Taylor Hackford

Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan star in this 2000 thriller about a woman who hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.

Al Pacino is the boss of a high-end New York City law firm in this 1997 legal thriller, co-starring Keanu Reeves as the impressionable new lawyer from Florida.

Old-school romance starring Richard Gere as Zack, an aloof Navy man training to become a pilot... Features the soaring hit Up Where We Belong ("where the eagles cry... on the mountain high") which won the BAFTA, Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Original Song.

Drama inspired by the true story of Joe and Sally Conforte (Joe Pesci and Helen Mirren), proprietors of the Mustang Ranch: the first legalized house of prostitution in Nevada. From the director of Ray.

Jason Statham is Parker, a thief with a code of honour. When his gang screws him over, he sets out to make them regret it in this hard-nosed crime thriller. Co-starring Jennifer Lopez and Nick Nolte, from the director of Ray.

Jamie Foxx - in an Oscar-winning performance - is Ray Charles in this biopic of the legendary RnB musician. From his poverty-stricken childhood to his post-1960s success, the film details his musical influences, the chart success that helped bring jazz into the mainstream and the womanising and drug abuse that followed his fame.