It's the start of another week and usual, us good folks at Pulse bring you great ways to spend the time. With the bulk of work activities on hold, what better way to ease off the stress of the week than watch a good movie amidst the easy camaraderie that exists in a cinema hall packed full with movie lovers.
Must-See Movies for the Week
It's another movie week and we at pulse have made a list of where you can watch the thrilling movies of the week.
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With that in mind, check out our list of movies currently showing in cinemas across Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt. So movie lovers, whip out your calendars and get marking for the Pulse movie team is on the prowl!
Genre: Drama
Starring: Liam Neeson, Maria Bello, Mila Kunis, Kim Basinger
Synopsis: An ex-CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect.
Showing:
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday :1:05PM, 6:30PM, 8:40PM
Sunday: 6:25PM, 8:50PM
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 3:05PM, 7:00PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 1:25PM, 6:30PM, 8:30PM
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday-Thursday : 1.30PM, 3.50PM, 8.05PM
Ozone Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 3:45pm, 7:25pm
2. Swelter
Genre: Action | Adventure
Starring: Mindy Robinson, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Freya Tingley, Josh Henderson
Synopsis: In the vein of the brutal heist drama Reservoir Dogs, the modern crime thriller A History of Violence, and the classic western High Plains Drifter, SWELTER is a violent story of greed and retribution.
Showing:
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday :11:00AM, 12:40PM, 7:30PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 1:25PM, 6:30PM, 8:30PM
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday-Thursday : 11.30AM, 6.10PM, 10.20PM
Ozone Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 2:10pm, 5:50pm
3. When Love Happens
Genre: Romance
Starring: Shaffy Bello, Bassey Keppy Ekpeyong, Desmond Elliot
Synopsis: What happens when Love makes an unexpected arrival? When love happens is a high art and glossy romantic comedy about the lives of 3 twenty something professionals in a modern technology connected Lagos and the hilarious and often bizarre adventures in finding romance.
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Showing:
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 11:30AM, 1:50PM, 4:00PM, 6:20PM, 8:30PM
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 3:55PM
Ozone Cinemas
12:50pm
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 11.00AM, 1.50PM, 7.00PM
4. Gone Girl
Genre: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Starring:Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harri
Synopsis: With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
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Showing:
Ozone Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 1:50pm
5. Daracula Untold
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Luke Evans, Sarah Gadon, Dominic Cooper, Charlie Cox
Synopsis: Facing threats to his kingdom and his family, Vlad Tepes looks to make a deal with dangerous supernatural forces - without succumbing to the darkness himself.
Showing:
Ozone Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 10:30am, 12:30pm
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 11:30AM, 3:30PM, 5:20PM, 7:10PM
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 11:00AM, 12:50PM, 7:15PM
Sundays: 4:25PM, 8:30PM
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas6.50PM, 8.55PM, 11.30PM
Sunday - 2.35PM, 6.50PM, 8.55PM
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday-Saturday : 12:00PM, 5:10PM
6. Dolphin Tale 2
Genre: Drama
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Nathan Gamble, Cozi Zuehlsdorff
Synopsis: The team of people who saved Winter's life reassemble in the wake of her surrogate mother's passing in order to find her a companion so she can remain at the Clearwater Marine Hospital.
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Showing:
Ozone Cinemas
10:00am[Mon-Thurs Only]
7. Reclaim
Genre: Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi
Starring : Chris Pratt, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper
Synopsis: A desperate American couple discovers all is not what it seems when they uncover a high-stakes underground scam while traveling abroad. To expose the truth and get back to the U.S., they must risk their lives to save their daughter
Showing:
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Fri-Thurs :5:20PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Fri - Thursday : 11:45AM, 4:20PM, 9:00PM
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 1.15PM, 4:50PM
Genesis Deluxe
Friday - Thursday : 1.20PM, 6.00PM
Ozone Cinemas
12:00pm
8. A Walk Among the Tombstones
Genre: Drama
Synopsis - Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
Starring - Liam Neeson, Maurice Compte, Patrick McDade, Luciano Acuna Jr.
Showing
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Fri-Thurs :11:30AM, 1:40PM, 6:05PM, 8:20PM
Sunday : 1:40PM, 6:05PM, 8:20PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Fri - Thursday : 11:10AM, 3:10PM, 7:15PM, 9:20PM
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 1:50PM, 6:30PM, 8:40PM
Genesis Deluxe
Friday - Thursday : 11.00AM, 3.30PM, 8.30PM, 10.55PM
Ozone Cinemas
2:15pm, 4:05pm, 6:15pm, 8:20pm
9. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis - When a kingpin threatens New York City, a news reporter find a quad of mutants which makes an alliance to unravel Shredder's plan as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Starring - Megan Fox, Will Arnett, William Fichtner
Showing
Ozone Cinemas
12:15pm
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 10:30AM, 12:25PM, 4:35PM, 8:45PM
Sunday : 12:25PM, 4:35PM, 8:45PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 11:15AM, 1:10PM, 5:10PM
Genesis Deluxe
Friday - Thursday : 11.30AM, 4.00PM
10. The Judge
Genre: Drama
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Vera Farmiga, Leighton Meester, Dax Shepard
Synopsis: Big city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. Hank sets out to discover the truth and, along the way, reconnects with his estranged family.
