The Rats: A Witcher Tale

A ragtag group of thieves get wind of a huge staged gladiatorial fight run by one of their old foes. While casing the location they encounter a terrible monster that is being used to guard the loot in an underground cell.

What they need to kill it and steal the prize money is a Witcher.

Runaway

It is 199x and robots have replaced lots of manual labour in all manner of sectors. They tend the fields, work construction, cook our meals and babysit our children. Nonetheless sometimes they malfunction and go "runaway", usually in pretty harmless ways.

Sergeant Jack R. Ramsay (Tom Selleck) and his new partner Officer Karen Thompson (Cynthia Rhodes) work the Runaway squad, seen as a pretty oddball dept. perhaps akin to animal control.

Then one day a standard housemaid unit goes berserk, killing two and putting a child at risk. Ramsay deals with it but uncovers a conspiracy to turn harmless robots into killers.

CW: 80s cop movie bullshit like making Kirstie Allie strip off in a scanner because she's got tracking bugs planted on her, lots of 'woman in peril' shots

A Boy and his Dog

 After WWIV has left America a blasted wasteland life is nasty brutish and short, especially if you are a woman. Raiders roam the surface including Vic (Don Johnson) and his telepathic dog Blood (voice: Tim McIntire) taking what they can from others.

Vic is endlessly horny and when blood says he can smell a woman near the makeshift porn theatre they visit they set out to find her.

No good will come of this.

CW: misogyny abounds and sexual assault and rape are what people do here

Hypnotic

Jenn (Kate Siegel) is struggling after losing a baby and splitting up with her fiancée.

Her friend suggests she goes to the therapist they have been using. He's really helped them and got them in the right frame of mind to succeed.

She's initially reluctant, but when she visits him warms to the idea and takes up the suggestion of hypnotherapy.

CW: flashing imagery, sexual assault

The Pale Blue Eye

Following the death of one of the cadets, the senior staff at the West Point military academy call in retired New York Detective Augustus Landor (Christian Bale) to discreetly investigate.

One of the cadets, who has a thing for mysteries, becomes involved in the work. It is a young Edgar Allen Poe (Harry Melling).

CW: sexual assault, autopsy scenes

Titane

Alexia (Agathe Rouselle) is involved in a car accident as a young child, seriously injured and ends up stuck in a fixator with a titanium plate in her skull.

Now as an adult she is working as an erotic dancer at car meets, having an affinity for the machines she performs on.

One evening she is assaulted by a stalkerish fan and things take an increasingly violent turn.

CW: Body horror as fuck with violent mayhem, a DIY abortion and general machine fetish weirdness.

Ilang: Wolf Brigade

In the near future the two Koreas unite out of necessity when the world political situation destabilises. This partially works but there is great hardship, partially caused by international sanctions. Civil unrest builds and a Special Unit, the Wolf Bigade is formed to deal with the worsening situation and a nascent terrorist group, The Sect.

Infamous for a massacre of innocent schoolgirls they are the only thing The Sect really fear.

Now some years later Special Unit member Im Joo-kyung is injured in an operation against the Sect, reminiscent of the old atrocity. Afterwards he is sent to visit the sister of one of the Sect members Lee Yoon-he, unaware he is being set up in a guilt/romance sting to further discredit the Special Unit.

Johnny Mnemonic

In the near future the world is a dark dystopian place with massive inequality and huge corporations effectively running things.

Information technology has become ubiquitous with people inhabiting cyberspace but also infusing their bodies with technology. Corporate wars and infighting are everywhere and the line between organised crime and business is very grey. Some fight back against oppression in the real world others in cyberspace.

Living on the fringes of the corporate world is Johnny (Keanu Reeves) who transports data for money, uploaded into his mind through an implant. His latest job goes badly wrong after he overloads his mind with stolen data just as vengeful Yakuza turn up to take it, killing his customers in the process.

Escaping, he heads to the drop-off hoping to offload the data, pursued by the Yakuza who want to remove it from his head slightly more forcefully. When he arrives he falls in with local bodyguard for hire Jane (Dina Meyer) who says she knows a guy who can help.

The Midnight Sky

A lone scientist (George Clooney) stays behind at an Arctic scientific base when it is evacuated in the wake of a global catastrophe. Meanwhile a returning space exploration mission from Jupiter is puzzled by the loss of contact with Ground Control and the comms specialist (Felicity Jones) continues to try and make contact. The two end up communicating intermittently and he warns them to attempt no landing.