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Browse Vera and you’ll discover the latest must-see Hollywood films along with recent chart toppers, a selection of underrated gems, quirky short films, festival favourites and our world collection, which brings together striking, award-nominated films from across borders, cultures, and points of view. Want to know more about the actors, directors, and comedians behind them? Watch What’s on Vera, where film critic and broadcaster Jason Solomons presents the latest highlights onboard. We never edit the films we show, either, so you see them just as the director intended.

If you still can’t choose, look out for the ’Vera Loves’ label – that means we think it’s the best of the best. Travelling with kids? Don’t worry – parental locking is available on all aircraft.

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These are our recently added titles this month*, you'll find plenty more films to choose from once you're settled in onboard.

*not all content is available on our A339/A350 aircraft.

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Afterburn

Afterburn

Starring: Dave Bautista, Olga Kurylenko, Kristofer Hivju

Certificate 15Closed-CaptionAudio description

Post-apocalyptic action here – with the emphasis firmly on action – as Bautista plays a treasure hunter hired 

to retrieve the Mona Lisa after a solar flare wipes out half the planet. What starts as a payday swiftly turns into something very different.  

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All the Devils are Here

All the Devils are Here

Starring: Eddie Marsan, Sam Claflin, Burn Gorman

Certificate 15Closed-CaptionAudio description

Reservoir Dogs in Dartmoor as four thieves (among them Marsan and Claflin) hole up in a remote cottage after a heist. 

Counting the cash, paranoia begins to set in. Maybe the real danger comes from inside, not out?.

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Anniversary

Anniversary

Starring: Diane Lane, Phoebe Dynevor, Zoey Deutch

Certificate 15

Who wants to see esteemed actors going full throttle? Everybody, right? So feast on Lane and Kyle Chandler delivering awards-

worthy performances as a family celebration curdles into a quiet political nightmare. Intense, funny and thrilling, this one’s a winner.

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Bang Bang

Bang Bang

Starring: Tim Blake Nelson, Glenn Plummer, Kevin Corrigan

Certificate 15Closed-Caption

Boxing movies: always good. In this one, retired boxer Bang Bang (Blake Nelson) has his demons. So when he starts training 

his estranged grandson, the question isn’t whether glory awaits – it’s whether a broken man can mend.

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Bau Artist at War

Bau, Artist at War

Starring: Emile Hirsch, Inbar Lavi, Yan Tual

Vera LovesCertificate 12Closed-Caption

The brilliant Hirsch takes the lead as Joseph Bau, a Holocaust survivor whose art and forged papers kept hope alive in Krakow

– and whose forbidden love for fellow prisoner Rebecca becomes an act of defiance in itself. A sharp, heartfelt tale of courage and devotion.

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The Best You Can

The Best You Can

Starring: Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Judd Hirsch

Certificate 15Closed-Caption

Cynthia Rand, a New York urologist, faces upheaval when her husband begins to show signs of dementia. Stan Olszewski, 

a security guard without great ambitions, crosses her path in this smart, daring comedy about two aimless people who find an unexpected connection just when they need it most

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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

Starring: Margot Robbie, Colin Farrell, Kevin Kline

Certificate 15

Sarah and David are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon find themselves on A Big Bold Beautiful

Journey – a funny, fantastical adventure where they get to re-live moments from their pasts and possibly alter their futures.

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Caught Stealing

Caught Stealing

Starring: Austin Butler, Regina King, Zoë Isabella Kravitz

Certificate 15

Hank Thompson (Butler), a former baseball prodigy now tending bar at a New York dive, has a great girl (Kravitz) and his team is

chasing the pennant. When Hank cat-sits for a neighbour (Smith), gangsters swarm and he’s got to hustle to survive and learn why.

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The Conjuring: Last Rites

The Conjuring: Last Rites

Starring: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Mia Tomlinson

Certificate 15Closed-Caption

Farmiga and Wilson return as the Warrens for the latest case in this super-scary franchise, this one drawn from the notorious

 Smurl haunting, where a family home becomes the stage for something far darker than bumps in the night.

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Dead of Winter

Dead of Winter

Starring: Emma Thompson, Judy Greer, Marc Menchaca

Vera LovesCertificate 15Closed-CaptionAudio description

Brr! Thompson, Greer and Menchaca anchor this icy thriller about a remote community rattled when a stranger’s arrival stirs old

grievances and fresh dangers, forcing hard choices as a storm closes in. In a word, chilling…

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Delivery Run

Delivery Run

Starring: Alexander Arnold, Liam James Collins

Certificate 15Closed-Caption

The plot of Delivery Run is simple: a food courier makes one last drop in a frozen town and ends up hunted across the snow

by a relentless snowplough driver. And yes, if you were wondering, it’s already been compared to Spielberg’s Duel, which is praise indeed.

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Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

Starring: Joanne Froggatt, Michelle Dockery, Paul Giamatti

Certificate PG

Pearl-clutching time – it really is the last gasp for the Crawley family as we pay Downton a final big-screen visit.

In this instalment, Mary faces scandal and the estate teeters on ruin. Traditions clash with change and the whole household must reckon with what comes next.

