Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)

The stalker lives with his family at the border of an area only known as the Zone, making a sparse living by giving people tours into the forbidden areas to a place called The Room, a legendary location where the innermost desires of a person would be fulfilled.

Even though his wife begs him not to continue his dangerous job, fearing he might be arrested again by the guards or worse, her husband still meets with his new customers, a writer and a professor, each one with their own motive to venture into the Zone.

As they make their way past the heavily guarded train tracks into the Zone, tensions rise between the three men with the stalker trying his best to ensure their safety while explaining the wonders of the place and the other two nearly constantly quarreling over their opinions on science, arts and the purpose of the a place like the Zone.