Jack Ryan is back - this time not in the shape of Harrison Ford or Alec Baldwin, but Ben Affleck. A nuclear device is set to go off on US soil, and Ryan's the man who can stop it...

Released just two weeks after E.T, both have presented more contrasting ideas about extra-terrestrial life, and it was the uncompromisingly bleak vision that lost out at the box-office.

Set in a Post World War II Vienna still shell-shocked from battle. Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) is an alcoholic pulp writer come to visit his old friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles).

Five villains in New York are rounded up by police in an unconventional manner. After release, they get together for a spot of revenge, but someone else is controling events

Ford twiddles his thumbs whilst he waits for the Indiana script, but this could be good with the same director of the cracking Arlington Road. Ford plays a world weary security expert with a lopsided smirk who has family kidnapped. The ransom? He has to crack his own mega great system and walk out with a shedload of money. The bad news is that he's not the President of the US or Jack Ryan in this one...

A young F.B.I. agent is assigned watchdog duty over a fellow agent, but finds herself drawn into his investigations of paranormal and unexplained phenomena.

One last job. Every thief says it, but this time the guy DOESN'T want to do it. Trouble is, the cops have him over a barrell. The first film from the director of Heat and The Insider.