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Violence has been outlawed in the politically correct regime of 2032, and the only weapons in existence are consigned to a museum, but when an escaped psychopath heads straight for the museum, the authorities decide the only effective recourse they have is to thaw out a violent, cryogenically frozen cop.

A dark secret binds together three longtime friends who lived together at a children's home.

Gus Van Sant's remake of the Hitchcock classic about an embezzler who checks into a remote motel run by a psychopath. While remaining faithful to the original, the modern setting and slightly more explicit shots than the censor would allow in Hitchcock's day make this a fascinating exercise that compares favourably to the original.

A young British-born black woman begins to question her attitude to love and life, and her desire for middle-class respectability and security through marriage.

A German art critic living in London finds himself confronted by his radical past when the group he once belonged to asks him to assassinate a Chilean torturer who is visiting the UK.

Young Jim has to grow up fast after the Japanese invade Shanghai. Separated from his parents and alone in a prisoner of war camp, Jim must fight to survive.

A heavy downpour surprises a priest, a woodcutter, and a servant, forcing them to seek protection from the water in a temple ruin. Previously, they witnessed a crime without knowing how it was committed.

At a tough training school for American navy pilots, one of the new intake falls foul of the hard-as-nails drill sergeant, but takes it on the chin, and finds the additional strength to help a fellow student who is feeling the pressure.

While widow Aurora fends off a stream of admirers, daughter Emma learns the hard facts of married life.

Recently released from a mental hospital, Karin rejoins her emotionally disconnected family and their island home, only to slip from reality as she begins to believe she is being visited by God.

A German art critic living in London finds himself confronted by his radical past when the group he once belonged to asks him to assassinate a Chilean torturer who is visiting the UK.

A heavy downpour surprises a priest, a woodcutter, and a servant, forcing them to seek protection from the water in a temple ruin. Previously, they witnessed a crime without knowing how it was committed.

Recently released from a mental hospital, Karin rejoins her emotionally disconnected family and their island home, only to slip from reality as she begins to believe she is being visited by God.

The story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.

Flashbacks are interwoven into this story of two of Freud's patients, who recall their treatments 65 years later.

A wealthy law student and a lower-class music student meet and fall in love while at Harvard. In the face of parental disapproval, they marry and are blissfully happy, until they discover that she has a fatal disease.

The story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.

At a tough training school for American navy pilots, one of the new intake falls foul of the hard-as-nails drill sergeant, but takes it on the chin, and finds the additional strength to help a fellow student who is feeling the pressure.

While widow Aurora fends off a stream of admirers, daughter Emma learns the hard facts of married life.

A wealthy law student and a lower-class music student meet and fall in love while at Harvard. In the face of parental disapproval, they marry and are blissfully happy, until they discover that she has a fatal disease.

Once the highly regarded composer to the Viennese Court, Salieri is now an old man, unknown and confined to an asylum. After a suicide attempt he recounts his story to a young cleric, going back 30 years to his heyday at the court of Emperor Joseph II, where he first met the young Mozart. Despite Salieri's Machiavellian attempts to frustrate Mozart's progress, the great young composer attracts the favour of the Emperor.

Andy Dufresne and Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding are two prisoners serving long sentences in the vicious Shawshank jail. The two come to terms with their imprisonment while surviving the sadistic acts of prison warden Samuel Norton, and for both, a different sort of redemption awaits.

After his release from prison, Jake reunites with his brother, Elwood - collectively known as the `Blues Brothers'. Jake's first task is to save the orphanage the brothers grew up in from closing, by raising 5000 dollars to pay back taxes. The two are convinced they can earn the money by getting their old band back together. However, after playing several gigs and making a few enemies, including the police, the brothers face daunting odds to deliver the money on time.

When Brenda Cushman, Elise Elliot and Annie Paradis are reunited at the funeral of a college friend, they discover they have another thing in common: they've all been dumped by their husbands, Morty, Bill and Aaron, for a younger model. Vowing revenge, they decide to hit them where it hurts most: the pocket. Using help and their various skills, they begin to pick them off one by on.

Bart, a black railroad worker is appointed sheriff of a town marked for destruction by Hedley Lamarr, a scheming politician. As Lamarr tries to drive out the town's residents, Bart decides to stand in his way.

