Per l'operaio Douglas Quaid, nonostante una moglie bellissima che ama, i viaggi mentali offerti dalla Rekall sono la vacanza sogno per sfuggire alle tante frustrazioni della sua quotidianità. Le memorie di una super spia sarebbero proprio quel che fa al caso suo.
Un organismo alieno giunge sulla Terra portato da un meteorite. Questo organismo si alimenta con le sostanze degli scarichi industriali, e visto che il Giappone è ricco di industrie, rapidamente l'alieno, chiamato Hedorah, cresce e diventa una sorta di gigantesca ameba tossica che comincia a far strage di esseri umani mediante getti di acido capaci di corrodere una persona fino all'osso. Tra i primi ad accorgersi del pericolo c'è il dottor Yano, rimasto sfigurato da un incontro con la creatura durante un'immersione. Mentre Hedora acquista anche la capacità di volare (durante il volo rilascia gas tossici), gli umani invocano l'intervento di Godzilla. Ma neppure lui sembra essere in grado di battere Hedora...
Thick, deadly smog blankets the globe, reducing visibility to less than a few metres. In a secluded farmhouse, a woman and her overbearing husband attempt to find resources and survive using a series of walking trails crafted from ropes and stakes. One night, the woman is alerted to the presence of someone or something else deep in the smog. Desperate to escape the farmhouse, the woman attempts to meet the unknown and risk everything to leave her loveless and abusive relationship behind.
Jia Zhangke's short film for Greenpeace East Asia depicts the effects of air pollution in northeast China, a region frequently blanketed in dangerous levels of air pollution. 'Smog Journeys' traces two families from two different backgrounds; one a mining family in Hebei province, and the other a trendy middle class family in Beijing. Both face a similar fate. Air pollution is one of China's most pressing environmental and health issues. Greenpeace calls for a shift from coal to clean renewable energy, as well as short term measures that better safeguard people's health.
Chai Jing's documentary about the massive smog problem in China. Chai Jing started making the documentary when her as yet unborn daughter developed a tumour in the womb, which had to be removed very soon after her birth. Chai blames air pollution for the tumour. The film, which combines footage of a lecture with interviews and factory visits, has been compared with Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth in both its style and likely impact. The film openly criticises state-owned energy companies, steel producers and coal factories, as well as showing the inability of the Ministry of Environmental Protection to act against the big polluters.
Every day they clean the dirty windows of their cars from the filthy film that has formed overnight. Measuring stations call a low smog warning. But one day a soccer player collapses on the pitch with breathlessness.