Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz‘s latest thriller finally has a release date. According to the film’s press release, Bunker, written and directed by Florian Zeller, will open nationwide on January 15, 2027, as officially announced by Sony Pictures Classics.
The film will be released after an awards-qualifying run, which is expected to begin on December 11, 2026, in New York and Los Angeles. Bunker already had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, and has since screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and Zurich Film Festival as well. It has an upcoming screening scheduled at the BFI London Film Festival.
Bunker stars real-life couple Bardem and Cruz alongside Stephen Graham, Paul Dano, and Patrick Schwarzenegger. It is produced by Federica Sainte-Rose for Blue Morning Pictures, alongside Fernando Bovaira and Simón de Santiago of Mod Producciones.
Pathé’s Ardavan Safaee, Mediawan’s Pierre-Antoine Capton, and Entourage Ventures’ Julien Delajoux serve as co-producers. Executive producers include Mariano Cohn, Gaston Duprat, Andrés Duprat, Emanuel Nunez, Fernando Sokolowicz, and Helen Marti.
What is Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz’s Bunker movie about?
A psychological thriller and marriage-crisis drama, Bunker examines the emotional and moral challenges a couple faces in “an increasingly uncertain world.” While Bardem stars as Miguel, a successful London-based Spanish architect, Cruz plays Sofia, a literary/publishing editor.
Miguel starts considering a lucrative, highly secretive contract to build a massive, doomsday survivalist bunker in Hawaii for a tech billionaire. But Sofia strongly opposes the project, viewing it as a symbol of extreme wealth, class disparity, paranoia, and moral detachment from society.
Ultimately, Sofia is left to question their relationship of 17 years as Miguel accepts the offer, with their stable and affluent life together beginning to fracture. Furthermore, the intrusion of an unsettling working-class neighbor, Toby, becomes yet another source of anxiety for the couple.
