Best Movies of 2025 by Rank
1516
1
Paul Thomas Anderson
Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Adventure
USA
English
1769
2
Joachim Trier
Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Elle Fanning
Comedy / Drama
Norway / Germany / Denmark / France / Sweden
Norwegian
1910
3
Jafar Panahi
Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi, Hadis Pakbaten, Majid Panahi
Action / Adventure / Crime / Thriller
Iran / France / Luxembourg
Persian
2190
4
Oliver Laxe
Sergi López, Bruno Núñez Arjona, Stefania Gadda
Drama
France / Spain
Spanish
2211
5
Guillermo del Toro
Christoph Waltz, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Oscar Isaac, Ralph Ineson
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi
Mexico / USA
English
2227
6
Kleber Mendonça Filho
Robson Andrade, Rubens Santos, Licínio Januário
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Post-Noir
Brazil / France / Netherlands / Germany
Portuguese
2264
7
Zach Cregger
Scarlett Sher, Julia Garner, Cary Christopher, Jason Turner, Josh Brolin
Horror / Mystery
USA
English
2295
8
Kathryn Bigelow
Rebecca Ferguson, Idris Elba, Willa Fitzgerald, Jared Harris, Anthony Ramos
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2342
9
Alex Garland, Ray Mendoza
D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connor, Finn Bennett
Action / Drama / War / Adventure
USA / UK
English
2445
10
Noah Baumbach
Adam Sandler, George Clooney, Patrick Wilson, Eve Hewson, Riley Keough
Comedy / Drama
USA / UK / Italy
English
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2446
11
Rian Johnson
Daniel Craig, Josh O'Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2453
12
Ryan Coogler
Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku
Action / Drama / Horror / Thriller / Adventure / Fantasy
USA / Australia / Canada
English
2479
13
Shih-Ching Tsou
Janel Tsai, Shih-Yuan Ma, Nina Ye, Teng-Hui Huang, Akio Chen, Xin-Yan Chao
Drama
Taiwan / France / USA / UK
Mandarin
2479
13
Clint Bentley
Joel Edgerton, Clifton Collins Jr., Felicity Jones, Alfred Hsing, David Paul Olsen
Drama
USA
English
2502
14
Mascha Schilinski
Hanna Heckt, Lena Urzendowsky, Susanne Wuest, Luise Heyer, Laeni Geiseler
Drama
Germany
German
2511
15
Kaouther Ben Hania
Saja Kilani, Motaz Malhees, Clara Khoury, Amer Hlehel
Drama
Tunisia / France / USA
Arabic
2516
16
Park Chan-wook
Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon, Lee Sung-min, Yeom Hye-ran
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller
South Korea
Korean
2526
17
Chloé Zhao
Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Zac Wishart, James Lintern, Joe Alwyn
Biography / Drama / History / Romance
UK
English
2647
18
James Cameron
Kate Winslet, Stephen Lang, Zoe Saldaña, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Epic
USA
English
2647
18
Joseph Kosinski
Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Javier Bardem, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, Kim Bodnia
Action / Drama / Sports / Adventure
USA
English
2647
18
Hlynur Pálmason
Panda, Saga Garðarsdóttir, Sverrir Gudnason
Comedy / Drama / Family
Iceland / Denmark / Sweden / France
Icelandic
2647
18
Josh Safdie
Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Larry 'Ratso' Sloman, Mariann Tepedino
Drama / Sports / Comedy
Finland / USA
English
2647
18
Hikari
Brendan Fraser, Paolo Andrea Di Pietro, Shinji Ozeki, Takao Kin, Risa Kameda
Comedy / Drama
Japan / USA
English
2647
18
Jon M. Chu
Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh, Jonathan Bailey
Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance / Action / Adventure
USA / Canada / Australia
English
2666
19
Steven Soderbergh
Michael Fassbender, Gustaf Skarsgård, Cate Blanchett, Tom Burke, Marisa Abela
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
2684
20
Jim Jarmusch
Mayim Bialik, Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, Sarah Greene, Vicky Krieps
Comedy / Drama
USA / Italy / France / Ireland
English
2696
22
Gabriel Mascaro
Denise Weinberg, Rodrigo Santoro, Miriam Socarras, Adanilo, Rosa Malagueta
Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Brazil / Mexico / Netherlands / Chile
Portuguese
2702
23
Valérie Donzelli
Claude Perron, Bastien Bouillon, Mike Bujoli, Naëlle Dariya, Virginie Ledoyen
Biography / Drama
France
French
2702
23
Mona Fastvold
Lewis Pullman, Amanda Seyfried, Tim Blake Nelson, Christopher Abbott
Biography / Drama / History / Musical
USA / UK
English
2702
23
László Nemes
Grégory Gadebois, Marcin Czarnik, Bojtorján Barabas
Biography / Drama / History
Hungary / UK / USA / Cyprus / France / Germany
Hungarian
2702
23
Yorgos Lanthimos
Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Alicia Silverstone, Stavros Halkias, Aidan Delbis
Comedy / Crime / Sci-Fi
Ireland / South Korea / Canada / USA
English
2702
23
Pietro Marcello
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Fanni Wrochna, Noémie Merlant, Fausto Russo Alesi
Biography / Drama / History
Italy / France
Italian
2702
23
Leonardo Di Costanzo
Valeria Golino, Barbara Ronchi, Roschdy Zem, Diego Ribon, Jasmin Mattei
Drama / Crime
Italy / Switzerland
Italian
2702
23
Shu Qi
Roy Chiu, Esther Liu, Bamboo Chu-Sheng Chen, Xiao-Ying Bai, Yu-Fei Lai
Drama
Taiwan / China
Mandarin
2702
23
Paolo Sorrentino
Toni Servillo, Anna Ferzetti, Orlando Cinque, Massimo Venturiello
Drama
Italy
Italian
2702
23
François Ozon
Benjamin Voisin, Denis Lavant, Pierre Lottin, Swann Arlaud, Rebecca Marder
Crime / Drama
France
French
2702
23
Ildikó Enyedi
Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Luna Wedler, Enzo Brumm, Léa Seydoux, Sylvester Groth
Biography / History
Germany / Hungary / France / China
German
2702
23
Benny Safdie
Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Ryan Bader, Bas Rutten, Oleksandr Usyk
Action / Biography / Drama / History / Sports / Adventure
USA / Japan / Canada
English
2702
23
Franco Maresco
Umberto Cantone, Franco Maresco, Francesco Conticelli, Marco Alessi, Bernardo Greco
Documentary
Italy
Italian
2702
23
Olivier Assayas
Alicia Vikander, Tom Sturridge, Jude Law, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, Will Keen
Drama / History / Thriller
USA / UK / France
English
2703
24
Neeraj Ghaywan
Ishaan Khatter, Vishal Jethwa, Janhvi Kapoor, Yogendra Vikram Singh
Drama
India
Hindi
2706
25
Iván Fund
Mara Bestelli, Anika Bootz, Betania Cappato, Marcelo Subiotto
Fantasy / Drama
Argentina / Spain / Uruguay
Spanish
2706
25
Valentyn Vasyanovych
Misha Lubarsky, Hryhoriy Naumov, Marianna Novikova, Vladlen Odudenko
Documentary / Comedy / Drama / War
Ukraine / Lithuania
Ukrainian
2709
26
Philip Barantini
Owen Cooper, Stephen Graham, Ashley Walters, Faye Marsay, Christine Tremarco
Crime / Drama / Thriller
UK
English
2709
26
Susan Lacy, Jessica Levin
Billy Joel, Jon Small, Liberty DeVitto, Judy Molinari, Christie Brinkley
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2709
26
Drew Hancock
Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, Harvey Guillén
Sci-Fi / Thriller / Horror / Comedy
USA
English
2709
26
Richard Linklater
Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin, Adrien Rouyard, Antoine Besson
Biography / Comedy / Drama / History
France / USA
French
2709
26
Eva Victor
Eva Victor, Naomi Ackie, Louis Cancelmi, Kelly McCormack, Lucas Hedges
Comedy / Drama
USA / Spain / France
English
2725
27
Julius Onah
Anthony Mackie, Harrison Ford, Danny Ramirez, Shira Haas, Carl Lumbly
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Comic / Fantasy / Thriller
USA
English
2725
27
Francis Lawrence
Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Garrett Wareing, Tut Nyuot, Charlie Plummer
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA / Canada
English
2725
27
Jonathan Dayton, MJ Delaney, David Dobkin, Valerie Faris, John Hamburg, Jaffar Mahmood
Owen Wilson, Peter Dager, Lilli Kay, Mariana Treviño, Marc Maron
Comedy / Sports
USA
English
2725
27
Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen
Seth Rogen, Catherine O'Hara, Ike Barinholtz, Chase Sui Wonders, Kathryn Hahn
Comedy, Drama
USA
English
2730
28
Zacharias Kunuk
Haiden Angutimarik, Theresia Kappianaq, Leah Panimera, Emma Quassa
