Archive for: Afternoon Matinée

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.

Out of the Unknown is a classic British television science fiction anthology drama series. Watch all surviving episodes from series 1 and 2.

A movie documentary that highlights the writing and recording process of the legendary Beatles.

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 out which theory it is.

When Johnny Smith awakens from a coma caused by a car accident, he finds that years have passed, and he now has psychic abilities.

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 child...

When a plague breaks out in Hamburg, several people escape from quarantine and make their way out of the city... only to discover that the disease is more widespread.

Separated from wife, John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel only to learn he is wanted for a series of brutal murders that he can't remember...

An underground community designed in case of nuclear war that will never return to the surface.

A young mother suspects the submissive housewives in her new idyllic Connecticut neighbourhood may be robots created by their husbands...

Miracle Mile is a 1988 American apocalyptic thriller where a man meets the girl of his dreams and then finds out the world is about to end.

The female friend of a murdered man teams up with a reporter to expose the metaphorical new world order.

In a British Army "glasshouse" in the Libyan desert, prisoners convicted of service offences such as insubordination, being drunk while on duty, going AWOL or petty theft are subjected to repetitive drill routines as a punishment in the blazing desert heat.

"We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented, it's as simple as that."

Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who falls to Earth from a distant planet, landing in New Mexico... he soon learns how to get on.

Randle McMurphy is in prison for multiple cases of assault, and statutory rape, so he fakes insanity to get himself transferred to a mental institution to avoid hard labour.

Police Sergeant Neil Howie journeys by seaplane to the remote Hebridean island Summerisle to investigate the disappearance of a young girl.

An American infantryman, Jacob Singer, is deployed in a village in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, when his close-knit unit comes under sudden attack. As many of Jacob's comrades are killed or wounded, others exhibit abnormal behaviour with some suffering catatonia, convulsions, and seizures.

One day, Léon meets Mathilda Lando, a lonely 12-year-old girl. Mathilda lives with her dysfunctional family in an apartment down the hall, and has stopped attending class at her school for troubled girls.

Set in a future when the world is dominated and run by television, where language has become almost redundant and all "tensions" - love, war, hate, loyalty - have been removed.

Professor Andrew Patterson returns to his  College in San Francisco to attend the initiation of a new member into a secret society.

On the evening of the Kennedy assassination, Jim MacLaine visits his friend Mike Menary at the funfair where Mike works. Jim tells Mike he's joined a touring rock group called the Stray Cats and invites Mike to come along as their road manager,…

Vincent Freeman was conceived naturally and his genetic profile indicates a high probability of several disorders and an estimated lifespan of 30.2 years.

Duke has been assigned by a magazine to cover the Mint 400 motorcycle race in Las Vegas.

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.

Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing world views.

Jim MacLaine dismays his mother when he pursues an adventurous hedonistic lifestyle in an excellent British movie with one of the great rock n roll soundtracks.

The post-apocolyptic nightmare continues for Mad Max...

Chas is a member of an East London gang, led by Harry Flowers; his specialty is intimidation through violence, as he collects pay-offs for Flowers.

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 scout vessel to establish first contact with Earth. Instead of greeting the…

On vacation in Istanbul, Turkey in 1970, American college student Billy Hayes straps 2 kg of hashish bricks to his chest...

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.

A delightful and intriguing TV movie about a man obsessed with Jackie Kennedy who invents time travel to go back and save JFK.

A spin doctor and a Hollywood producer fabricates a war in Albania to distract voters from a presidential sex scandal.

In the prehistoric African veldt, a tribe of hominids is driven away from its water hole by a rival tribe. Later, they awaken to find an alien monolith has appeared in their midst.

"By the pricking of my thumbs / Something wicked this way comes."

Computer programmer Thomas Anderson, known by his hacking alias "Neo" follows the white rabbit all the way to reality.

Jack takes his wife and son up to the isolated historic Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies to write a book...

Clint Eastwood directs and stars in this intrigue thriller about a retired assassin who is forced into action when a deadly double agent murders a close friend.

A US research station, Antarctica, early-winter 1982. The base is suddenly buzzed by a helicopter from the nearby Norwegian research station.

In the near future, war rages across the Republic of Gilead (formerly the United States of America) and pollution has rendered 99% of the population sterile.

On August 10, 1988, 11-year-old Dade "Zero Cool" Murphy's family is fined $45,000 for his crashing of 1,507 computer systems causing a 7-point drop in the New York Stock Exchange.

The biographical drama and sequel to the 1970 film "Patton", which portrays with great historical accuracy and detail the last few months of General Patton's life.

Alien corpses, a secret government conspiracy, psychopathic suburban punks, one-legged dames, a glowing Chevy Nova that flies and some reluctantly heroic debt collectors... Seriously, what more could you want?!

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 wealthy investment banker is given a mysterious gift by his brother.

The first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion from a small town to the city of San Fransisco.

In 1985, two years after the Westworld tragedy, the Delos Corporation have reopened the theme park after spending $1.5 billion in safety improvements.