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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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All of Us Strangers

Starring: Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell

Certificate 15Closed-CaptionVera Loves

A poignant story about love, family and the ghosts of our past. When Adam connects with a mysterious neighbour, 

it stirs up things he had long blocked out. Soon, he’s pulled back to his childhood home, where his parents appear to be living, 30 years after they died.

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Bob Marley: One Love

Starring: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Lashana Lynch, James Norton

Certificate 12 Closed-Caption

Featuring a standout turn from Ben-Adir in the title role, the latest big-screen biopic tells of the man who went from

 the humblest beginnings to global domination and never forgot his roots: Bob Marley.

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Drive-Away Dolls

Starring: Margaret Qualley, Beanie Feldstein,

Certificate 15Closed-CaptionAudio description

Normally a bolted-on duo with brother Joel, Ethan Coen flies solo for this uproarious adventure which still feels like a 

Coen Brothers’ movie. The plot involves two women who embark on a road trip – and cross paths with crims.

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Dune: Part Two

Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson

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If Dune: Part One felt like a foundation-laying exercise, it was time well spent, because any scene-setting 

(in short: future war over possession of a precious substance called Spice) pays off handsomely in this thrilling, immersive and visually stunning sequel.

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Eileen

Starring: Thomasin McKenzie, Anne Hathaway

Certificate 15

This slow-burning, critically overlooked thriller stars McKenzie as a woman whose life working at a prison is transformed 

by the arrival of a glamourous psychologist. Playing the latter (and playing against type) is Hathaway in one of her best performances in years.

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The First Omen

Starring: Nell Free, Ralph Ineson, Sonia Braga

Certificate 15

In this psychological horror prequel to the classic Omen films, a young American woman is sent to Rome

 to begin a life of service to the church. Soon, she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her faith, and that reveals a terrifying conspiracy to bring about the birth of evil incarnate.

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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Starring: Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard

Certificate 12 Vera Loves

The Spengler family returns to the iconic New York City firehouse. But when the discovery of an ancient artefact 

unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to save the world from a second Ice Age.

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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

Starring: Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Dan Stevens

Certificate 12

The fifth film in the Monsterverse franchise (yes, there’s a Monsterverse franchise) is the sequel to Godzilla vs Kong, 

except that this time Zilla and Kong are bezzie mates and working together to stop the powerful, frost-breathing Titan.

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Immaculate

Starring: Sydney Sweeney, Simona Tabasco, Alvaro Morte

Certificate 18 Audio description

Horror movie in which Sweeney – very much having a moment right now – is cast against type as a nun. We won’t spoil what happens

next, safe to say that she’s plunged into a nightmare when she joins a new convent, and that what follows is as creepy as it is gnarly.

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In the Land of Saints and Sinners

Starring: Liam Neeson, Kerry Condon, Ciaran Hinds

Certificate 15 Closed-Caption

Violent thriller set in an isolated Irish village, where Finbar’s life of violence catches up with him. Neeson’s on top badass form, 

but Game of Thrones fans will be more excited to know that it features a rare acting appearance from Jack ‘Joffrey’ Gleeson.

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Joika

Starring: Diane Kruger, Talia Ryder, Oleg Ivenko

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One of the few foreigners ever to break into Russia’s famed Bolshoi Ballet, Joy Womack is an inspiration to millions. 

As well as being a superb showcase for the talent of Ryder in the central role, this biopic is a portrait of her determination and dedication.

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The Kingdom

Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths

Starring: Matt Bomer, Jensen Ackles, Darren Criss

Certificate 15

Death is coming. Worse than death, oblivion. Not just for our Earth, but for everyone, everywhere in every universe! 

Against this ultimate destruction, the mysterious Monitor has gathered the greatest team of heroes ever assembled. But what can even the combined might of Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, the Flash, Green Lantern and hundreds of heroes from multiple Earths do to save all reality from an unstoppable antimatter Armageddon?!

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Kung Fu Panda 4

Starring: Jack Black, Awkwafina, Viola Davis

Certificate 12Closed-CaptionAudio description

Fourth instalment of the reliable animated series in which Po must find and train a new Dragon Warrior. 

