THX 1138

1971 · 1h26 · Film

Directed by George Lucas

Starring Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie, Ian Wolfe, Marshall Efron, Sid Haig, John Pearce, Irene Cagen, Gary Alan Marsh

Ideal when you feel… Calm Sad / low Curious

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.

Original language

English

Screenplay

George Lucas, Walter Murch

Music

Lalo Schifrin

Cinematography

Albert Kihn, David Myers

Cast

Maggie McOmie, Ian Wolfe, Marshall Efron, Sid Haig, John Pearce, Irene Cagen, Gary Alan Marsh, John Seaton, Eugene I. Stillman

Updated July 22, 2026

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