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East of Wall

East of Wall

Starring: Tabatha Zimiga, Porshia Zimiga, Scoot McNairy

Certificate 15Closed-Caption

An authentic portrait of female resilience in the 'New West,' inspired and played by the women and girls who live it. 

Tabatha, a young, rebellious rancher who rescues and resells horses, must make hard decisions to deal with her fractured family, financial uncertainty, and unresolved grief.

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Eden

Eden

Starring: Jude Law, Ana de Armas, Vanessa Kirby

Certificate 15

Ron Howard’s star-studded latest is the true story of a group of Europeans (Law, Sweeney, de Armas...) who head to a remote

Galápagos island to build a utopia, only to find themselves trapped between idealism and survival as the dream curdles into something darker.

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Eleanor the Great

Eleanor the Great

Starring: June Squibb, Erin Kellyman, Jessica Hecht

Vera LovesCertificate 12Closed-CaptionAudio description

Eleanor Morgenstein has always stayed connected to the people around her. So, after a devastating loss, she relocates to 

New York City to live with her daughter and grandson, hoping to reconnect with her family. Instead, she feels even more adrift.

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F1 The Movie

F1® The Movie

Starring: Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Kerry Condon

Vera LovesCertificate 12Closed-Caption

Turbo-charged, adrenaline-fuelled action with Pitt as Sonny, a veteran dragged out of retirement to steady an underdog F1 team. 

Also starring Idris as the hotshot rookie, it finds director Kosinski delivering some of the best motor-racing scenes ever filmed

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The Fantastic Four: First Steps

The Fantastic Four: First Steps

Starring: Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach

Certificate 12Closed-Caption

Set against the backdrop of a ’60s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, Marvel’s First Family faces a daunting challenge. 

Forced to balance being heroes with their family bond, they must defend Earth from a space god and his enigmatic herald.

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Good Fortune

Good Fortune

Starring: Aziz Ansari, Seth Rogan, Keanu Reeves

Vera LovesCertificate 15Closed-Caption

In a rare non-Wick role, Reeves plays an angel trying to straighten out Ansari’s down-on-his-luck worker by upending the cushy

life of his boss (Rogen). What follows is a class-clash comedy with a cosmic twist, as fortunes, bodies and perspectives get joyously swapped.

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The Long Walk

The Long Walk

Starring: Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Mark Hamill

Certificate 15Closed-Caption

Based on a Stephen King tale, The Long Walk plays like a slower, colder version of The Running Man or The Hunger Games,

taking the form of a brutal dystopian contest where teenage boys must keep moving or be shot on the spot. Endurance becomes horror one step at a time.y

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The map that leads to you

The Map That Leads to You

Starring: Madelyn Cline, KJ Apa, Josh Lucas

Certificate 15Closed-CaptionAudio description

Hallström, the acclaimed director of Chocolat, returns with a romantic drama (aka a weepie) following young travellers 

whose trip across Europe turns into a search for meaning, love and second chances.

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Les Musiciens

The Musicians

Starring: Valérie Donzelli, Frédéric Pierrot

Certificate 15

Astrid corrals four musicians for a one-off concert in this French comedy-drama – only to find egos and micro-tuning 

pulling them apart. As rehearsals buckle and tempers fray, the score’s composer is called in to restore order. Does he do the trick? Hm...

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My Mother's Wedding

My Mother's Wedding

Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller, Emily Beecham

Certificate 15Closed-Caption

National treasure Scott Thomas assembles an eye-catching cast, including Johansson and Miller, for her directorial debut. 

The story follows three daughters returning home for their mother’s latest wedding, and the result is a sharply barbed family drama

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Nobody 2

Nobody 2

Starring: Bob Odenkirk, Sharon Stone, Connie Nielson

Certificate 15

He tried suburbia and the school run, but Hutch was never just a dad – he was a fixer in hiding. In this action-packed sequel, 

Hutch (Odenkirk) is dragged back into the open, and once he starts swinging, it’s not a transformation but a full relapse.

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Plainclothes

Plainclothes

Starring: Tom Blyth, Russell Tovey

Certificate 15Closed-Caption

A thriller with a dash of romance here, with Blyth as an undercover cop in 1990s New York assigned to entrap gay men.

 As he starts to fall for one of his targets (Tovey), the job, the era and his own identity collide in a tense story of desire and betrayal.

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Preparation for the Next Life

Preparation for the Next Life

Starring: Sebiye Behtiyar, Fred Hechinger, Alicher Adill

Certificate 15Vera LovesClosed-Caption

Critics have been unanimous, and rightly so. Preparation for the Next Life concerns a Uyghur migrant struggling to 

survive in New York, the damaged ex-soldier she meets, and the powerful relationship they form. It’s tough, unflinching and strangely beautiful.

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Relay

Relay

Starring: Riz Ahmed, Lily James, Sam Worthington

Certificate 15Closed-CaptionAudio description

Remember when thrillers had brains? The folks behind the brilliant Relay do, as Ahmed plays a professional fixer who brokers 

secret meetings. What starts as smooth negotiation slips into danger when one deal goes off-script and nothing is what it seems. Great stuff.

