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British POWs are ordered by their Japanese captors to construct a bridge of strategic importance and are happy to sabotage and delay the progress until their commanding officers orders them to continue the work unhindered to its completion, but are his actions tantamount to collaborating with the enemy?

Fact-based story set in America's former maximum-security prison, from which escape was supposed to be impossible. For habitual jailbreaker Frank Morris, however, Alcatraz is just another set of bars and walls that will never hold him.

An international hit man and quick change artist is hired by a secret organisation to assassinate Charles de Gaulle.

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.

When a DJ's sardonic exhortation to a late-night caller to wipe out a bar full of yuppies is taken literally, his world falls apart. Years later, on the point of suicide, he is saved by a similar casualty, a former medievalist whose wife was a victim of the bar bloodbath, and offered a chance for redemption by the man's quest for the Holy Grail.

Frank is a retired Lt Col in the US army. He's blind and impossible to get along with. Charlie is at school and is looking forward to going to university. Yo help pay for a trip home for Christmas, he agrees to look after Frank over Thanksgiving. Frank's niece says this will be easy money, but she didn't foresee Frank spending his Thanksgiving in New York.

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.

When Death arrives on Earth to take a media tycoon to Heaven, his experiences of life as a mortal lead to him falling in love with the doomed man's daughter. Taking the form of a mysterious stranger, Death strikes a deal with the business mogul which allows each of them to spend more time on Earth, but when Death's handsome form attracts the attention of his victim's daughter, the ensuing romance is complicated for all.

The violent story of a Mafia family fighting to establish supremacy in the American business world following World War II, where an assassination attempt leaves Vito Corleone too ill to run the family business.

Sept 2025 Previews of the great films now playing on Sky Cinema plus other highlights showing on Sky.