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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, and festival favourites. 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 movies 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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Americanish

Americanish

Starring: Aizzah Fatima, Salena Qureshi, Shenaz Treasury

Certificate 12 Vera Loves

Americanish invites viewers into the lives of three women as they navigate the often turbulent 

waters of romance, culture, career, and family. We follow the joys and tribulations of career-driven sisters Maryam, Sam Khan, and their cousin Ameera.

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Back on The Strip

Back on The Strip

Starring: Kevin Hart, Colleen Camp, Wesley Snipe

Certificate 15Closed-Caption

Comedy about Merlin, who with a name like that could only be a magician, right? Moving to Las Vegas,

he finds himself mixed up with one-legged Luther (Wesley Snipes) and the black male stripper group The Chocolate Chips. Can Merlin work his magic and save The Chocolate Chips?

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Barbie

Barbie

Starring: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera

Certificate 12 Closed-CaptionAudio descriptionVera Loves

Even those bored of the hype had to admit – Barbie is a delight. With a plot that involves Barbie (Robbie) questioning her

place in the world, and Ken (Gosling) following suit, the result is colourful and funny, and frankly you’d need a heart of stone not to love it. 

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Blue Beetle

Blue Beetle

Starring: Xolo Maridueña, Adriana Barraza, Susan Sarandon

Certificate 12 Closed-CaptionAudio descriptionVera Loves

Family friendly superhero movie about Jaime who unexpectedly finds himself in possession of an ancient relic

 of alien biotechnology: the Scarab. What effect will that scarab have on Jaime? The clue is in the words ‘superhero movie’. 

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Brother

Brother

Starring: Lamar Johnson, Aaron Pierre, Marsha Stephanie Blake

Certificate 15Vera LovesClosed-Caption

This award-winning Canadian drama centres on brothers Francis and Michael,

who are involved in the early hip-hop scene in Toronto. As the heat of the summer intensifies, the brothers find their lives are changing, and what emerges is riveting, vital drama.

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A Christmas Story Christmas

A Christmas Story Christmas

Starring:Peter Billingsley, Erinn Hayes, Julianna Layne

Closed-Caption

Christmas comedy following on from 1983’s classic A Christmas Story which picks up with that film’s

protagonist Ralphie Parker. Ralphie now has a family of his own and seeks to pull off a magical Christmas as they return to his childhood home in Indiana.

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Dead Shot

Dead Shot

Starring: Felicity Jones, Aml Ameen, Colin Morgan

Certificate 15Closed-Caption

You can tell that Dead Shot’s a gritty, British thriller set in the 1970s. How? Everything’s beige. Don’t go

mistaking it for boring, though. As an ex-IRA man goes on the run determined to avenge his wife, the double-crossings ratchet up along with the tension. 

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The Dive

The Dive

Starring: Sophie Lowe, Louisa Krause

Certificate 15

If you’re a fan of nail-biting movies whose plot revolves round characters stuck in seemingly inescapable

 situations (Open Water, Frozen, The Shallows, Fall) you’re going to love this. Two diving-mad sisters, one of whom gets stuck 23 metre below. Can her sibling save her? 

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The Equalizer 3

The Equalizer 3

Starring: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Sonia Ammar

Certificate 15 Closed-Caption Audio description

Ex-government agent Robert McCall (Washington) is supremely organised and fastidious. It’s all in

the way he organises his cutlery. Fortunately, the thing he’s most finnicky about is dealing death to bad guys – something he does lots in this final part of the trilogy. 

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Gran Turismo

Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story

Starring: Archie Madekwe, Orlando Bloom, David Harbour

Certificate 12Vera Loves Closed-Caption

Geraldine Estelle Halliwell-Horner, better known as Ginger Spice, is just one of the many reasons to

 see this adrenalin-fuelled, turbo-charged race drama telling the true story of Jann Mardenborough, a teen Gran Turismo player who became a professional racer.

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Haunted Mansion

Haunted Mansion
Starring: Lakeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson

Certificate 12

Inspired by the classic theme park attraction, “Haunted Mansion” features  an all-star cast, and tells the story

of a woman (Rosario Dawson) and her son who enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters.

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A Haunting in Venice

A Hanting in Venice

Starring: Kyle Allen, Kenneth Branagh, Camile Cottin

Certificate 12Vera Loves

Kenneth Branagh stars as celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot in this terrifying mystery set after World War II.

Retired and living in Venice, Italy, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance where a murdered guest thrusts the detective into a sinister, shadowy world.

