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Tom Cruise plays the most powerful man in the world, who embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s savior before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything.
Tom Cruise, Jesse Plemons, Sandra Hüller, Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Sabina Berman, Emma D'Arcy, Burn Gorman, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Alexander Dinelaris, Robert John Burke, Nicolás Giacobone., Michael Stuhlbarg, Sophie Wilde
Location: UK - Unknown
Post-Production Comedy Dark Comedy
Where to Watch:
In Theaters In Theaters
When his ultra-wealthy neighbor in the Hamptons builds an obnoxious mega-mansion next door, grumpy retired novelist Harry March concocts an elaborate scheme for revenge that is destined to go hilariously awry.
Release Date:
December 2, 2022
Where to Watch:
Limited • VOD / Digital Limited
VOD / Digital
The film is set in 1973 Chile and follows two CIA agents who face a trust-testing journey from Santiago to Easter Island.
Sam Rockwell, Ailín Salas, Steve Buscemi, John Malkovich, Pete Czernin, Martin McDonagh, Anita Overland, Parker Posey, Graham Broadbent, Tom Waits, Mariana Di Girolamo
Release Date:
November 6, 2026
Where to Watch:
In Theaters In Theaters
An "expendable" person is sent on the most dangerous, even suicidal jobs. When an expendable dies, a new body is regenerated with most of the memories intact. Essentially, Mickey7 is the seventh iteration of an expendable who is undergoing an existential identity crisis while trying to keep his successor's regeneration a secret and negotiating with the planet's native species on a dangerous trip to colonize a new ice world.
Where to Watch:
In Theaters In Theaters
When a mutating, highly contagious fungus escapes a sealed facility, two young employees – joined by a grizzled bioterror operative – must survive the wildest night shift ever to save humanity from extinction.
Release Date:
February 13, 2026
Where to Watch:
Limited • VOD / Digital Limited
VOD / Digital
Outcome is a dark comedy that centers on Reef Hawk (Reeves), a beloved Hollywood star who must dive into the depths of his hidden demons after he is extorted with a mysterious video that’s sure to shatter his image and end his career. With the support of his lifelong besties, Kyle (Diaz) and Xander (Bomer), along with his crisis lawyer, Ira (Hill), Reef embarks on a soul-searching journey to make amends with anyone he could have possibly wronged in hopes of identifying the blackmailer. Co-writer and director Hill brings a unique lens to Reef’s wild but spiritually cleansing, nostalgic and eye-opening trip down memory lane, where confronting his past might be the only way to rescue his future.
Jonah Hill, Martin Scorsese, Keanu Reeves, David Spade, Matt Bomer, Kaia Gerber, Cameron Diaz, Laverne Cox, Roy Wood Jr., Ezra Woods, Ivy Wolk, Susan Lucci, Atsuko Okatsuka
Completed Dark Comedy Thriller
Where to Watch:
Apple TV Apple TV
Ben Manalowitz (B.J. Novak) is an aspiring New York podcaster in search of a story. When the body of a woman he’d been hooking up with is discovered in a West Texas oil field, he stumbles onto exactly the sort of true-crime tale that could make his career. Launching an investigation into her death in collaboration with high-powered producer Eloise (Issa Rae), the confident Ben finds himself in over his head attempting to navigate a wildly unfamiliar culture. As he grows unexpectedly close to the young woman’s eccentric family and encounters figures like the enigmatic music producer Quentin Sellers (Ashton Kutcher), he’s forced to confront his own shortcomings and preconceptions. At the same time, he’s drawn into an ill-considered plot to avenge the crime.
Jason Blum, Ashton Kutcher, Boyd Holbrook, Sarah Minnich, Dove Cameron, Isabella Amara, B.J. Novak, Analeigh Tipton, Issa Rae, Chris Warner, Leigh Kilton-Smith
Location: US - New Mexico
Where to Watch:
In Theaters In Theaters
A young convict (Efron) gets out of prison and takes an unscripted TV courtroom hostage amid the judge (Ferrell) delivering a ruling that will destroy his life.
Regina Hall, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Will Ferrell, Zac Efron, Fortune Feimster, Jessica Elbaum, Heidi Gardner, Bobby Cannavale, Bill Camp, Nicholas Stoller, Jimmy Tatro, Rory Scovel, Andrew Lopez, Alex Brown, Colton Dunn, Billy Eichner, Hayley Magnus, Rachel Hilson, Tyler Lofton, Bobby Ray
Post-Production Comedy Dark Comedy
Juggling some angry Russians, the British Mi5, his impossibly leggy wife and an international terrorist, debonair art dealer and part time rogue Charlie Mortdecai (Johnny Depp) must traverse the globe armed only with his good looks and special charm in a race to recover a stolen painting rumored to contain the code to a lost bank account filled with Nazi gold.
Release Date:
January 23, 2015
Where to Watch:
In Theaters In Theaters
In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.