At the same time, a wicked sorceress plans to summon all the master villains that Po has vanquished in the past.

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The Kingdom

La Chimera

Starring: Josh O'Connor, Carol Duarte, Isabella Rossellini

Certificate 12

Impressing awards judges everywhere it’s shown, adventure-romance La Chimera is a truly global co-production – 

and a real treat to boot. The story revolves around a young Brit (O’Connor) who while in Italy becomes

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Lights Out

Land of Bad

Starring: Milo Ventimiglia, Russell Crowe, Liam Hemsworth

Certificate 12Closed-CaptionVera Loves

It’s quite some twofer when you get Luke and Liam Hemsworth in the same action movie. Add Crowe as a drone pilot, 

who must help special forces operator Kinney (Liam) to safety when a job goes wrong, and you’re talking action-movie nirvana, in a can.

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Lights Out

The Last Rifleman

Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Clémence Poésy, John Amos

Certificate 12Closed-Caption

One of two films telling the same, rather wonderful story (the other is Michael Caine’s The Great Escaper) this has 

Brosnan as Artie, a WWII vet who breaks out of his care home to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. Heart-warming, and then some.

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Lights Out

Late Night with the Devil

Starring: David Dastmalchian, Laura Gordon, Ian Bliss

Certificate 12Closed-CaptionVera Loves

This buzzy horror is based around a 1970’s TV broadcast, brilliantly realised by directors Cameron and Colin Cairns.

When things go wrong on set, a terrible evil is unleashed into the nation’s living rooms.

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 The Long Game

Starring: Jay Hernandez, Dennis Quaid, Gillian Vigman

Certificate 15Closed-CaptionVera Loves

If you can imagine Field of Dreams except golf, you’ve got The Long Game. Based on a true story, it tells of five Mexican-American 

caddies who created their own golf course in order to learn the game. And that was just the beginning of their story…

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Love Lies Bleeding

Starring: Kristen Stewart, Dave Franco, Katy M. O'Brian

Certificate 15Closed-CaptionVera Loves

Stewart headlines this steamy thriller playing Lou, who falls in love with bodybuilder Jackie. 

Their love story takes a darker turn when Jackie finds herself drawn into the criminal web of Lou’s family.

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Madame Web

Starring: Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced

Certificate 12 

A paramedic with clairvoyant abilities is forced to confront revelations about her past. She forges a relationship

 with three young women destined for powerful futures...if they can all survive a deadly present.

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Mean Girls

Mothers' Instinct

Starring: Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway, Josh Charles

Certificate 15 

Two brilliant performances from Hathaway and Chastain anchor this psychological thriller about pals whose lives are shattered 

by an accident. In the wake of the tragedy, guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel.

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One Life

Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Helena Bonham Carter, Lena Olin

Certificate 12Closed-CaptionVera Loves

Just before WWII, Londoner Nicholas Winton helped rescue over 600 Jewish children at risk of being sent to Nazi camps. 

Cutting between past and present, and featuring standout performances from Hopkins and Flynn, this is Winton’s incredible, inspiring story.

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Ordinary Angels

Starring: Hilary Swank, Alan Ritchson, Emily Mitchell

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Sharon (Swank) moves mountains to help a total stranger (Ritchson) and his ill daughter.  The result is superb, 

affecting drama, with Swank as good as ever.

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Perfect Days

Starring: Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Yumi Aso

Certificate 15

Wim Wenders’ latest takes us to Tokyo for a portrait of Hirayama, who cleans public toilets and leads a life of simplicity

 and tranquility. It’s a movie with a slow, profound beauty that will creep upon you – maybe even days later.

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Red Right Hand

Starring: Orlando Bloom, Andie MacDowell, Garret Dillahunt

Certificate 15Closed-CaptionAudio description

MacDowell is great as the villainous and sadistic Big Cat in this hard-hitting crime thriller. Cash (Bloom) just wants a quiet life, 

but when Big Cat comes calling, he’s forced to protect his family using any means necessary.

