What To Watch In Cinemas December 2025

December hits the big screen with stories of resistance, obsession, and rising danger …

Dreamers follows a woman fighting for freedom and hope inside the UK’s asylum system. Magazine Dreams dives into the brutal pursuit of physical perfection and the loneliness beneath it. Lurker turns ambition into threat as a retail worker infiltrates the world of a rising music star.

And there is so much more hitting the big screen, what will you be watching…

Dreamers – Friday 5th December | In Select Cinemas (We Are Parable)

As her freedom is threatened, Isio, a Nigerian migrant freshly placed at a UK asylum removal centre, searches for the will to battle the system and finds a kindred spirit who might help her through. Freedom is elusive, but love is eternal.

Writer/Director: Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor
Cast: Ronke Adékoluejo, Ann Akinjirin, Diana Yekinni, Aiysha Hart

Magazine Dreams – Friday 5th December | In Select Vue Cinemas

Killian Maddox is consumed by his dream of becoming a world famous bodybuilder and one day gracing the cover of fitness magazines. He lives a lonely, regimented life, and his relentless drive for perfection only pushes him deeper towards self destruction, but beneath his tenacious pursuit of superstardom lies a desperate, aching need for human connection. As he battles both the limits of his physical body and his own inner demons.

Cast: Jonathan Majors, Harrison page, Taylour Paige, Mark Rhino Smith and more.

Writer/Director: Elijah Bynum

Executive Producer (s): Jonathan Majors

Lurker – Friday 12th December | In UK Cinemas (Universal Pictures)

A retail employee infiltrates the inner circle of an artist on the verge of stardom. As he gets closer to the budding music star, access and proximity become a matter of life and death.

Producer(s): Archie Madekwe
Cast: Archie Madekwe and Wale ONayemi

Ella McCay – Friday 12th December | In Cinemas (20th Century Studios)

An idealistic young woman juggles her family and work life in a comedy about the people you love and how to survive them.

Cast: Ayo Edebiri

Avatar: Fire And Ash – Friday 19th December | In Cinemas (Disney)

Jake and Neytiri’s family grapples with grief after Neteyam’s death, encountering a new, aggressive Na’vi tribe, the Ash People, who are led by the fiery Varang, as the conflict on Pandora escalates and a new moral focus emerges.

Cast: Zoe Saldaña, Bailey Bass.

Anaconda – Thursday 25th December | In Cinemas (Sony)

Doug and Griff have been best friends since they were kids, and have always dreamed of remaking their all-time favorite movie: the cinematic “classic” Anaconda. When a midlife crisis pushes them to finally go for it, they head deep into the Amazon to start filming. But things get real when an actual giant anaconda appears, turning their comically chaotic movie set into a deadly situation. The movie they’re dying to make? It might just get them killed

Cast: Thandiwe Newton

Marty Supreme – Thursday 25th December | In Cinemas (A24)

In the 1950s, young Marty Mauser pursues his dream of becoming a champion table-tennis player.

Cast: Tyler Okonma