Previews of the great films now playing on Sky Cinema plus other highlights showing on Sky.

Six years after defeating the Gremlins, Billy and Kate have grown up and moved to New York. However, Billy stumbles across Gizmo in a genetics lab and when he gets wet, all hell breaks loose, and the stage is set for more deliciously bad taste humour.

Two wisecracking Miami cops are forced to swap identities in order to track down $100 million worth of heroin stolen from the police. Their only lead is a young woman who can identify the culprits, but when they track her down, she mistakes one of the cops for his partner, forcing the pair into a bizarre and chaotic life swap.

After his release from prison, Jake reunites with his brother, Elwood - collectively known as the `Blues Brothers'. Jake's first task is to save the orphanage the brothers grew up in from closing, by raising 5000 dollars to pay back taxes. The two are convinced they can earn the money by getting their old band back together. However, after playing several gigs and making a few enemies, including the police, the brothers face daunting odds to deliver the money on time.

Once the highly regarded composer to the Viennese Court, Salieri is now an old man, unknown and confined to an asylum. After a suicide attempt he recounts his story to a young cleric, going back 30 years to his heyday at the court of Emperor Joseph II, where he first met the young Mozart. Despite Salieri's Machiavellian attempts to frustrate Mozart's progress, the great young composer attracts the favour of the Emperor.

Andy Dufresne and Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding are two prisoners serving long sentences in the vicious Shawshank jail. The two come to terms with their imprisonment while surviving the sadistic acts of prison warden Samuel Norton, and for both, a different sort of redemption awaits.

Bart, a black railroad worker is appointed sheriff of a town marked for destruction by Hedley Lamarr, a scheming politician. As Lamarr tries to drive out the town's residents, Bart decides to stand in his way.

An overstressed husband becomes obsessed with finding out the secret of his mysterious new neighbours. Concocting a series of increasingly outlandish schemes to discover the truth about the weird sounds he hears coming from the basement next door, the man settles on the theory that the family are a front for a cannibalistic cult.

Hard-boiled incompetent cop Frank Drebin must stop the evil Vincent Ludwig from completing his diabolical plan of killing Elizabeth II.

Lt Frank Drebin returns for more madcap high jinks in this police-procedural spoof. Powerful energy corporations are intent on putting a halt to the eco-friendly plans of Dr Albert S. Meinheimer, the new US energy czar. They scheme to replace Meinheimer with an imposter who will do their bidding. Unfortunately for them, Drebin gets tangled up with their plans while trying to steal back his ex from her slimy new beau.

Clueless cop Frank Drebin is hauled out of retirement to save the upcoming Oscars ceremony from a bunch of mad bombers.

An overstressed husband becomes obsessed with finding out the secret of his mysterious new neighbours. Concocting a series of increasingly outlandish schemes to discover the truth about the weird sounds he hears coming from the basement next door, the man settles on the theory that the family are a front for a cannibalistic cult.

After being kicked out of his flat by his girlfriend, Steven hears that if he slips a cable guy $50, he can get hooked up with free cable - but at what further cost? Can Steven gently reject the cable guy's insane attempts to be best buds and also get his girlfriend back?

Lighthearted adventures of a pair of news vendors in New York - one deaf, one blind - who go on the run when they are blamed for the murder of a customer. Each has seen - or heard - just a whiff of a clue, and a frantic chase ensues as the duo struggle to clear their names.

An alcoholic millionaire is threatened with losing his inheritance if he does not marry the girl of his parents' choosing. Despite his dislike for his prospective bride, he bows to the inevitable only to meet a light-fingered waitress who steals his heart. John Gielgud won an Oscar for his role as Arthur's loyal but outspoken valet.

Zany horror spoof about a brilliant brain surgeon who falls in love with a female brain stored in a jar. The brain is part of an impressive collection held by a colleague in Austria and, upon learning of his wife's infidelity, the surgeon allows himself to be charmed. Communicating telepathically with one of the specimens in the laboratory, he falls in love - but needs a body to put it in.

