Transfer (1966), Cronenberg's first film, is a surreal sketch of a doctor and his patient. From the Drain (1967) finds two men in a bathtub, which may be part of a centre for veterans of a future war. Stereo (1969), Cronenberg's first official feature film, stunningly shot in monochrome, concerns telepaths at the Institute for Erotic Enquiry where patients undergo tests by Dr. Luther Stringfellow. In Crimes of the Future (1970) Cronenberg worked in colour and with a find out more...

The Prisoner; Ryan Reynolds plays Gary, the star of a television cop show whose life is spiralling out of control. After one particularly riotous evening he finds himself placed under the watchful eye of his publicist, the cheery and tough-minded Margaret, who moves him into the vacated house of another of her clients. Here he meets an attractive and seemingly willing neighbour, Sarah, but strange things begin to happen; he finds notes he doesn't remember writing, he hears noises and he seems to find out more...