Alive in Joburg

After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

Runtime

2h 17m

Director

Steven Spielberg

Cast

Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr

Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.

Runtime

2h 42m

Director

Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast

Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Carnivorous aliens arrive unannounced at a Kansas family farm; two intergalactic bounty hunters soon follow, determined to blow them off the planet.

Runtime

1h 26m

Director

Stephen Herek

Cast

Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush

An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a novel by John Varley.

Runtime

1h 45m

Director

Michael Anderson

Cast

Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd, Daniel J. Travanti

A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.

Runtime

1h 32m

Director

Alex Cox

Cast

Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter