With Election day getting frighteningly closer, the Retro Classics series (an offshoot of Retrofantasm) at the Carolina Theatre in Durham is having a scary flashback to the post-Watergate era Friday evening with a double feature of paranoid political thrillers: Alan J. Pakula’s “The Parallax View” (1974), and Sydney Pollack’s “Three Days of the Condor” (1976). “The Parallax View” stars Warren Beatty as a reporter who gets brainwashed into being an assassin by an evil corporation, while “Three Days of the Condor” features Robert Redford as a CIA researcher on the run from an ominous rogue element of the U.S. government. The conspiracy-themed double bill begins at 7, and admission is $8 ($6.25 for Star members). Details: 919-560-3030; www.festivals.carolinatheatre.org/retrofantasma.