The best Philip K. Dick movie adaptations
The top 3 according to 2,199 votes from people: Blade Runner (1982) · Minority Report (2002) · Total Recall (1990). (Updated Aug 4, 2023.)
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.
Top 12
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1
Blade Runner (1982)
Ridley Scott. From Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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2
Minority Report (2002)
Steven Spielberg. A police unit that arrests killers before they kill.
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3
Total Recall (1990)
Paul Verhoeven. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mars and false memories.
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4
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Denis Villeneuve. The sequel, thirty years on.
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5
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Richard Linklater. Rotoscoped paranoia and Substance D.
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6
The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
George Nolfi. Matt Damon against the men who adjust fate.
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7
Radio Free Albemuth (2010)
John Alan Simon. Dick's posthumous novel about a voice from space.
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8
Total Recall (2012)
Len Wiseman. The remake with Colin Farrell.
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9
Paycheck (2003)
John Woo. An engineer whose memory has been wiped.
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10
Screamers (1995)
Christian Duguay. Self-replicating killing machines on a mining planet.
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11
Next (2007)
Lee Tamahori. Nicolas Cage can see two minutes into the future.
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12
Impostor (2001)
Gary Fleder. A scientist accused of being an alien replica.
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Comments (9)
Total Recall 1990 over the remake, no contest. Get your ass to Mars
Blade Runner 2049 is better than the original, fight me
They're both masterpieces, why do we always have to pick
No way. It's beautiful but the original has the soul. Tears in rain etc
Screamers is such a weird B movie, love that it made the list
Missing The Man in the High Castle, but I guess it's a series not a movie
Minority Report aged so well, the gesture screens, the personalised ads... Spielberg nailed it
Blade Runner #1 obviously, but A Scanner Darkly deserves to be higher. It's the most faithful one by far
Agreed, it's basically the book on screen. Robert Downey Jr. is hilarious in it