Showing:
Ozone Cinemas
10:00am[Mon-Thurs Only]
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 2:40PM
Silverbird Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 6:15PM, 8:55PM
Genesis Cinemas
Friday: 8.35PM
Saturday- Thursday : 4.10PM
11: Annabelle
Genre: Suspense/Horror
Starring : Ward Horton, Annabelle Wallis, Alfre Woodard
Synopsis: A couple begin to experience terrifying supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly after their home is invaded by satanic cultists.
Showing:
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 9:05PM
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday :9.10PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday -Thursday : 3:10PM, 7:05PM, 8:50PM
Ozone Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 4:30pm, 8:25pm
12. October 1
Genre: Suspense/Horror
Starring: Sadiq Daba,Kehinde Bankole,David Bailie, Nick Rhys, Kunle Afolayan
Synopsis: Its September 1960, and with Nigeria on the verge of independence from British colonial rule, a northern Nigerian Police Detective, DAN WAZIRI, is urgently despatched by the Colonial Government to the trading post town of Akote in the Western Region of Nigeria to solve a series of female murders that have struck horror in the hearts and minds of the local community.
Showing:
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Fri - Thurs : 2.30PM
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday: 4:50PM, 9:10PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 12:10PM, 3:10PM, 6:00PM, 8:50PM
Ozone Cinemas
10:15am
Genre:
Starring: Boris Aljinovic, Elvin Cameron, Nina Hagen
Synopsis: hen Bobo, the youngest of the seven dwarves, accidentally pricks Princess Rose (a.k.a. Sleeping Beauty) and sends the kingdom into a century-long slumber, Bobo and the other six dwarves must travel into the future in order to revive Rose.
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Showing:
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 11.00AM, 12.50PM, 4.40PM
Ozone Cinemas
11:50am[Fri-Sun Only]
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday: 11:50AM, 1:30PM, 3:10PM
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday :11:25AM
Saturday : 11:25AM, 4:50PM
Sunday : 4:50PM
Monday - Thursday : 11:25AM, 4:50PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 11:45AM, 1:25PM 3:15PM, 4:40PM
14: 30 Days in Atlanta
Genre: Comedy
Starring: Ayo Makun, Vivica A. Fox, Lynn Whitfield, Richard Mofe Damijo, Desmond Elliot, Ramsey Noah
Synopsis: Akpos In Atlanta is an adventurous love story – spiced with lots of action and hilarious moments. This a-laugh-a-minute story has been fully researched and well written. It paints, in beautiful colours, the hugely popular (and social media trending) Akpos character which was created from the AYShow’s Who Wants To Be A Billionaire hilarious skits.
Showing:
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 12.00PM, 5.30PM, 8.00PM
Ozone Cinemas
2:50pm, 7:10pm, 9:10pm
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday: 11:10AM, 6:40PM, 8:50PM
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday : 6:35PM
Saturday - Thursday : 2:25PM, 6:35PM
15: The Equalizer
Genre: Science Fiction
Starring: Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas, Chloë Grace Moretz
Synopsis: A man believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and has dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can't stand idly by - he has to help her.
Showing:
Genesis Deluxe
Friday - Thursday : 9.40PM
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday-Thursday : 2:20PM
Ozone CInemas :
4:50pm
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Thursday - Friday : 4:00PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Thursday - Friday : 11:00AM, 1:30PM, 4:00PM, 6:30PM, 9:00PM
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Starring: Fela Kuti, Yeni Kuti, Femi Kuti, Seun Kuti
Synopsis: A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around he
Showing:
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday -Thursday : 3:55PM, 6:05PM, 8:15PM
17 .
Genre: Comedy
Starring: Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan
Synopsis: A team of losers win the love of millions in their quest to pull off the biggest diamond heist ever by team India.
Showing:
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday :
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis - When Dusty learns that his engine is damaged and he may never race again, he joins a forest fire and rescue unit to be trained as a firefighter
Starring - Dane Cook, Ed Harris, Julie Bowen
Showing
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 11:50AM, 1:35PM
Genre: Action | Horror | Thriller
Synopsis - Three groups of people are trying to survive Purge Night, when their stories intertwine and are left stranded in The Purge try to survive the chaos and violence that occurs.
Starring - Frank Grillo, Carmen Ejogo, Zach Gilford
Showing
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday & Saturday: 1.45PM, 6.10PM, 8.25PM, 10.45PM
Sunday - Thursday : 1.45PM, 6.10PM, 8.25PM
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