Synopsis: A humanoid alien is in search of water for his dying planet. When his spacecraft crashes on Earth, he adopts the name Thomas Jerome Newton and sets about finding a means of returning to his own planet. He quickly establishes a company specializing in state-of-the-art technology and his stocks begin to rize quickly. While his home is a vast arid world where water is scarce, Newton is getting to be quite wealthy on Earth and meets a girl, Mary-Lou, who falls in love with him. With the help of patent lawyer, Oliver Farnsworth, things are looking as if Newton might be able to afford to build himself a new spacecraft and to return home, but he does not realize to what extent the greed and ruthlessness of business here on Earth will frustrate his plans.

Synopsis: An out of work pulp fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a post war Vienna to start a new job at the invitation of Harry Lime, an old friend from school. The city is divided into sectors by the victorious allies, but a shortage of supplies and a flourishing black market have turned it into a lawless pit of crime and sin. Upon arrival, Holly learns that Harry has just been killed in a peculiar traffic accident, just outside his home. At the funeral, Holly meets Harry’s beautiful girlfriend Anna Schmidt. Maj. Calloway, in charge of the investigation, offers Holly a ticket back to the States, but while waiting to return home he talks to his late friend’s associates and soon notices that their accounts are inconsistent: were there two men at the site of the accident or were there three? Determined to discover what really happened, Holly learns that Harry Lime was responsible for a series of thefts from a military hospital, after which the stolen drugs were diluted and sold on the black market, causing a number of deaths and infant abnormalities. Dismayed, he continues to investigate and to track down the mysterious third man.

Synopsis: The great storyteller Hoffmann is losing himself to drink. His rival in love, Councillor Lindorf, claims that Hoffmann knows nothing of the heart, and goads him into revealing his three great loves—each of which is destroyed by a villain who bears an uncanny resemblance to Lindorf… First Hoffmann tells of his infatuation for the mechanical doll, Olympia, destroyed by the inventor Coppélius. Next comes the courtesan Giulietta, who declines his adoration in favor of jewels from the magician Dappertutto. And finally, gentle Antonia is forced to sing to her death by the wicked Doctor Miracle. His stories finished, Hoffmann rouses from his drunken stupor only to find that this time Lindorf has made off with Stella, Hoffmann’s latest love—but the Muses compel him to transform his heartache into art.

Synopsis: Year 2084. For the busy Earthbound worker on a budget, Rekall inc. furnishes memories of exotic locations and adventure travel that feels like the real thing: recall all of the fun experiences without leaving home, for a fraction of the price! Douglas Quaid has been having nightmares about the planet Mars and has become so obsessed that he just has to visit, even if only via Rekall’s procedure. But when he is implanted with the false memories it all goes terribly wrong because, in fact, he has really been on Mars as Hauser, a double agent for the Marsian colony’s cruel administrator, Cohaggen. Undercover among the proletarian rebel-mutants, Houser/Quaid had met and fallen in love with Melina, a woman who revealed to him the dangers of corporate dictatorship went before his memories were erased by Cohaggen and replaced with those of a commonplace citizen. To defeat Cohaagen and save the people of the Red planet, Quaid now has to unlock the details of his former life with the help of the psychic mutant revolutionary leader Kuato. But reality is constantly in question. Is any of this genuine experience or is it Rekall?