2025 was a great year for movies, and we’ve got the receipts to prove it.
From superhero movies to original stories, audiences flocked to the box office this year, and couldn’t stop talking about it on social media either.
weapons i sinners were horror movie hits, while Superman marked a new era for a classic character and Mission: Impossible: The Final Judgment ended the era for another.
According to the IMDb classification, Watch with us ranks the top ten most popular movies of 2025.
See where your favorite fell on our list
Sure, 2025 had a lot of amazing movies, but what about a best movies list full of movies that actually kept us talking, not just the ones that made the most noise from awards season? Don’t get us wrong: Frankenstein, Hamnet, One Battle After Another and the rest of the Oscar crowd absolutely deserve their moment, but sometimes (…)
10. “Jurassic World Rebirth”
Former undercover operative Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson) leads a team to the most dangerous part of the world on a mission to recover genetic material from the last remaining dinosaurs. Kidnapped in a warm climate near the equator, Bennett travels there to find the monsters alongside pharmaceutical executive Martin Krebs (Rupert Friend), paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis (Johnathan Bailey) and Duncan Kincaid, Bennett’s longtime partner (Mahershala Ali).
But when they shipwreck there alongside a stranded family, they must venture into the heart of a deadly place, where Jurassic Park’s deadliest secrets lie.
9. “Happy Gilmore 2”
one of Adam SandlerThe most iconic comedies of the 90s get the end-of-life sequel treatment Happy Gilmore 2. After winning six career Tour Championships, Happy retired following the accidental death of his wife, Virginia (Julie Bowen), which led him to lose everything.
However, when Happy’s youngest daughter wants ballet lessons at a prestigious school, he decides to return to the sport that made him, and in the process reinvigorates his life and love of the game. The film features several returning characters and cameos, incl Steve Buscemi, Christopher McDonald i Ben Stiller
8. ‘Ras’
An unconventional group of anti-heroes are forced to work together in this year’s addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. thrones* stars Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, David Harbour, Wyatt RussellLewis Pullman, Olga Kurylenko i Hannah John-Kamen like the titular offices, which are for the first time caught inside a death trap.
Upon escaping, they find themselves embarking on a dangerous mission that simultaneously forces them to confront their tormented pasts. The asterisk in the film’s title was a blatant trick: the Thunderbolts are eventually revealed to be the New Avengers, with the film’s title changed accordingly during the film’s end credits.
7. “Superman”
While enjoying his reign as Earth’s most beloved superhero (and still successful as Metropolis reporter Clark Kent), Superman (David Corenswet) is turned into a fugitive. When his archenemy, Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult), reveals a dark message sent to him by his Kryptonian parents, which gives Luthor a chance to take the Man of Steel out of the picture for good.
Struggling to clear his name and stop Luthor, Superman turns to his beloved Lois Lane for help (Rachel Brosnahan) and his fellow journalists a The daily Planetnext to his faithful four-legged dog, Krypto.
6. “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning”
The second part of the last installment a Tom Cruise’s long lasting and very popular mission impossible The series sees Ethan Hunt (Cruise) take one last turn, battling elite villains and performing death-defying acts to save the world.
The final account pick up right where Estimate accounts left, with Ethan and his IMF team on a mission to defeat a rogue artificial intelligence known as the Entity to prevent it from destroying the world. The Entity has infiltrated intelligence networks worldwide, and as Hunt races to stop it, he is trailed by governments and a shadowy figure from his past.
5. “Frankenstein”
Mary Shelley’s classic horror novel is transformed into a beautiful gothic tale of humanity and the hubris of the master of dark fantasy. Guillermo del Toro. Frankenstein follow the life of Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac), a renowned physician with an interest in the reanimation of human flesh.
After some difficulty, Victor succeeds in resurrecting the dead flesh. However, when his creature (Jacob Elordi) disappoints him, condemns him to death. And when the Creature survives, he embarks on a mission of revenge against his creator.
4. “Weapons”
This ambitious patchwork of character drama takes the form of a horror film about a class of missing children and the ostracized teacher accused of kidnapping them. When all but one of Justine Gandy’s (Julia Garner) third-grade class runs out of their home in the middle of the night, the eyes of a close-knit Pennsylvania town fall on the young teacher with a history of alcoholism.
But as we move through different perspectives: Police Officer Paul (Alden Ehrenreich), enraged father Archer (Josh Brolin), drug addict James (Austin Abrams), principal of the Marcus school (Benedict Wong): bits and pieces of a sinister plot come into play, leading to a young boy named Alex Lilly (Cary Christopher).
3. “Sinners”
In early 1930s Mississippi, identical twin brothers and gangsters Elijah “Smoke” Moore and Elias “Stack” Moore (both played by Michael B. Jordan) return to their home state after a prolific season with Al Capone in Chicago. With the money they amassed illegally, the twins purchase an old sawmill in order to start a juke joint for the black community, and are joined by their young cousin and blues singer Sammie (Miles Cato).
Although the brothers are suddenly confronted with the lives they left behind, they soon discover that they have more problems than two scorned old flames. An Irish Vampire (Jack O’Connell) listens to the music emanating from the Juke Club, and would very much like to be invited.
2. “F1: The Movie”
Sonny Hayes (brad pitt) was once the most talented racer in Formula 1 during the 1990s, but an accident that prematurely ended Sonny’s career has left him as a racer for hire who never lived up to his potential.
Thirty years after his accident, a struggling F1 team at risk of being sold by its investors convinces Sonny to join them as a co-driver, racing alongside rookie Joshua Pearce.Damson Idris). Forced to face an intimidating future that has already arrived, Sonny searches for some form of redemption as he discovers that winning isn’t something that can always be done alone.
1. “One battle after another”
Sixteen years ago, “Ghetto” Pat Calhoun (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Perfidia Beverly Hills (Teyana Taylor) were members of a far-left revolutionary group in Los Angeles known as the French 75. But when Perfidia was caught and gave up the names, she entered witness protection, leaving Pat and her daughter to assume new identities on their own.
Now, Pat, a paranoid, pot-smoking father, under the pseudonym Bob Ferguson, is doing his best to raise his teenage daughter Willa (Chase Infiniti), who grew up believing her mother was a hero. But when an enemy (Sean Penn) from his past resurfaces and kidnaps Willa, both Bob and his daughter are forced to confront the ghosts of their past lives as they race to find each other.
2025 has been a great year for movies, and thanks to live streaming, you can catch up with all the major award contenders and crowd favorites that defined the year. Between its original and licensed content, Netflix has a particularly great list of 2025 movies to watch from the comfort of your home. This week, (…)