18 Movie Releases Coming to Cinemas in October: From Wanda Nara to Tom Cruise

Among the October 2026 movie releases, Alejandro Iñárritu returns with a film starring Tom Cruise.

In it, the world’s most powerful man embarks on a frantic mission to prove that he is humanity’s savior before the disaster he himself unleashed destroys everything.

The fact: while filming, Iñárritu and Cruise became friends over Mexican food, and the director said he was surprised by how easily the actor could eat spicy chilies.

The sequel to the hit 2022 movie once again turns heights into a threat. This time, a group of young people becomes trapped in a remote landscape in Thailand, suspended hundreds of feet above the ground with no obvious way out.

As time runs out, they must face exhaustion and desperation. Scott Mann once again relies on a simple but effective formula: making every movement at great heights potentially turn into a fatal mistake.

The fact: the first film turned an abandoned tower into a vertical prison, where the void itself was another character. The sequel takes that idea to an even more extreme setting.

This comedy starring Nicolás Furtado follows an immature twenty-something whose life falls apart when he loses his job and grows distant from the girl he likes.

After meeting an eccentric character, he decides to invest his entire severance package in Bitcoin. But an accident leaves him in a coma for fourteen years, and when he wakes up, he discovers that his investment is now worth millions and his mother is drowning in debt. The problem is that he cannot remember the password and, in order to recover it, he will have to reconstruct his past.

The fact: the cast also includes Agustina “Papryka” Suásquita, Alejandra Flechner, Louta, Iair Said, Mike Chouhy, Charo López, Maxi de la Cruz and Joaquín Levinton.

A psychological thriller starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett. The story follows a struggling writer who arrives at the remote home of famous author Verity Crawford to finish her books.

There, she finds disturbing autobiographical notes that could reveal secrets about the family and begins to have trouble distinguishing fiction from reality.

The fact: the film is based on the novel of the same name by Colleen Hoover, who also wrote It Ends with Us, which was adapted for the big screen.

Two years after saving the Mona Lisa, Maurice, Vincent and Cleopatra find themselves in trouble once again. This time, an ancient papyrus leads them to an Egyptian genie who grants only one wish every thousand years. Their adventure takes them from the Hermitage to the pyramids, the Nile and the secret tunnels of Luxor, where they must face new enemies and discover that not everyone wants the same thing.

The fact: the film’s characters are inspired by the real cats of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.

After being fired from a multinational company, Hugo Vaca (Diego Peretti) finds himself in a difficult financial situation. Unable to find another job, he accepts an unusual real estate proposal: sell his house for half its value while retaining the right to live there until his death.

But what begins as a desperate way out soon turns into an increasingly unsettling situation that combines drama and thriller to tell a story shaped by unemployment, economic uncertainty and the fear of losing everything.

The fact: the film premiered at the 40th Mar del Plata International Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Golden Astor.

Twenty years after its original release, Lightning McQueen returns to the big screen. The Pixar animated film follows the arrogant race car who, after an accident, ends up in Radiator Springs, a small town along Route 66 where he discovers that life is much more about the journey than getting there first. The re-release arrives in theaters as part of the film’s anniversary celebrations.

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The fact: to create Cars, the team traveled along Route 66 and found an old tow truck in Kansas that inspired Mater.

The Japanese phenomenon that turned soccer into a battle for survival arrives with a new adaptation. Blue Lock follows young soccer players taking part in an extreme program designed to find the striker capable of becoming Japan’s biggest star. The film brings to the big screen the universe created by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yusuke Nomura, one of the most popular sports manga series of recent years.

The fact: Kota Nomura, who voices Kunigami, watched around 100 times the anime scenes featuring his character in order to study his movements and way of speaking.

On the southern coast of Sardinia, the lives of a humble shepherd and a powerful businessman collide when the latter tries to turn his land into a luxury resort. Efisio Mulas refuses to leave the house where he was born and has lived his entire life, while his daughter Francesca finds herself torn between the possibility of a different future and her connection to the land. When the dispute reaches the courts, a local judge must decide the fate of that last stretch of coastline.

