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28 Days Later

Director: Danny Boyle

Runtime: 113 minutes

Overview: After a deadly virus escapes from a research facility, London becomes eerily empty and dangerously unpredictable. A small band of survivors tries to stay alive while the infection spreads fast through people and animals, forcing them to make hard choices about trust, safety, and what’s left of humanity.



Mission: Impossible

Director: Brian De Palma

Runtime: 111 minutes

Overview: After a covert mission collapses without warning, an elite agent finds himself blamed for the disaster and hunted from all sides. With trust in short supply, he goes on the run to uncover a hidden traitor inside the agency and stop sensitive intelligence from falling into the wrong hands.



The Notebook

Director: Nick Cassavetes

Runtime: 123 minutes

Overview: In a nursing home, an older man reads a love story from a worn notebook to a woman living with memory loss. The tale follows two young lovers kept apart by war and family pressures, then drawn back together years later after life has taken them in different directions.



Bugonia

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

Runtime: 119 minutes

Overview: Two conspiracy-obsessed young men abduct a powerful CEO, convinced she’s an alien with plans to destroy Earth. As they try to force answers out of her, the situation turns into a tense, darkly funny standoff that pokes at paranoia, power, and what people choose to believe.



F1

Director: Joseph Kosinski

Runtime: 156 minutes

Overview: A retired racing veteran returns to help a struggling Formula 1 team, taking on the pressure of elite competition while guiding a talented but inexperienced teammate. As the season heats up, the team must balance ambition, teamwork, and risk in pursuit of a long-awaited shot at glory.



Hamnet

Director: Chloé Zhao

Runtime: 126 minutes

Overview: In 16th-century England, a young couple builds a life between rural home and the pull of work in London. When illness and hardship strike their family, they’re forced to face grief in different ways, and creativity becomes a path toward meaning, memory, and connection.



Marty Supreme

Director: Josh Safdie

Runtime: 150 minutes

Overview: A driven young man chases an unlikely dream of greatness in competitive table tennis, pushing himself far beyond what anyone around him thinks is reasonable. As the pressure mounts, his ambition collides with money troubles, risky choices, and a whirlwind of conflicts that test how much he’s willing to sacrifice to get ahead.



One Battle After Another

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

Runtime: 162 minutes

Overview: A former radical lives off-grid with his tough, independent teenage daughter, trying to stay out of trouble and out of sight. When an old enemy resurfaces and she disappears, he’s forced back into a frantic search that drags up past choices and puts their bond to the test.



Sentimental Value

Director: N/A

Runtime: 133 minutes

Overview: Two sisters reconnect with their estranged father when he returns with plans for a personal comeback film and asks one of them to star. After she refuses, he casts a rising Hollywood actor instead, stirring old resentments and forcing the family to face unresolved grief, ambition, and the cost of turning real life into art.



Sinners

Director: Ryan Coogler

Runtime: 138 minutes

Overview: Two twin brothers return to their hometown hoping for a clean start and a new venture, but old tensions and fresh temptations quickly surface. As the night unfolds, their plans collide with a sinister supernatural presence that threatens the whole community.