From Danny Boyle’s haunting return to the 28 Days Later saga to Guillermo del Toro’s visionary Frankenstein. From Wes Anderson exploring espionage in The Phoenician Scheme to Yorgos Lanthimos tackling alien conspiracies in Bugonia. From Ari Aster’s Eddington, which takes a sinister comedic turn, to Paul Thomas Anderson adding intrigue with The Battle of Baktan Cross, while Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon highlights the struggles of Broadway composer Lorenz Hart, featuring Ethan Hawke and Margaret Qualley. Exciting casting choices include Cate Blanchett in Jim Jarmusch’s Father, Mother, Sister, Brother, and Brad Pitt returning to the racetrack in Joseph Kosinski’s F1.
Without further ado, let’s dive into the most anticipated films of the year!
1. 28 Years Later | Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer, Cillian Murphy, Ralph Fiennes
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Release Date: June 20, 2025 (United States)
A group of survivors of the rage virus lives on a small island. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors.
2. A Big Bold Beautiful Journey | Director: Kogonada
Cast: Colin Farrell, Margot Robbie, Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Genre: Drama
Release Date: May 9, 2025 (United States)
An imaginative tale of two strangers and the unbelievable journey that connects them
3. After the Hunt | Director: Luca Guadagnino
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Julia Roberts, Michael Stuhlbarg
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.
4. All-Star Weekend | Director: Jamie Foxx
Cast: Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Benicio Del Toro
Genre: Comedy
Two buddies form a rivalry over their favorite American basketball player.
5. Alto Knights | Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Robert De Niro, Cosmo Jarvis, Debra Messing, Kathrine Narducci
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Release Date: March 21, 2025 (United States)
Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, a pair of Italian Americans who run two separate crime families in the mid-20th century. Genovese attempted to assassinate Costello in 1957, although Costello retired from the mob.
6. Atlantis | Director: Michel Gondry
Cast: Kelvin Harrison Jr., Brian Tyree Henry, Da’Vine Joy Randolph
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Release Date: May 9, 2025 (United States)
A musical inspired by Pharrell Williams’ childhood in Virginia Beach.
7. Black Bag | Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Tom Burke, Cate Blanchett
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Release Date: March 14, 2025 (United States)
When intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband – also a legendary agent – faces the ultimate test of whether to be loyal to his marriage, or his country.
8. Blue Moon | Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Margaret Qualley, Ethan Hawke, Andrew Scott, Bobby Cannavale
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Tells the story of Lorenz Hart’s struggles with alcoholism and mental health as he tries to save face during the opening of “Oklahoma!.
9. Bugonia | Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cast: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Alicia Silverstone
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Release Date: November 7, 2025 (United States)
Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
10. Die, My Love | Director: Lynne Ramsay
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Nick Nolte
Genre: Comedy, Horror
In a remote forgotten rural area, a mother struggles to maintain her sanity as she battles with psychosis.
11. Eddington | Director: Ari Aster
Cast: Austin Butler, Pedro Pascal, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Revolves around a couple stranded in a small New Mexico town during the pandemic. Initially welcomed, the town takes a sinister turn by nightfall. It reunites director Aster with actor Phoenix, portraying a sheriff with bigger ambitions.
12. F1 | Director: Joseph Kosinski
Cast: Brad Pitt, Kerry Condon, Javier Bardem
Genre: Drama, Sport
Release Date: June 27, 2025 (United States)
Follows a Formula One driver who comes out of retirement to mentor and team with a younger driver.
13. Father, Mother, Sister, Brother | Director: Jim Jarmusch
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, Sarah Greene, Tom Waits, Vicky Krieps
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Estranged siblings reunite after years apart, forced to confront unresolved tensions and reevaluate their strained relationships with their emotionally distant parents
14. Frankenstein | Director: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Mia Goth, Oscar Isaac, Ralph Ineson, Christoph Waltz
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Pretorius tracks down Frankenstein’s monster, who is believed to have died in a fire forty years before, in order to continue the experiments of Dr. Victor Frankenstein.
15. Good Fortune | Director: Aziz Ansari
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Seth Rogen, Sandra Oh, Aziz Ansari
Genre: Action, Comedy
Release Date: October 17, 2025 (United States)
A struggling man who gets his life swapped with his wealthy friend by a mystical force. He inherits his friend’s lavish lifestyle, while while his friend experiences his financial hardships.
