What’s To Watch In Cinemas May 2026

May is pulling up to cinemas with high drama, bold comebacks, and stories that hit from every angle and we’re locked in.

Highlights include The Christophers, with Michaela Coel at the centre of a sharp, art-world drama where ambition, family, and deception collide. Passenger delivers chilling suspense, as a couple’s van life escape spirals into a relentless nightmare when a sinister force refuses to let them go. And for something darker and surreal, Backrooms sees Chiwetel Ejiofor step into an eerie alternate reality in a haunting search for a missing patient.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 – Friday 1st May | In Cinemas

Follows a more mature Andy Sachs, now a respected reporter, who is forced to return to the fashion world as Runway’s features editor after her newsroom is laid off. She rejoins a vulnerable Miranda Priestly, whose magazine is failing against modern digital media, pitting them against a powerful Emily Charlton.

With Tracie Thoms, Esco Jouley, Kendi Nichols, Amanda Morrow, Jon Batiste, Law Roach, Tomi Adeyemi, Winnie Harlow, Naomi Campbell & more.

The Sheep Detectives – Friday 8th May | In Cinemas

A flock of sheep who turn detective to solve the murder of their beloved shepherd, George. Having secretly learned how to solve crimes from the murder mysteries George read to them nightly, they investigate human suspects.

With Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Tosin Cole and Regina Hall.

The Christophers – Friday 15th May | In Cinemas

A mainstay of the London art scene since his starry breakout in the creative explosion of the 1960’s, Julian Sklar has drifted into a cluttered, self-imposed seclusion. His two estranged children enlist Lori, a young painter and sometime-forger, to pose as a prospective assistant and gain access to a fabled series of unfinished canvases Julian has buried deep in his home studio, in a deceptive bid to secure an inheritance for themselves.

Starring Michaela Coel.

In The Grey – Friday 15th May | In Cinemas

Follows a covert team of elite operatives who live in the global shadows, as comfortable wielding power and influence as they are automatic weapons and high explosives. When a ruthless despot steals a billion-dollar fortune, the team is sent to steal it back on what would be for anyone else a suicide mission. What begins as an impossible heist gets much worse, spiraling into an all-out war of strategy, deception and survival.

With Kojo Attah.

Mortal Kombat II – Friday 15th May | In Cinemas

This time, the fan favorite champions—now joined by Johnny Cage himself—are pitted against one another in the ultimate, no-holds barred, gory battle to defeat the dark rule of Shao Kahn that threatens the very existence of the Earthrealm and its defenders.

With Mehcad Brooks and Tati Gabrielle.

Passenger – Friday 22nd May | In Cinemas

A few weeks into their van life adventure, a young couple witnesses a horrific accident that leaves the driver dead. Soon they’re being pursued by a demonic stalker who’s impossible to outrun and follows them wherever they go.

Starring Lou Llobell.

Fight Like A Girl – Friday 22nd May | In Select Cinemas

Tells the story of a young woman in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, who escapes forced labour in an illegal mine and finds strength, identity, and community inside a women’s boxing club created for survivors of war and violence.

Set against the backdrop of conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the film explores how women, often pushed to the margins by violence and circumstance, can rebuild themselves through solidarity, discipline, and courage. The boxing ring becomes more than a place to fight – it becomes a space to be seen, to be heard, and to take control of one’s own story. Inspired by the life of Balezi “Kibomango” Bagunda – a former child soldier turned national boxing champion who founded a boxing club for women.

Starring Ama Qamata and Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Malaika Uwamahoro, Bahali Ruth, Clarck Ntambwe, Arthur Nkusi & more

Backrooms – Friday 29th May | In Cinemas

Follows a psychologist who enters an alternate, surreal dimension of empty yellow rooms to find her missing patient.

Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor.