The Brighton Film Club's Films of the Year 2025

The Brighton Film Club presents the Films of the Year 2025 after another stacked year for our screens.

As usual, these are films released into UK cinemas or made available on streaming sites in the UK between January and December 2025.

After the customary squabbles and more shuffles than a Vegas casino, here then are The Brighton Film Club’s Films of the Year 2025:

30. F1

29. Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning

28. Pillion

27. I Swear

26. The Surfer

25. Friendship

24. Caught Stealing

23. Mickey 17

22. Nuremberg

21. Frankenstein

20. KPop Demon Hunters

19. Superman

18. Thunderbolts*

17. The Phoenician Scheme

16. A Complete Unknown

15. Nosferatu

14. Bugonia

13. Roofman

12. Eddington

11. The Fantastic Four: First Steps

10. Warfare

9. 28 Years Later

8. The Last Showgirl

7. Sinners

6. A Real Pain

5. Train Dreams

4. Flow

3. Marty Supreme

2. The Brutalist

1. One Battle After Another

Of course, there’s always a chunk of releases that elude us and here's a few that we haven't quite got to yet unfortunately: Nickel Boys, Sister Midnight, The Ballad Of Wallis Island, The Naked Gun, Weapons, Highest 2 Lowest, Steve, HIM, Good Fortune, Die My Love, Jay Kelly, Christy, Sentimental Value and Zootropolis 2.

You want even more to check out after all of that? Here's a few that were scrapping for inclusion but didn't quite make the list: We Live In Time, Babygirl, Saturday Night, Maria, Hard Truths, Companion, I'm Still Here, One Of Them Days, Black Bag, Opus, The Alto Knights, Death of a Unicorn, Ballerina, Mountainhead, M3GAN 2.0, Materialists, The Life of Chuck, Honey Don't, The Long Walk, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, The Smashing Machine, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, The Running Man, Predator: Badlands, Wicked: For Good, Eternity, A House of Dynamite, Avatar: Fire & Ash and Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.

And that doesn't even cover anywhere near everything we saw this year!

Bring on what looks like an equally stacked card for 2026 and go and see more movies!