Manhunter (1986): Five years before The Silence of the Lambs Michael Mann directed this stylish thriller, based on Thomas Harris' first Hannibal story - Red Dragon. Now recognised as a cult classic, it is every bit as brilliant and terrifying as its sequel.

Brian Cox is magnificent as Hannibal Lecter, the serial killer who holds the key to tracking down a mass murderer who has a perverse penchant for voyeurism.

William Petersen as Detective Will Graham is totally convincing as a man with an extraordinary talent that of entering a serial killer's personal nightmare landscapes...

Silence of the Lambs (1991): As Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter, Anthony Hopkins is the archetypical antihero--cultured, quick-witted, uncontainable--a portrait of the sharpest human faculties gone diabolically wrong. His performance marked him as a major star in America, and the movie swept the 1991 Academy Awards--Best Picture, Director (Jonathan Demme), Actor (Hopkins), Actress (Foster), and Screenplay Adaptation (Ted Tally, from the novel by Thomas Harris).

Hannibal (2001): Having escaped the asylum in 'Silence of the Lambs', Dr Lecter goes into hiding in Florence. Back in America, Mason Verger, an old victim of the doctor's, seeks revenge. Disfigured and confined to a life-support system, he plans to draw Lecter out of his hiding place, using the one thing he truly cares for: Clarice Starling...