Seconds

Booed when it debuted at Cannes, viewers in 1966 weren't quite ready for this dark vision of a technological future. Today however, it’s regarded as a brilliant, harrowing masterpiece.

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Cert (15) *

As a warm-up to Rock vs Doris, Seconds is proof that Hudson was much more than a light romantic character actor. Here he gives a strikingly intense performance as a man desperate for an alternative existence, in a potent evocation of corporate paranoia and the loss of identity.