Movies in Theaters October 2026: Weekly Releases

In October, the new comedy by Iñárritu starring Tom Cruise hits theaters, along with the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover's bestseller Verity, Aaron Sorkin's movie on Facebook, a film about Pino Daniele, and to get us ready for Halloween, a horror movie every week.

Below are all the releases, week by week. But first, the three films we can't wait to see!

The Three Must-Sees

Verity, from October 1

A writer facing financial difficulties agrees to finish the series of novels by Verity Crawford, a famous author who can no longer write after an accident. To do so, she must move into her house, next to her husband. In the study, she finds a manuscript that hides a disturbing truth...

Based on the novel by Colleen Hoover that stayed at the top of the charts for years. Dakota Johnson plays the writer, Anne Hathaway is Verity, Josh Hartnett is the husband, and Michael Showalter directs.

Digger, from October 1

The President of the United States enlists an oil tycoon (an unrecognizable Tom Cruise) to save the planet from an environmental disaster. The problem is, the disaster was caused by his own company...

Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, returning to dark comedy after Birdman. Starring Sandra Hüller, John Goodman, and Riz Ahmed.

Je so' pazzo, from October 15

Naples, 1981: two hundred thousand people in Piazza del Plebiscito for a boy raised in the alleys. Nicola Prosatore's film tells the story of Pino Daniele before he became Pino Daniele: his childhood, his father, his guitar, and the fusion of blues, jazz, and Neapolitan song that changed Italian music.

Pino is played by Massimiliano Caiazzo, known to many as Carmine from Mare fuori.

Thursday, October 1

• Digger, by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, starring Tom Cruise.

• Verity, by Michael Showalter, starring Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson.

• Onslaught - Final Assault, by Adam Wingard: supersoldiers on the run in the New Mexico desert. Starring Adria Arjona and Dan Stevens, who previously worked with Wingard on The Guest.

• Beast, by Tyler Atkins: a mixed martial arts champion returns to the cage to save his brother. Starring Russell Crowe.

• The City of the Living, by Edoardo Gabbriellini, based on the book by Nicola Lagioia about the murder of Luca Varani. Starring Valerio Mastandrea.

• A Little Light, by Ali Asgari: the last day of an Iranian doctor who has decided to end it all. In competition at Venice.

• My Uncle Jens, by Brwa Vahabpour: in Oslo, a professor finds his uncle from Iranian Kurdistan in his home.

• Almost Vera, by Fausto Brizzi, starring Frank Matano and Taylor Mega.

• Her Private Hell, It Was Better Tomorrow, and Photogame - Self-Portrait of an Obsession.

Thursday, October 8

• The Social: The Price of Truth, by Aaron Sorkin. Fifteen years after The Social Network, Sorkin returns to Facebook from the perspective of whistleblower Frances Haugen, the engineer who brought internal documents to the Wall Street Journal. Starring Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, and Jeremy Strong.

• The Stranger, by Paolo Strippoli: a mother visits her daughter to tell her about a pact made years ago with a stranger. Starring Jasmine Trinca, in competition at Venice.

• Mammina, by Rob Savage: a child and an eerie presence in the house that looks too much like her mother. Starring Jessica Chastain.

• The Faraway Tree, by Ben Gregor, from the children's books by Enid Blyton. Starring Nicola Coughlan.

• Tales from the Enchanted Garden, animation for the little ones. Awarded at the Giffoni Film Festival.

• Rider, by Davide Pavanello and Roan Johnson: a Milanese rider's New Year's Eve.

• Next in Line, by Giorgio Pasotti, starring Stefano Fresi and Rocco Papaleo: six candidates for a single position.

• Balkanica and Queen Budapest.

Thursday, October 15

• Je so' pazzo, by Nicola Prosatore, starring Massimiliano Caiazzo.

• Primetime, by Lance Oppenheim: Robert Pattinson in the world of To Catch a Predator, the show that hunted predators live on TV. In competition at Venice.

• Street Fighter, by Kitao Sakurai: Ryu and Ken return to the ring, set in the arcades of 1993.

• Whalefall - Inside the Whale, by Brian Duffield: a diver swallowed by a whale, with one hour of oxygen. Starring Josh Brolin.

• Fatherland, the new film by Paweł Pawlikowski, the director of Ida and Cold War. Starring Sandra Hüller.

• Zustìssia, by Francesco Piras: the true story of Beniamino Zuncheddu, thirty-two years in prison as an innocent man. Starring Michele Riondino.

• If You Love Someone, Tell Them, by Marco Bonini: three women in a waiting room for the same man in a coma. Starring Edoardo Leo, Claudia Gerini, and Giovanna Mezzogiorno.

• Anne's Time, by Lisa Azuelos, starring Sophie Marceau.

• The Doll, by Sophie Beaulieu, a French comedy starring Cécile de France.

• Maserati: The Brothers, by Bobby Moresco, starring Michele Morrone.

• For the little ones: Frankie and the Forgotten Creatures, Jumbo - Don's Voice, and Mary Anning - Fossil Hunter.

• Carlo Acutis. The Young Saint, documentary, and Always Lalisa, the film about Lisa from BLACKPINK, as an event.

Thursday, October 22

• Klara and the Sun, by Taika Waititi, from the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro: an artificial friend observing the world from a shop window. Starring Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams.

• Clayface, by James Watkins: the origin of Batman's clay villain, filmed as a horror.

• Sense and Sensibility, by Georgia Oakley, from Jane Austen. Starring Daisy Edgar-Jones.

• Urchin, the directorial debut of Harris Dickinson: a street boy in London trying to stay clean.

• Wildwood - The Secrets of the Forbidden Forest, by Travis Knight, stop-motion animation.

• The Absurd Story of the Gialappa's Band, documentary by Walter Veltroni.

• Dear Cruel World, by Niccolò Falsetti.

• Alina's Song and, for the little ones, Tad - The Explorer and the Magic Lamp.

End of the month, from October 28

• God Laughs, by Giovanni Veronesi: a 17th-century friar who tells the Gospel while laughing. Starring Pierfrancesco Favino and Silvio Orlando.

• The Right Man, by Sergio Rubini, starring Miriam Leone, Claudio Santamaria, and Fabrizio Gifuni.

• A Quiet Family Funeral, by Massimiliano Bruno, starring Claudia Pandolfi, Pietro Sermonti, and Diego Abatantuono.

• Minotaur, the new film by Andrey Zvyagintsev, the director of Leviathan.

• Wandering Trees, by Salvatore Mereu.

• In the Silence of the Rooms, by Jérôme Bonnell, and The House of Women, by Mélisa Godet, starring Karin Viard.

• What Remains of Us, by Emilio Mercanti.

Waiting for Halloween

From now until Halloween, a horror movie is released every week, and in the last week, three.

• Mammina (October 8), by Rob Savage, starring Jessica Chastain.

• Whalefall - Inside the Whale (October 15), by Brian Duffield, starring Josh Brolin.

• Clayface (October 22), by James Watkins, from the Batman comic character.

• It Ends (October 28), by Alexander Ullom: four friends on a road that never ends.

• Ice Cream Man (October 29), by Eli Roth: an ice cream man and the sweets he gives to children in a holiday resort.

• Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (October 28), the Halloween film for kids, by Aardman studio.

Release dates can change until the last week, especially for films with limited distribution. Find the updated releases in your country on the PopcornCrew app, under New and Releases, in the In Theaters section: from there, you can add what interests you to your watchlist and find it as soon as it comes out.

See you at the movies, with popcorn!