Top 25 Films & Tracks of 2025
2025 was a strong year for movies. At Movie Love Productions, these are the films that stood out to us most, and are mostly listed on the Film Distributors’ Association website under 2025… plus a few coming to UK cinemas very soon.
Here are our twenty five favourite films of the year.
The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay)
Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater)
Sirat (Oliver Laxe)
Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie)
One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)
It Was Just An Accident (Jafar Panahi)
I Am Martin Parr (Lee Shulman)*
Beshert (Lewis Rose)**
Song Sung Blue (Craig Brewer)
Weapons (Zach Cregger)
Young Mothers (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
A House of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow)
My Father’s Shadow (Akinola Davies Jr)
Sinners (Ryan Coogler)
Resurrection (Bi Gan)
The Ice Tower (Lucile Hadžihalilović)
Cover-Up (Laura Poitras)
Female Perversions (4K Restoration) (Susan Streitfield)
Dragonfly (Paul Andrew Williams)
Hard Truths (Mike Leigh)
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein)
Peter Hujar’s Day (Ira Sachs)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (4K Restoration) (Chantal Akerman)
Souleymane’s Story (Boris Lojkine)
* Listen to MLP’s own Jason Solomons interview Martin Parr at Green Man Festival in August 2025 here.
** Find out more about our favourite short film of the year here.
And here is a list to our top twenty five tracks - listen to them on Spotify here.
A Gira (Trio Ternura) - Parthenope
Little April Shower (Amy Lou Barnes) - Die My Love (but originally from Bambi)
Ready Or Not (Here I Come) (The Jackson 5) - One Battle After Another
Take Me Back to Piauí (Juca Chaves) - I’m Still Here
Malambo No.1 (Yma Sumac) - Parthenope
Big Bertha Rock (Big Bertha Henderson) - Marty Supreme
Requiem in D Minor (Mozart) - Peter Hujar’s Day
Whole Again (Atomic Kitten) - Urchin
Body Groove - Mix Mc Version (Architects) - Lollipop
I Will Follow Him (Peggy March - Pillion
Total Eclipse of the Heart (Bonnie Tyler) - The Last Showgirl
Love to Love You Baby (Donna Summer) - The Secret Agent
Samba (Waldir Calmon) - The Secret Agent
My Love Song For You (Nile Rogers) - Lurker
Hold On, I’m Comin’ (Sam & Dave) - No Other Choice
La Route (Kangding Ray) - Sirat
La Valse au Village (Jean Sablon) - Die My Love
Scoubidou des pommes, des poires (Sacha Distel) - Nouvelle Vague
Father Figure (George Michael) - Babygirl
Dive (Olivia Dean) - Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Rat In Mi Kitchen (UB40) - Marching Powder
Miss Flower (Emilíana Torrini) - The Extraordinary Miss Flower
Take Me with U (Prince) - Purple Rain (4k Restoration)
Soul Clap 2000 (Recloose) - Desire: The Carl Craig Story
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning (Thelma Houston) - Studio One Forever