In the 1974 film Zardoz, the immortal society’s forbidden repository of knowledge is called the Tabernacle.
Zardoz is a science-fiction film written and directed by John Boorman and starring Sean Connery. Its future society is divided between the privileged Eternals and the brutal Exterminators who live outside the protected communities. The Eternals maintain advanced technology and strict social control, but their apparent perfection conceals stagnation and repression.
The Tabernacle is a central computer system and repository of knowledge within the Vortex. It functions as an information source, an authority, and a symbol of the society’s dependence on inherited systems. Access to such knowledge is controlled, making the Tabernacle part of the film’s examination of power and immortality.
Zardoz is sometimes grouped with films that use Pandora imagery because it explores the release of dangerous knowledge and the consequences of opening a sealed social order. However, the film does not retell Hesiod’s myth, and “Pandora’s box” is not the name of the repository.