Movie

Last Call

2026 · 96 min

A real-time pressure cooker that traps you in the room and the newsroom, tightening its grip as the countdown ticks toward disaster.

Overview: New Year’s Eve 1999, Athens: a desperate fugitive armed with a live grenade takes a family hostage and demands to go on live TV as the world counts down to the new millennium. Broadcast in real time, the situation pulls in a young journalist, media executives and a divided police force, as an entire nation watches events spiral toward a tragic and irreversible outcome.
How it feels: Tense, dark, bleak and cynical. Relentless and needs your attention.
About: Media, power, survival, isolation
Content: Strong violence and language. Mild gore. No sexual content.
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Tone: tensestrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: relentless, 4 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: media
power
survival
isolation
fate
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
ensemble
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language strong
Violence strong
Sex none