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Rumble Through The Dark

Ricky Stanicky

Starring: Zac Efron, Jermaine Fowler, Andrew Santino

Certificate 15 Closed-CaptionAudio description

Comedy in the vein of The Hangover and Tag about a group of kids who invent an imaginary mate, 

Ricky Stanicky, to take the blame for their mischievous misdeeds. Years later, they’re still doing it as adults...

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Riddle of Fire

Starring: Lio Tipton, Charles Halford, Skyler Peters

Certificate 12

Three kids sent to deliver a blueberry pie go on an adventure, do battle with a witch and befriend a fairy.

This was a huge hit at Cannes, and you know why? It’s quirky, funny, refreshingly original and altogether brilliant.

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Road House

Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Daniela Melchior, Conor McGregor

Certificate 15 Closed-CaptionAudio descriptionVera Loves

This remake of the Patrick Swayze classic features a pumped-up Gyllenhaal as bouncer Dalton, who gets a job cracking heads 

at a lively Florida bar. Pretty soon he’s coming up against some very bad guys indeed.

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Role Play

Starring: Kayley Cuoco, David Oyelowo, Connie Nielsen

Certificate 12 Closed-Caption

Cuoco is her usual sparkling self in this comedy in which a couple, Emma and Dave, decide to spice up their marriage 

with a bit of role play. However, things take a turn when Dave discovers that Emma is in fact a secret assassin for hire.

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Rumble Through The Dark

The Three Musketeers: Milady

Starring: John F Beach, Emily Althaus, Martin Spanjers

Certificate 12 

Cassel and co are back, still swashbuckling and sword-playing in a second instalment of the tale which finds them joining forces

 with Milady (Green) in order to try to save Constance. En garde! (again).

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Upgraded

Starring: Camila Mendes, Archie Renaux, Marisa Tomei

Certificate 15 Closed-CaptionAudio description

The kind of rom-com you watch on Sunday afternoon when you’ve had too much vino the night before.

Upgraded finds Ana boosted to first class and meeting Will – who mistakes her for her boss. Romantic funniness ensues.

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Wicked Little Letters

Starring: Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Anjana Vasan

Certificate 15 Closed-CaptionVera Loves

If you don’t like profanity, move along, because this true-life comedy starring Colman and Buckley as Edith and Rose,

 is very sweary indeed. Both residents of a sleepy seaside town, when Edith begins to receive poison pen-letters, suspicion falls on Rose…

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Your Lucky Day

Starring: Angus Cloud, Jessica Garza, Elliot Knight

Certificate 15 Closed-Caption

The last movie made by actor Cloud before his untimely death last year, Your Lucky Day revolves around

a tense hostage situation triggered by a winning lottery ticket. With $156m up for grabs, the stakes rise and so does the body count.

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Short movies

For People In Trouble

Starring: Archie Madekwe, Emma D’Arcy

 

Jenny and Paul meet at a pub. Quickly, they fall in love. The beginnings of their relationship blossom against a world 

that's falling apart - Jenny becomes radicalised; Europe moves further to the Right; martial law is in place.

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Tondex 2000

 The Snip

Starring: Sunil Patel, Ciaran Dowd, Rebecca Shorrocks

Certificate 15

Determined to not have any more kids, a dim witted dad reluctantly goes for a vasectomy.

following the reunion of estranged brothers Turlough and Lorcan following the untimely death of their mother.

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Tondex 2000

They Grow Up So Fast

Starring: John F Beach, Emily Althaus, Martin Spanjers

 

Fast and frantic, this comedy follows Brian the morning after meeting Amy during a night out on the town. When he wakes up 

and things seem oddly more serious between them, he realizes that life is moving much faster than he anticipated.

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In Too Deep

Starring: Rachel Shenton, Stephen Wight, Sue Maund

 

Mourning the death of his young daughter, a grieving father goes to extreme measures, using A.I technology 

to relive their fondest memories. A story with an ominous warning to society.

