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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.

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Anatomy of a Fall

Anatomy of a Fall

Starring: Justine Triet, Arthur Harari

Certificate pg

Snaffling awards everywhere it gets screened, Anatomy of a Fall takes a man’s mysterious death (by falling, obvs)

as a springboard for a scintillating courtroom drama, as his wife, a novelist, desperately tries to prove her innocence.

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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Starring: Max Pelayo, Reese Gonzales, Eva Longoria

Certificate 12Vera Loves

Based on a best-selling novel, this coming-of-age tale finds the titular pair bonding

over issues of racial and ethnic identity, sexuality, and family relationships. This being 1987, that’s a challenging roster of problems.

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Bernadette

Bernadette

Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Denis Podalydès

Certificate 12

Deneuve delivers a brilliant late-career performance in this biopic of Bernadette Chirac, the French 

politician and widow of former president Jacques. Unexpectedly, the result is as warm and funny as it is well-performed.

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The Burial

The Burial

Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Jamie Foxx, Jurnee Smollett

Certificate 15Closed-CaptionAudio descriptionVera Loves

You love a true-life legal drama, right? Of course you do. Here’s one with Jones as the owner of a small 

funeral home who takes up the cudgels against big business. Is hiring flashy lawyer Willie (Foxx) a good idea, or a bad one?

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The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Clarke, Jake Lacy

Certificate 12 Closed-CaptionAudio description

William Friedkin’s final film is an adaptation of Herman Wouk’s Caine story detailing a US naval officer’s battle to prove 

that his mutinous actions were justified. Much courtroom shouting ensues, with the award for Best Bellowing going to [opens envelope] Kiefer Sutherland!

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Cassandro

Cassandro

Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Roberta Colindrez

Certificate 15Closed-CaptionAudio description

Biopic of Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso who rose to international stardom as Cassandro, 

aka the ‘Liberace of Lucha Libre’. In doing so, he transformed the macho wrestling worlds as well as changing his own life.

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Cat Person

Cat Person

Starring: Emilia Jones, Nicholas Braun

Certificate 15Closed-Caption

Based on a viral story emblematic of the #MeToo movement, this psychological drama stars Jones as Margot,

who after flirting with Robert on text, agrees to go on a date with him. However, Robert in the flesh is a much less attractive proposition…

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The Creator

The Creator

Starring: John David Washington, Gemma Chan

Certificate 15 Closed-Caption

Amidst a future war between humans and AI, an ex-special forces agent (John David Washington) grieving

the disappearance of his wife (Gemma Chan) is recruited to kill an AI architect who has developed a mysterious weapon that could end humankind, in this epic sci-fi action thriller.

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Dream Scenario

Dream Scenario

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Michael Cera, Julianne Nicholson

Certificate 15Closed-CaptionVera Loves

Every now and then comes a brilliant Nic Cage movie, and this is just such a beast. He plays Paul, who begins

appearing in other people’s dreams and gains a certain notoriety. To say he finds his newfound fame difficult to navigate is putting it mildly.

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The End We Start From

The End We Start From

Starring: Jodie Comer, Joel Fry, Benedict Cumberbatch

Certificate 15Vera Loves

The wonderful Comer totally nails this thriller playing a woman who must lead herself and her new born to safety

when London is submerged in floodwater. It’s as gripping and compelling as it is prescient.

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Ferrari

Ferrari

Starring: John David Washington, Gemma Chan

Certificate 15 Closed-CaptionAudio descriptionVera Loves

Boasting an amazing cast and first-rate director in Michael Mann, this biopic of Italian car bloke Enzo Ferrari

can hardly fail, and it doesn’t. Driver (apt!) perfectly channels the various up and downs of Enzo, while Cruz as his long-suffering missus is equally impressive.

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Five Nights at Freddy's

Five Nights at Freddy's

Starring: Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail

Certificate 15 Closed-Caption Audio description

Based on a videogame and starring the brilliant Lillard, this horror-comedy finds the new night security

 guard at an abandoned theme restaurant Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria discovering that nothing is quite what it seems.

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Freelance

Freelance

Starring: Alison Brie, John Cena, Alice Eve

Certificate 12 Closed-Caption Audio description

A treat for the eyeballs, a rest for the brain, this action-comedy stars John Cena as ex-special forces 

operative Mason Pettis. Tasked with providing security for a journalist (Brie) on an overseas trip, all is going well until the pair are ambushed…

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Fremont

Fremont

Starring: Anaita Wali Zada, Gregg Turkington

Certificate 12 Closed-CaptionVera Loves

This wonderfully artsy black-and-white character study centres on Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee who 

suffers from survival guilt and earns a crust writing fortunes for a cookie factory. For Donya, maybe love can save the day.

