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 between January and December.

Unfortunately, that leaves a few that fall precariously between Christmas and early New Year to contend for the 2026 list, despite featuring in lists of other publications such as Marty Supreme, Hamnet and Sentimental Value (and possibly Anaconda - here's hoping on that one!)

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. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

29. Pillion

28. I Swear

27. F1

26. Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning

25. The Smashing Machine

24. The Surfer

23. Caught Stealing

22. Mickey 17

21. Nuremberg

20. Frankenstein

19. KPop Demon Hunters

18. Superman

17. Thunderbolts*

16. The Phoenician Scheme

15. A Complete Unknown

14. Nosferatu

13. Bugonia

12. Roofman

11. Eddington

10. The Fantastic Four: First Steps

9. 28 Years Later

8. The Last Showgirl

7. Warfare

6. Sinners

5. A Real Pain

4. Train Dreams

3. Flow

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 this year unfortunately: Nickel Boys, Sister Midnight, The Ballad Of Wallis Island, Friendship, The Naked Gun, Weapons, Highest 2 Lowest, Steve, HIM, Good Fortune, Die My Love, Jay Kelly, Christy 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, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, The Running Man, Predator: Badlands, Wicked: For Good, Eternity, A House of Dynamite and Avatar: Fire & Ash.

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!