Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after, huge new life forms began to appear, breeding at an expediential rate and reeking havoc. Today half of Mexico has been quarantined as an infected zone, surrounded by a gargantuan structure that dwarfs the Great Wall of China. A cynical photojournalist is persuaded to find his boss’s daughter, who is caught in the find out more...

The death of a fellow guest in a hotel deep in the Sahara allows a world weary journalist, Nicholson, to switch identity. Gradually as he follows the trail of his new personality he discovers that the guy was no ordinary businessman but an international arms dealer. The movie, though, is less about plot than a haunting languid atmosphere which moves from the desert to London, Munich, Barcelona and the Catalan countryside. The best of Antonioni's three English-language pictures; this, Blow-Up find out more...