Shortly before Augusto Pinochet’s 1973 military coup, a pair of colourful bickering CIA agents are sent on a shadowy mission to Chile’s isolated Easter Island to test their loyalty and professionalism, only for their dark pasts to mix with present conspiracies and a bond with two young local students to throw their partnership and the mission into turmoil, in this period spy black comedy from the writer director of ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ and ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’.
Directed by Martin McDonagh and starring Sam Rockwell, John Malkovich and Steve Buscemi among others.
Genre: Crime, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
UK Release: 4th of November US Release: 6th of November
6th
I Play Rocky (2026)
After finding inspiration in the mid 1970s and writing a promising script for a classic underdog sporting drama and a working class character study, a struggling New York actor risks everything and fights to keep his story intact and secure the starring role when Hollywood comes-a-calling, doing everything to get his “Rocky Balboa” to the silver screen in this dramatisation of the making of an iconic film and a movie superstar.
Directed by Peter Farrelly and starring Anthony Ippolito, Sasha Czack and Toby Kebbell among others.
Genre: Fact-based, Biography, Drama, Sport
UK Release: 6th of November US Release: 20th of November
Godzilla Minus Zero (2026)
In a 1949 Japan still recovering from the war and reeling from the devastation of the titular titan’s rampage two years prior, the young “Shikishima” family struggle to stay together and make the best of their situation, while questionable government decisions and a new terror threatens everything whilst a familiar foe stirs at the bottom of the sea, all destined for a fateful clash in this contemporary yet classic kaiju survival period epic and sequel to 2023’s ‘Godzilla Minus One’.
Directed by Takashi Yamazaki and starring Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe and Hidetaka Yoshioka among others.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-fi, Thriller, War
UK Release: 6th of November US Release: 6th of November
La Bola Negra (2026)
A series of stories inspired by the unfinished work of Federico García Lorca, chronicling the experiences of three gay men over different eras in recent Spanish history, all connected by sexuality and desire, pain and inheritance in this Spanish period drama genre-blending anthology exploration of homosexuality through the ages.
Directed by Javier Ambrossi & Javier Calvo and starring Guitarricadelafuente, Miguel Bernardeau and Penélope Cruz among others.
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
UK Release: 6th of November US Release: 6th of November
Possible Love (2026)
A chance encounter for a Korean director with a family struggling with unemployment and financial struggle creates a filmmaker-subject opportunity and a new relationship, which is soon challenged when societal backgrounds and personal clashes begin to threaten their collaboration, forcing them all to take a sobering and confronting look a themselves, their families, and the world in which they live in this South Korean chronicle of class divisions and personal drama from the writer/director of ‘Burning’.
Directed by Lee Chang-dong and starring Cho Yeo-jeong, Jeon Do-yeon and Sul Kyung-gu among others.
Genre: Drama, Romance
UK Release: 6th of November (Netflix) US Release: 6th of November (Netflix)
Being Heumann (2026)
Tired of her local government’s attitudes towards the disabled, polio survivor and disability rights activist Judith Heumann leads an effort against San Francisco’s government and their disability policies, culminating in a 28-day takeover of a federal building in 1977 which leads to a change of laws and her rise as the “Mother of the Disability Rights Movement”.
Directed by Sian Heder and starring Ruth Madeley, Dylan O’Brien and Rob Delaney among others.
Genre: Fact-based, Biography, Drama
UK Release: 6th of November then streaming from the 13th of November on Apple TV US Release: 6th of November then streaming from the 13th of November on Apple TV
Onwards and Sideways (2026)
In modern day small town Britain a colourful teacher’s life is turned upside down by Parkinson’s diagnosis only to find belonging with a fellow group of afflicted, and a woman to share his daunting journey with when he meets Emma, also diagnosed with the disorder as they form a strong bond and face their future together in this touching life-affirming comedy/drama from the director of ‘Shakespeare in Love’ and ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’.
Directed by John Madden and starring Laura Linney, Rhys Ifans and Monica Dolan among others.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
UK Release: 6th of November US Release: N/A
13th
How to Rob a Bank (2026)
When a crew of elusive modern bank robbers with revolutionary ambitions and social media expertise start streaming their outrageous heists to a ravenous audience and attract a huge viral following, they soon rattle the system and find themselves in the crosshairs of the FBI and a talented hacker they’ve recruited, as they all head towards a fateful collision when they plan one last major caper to break the internet and upend the established order.
