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2025 Movies

Film Stage: Top 50 Films of 2025

12 December 2025

The Film Stage: Top 50 Films of 2025

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2018 • 2017]

  1. One Battle After Another
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  2. The Shrouds
    David Cronenberg
  3. Sinners
    Ryan Coogler
  4. Afternoons of Solitude
    Albert Serra
  5. Caught by the Tides
    Jia Zhang-ke
  6. Resurrection
    Bi Gan
  7. The Mastermind
    Kelly Reichardt
  8. It Was Just an Accident
    Jafar Panahi
  9. Cloud
    Kiyoshi Kurosawa
  10. Misericordia
    Alain Guiraudie
  11. Sirāt
    Oliver Laxe
  12. Marty Supreme
    Josh Safdie
  13. No Other Choice
    Park Chan-wook
  14. The Secret Agent
    Kleber Mendonça Filho
  15. Eephus
    Carson Lund
  16. Blue Moon
    Richard Linklater
  17. Train Dreams
    Clint Bentley
  18. If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
    Mary Bronstein
  19. Eddington
    Ari Aster
  20. Weapons
    Zach Cregger
  21. Sound of Falling
    Mascha Schilinski
  22. Black Bag
    Steven Soderbergh
  23. Father Mother Sister Brother
    Jim Jarmusch
  24. Sentimental Value
    Joachim Trier
  25. 28 Years Later
    Danny Boyle
  26. Magellan
    Lav Diaz
  27. Nouvelle Vague
    Richard Linklater
  28. Peter Hujar's Day
    Ira Sachs
  29. Grand Tour
    Miguel Gomes
  30. The Chronology of Water
    Kristen Stewart
  31. Reflection in a Dead Diamond
    Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani
  32. The Love That Remains
    Hlynur Pálmason
  33. By the Stream
    Hong Sang-soo
  34. You Burn Me
    Matías Piñeiro
  35. Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
    The Brothers Quay
  36. Hamnet
    Chloé Zhao
  37. After the Hunt
    Luca Guadagnino
  38. April
    Déa Kulumbegashvili
  39. Die My Love
    Lynne Ramsay
  40. My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow
    Julia Loktev
  41. BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
    Kahlil Joseph
  42. All That's Left of You
    Cherien Dabis
  43. Henry Fonda for President
    Alexander Horwath
  44. The Testament of Ann Lee
    Mona Fastvold
  45. Pillion
    Harry Lighton
  46. The Naked Gun
    Akiva Schaffer
  47. Friendship
    Andrew DeYoung
  48. Highest 2 Lowest
    Spike Lee
  49. Avatar: Fire and Ash
    James Cameron
  50. The Sparrow in the Chimney
    Ramon Zürcher

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