Film

Last Breath

Name: Last Breath
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Released: 2025
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu, Finn Cole, Cliff Curtis, Mark Bonnar

Other titles called Last Breath: the 2014 film, the 2017 film.

Last Breath is a taut survival thriller about deep-sea rescue operations, where claustrophobia and the ocean's indifference become as menacing as any villain. It's visceral and intimate—a pressure-cooker about people fighting physics and time. For anyone who likes their stakes grounded and their tension mechanical rather than melodramatic.

TMDb rating

3.4

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