Afternoon Matinée
A lovingly compiled collection of movies showcasing the best of a revelatory period in cinematic history. Sit back and enjoy the show.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
In the prehistoric African veldt, a tribe of hominids are driven away from their water hole by a rival tribe. Later, they awaken to find an alien monolith has appeared in their midst.
A Brave New World
A man who grew up in a primitive society educating himself by reading Shakespeare is allowed to join the futuristic society where his parents are from. However, he cannot adapt to their repressive ways.
A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick's classic mind control movie where a psychopathic delinquent is tortured into normality.
A Fire In The Sky
Astronomers discover a comet that they believe will crash into Phoenix, Arizona.
A Very British Coup | Channel 4
Based on the novel by Chris Mullin, this political thriller stars Ray McAnally as the newly elected left-wing prime minister Harry Perkins, who soon finds himself up to his neck in conspiracy.
All The President’s Men
The Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation
Arlington Road
Jeff Bridges is a Washington University professor who suspects his new neighbours are involved in some sort of terrorist activity but has absolutely no idea of what they have planned for him.
Assault on Precinct 13
In South-Central Los Angeles, a gang steal a cache of assault rifles and pistols. At 3:00 am on a Saturday in Anderson a team of heavily-armed LAPD officers ambush and kill six members of the gang.
Barbarella
Barbarella crash-lands on Tau Ceti's 16th planet and is knocked unconscious by two children. They bring her into the wreckage of a spaceship where she is bound and attacked by several dolls with razor-sharp teeth.
Being There
Being There is a movie that deals with a simple premise - if you act in a certain way, people will make unquestioned assumptions about you.
Black Sunday
Black Sunday is the powerful story of a Black September terrorist group attempting to blow up a Goodyear blimp hovering over the Super Bowl stadium with 80,000 people and the president of the United States in attendance.
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The Game Reality takes a backseat as psychological manipulation reigns supreme. Sometimes the greatest mind games are the ones we don’t even know we’re playing.
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- The Salzburg Connection A list of agents and collaborators, hidden by the Nazis in an Austrian lake in 1945, is sought after by various interested parties during the Cold War
- The Wicker Man Police Sergeant Neil Howie journeys by seaplane to the remote Hebridean island Summerisle to investigate the disappearance of a young girl.
- Enemy Of The State A lawyer becomes targeted by a corrupt politician and his N.S.A. goons when he accidentally receives key evidence to a politically motivated crime.
The Odessa File The name ODESSA is an acronym for the German phrase "Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen"- The Conversation A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
- Edge of Darkness | BBC When his daughter Emma is murdered, a detective discovers, that she was in GAIA, and intent on exposing criminal conduct by an evil American corporation.
The Brotherhood of the Bell Professor Andrew Patterson returns to his College in San Francisco to attend the initiation of a new member into a secret society.
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Blade Runner In 2019 Los Angeles, former police officer Rick Deckard is brought to his former supervisor, Bryant. Bryant wants Deckard to retire Leon and three other Nexus-6 replicants...- Marooned Astronauts Pruett, Lloyd and Stone are stranded in space when the main engine on their spacecraft fails. Now, they are in dilemma as there is not enough oxygen for them…
- The Rothschilds – Shares in Waterloo The Rothschilds – Shares in Waterloo reveals the family's secretive rise to power through war profiteering and financial manipulation, exposing lasting influence behind world events.
Midnight Express On vacation in Istanbul, Turkey in 1970, American college student Billy Hayes straps 2 kg of hashish bricks to his chest...
Conspiracy Theory A taxi driver with a penchant for conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of these theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, to save himself, he has to figure…- The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner One of the great British films of the 1960s British New Wave, class tensions surface as borstal boy Tom Courtenay competes in a cross-country race against public-school rivals.
- Starman Launched in 1977, the Voyager 2 space probe carried a gold phonographic disk with a message of peace, inviting alien civilisations to visit Earth. The probe is intercepted by an alien planet which then sends a small…
- Arlington Road Jeff Bridges is a Washington University professor who suspects his new neighbours are involved in some sort of terrorist activity but has absolutely no idea of what they have planned…
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Out Of The Unknown | Series 1 & 2 | BBC Out of the Unknown is a classic British television science fiction anthology drama series. Watch all surviving episodes from series 1 and 2.- Brave New World Bernard Marx is about to take over the job of Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning, replacing the disgraced previous director, then Lenina informs him that she is pregnant with his…
- The House of Rothschild A Hollywood effort to garner peoples' empathy, showcasing the Rothschild family's 'humble beginning' in anti-jew Prussia.
- Being There Being There is a movie that deals with a simple premise - if you act in a certain way, people will make unquestioned assumptions about you.
- The Matrix Computer programmer Thomas Anderson, known by his hacking alias "Neo" follows the white rabbit all the way to reality.
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun In 2069, the European Space Exploration Council's Sun Probe discovers a planet orbiting the same path as Earth on the other side of the Sun.
