The 13th free movies Friday

This isn't really the 13th time we've done free movies Friday. But this particular edition is unlucky for some... those who don't like free movies! That's a-right! A magic busload of gratis film eclecticism for you today, as we serve up a man investigating his own murder, time travelling intrigue, Mexican lawlessness, a bonkers step-dad, and a highbrow voyage into English history.

First on the free movie agenda for today is Mirror Maze, which finds scientist Diego Durand tormented by flashes of déjà-vu that no doctor is capable of offering him any help for. When a man of identical appearance to him is killed in the street, Durand realises his neuroses are linked to a sinister secret past of spy networks and contract killers – a past into which he now must delve.

Millennium is a science fiction thriller, starring Kris Kristofferson as airline crash investigator Bill Smith. An unidentifiable piece of technology is found in the wreckage of a crashed jet and a mysterious woman lead Smith on a time-travel adventure far into the future.

We are delighted to host the brilliant Death and the Compass here on Indie Movies, and we are also very happy to accommodate The Winner. So you would expect us to be pleased as punch to take on a third film from the same director, Alex Cox. And that is indeed the case as we welcome Highway Patrolman onto Indie Movies Online. Made in 1991, we join a naïve rookie in the Mexican highway patrol, who has to adapt to survive when his job pushes him into contact with dangerous drug-runners and widespread corruption (US, Australian and Canadian viewers click here to watch).

The Stepfather (which was remade last year with Dylan Walsh) stars Lost actor Terry O'Quinn as Jerry Blake, a man whose desire for the perfect family makes him seem like an ideal step-dad. But, wouldn't you just know it? He is a man with a terrible past, filled with disturbing secrets – as his new wife and stepdaughter gradually begin to discover.

And gor-blimey alrighty, it is a double-dose of O'Quinn going paternally nutty this week, as we also present Stepfather II. Jerry Blake is loose again, and has a new persona and family in tow. But when mysterious deaths occur all around them, his new fiancée and her son begin to suspect that he isn’t who he claims to be.

Robinson in Space is an unusual movie for certain, with writer-director Patrick Keiller challenging classical cinematic grammar with this travelogue throughout England (and briefly across the Channel). A sequel to Keiller's London, the same two characters from that film return here; eccentric, unseen academic Robinson, and his research assistant, who also serves as narrator (and is voiced by Oscar-winning actor Paul Scofield). As this duo undertake their Daniel Defoe-inspired journey, they ruminate upon English cultural and industrial heritage, and where the nation finds itself at the tail end of the last century. It is an avowedly intellectual film, but also an absorbing one, with surprisingly frequent moments of bone dry comedy (US, Australian, and Candian viewers click here to watch).

Okay, descriptions done, it's time to get legal! Availability rights dictate that Mirror Maze is only viewable in the UK, while Millennium, The Stepfather and Stepfather II are for UK and Australian users only. However, glorious egalitarians that they are, Highway Patrolman and Robinson in Space are open to users in the UK, US, Australia and Canada.