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Hunger Games, The: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

Starring: Rachel Zegler, Hunter Schafer, Peter Dinklage

Certificate 15 Closed-CaptionVera Loves

Although this prequel, set 64 years before the events of the original trilogy,

lacks Jennifer Lawrence, star wattage comes the form of Davis and Dinklage. A plot details the events that lead a young Coriolanus Snow on the path to becoming the tyrannical leader of Panem.

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Influencer

Influencer

Starring: Emily Tennant, Rory J Saper, Cassandra Naud

Certificate 15 

Madison is an ‘influencer’, which means she posts ‘stuff’ to social media to gain likes. While on an exotic 

holiday she meets CW, a mysterious, more-switched-on traveller who promises to show her around. What happens next? Exciting and bad stuff, that’s what.

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The Kill Room

The Kill Room

Starring: Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Joe Manganiello

Certificate 15 Closed-Caption

Fun, violent and star-studded comedy-thriller in which an assassin is accidentally turned into an overnight 

avant-garde sensation, while a gallery owner (Thurman) is forced to play the art world against the underworld.

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Killers of the Flower Moon still

Killers of the Flower Moon

Starring: Lily Gladstone, Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons

Certificate 15 Closed-Caption Audio descriptionVera Loves

Once again, director Scorsese has teamed up with Di Caprio for an historical epic, this one set in 1920’s Oklahoma,

where the FBI must investigate the murders of Osage people after an oil discovery.

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The Kingdom

The Kingdom: Flame of Destiny

Starring: Kento Yamazaki, Kanna Hashimoto

Certificate 12

Set in China, during the Warring States Period. The powerful neighboring country of Zhao suddenly attacks Qin.

Shin, who dreamed of becoming a great general, fights against Zhao.

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Lights Out

Lights Out

Starring: Frank Grillo, Scott Adkins, Dermot Mulroney

Certificate 15

Bullets fly and so do fists in this ultra-violent action thriller in which a homeless veteran turns underground

fighter and as a result gets mixed up in a world of crime. The deeper he gets, the greater the stakes.

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The Marsh King's Daughter

The Marsh King's Daughter

Starring: Daisy Ridley, Ben Mendelsohn, Garrett Hedlund

Certificate 12 Closed-Caption

Ridley turns in a scintillating performance as the ass-kicking offspring of the title, forced to dig deep and

 find the strength to confront the most psychopathic and dangerous man she’s ever met. And who is that - you ask? Clue is in the title.

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The Marvels

The Marvels

Starring: Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani

Certificate 12 

Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree.

When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole, her powers are entangled with super-fan Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, and Carol’s estranged niece, astronaut Captain Monica Rambeau. Together, this unlikely trio must team up and work together to save the universe.

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Next Goal Wins

Next Goal Wins

Starring: Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, Kaimana

Certificate 15

Based on a true story, this heartfelt, underdog comedy follows the American Samoa soccer team,

infamous for their brutal 31-0 FIFA loss in 2001. With the World Cup qualifiers fast approaching, the team hires down-on-his-luck, maverick coach Thomas Rongen (Michael Fassbender), hoping he will turn the world’s worst soccer team into winners.

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The Old Oak

The Old Oak

Starring: Dave Turner, Andy Dawson, Debbie Honeywood

Certificate 12 Vera LovesClosed-Caption

Ken Loach’s latest (and maybe his final – we’ll see) is a typically topical and hard-hitting tale of a struggling pub

 landlord who in a previously thriving mining community struggles to hold onto his pub. Meanwhile, tensions rise in the town when Syrian refugees are placed in the empty houses in the community.

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Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

Starring: Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Emily Blunt

Certificate 15 Closed-Caption Audio descriptionVera Loves

You’ve probably heard of this one. It’s the visually stunning and epic biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Murphy),

the American theoretical physicist credited with being the father of the atomic bomb’. And it’s every bit as good as the hype suggests.

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Priscilla

Priscilla

Starring: Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Dagmara Dominczyk

Certificate 15 Closed-Caption Audio descriptionVera Loves

With Sofia Coppola calling the shots as director, you’d hope this biopic of Priscilla Presley might be something

a bit special. Featuring a star-making turn by Spaeny as PP, and a magnetic performance from Elordi as Elvis, your hopes will be amply rewarded.

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Reality

Reality

Starring: Sydney Sweeney, Josh Hamilton, Marchánt Davis

Certificate 12 Vera Loves

Fresh from appearing in the last Rolling Stones video, Sweeney flexes her acting muscles in this biopic of a 

US whistle-blower who goes by the unlikely name of Reality Winner. It’s a compelling watch and Sweeney is superb.