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi
Canada
Inuktitut
2736
29
Ugo Bienvenu
Margot Ringard Oldra, Oscar Tresanini, Nathanaël Perrot, Alma Jodorowsky
Animation / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Action
France / USA / UK
French
2736
29
Richard Linklater
Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scott, Giles Surridge
Biography / Comedy / Drama / History / Music / Romance
USA / Ireland
English
2736
29
Darren Aronofsky
Austin Butler, Griffin Dunne, Dominique Silver, Shaun O'Hagan, Action Bronson
Comedy / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
2736
29
Mike Makowsky
Matthew Macfadyen, Michael Shannon, Betty Gilpin, Shea Whigham, Bradley Whitford
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2736
29
Scott Frank, Elisa Amoruso
Matthew Goode, Kelly Macdonald, Chloe Pirrie, Alexej Manvelov, Leah Byrne
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
UK
English
2736
29
Simon Curtis
Hugh Bonneville, Jim Carter, Michelle Dockery, Paul Giamatti, Elizabeth McGovern
Drama / History / Romance
UK / USA
English
2736
29
Christopher Landon
Meghann Fahy, Brandon Sklenar, Violett Beane, Jacob Robinson, Reed Diamond
Drama / Mystery / Thriller
USA / Ireland
English
2736
29
Josh Ruben
Alex Walker, Lauren O'Hara, Latham Gaines, Alex McColl, Karlton Laing
Comedy / Horror / Mystery / Romance
USA / New Zealand
English
2736
29
Sterlin Harjo, Macon Blair, Danis Goulet
Ethan Hawke, Keith David, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Rachel Crowl, Dale Dickey,
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2736
29
Alex Russell
Théodore Pellerin, Archie Madekwe, Sunny Suljic, Cam Hicks, Chaize Macklin
Crime / Drama / Music / Thriller
USA / Italy
English
2736
29
Kelly Reichardt
Josh O'Connor, Sterling Thompson, Alana Haim, Jasper Thompson, Bill Camp
Crime / Drama / Caper
USA
English
2736
29
Joon Ho Bong
Robert Pattinson, Steven Yeun, Michael Monroe, Patsy Ferran, Cameron Britton
Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Action / Drama
USA / South Korea
English
2736
29
Osgood Perkins
Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Christian Convery, Colin O'Brien, Elijah Wood
Horror / Comedy
USA / UK
English
2736
29
Jesse Armstrong
Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith, Ramy Youssef, Daniel Oreskes
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2736
29
Mariska Hargitay
Jayne Mansfield, Mariska Hargitay, Zoltan Hargitay, Mickey Hargitay Jr.
Documentary
USA
English
2736
29
Geeta Gandbhir
Susan Lorincz, Ajike Owens, Franklin Baez-Colon, Michael Balken, Troy Campbell
Documentary / Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2736
29
Bing Liu
Sebiye Behtiyar, Fred Hechinger, Alicher Adill, Dralla Aierken, Erden Uyghur
Drama
USA
English
2736
29
Max Walker-Silverman
Josh O'Connor, Eli Malouff, Meghann Fahy, Amy Madigan, Lily LaTorre, Kali Reis
Drama
USA
English
2736
29
Ben Stiller
Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Ben Stiller, Amy Stiller, Christine Taylor, Dawn Eaton
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2736
29
Jeremiah Zagar, Salli Richardson-Whitfield
Mark Ruffalo, Tom Pelphrey, Emilia Jones, Fabien Frankel, Thuso Mbedu
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2736
29
Michael Shanks
Dave Franco, Alison Brie, Damon Herriman, Mia Morrissey, Karl Richmond, Jack Kenny
Horror / Romance
Australia / USA
English
2736
29
James Sweeney
Dylan O'Brien, Lauren Graham, Arkira Chantaratananond, Kody Harvard, James Sweeney
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2736
29
Peter Kosminsky
Claire Foy, Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Charlie Rowe, Elizabeth Conboy
Drama / History
USA
English
2762
30
Hailey Gates
Alia Shawkat, Chloe East, Channing Tatum, Chloë Sevigny, Jane Levy
Drama / War
USA
English
2762
30
Mohammad Reza Eyni, Sara Khaki
Sara Shahverdi
Documentary / Biography
Qatar / Chile / Iran / Canada / Netherlands / Germany / USA
Persian
2762
30
Rohan Kanawade
Bhushaan Manoj, Suraaj Suman, Jayshri Jagtap, Harish Baraskar, Ram Daund
Drama / Romance
India
Marathi
