In her spectacular film debut, Whitney Houston plays Rachel Marron, a music/movie superstar at her peak. Fans want to see her. Hear her. Touch her. But one wants to kill her...

And that's where security expert Frank Farmer (Kevin Costner) comes in. Farmer is a professional who never lets his guard down. Rachel has always heen in control of her glamorous life. Each expects to be in charge. What they don't expect is to fall in love.

Written by Lawrence Kasdan and directed by Mick Jackson, The Bodyguard has it all: suspense, thrills, romance, peril, passion. And the shining brilliance of two great stars.

Drawing its inspiration from Anthony Mann's 'The Fall of the Roman Empire' (1964) and Stanley Kubrick's 'Spartacus' (1960), Ridley Scott's Oscar-winning take on the Roman epic lavishes the genre with the very latest in computer-generated effects technology. After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris), Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) betrays the Emperor's beloved General Maximus (Russell Crowe) and takes the throne for himself. Maximus is sold as a slave and then trained as a gladiator, keeping himself strong with thoughts of revenge. Eventually he is taken to the Colosseum, where he prepares to fight in a contest presided over by the corrupt Commodus. Will he suffer the ultimate humiliation and die for the entertainment of his enemy or will he survive the rigors of the arena and find a way of exacting his revenge?

Italian horror maestro Michele Soavi presents this gothic tale of satanic rituals and end-of-the-millenium apocalypse. A schoolteacher (Kelly Leigh Curtis) is inducted into the Sect of the Faceless Ones, seduced by the charisma of its leader (Herbert Lom), and faces a series of terrifying ceremonies and ritualistic killings.