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10 Movies releasing in theaters this week (October 6-12): Controll, Nellikkampoyil Night Riders and The Smashing Machine
This week’s theater run offers a myriad of films ranging from science fiction to thrillers and romance. Here’s your watchlist.
The October 6 to 12 week brings a bunch of interesting films for you to dig into. Take your pick from the list below.
1. Tron: Ares
Targeting the increase in AI involvement in today’s world, the film Tron: Ares is a sequel to Tron: Legacy targets the introduction of a highly sophisticated program, Ares, which enters the human world. It is sent on a dangerous mission, with the target of AI’s first meeting with humans.
- Cast: Jeff Bridges, Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Jodie Turner-Smith, Hasan Minhaj, Arturo Castro, Gillian Anderson
- Director: Joachim Rønning
- Language: English
- Genre: Science Fiction, Action
- Release Date: October 10, 2025
2. The Smashing Machine
After receiving the Silver Lion at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival, The Smashing Machine is here for its theatrical release. It follows the story of a struggling, dr*g addict, former amateur wrestler and MMA fighter, Mark Kerr, and his girlfriend, Dawn Staples, as they stumble in and out of a relationship while balancing their troubled lives and his
- Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Ryan Bader, Bas Rutten, Oleksandr Usyk
- Director: Benny Safdie
- Language: English
- Genre: Biography, Sports, Drama
- Release Date: October 10, 2025
3. Nellikkampoyil Night Riders
An age-old myth weakens the energy of a village as Nellikkampoyil grapples with its aftereffects. A group of young men, led by Shyam who joins hands with his close friends from the village, try to find the truth behind the story.
- Cast: Mathew Thomas, Roshan Shanavas, Sarath Sabha
- Director: Noufal Abdullah
- Language: Malayalam
- Genre: Horror, Comedy
- Release Date: October 10, 2025
4. Room No. 111
Karthik and Divya go against the wishes of their parents to get married and start a life together. They are blessed with a daughter who cannot speak, and during one such family outing, the father and the child pass away. Divya suspects it is a plot from her kin and steps out to dig through the mystery alongside a journalist named Priya.
- Cast: Dharma Keerthiraj, Apoorva, Garima Singh
- Director: Bhumireedy Chandra Mouli Reedy
- Language: Kannada, Telugu
- Genre: Mystery, Thriller
- Release Date: October 10, 2025
5. Sasivadane
Sasi and Raghava are two people madly in love. Sasivadane follows their journey from their first meeting to the time they spend together at the beautiful Konaseema, where not just happiness but a lot of trouble awaits the couple.
- Cast: Rakshit Atluri, Komalee Prasad
- Director: Sai Mohan Ubbana
- Language: Telugu
- Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
- Release Date: October 10, 2025
6. The Constable
A new case befalls a small-town constable, but it is not as simple as it seems. Mysterious deaths surround the town of Mokila, and he must now join hands with his colleague-cum-best friend and a longtime fan to get to the bottom of it.
- Cast: Ravi Varma, Kalpalatha, Varun Sandesh, Madhulika Varanasi, Muralidhar Goud
- Director: Aryan Subhan S.K.
- Language: Telugu
- Genre: Crime, Thriller
- Release Date: October 10, 2025
7. Marutham
The film follows a farmer named Kanniappan who must protect his ancestral land from greedy people who are threatening to take control of it. It gets secretly mortgaged, and he gets entangled in problematic loan practices.
- Cast: Aruldoss, Maran, Saravanan Subbaiah, Dinamodhu Nagaraj, Mathew Varghese
- Director: V. Gajendran
- Language: Tamil
- Genre: Drama
- Release Date: October 10, 2025
8. Controll
The film follows a highly qualified cybercrime army officer who is tasked with solving a case messing with the youth and oldies alike. He tries to stop the crime before it reaches an even wider range of people.
- Cast: Thakur Anoop Singh, Priya Anand, Rohit Roy, Rajesh Sharma, Palak Jaiswal, Karan Singh Chhabra, Rudrashish Majumder
- Director: Safdar Abbas
- Language: Hindi
- Genre: Thriller, Crime
- Release Date: October 10, 2025
9. Lord Curzon Ki Haveli
Four people meet up for a casual dinner, where the host, Rohit, ends up joking to his friends about finding a corpse in a car’s trunk. The unexpected jest soon turns into an eventful night in their lives as shocking developments shake their foundations.
- Cast: Rasika Dugal, Arjun Mathur, Zoha Rahman, Paresh Pahuja, Tanmay Dhanania
- Director: Anshuman Jha
- Language: Hindi
- Genre: Thriller, Dark Comedy
- Release Date: October 10, 2025
10. Saira Khan Case
The story follows the struggles of a mother who seeks rightful custody of her children after undergoing a ‘triple-talaq’ situation and fights the law to enforce her rights.
- Cast: Rajniesh Duggall, Poonam Dubey, Araddhana Sharma, Karan Razdan, Rajeev Verma, Manmohan Tiwari
- Director: Swati Chauhan, Karan Razdan
- Language: Hindi
- Genre: Drama, Legal
- Release Date: October 10, 2025
