The following are adaptations of Philip K. Dicks novels into films. We are able to see the common link of paranoia and surveillance running throughout most.
Blade Runner (1982)Based on "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
Screamers (1995) Based on "Second Variety"
Total Recall (1990)Based on "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale"
Confessions d'un Barjo (French, 1992) Based on "Confessions of a Crap Artist"
Impostor (2001) Based on "Impostor."
Minority Report (2002) Based on "The Minority Report."
Paycheck (December 25, 2003) Based on "Paycheck."
A Scanner Darkly (July 7, 2006) Based on "A Scanner Darkly"
Next (April 27, 2007)Based on "The Golden Man"
The titles are often different because the titles of his books were often not even his own, publishers would change them once they'd read the initial draft. dick has been found to say he was never very good at thinking up titles.
an interesting point made by Baudrillard on Dick's work. "It is hyperreal. It is a universe of simulation, which is something altogether different. And this is so not because Dick speaks specifically of simulacra. SF has always done so, but it has always played upon the double, on artificial replication or imaginary duplication, whereas here the double has disappeared. There is no more double; one is always already in the other world, an other world which is not another, without mirrors or projection or utopias as means for reflection. The simulation is impassable, unsurpassable, checkmated, without exteriority. We can no longer move "through the mirror" to the other side, as we could during the golden age of transcendence"
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