Dr. Strangelove

At the height of the "Mutually Assured Destruction" stage of the Cold War, an American General paranoid with thoughts of "Reds under the bed" and odd notions about fluoridation of water issues the orders for a retaliatory strike against the USSR by the B-52 bombers under his command. There has been nothing to retaliate against, he's just unhinged.

As those under his command defend the airbase against those sent to make him issue the recall order a seconded British officer attempts to win him back around. Meanwhile America's 'Top Brass' assemble in the Pentagon War Room to discuss what can be done.

Threads

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, young couple Ruth and Jimmy make plans for their wedding and moving in together against a background of rising Cold War tension in the Middle East. Ruth stresses about getting the flat ready while Jimmy tends to his caged birds.

When the Cold War turns to open Nuclear War suddenly none of that matters at fucking all.

Morvern Callar

Morvern Callar (Samantha Morton) finds her boyfriend dead following a messy suicide, leaving her some Christmas presents, a mix tape, some money "for the funeral" and the draft of a novel "for you" with instructions to send it to a publisher.

Stumbling around in a state of denial she parties with her best friend Lanna (Kathleen McDermott) while leaving his body sprawled in the flat they shared.

Eventually she has to face what to do with both the body and the book.

Censor

During the height of the 1980s moral panic over "video nasties", Enid (Niamh Algar) works at the film censor enforcing cuts to things before release. She gets to see new releases in their undiluted form before the public.

When a release by an enigmatic director contains material shockingly close to a traumatic incident from her childhood she starts to look into his other work and tries to track him down.

Wrath of Man

New recruit 'H' (Jason Statham) starts a job at an armoured car cash pickup company after moving to the US from "Europe".

When he calmly and ruthlessly takes down a whole gang that tries to hold up the truck he's in singlehandedly it becomes clear he's not quite who he said on the application form.

The Lighthouse

Two lighthouse keepers arrive for their stint on a remote outcrop. The veteran keeper (Willem Dafoe) jealously tends the lamp while leaving all the other work to the new lad (Robert Pattinson).

This ensures things start out hostile but as time passes they form a working relationship and begin to share tales of their life with each other.

When the tender fails to arrive and relieve them at the appointed time things begin to unravel.

Tigers are not afraid

Young Estrella (Paola Lara) tries to live as normal a life as she can despite the drug gangs and violence that stalk her home. When an escalation in violence shuts her school, one of the last things a teacher does is place three sticks of chalk in her hand, which she says will grant her wishes "like in the stories".

Street kid Shine (Juan Ramón López) lifts a gun and mobile phone from a drunk cartel member little knowing the trouble it will bring to his little gang of orphans.

When the two are thrown together by terrible events, Estrella uses her three wishes to try and fix things but as is the way with such magic there's a price.

CW: Casual violence including on screen child murder. Yes really.

Candyman

Young affluent academic Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) and her colleague Bernadette (Kasi Lemmons) are working on a paper on urban legends and begin researching a local phenomenon, the "Candyman", who is said to murder people who invoke him with the hook he has instead of a hand.

Her husband Trevor (Xander Berkeley) and his colleagues are scornful, considering it "academic Bolivia" but the pair double down and dig into the one supposed killing they can link to a real event, travelling to the scene of the crime.

Here in the "projects" amongst poverty and crime the Candyman is very real. That reality begins to seep into Helen's life.