Danny Noonan, a teen down on his luck, works as a caddy at the snob-infested Bushwood Country Club to raise money for his college education. In an attempt to gain votes for a college scholarship reserved for caddies, Noonan volunteers to caddy for a prominent and influential club member. Meanwhile, Danny struggles to prepare for the high pressure Caddy Day golf tournament while absorbing New Age advice from wealthy golf guru Ty Webb.

Hard-boiled incompetent cop Frank Drebin must stop the evil Vincent Ludwig from completing his diabolical plan of killing Elizabeth II.

Lt Frank Drebin returns for more madcap high jinks in this police-procedural spoof. Powerful energy corporations are intent on putting a halt to the eco-friendly plans of Dr Albert S. Meinheimer, the new US energy czar. They scheme to replace Meinheimer with an imposter who will do their bidding. Unfortunately for them, Drebin gets tangled up with their plans while trying to steal back his ex from her slimy new beau.

Clueless cop Frank Drebin is hauled out of retirement to save the upcoming Oscars ceremony from a bunch of mad bombers.

After being kicked out of his flat by his girlfriend, Steven hears that if he slips a cable guy $50, he can get hooked up with free cable - but at what further cost? Can Steven gently reject the cable guy's insane attempts to be best buds and also get his girlfriend back?

Clark Griswold sets out to give his family a traditional Christmas. While his in-laws, among them a cousin from hell, sample his hospitality, they find themselves battling against rabid squirrels, and an exploding sewer to achieve a family Christmas that they will never forget.

An unconventional sleuth attempts to find a football team's stolen mascot dolphin. The Miami Dolphins are aghast when their beloved Snowflake is abducted one week before the all-important Super Bowl, so they call in Ace Ventura, a private eye who uses unorthodox methods to retrieve missing animals.

Legendary pet detective Ace Ventura returns for another adventure when he's coerced out of retirement while on a soul-searching retreat in the Himalayas. He must now retrieve an endangered white bat from a village located in Africa. The sacred animal was offered up as a wedding dowry from the Wachootoo prince to the Wachati princess, and, if Ace can't track down the culprit behind the kidnapping in time, civil war will break out between the two rival tribes.

Danny Noonan, a teen down on his luck, works as a caddy at the snob-infested Bushwood Country Club to raise money for his college education. In an attempt to gain votes for a college scholarship reserved for caddies, Noonan volunteers to caddy for a prominent and influential club member. Meanwhile, Danny struggles to prepare for the high pressure Caddy Day golf tournament while absorbing New Age advice from wealthy golf guru Ty Webb.

Zany horror spoof about a brilliant brain surgeon who falls in love with a female brain stored in a jar. The brain is part of an impressive collection held by a colleague in Austria and, upon learning of his wife's infidelity, the surgeon allows himself to be charmed. Communicating telepathically with one of the specimens in the laboratory, he falls in love - but needs a body to put it in.

An alcoholic millionaire is threatened with losing his inheritance if he does not marry the girl of his parents' choosing. Despite his dislike for his prospective bride, he bows to the inevitable only to meet a light-fingered waitress who steals his heart. John Gielgud won an Oscar for his role as Arthur's loyal but outspoken valet.

Fastidious businessman Neal Page and slobbish shower-curtain salesman Del Griffith are the reluctant odd couple trying to get home from New York to Chicago to be with their families at Thanksgiving. Their thwarted travel plans keep throwing them together.

Based on events surrounding Elvis Presley's experience of the US Army draft, this film focuses on fictional pop star Conrad Birdie, who is called up for National Service, preventing him from starring in the movie that was to make his agent rich. The agent, who needs money to escape from his cantankerous mother, sets up a last performance for his protege. The farewell event attracts legions of adoring fans.

A teen perpetrates a series of elaborate deceptions to ensure that he and two friends spend a carefree day in Chicago.

Lighthearted adventures of a pair of news vendors in New York - one deaf, one blind - who go on the run when they are blamed for the murder of a customer. Each has seen - or heard - just a whiff of a clue, and a frantic chase ensues as the duo struggle to clear their names.

Clark Griswold sets out to give his family a traditional Christmas. While his in-laws, among them a cousin from hell, sample his hospitality, they find themselves battling against rabid squirrels, and an exploding sewer to achieve a family Christmas that they will never forget.

