Mission: Impossible

When an IMF team are catastrophically compromised on an operation to root out a traitor, sole survivor Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is framed for the fiasco. Hunt goes on the run direct to the criminal on the other of the side of the deal and offers to complete it hoping to find the real traitor in the process.

CW: absurd age gap between the Jim Phelps character (John Voight) and the character's on-screen wife (Emmanuelle Béart)

Free Fire

Late 70s, two IRA men travel to Boston to buy a load of assault rifles for The Cause. The deal is to happen in a deserted warehouse and as well as the supplier, various fixers, helpers and muscle are in attendance.

Nobody expects that a chance encounter the previous night will cause things to go very wrong.

CW: violence and Sharlto Copley being very leery

The Conjuring 2

Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine (Vera Farmiga) Warren travel to Enfield, London where the Hodgson family are being troubled by a ghostly presence.

CW: lots of jump scares

The Conjuring

1971. The Perron family move into a spacious old home looking to start a new life. They've five daughters so need the space and got it for a good price at auction.

Immediately things get spooky: the family dog refuses to enter the house, they find their clocks stopping at the same time in the middle of the night and the youngest daughter makes a new invisible friend

After some actual violent manifestations, Carolyn Perron (Lili Taylor) approaches renowned ghost hunters Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga) for help.

CW: plenty of jump scares

Insidious Chapter 2

Josh (Patrick Wilson) and Renai (Rose Byrne) have moved in with her mother Lorraine (Barbara Hershey) after the events of the first movie. A Police investigation is still ongoing and they've not had any respite.

CW: lots of jump scares again

Wrath of Becky

Following on from the events of 'Becky' our titular revenge fuelled Heroine (Lulu Wilson) is now working in a diner.

She is perhaps even more stroppy and unruly than before, although she manages to keep some of her more violent responses to her imagination.

She has a run-in with a group of "Noble Men" (a stand-in for one of the various US alt-right groups) who decide to follow her home and pay her an unexpected visit.

No good will come of this.

CW: bloody violence, plenty of misogyny and all the bad swears

Insidious

Josh (Luke Wilson) and Renai (Rose Byrne) move into a new home but begin to experience strange goings before they've even fully unpacked. Their son Dalton has a seemingly trivial accident and falls into an unexplained coma and as Renai cares for him while Josh works the apparent haunting gathers pace.

Eventually they seek unorthodox help. No good will come of this.

CW: jump scares but little else of note

All quiet on the Western Front

1917: Young Paul Bäumer (Felix Kammerer) volunteers for the Kaiser's war. He and his friends are filled with pride and keen to prove their heroism to family and friends.

Meanwhile, administrators and elements of the German High Command are realising the awful toll war is enacting on the nation and begin to consider the unthinkable: an Armistice.

CW: 20th century trench warfare in all its wasteful gory misery