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 :5:00PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 4:15PM
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday-Thursday : 1.30PM
Ozone Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 12:10pm
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, 2:55PM
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 : 2:00PM
4. Interstellar
Genre: Science Fiction
Starring:Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain
Synopsis: A group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
Peep the trailer
Showing:
Ozone Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 1:50pm, 7:50pm
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday & Saturday: 1:50PM, 7:10PM, 10:15PM
Sunday - Thursday : 1:50PM, 7:10PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 12:45PM, 3:20PM, 6:00PM, 8:50PM
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday & Saturday : 12:20PM, 3:55PM, 7:15PM, 10:35PM
Sunday - Thursday : 12:20PM, 3:55PM, 7:15PM
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 3:20PM, 8:50PM
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:
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 5:00PM
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[Fri-Sun Only]
7. A Good Lie
Genre: Drama
Starring : Reese Witherspoon, Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany
Synopsis: Sudanese refugees given the chance to resettle in America arrive in Kansas, where their encounter with employment agency counselor forever changes all of their lives
Showing:
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Fri - Thursday : 1.35PM, 3.55PM, 6.15PM
Ozone Cinemas : 4:10pm, 8:45pm
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 : 12:50PM,
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Fri - Thursday : 12:20PM, 6:50PM,9:00PM
Sunday :8:20PM
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 1:10PM, 4:20PM
Genesis Deluxe
Friday & Saturday: 11.00AM, 3.45PM, 8.30PM, 10.55PM
Sunday - Thursday : 11.00AM, 3.45PM, 8.30PM
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
10:00am
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 12:30PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 11:15AM, 4:20PM
Genesis Deluxe
Friday - Thursday : 11.25AM
10. Dumb and Dumber 2
Genre: Comedy
Starring: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Rob Riggle
Synopsis: 20 years since their first adventure, Harry finds out he has a daughter who was adopted. Lloyd and Harry try to find Harry's adopted daughter.
Showing:
Silverbird Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 11:00AM, 3:05PM, 7:15PM, 9:20PM
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 11.10AM, 6.15PM, 8.35PM
Ozone Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 2:10pm, 6:15pm
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 10:45AM, 2:50PM, 7:05PM
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:
Ozone Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 11:15am
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:
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday: 3:10PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 12:50PM
Ozone Cinemas
10:00am[Sat & Sun Only]
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, 2.50PM
Saturday & Sunday : 11.00AM, 12.50PM, 2.50PM, 4:40PM
Ozone Cinemas
10:30am[Mon-Thur Only]
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 10:50AM, 12:30PM ( except Sunday)
Sunday : 12:30PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 10:55AM, 4:55PM
Sunday : 4:55PM
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 : 3.00PM, 7.20PM, 9.30PM
Ozone Cinemas
3:20pm, 7:05pm
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 11:10AM, 12:50PM, 6:40PM, 8:50PM
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 1:50PM, 6:15PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 11:30PM, 1:50PM, 4:00PM, 6:20PM, 8:30PM
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 -Monday: 10.00AM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 1:30PM, 9:10PM
Genre: Science Fiction
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Daniel Brühl
Synopsis: Jacq Vaucan is an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation who investigates cases of robots violating their primary protocols against harming humans. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.
Showing:
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday -Thursday : 2:10PM, 6:20PM
Ozone Cinemas
10:35am[Except Sat & Sun], 9:05pm
Silverbird Ikeja
Friday & Saturday : 12:00PM, 5:00PM, 10:10PM
Sunday - Thursday : 12:00PM, 5:00PM
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Hrithik Roshan, Katrina Kaif, Pavan Malhotra
Synopsis: A young bank receptionist gets mixed up with Rajveer Nanda, a man who has a mysterious background.
Showing:
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 12:10PM
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis - Set in a future where a failed climate-change experiment kills all life on the planet except for a lucky few who boarded the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe, where a class system emerges.
Starring - Chris Evans, Kang-ho Song, Ed Harris, John Hurt
Showing
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 11:40PM, 2:30PM. 6:25PM
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 11.40AM, 2:15PM, 7:25PM
Ozone Cinemas
2:25pm, 5:25pm
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday & Saturday : 2:30PM, 6:35PM, 10:30PM
Sunday - Thursday : 2:30PM, 6:35PM
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 11:40AM, 2:55PM, 6:25PM
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 : 1:45PM, 4.40PM, 6:10PM, 11:45P
Saturday & Monday : 1.45PM, 6.10PM,11:45PM
Sunday : 1.45PM, 6.10PM
Ozone Cinemas
4:45pm, 8:20pm
Genre: Drama
Synopsis - A wild teenage girl orchestrates a romance between her nanny and her father, who is a recovering addict
Starring - Kristen Wiig, Guy Pearce, Hailee Steinfeld
Showing
Ozone Cinemas :
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 12:50PM, 9:10PM
Ozone Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 12:30pm
21. A Place in the Stars
Genre: Suspense
Starring: Segun Arinze, Femi Branch, Gideon Okeke, Matilda Obaseki, Yemi Blaq.
Synopsis: Kim Dakim (Gideon Okeke), a young lawyer gets a client with a case that leaves him conflicted. He has information that can save many lives if he passes it on, but he also stands to make millions if he doesn’t. In a very corrupt country where everyone loves money and no one cares how you make it, Kim sees this as his chance to make it big.
Showing:
Ozone Cinemas
11:50am, 6:45pm
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 11:20PM, 5:15PM
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 10:40AM, 5:50PM, 8:00PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 11:50AM, 4:10PM, 6:20PM, 8:30PM
22 : A Most Wanted Man
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Daniel Brühl.
Synopsis: A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught in the international war on terror.
Showing:
Ozone Cinemas
1:05pm, 4:50pm
Silverbird Cinemas Abuja
Friday - Thursday : 2:00PM, 6:30PM, 8:45PM
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Friday - Thursday : 11:20AM, 3:55PM, 8:25PM
Sunday : 3:55PM, 8:25PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Friday - Thursday : 2:05PM, 6:30PM, 8:50PM
Genesis Deluxe Cinemas
Friday - Thursday : 4.50PM, 6.55PM, 9.30PM
23 : American Gangster
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Synopsis: In 1970s America, a detective works to bring down the drug empire of Frank Lucas, a heroin kingpin from Manhattan, who is smuggling the drug into the country from the Far East.
Showing:
Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja
Sunday : 5:30PM
Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt
Sunday : 5:30PM
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