The Da Vinci Code/Gladiator

Double-bill of blockbusters. In 'The Da Vinci Code' (2006), when respected American religious symbology expert Dr. Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) is summoned to the Louvre by the French version of the FBI, led by Captain Bezu Fache (Jean Reno), he soon discovers that he is the prime suspect for the murder of a historian Langdon had been scheduled to meet with.

Assisted by a French cryptographer and government agent named Sophie (Audrey Tautou), Langdon is challenged to decipher a chain of cryptic codes and puzzles, all the while trying to stay ahead of Fache's lawmen in a chase through the Louvre, and out into the Parisian cityscape, and finally across the channel to England.

Can Langdon and Sophie decipher the nature of a secret dating back to Leonardo Da Vinci and earlier before those responsible for the historian's murder add them to their hit list? 'Gladiator' (2000), 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?