一艘出发自二十世纪的宇宙飞船经过6个月的近光速飞行，相当于经历了七百年时间，船长泰勒（查尔登•海斯顿 Charlton Heston 饰）设定自动飞行状态后，飞船最终坠落在公元3978年的一颗陌生星球上。泰勒和两名幸存队员发现该星球与地球环境相当，而且竟然存在没有语言能力靠采集为生的人类，不待泰勒进行进一步的考察，一群具有智能的人猿突然出现将一众人类捕获。原来这颗星球的主人是人猿，人类只不过是供他们捕猎研究的野兽，人猿博士基拉（金•亨特 Kim Hunter 饰）和男友康奈利分别进行着人类行为学和人猿历史的研究，喉部受伤的泰勒暂时失去语言能力，但他的沟通行为很快引起了基拉的注意，在顽固的人猿学术界引发了争议。一直设法争取自由的泰勒不久终于发现了人猿星球的真相……
茫茫宇宙中一颗无名星球上，生活着体形悬殊的两种生物。占主导地位的是戴格斯人，他们身形巨大，拥有极高的文明和智慧，可以使精神摆脱肉体自在游弋；与之相对的是奥姆斯人，他们具有地球人的外表和身形，社会形态原始落后，在戴格斯人面前有如蝼蚁，于是当仁不让成为这些巨人的奴隶和玩物。奥姆斯人具有顽强的生命力和繁殖能力，他们的数量与日俱增，造成了统治者的困扰。于是，一场针对奥姆斯人的剿灭战随即展开。这本是一场微不足道的如同剿灭害虫的行动，但一个不起眼的奥姆斯人改变了双方的格局。泰尔是被一个戴格斯女孩豢养的奥姆斯男性宠物，他通过主人的教学机器学到了戴格斯人先进的科学文化知识。偶然机会，泰尔逃离戴格斯家庭，成为了领导奥姆斯人对抗统治者的领袖…… 本片荣获1973年戛纳电影节特别奖。
故事讲的是一个小城侦探失去求生意志，然后护送一个流浪汉去精神病院，流浪汉声称月球人进攻地球了，而侦探的任务就是去刺杀一个被流浪汉称为是月球人的媒体大亨。
The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.
1982年冬天，挪威科考队的一架直升机突然打破了南极大陆的平静，直升机疯狂的追逐一只雪橇犬，最后坠毁在美国科考营地的附近。美国科考队员对挪威考察队近期人员骤减的情况有所耳闻，于是飞行员麦克（Kurt Russell 饰）与众人赶赴挪威营地，结果看到的是一地破败中四处散落着奇怪的尸体，并有证据表明挪威人得到了某种冰封状态中的生物。医生布莱尔（Wilford Brimley 饰）研究了尸体的变异却无法破解成因。当晚，犬笼中的狗遭到袭击并发生了变异，一种不可知的生物正在这孤寂的南极大陆威胁着科考队员们的生命…… 本片翻拍自1951年由霍华德•霍克斯指导的《The Thing From Another World》。
核子战争浩劫一直是人类社会挥之不去的阴影，万一在哪一天真的爆发了核战，那将会是什么景象呢？这部尼古拉斯．迈耶导演的电视电影就是根据这种推测拍成的作品，用写实手法刻划美国堪萨斯州劳伦斯市发生核弹爆炸后的各种景况，从而探讨外在世界的变化和人性的内在演变，主题具省思意识，在1983年美国首播时曾造成极大轰动。几位主要演员：贾森．罗巴兹、乔拜兹．威廉斯、史蒂夫．加顿伯格、约翰．李斯可、埃米．马迪根等均有紧扣人心的精彩演出。
