People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.

Prejudice transforms a young black man into an armed militant leader, who believes the only answer to racism is violent revolution.

A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle."

Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark, and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.

A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.

An irresponsible student enlists in the Coast Guard expecting to sit out World War II.