Every year, there are those films everyone is talking about, the ones making noise at festivals or standing out for their cast and director. Several gems have already defined 2025. Here are 4 films to absolutely add to your watchlist while you wait for their streaming release.
1. Mickey 17 by Bong Joon-ho, starring Robert Pattinson.
The return of the director behind Parasite was always going to be an event. With Robert Pattinson topping the bill, Mickey 17 blends sci-fi and social satire, right in line with Bong Joon-ho's usual obsessions.
The premise is simple but striking: in 2054, Mickey, an ordinary man, joins a colonizing expedition to a distant planet. His specialty? He is employed as an "expendable": destined to die for experiments, then cloned each time, with the memory of his previous lives intact.
2. The Life of Chuck by Mike Flanagan, adapted from a Stephen King novella.
An adaptation of the Stephen King novella by the master of modern horror, Mike Flanagan (known for The Haunting of Hill House and Doctor Sleep). This time, forget King's usual horror: The Life of Chuck is an intriguing project, a three-act story exploring a man's life through defining moments. Saying more about this film would spoil it, so we genuinely invite you to go discover the mysteries of The Life of Chuck yourself!
With Tom Hiddleston and Mark Hamill in the cast, get ready for an intimate journey.
3. The Brutalist by Brady Corbet, with 10 nominations and 3 wins at the 2025 Oscars
In The Brutalist, Brady Corbet delivers a monumental epic: 3 hours 35 minutes (with intermission!) to tell thirty years in the life of Laszlo Toth, a Hungarian Jewish architect who survived the Holocaust, played by Adrien Brody. Arriving in Philadelphia in 1947, he is hired by a wealthy patriarch to build a monument in memory of his mother. This project becomes the thread running through an extraordinary fate, between memory, exile, and creation. A film already crowned with a Silver Lion in Venice, three Golden Globes, four BAFTAs, and ten Oscar nominations.
4. Bird by Andrea Arnold, the low-budget gem!
In Bird, Andrea Arnold takes us to Kent, deep in a working-class English suburb. We follow Bailey, 12, who lives with her brother in her father Bugs's squat, a lost soul obsessed with the idea of making a fortune off a toad's hallucinogenic slime.
Caught between a mother stuck with a violent partner and a fragile daily life, Bailey holds on however she can. Until the day she meets Bird, a strange, almost unreal boy who seems to be her guardian angel. A raw, poetic film where social reality blends with a touch of magic.
👉 Here are 4 films from 2025 that have generated a lot of buzz, ones to add to your watchlist on the OneMovie app while you wait for their streaming release!
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