A psychologist who thinks he has found a way to talk to the dead is the calm opening of Repeat, right before that discovery turns his life inside out. Grant Archer and Richard Miller's 2021 mystery-thriller uses one impossible breakthrough to unravel a family in real danger.
What is Repeat about?
A driven cognitive psychologist believes he has stumbled onto something extraordinary: a genuine method of communicating with the other side. The excitement does not last. His daughter is thrown into serious danger, and as every conventional avenue for finding out why goes cold, he abandons caution and starts investigating on his own terms. Repeat follows him from that first breakthrough into territory his academic training never prepared him for, tracking how a scientific curiosity turns into a personal, urgent search once someone he loves is at risk.
About the cast
Tom England leads as the psychologist at the center of the investigation, with Charlotte Ritchie playing a key role opposite him. Nina Wadia, Ellila-Jean Wood, Joshua Ford, and Georgia Conlan complete an ensemble drawn from British television and film. The cast is arranged around a single family's crisis rather than a large web of characters, keeping the focus tight.
Context & significance
Directed jointly by Grant Archer and Richard Miller and released in 2021, Repeat sits at the crossing point of mystery, science fiction, and thriller, using a speculative premise about contact with the dead as the engine for a grounded, danger-driven plot. At 95 minutes, it is a British production that favors a small cast and an escalating personal stakes structure over large-scale spectacle.
Watching Repeat on Ktime
Repeat is available on K-Time to watch after logging into a free account, with no purchase needed to read this page. The film does not currently carry a Persian dub or Persian subtitles on K-Time, so it plays in its original English, within K-Time's Farsi-language browsing experience.