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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 are driven away from their 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.

A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.

On a flight home from a business trip, the Narrator meets soap salesman Tyler Durden. The Narrator returns home to find his apartment and all his belongings have been destroyed by an explosion.

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...

The classic 70's Sci-Fi movie where Ai robots at a decadent theme park for the rich start killing the guests...

San Francisco Police Lieutenant Bullitt is tasked by ambitious Walter Chalmers, to guard Johnny Ross, a Chicago mobster who's about to turn evidence against the organisation.

William Foster is recently divorced, his ex-wife Beth has a restraining order against him, and he was recently laid off from his job. After the air conditioning fails in his car, he abandons it in a traffic jam and begins…

Satanists seek a host for the devils offspring.

Some classic British Broadcasting Corporation fear porn... or is it?

A military-political cabal's planned takeover of the United States government... paralleling the JFK assassination.

Disgusted with criminals escaping the judicial system via technicalities, an idealistic young judge investigates an alternative method for punishing the guilty.

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 till the rescue ship arrives.

The only hope for mankind is the Fifth Element, who comes to Earth every five thousand years to protect the humans with four stones of the four elements.

The media is something infectious, sickly, seductive, and physically harmful.

A Duke's son leads desert warriors against the galactic emperor and his father's evil nemesis to free their desert world from the emperor's rule.

Johnny is a "mnemonic courier" who discreetly transports sensitive data for corporations in a storage device implanted in his brain...

Dr. Robert Neville is the only survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons...

Air Force One is hijacked by insurgents and is deliberately crashed in New York City.

Paul Kersey is a successful, middle-aged architect and family man. One day, his wife Joanna and their daughter Carol are followed home from the supermarket by three thugs.

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.

n May 1998, at a star party, teenage amateur astronomer Leo Beiderman observes an unidentifiable object in the night sky. He sends a picture to astronomer Dr. Marcus Wolf, who realises it is a comet on collision course with Earth. Wolf dies in…

In the last two days of 1999, Los Angeles has become a dangerous war zone. As a group of criminals robs a Chinese restaurant, the event is recorded by a robber wearing a SQUID, an illegal electronic device that records memories and…

English secret agent Charles Dobbs is shocked to discover that a government official whom he knew has committed suicide.

The Christ-child has been born again, on the Angel Isle, Great Britain. The plan is simple, kill the Christ child to prevent him from growing up to bring the return of Christ and death of the Anti-Christ.

The Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation

Military tensions rise between the two Cold War powers led by the Soviet Union and the United States...

In a shopping mall, homeless social outcast Cameron Vale telepathically causes a female gawker to have a seizure before being chased down, sedated, and captured by the private military company ConSec.

By 2017, the United States has become a totalitarian police state following a worldwide economic collapse.

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.

A British agent Joseph Reardon is recruited by a spymaster to impersonate an Australian criminal.

A nightmarish futuristic fantasy about the controlling power of big corporations and an innocent cop who stumbles on the truth.

A young couple with relationship problems get in way over their head when they attend a party run by a secret satanic Cabal that controls everything.

While working with a team from the University of Chicago to convert hydrogen from water into clean energy, machinist Eddie Kasalivich inadvertently discovers a secret...

n the year 2274, the remnants of human civilisation live in a sealed city contained beneath a cluster of geodesic domes, a utopia run by a computer that takes care of all aspects of life, including reproduction.

Wandering the deserted highways of an energy-starved dystopian Australia, Max Rockatansky, finds himself roaming the endless wasteland.

The name ODESSA is an acronym for the German phrase "Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen"

A trio of scientists plan to create a self-replicating, immortal, hermaphrodite using the Final Programme developed by a dead, Nobel Prize-winning scientist.

Inspector Harry Callahan and his partner arrive at a liquor store where robbers have taken hostages...

The United States and the Soviet Union have both developed technology that can miniaturise matter by shrinking individual atoms, but only for one hour.

Best friends Richard Bone and Alex Cutter are two dudes living in Santa Barbara when they get dragged into a conspiratorial murder mystery...

Powerful forces within the military industrial complex and the cabal seek to change history...

A busload of passengers, including off-duty police detective Dave Evans, are gunned down and killed by a mystery assailant.

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.

A medical student who has invented a reagent which can re-animate deceased bodies.

A scientist called Radcliffe is kidnapped from a train and his security escort killed.

John Preston is a British Agent with the task of preventing a Russian agent detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK.

Detective "Popeye" Doyle still hot on the trail of slippery drug trafficker Charnier, but this time it's on French soil.

In the distant future, an overcrowded Earth relies on research conducted by scientists in remote stations across the solar system. Contact is maintained by spaceships shuttling between the stations and large orbiting space stations.

