Top Films & Series 2025

Master of biopics, Pablo Larraín, closes the cycle of his Grand Dames (“Jackie”, “Spencer”) with an unconventional, mesmerizing and deeply cinematic look at the last days of the ultimate diva. Filming in Greece and the role of a lifetime for Angelina Jolie. — 1977: Maria Callas, once the world's greatest opera diva, lives in isolation in Paris with her staff and her two poodles. Her health is getting worse and worse. Then she receives a request to go back on tour. Will the Divina sing again? And if so, for whom? — Official Selection - International Competition | Venice Film Festival | 2024 Nomination for Best Cinematography | Oscars | 2025 Nomination for Actress in a Leading Role (Angelina Jolie) | Golden Globes | 2025

One of the most beautiful animated films ever made, Flow promises to take us on a floating adventure with its four-legged heroes. An ode to nature, a warning about climate change, pure adventurous fun. Nothing is missing from Ginds Zilbalodis' elegant masterpiece that will move kids and adults alike. — The world seems to be coming to an end and people are completely lost. Cat is a lonely animal, but when a great flood destroys his home, he takes refuge on a boat inhabited by various animals with whom he must work together despite their differences. On their lonely ark, floating through mysterious flooded landscapes, they face the challenges and dangers of adapting to this new, aquatic world. — Jury Award | Annecy Film Festival | 2024 Audience Award | Annecy Film Festival | 2024 Best Original Music Award | Annecy Film Festival | 2024 Official Selection - Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival | 2024 Best Animated Feature | Golden Globes | 2025

Think “Trainspotting” for our times, set to wild Irish-language rap: three Belfast rappers realise the most provocative thing they can shout is their grandparents’ language. Michael Fassbender has a supporting role, it won an audience award at Sundance, and the tracks will stay with you for weeks. — Years after the Troubles, three young men in Belfast start rapping in Irish. The authorities would much rather not hear the language at all, but the city starts listening, and within a few months these provocative rappers have become a political symbol. Their own families would much prefer they hadn’t. — NEXT Audience Award | Sundance Film Festival | 2024

David Lynch cast Naomi Watts, who was ready to give up acting, as a blonde who arrives in LA certain she’ll be a star, in what was meant to be a pilot for ABC. Luckily the network turned it down, and the dreamlike, unsettling Hollywood nightmare it became now has cult status. — The only survivor of a car crash on a road outside Los Angeles walks away from the wreck with no memory of who she is. She takes shelter in an empty flat, and that’s where Betty finds her, fresh from Canada and sure she’s about to become an actress. Together the two women set out to discover who this stranger is, and who she used to be. — Nomination for Best Director | Oscars | 2002 Nomination for Best FIlm | Golden Globes | 2002 Best Editing | BAFTA | 2002 Best Director | Cannes Film Festival | 2001

The ultimate romantic masterpiece of recent years. With deep philosophical and existential concerns, Celine Song's directorial debut united the fate of three people, leaving no viewer with dry eyes. — Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are separated when Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, Hae Sung decides to visit Nora for a few days in New York where she lives with her American husband Arthur. Confronted with the ghosts of a life they did not live, they come face to face with the concepts of destiny, love and the choices that make up a life. — Nomination for Best Film | Oscars | 2024 Nomination for Best Original Screenplay | Oscars | 2024 Official Selection - International Competition | Berlin Film Festival | 2023

If you loved "Perfect Strangers", you'll love this cinematic surprise from Spain for its funny dialogue, snappy editing and perfectly tuned performances, but especially for the shocking twist in the final scene. Please do not reveal it. — Three married couples in therapy are invited by their therapist to a group session. They will gradually air their dirtiest secrets about childcare, jealousy and sex until it all comes to a very unexpected and equally shocking end. — Special Jury Prize | Malaga Film Festival | 2023 Nomination for Best Supporting Actor (Juan Carlos Vellido) | Goya Awards | 2024

This is the cult film of the 1990s that everyone should know, and Mathieu Kassovitz began writing it on the day a seventeen-year-old was shot during a police interrogation in Paris. Three friends, energy that bursts off the screen, and Vincent Cassel waving a gun around. — The morning after a night of rioting in the Paris suburbs finds Vinz, Hubert and Saïd with nothing to do and nowhere to go. A friend of theirs is lying in hospital in a coma after the police beat him the night before. It’s going to be a long day, and the three of them will make the most of every hour. — Best Director | Cannes Film Festival | 1995 Best Film | César Awards | 1996 Best European Film | European Film Awards | 1996

