🚨🩸 Starred Up (2026): Some cages are built from anger. Others from blood.

"Violence was the only language he knew. Now he’s trying to teach silence."

A decade after the searing brutality of the first film, Starred Up (2026) returns to the world of broken men and the prison systems that shape — and shatter — them. But this time, survival isn’t about fists or fear. It’s about forgiveness… if it still exists.

Eric Love (Jack O’Connell), once the most volatile young inmate in the system, is out — but not free. Scarred by years of violence, isolation, and the ghost of his father, Neville (Ben Mendelsohn), Eric now works as a prison conflict mediator. When he’s sent back inside as part of a radical rehabilitation program in a privatized super-prison, the lines between his past and present begin to blur.

Inside, he meets Kieran, a teenage offender on the same path Eric once walked — feral, explosive, fatherless. Haunted by himself and fearing the cycle will repeat, Eric tries to reach Kieran… but in doing so, reopens wounds he never truly closed.

And when whispers of inmate abuse, power games, and systemic rot threaten to spark a riot, Eric must choose: become the savage they all remember, or finally become the man no one thought he could be.

Starred Up (2026) is a raw, emotionally charged return to the cell blocks of rage, masculinity, and desperate redemption. Some prisoners break walls. Others build them inside.