

Dead of Winter
Wrong place. Wrong crime.
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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6.5/10
512 votes
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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
Music
Produced in
Germany, United States of America, Belgium
Where to watch
Availability for India. Provided by JustWatch through the TMDB API.
Stream
Lionsgate PlayWatch now
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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
Frequently asked questions
Dead of Winter was released on 23 September 2025.
Audience reviews
3- C7/10
CinemaSerf
10/10/2025
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…
- T6/10
The Fixate & Binge Podcast, w/ Joe Curdy
7/29/2026
**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…
- T3/10
tender_buttkiss
8/17/2026
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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