3 November 2025

Last Breath (2025)

Based on a heart-pounding true story, Last Breath follows a team of seasoned deep-sea divers as they battle the raging elements to rescue their crewmate trapped hundreds of feet below the ocean’s surface with only his emergency air supply and no way to communicate with the surface.

Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu (Barbie) and Finn Cole (Peaky Blinders) star as saturation divers – one of the world’s most dangerous professions – working on undersea gas lines in the North Sea.

In their 4/5-star review, The Guardian says: “Riveting, seamless, at points genuinely shocking, Last Breath exemplifies the possibilities of human collaboration – a feat that has stuck with me and, yes, took my breath away.”

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