Philip K Dick
61) A scanner darkly
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
Set in a future world where America has lost the war on drugs, an L.A. undercover agents change their faces along with their identities. One officer's liberal ingestion of the drug "Substance D" causes him to develop a split personality, a notorious drug dealer. Along with his superior officers, the police set up an elaborate scheme to catch his drug dealer alter-ego and tear down his operation.
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
A profile of the life of the influential science fiction writer, Philip K. Dick presented through interviews with contemporaries and excerpts from his writings. Dick's writing and ideas on reality, humanity and technology which blend West Coast utopianism, counterculture paranoia and mystical experience have been adapted into films, including Blade Runner and Total Recall. Since very little interview footage exists of Philip K. Dick, this documentary...
63) Next
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him. He can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low in Vegas under an assumed name. There, he performs cheap tricks and lives off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government...
64) Impostor
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Description
Spencer John Olham, is a respected government scientist in the year 2079 trying to devise a secret weapon that will help his fellow humans win a decade-long war against invading aliens that are cloning human subjects and using the replicas as walking time bombs. Suddenly, Olham is accused of being an alien spy and a nationwide manhunt to capture him ensues. With even his doctor wife unsure that she can trust him, Olham must uncover the truth on his...
65) Blade Runner
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LAPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & microchip jungle of the 21st century. His job is to track down and eliminate assumed humanoids known as 'replicants.' Replicants were declared illegal after a bloody mutiny on an Off-World Colony, and are to be terminated upon detection. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 6 "skin jobs," the slang for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth....
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
In a futuristic Los Angeles of 2019, detective Rick Deckard is a highly rated "Blade Runner" assigned to find and kill illegal cybernetic "replicants", genetic creations with superhuman abilities. Pulled unwillingly out of retirement, Deckard is forced into one last case, six exceptionally dangerous replicants who have escaped from slave labor and made their way into the city, apparently with plans to gain vengeance on the corporate masters who created...
67) Next
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him. He can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low in Vegas under an assumed name. There, he performs cheap tricks and lives off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government...
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Door in the wall: A man must choose between the rationality of science and the magic of imagination.
All cats are gray: A down-on-his-luck spaceman and a mysetrious woman and her cat take off to explore and bring back a derelict ship said to hold great treasure.
A martian odyssey: A four-man crew lands on Mars and makes a startling discovery.
Victory: A victorious captain returns to h his home planet after an alien war and finds that victory has...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Blade Runner 2049: A young blade runner's discovery of a long buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.
Blade Runner: the final cut: In a future Los Angeles, Rick Deckard of the LAPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & microchip jungle. His job is to track down and eliminate assumed humanoids known as 'replicants.' Replicants. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a...
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