Films
Primate
Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman follows scientists as they study the physical and mental development of primates.
Earthquake
When a major earthquake hits Los Angeles, the various residents of the city cope with the chaos and destruction.
Space is the Place
Sun Ra, avant-jazz musician and space-age prophet, lands his music-powered spaceship in Oakland to urge black society to pursue a utopian destiny with him beyond the stars.
Phase IV
Desert ants suddenly form a collective intelligence and begin to wage war on the desert inhabitants. It is up to two scientists and a stray girl they rescue from the ants to destroy them.
Chinatown
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.
The Conversation
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.
Zardoz
In the distant future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
Rhinoceros
A meek office clerk in love with his co-worker finds that everyone around him, even his pompous best friend, is changing into a rhinoceros.
The Exorcist
When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.
Sleeper
A nerdy store owner is revived out of cryostasis into a future world to fight an oppressive government.
Westworld
A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.
F for Fake
Orson Welles's final film gleefully engages with the central preoccupation of his career: the tenuous lines between illusion and truth, art, and lies.
Soylent Green
With the world ravaged by the greenhouse effect and overpopulation, an NYPD detective investigates the murder of a CEO with ties to the world's main food supply.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.
The Thing with Two Heads
When a white racist wakes up after a head transplant, he learns that his head has been attached to the still-headed body of a black convict.
Solaris
A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
A Clockwork Orange
In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem—but not all goes according to plan.
Dirty Harry
When a mad man calling himself 'the Scorpio Killer' menaces the city, tough as nails San Francisco homicide detective Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath.
Harold and Maude
Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.
Walkabout
Two young siblings stranded in the Australian Outback meet an Australian boy on "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
A poor boy wins the opportunity to tour the most eccentric and wonderful candy factory in the world.
Death in Venice
Avant-garde composer Gustave Aschenbach travels to a Venetian seaside resort in search of repose after a period of artistic and personal stress.
The Andromeda Strain
A group of scientists investigates a deadly new alien virus before it can spread.
Meteor
After a collision with a comet, a piece of the asteroid, "Orpheus," is heading toward Earth. If it hits, it will cause an incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind.