The Drama
What starts as a celebration quickly spirals into something far messier in The Drama, a dark comedy starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson as engaged couple Emma and Charlie.

After a night of heavy drinking at their pre-wedding party, the couple decide to confess the worst thing they’ve ever done. Emma’s revelation isn’t about something she did, but something she once intended to do — a secret so shocking that it forces the couple to confront uncomfortable questions about whether people can ever truly know the ones we love.

Exploring the complexities of modern relationships with a balance of black humour and emotional honesty, The Drama is the kind of film that may leave couples turning to each other afterwards and asking: How much of someone’s past are you willing to accept and to what extent could you truly love a person, flaws and all?

Sirāt
In this 2025 Cannes Jury Prize-winning film, Luis (Sergi López) hits the wild, sprawling raves of southern Morocco, not for a party, but to find his vanished daughter. Along for the desperate ride is his son Esteban (Bruno Núñez Arjona) and their trusty dog. Director Óliver Laxe masterfully captures this frantic quest on gritty 16mm film, turning the Moroccan desert into a character all its own — golden, warm, and gloriously bright, a vibrant backdrop to the escalating tension. Don’t let the stunning visuals fool you, though. While it might have a Mad Max vibe, Sirāt is really an emotional rollercoaster that will leave you breathless.

Hamnet
Chloé Zhao had never read any William Shakespeare before taking on Hamnet. That’s why she doesn’t share the same sort of reverence about the Bard that many have — and this movie is better for it.

The director of Nomadland and The Rider has always gravitated toward lives on the margins, making Agnes Hathaway, Shakespeare’s wife, the perfect subject for Hamnet.

Long reduced to a footnote in her husband’s story, and often mischaracterised as unloved, Agnes is reimagined here with striking depth. Zhao, alongside co-writer Maggie O’Farrell, whose novel the film is based on, strips away the assumptions to reveal something far more intimate: a marriage rooted in passion and understanding, before it’s reshaped by the devastating loss of the couple’s 11-year-old son.

At its heart, Hamnet is a tender, aching portrait of grief — but it’s also a reclamation of a marginalised character’s narrative. Under Zhao’s gaze, Agnes is no longer an afterthought, but a fully realised woman whose emotional journey rightly gets the spotlight.

Sentimental Value 
Nominated for nine Oscars (and winning Best International Feature Film), Sentimental Value follows a fractured family and examines its members’ unresolved resentments and grief. Stellan Skarsgård plays Gustav Borg, an estranged father who suddenly re-enters his daughters’ lives with a plan to make a deeply personal film about his own mother, a resistance fighter tortured during the Nazi occupation.

He wants his daughter, Nora (Renate Reinsve), a stage actress battling stage fright, to play the lead. She refuses, only to watch an American star (Elle Fanning) step into the role, with filming set to take place in their family home. What follows is a simmering, emotionally charged meditation on memory and relationships. 

Director Joachim Trier brings surprising lightness to heavy themes, crafting a film that feels lived-in rather than performed.

Die My Love
A move from New York to rural Montana should feel like a fresh start. But in Die My Love, it marks the beginning of an unravelling.

Jennifer Lawrence delivers a ferocious performance as Grace, a writer and new mother grappling with isolation and post-partum depression. Opposite her, Robert Pattinson plays her distant husband, whose long absences and emotional withdrawal only deepen her spiral. 

Directed by Lynne Ramsay, Die My Love is essentially a visceral descent into a fractured mind. Disorienting and unapologetically intense, it lingers long after the credits roll.

Eternity 
What if eternity came down to one choice?

In this Apple Original, Elizabeth Olsen plays Joan, who awakens in the afterlife at what looks like a retro-futuristic train station. There, she’s told she must choose one person to spend forever with: her first flame (played by Callum Turner) or her husband of 65 years (Miles Teller).

Part love story, part philosophical thought experiment, the film allows Joan to explore both relationship paths before deciding. With its whimsical, ’60s-inspired setting, Eternity transforms an impossible question into an intimate, humanistic, and surprisingly fun romantic ride.

Train Dreams
Joel Edgerton leads Train Dreams as Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker in the early 20th-century Pacific Northwest. Spanning decades, the film traces his life through love and loss.

On one level, it’s a story about man versus nature — the forests he destroys in the name of building railroads (i.e. technological progress). On another, it’s about unimaginable grief and the slow, resilient act of carrying on.

Deliberately paced and deeply reflective, Train Dreams was a major awards contender this year with multiple Oscar nominations.