16. Hamnet | Director: Chloé Zhao
Cast: Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, Jessie Buckley, Joe Alwyn
Genre: Biography, Drama
The story of Agnes – the wife of William Shakespeare – as she struggles to come to terms with the loss of her only son, Hamnet. A human and heart-stopping story as the backdrop to the creation of Shakespeare’s most famous play, Hamlet.
17. Hand of Dante | Director: Julian Schnabel
Cast: Gerard Butler, Martin Scorsese, Al Pacino, Gal Gadot, Oscar Isaac
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
A handwritten manuscript of Dante Alighieri’s poem “The Divine Comedy” makes its way from a priest to a mob boss in New York City, where it is taken by Nick Tosches after he’s asked to verify its authenticity.
18. Havoc | Director: Gareth Evans
Cast: Tom Hardy, Timothy Olyphant, Jennifer Armour, Forest Whitaker
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
After a drug deal gone wrong, a bruised detective must fight his way through the criminal underworld to rescue a politician’s estranged son, unraveling a deep web of corruption and conspiracy that ensnares his entire city.
19. Honey Don’t! | Director: Ethan Coen
Cast: Chris Evans, Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza, Talia Ryder
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Ethan Coen’s new film continues his lesbian B-movie trilogy after Drive-Away Dolls, centering on two women on a road trip.
20. Hurry Up Tomorrow | Director: Trey Edward Shults
Cast: The Weeknd, Jenna Ortega, Barry Keoghan
Genre: Musical, Thriller
Release Date: May 16, 2025 (United States)
Plot under wraps.
21. In The Grey | Director: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Henry Cavill, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rosamund Pike
Genre: Action, Drama
Revolves around two extraction specialists who have to designate a route of escape for a senior female negotiator.
22. Kung Fury 2 | Director: David Sandberg
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Fassbender, David Sandberg
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
The story will focus on Kung Fury’s universe with no real connection to the short movie other than the lead character.
23. Long Day’s Journey Into Night | Director: Jonathan Kent
Cast: Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ben Foster
Genre: Drama
Over the course of a day, a married couple, Mary and James Tyrone, and their two sons, Jamie and Edmund, grapple with Mary’s morphine addiction and confront each other over the past in a series of emotionally tense and volatile exchanges.
24. Love Child | Director: Todd Solondz
Cast: Elizabeth Olsen, Charles Melton
Genre: Comedy, Drama
An 11-year-old boy schemes to reshape his mother’s love life – to disastrous consequences.
25. Marty Supreme | Director: Josh Safdie
Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Fran Drescher, Gwyneth Paltrow
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: Expected December 2025 (United States)
Plot under wraps.
26. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning | Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Cast: Tom Cruise, Vanessa Kirby, Hayley Atwell
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Release Date: May 23, 2025 (United States)
Ethan Hunt and the IMF race to stop a global conspiracy that threatens to redefine power and freedom forever.
27. Mickey 17 | Director: Bong Joon Ho
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo, Steven Yeun
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Release Date: March 7, 2025 (United States)
Mickey 17, known as an “expendable,” goes on a dangerous journey to colonize an ice planet.
28. Mother Mary | Director: David Lowery
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Hunter Schafer, Alba Baptista
Genre: Drama, Music
Follows the relationship between a fictional musician and a famous fashion designer.
29. Nouvelle Vague | Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Zoey Deutch, Guillaume Marbeck
Genre: Drama
Follows the production of Jean-Luc Godards’s “Breathless”.
30. Nuremberg | Director: James Vanderbilt
Cast: Russell Crowe, Michael Shannon, Leo Woodall, Rami Malek
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Based on the book ‘The Nazi and the Psychiatrist’ by Jack El-Hai
31. Outcome | Director: Jonah Hill
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Cameron Diaz, Jonah Hill, Matt Bomer
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Follows Hollywood star Reef as he is forced to confront his problems and atone for his past after being threatened by a bizarre video footage from his past.
32. Peter Hujar’s Day | Director: Ira Sachs
Cast: Ben Whishaw, Rebecca Hall
Genre: Drama
Release Date: January 27, 2025 (United States)
A conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and Linda Rosenkrantz from 1974 sheds light on New York’s vibrant downtown art world and the introspective journey of an artist’s life.