This is the role that made the world notice Jennifer Lawrence, in a Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner with four Oscar nominations. A seventeen-year-old searches the Ozark Mountains for a father nobody will talk about, and the world is cruel, but she proves stronger and tougher than anyone expects. — Seventeen-year-old Ree is bringing up her younger brother and sister on her own through a Missouri winter in the Ozarks. Their father has put the house on the line and vanished, and if he doesn’t turn up in court, they’ll lose their home. The people of the valley would rather she didn’t ask where he is, and Ree asks anyway. — Grand Jury Prize | Sundance Film Festival | 2010 Nomination for Best Picture | Oscars | 2011 Nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Jennifer Lawrence) | Oscars | 2011 Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay | Oscars | 2011 Nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (John Hawkes) | Oscars | 2011 Nomination for Best Actress (Jennifer Lawrence) | Golden Globes | 2011

A narrative debut that will be remembered for years to come. A lyrical tale of souls seeking connection and poetry amidst the cacophony of social oppression, full of emotion and longing, it thrilled the Cannes Film Festival by winning the Grand Jury Prize in India's first entry in decades. — In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is disrupted when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a hidden spot in the city so she can enjoy intimacy with her boyfriend. A trip to a seaside town allows them to find a place to manifest their desires. — Grand Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 2024

Filled with humour and tenderness, yet grounded in a clear political perspective, Laila Abbas' film is a bittersweet, tense, witty, and sharply critical exploration of female empowerment and the urgent need for change. — Two sisters are confronted with the injustice of Islamic law when they are forced to share their father's property with their estranged brother. — Official Selection - International Competition | London Film Festival | 2024 Best Director - Meet the Neighbours | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2024

Cinobo, drop it. Pantelis Voulgaris and three exceptional actors compose a portrait of modern Greek rural masculinity that is touching, tender and funny, culminating in one of the most cult moments in modern Greek cinema. — A modular film consisting of three different stories, a triptych shot in Northern Greece, with a common theme of a lonely man at a critical moment in his life. — Best Actor (Giorgos Armenis) | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 1998

After "The Square", Reuben Östlund again tackles class satire in a delightful black comedy that puts Marx, consumerism and... bodily fluids in a blender against the backdrop of the greek Chiliadou beach. — Carl and Yaya are influencer fashion models whose relationship is increasingly soured by money. Offered free places on a luxury cruise, they find themselves sharing a superyacht with arms dealers and an oligarch, while a cynical Marxist alcoholic captains the ship as things quickly turn upside-down. — Nomination for Best Film | Oscars | 2023 Nomination for Best Director | Oscars | 2023 Nomination for Best Screenplay | Oscars | 2023 Palme d'Or | Cannes Film Festival | 2022 Best European Film | European Film Awards | 2023

Coppola made it between the two parts of “The Godfather” and won the Palme d’Or. Gene Hackman is the man in headphones who trusts nobody, not even himself, whose wiretaps feed his paranoia and whose conscience wakes at the worst moments. Afterwards, the saxophone stays in your ears. — In a San Francisco gripped by conspiracy theories, Harry Caul makes his living listening in on other people’s conversations, and there isn’t much else to his life. When the head of a big corporation hires him to record a young couple walking through a crowded square, he finds himself playing the tape back over and over, because there’s more on it than first appears. — Palme D'Or | Cannes Film Festival | 1974 Nomination for Best Picture | Oscars | 1975 Nomination for Best Original Screenplay | Oscars | 1975 Nomination for Best Sound | Oscars | 1975 Best Editing | BAFTA Awards | 1975 Best Soundtrack | BAFTA Awards | 1975

The rom-com as we loved it in the 90s returns with the unmistakable ingredients of the Parisian bookstore Shakespeare & Company, Jane Austen and a hopelessly romantic but single protagonist. Comfortingly classic, refreshingly modern and unpretentiously funny. — Agathe finds herself in desperate singlehood. Her dream is to experience love akin to a Jane Austen novel and her ultimate aspiration is to become a writer. Instead, she spends her days selling books in Shakespeare & Co, in Paris. Soon, she must confront her insecurities to finally fulfill her ambition of becoming a novelist and put an end to wasting her sentimental life. — Official Selection | Toronto Film Festival | 2024

In this modular romantic comedy from the creator of "The People Upstairs", a series of beloved Spanish stars get caught up in splashy antics when little secrets and lies start to creep into their relationships. — Five stories of lovers, acquaintances and friends who conceal small or larger truths from each other. Sometimes with happy and sometimes with painful, but always unpredictable results.

