75 Favorite New-To-Me Films of 2025
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At one point, this list was hovering around 120 movies long - about half of all the movies I watched this year! Try as I might to cut this down to a reasonable number, I just don't have it in me to cut any more.
And I may have cut too many; this was a great year for me watching movies.
(I'd like to give a special shout-out to all of <I>The Trips</I>, though. While I'd watched them all in movie-form over the years, the <b>Criterion Channel</b> had them all in their full, six-episode series-form over the summer; that was my first time watching them that way and so those were also kinda first-time watches in a sense. So to speak. More or less.)
Shin Godzilla (2016) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB Bangumi Eggplant.place WikiData Skybridge
シン・ゴジラ
other title:
신 고질라
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シン・ゴジラ
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When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.
Shanks (1974) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
Shanks
director:
威廉·卡斯尔
actor:
马塞尔·卡尔内
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Tsilla Chelton
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other title:
长腿人
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Jogando Com a Vida e a Morte
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Malcolm Shanks is a sad and lonely man, deaf, mute and living with his cruel sister and her husband, who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. Thanks to his skill, he is offered a job as a lab assistant to Dr. Walker, who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies by inserting electrodes at key nerve points and manipulating the bodies as if they were on strings. When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body, and then to start exacting some revenge.
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Bad Day at Black Rock
Splitsville (2025) [Movie] WikiData IMDb Douban TMDB
Splitsville
Black Cat from the Grove (1968) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
藪の中の黒猫
other title:
黑猫
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藪の中の黒猫
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In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.
That Cold Day in the Park (1969) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
That Cold Day in the Park
director:
罗伯特·奥特曼
actor:
桑迪·丹尼斯
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迈克尔·伯恩斯
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other title:
공원에서의 차가운 나날들
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Aquele Dia Frio no Parque
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Frances Austen, a young, wealthy spinster, invites a mute teenager into her apartment after finding him freezing in the park next to where she lives. Despite her best efforts, their lack of communication only increases her sense of loneliness, as her possessiveness spirals into frightening new realms.
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
The Wages of Fear (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Min reol Douban WikiData
Le salaire de la peur
other title:
恐惧的代价
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Le salaire de la peur
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In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.
Don't Torture a Duckling (1972) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Non si sevizia un paperino
The Mastermind (2025) [Movie] Eggplant.place WikiData ReviewDB Douban IMDb TMDB
The Mastermind
other title:
主谋
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마스터마인드
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In a sedate corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, his life unravels.
A Prairie Home Companion (2006) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
A Prairie Home Companion
Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror (1922) [Movie] IMDb Min reol Eggplant.place Douban TMDB Bangumi WikiData
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
other title:
诺斯费拉图
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Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
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The mysterious Count Orlok summons Thomas Hutter to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen. After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok's servant, Knock, prepares for his master to arrive at his new home.