favourite watches in 2025

24 movies   1 TV show  

this was going to be a top 10 but i watched too many damn movies this year. there are a lot of classics that i probably should have watched many years ago but i'm making up for lost time

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The Stranger (1946)
The Stranger
Orson Welles actor: Edward G. Robinson / Loretta Young …
other title: Lo straniero / Den Fremmede …
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of a distinguished professor engaged to the Supreme Court Justice’s daughter.

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Curse of the Dog God (1977)
犬神の悪霊
Shunya Ito actor: Shin'ya Ohwada / Emiko Yamauchi …
other title: 犬神の悪霊 / 犬神之恶灵 …
A trio of young scientists investigate a source of uranium at the base of a sacred mountain, and after running over a dog, find themselves cursed by the locals.

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Scanners (1981)
Scanners
★ 6.7 9 ratings
other title: Scanners - Ihre Gedanken können töten / Scanners – Ihre Gedanken können töten
After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers. Some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.

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Roujin Z (1991)
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Hiroyuki Kitakubo actor: Chisa Yokoyama / Toni Barry …
other title: Rôjin Z / Oldman Z …
Mr. Takazawa, an elderly invalid who is cared for at his home by Haruko, a young nursing student, is chosen by the Japanese Ministry of Public Welfare to test the Z-001, a computerized hospital bed with robotic features that allegedly displays more efficiency and skills than any human nurse, but Haruko mistrusts a machine unable to consider human feelings.

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Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Creature from the Black Lagoon
★ 6.5 11 ratings
Jack Arnold actor: Richard Carlson / Julie Adams …
other title: Il mostro della laguna nera / Uhyret fra den sorte lagune …
When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study. But the Creature has plans of his own, and has set his sights on the lead scientist's beautiful fiancée, Kay.

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Modesty Blaise (1966)
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Joseph Losey actor: Monica Vitti / Terence Stamp …
other title: Modesty Blaise - La bellissima che uccide / A Mulher Detective …
Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the British government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist. She is being set up by the feds but is wise to the plot and calls in sidekick Willie Garvin and a few other friends to outsmart them. Meanwhile, at his island hideaway, Gabriel, the diamond thief has his own plans for Blaise and Garvin.

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Freaks (1932)
Freaks
★ 6.4 9 ratings
Tod Browning actor: Harry Earles / Olga Baclanova …
other title: A Parada dos Monstros / Freaks, la monstrueuse parade …
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

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Barefoot Gen (1983)
はだしのゲン
Mori Masaki actor: Issei Miyazaki / Masaki Kouda …
other title: Gen di Hiroshima / Gen Pés Descalços …
A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.

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Lady Vengeance (2005)
친절한 금자씨
★ 7.9 19 ratings
Park Chan-wook actor: Lee Young-ae / Choi Min-sik …
other title: Lady Vendetta / Vingança Planeada …
Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.

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Victim (1961)
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Basil Dearden actor: Dirk Bogarde / Sylvia Syms …
other title: Der Teufelskreis / La victime …
A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of success.

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Shinjuku Boys (1995)
Shinjuku Boys
Kim Longinotto / Jano Williams actor: Gaish / Tatsu …
This documentary is set in the New Marilyn night club in Tokyo, Japan — where the hosts are transgender men. They can only make their living as hosts in a nightclub with other wannabes like them. The young women who come there often have relationships with them but the underlying fear is whether such a relationship can withstand the pressures on a girl to get married and have children. All three boys deal with this in different ways. These three hosts, the Shinjuku Boys, take us into their lives.

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Keyboard Fantasies (2021)
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other title: Keyboard fantasies : The Berverly Glenn-Copeland Story
As a sci-fi obsessed woman living in near isolation, Beverly Glenn-Copeland wrote and self-released Keyboard Fantasies in Huntsville, Ontario back in 1986. Recorded in an Atari-powered home-studio, the cassette featured seven tracks of a curious folk-electronica hybrid, a sound realized far before its time. Three decades on, the musician – now Glenn Copeland – began to receive emails from people across the world, thanking him for the music they’d recently discovered.

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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Everything Everywhere All at Once
★ 8.2 76 ratings
Daniel Scheinert / Daniel Kwan actor: Yeoh Choo Kheng / Stephanie Hsu …
other title: Tudo em Todo o Lado ao Mesmo Tempo / Todo a la vez en todas partes …
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.

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A Universal Language (2024)
Une langue universelle
★ 8.3 9 ratings
Matthew Rankin actor: Rojina Esmaeili / Saba Vahedyousefi …
other title: Une langue universelle / Universal Language …
In order to visit his ailing mother, the introverted Matthew leaves Montreal to return to his native Winnipeg. But time and space seem to have been inverted in this absurdist, deadpan comedy: strangely enough, everyone in the isolated Canadian metropolis speaks Farsi. And look: like in a Kiarostami's film, two children are embarking on a quest that Matthew gets caught up in, too. Both a declaration of love to Iranian culture and a meditation on the curious geographical and mental space of the elusive giant that is Canada.
Nov. 6, 2026