In 1914, German spies are everywhere in London. After a spate of assassinations of important British politicians, a retired British intelligence officer, Colonel Scudder, realises his life and his mysterious black notebook are in danger.

A British spy, is sent to East Germany, supposedly to defect, but in fact to sow disinformation.

Seven years later, the 12-year-old Damien is living in Chicago with his uncle, industrialist Richard Thorn...

Detective Sergeant Johnson's been on the police force for 12 years. In that time, the number murders, rapes, and other felony crimes he's investigated has left a terrible mark on his psyche.

In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a mortally wounded cop returns to work as an augmented cyborg haunted by submerged memories of the past.

It's the first comet to buzz our planet Earth in 65 million years, and everyone seems to be celebrating its imminent arrival.

A passenger airliner is about to be struck from above by another airliner on a landing approach. The pilot handles the plane while the first officer goes to check on the passenger cabin. He returns to the cockpit yelling, "They're…

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.

Suzy Bannion, a young American student, arrives at a famous ballet school in Freiburg, Germany during a torrential downpour...

A cop and an FBI agent race for answers after law abiding people suddenly become violent criminals.

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

A police officer in Australia which is experiencing "societal collapse" seeks revenge for the death of his family.

Reared to survive a nuclear war, kids for the future meet a couple on the run from a gang of thugs.

Probably the best biographical movie ever made. America's greatest general.

A war veteran return home and wants to grow watermelons and live a peaceful live on his farm. But the local mob boss has different ideas and is out to harass him.

Schoolteacher Samantha Caine begins having strange memories and it's not too long before she begins to realise she is a highly skilled assassin.

A ruthless spy cleans up his network before going to work for the government.

A germ that could destroy life on Earth is stolen from a biological warfare lab and the thief threatens to release it into the open, prompting a security officer to act.

Ben Shockley, an alcoholic cop from Phoenix, is given the task to escort witness Augustina "Gus" Mally from Las Vegas.

After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union planted a number of long-term, deep-cover sleeper agents all over the United States, spies so thoroughly brainwashed that even they did not know they were agents.

British Treasury secret agent Phillip Calvert is sent to investigate the hijacking of five cargo ships in the Irish Sea, carrying £8 million in gold bullion.

An ambitious reporter gets in way-over-his-head.

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Burt Lancaster is a spy who wants out, but you can't get out just by wanting out, so the CIA orders him executed.

A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he can't even count on the people he thought were on his side to help him, so he decides to track down…

Struggling TV reporter Kimberly Wells (Jane Fonda) sees an opportunity to break into hard news after she and her cameraman (Michael Douglas) witness a near meltdown in a nuclear power station.

A couple of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a huge heroin shipment coming from France.

A bank robber really messes up when he and his gang accidentally knock over a Mafia-controlled bank in New Mexico.

Pinks not well and he's back at the motel...

Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? Watch the whole trilogy on The_Void

A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute.

Based on the classic Ray Bradbury novel where totalitarian lunatics control the future and everything from the past must burn...

Robert Altman's masterful 'one man show' movie.

Don't forget your towel...

A computer programmer stumbles upon a conspiracy, putting her life and the lives of those around her in great danger.

Deep Thought is the greatest computer ever built.

A psychiatrist is called to the emergency room of a California hospital, where a screaming man is being held in custody.

What happens when you find a planet that doesn't exist...

A professional assassin known only as the "Jackal" is hired to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle in the summer of 1963.

Never listen to Vogon poetry.

French real-life conspiracy movie with English subtitles.

"They're knocking my house down!"

In the West Berlin of the 1960s, two British agents are killed by a Nazi group, prompting British Intelligence to dispatch agent Quiller to investigate.

Monsieur Brunel, a French detective on an exchange scheme in London, is assigned to investigate the apparent murder of novelist John Morlar.

In the year 2018, in the cult-classic film Rollerball, nations have gone bankrupt. Corporations rule a world of docile, vapid customer-citizens who are constantly surveilled.

Five individuals from five nations suddenly find themselves on an alien spacecraft

Researchers Lillian Reynolds and Michael Brace have developed a system of recording and playing back actual experiences of people. Once the capability of tapping into "higher brain functions" is added in, and you can literally jump into someone else's head…

Robert Duvall is the title character, an inhabitant of a futuristic city who, like the others, is kept in a state of compliant numbness by mind-altering drugs, by authorities who’ve also banned sex and love among them.

A veteran Catholic priest is on an archaeological dig in the ancient city of Hatra in Iraq. Alerted by a young boy assisting with the dig, he finds a sculpture that resembles Pazuzu, a demon of ancient origins.

Tangerine Dream and secret underground bases what more could you want...

