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A teenager breaks the world record for a video game depicting spaceship battles, unaware the game is based on a real interplanetary war and has been created as a test to recruit fighter pilots. When a besieged planet's entire fleet is wiped out, he is forced to take on an entire alien armada single-handed. Sci-fi adventure, starring Lance Guest and Robert Preston

A scientist's ill-advised experiments with virtual reality equipment transform a mentally handicapped gardener into a computer-enhanced megalomaniac with the power to make his dreams of world domination come true. Sci-fi thriller, starring Pierce Brosnan, Jeff Fahey, Jenny Wright, Geoffrey Lewis and Austin O'Brien

A group of conspirators contracts the Jackal, a professional hitman, to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle of France. The killer starts to put his painstaking plans into action, creating a new identity, establishing his alibi and commissioning a custom-made weapon, while out-foxing the French police at every turn. Fred Zinnemann's adaptation of Frederick's Forsyth thriller, with Edward Fox, Michael Lonsdale, Alan Badel, Tony Britton and Cyril Cusack

A Soviet submarine commander creates an international crisis by piloting his experimental nuclear vessel, which is invisible to sonar, toward the American coast. The US and Russian navies think he is planning to attack and set out to destroy the submarine, but a CIA analyst suspects he intends to defect to the West. Cold War thriller, based on Tom Clancy's novel, starring Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin and James Earl Jones

A bookish CIA researcher returns to his field office to find all his colleagues have been murdered in his absence. When he tries to uncover the truth, he also ends up targeted for assassination by his own agency, and is forced to go on the run to discover the reasons why. Sydney Pollack's thriller, starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson and Max von Sydow

A group of conspirators contracts the Jackal, a professional hitman, to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle of France. The killer starts to put his painstaking plans into action, creating a new identity, establishing his alibi and commissioning a custom-made weapon, while out-foxing the French police at every turn. Fred Zinnemann's adaptation of Frederick's Forsyth thriller, with Edward Fox, Michael Lonsdale, Alan Badel, Tony Britton and Cyril Cusack

The masked crimefighter takes on the twin threats of disfigured maniac Two-Face and insane genius the Riddler, who are plotting to control the brains of the entire world. Meanwhile, an acrobat whose family has been murdered by Two-Face steps up to join Batman in his fight against evil. Superhero adventure sequel, starring Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Nicole Kidman, Jim Carrey and Chris O'Donnell

The caped crusader and his sidekick take on the villainous Mr Freeze, who plans to destroy Gotham City with an icy doomsday weapon unless his demands are met. The dynamic duo also have to contend with femme fatale Poison Ivy, who is determined to drive a wedge between them. Comic-book adventure, starring George Clooney, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Uma Thurman and Chris O'Donnell

A stressed motorist cracks under the pressures of everyday life, and the day that started out with a simple journey to visit his estranged family turns into an increasingly violent trek across Los Angeles. Director Joel Schumacher's satirical urban thriller, starring Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Rachel Ticotin and Frederic Forrest

A Soviet submarine commander creates an international crisis by piloting his experimental nuclear vessel, which is invisible to sonar, toward the American coast. The US and Russian navies think he is planning to attack and set out to destroy the submarine, but a CIA analyst suspects he intends to defect to the West. Cold War thriller, based on Tom Clancy's novel, starring Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin and James Earl Jones