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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.
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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.

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?.

A disparate group of characters are desperate to get their mitts on a ‘ghost shirt’ in this modern western
from poet-turned filmmaker Tost. Why? Best to watch and find out as Sweeney and McClarnon lead a tale of small-town dreams, greed and violent cultural reckoning.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Director Ari Aster swaps horror for political satire as an anti-mask sheriff (Phoenix) clashes with a cautious mayor (Pascal)
in pandemic-era New Mexico. What begins as a local feud spirals into paranoia, conspiracy and violence in a dark portrait of the US in meltdown.

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.

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.

Romantic drama set in 1970s Ireland, where Nicholas (O’Shea) falls for Isabel (Skelly), the headstrong daughter of a local family.
Their love is tested by class, religion, fate in a sweeping adaptation of Niall Williams’ novel.

When the most wanted man in America surfaces in a small Kentucky town, his violent history ―
and a bloodthirsty mob seeking vengeance and a king's ransom ― soon follow. As brothers face off against one another and bullets tear the town to shreds, this lightning-fast gunslinger makes his enemies pay the ultimate price for their greed. Academy Award® winner Nicolas Cage, Stephen Dorff, and Heather Graham star in this action-packed western thriller about true justice in the Wild West.

When a deadly secret resurfaces, five friends are stalked by a vengeful killer.

Johansson appears, adding another notch to her franchise belt. Here, she leads a mission into an abandoned dinosaur facility
and unleashes the old mix of corporate greed, hungry dinos and survival against impossible odds.

Very heartfelt – and featuring some truly nifty dancing – this Stephen King drama follows a man’s life told in reverse
order from an adulthood touched by love and regret, to a haunting childhood. Hiddleston, in particular, is outstanding.

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

What if your inner selves got a vote? Piero (Leo) and Lara (Fogliati) try a first date, but inside their minds, the chaos is another story
– love-struck, anxious, hopeful, disillusioned. Genovese delivers a romcom that’s tender, funny and oddly profound.

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.

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...

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

Liam Neeson as you’ve never seen him before – stepping into Leslie Nielsen’s shoes for a revival of the cop spoof,
and Anderson a sparkling comic foil. The result is a cracking comedy that leans hard on slapstick, sight gags and shameless silliness.

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.

When their getaway goes awry, Iris goes to irrational lengths to prove to Isaac they are soulmates.

Murphy and Davidson team up in a chaotic heist comedy as two mismatched truck drivers are ambushed
by Zoe (Palmer), who’s after more than money. What follows is a chase that’s wild, messy and great fun.

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.


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.

Festive fun here, with Johnson and Evans teaming up for an action-adventure in which they must rescue
a kidnapped Santa. Liu joins the chaos as the North Pole becomes a battleground of gadgets, globe-trotting missions and seasonal spectacle.

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.

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.

Egerton shines in this gritty yet tender crime drama, playing a career crook forced to flee with his young daughter (Heger)
after a gang puts a price on their heads. Featuring a breakout turn from Heger, it’s a bruising road movie with real heart.

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,

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...

Egerton shines in this gritty yet tender crime drama, playing a career crook forced to flee with his young daughter (Heger)
after a gang puts a price on their heads. Featuring a breakout turn from Heger, it’s a bruising road movie with real heart.

This month’s ‘horror movie of the year’, Together, locks Franco and Brie in a romance that mutates into full-blown
body horror, as the couple’s bodies begin to fuse in grotesque, intimate ways. Brie, especially, is superb in a daring, disturbing tale.p

Haywood stars in this adaptation of the director’s own memoir, tracing his 500-mile pilgrimage across Spain’s
Camino de Santiago. With humour, humility and heart, it captures the pain, joy and quiet revelations of a road that changes lives.

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.

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.,
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.

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.

What happens when a relationship ends, but one half of the couple isn't ready to move on?
When a spirited eight-year-old lands the part of Innkeeper in the school nativity play, she battles her perfectionist
teacher who insists that she "stick to the script" and refuses Mary and Joseph a room.

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.

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.
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.

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.