Must-See Movies for the Week

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.

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!

1 The November  Man

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 & Saturday:5:05PM, 8:30PM, 10:20PM

Sunday-Thursday : 5:05PM, 8:30PM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 11:45AM, 12:55PM, 4:00PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 2:40PM, 6:25PM, 8:30PM

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday-Thursday : 1.25PM, 8.10PM

Ozone Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 10:15am, 5:10pm

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, 2:45PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 5:10PM, 7:05PM

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday-Thursday : 10.30AM, 5.20PM

Ozone Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 9:15pm

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.

Peep the trailer

Showing:

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 11:30AM, 1:50PM, 4:00PM, 6:20PM, 8:30PM

Ozone Cinemas

3:50pm

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 9:25PM

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 : 12:00pm, 2:55pm, 6:00pm, 7:45pm

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 4:05PM, 7:10PM

Sunday : 11:00AM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 1:10PM, 3:20PM, 6:05PM, 8:20PM

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday-Thursday : 12:20PM, 3:40PM, 7:00PM, 8:25PM, 10:20PM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 3:00PM, 6:05PM, 8:10PM

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 : 1:20PM, 5:15PM, 8:45PM

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday & Saturday : 1:10PM, 9:10PM, 10:35PM

Sunday- Thursday : 1:10PM, 9:10PM

Genesis Deluxe CinemasFriday & Monday : 12.40PM, 4.40PM, 6.45PM

Saturday & Sunday :12.40PM, 6.45PM

Tuesday - Thursday : 12.40PM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday-Saturday : 11:05AM, 2:50PM

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.

Peep the trailer

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 :2:10PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Fri - Thursday : 11:45AM, 3:40PM

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 :11:25AM, 4:05PM, 9:10PM

Sunday : 4:05PM, 9:10PM

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 & Saturday: 11.00AM, 3.45PM, 8.30PM, 10.55PM

Sunday - Thursday : 11.00AM, 3.45PM, 8.30PM

Ozone Cinemas

2:35pm, 9:00pm

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 : 11:10AM, 4:20PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 11:15AM, 1:10PM, 3:10PM

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:

Silverbird Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 1:20PM, 6:20PM, 8:40PM

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 Port Harcourt

Friday -Thursday : 11:00AM, 1:35PM, 4:10PM, 9:00PM

Ozone Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 9:00pm

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 : 2.20PM

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday: 4:25PM,

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 12:00PM, 5:30PM

Ozone Cinemas

10:40am

13.  The 7th Dwarf

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.

Peep the trailer

Showing:

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 11.00AM, 12.50PM, 2.50PM

Saturday & Sunday : 11.00AM, 12.50PM, 2.50PM, 4:40PM

Ozone Cinemas

10:45am

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 10:50AM, 12:30PM ( except Sunday)

Sunday : 12:30PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 11:20AM, 1:00PM, 4:45PM

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 : 12.10PM, 5.05PM, 7.15PM

Ozone Cinemas

3:10pm, 7:15pm

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday: 11:10AM, 6:40PM, 8:50PM

Saturday - Thursday : 6:40PM, 8:50PM

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 12:40PM, 2:10PM, 6:20PM, 7:05PM

Silverbird Cinemas Port Harcourt

Friday - Thursday : 11:50PM, 2:00PM, 4:10PM, 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: 8.50PM

16  Finding Fela

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 :3:00PM, 8:20PM

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 : 5:35PM

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 : 11:30AM, 3:00PM, 6:45PM

Genesis Deluxe Cinemas

Friday - Thursday : 2:45PM, 7:30PM, 10:05PM

Ozone Cinemas

12:15pm, 4:40pm

Silverbird Cinemas Ikeja

Friday - Thursday : 1:40PM, 6:20PM, 8:45PM

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, 11:45PM

Sunday - Thursday : 1.45PM, 6.10PM

Ozone Cinemas

1:55pm, 7:00pm

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 : 3:00PM, 7:10PM

Silverbird Cinemas Abuja

Friday - Thursday : 11:00AM, 12:50PM, 4:40PM