The fact: the character of Efisio is inspired by Ovidio Marras, a Sardinian shepherd who refused to sell his land for the construction of a luxury resort.

What would you do if you were trapped inside a whale with only an hour of oxygen? That is the nightmare facing Jay Gardiner when he dives off the coast of California looking for his father’s remains and ends up being swallowed by a giant whale. As he tries to find a way out, the lessons he learned from his father could become the key to survival.

The fact: the film takes place almost in real time, and much of the story unfolds inside the whale.

Ten years after its original release, the South Korean horror classic returns to theaters. Train to Busan follows a group of passengers traveling from Seoul to Busan when a virus begins transforming the population into violent creatures.

Trapped aboard a high-speed train, the protagonists must survive as the infection spreads from carriage to carriage.

The fact: the film grossed $93.5 million worldwide and received 36 international awards.

Ryu and Ken reunite in this new film adaptation of the classic video game. Set in 1993, the film finds them forced to put aside their differences when Chun-Li recruits them to take part in the World Warriors Tournament.

What begins as a martial arts competition soon becomes a conspiracy that forces them to confront their own past as well.

The fact: the trailer was designed like a video game, complete with a tutorial and combos that audiences can follow during the scenes.

Ahead of the release of The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, scheduled for November 19**, the saga’s four original films return to theaters**. The journey begins with The Hunger Games (2012), continues with Catching Fire (2013) and Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014), and concludes with Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015). An opportunity to return to Panem and follow Katniss Everdeen’s story from the beginning before the highly anticipated prequel arrives.

The fact: the new film goes back decades to tell the story of Haymitch Abernathy’s youth, the character played by Woody Harrelson in the original saga.

Wanda Nara makes her leading-role debut in this comedy by Hernán Guerschuny, playing Lucía, a 40-year-old woman who discovers that her partner is cheating on her and, heartbroken, returns to her single life.

Everything becomes complicated when she meets Javier, her 23-year-old neighbor, and asks him to pretend to be her son in order to get a job. Between the lie and their improvised living arrangement, something neither of them expected emerges: a romance with a 20-year age gap.

The fact: Wanda shares the cast with Agustín Bernasconi, Jean Pierre Noher and Charo López.

Aaron Sorkin returns to the world of The Social Network with a story inspired by the revelations of Frances Haugen, the former Facebook engineer who leaked internal company documents.

The film follows the relationship between Haugen and Jeff Horwitz, a journalist for The Wall Street Journal, as they attempt to expose information about how one of the world’s most powerful social networks operates.

The fact: to prepare for the film, Sorkin created his first Facebook account and spent a year and a half exploring the platform. The algorithm eventually filled his feed with photos of dachshunds.

DC Studios dives headfirst into horror with Clayface, a film centered on the origins of Gotham’s villain. Matt Hagen goes from being a street kid to becoming a Hollywood star, until a criminal leaves him horribly disfigured.

Desperate to restore his appearance, he agrees to undergo a treatment that alters his perception of reality and sends him down a path of revenge and obsession.

The fact: Mike Flanagan conceived and co-wrote the film but had to step away from directing due to a lack of time, and James Watkins ultimately took his place.

A humanitarian mission turns into a nightmare when a group of young doctors ventures into the Colombian jungle and discovers that they are not alone.

Deep in the jungle, they encounter Boiúna, a gigantic creature linked to the region’s legends that has become a terrifying predator stalking the expedition.

The fact: the creature is based on Titanoboa, a prehistoric snake that lived in South America and reached extraordinary proportions.

The new film from Laika brings a dark fantasy story to the big screen, starring Prue McKeel, a teenage girl who follows a flock of crows after they kidnap her baby brother.

Her journey takes her to a hidden forest populated by talking animals, bandits and ancient forces. What begins as a rescue mission ultimately becomes an epic adventure.

The fact: to build the world of Wildwood, Laika created 136 sets and 231 puppets, and one of the characters required around 3,000.