A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

A starship crew goes to investigate the silence of a planet's colony only to find two survivors and a deadly secret that one of them has.

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

A strung-out junkie deals with daily demoralizing drug addiction while a crippled wife and card sharks continue to pull him down.

When a scientist tests an experimental growth serum on his lab tarantula, the creature escapes into the desert and grows to gargantuan size, destroying all in its path. Can it be stopped?

A giant octopus, whose feeding habits have been affected by radiation from H-Bomb tests, rises from the Mindanao Deep to terrorize the California Coast.

In a decrepit South American village, men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.

A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.

A rich playboy whose recklessness inadvertently causes the death of a prominent doctor tries to make amends to his widow, and falls for her in the process.

Confined to a wheelchair after an accident, a recuperating news photographer watches neighbors apartments through his telephoto lens and becomes convinced that a murder has taken place.

American nuclear weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable dinosaur-like beast.

An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B.

A strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study.

A spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert, and only an amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence when the local townsfolk begin to act strange.

An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.

When Hollywood attempts the transition from silent films to talkies, a matinee idol hopes to make the cut. But he's hampered by a silent-movie queen with a voice like fingernails on a blackboard.

An altruistic chemist invents a fabric which resists wear and stain as a boon to humanity, but both big business and labor realize it must be suppressed for economic reasons.

An alien lands and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.

"It starts with a shriek of a train whistle... and ends with shrieking excitement!"

An amoral newspaper reporter washes up in dead-end Albuquerque, happens upon the scoop of a lifetime, and will do anything to keep getting headlines. 

A doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague.

A group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes challenge their vows and their sanity.

Three returning servicemen struggle to adjust to life at home after World War II.

A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.