Planet of the Apes

Four astronauts embark on a perilous journey at near the speed of light to a distant planet. When they emerge from hibernation they find their ship damaged and sinking in a lake and only three have survived the trip.

Taylor (Charlton Heston), Dodge (Jeff Burton) and Landon (Robert Gunnar) escape to the shore with minimal supplies and strike out across the desolate world looking for food.

They eventually find some people but they are primitive and uncommunicative. It turns out something else rules here...

Deliverance

Four friends (Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty & Ronny Cox) set out on a canoe trip down a river in a remote part of Georgia. The whole area is shortly to be flooded as part of a hydroelectric project and this is a last chance to see this piece of unspoilt American wilderness.

No good will come of this.

CW: rape, injury detail, suicide (maybe)

Zardoz

In the distant future, life is brutal and the exterminators rampage across the land killing at the behest of their god Zardoz using the guns it provides. 

Zardoz takes the form of a giant floating stone head that demands tribute and vomits bounty. One day an exterminator, Zed (Sean Connery) sneaks aboard and travels to the Vortex where the Eternals live.

No good will come of this.

CW: Rape, sexual assault, hunting people for pleasure, eugenics, religious zealotry.

Ladyhawke

The thief Gaston (Matthew Broderick) escapes from the dungeon of the Bishop of Aquila and ends up travelling with the imposing Captain Navarre (Rutger Hauer) who has his own feud with the Bishop.

Long ago, the Bishop cursed Navarre and his love Isabeau (Michelle Pfeiffer) to be alway together but forever apart.

Brick

When Brendan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) receives a tearful, terrified phone call from his ex girlfriend Em he resolves to try and help her even when everybody, including her, tells him not to.

Bullet Train

Hitman "Ladybug" (Brad Pitt) has had some time away from assignments, tired of the violence and negativity. He takes a "simple" job to lift a suitcase from a passenger on a Japanese "Bullet Train" and get off at the next stop.

No good will come of this.

Black Crab

In the midst of an unspecified conflict in Sweden, Caroline Edh (Noomi Rapace) is a volunteer soldier and things are not going well for her side.

Diverted from her next assignment Caroline is put in a team expected to deliver a package across the frozen sea, which is held by the enemy. All of them are people chosen for being good at cross-country skating and survival.

They are told this is a do or die mission that may end the war but none of them are entirely clear why or how they're expected to accomplish it.

Mandrake

When infamous murderer Mary Laidlaw (Derbhle Crotty) is released from prison she is assigned probation officer Cathy Madden (Deirdre Mullens).

Mary's crime was sensationalised in the press with talk of satanism and orgies in the woods leading up to an axe murder. She's known as "Bloody Mary" or "The Witch" and the subject of much urban folklore.

Now 30 years later Cathy is resolved to deal with Mary professionally and stop her being hounded even though she's an unsettling presence who is hard to like.

No good will come of this.