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A 1979 film by Francis Ford Coppola loosely adapting Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' into the Vietnam War, following a special-ops officer sent to kill a rogue colonel who has built a cult in the Cambodian jungle.
A 1983 film by Nicolas Roeg starring Gene Hackman as a gold prospector who strikes it rich and loses himself in the meaninglessness of achieved wealth.
A 1976 science fiction film directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring David Bowie as an alien who comes to Earth to save his dying planet and is destroyed by human corruption.