Emma Stone, Joaquin Phoenix, Austin Butler, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, Ari Aster, Micheal Ward, Clifton Collins Jr., Deirdre O’Connell, William Belleau, Amélie Hoeferle
Where to Watch:
In Theaters In Theaters
The chandelier-shattering legacy of Barbara and Oliver Rose is passed down to their children. Josh marries Victoria, only to see the marriage fall apart over an incident involving missing Milky Way bars; and Evie is a promiscuous over-eater carrying her own shrapnel. The result is deceit, violence and destruction.
Benedict Cumberbatch, Jonathan R. Adler, Jay Roach, Andy Samberg, Olivia Colman, Zoë Chao, Kate McKinnon, Adam Ackland, Ncuti Gatwa, Jamie Demetriou, Michael Adler, Tony McNamara, Leah Clarke, Sunita Mani
Completed Adaptation Based on Book
Where to Watch:
In Theaters In Theaters
Follows a middle-aged man Man-su, who embarks on a determined job hunt after being unexpectedly fired from the paper company that he worked for 25 years and eventually comes to a desperate decision.
Son Ye-jin, Park Chan-wook, Yeom Hye-ran, Don McKellar, Lee Byung-hun, Lee Sung-min, Lee Kyoung-mi, Jahye Lee, Cha Seung-won, Lee Byung Hun, Park Hee-soon
Where to Watch:
Expansion • Hulu • Limited Expansion
Hulu
Limited
Paige's father has stepped up and become a more responsible parent following the death of her mother. So when a group of criminals show up at their door demanding that Paige's father join them for one last job, she's faced with a decision: let her newly reformed father dip back into his criminal ways, or enlist her three 12-year-old best friends to do the job first.
Where to Watch:
In Theaters In Theaters
When they aren’t selling out stadiums, K-pop superstars Rumi, Mira, and Zoey use their secret identities as badass demon hunters to protect their fans from an ever-present supernatural threat. Together, they must face their biggest enemy yet — an irresistible rival boy band of demons in disguise.
Ahn Hyo-seop, Arden Cho, Ji-young Yoo, Michelle Wong, Maggie Kang, Ken Jeong, Danya Jimenez, Liza Koshy, May Hong, Daniel Dae Kim, Chris Appelhans, Joel Kim Booster, Yunjin Kim, Byung Hun Lee, Hannah McMechan
Where to Watch:
Netflix Netflix
A happily married couple (Joel McHale and Kerry Bishé) discover their friends are resentful of their lustful relationship. When a visit from a mysterious stranger leads to a dead body, they begin to question the loyalty of their so-called friends.
Jack Black, Shannon Marie Woodward, Charlyne Yi, Kerry Bishe, Joel McHale, BenDavid Grabinski, Al Madrigal, Brea Grant, Natalie Morales, Breckin Meyer, Natalie Zea, Nancy Leopardi, Paul Scheer, Jon Daly, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Spencer Berman, Ross Kohn
Where to Watch:
Limited • VOD / Digital Limited
VOD / Digital
Searching for a break from her cosmopolitan life in Milwaukee, Julia Rabia (Lily Rabe), arrives in the close knit Reagan-era town of Owl, North Dakota for a one-semester high school teaching job. But when the small town turns out to be a wonderland of second-string poets, smoldering Marlboro Men, and a social hierarchy that echoes high school, Julia doesn’t know if she’s come to town to get away from home or to find it.
Location: US - Minnesota
Completed Adaptation Dark Comedy
Where to Watch:
VOD / Digital VOD / Digital
A washed-up musician teams up with a teacher and a kids' show personality to protect young children from a sudden outbreak of zombies.
Where to Watch:
Limited • VOD / Digital Limited
VOD / Digital
With his marriage on the rocks, Kevin (Jason Biggs) whisks his wife Suzie (Meaghan Rath) away on a romantic getaway with a wildly misguided plan: fake a break-in and play the hero. But when things spiral and someone turns up dead, Kevin finds himself at the center of a murder investigation, with lies piling up faster than the alibis.
Release Date:
January 27, 2026
Where to Watch:
VOD / Digital VOD / Digital
Nicole Kidman plays the meticulous Nancy Vandergroot, a teacher and homemaker whose picture-perfect life with her community pillar husband (Matthew Macfadyen) and son (Jude Hill) in tulip-filled Holland, Michigan tumbles into a twisted tale. Nancy and her friendly colleague (Gael García Bernal) become suspicious of a secret, only to discover nothing in their lives is what it seems.
Completed Dark Comedy Thriller
Where to Watch:
Prime Video Prime Video
France, 1789. The prestige of a noble house depends above all on the quality of its table. At the dawn of the French Revolution, gastronomy still is a prerogative of the aristocrats. When talented cooker Pierre Manceron is dismissed by the Duke of Chamfort, he loses the taste of cooking. Back in his country house, his meeting with the mysterious Louise gets him back on his feet. While they both feed a desire of revenge against the Duke, they decide to create the very first restaurant in France.
Release Date:
January 14, 2022
Where to Watch:
Limited • VOD / Digital Limited
VOD / Digital