ComingSoon is debuting an exclusive trailer for The Man With the Silver Case, the upcoming thriller drama from Freestyle Digital Media. The black-and-white movie will be available to rent/own on North American digital HD internet, cable, DVD, and satellite platforms starting April 7, 2026.
“Already killing himself with drugs and alcohol, an unnamed Man in Gray accepts the deadly job of delivering a suitcase with unknown contents to a shadowy organization. Handcuffed to his wrist, he finds himself on the run from others who will kill anyone for it. As the company he works for starts tearing itself up, the safe house he retreats to puts him in contact with a family unprepared for the nihilistic violence he brings with him – and desperately wants out of,” reads the film’s official synopsis. “Drawing inspiration from Jean-Pierre Melville, Hitchcock, and Michael Haneke, the film bridges the gap between high-concept style and gritty genre cinema. Captured in native black-and-white on location in Switzerland, the film finds a ‘terrible beauty’ in the late-winter Alps, juxtaposing the vast, rugged isolation of the landscape against one man’s internal struggle to outrun his own self-destruction.”
Check out the exclusive The Man With the Silver Case trailer below (watch more trailers):
What happens in The Man With the Silver Case trailer?
The video introduces an unnamed mercenary in a gray suit, who’s on the run from people targeting the silver case suitcase he’s guarding. He ends up at a safe house, where he meets an innocent family who gets unwillingly dragged into the violent chaos that comes with his dangerous mission. The movie stars Stuart Reid as Man in Gray, Lara Marian as Mother, Tom Ohmer as Father, Antonio Luque as Son, Verity Jones as Business Woman, Noelle Zweifel as Daughter, Benji Gerber as Hunter, Pierre Gribling as Company Man, Marysol Fernandez as Hypnotist, Kaspar Weiss as Hotel Clerk, Piotr Tollik as Man in Black, and Joby Ogwyn as the original Man with Case.
The Man With the Silver Case is written and directed by Colin Best. It is produced by Best, Chris Martin, Beni Lehmann, and Joby Ogwyn. It features songs from different artists, including The Grateful Dead, The Cure, David Byrne/Brian Eno, Grizzly Bear, Conway Twitty, Enno Poppe, and Sonny Rollins. The creative team includes cinematographer Jay Keitel and editor Youssef Delara.
“The Man in Gray lead character is a guy who forces himself to turn off all feelings, all obligations to humanity, just to do his job,” Best said in a statement. “On the surface, he’s calm, but he can’t escape everything roiling in his heart and mind. That internal chaos, and the struggle to suppress it, is reflected in the music.”