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Rumble Through The Dark

Rumble Through the Dark

Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Bella Thorne, Ritchie Coster

Certificate 15 Closed-Caption

Eckhart turns in an incendiary performance in this brutal fight flick set in the Mississippi Delta,

playing a bare-knuckle cage scrapper who must step into the cage in order to repay his debts. In a word: ‘bone-crunching’. In two: ‘bone’ and ‘crunching’.

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She Came To Me

She Came to Me

Starring: Anne Hathaway, Peter Dinklage, Nicole Kidman

Certificate 15 Closed-Caption

A wonderful cast are at their best in this funny, gentle and well-wrought tale of a composer (Dinklage) 

who takes the advice of his wife (Hathaway) and goes for a walk hoping to find inspiration. Instead, he finds the free-spirited and very alluring Marisa Tomei...

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Silent Night

Silent Night

Starring: Joel Kinnaman, Kid Cudi, Catalina Sandino Moreno

Certificate 15 Closed-CaptionVera Loves

Action legend John Woo returns to direct this emotionally charged thriller about an electrician out to avenge the

death of his young son. However, as he takes on the gangsters responsible, he becomes more distant and withdrawn from his wife.

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Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving

Starring: Patrick Dempsey, Ty Olsson, Gina Gershon

Certificate 18

After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts

– the birthplace of the holiday. Picking off residents one by one, what begins as random revenge killings are soon revealed to be part of a larger, sinister holiday plan.

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What Happens Later

What Happens Later

Starring: Meg Ryan, David Duchovny, Hal Liggett

Certificate 15

When ex-lovers Willa (Ryan) and Bill (Duchovny), who last connected over 10 years ago,

find themselves stranded in an airport overnight, they’re reminded what annoyed them about each other – but also, of course, what attracted them.

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Wonka

Wonka

Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Hugh Grant

Certificate 15Vera Loves

This addition to the Roald Dahl world of Willy Wonka is as sweet as his merchandise – and just as likely to rot your teeth.

Chalamet is scrumptious in the lead. But let’s face it, you’re here to see Hugh Grant play an oompa loompa.

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Short movies

Bean Feasa

Bean Feasa (Wise Woman)

Starring: Máirín de Buitléir, Bernie Ní Dhuibhir

Certificate 15

Inspired by the old folktales of Donegal this gripping Irish language supernatural thriller is set in the remote

wilds of Ireland. The sceptical daughter of a traditional healer has her certainties challenged when she encounters one of 'the Good People' herself during the unorthodox healing of a young boy believed stolen by the fairies.

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Cat Got Your Tongue

Cat Got Your Tongue

Starring: Georgina Hellier, David Sterne, Sid Sagar

Certificate 15 

Hopeless romantic Hazel has an obsession and goes to extreme lengths trying to find love in the shape of 

a man she shared a one-night stand with. But nothing goes to plan as she gets side-tracked into reluctantly helping her elderly neighbour Brian with an unusual and grizzly request.

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Everybody Dies Sometimes

Everybody Dies ... Sometimes

Starring: Tanya Reynolds, Mathew Horne, Sparrow Michell

Certificate 15

A deliciously dark comedy about life and death. Mara  believes she is responsible for the deaths of 

everyone she gets close to.

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Gene

Gene

 

Certificate 15

Even Rock Gods have to do their own laundry. A wry look at a day in the life of one of rocks biggest icons as he tackles 

everyday tasks.

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Harold and Mary

Harold & Mary

Starring: Dermot Crowley, Phyllis Logan, Maddie Rice

Certificate 15

After 50 years of marriage cracks begin to form as the dark shadow of dementia falls over Harold and Mary.

 This true story follows the challenges the disease forces the once loving couple to face as it tests their love, patience and perseverance.

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Tondex 2000

Extraña forma de vida (Strange Way of Life)

Starring: Pedro Pascal, Ethan Hawke

Certificate 15 Vera Loves

A man rides a horse across the desert that separates him from Bitter Creek. 

He comes to visit Sheriff Jake. Twenty-five years earlier, both the sheriff and Silva, the rancher who rides out to meet him, worked together as hired gunmen. Silva visits him with the excuse of reuniting with his friend from his youth, and they do indeed celebrate their meeting, but the next morning Sheriff Jake tells him that the reason for his trip is not to go down the memory lane of their old friendship ...

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Tondex 2000

Tondex 2000

Starring: Yann Bean, Emilie Caen

Certificate 15 Vera Loves

Sylvain, an Afghan war veteran lives off grid and a life of petty crime. When he crosses paths with Nathalie, a mother 

and CEO struggling to keep her lawnmower company afloat both their lives take an unexpected turn. Superb award winning dark romantic French comedy. Craghoppers Film Prize winner 2023.

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