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A hard-bitten cop goes on the trail of two escaped fugitives who killed several of his fellow officers. He needs someone with inside knowledge of the criminals, and is reluctantly forced to temporarily release a fast-talking thief from prison to help him in his investigation. Comedy thriller, starring Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy and Annette O'Toole

A cunning convict with a history of making escape attempts is transferred to the notorious high-security island prison off the California coast, from which no one has ever broken out. Continually at odds with the brutal warden, he and three fellow prisoners hatch a plan to make it to freedom on an improvised raft. Thriller, based on a true story, starring Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom and Fred Ward

A hard-boiled cavalry scout with a feral dog as companion stumbles across a woman and her child stranded on their homestead deep inside hostile territory. Despite repeated attacks by the Apaches, they refuse to leave their home, leaving the scout with no choice but to stay and defend her. Western, starring John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond and Michael Pate

Two billionaire brothers engineer the downfall of a high-flying stockbroker, while giving a homeless conman all the advantages of wealth, as part of a bet to see whether heredity or upbringing determines character. Comedy, starring Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche and Denholm Elliott

A streetwise cop is enlisted by a top-secret government force dedicated to policing alien visitors to Earth, teaming up with a veteran agent just as a body-swapping extraterrestrial giant insect begins a reign of terror throughout New York City. Sci-fi comedy, starring Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Fiorentino, Rip Torn and Vincent D'Onofrio

An unlikely pair of brothers, who were born as the result of a one-off genetic experiment and separated at birth, are reunited in adulthood. They set out on a cross-country search for their unknown mother - fending off vicious loan sharks and a professional assassin along the way. Comedy, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston and Chloe Webb

A fertility expert pioneers a treatment enabling men to become pregnant and carry babies to full term. When the authorities cancel funding for the research, he decides to test it on himself, but gives little thought to how difficult it will be to keep it a secret. The situation is further complicated when he starts to fall for the woman whose child he is carrying. Comedy, with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Emma Thompson and Frank Langella

Two billionaire brothers engineer the downfall of a high-flying stockbroker, while giving a homeless conman all the advantages of wealth, as part of a bet to see whether heredity or upbringing determines character. Comedy, starring Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche and Denholm Elliott

In the aftermath of the Normandy landings, a group of American soldiers scours the battlefields of France in search of a missing infantryman, who has been given compassionate leave to return home because his brothers have been killed in the conflict. Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning Second World War drama, starring Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, Barry Pepper and Vin Diesel. It won five Academy Awards, including Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, and Best Director. The film makers also took home a couple of Baftas for Best Sound and Best Special Effects

A half-vampire possesses all the strengths inherent in bloodsuckers with none of their weaknesses, and is determined to wipe the monsters from the face of the Earth. However, he faces a deadly new threat in a renegade vampire who is close to decoding an ancient prophecy that will allow him to repopulate the world with his kind. Action thriller, starring Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff and Kris Kristofferson

A mysterious gunfighter intervenes when a man and his family are threatened by a predatory cattle baron determined to force every homesteader in the valley off the land. The situation rapidly escalates into violence, while an unspoken attraction develops between the gunman and the settler's wife. Western, starring Alan Ladd, Jack Palance, Van Heflin and Jean Arthur. Based on the novel by Jack Schaefer