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Dead of Winter

Wrong place. Wrong crime.

6.5(512)20251h 38m5

A widowed fisherwoman, travelling alone through snowbound northern Minnesota, interrupts the kidnapping of a teenage girl. Hours from the nearest town and with no phone service, she realizes that she is the young girl's only hope.

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Status
Released
Budget
—
Box office
$1M
Language
English
  • kidnapping
  • minnesota
  • fisherman
  • snow
  • moral courage
  • cabin in the woods
  • grieving widow
  • frozen lake
  • fisherwoman
  • survival thriller
  • snow storm
  • witness to a crime

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Behind the camera

Director

Brian Kirk

Produced in

Germany, United States of America, Belgium

Where to watch

Availability for India. Provided by JustWatch through the TMDB API.

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalR26 Sept 2025
    • Digital / OTT21 Oct 2025
    • Physical9 Dec 2025
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical1526 Sept 2025
  • AustraliaAU

    • PremiereMA 15+Russell Hobbs British Film Festival6 Nov 2025
    • TheatricalMA 15+27 Nov 2025
  • CanadaCA

    • Theatrical14A26 Sept 2025
  • ArgentinaAR

    • Theatrical+165 Mar 2026
  • BelgiumBE

    • Theatrical25 Feb 2026
  • BrazilBR

    • Theatrical1419 Feb 2026
    • Digital / OTT14VOD19 Apr 2026
  • ChileCL

    • Theatrical1426 Feb 2026
  • ColombiaCO

    • Theatrical26 Feb 2026
  • FinlandFI

    • Theatrical12 Dec 2025
  • FranceFR

    • Digital / OTT12Canal+7 Mar 2026
    • TV12Canal+7 Mar 2026
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1219 Feb 2026

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Dead of Winter was released on 23 September 2025.

Audience reviews

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    CinemaSerf

    10/10/2025

    7/10

    With the ice on a remote Minnesota lake thick enough to need a saw to cut through it, “Barb” (Dame Emma Thompson) heads, replete with her handy little heated hut, to do some fishing. Her solitude is disturbed by a young woman who is forcibly returned to a nearby house, and upon some sleuthing she discovers that not only has she been kidnapped, but that her captor (Marc Manchaca) and his even more desperate wife (Judy…

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    The Fixate & Binge Podcast, w/ Joe Curdy

    7/29/2026

    6/10

    **DEAD OF WINTER** isn't groundbreaking in its premise or bursting with originality-- but for fans of Emma Thompson's body of acting work, her performance alone carries the film throughout in this cat and mouse suspense, survival thriller. With a smart, linear story, and Thompson playing a more than meets the eye widow who stumbles upon a backwoods kidnapping -- **DEAD OF WINTER** delivers in every way films of th…

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    tender_buttkiss

    8/17/2026

    3/10

    At one point Judy Grears character reveals that the plan is to perform this illegal life saving surgery on the ice only becauae then once she and her husband are done they can easily dump the body into the frozen lake. Or, ya know, wait until it's warmer, do the surgery in a sterile environment, then dump the girls body in the lake by boat. And even after watching I still have no idea what illness Judy Grear's charac…

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