso · Deano Mitchison · Randall McDonald · Connor Paolo

Synopsis A small-town girl (Annalise Basso), already gripped with social anxiety, moves to a big city with her mother (Maura Tierney). For the first time she is exposed to urban society's emphasis on security and terrorist prevention. Her school days are...

6.3

866 votes

6.3

866 votes

Direction Jeffrey Reiner

Cast Anu Bhatt · Guy Burnet · Terrence Howard · Christian Isely

Synopsis Sarah (Anna Paquin) is a policewoman living in the future who shares headspace with George (Terrence Howard) a brilliant game designer, each pursuing violent killers whose plans could have shattering consequences. In a race against time, sharing a bond that...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

The Adjustment Bureau

2011 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction George Nolfi

Cast Matt Damon · Emily Blunt · Anthony Mackie · John Slattery

Synopsis David Norris (Matt Damon), a rising young politician in New York City, loses badly in a bid for the Senate. Going into the bathroom to compose his concession speech, he encounters ballerina Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt) hiding in a stall...

6.1

22K votes

6.1

22K votes

Direction Francesca Gregorini

Cast Bryan Cranston · Essie Davis · Liam Cunningham · Ruth Bradley

Synopsis A woman suffering in a loveless marriage, finds that upon his return from battle, her emotionally abusive husband suddenly appears to be a different man - in more ways than one.

6.0

1K votes

6.0

1K votes

Direction Julian Jarrold

Cast Richard Madden · Holliday Grainger · Noma Dumezweni · Anneika Rose

Synopsis In a world without advanced technology, mutant telepaths have become humanity's only mechanism for long distance communication. But their powers have unintended implications. When the public begin to embrace mysterious, telepath-blocking hoods, two detectives with an entangled past are brought...

5.9

1K votes

5.9

1K votes

Blade Runner: The Aquarelle Edition

2013 · Movie · 35 min. · Sweden

Direction Anders Ramsell

Synopsis Anders Ramsell´s “Blade Runner – The Aquarelle Edition” takes you even further away in the future with its colors and volatility. Never before has someone made a paraphrase on a movie like this, with thousands and thousands of aquarelle paintings....

5.9

97 votes

5.9

97 votes

Paycheck

2003 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction John Woo

Cast Ben Affleck · Uma Thurman · Aaron Eckhart · Colm Feore

Synopsis Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) is a high-paid engineer who works on hush-hush computer inventions and technology for shady companies. Later, his memory is wiped clean, so he has no recollection of his work. His so-called friend Rethrick (Aaron Eckhardt) offers...

5.7

23K votes

5.7

23K votes