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Roofman

Roofman

Starring: Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst, Ben Mendelsohn

Vera LovesCertificate 15

Funny, charming, and featuring the best bare-bum scene this side of Magic Mike, Roofman follows Tatum (yes, it is his bum) 

as Jeffrey Manchester, the real-life fast-food bandit who slipped through roofs, hid in a toy store and somehow made people like him along the way.

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The Roses

The Roses

Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Olivia Colman

Certificate 15Closed-Caption

Life seems easy for a picture-perfect couple. But behind the façade of their supposed ideal marriage, a storm is brewing.

 Soon, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites in this wonderfully wry, dark comedy.

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The Smashing Machine

The Smashing Machine

Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Ryan Bader

Vera LovesCertificate 15Closed-Caption

If you ever wondered if The Rock could really, properly act, here’s your answer (spoiler: it’s yes) as Johnson becomes MMA 

legend Mark Kerr in Safdie’s bruising biopic, charting the punishing highs of the cage and the darker battles he fights outside it.

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Soul on Fire

Soul on Fire

Starring: Joel Courtney, John Corbett, Stephanie Szostak

Certificate 12Closed-CaptionAudio description

Based on a true story, this film is an emotional and faith-filled portrait of resilience as John not only battles to survive

but ultimately discovers what it means to truly live. From frontline workers to family members, and the support of the wider community, this film is a celebration of heroes.

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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues 

Starring: Michael McKean, Christopher Guest

Certificate 15

One of the biggest cult movies of all time gets a sequel here, with disaster-prone metal band Spinal Tap 

dragged back together for one last gig. The amps still go to eleven, egos are still fragile and the joke, unlike the band, never gets old.t,

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Splitsville

Splitsville

Starring: Adria Arjona, Dakota Johnson, O-T Fagbenle

Certificate 15

Described (pretty accurately, we’d have to say) as an ‘unromantic comedy’, Splitsville follows a divorcing couple 

trying to keep things civil while also juggling the, er, relationship of their friends. It was never going to end well...

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Tina

Tina

Starring: Anapela Polataivao, Antonia Robinson, Beulah Koale

Vera LovesCertificate 15

One of the most successful Kiwi films ever, this moving drama follows a Samoan-Kiwi

teacher rebuilding her life after the Christchurch quake, channelling grief into a school choir that bridges cultures and heals old wounds. A heartfelt story of community, loss and renewal.

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Weapons

Weapons

Starring: Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich

Certificate 18Closed-Caption

Here’s one of the reasons 2025 will go down as a vintage year for horror. Set after a bizarre night when 17 kids vanish

at the same time, Weapons is gory, scary and fun. But most of all, it’s startlingly original.

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Yadang, The Snitch

Yadang: The Snitch

Starring: Kang Ha-neul, Yoo Hai-jin, Park Hae-joon

Vera LovesCertificate 15

Action, comedy, crime – it’s all here in Yadang: The Snitch, which follows a broker-turned-informant, an ambitious prosecutor

and a driven narcotics cop as a drug investigation spins into chaos.

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Short films

 

A collection of brief yet powerful stories that capture the essence of life in moments. From raw emotion to unexpected twists, each film offers a unique perspective,  told in minutes, remembered for much longer.

Going Dutch

Going Dutch

Starring: Jack Copland, Yasmin Behar

Certificate 15

Visiting his grandparents in Holland after a messy breakup, a young Canadian meets an enigmatic Dutch woman

who lifts his spirits – until a startling revelation bursts his bubble.

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Gone

Gone

Starring: Suranne Jones, Daniel Betts, Robert Perkins

Certificate 15Closed-Caption

What happens when a relationship ends, but one half of the couple isn't ready to move on?
 

   

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Naked Lights

Naked Lights

Starring: Hannah Mamalis, Fionn Foley, Ashleigh Dorrell

Certificate 15Closed-Caption

Emma is stuck in a dead-end job as a night shift attendant at a petrol station. When a masked stranger arrives 

one night, threatening to burn the place to the ground, Emma is all that stands in his way.

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My Week With Maisy

My Week With Maisy

Starring: Joanna Lumley, Ellie-Mae Siame, MyAnna Buring

Certificate 15Closed-Caption

When uptight retiree Mrs Foster begins chemotherapy, she's thrown together in the treatment room with Maisy,

 a whirlwind, inquisitive child aspiring to be a lesbian. As treatment progresse,s the pair's fortuitous bond offers healing and newfound hope in unexpected places.

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Perfectly A Strangeness

Perfectly A Strangeness

Starring: Palomo, Ruperto, Palaye

 

In the dazzling incandescence of an unknown desert, three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory 

and the universe. A sensorial, cinematic exploration of what a story can be.

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Rhubarb, Rhubarb

Rhubarb Rhubarb

Starring: Joanna Scanlan, David Hargreaves

Certificate 15

In the legendary Yorkshire Rhubarb Triangle, Jo and her elderly father produce the pink delicacy that made the region

 world-famous a century ago. Harvesting by candlelight like their ancestors before them, they could not prepare for the danger looming in the dark.

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