Levan Akin’s “And Then We Danced” had the far right trying to storm cinemas in Tbilisi, and now he takes us to Istanbul, where a retired teacher and the boy from next door search for a girl who left Georgia and never came back. It’s a tender road movie that leaves you wanting to dance again. — Lia, a retired teacher in Georgia, has promised to find out what happened to her niece Tekla, and when Achi, a boy from the neighbourhood, tells her Tekla crossed over to Istanbul, she takes him with her. In a city that swallows people whole, they start knocking on doors. A group of trans women take them in, and Tekla seems closer than ever. — Teddy Jury Prize | Berlin Film Festival | 2024

Angel Saft and Novel 729’s first cinematic collaboration takes us through the memories of its characters (Pigmalion Dadakaridis, Flomaria Papadaki), bringing to life a tender story about the power of psychotherapy. A poignant reminder that even our deepest wounds can begin to heal when they are shared. — A group of young people discusses traumas, life experiences, past and present troubles inside the confines of a therapy session. Each account takes them back to the setting of their pain, their worries, their broken dreams. As the stories delve deeper and deeper into the darker recesses of their souls, a modicum of light begins to appear. A feeling of hope, that they might not be in this alone. — Official Selection | Athens International Film Festival | 2024

Wim Wenders travels to Tokyo and, inspired by the city’s recently redesigned public toilets, crafts a subtle yet deeply human story about the life of a cleaner. Drawing heavily on the cinema of Ozu, he creates a tender ode to simplicity and the quiet poetry of everyday life. — Hirayama works as a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Content with the simplicity of his routine, he leads a quiet, structured life. In his free time, he indulges his love for music and books, and finds joy in photographing trees. Yet, through a series of chance encounters, fragments of his past gradually resurface. — Nominated for Best International Feature Film | Oscars | 2024 Best Actor (Kôji Yakusho) | Cannes Film Festival | 2023 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury | Cannes Film Festival | 2023

Rodrigo Sorogoyen (“The Beasts”) checks in on one couple ten times, always on New Year’s Eve. Ana and Óscar meet at thirty, we see them once a year for the next decade, and whatever happens in between is left for you to piece together. — Ana turns thirty on New Year’s Day, and her life is a mess of a rented room, a lousy job and one new acquaintance after another. Óscar turns thirty a day earlier, on New Year’s Eve, with everything in place: work he feels called to, loyal friends and a relationship running on autopilot. They meet on the one night that falls between their birthdays.

Matthew Collins once helped build the fascist National Front in Britain, and these days he hunts it. Stephen Graham is superb over five episodes that start the day an informer from a neo-Nazi cell comes to him, by which time the cell has already chosen the MP it is going to kill. — An MP has been murdered. Matthew Collins, whose job is keeping watch on Britain’s far right, is starting to see signs that one of its groups is linked to the killing. What he needs is someone on the inside, and he finds one.

Picture the staff of “The Office” with instruments in their hands instead of phones, and you have this sitcom about the ambitions of people who have sat a metre apart for years. It manages to be gentle and sarcastic at once, with a sense of humour that could only be Scandinavian. — Inside a symphony orchestra in Copenhagen, the musicians go to rehearsals and on tour, sit a metre away from colleagues they can’t stand and go home to marriages that aren’t working. The conductor isn’t doing much better. In this hall, nobody is ever just a musician.

Nick Hornby (“High Fidelity”) wrote and Stephen Frears directed twenty episodes of ten minutes each, every one of them set over a drink before a couples therapy session. Across a pub table, the pair learn more about each other than they ever do in the therapist’s room. — A couple meet in a pub shortly before their joint therapy session, order a drink each and talk about what brought them together in the first place and what is pulling them apart now. There’s no therapist at this table to steer them. Each season follows a different couple in a different city.

Several hundred British subpostmasters were accused of stealing money that never went missing, and Toby Jones plays one of them, still asking questions long after the rest have stopped. The story is the Horizon scandal, and after it aired the government drafted a law to overturn the convictions. — When money starts vanishing from Post Office branches across Britain, hundreds of subpostmasters face charges of theft and fraud, and some of them go to prison. The real culprit is the computer system. The Post Office knows it, but it won’t own up to the mistake.