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Jules

Jules

Starring: Ben Kingsley, Zoe Winters, Harriet Sansom Harris

Certificate 12

The brilliant Ben Kingsley takes centre stage in this sci-fi comedy playing Milton, whose quiet

 life is disturbed when an alien crash-lands in his backyard. Milton and ‘Jules’ become friends – but their bond is threatened when word gets out about the spacey visitor.

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Honor Society

Kandahar

Starring: Gerard Butler, Navid Negahban, Ali Fazal

Certificate 15

This thriller starring Butler as a CIA man pursued by elite teams of mercenaries, is a proper, thrill-ride

from start to finish. No surprise as it’s directed by ex-stuntman Ric Roman Waugh who, as the action moves to the titular Kandahar, turns the adrenaline levels up to 11.

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Meg 2: The Trench

Meg 2: The Trench

Starring: Jason Statham, Wu Jing, Sophia Kai, Page Kennedy

Certificate 12Audio description

Cult director Ben Wheatley was the surprise choice for this sequel in which Statham once again goes toe-to-toe

(or should that be toe-to-fin?) with a big prehistoric shark, a megalodon. Correction: this time it’s not just one megalodon. There’s a whole bunch of them.

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Mission Impossible

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One

Starring: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames

Certificate 12 Vera LovesClosed-CaptionAudio description

Although a new Mission: Impossible movie means a new plot (something to do with AI) it’s basically just an

excuse to watch Tom Cruise run around and perform some of the most death-defying stunts ever committed to film. See that bar? It just got raised. 

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Past Lives

Past Lives

Starring: Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro

Certificate 12 Vera LovesClosed-Caption

Acclaimed romance following Nora and Hae Sung, whose childhood friendship is torn asunder when Nora’s family

 emigrates from South Korea to Toronto. Twenty years later, the two meet in New York – and have a week in which to mend their broken hearts.

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Sanctuary

Sanctuary

Starring:Margaret Qualley, Christopher Abbott

Certificate 18Closed-Caption

Margaret ‘daughter of Andie MacDowell’ Qualley has consistently delivered excellent performances, but this

may be her best. She plays a dominatrix whose wealthy client, Hal, wants to end the arrangement, only for things go awry. How? You’ll just have to watch and see. 

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Scrapper

Scrapper

Starring: Harris Dickinson, Lola Campbell, Alin Uzun

Certificate 12 Vera LovesClosed-Caption

Twelve-year-old Georgie lives alone in her London flat. Eminently capable, her life is steady

– until her estranged dad, who she’s never met, turns up to stay. Their rocky bonding process is at the heart of a superb, heart-warming drama that’s had the critics in raptures.

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Shortcomings

Shortcomings

Starring: Justin H. Min, Sherry Cola, Ally Maki

Certificate 15Vera Loves

Ben, a struggling filmmaker, lives in Berkeley, California, with his girlfriend, Miko, who works for a

local Asian American film festival. When he's not managing an arthouse movie theatre as his day job, Ben obsesses over unavailable blonde women.

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Sound of Freedom

Sound of Freedom

Starring:Jim Caviezel, Mira Sorvino, Bill Camp

Certificate 15 Vera Loves

Based on a true story, the brilliant Sound of Freedom finds stars Caviezel in what was a labour of

love playing Tim Ballard, a federal agent who finds his heartstrings tugged by the plight of trafficked kids and decides to do something about it. Stirring stuff.

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Strays

Strays

Starring: Will Ferrell, Jamie Foxx, Isla Fisher, Randall Park

Certificate 15Audio description

Truly, you will believe a dog can talk when you see this frankly hilarious comedy. Featuring sterling voicework

from the likes of Jamie Foxx and Will Ferrell, it revolves around abandoned pooch Reggie, who teams up with fellow strays to get revenge on negligent owners. 

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Theater Camp

Theater Camp

Starring: Ben Platt, Molly Gordon, Noah Galvin

Certificate 12Vera Loves

In this original comedy, two best friends are drama instructors at a crumbling theater camp. 

When a clueless tech-bro arrives to run the property — into the ground — the staff and young students unite for the ultimate show to save their beloved camp.

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The Wrath of Becky

The Wrath of Becky

Starring: Lulu Wilson, Seann William Scott, Denise Burse

Certificate 18

It doesn’t matter if you didn’t see Becky, this sequel stands on it own, as the eponymous hero (Wilson)

once again goes up against a group of blokes who want her dead. They have the brawn, but Becky has the brains, and the stage is set for a very funny, very gory showdown.

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