The combination of memories of the Second World War and Nixon’s America drove many of the great paranoia thrillers of the 1970s, but especially John Schlesinger’s Marathon Man. Dustin Hoffman plays an innocent PHD student who believes his beloved brother is an oil executive – but he is actually a CIA agent who is involved in a plot to assist a sadistic Nazi dentist to retrieve and sell diamonds stolen from Jews during the war. When his brother is murdered shadowy forces come for Hoffman believing that he alone knows the answer to the question ‘Is it safe?’.

Age guidance: 15+
Content advice: Contains strong language, violence, nudity and scenes of torture

Part of Eden Court’s Cinema Against Fascism programme for Our Freedom, a powerful new season of films exploring what freedom means in age of rising hate, division and authoritarianism and how communities around the world are shaping more just and hopeful futures.