40. “The Christophers”
Steven Soderbergh directs “The Christophers,” a black comedy written by Ed Solomon “Mosaic”) and starring Ian McKellen, Michaela Coel, Jessica Gunning, and James Corden. The film premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival in September. Shot by Soderbergh under his pseudonym Peter Andrews and edited as Mary Ann Bernard, with music by David Holmes, the story centers on the estranged children of a once-famous artist who hire a forger to complete their father’s unfinished paintings. The premise folds artistic legacy and opportunism into a tight, character-driven chamber piece, aligning with Soderbergh’s recent London-set work and his ongoing collaboration with Solomon.
Release Date: 2026 via Neon.
39. “Flowervale Street”
Produced by J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, David Robert Mitchell (“It Follows”) writes and directs “Flowervale Street,” an 80s-set science fiction film for Warner Bros. Pictures. The cast includes Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella, Christian Convery, Jordan Alexa Davis, P. J. Byrne, and Chris Coy. Set in suburban America in the 1980s, the film centers on a family drawn into a strange, escalating situation that disrupts their seemingly ordinary neighborhood, with plot details otherwise tightly under wraps. For Mitchell, it’s a return to suburban unease and genre tension on a larger scale, following the cult status of “It Follows” and the divisive “Under the Silver Lake.”
Release Date: August 14, via Warner Bros.
38. “Cut Off”
Jonah Hill directs and stars in “Cut Off,” a sharp, character-driven comedy about two spoiled siblings forced to grow up after their parents pull the plug on their fortune. Holl and Kristen Wiig star alongside Bette Midler, Nathan Lane, Adriana Barraza, Camila Cabello, Langston Kerman, and Chelsea Peretti in this ensemble farce about entitlement, reinvention, and humiliation in the age of curated wealth. Hill, returning behind the camera after “Mid90s” and “Stutz,” blends cringe humor and emotional honesty as his characters tumble from privilege into absurd survival mode. Produced by Warners, the film aims to fuse biting social commentary with the kind of offbeat warmth and discomfort that defined Hill’s earlier collaborations with indie-minded comedians.
Release Date: July 17, via Warner Bros.
37. “Sweetsick”
After penning “Lady Macbeth,” “The Wonder,” and co-writing Lynne Ramsay’s “Die My Love,” playwright and screenwriter Alice Birch makes her directorial debut with “Sweetsick.” Starring Cate Blanchett, the film marks a major leap for one of Britain’s most incisive voices, blending her fascination with desire, guilt, and the female psyche into something both mythic and intimate. Backed by Searchlight Pictures and shot across the U.K. and Greece, “Sweetsick” follows a woman whose strange gift—seeing what others most desperately need—drives her toward transcendence and destruction. With Blanchett anchoring Birch’s singular vision, this promises a haunting, sensuous debut: part psychological odyssey, part fevered confession, and unmistakably the work of a daring new filmmaker. Spike Fearn co-stars.
Release Date: TBD.
36. “Onslaught”
Adam Wingard directs “Onslaught,” an action horror thriller written by Wingard and Simon Barrett, starring Adria Arjona, Dan Stevens, Alex Pereira, Michael Biehn, Drew Starkey, Rebecca Hall, Eric Wareheim, Reginald VelJohnson, and Jacob Scipio. The story follows a mother in a trailer park who uses her hidden skills to protect her family after a threat escapes a secret military base. Backed by A24, the film blends brutal action and suspense built around moral and physical survival.
Release Date: TBD.
35. “Misty Green”
Chris Rock writes, directs, and stars in “Misty Green,” a drama about a talented actress grappling with addiction and the chance to rebuild her career after an earlier breakdown. The cast includes Rosalind Eleazar, Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya, Anna Kendrick, Topher Grace, Anthony Anderson, Kelli Garner, Amy Landecker, and Rich Sommer. Shot in Los Angeles, the film explores fame, failure, and the cost of reinvention in the Hollywood industry. Produced by A24, it marks Rock’s return behind the camera in a serious acting role turn and promises a raw, character-driven story of resilience.
Release Date: 2026 via A24.
34. “Out of This World”
Albert Serra, the Spanish provocateur behind “Pacifiction” and “Liberté,” makes his English-language debut with “Out of This World,” a political thriller starring Riley Keough, F. Murray Abraham, and Liza Yankovskaya. Originally set to star Kristen Stewart, the film centers on an American delegation sent to Russia amid escalating tensions, where diplomacy curdles into paranoia, desire, and moral decay. Serra’s cinema—elliptical, hypnotic, and often surreal—has long blurred the line between decadence and disillusionment, and this project promises to extend that vision into the geopolitical sphere. Produced across Europe and set against the shadow of the Ukraine conflict, “Out of This World” looks to be a slow-burning descent into power, corruption, and the strange intimacy of negotiation.
33. “Alpha Gang”
David and Nathan Zellner bring their singular brand of deadpan absurdity to “Alpha Gang,” a retro-futurist sci-fi comedy about a squad of aliens sent to conquer Earth—only to be undone by humanity’s most destabilizing force: emotion. The all-star ensemble includes Cate Blanchett, Chris Pine, Dave Bautista, Léa Seydoux, Lily-Rose Depp, Adria Arjona, Doona Bae, and Kelvin Harrison Jr. As the invaders catch feelings—love, jealousy, despair—their mission descends into chaos, turning conquest into an existential crisis. Following the offbeat path carved by “Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter” and “Sasquatch Sunset,” the Zellners once again find poetry in absurdity. “Alpha Gang” looks to be a lo-fi, big-hearted cosmic farce about what happens when superior beings succumb to the mess of being human.
32. “A Place in Hell”
Following up her acclaimed Sundance debut “Fair Play,” Chloe Domont returns with “A Place in Hell,” a legal thriller led by Michelle Williams, Daisy Edgar-Jones, and Andrew Scott. The film tracks a star defense attorney whose gift for protecting the guilty begins to corrode her world from the inside out. With Danny Huston, Arturo Castro, Rob Yang, Kyle Mooney, Dani Oliveros, and Esther McGregor in the ensemble, Domont turns a high-powered criminal firm into a pressure cooker of ambition and moral collapse.
Release Date: TBA via Neon / Republic Pictures.
31. “Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man”
Cillian Murphy returns as Tommy Shelby in “Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man,” the long-awaited feature continuation of Steven Knight’s crime saga. The returning ensemble includes Paul Anderson, Sophie Rundle, Harry Kirton, Finn Cole, and Natasha O’Keeffe, now joined by an imposing slate of new players: Stephen Graham, Tom Hardy, Jacob Elordi, Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Roth, Barry Keoghan, Jay Lycurgo, Amber Anderson, Callum Scott Howells, and Aneurin Barnard. Directed by Tom Harper and shot by Laurie Rose, the story plunges Tommy into the turmoil of World War II, where old vendettas collide with the rise of fascism and the collapse of his empire feels increasingly inevitable. Knight promises a darker, more operatic crescendo — a final reckoning for the myth of Tommy Shelby.
Release Date: October 17, via Netflix.
