Edward Scissorhands is about an unfinished artificial human with scissor blades for hands and his troubled search for companionship. Stars Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder (1990)

A troubled ex-cop is pulled into New York’s shady underworld when he is hired by a drug kingpin to find his wife’s killer. Stars Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, David Harbour (2014)

Aided by his mysterious neighbour, a rising gangland player seeks retribution against the ruthless kingpin who destroyed his once happy life. Stars Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace, Dominic Cooper (2013)

A black US Navy recruit overcomes racism to become the force’s first black diver, despite resistance from his uncompromising training officer. Stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Robert De Niro (2000)

Thirty years after her family were brutally murdered, a woman is forced to revisit her trauma when amateur investigators show interest in her story. Stars Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult.

At the height of the Cold War, British spy Alec Leamas (Richard Burton) is nearly ready to retire, but first he has to take on one last dangerous assignment. Going deep undercover, he poses as a drunken, disgraced former MI5 agent in East Germany in order to gain information about colleagues who have been captured. When he himself is thrown in jail and interrogated, Leamas finds himself caught in a sinister labyrinth of plots and counter-plots unlike anything in his long career.

The SAS attempt to infiltrate a group of extremists they believe are planning an attack against an embassy in London. Stars Lewis Collins, Judy David, Richard Widmark (1982)

After his partner is killed, aging Texas Ranger Jake Cutter (John Wayne) is assigned to capture gambler Paul Regret (Stuart Whitman), a condemned prisoner who managed to escape hanging, and return him to Louisiana to face his sentence. But once Cutter has him in custody, they encounter the Comancheros, a fierce band of outlaws providing guns and booze to the Comanches, and are forced to work together to stop them. When Regret proves his worth in the fight, Cutter begins to re-evaluate his duties.

A private investigator becomes involved in the disappearance of a woman from a psychiatric hospital, and uncovers a widespread web of corruption. Stars John Travolta, Morgan Freeman (2019)

Mossad recruits a woman to become an agent and sends her to Tehran on an undercover mission. When her missions become more dangerous, she decides to quit, forcing her boss to find her before she becomes a threat to Israel.