The romantic thriller PLAINCLOTHES is set to make its SVOD debut later this week, arriving in the US on MUBI on January 16th, 2026. The film world premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival before launching in US theaters on September 19th, 2025. It hit VOD and digital platforms on November 4th, 2025.
Plainclothes is directed by Carmen Emmi and stars Tom Blyth, Russell Tovey, Maria Dizzia, Christian Cooke, Gabe Fazio, Amy Forsyth, and John Bedford Lloyd.
In the film, in 1990s New York, an undercover police officer receives an assignment to lure and arrest gay men. However, he’s surprised to discover a scintillating connection with one of his targets. As their secret connection deepens and internal pressure to deliver arrests intensifies, he finds himself torn between duty and desire.
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the knife (that one relativity media title y’all tracked back in august) is hitting starz on february 1st btw lol:
https://www.starz.com/us/en/movies/the-knife-73583
also, y’all watch the globes last night? some pretty crazy stuff