Based on events surrounding Elvis Presley's experience of the US Army draft, this film focuses on fictional pop star Conrad Birdie, who is called up for National Service, preventing him from starring in the movie that was to make his agent rich. The agent, who needs money to escape from his cantankerous mother, sets up a last performance for his protege. The farewell event attracts legions of adoring fans.

An unconventional sleuth attempts to find a football team's stolen mascot dolphin. The Miami Dolphins are aghast when their beloved Snowflake is abducted one week before the all-important Super Bowl, so they call in Ace Ventura, a private eye who uses unorthodox methods to retrieve missing animals.

Legendary pet detective Ace Ventura returns for another adventure when he's coerced out of retirement while on a soul-searching retreat in the Himalayas. He must now retrieve an endangered white bat from a village located in Africa. The sacred animal was offered up as a wedding dowry from the Wachootoo prince to the Wachati princess, and, if Ace can't track down the culprit behind the kidnapping in time, civil war will break out between the two rival tribes.

Fastidious businessman Neal Page and slobbish shower-curtain salesman Del Griffith are the reluctant odd couple trying to get home from New York to Chicago to be with their families at Thanksgiving. Their thwarted travel plans keep throwing them together.

A group of good-hearted but incompetent misfits enter the police academy, but the instructors there are not going to put up with their pranks.

Mahoney and friends have graduated from the Police Academy and are issued with their first assignments. As before, their cheerfulness and devotion to duty outweighs any shortcomings, but are they ready to do battle with a band of graffiti daubing terrorists?

Slapstick farce with the incompetent cops as they set about saving their beloved academy from closure. Cutbacks mean that only one of the two police training schools can stay open, so Commandant Lassard appeals to the motley crew of graduates to come and train new recruits. However, the rival academy intends to sabotage their plans by cutting their training time down to a minimum.

A normally well-behaved teenager goes wild while his parents are out of town. In charge at his parents' smart house, the 17-year-old sees the chance to make a fast buck when the prostitute, on the run from a scary pimp, appears at his door. He takes her in, and, following his school's entrepreneurial teachings, lets her turn the house into a brothel.

Lighthearted adventures of a pair of news vendors in New York - one deaf, one blind - who go on the run when they are blamed for the murder of a customer. Each has seen - or heard - just a whiff of a clue, and a frantic chase ensues as the duo struggle to clear their names.

A teen perpetrates a series of elaborate deceptions to ensure that he and two friends spend a carefree day in Chicago.

Previews of the great films now playing on Sky Cinema plus other highlights showing on Sky.

When Brenda Cushman, Elise Elliot and Annie Paradis are reunited at the funeral of a college friend, they discover they have another thing in common: they've all been dumped by their husbands, Morty, Bill and Aaron, for a younger model. Vowing revenge, they decide to hit them where it hurts most: the pocket. Using help and their various skills, they begin to pick them off one by on.

A group of good-hearted but incompetent misfits enter the police academy, but the instructors there are not going to put up with their pranks.

Mahoney and friends have graduated from the Police Academy and are issued with their first assignments. As before, their cheerfulness and devotion to duty outweighs any shortcomings, but are they ready to do battle with a band of graffiti daubing terrorists?

Slapstick farce with the incompetent cops as they set about saving their beloved academy from closure. Cutbacks mean that only one of the two police training schools can stay open, so Commandant Lassard appeals to the motley crew of graduates to come and train new recruits. However, the rival academy intends to sabotage their plans by cutting their training time down to a minimum.

Hard-boiled incompetent cop Frank Drebin must stop the evil Vincent Ludwig from completing his diabolical plan of killing Elizabeth II.

Lt Frank Drebin returns for more madcap high jinks in this police-procedural spoof. Powerful energy corporations are intent on putting a halt to the eco-friendly plans of Dr Albert S. Meinheimer, the new US energy czar. They scheme to replace Meinheimer with an imposter who will do their bidding. Unfortunately for them, Drebin gets tangled up with their plans while trying to steal back his ex from her slimy new beau.

Clueless cop Frank Drebin is hauled out of retirement to save the upcoming Oscars ceremony from a bunch of mad bombers.

