Director: F. Gary Gray
An ordinary shift turns into something no one can explain once Guru and Harini get sealed inside their own office in Lift, a 2024 mystery thriller with horror undertones.
What is Lift about?
Guru and Harini are going through an unremarkable workday when the building around them shifts without warning, trapping them inside a workplace that no longer behaves like the one they left the night before. Doors that should lead outside loop back on themselves, familiar rooms feel wrong, and the pair slowly realize that something unexplained has taken hold of the space. The only way out appears to be an elevator that keeps presenting them with a strange, rule-bound game, each round more disorienting than the last. As the hours stretch on, Guru and Harini have to work through the puzzle together while confronting the possibility that the building itself, or something inside it, has no intention of letting them leave easily.
Cast & crew
Kevin Hart and Gugu Mbatha-Raw carry the film as Guru and Harini, with Vincent D'Onofrio, Úrsula Corberó, Billy Magnussen, Jacob Batalon, Jean Reno, and Sam Worthington filling out a dense supporting cast. The pairing of Hart's comic instincts with the film's tenser, more unsettling setup gives the two leads room to shift tone as the situation escalates.
Context & significance
Lift is a 2024 American production blending drama, horror, mystery, and thriller across a 106-minute runtime. Its confined, single-location setup leans on escalating rules and repetition rather than jump scares, closer in spirit to puzzle-box thrillers than to conventional haunted-house horror.
Where & how to watch
Lift streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, letting Farsi-speaking viewers follow every twist of the trapped-office puzzle without losing tension in translation. This page is free to read, and watching the film only requires logging into a free K-Time account, with no separate purchase needed.