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Dementia-friendly short films

This collection of dementia-friendly short films has been put together by the Women Over 50 Film Festival exclusively for Vera. The films have been reviewed by Carers UK, a UK charity making life better for carers.

Entitled

Starring: Abosede Ajao, Beau the horse

 

Filmmaker Adeyemi Michael pays homage to his mother, Abosede Ajao, who travelled from Nigeria to England more than 30 years ago. 

In this fantasy documentary he re-imagines her first immigrant experience. Wearing traditional Yoruba ceremonial attire, she rides majestically on horseback through the streets of Peckham in South London. Entitled is vibrant, joyful and colourful. 

 

People living with dementia may find this beautifully-crafted, slow-motion film calming to watch and listen to.

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Tondex 2000

The Honeys and Bears

Starring: Rasheedah Ali, Sheila Bligen

 

The Honeys and Bears is a synchronised swimming team for people 55 and older. In this feel-good documentary, we witness the freedom 

that comes from being in the water. These performers can do all kinds of things that they can’t do on land. As one member puts it, swimming with the team keeps her “92 years young.” The women move in formation to “The Nutcracker Suite” by Tchaikovsky. 

 

If you’re living with dementia, you may recognise and enjoy this music.

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Tondex 2000

Swim

Starring: Janina Ehrlich, Charles Schmidt

 

In this charming animation, an older woman longs to learn how to swim but when she dips her toe in the water, she awakens creatures

 deep in the ocean. Is she brave enough to take the plunge, or will she retreat to the safety of dry land? An enchanting film with no words is accompanied by “Music with No Words” by Mendelssohn. 

 

This jaunty classical soundtrack may be familiar to people living with dementia and might get some feet tapping.

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Eulogy for the Dandelion

Starring: Dandelion, Butterfly

 

A dandelion struggles to grow from a seed but doesn't hesitate to shelter and feed a caterpillar. The new butterfly doesn't forget this love 

and offers an act of support in return. The cycle of life is marked by small gestures until the circle is complete. 

 

This animation is filled with muted natural colours and a soothing soundtrack. If you live with dementia, you may find the sights and sounds of this gentle film comforting and soothing.

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Tondex 2000

Lay Me Low

Starring: Sandy Silva, Kimberly Robin

 

Lay Me Low brings people together in music and movement. Individual voices are woven together to make one song; steps are taken in rhythm 

to make one dance. This beautiful traditional Shaker lament is performed by dancers and singers. Each person expresses something different and together they create a sense of unity and belonging. 

 

If you’re living with dementia, the gentle, rhythmic music and sounds of Lay Me Low may appeal to you.

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Tondex 2000

Walks With Me

Starring: Ritva Kattelus, Elli Hirvikoski

 

80-year-old Sanna lives alone with her memories and houseplants. One day she looks out her window and sees something that reminds 

her of her friends. Reality and memories become intertwined as a playground game of “Statues” - or “Grandma's Footsteps” - leads Sanna on a journey from childhood to old age. 

 

People living with dementia may enjoy the “Statues” game in this film and it may spark childhood memories for some viewers.

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Haud Close Tae Me

Starring: Jill Ferguson, Mia Thompson

 

Two dancers unite across the generations. A connection is shared between younger and older selves in this dance film from Scottish Ballet. 

The dance is inspired by a specially-commissioned poem by one of Scotland's Makars (National Poets), Jackie Kay, and the poem is recited by Jackie in Scots-English. 

 

The dreamy atmosphere surrounding the dancers and the tender music of the score create a film that people living with dementia may find relaxing and restful.

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Tondex 2000

Old Mother Blackbird

Starring: Sophie Bancroft, Tom Lyne

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A blackbird and her family came to live in the garden of jazz singer and filmmaker Sophie Bancroft. The mother blackbird worked tirelessly to feed 

and protect her babies until they were ready to fly away. This love inspired Sophie to create Old Mother Blackbird, a film about a woman who watches over the comings and goings of a blackbird through the seasons. 

 

People living with dementia may be soothed by the gentle jazz vocals in this playful stop-motion animation.

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

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