A tough cop is forced to go undercover as a kindergarten teacher. In his new role, he must track down a mother and son who are the only witnesses against a drug-dealing criminal, who is also their husband and father. The cop uses his brutal methods to negotiate the mundane problems of child control.

A thirtysomething slacker attempts to inject some stability into his life by adopting an impressionable five-year-old.

A pair of idiotic friends set off on a madcap journey to return a briefcase to its owner. However, they are blissfully unaware that the case contains a large amount of ransom money for the owner's kidnapped husband. Their trip is soon fraught with disaster, especially when the kidnappers begin to pursue them across the country with the aim of grabbing the cash.

When one-time rock hopeful Robbie is jilted at the altar, he vents his bitterness in song, even when singing at other people's weddings. Only true love can redeem the broken-hearted songster but fortunately, he's about to meet a woman who will spin him right round (like a record).

A tough cop is forced to go undercover as a kindergarten teacher. In his new role, he must track down a mother and son who are the only witnesses against a drug-dealing criminal, who is also their husband and father. The cop uses his brutal methods to negotiate the mundane problems of child control.

Hard-boiled incompetent cop Frank Drebin must stop the evil Vincent Ludwig from completing his diabolical plan of killing Elizabeth II.

Lt Frank Drebin returns for more madcap high jinks in this police-procedural spoof. Powerful energy corporations are intent on putting a halt to the eco-friendly plans of Dr Albert S. Meinheimer, the new US energy czar. They scheme to replace Meinheimer with an imposter who will do their bidding. Unfortunately for them, Drebin gets tangled up with their plans while trying to steal back his ex from her slimy new beau.

Previews of the great films now playing on Sky Cinema plus other highlights showing on Sky.

Clueless cop Frank Drebin is hauled out of retirement to save the upcoming Oscars ceremony from a bunch of mad bombers.

Chicago teen Ren and his family move to the small Midwestern town of Bomont, where rock music has been banned.

A bittersweet story about a 43-year-old woman on the verge of divorce who magically travels back in time to her senior high-school years. She is able to act with the benefit of hindsight, but despite her efforts, she falls for the same boy all over again.

A thirtysomething slacker attempts to inject some stability into his life by adopting an impressionable five-year-old.

A pair of idiotic friends set off on a madcap journey to return a briefcase to its owner. However, they are blissfully unaware that the case contains a large amount of ransom money for the owner's kidnapped husband. Their trip is soon fraught with disaster, especially when the kidnappers begin to pursue them across the country with the aim of grabbing the cash.

When one-time rock hopeful Robbie is jilted at the altar, he vents his bitterness in song, even when singing at other people's weddings. Only true love can redeem the broken-hearted songster but fortunately, he's about to meet a woman who will spin him right round (like a record).

Based on a true story, this film, set during World War II, tells the story of the all-female baseball league that was started while the American men were away fighting in Europe. After a team of potential players has been recruited, former player Jimmy Dugan coaches the girls and prepares them for the World Series.

When ex-German international and camp commandant Van Steiner suggests a match between the POWs and the Germans, it swiftly escalates into a propaganda exercise.

A sports agent who makes the mistake of saying what he believes finds himself sacked and abandoned by all his clients apart from small time footballer Rod Tidwell. Maguire's personal life starts to fall apart as he's torn between love and money in Cameron Crowe's metaphor on Americans' need for success and money.

At a tough training school for American navy pilots, one of the new intake falls foul of the hard-as-nails drill sergeant, but takes it on the chin, and finds the additional strength to help a fellow student who is feeling the pressure.

Based on a true story, this film, set during World War II, tells the story of the all-female baseball league that was started while the American men were away fighting in Europe. After a team of potential players has been recruited, former player Jimmy Dugan coaches the girls and prepares them for the World Series.

A mysterious stranger rides into a small frontier town in the American southwest, provoked into a gunfight in which he kills three men, and then begged by the townsfolk to become sheriff. The residents are terrified of the gunslinger but live in greater fear of a gang which intends to wipe out the whole town.

