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The story begins with Max Renn (James Woods), a late night programmer of a local cable TV station who tries to keep his small audience by providing them with material of sex and violence. His technical staff Harlan (Peter Dvorsky) brings his attention to a bizarre transmission of a violent program that shows depicting torture, and murder. Max’s quest to find more Videodrome products discovers that the program not only is horrifyingly real, but its transmitting signals are dangerously hypnotic, causing brain tumor and creating hallucinations which interlink TV with reality. He finds that he is hallucinating violent acts and his own body transforming, allowing the Videodrome to mentally program him by inserting video cassettes inside his body. Max is caught between those who created the Videodrome and those who use it to transmit violent program for their own evil ends. Under the influence of his programming his hand transforms into a moist, organic pistol. He is commanded to kill.
 * Videodrome, David Cronenberg (1983)**

Private investigator Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) disguises his identity by acting as a reporter, although he is really a secret agent sent from the Outlands to infiltrate Alphaville and find Henri Dickson, another agent from the Outlands. Entering a bizarre world, totally alien to his own, ruled by professor Vonbraun, Lemmy discovers that the residents, as well as Henri Dickson, are under the control of Alpha 60 computer system, which seems to control the thoughts and actions of everyone inside Alphaville. While exploring Alphaville with professor’s daughter, Natacha Vonbraun, Lemmy begins to realize how hopeless the citizens of Alphaville are, but he senses that Natacha is different. With her assistance, Lemmy gains access to Alpha 60’s headquarters and discovers Vonbraun’s scheme to declare war on the world outside Alphaville. In this scenario, Lemmy tries to prevent Vonbraun’s “logical” war against Outlands and also make Alpha 60 self-destruct.
 * Alphaville, J. L. Godard (1965)**

Tati is first seen at the Paris Airport, as a party of American tourists land and embark on a one day sightseeing tour around Paris. They all descend on Paris's center where the famous landmarks have long since been replaced by glass-and-steel structures and towering office blocks. They all, not shockingly, look the same. Few signs of old Paris remain, for example, the old lady is still selling flowers on a street corner, though the image is destroyed by the modern architecture in the background. Familiar landmarks appear only as reflections in the buildings of glass and steel. Meanwhile, Monsieur Hulot has an appointment in one of the glass buildings with an important official, but he ends up getting lost in the mess of modern offices and he gets shuffled along with the same group of American tourists from the airport. Alternating between Monsieur Hulot and the group of American tourists, Tati exploits the chaos just below the exceedingly ordered surface of this brave new world.
 * PlayTime, J. Tati (1967)**