Movies I've watched in 2025

Varlam, the despotic mayor of a small town, dies. After his funeral, his body is repeatedly unearthed and buried again. Through flashbacks and dreamlike scenes, we witness his rise, power and ambiguities.

After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China's one-child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment.

Professional motorcycle racer Bud Clay heads from New Hampshire to California to race again. Along the way he meets various needy women who provide him with the cure to his own loneliness, but only a certain woman from his past will truly satisfy him.

Fengming looks back at over 30 years of her life...

A young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father.

A model discovers a retired judge is keen on invading people's privacy.

In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment he is delighted and the next he curses everybody. Nevertheless, all the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.

Delia, a young Romanian girl, drives to Bucharest with her parents to collect a prize she won in a contest.

While her husband is on a business trip, Gamhee meets three of her friends on the outskirts of Seoul. They make friendly conversation but there are different currents flowing independently of each other, both above and below the surface.

A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.

Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.

Three stories set in three times, 1911, 1966 and 2005. Two actors play the two main characters in each story.

A short continuously looping animation of six grotesque human figures vomiting.

A German mother lies to her son about where the Nazis are sending their Jewish neighbors.

In a nameless city deluged by continuous rain, three rabbits live with a fearful mystery.

A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet, but something happens that changes her safe routine.

It recounts the harrowing story of life at one of Mao's camps, at the end of the fifties, where 'rightists' were sent to be 're-educated through labor'.

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.

After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.

A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.

A widow and a widower find their relationship developing into love, but their past tragedies prove hard to overcome, causing them to proceed with utmost delicacy.

In a poor 19th century rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a nearby mountain to die. An elderly woman is reaching close to her cut-off age during her last days with her family.

A Japanese soldier endures illness, starvation and brutality in the Philippines at the tail end of WW2.

April 6th, 1917. As an infantry battalion assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.