A bittersweet story about a 43-year-old woman on the verge of divorce who magically travels back in time to her senior high-school years. She is able to act with the benefit of hindsight, but despite her efforts, she falls for the same boy all over again.

Five school kids - an athlete, a spoiled rich kid, a brainy nerd, an introverted loner and a rebellious punk - are brought together on a day-long detention where they break the rules, bare their souls and find they have more in common than just attending the same high school.

While widow Aurora fends off a stream of admirers, daughter Emma learns the hard facts of married life.

A wealthy law student and a lower-class music student meet and fall in love while at Harvard. In the face of parental disapproval, they marry and are blissfully happy, until they discover that she has a fatal disease.

When ex-German international and camp commandant Van Steiner suggests a match between the POWs and the Germans, it swiftly escalates into a propaganda exercise.

A sports agent who makes the mistake of saying what he believes finds himself sacked and abandoned by all his clients apart from small time footballer Rod Tidwell. Maguire's personal life starts to fall apart as he's torn between love and money in Cameron Crowe's metaphor on Americans' need for success and money.

At a tough training school for American navy pilots, one of the new intake falls foul of the hard-as-nails drill sergeant, but takes it on the chin, and finds the additional strength to help a fellow student who is feeling the pressure.

A violent and uncompromising police officer hunts for a psychopath who holds the city of San Francisco to ransom. Although the officer's unorthodox methods do not endear him to his superiors, the mayor reluctantly agrees that Harry Callahan seems to be the right cop for the job.

Dr Richard Kimble's wife is murdered, and he is arrested for the crime. He soon realises he has been framed, and while being transported on a prison bus, he manages to escape. On the run, he has to evade the relentless pursuit by the US Marshall, Samuel Gerard, while also avoiding everyone he knows, and finding out who the real killer is, the one-armed man who broke into their house.

A young lawyer joins a small but prestigious law firm only to find out that most of their clients are on the wrong side of the law. The company is helping to launder mob money, get clients off charges and even murder partners who threaten to blow their cover, but when the FBI come calling to gather evidence on the lawyer's colleagues, he is caught between a rock and a hard place, juggling his life and his liberty.

Once the highly regarded composer to the Viennese Court, Salieri is now an old man, unknown and confined to an asylum. After a suicide attempt he recounts his story to a young cleric, going back 30 years to his heyday at the court of Emperor Joseph II, where he first met the young Mozart. Despite Salieri's Machiavellian attempts to frustrate Mozart's progress, the great young composer attracts the favour of the Emperor.

While widow Aurora fends off a stream of admirers, daughter Emma learns the hard facts of married life.

Five school kids - an athlete, a spoiled rich kid, a brainy nerd, an introverted loner and a rebellious punk - are brought together on a day-long detention where they break the rules, bare their souls and find they have more in common than just attending the same high school.

A wealthy law student and a lower-class music student meet and fall in love while at Harvard. In the face of parental disapproval, they marry and are blissfully happy, until they discover that she has a fatal disease.

A violent and uncompromising police officer hunts for a psychopath who holds the city of San Francisco to ransom. Although the officer's unorthodox methods do not endear him to his superiors, the mayor reluctantly agrees that Harry Callahan seems to be the right cop for the job.

A young lawyer joins a small but prestigious law firm only to find out that most of their clients are on the wrong side of the law. The company is helping to launder mob money, get clients off charges and even murder partners who threaten to blow their cover, but when the FBI come calling to gather evidence on the lawyer's colleagues, he is caught between a rock and a hard place, juggling his life and his liberty.

Dr Richard Kimble's wife is murdered, and he is arrested for the crime. He soon realises he has been framed, and while being transported on a prison bus, he manages to escape. On the run, he has to evade the relentless pursuit by the US Marshall, Samuel Gerard, while also avoiding everyone he knows, and finding out who the real killer is, the one-armed man who broke into their house.

Once the highly regarded composer to the Viennese Court, Salieri is now an old man, unknown and confined to an asylum. After a suicide attempt he recounts his story to a young cleric, going back 30 years to his heyday at the court of Emperor Joseph II, where he first met the young Mozart. Despite Salieri's Machiavellian attempts to frustrate Mozart's progress, the great young composer attracts the favour of the Emperor.

