Trailer – Watch the official trailer for 'THE THIRD DEGREE', a 2026 psychological thriller directed by Ryan Little.
Available on Digital from 10 July 2026 via Freestyle Digital Media, 'THE THIRD DEGREE' follows four actors rehearsing a London play as secrets, rivalries and hidden betrayals begin to surface.
Set inside a centuries-old London theatre, the film follows William, who has written and is directing a murder mystery shaped by Hitchcockian dread and 1920s film noir. But as the rehearsal continues, fiction and reality begin to blur.
📍 Directed by: Ryan Little
📍 Distributor: Freestyle Digital Media
📍 Genre: Psychological Thriller / Mystery Thriller / Theatre Thriller
📍 Runtime: 90 minutes
📍 Release Date: 10 July 2026
📍 Release: Digital
📍 Platforms: Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, YouTube Movies and Cable On Demand
📍 Starring: James Barrington, Eric Geynes, Tom Hutch and Nicola Posener
🎬 Synopsis: 'THE THIRD DEGREE' follows four actors who gather for a single night of rehearsals inside a creaky, centuries-old London theatre.
William has written and is directing a murder mystery steeped in Hitchcockian dread and 1920s film noir, bringing together former classmates from an English Dramatic Academy to stage his tightly controlled script.
As the night wears on, hidden affairs, buried betrayals and dangerous ambitions begin to emerge. William rewrites scenes on the fly, manipulating the actors’ egos and desires while flashbacks to 1922 blur the line between past and present, fiction and reality.
What begins as a rehearsal becomes a trap, and by the final act, no one can be certain who is performing and who is in genuine danger.
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