Directed by David Leitch and starring Nicholas Hoult, Zoë Kravitz and John C. Reilly among others.
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
UK Release: 13th of November US Release: 13th of November
Ebenezer (2026)
In Victorian London a wealthy misanthropic businessman lives a hermetic life rubbing everyone the wrong way and hating Christmas, only to be plunged into a supernatural odyssey of redemption by haunting visits from three ghosts and visions of his sad regretful past, in this re-imagining of the classic Charles Dickens story from the director of ‘X’ and ‘Pearl’.
Directed by Ti West and starring Johnny Depp, Daisy Ridley and Ian McKellen among others.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
UK Release: 13th of November US Release: 13th of November
Fjord (2026)
In a small Norwegian coastal town a Romanian couple and their young children settle in, only for their traditional values and strict Pentecostal beliefs to clash with the locals and the country’s legal system when one of the children turns up to school with troubling bruises, and the tight-knit community begins to face uncomfortable questions which challenge their ideologies and preconceptions, in this frank and unflinching modern cinematic study of European immigration and the balance of tolerance versus conformity and the rule of law.
Directed by Cristian Mungiu and starring Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve and Lisa Loven Kongsli among others.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
UK Release: 13th of November US Release: 23rd of October
The Mosquito Bowl (2026)
In the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack, four American college football stars enlist in the Marines and are plunged into the ruthless training before entering the World War II fray, leading towards a legendary US intra-military game at Guadalcanal which would be the final match for many, before heading into the notorious invasion of Okinawa in this dramatisation of an extraordinary true story.
Directed by Peter Berg and starring Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Galitzine and Ray Nicholson among others.
Genre: Fact-based, Biography, Drama, Sport, Thriller, War
UK Release: 13th of November and streams on Netflix from the 25th of November US Release: 13th of November and streams on Netflix from the 25th of November
Prima Facie (2026)
A high-flying and ambitious London barrister, who made her name defending men accused of sexual assault, is plunged into a crisis of conscience and begins to question the legal system she once upheld after she becomes the victim of sexual assault by a powerful colleague, and is turned into an accuser herself in this modern portrait of sexual assault victims and screen adaptation of the acclaimed Suzie Miller stage play.
Directed by Susanna White and staring Cynthia Erivo, Daniel Ings and Elizabeth Dulau among others.
Genre: Crime, Drama
UK Release: 13th of November US Release: N/A
20th
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (2026)
Twenty-four years before the events of ‘The Hunger Games’ in Panem and the eve of the reaping of the biggest games to date—the Second Quarter Quell—a District 12 teenager forms an unlikely alliance with a fellow tribute to survive the deadly event and challenge President Snow’s control of the Capitol, in this latest prequel installment of the hit screen adaptations of the best-selling Suzanne Collins YA dystopian sci-fi adventure novels.
Directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Joseph Zada, Mckenna Grace and Ralph Fiennes among others.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-fi, Thriller
UK Release: 20th of November US Release: 20th of November
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother (2026)
Struggling to raise three children after his beloved wife dies and trying to keep his two disparate worlds apart, a Houston family man and devout Muslim who works as a skilled and feared assassin in the underworld is plunged into a deadly scramble across the city to protect his family from dangerous people when a hit goes wrong.
Directed by Bassam Tariq and starring Mahershala Ali, John Cho and Giancarlo Esposito among others.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
UK Release: 20th of November US Release: 9th of October
A Talent for Murder (2026)
Keen to uncover the shadowy fate of his colleague and desperate for his favourite writer to finish her most iconic series of books, a young man from a New York publishing house travels to Switzerland to persuade the renowned but prickly and reclusive writer Patricia Highsmith to complete one last book in the Tom Ripley anthology, only for his own creative killer imagination to be tested and to be plunged into an alarming game of cat & mouse when life begins to imitate art.
Directed by Anton Corbijn and starring Helen Mirren, Alden Ehrenreich and Olivia Cooke among others.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
UK Release: 20th of November US Release: 23rd of October
Josephine (2026)
When their 8-year-old witnesses a disturbing assault at a San Francisco park, a couple struggles to comfort her and deal with the aftermath and its effects on her, as she’s pulled into the criminal justice system and risks being permanently affected unless they can help her process what she saw and find the answers she needs.