When the transition is being made from silent films to `talkies', everyone has trouble adapting. Don and Lina have been cast repeatedly as a romantic couple, but when their latest film is remade into a musical, only Don has the voice for the new singing part. After a lot of practise with a diction coach, Lina still sounds terrible, and Kathy, a bright young aspiring actress, is hired to record over her voice.

A recently engaged woman becomes obsessed with meeting the grieving widower she heard on a late-night radio show. Sam, the widower, receives hundreds of letters following the radio phone-in which was instigated by his son Jonah.

An out-of-work actor dresses in drag for an audition, only to land the female lead in a TV soap. When he becomes the most popular character on the show, he feels compelled to carry the persona into his everyday life. While bringing him phenomenal success as an `actress', life as a woman also has its problems - especially when he falls for an actress with whom he works.

For Dan Gallagher, life is good. He is on the rise at his New York law firm, is happily married to his wife, Beth, and has a loving daughter. However, after a casual fling with a sultry book editor named Alex, everything changes. Jilted by Dan, Alex becomes unstable, her behaviour escalating from aggressive pursuit to obsessive stalking. Dan realizes that his main problem is not hiding his affair, but rather saving himself and his family.

A middle-aged man reaches breaking point while gridlocked in Los Angeles traffic on a sweltering day. He abandons his car and embarks on a violent spree across town, increasing his arsenal of weapons after each confrontation. A detective who is working his last day with the LAPD before retiring begins receiving reports of the various incidents - and eventually realises that one man links them all.

From page to screen, the Cinema List celebrates book adaptations. Featuring Wuthering Heights starring Margot Robbie and Bridget Jones's Diary, see these stories on film.

Martial arts romp about a TV chef who becomes embroiled in a drug lord's search for an incriminating video. The kung-fu fighting cook steps in to save an investigative journalist on the run from a gang of murderous drug dealers, resulting in a potentially fatal mix-up involving her incriminating tape of the gangsters and a children's video.

In the 1930s LA, a detective investigates a seemingly straightforward case of adultery and uncovers murder and scandal. However, the case is complicated by a femme fatale who leads the gumshoe further into a dangerous and complex web of violence and corruption.

A Hong Kong cop on holiday in New York puts his martial arts skills to good use when he helps out a friend whose shop is targeted by a vicious street gang. Martial arts hero Jackie Chan, as always, does all his own stunts.

An out-of-work actor dresses in drag for an audition, only to land the female lead in a TV soap. When he becomes the most popular character on the show, he feels compelled to carry the persona into his everyday life. While bringing him phenomenal success as an `actress', life as a woman also has its problems - especially when he falls for an actress with whom he works.

When the transition is being made from silent films to `talkies', everyone has trouble adapting. Don and Lina have been cast repeatedly as a romantic couple, but when their latest film is remade into a musical, only Don has the voice for the new singing part. After a lot of practise with a diction coach, Lina still sounds terrible, and Kathy, a bright young aspiring actress, is hired to record over her voice.

A recently engaged woman becomes obsessed with meeting the grieving widower she heard on a late-night radio show. Sam, the widower, receives hundreds of letters following the radio phone-in which was instigated by his son Jonah.

A group of petty criminals plan to rig a major traffic jam to divert attention from their bank heist.

Dissatisfied with King Arthur's rule of peace and freedom, Malagant, an erstwhile ally, turns against the Round Table and establishes a hostile domain. However, he goes too far when he kidnaps the queen and imprisons her in an appalling dungeon. The special skills of the glittering and impetuous swordsman Lancelot must be called upon to effect her rescue.

A disturbed undercover cop recovering from his wife's death is teamed up with a detective with a stable family background to crack an underground drug ring. The line between duty and off-duty begins to blur, however, when the daughter of one of the cops is kidnapped by the gun-toting heavies.

Psychotic LA cop Martin Riggs and his long-suffering partner Roger Murtaugh are assigned to guard an embezzling accountant due to testify before a federal commission. At first, they think it is a routine piece of work, but they soon discover that their charge has been laundering money for the same South African narcotics syndicate they have been trying to crack.

A group of petty criminals plan to rig a major traffic jam to divert attention from their bank heist.