# The best Philip K. Dick movie adaptations

Replicants, precogs and memory implants: the films based on Philip K. Dick's stories, ranked from Blade Runner down, as MovieWeb, Screen Rant and Gizmodo see them.

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- Aug 4, 2023 · Lauren Evans
- https://even.best/en/l/4357/the-best-philip-k-dick-movie-adaptations

## Top 12

1. **Blade Runner (1982)** (263 · ▲282 ▼19) — Ridley Scott. From Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
2. **Minority Report (2002)** (200 · ▲217 ▼17) — Steven Spielberg. A police unit that arrests killers before they kill.
3. **Total Recall (1990)** (172 · ▲195 ▼23) — Paul Verhoeven. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mars and false memories.
4. **Blade Runner 2049 (2017)** (165 · ▲189 ▼24) — Denis Villeneuve. The sequel, thirty years on.
5. **A Scanner Darkly (2006)** (118 · ▲146 ▼28) — Richard Linklater. Rotoscoped paranoia and Substance D.
6. **The Adjustment Bureau (2011)** (109 · ▲143 ▼34) — George Nolfi. Matt Damon against the men who adjust fate.
7. **Radio Free Albemuth (2010)** (99 · ▲125 ▼26) — John Alan Simon. Dick's posthumous novel about a voice from space.
8. **Total Recall (2012)** (98 · ▲127 ▼29) — Len Wiseman. The remake with Colin Farrell.
9. **Paycheck (2003)** (88 · ▲121 ▼33) — John Woo. An engineer whose memory has been wiped.
10. **Screamers (1995)** (71 · ▲100 ▼29) — Christian Duguay. Self-replicating killing machines on a mining planet.
11. **Next (2007)** (67 · ▲110 ▼43) — Lee Tamahori. Nicolas Cage can see two minutes into the future.
12. **Impostor (2001)** (57 · ▲98 ▼41) — Gary Fleder. A scientist accused of being an alien replica.

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