Sky Cinema Greats HD Thursday

Oscar-winning Japanese thriller focusing on three eyewitnesses' highly personal accounts of a rape and murder. Toshiro Mifune stars

A British colonel in a Japanese PoW camp is ordered to build a railway bridge over a river. David Lean's Oscar-winning Second World War drama, with Alec Guinness and William Holden

A convict tries to break out of the notorious high-security island prison, a feat previously thought impossible. Fact-based drama, starring Clint Eastwood and Patrick McGoohan

Conspirators hire renowned professional hitman the Jackal to assassinate President de Gaulle of France. Fred Zinnemann's thriller, starring Edward Fox and Michael Lonsdale

A maverick San Francisco detective vows to hand out his own brand of justice and end a deranged sniper's reign of terror. Thriller, starring Clint Eastwood and Andy Robinson

A radio DJ contemplating suicide is saved by a homeless man, who encourages him to retrieve what he claims is the Holy Grail. Comedy drama, starring Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges

A blind former soldier pays a timid college student to accompany him on a wild weekend after which he plans to kill himself. Comedy drama, starring Al Pacino and Chris O'Donnell

An idealistic sports agent is shunned by his bosses and is forced to set up on his own. Cameron Crowe's romantic comedy drama, with Tom Cruise, Renee Zellweger and Cuba Gooding Jr

Death takes on human form to claim a tycoon's life, but ends up falling for his daughter instead. Romantic fantasy, starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins and Claire Forlani

Conspirators hire renowned professional hitman the Jackal to assassinate President de Gaulle of France. Fred Zinnemann's thriller, starring Edward Fox and Michael Lonsdale

A British colonel in a Japanese PoW camp is ordered to build a railway bridge over a river. David Lean's Oscar-winning Second World War drama, with Alec Guinness and William Holden