Genre films built to travel

When five inseparable neighborhood kids sneak into what they think is an abandoned shipping container for one last adventure before summer ends, they get way more than they bargained for — a wrong turn on the docks, a slammed-shut door, and a twelve-hour journey that spits them out not in the next town over, but on a hidden beach somewhere in the Caribbean.

In the late 1960s, the military began experimenting with targeted nerve gases. One strain could be programmed to affect specific haplogroups. During a mandated order to destroy the stock, a sample is stolen by a white segregationist group — turning a small Midwest town into the launch point of an all-out race war.

In a near-future America where gas-powered cars have been outlawed and phased into museum pieces, Eli Marsh, a restless 22-year-old mechanic, becomes the unlikely custodian of the last working gasoline vehicle on the continent — a battered, fire-scarred muscle car his late father restored in secret. When federal agents move to destroy it under the Clean Roads Act, Eli guns the engine and runs. A high-speed, high-heart chase thriller about outrunning the systems — and the people — that try to own you.

In 1976 a small boy hounded his parents into buying him a baby alligator. After a tragedy involving the family cat, his father flushed the ever-expanding gator into a local storm drain. Modern day: Larry Johnson, recently widowed and eyeing retirement, watches local pets vanish at an alarming rate. When his own dog limps home mauled, city officials ignore the neighbourhood’s pleas — so the community takes matters into their own hands, and meets a 32-foot alligator.

In 1957, a small-town drive-in theatre becomes the backdrop for a summer of romance, rebellion and self-discovery. When Hollywood starlet Baby Rogers escapes her controlling mother to experience a normal life, she finds love and friendship with local boy Jimmy and his spirited friend Berbie.