33. Rebuilding | Director: Max Walker-Silverman
Cast: Josh O’Connor, Meghann Fahy
Genre: Drama
Release Date: January 26, 2025 (United States)
After wildfires take his ranch, a cowboy named Dusty winds up in a FEMA camp, finding a community with others who lost homes, including his daughter and ex-wife.
34. Roofman | Director: Derek Cianfrance
Cast: Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst, Peter Dinklage, Ben Mendelsohn
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release Date: October 3, 2025 (United States)
The story of the rooftop robber, Jeffrey Manchester, and his time on the lam evading capture.
35. Sinners | Director: Ryan Coogler
Cast: Hailee Steinfeld, Jack O’Connell, Michael B. Jordan
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Release Date: April 18, 2025 (United States)
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
36. The Actor | Director: Duke Johnson
Cast: Tracey Ullman, Gemma Chan, Joe Cole, Toby Jones
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
When New York actor Paul Cole is beaten and left for dead in 1950s Ohio, he loses his memory and finds himself stranded in a mysterious small town where he struggles to get back home and reclaim what he’s lost.
37. The Battle of Baktan Cross | Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio Del Toro, Sean Penn, Alana Haim
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release Date: August 8, 2025 (United States)
Plot under wraps.
38. The Bride | Director: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Christian Bale, Jessie Buckley, John Magaro
Genre: Drama, Horror, Musical
Release Date: September 26, 2025 (United States)
In 1930s Chicago, Frankenstein asks Dr. Euphronius to help create a companion. They give life to a murdered woman as the Bride, sparking romance, police interest, and radical social change.
39. The Chronology of Water | Director: Kristen Stewart
Cast: Imogen Poots, Thora Birch
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
In this adaptation of an author’s memoir, the author focuses on her bisexuality, her addiction issues, and her involvement with the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement opposing Israeli oppression of Palestine.
40. The History of Sound | Director: Oliver Hermanus
Cast: Paul Mescal, Josh O’Connor, Chris Cooper
Genre: Romance
Two young men during World War I set out to record the lives, voices and music of their American countrymen.
41. The Lost Bus | Director: Paul Greengrass
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, America Ferrera
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Explores what went wrong in California’s Camp Fire, the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century, and how to prevent future tragedies, also includes stories of a bus driver and school teacher who helped through a wildfire.
42. The Phoenician Scheme | Director: Wes Anderson
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bill Murray
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Release Date: February 13, 2025 (United States)
Dark tale of espionage following a strained father-daughter relationship within a family business. Twists revolve around betrayal and morally gray choices.
43. The Roses | Director: Jay Roach
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Olivia Colman, Hala Finley
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release Date: February 28, 2025 (United States)
A tinderbox of competition and resentments underneath the façade of a picture-perfect couple is ignited when the husband’s professional dreams come crashing down.
44. The Running Man | Director: Edgar Wright
Cast: Glen Powell, Josh Brolin, Michael Cera, William H. Macy
Genre: Sci-Fi
Release Date: November 7, 2025 (United States)
The futuristic United States of 2025 when the world has become a dystopia.
45. The Smashing Machine | Director: Benny Safdie
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Bas Rutten
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
The story of mixed martial arts and UFC champion Mark Kerr.
46. The Trashers | Director: Cooper Raiff
Cast: David Harbour, Olivia DeJonge, Cooper Hoffman
Follow the rise and fall of Jimmy Galante, a garbage tycoon from Danbury, Connecticut, and partner of the Genovese crime family.
47. The Way of the Wind | Director: Terrence Malick
Cast: Sarah Greene, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Mark Rylance, Ben Kingsley
Genre: Drama, History
A retelling of several episodes in the life of Jesus.
48. Voyagers | Director: Sebastián Lelio
Cast: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Andrew Garfield
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
The cosmic love story between Carl Sagan and his wife, Ann Druyan.
49. Warfare | Director: Alex Garland, Ray Mendoza
Cast: Joseph Quinn, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Charles Melton
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Based on ex-Navy Seal Ray Mendoza’s real-life experiences during the Iraq War.
50. Wizards! | Director: David Michôd
Cast: Naomi Scott, Pete Davidson, Sean Harris, Franz Rogowski
Genre: Comedy
The problems of two unlucky beach bar operators start when they find stolen loot that they really should have left alone.
