Watch-List 05/2025

This is a list of all the great and interesting films and shows I’ve seen in September and October of 2025.

★★★★★ – Favourite / Classic / Masterpiece
★★★★½ – Excellent
★★★★ – Great
★★★½ – Very Good
★★★ – Good
★★½ – Interesting Ideas but Unsatisfyin
★★ – Mediocre

Bugonia
★★★½
dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
Black Comedy
[UK / Ireland / South Korea / USA, 2025]
Budget: $45–55 million

Homo Sapiens
★★★★
dir. Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Documentary
[Austria, 2016]

The Woman in Cabin 10
★★½
dir. Simon Stone
Psychological Thriller
[UK / USA, 2025]

A House of Dynamite
★★★
dir. Kathryn Bigelow
Apocalyptic Political Thriller
[USA, 2025]

Fengming, a Chinese Memoir
★★★★½
dir. Wang Bing
Documentary
[China, 2007]

Inglourious Basterds
★★★★
dir. Alfonso Cuarón
Coming-of-Age Comedy Drama Road Movie
[Mexico, 2001]
Budget: $5 million

Y Tu Mamá También
★★★★½
dir. Alfonso Cuarón
Coming-of-Age Comedy Drama Road Movie
[Mexico, 2001]
Budget: $5 million

Chinese Portrait
★★★★
dir. Wang Xiaoshuai
Documentary
[France / Switzerland, 2018]

Night Always Comes
★★★
dir. Benjamin Caron
Crime Thriller Drama
[USA, 2025]

The Adventures of Tintin
★★★½
dir. Steven Spielberg
Computer Animated Adventure
[USA / New Zealand, 2011]
Budget: $135 million

The Perfect Neighbor
★★★
dir. Geeta Gandbhir
Documentary
[USA, 2025]

After the Hunt
★★★½
dir. Luca Guadagnino
Psychological Thriller
[Italy / USA, 2025]

13 Lakes
★★★★★
dir. James Benning
Experimental Documentary
[USA, 2004]

Silence
★★★½
dir. Martin Scorsese
Epic Historical Drama
[USA / Taiwan / Mexico / UK, 2016]
Budget: $40–50 million

12 Years a Slave
★★★★★
dir. Steve McQueen
Biographical Historical Drama
[UK / USA, 2013]
Budget: $20–22 million

Manakamana
★★★★½
dir. Stephany Spray and Pacho Velez
Documentary
[USA, 2013]

Jenseits des Krieges
★★★½
dir. Ruth Beckermann
Documentary
[Austria, 1996]

All We Imagine as Light
★★★★
dir. Payal Kapadia
Drama
[France / India / Netherlands / Luxembourg / Italy, 2024]

Sobibor, 14 Octobre 1943, 16 Heures
★★★★½
dir. Claude Lanzmann
Documentary
[France, 2001]

Killers of the Flower Moon
★★★★★
dir. Martin Scorsese
Epic Anti-Western
[USA, 2023]
Budget: $200–215 million

One Battle After Another
★★★★
dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Epic Action Thriller
[USA, 2025]
Budget: $130–175 million

Cunk on Life
★★½
dir. Al Campbell
Mockumentary
[UK, 2024]

Flags of Our Fathers
★★★½
dir. Clint Eastwood
War Drama
[USA, 2006]
Budget: $90 million

Babel
★★★½
dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu
Psychological Drama
[Mexico / USA / France, 2006]
Budget: $25 million

The Holdovers
★★★★
dir. Alexander Payne
Christmas Comedy Drama
[USA, 2023]
Budget: $13 million

United 93
★★★★½
dir. Paul Greengrass
Biographical Action Drama
[UK / USA / France, 2006]
Budget: $15 million

Zero Dark Thirty
★★★★★
dir. Kathryn Bigelow
Political Action Thriller
[USA, 2012]
Budget: $40–52.5 million

De Lydløse
(The Quiet Ones)
★★½
dir. Frederik Louis Hviid
Heist Crime Drama
[Denmark, 2024]