Directed by Beth de Araújo and starring Mason Reeves, Gemma Chan and Channing Tatum among others.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
UK Release: 20th of November US Release: 20th of November
Heysel 85 (2026)
At the European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus in Brussels, a combination of poor stadium infrastructure and maintenance combined with criminally poor policing and organization leads to a deadly crush after a fan charge and multiple deaths, leaving a group of locals to deal with the terrible aftermath as they struggle to balance their professional duties with personal feelings and empathy in this dramatisation of the 1985 Heysel Stadium disaster.
Directed by Teodora Mihai and starring Violet Braeckman, Matteo Simoni and Josse De Pauw among others.
Genre: Fact-based, Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport
UK Release: 20th of November US Release: N/A
25th
The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth (2026)
Eight years after saving his former boss Rick Dalton from the murderous whims of the Manson family, stuntman extraordinaire Cliff Booth works as a fixer in a very different Hollywood, plunged into a series of misadventures with an a array of shady and colourful characters in this spinoff sequel to 2019’s ‘Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood’.
Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Elizabeth Debicki and Timothy Olyphant among others.
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
UK Release: 25th of November then streams on Netflix from the 23rd of December US Release: 25th of November then streams on Netflix from the 23rd of December
Focker-in-Law (2026)
The latest Focker family outing to the in-laws for Greg and his family takes a tense and jealous turn when his son’s formidable fiancee begins to win everyone over, quickly securing the affections of the father-in-law which he struggled so long to gain whilst vying with him for his own son’s love, as unhealthy competition arises and he starts to transform into the difficult in-law in this latest instalment of the hit comedy series.
Directed by John Hamburg and starring Ben Stiller, Ariana Grande and Robert De Niro among others.
Genre: Comedy
UK Release: 25th of November US Release: 25th of November
27th
Hexed (2026)
A spirited teenage outsider’s life in suburban America takes a fantastical turn when she unexpectedly discovers her innate magical powers, sending her on a supernatural adventure to an enchanted hidden realm where she will team up with her protective mother and the kingdom’s colourful characters to unravel a magical family legacy, and join the fight against evil which will change the world of witches forever.
Directed by Jason Hand, Josie Trinidad & Fawn Veerasunthorn and starring Hailee Steinfeld, Rashida Jones and Jodie Foster among others.
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy
UK Release: 27th of November US Release: 25th of November
Minotaur (2026)
A contemporary drama thriller adapted from Claude Chabrol’s 1969 French film ‘The Unfaithful Wife’, set against the backdrop of the Russo-Ukrainian war and unraveling in a small provincial Russian town where a business executive is under pressure from an uncertain world and the corporate responsibility to help feed the Russian military machine, only for a shocking revelation about his private life to mount on top and challenge his principles, throwing his carefully cultivated existence into a chaos and threatening to all end in tragedy.
Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev and starring Dmitriy Mazurov, Iris Lebedeva and Boris Kudrin among others.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
UK Release: 27th of November US Release: 20th of November
Ghost Soldier (2026)
When a callous and powerful corporation with plans for their land begins to harass and threaten a rural Wyoming community, a local man and former Green Beret super soldier becomes their protector, reverting to his unmatched skills and deadly toys to take the fight and a reckoning straight to corporate America—with fatal and ruthless results.
Directed by William Eubank and starring Jim Caviezel, Garret Dillahunt and Alexej Manvelov among others.
Genre: Action, Thriller
UK Release: 27th of November US Release: 11th of November
#TriviaTuesday: A cost-cutting insect-like suit was the early design for the alien hunter in 1987's 'Predator'—unsuccessfully worn by the character's first actor Jean-Claude Van Damme—but it was ditched for a now iconic Stan Winston design at twice the price. Money well spent. pic.twitter.com/pvbTmpgUIB
#TriviaTuesday: ‘Big Kahuna Burger’ is most certainly the fictional fast food of choice in the Tarantinoverse, appearing or referenced in 'Reservoir Dogs', 'From Dusk Till Dawn', 'Death Proof', 'Four Rooms', as well as its starring turn in 1994’s 'Pulp Fiction' of course. pic.twitter.com/k3xVsbDuA6