Egyptian gods summons the angel Lucifer - in order to usher in a new occult age.

A man has a computer welded into his brain that then malfunctions....

Terry Gilliam's classic dystopian future vision movie

A film that was referenced by Q and President Donald J Trump.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals.

A virus from space falls to earth on a satellite and threatens extinction for the whole planet.

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.

The inhabitants of the village of Midwich suddenly fall unconscious, as does anyone entering the village... The film adaptation of the classic John Wyndham novel, the Midwich Cuckoos.

"There are three of them, and Alleline." Watch all 7 episodes of the classic cold war spy thriller on The_Void

Episode two of John Le Carre's classic cold war novel adaptation

I have information that is crucial to the wellbeing of the circus.

Episode four of this classic British cold war thriller

Episode five of John Le Carre's classic cold war thriller

Episode six of this classic cold war thriller

George sends Peter on another mission to retrieve files

An unconscious man is washed ashore on the beach of a small French village during a heavy storm...

When a CIA researcher returns from lunch he discovers that all of his co-workers have been murdered...

Basically, MK Ultra The Movie.

A United States Navy destroyer escort participates in a Navy "invisibility" experiment that inadvertently sends two sailors forty years into the future.

This irregularity has been recorded... In 1954 the BBC produced what is arguably the best adaptation of George Orwell's classic novel.

A race where contestants have to run down innocent pedestrians to gain points that are tallied based on each kill's brutality.

Operation Entebbe and the freeing of hostages at Entebbe Airport in Entebbe, Uganda, on July 4, 1976.

In the spring of 1984, Winston Smith, a member of the elite Outer Party, encounters Julia, a woman he suspects may be a member of the Thought Police.

A young doctor at a hospital, Susan Wheeler, starts noticing a pattern of strange occurrences with healthy patients suddenly dying.

Prisoner Roy Tucker gets an offer that's too good to be true when a stranger called Tagge visits him one day in jail.

Astronauts Taylor, Landon, and Dodge awaken from deep hibernation after a near-light-speed space voyage and crash land on a strange planet.

Billy Pilgrim is "unstuck in time"

On the Western Front in 1918, a Jewish Private fighting for the Central Powers nation of Tomainia valiantly saves the life of a wounded pilot, Commander Schultz, who carries valuable documents that could secure a Tomainian victory.

A passenger plane slips through a time vortex.

Harry is an undercover agent for the British army sent to Northern Ireland to infiltrate the IRA and find (and terminate) the assassin of a British Cabinet Minister.

Harry is an undercover agent for the British army sent to Northern Ireland to infiltrate the IRA and find (and terminate) the assassin of a British Cabinet Minister.

Harry is an undercover agent for the British army sent to Northern Ireland to infiltrate the IRA and find (and terminate) the assassin of a British Cabinet Minister.

Director William Richert uses the JFK assassination as fodder for this excellent dark comedy.

Kevin Flynn is a leading software engineer, formerly employed by the computer corporation ENCOM.

In a New York City bar, the brooding, mysterious forecaster Mr. Ohman is sitting and drinking from a very large brandy glass. He gets into discussions with a cross-section of affluent Americans at the bar, including local television newscaster Vince Potter, beautiful young New York society woman Carla…

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.

A man is cryogenically frozen, and brought back to life 200 years in the future.

Former British Major and mercenary Robert Dapes arrives in Cuba under General Bello's orders as part of the dictator Fulgencio Batista's forces.

Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation

A drifter gets beaten up by rural cops and it doesn't work out well for them...

Thomas Levy is a history Ph.D. candidate and avid marathon runner researching the same field as his father, who committed suicide after being investigated during the Communist witch hunts of the Joseph McCarthy era.

No one would have believed....

An advanced AI supercomputer built to control the United States and Allied nuclear weapon systems goes full metal jacket.

A Naval Intelligence officer endowed with a powerful photographic memory is transferred to the CIA to participate in a covert operation in Moscow

What is buried in the heart of London and is it five million years old?

Alarmed with President Kennedy's policies, a cabal of politicians, businessmen, assassins and intelligence agents hatch a plan to assassinate him.

In the aftermath of World War III, scientists invent time travel in the hope that they can send a person back to change the present.

A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.

American planes are sent to deliver a nuclear attack on Moscow, but it's a mistake due to an electrical malfunction.

A deadly man made bacteria escapes from a research laboratory and threatens the entire world.

A group of dissident officials in the Soviet Union have grown afraid of losing power as relations with the United States improve.

While on the brink of a military confrontation with China, Air Force One crashes in the desert, killing the President...

Authorities quarantine a passenger train when they learn that a virus-infected terrorist is on board.

A former CIA agent uses the talents of a young psychic to help retrieve his telekinetic son from terrorists,