To date in 2025, Netflix‘s unique motion pictures haven't fairly hit the identical heights that the streamer has beforehand reached.
Which may be as a result of the Oscar-bait movies are being held again till the latter a part of the 12 months. If that's the case, the checklist of Netflix's finest unique motion pictures will look very totally different on the finish of 2025.
Within the meantime, Watch With Us has chosen the seven finest Netflix motion pictures of 2025 to date.
Admittedly, this checklist is action-heavy, but it surely's the style that Netflix does finest. There are additionally some comedy and romance choices, in addition to two standout animated picks.
7. ‘Again in Motion' (2025)
After prolonged absences for various causes, Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz acquired their respective comebacks in Again in Motion. The duo play Matt and Emily, a pair of CIA brokers who faked their very own deaths after somebody tipped off their enemies throughout their ultimate mission.
Within the current, Emily and Matt are married and the mother and father of Alice (McKenna Roberts) and Leo (Rylan Jackson). The youngsters don't know something about who their mother and father was once, however they get a crash course when Emily and Matt's cowl identities are blown and your entire household is focused by an previous adversary.
Again in Motion is streaming on Netflix.
6. ‘La Dolce Villa' (2025)
Scott Foley totally embraces his rom-com part in La Dolce Villa, however the one cause Eric (Foley) has come to Italy is as a result of his daughter, Olivia (Maia Reficco), is significantly contemplating a everlasting transfer there after investing her inheritance in an deserted property.
Eric is so involved with maintaining Olivia from making a mistake that he virtually doesn't notice that Italy has quite a lot of attraction for him as effectively. And as soon as Eric meets the city's mayor, Francesca (Violante Placido), the romantic sparks inevitably fly between them. It's an enthralling love story, though it's fairly predictable.
La Dolce Villa is streaming on Netflix.
5. ‘KPop Demon Hunters' (2025)
KPop Demon Hunters is maybe Netflix's most shocking smash hit of the 12 months. Regardless of the title, this isn't a manufacturing from South Korea, though it does lampoon the way in which that KPop teams and Korean tv exhibits have change into a world phenomenon. The story revolves round a preferred KPop act, Huntr/x, whose members double as demon hunters after they aren't on stage.
Nevertheless, the lead singer, Rumi (Arden Cho), is secretly half demon herself, and he or she's scared to disclose the reality to her bandmates. In the meantime, the demons work out that they'll entrance their very own KPop group, The Saja Boys, and steal the devotion of Huntr/x's followers in addition to their souls. This is among the most visually imaginative animated motion pictures in latest reminiscence, and it most likely may have performed very effectively in theaters.
KPop Demon Hunters is streaming on Netflix.
4. ‘Exterritorial' (2025)
Maintain a watch out for Jeanne Goursaud after her efficiency within the German motion thriller Extraterritorial. Goursaud confirmed off some actual motion chops whereas enjoying former soldier Sara Wulf, the widowed mom of a younger boy named Josh (Rickson Man da Silva). Throughout a routine go to to the American Consulate in Germany, Josh goes lacking. Extra alarmingly, the safety footage has been altered to make it seem that Josh by no means accompanied Sara to the consulate.
Because the German police are helpless to search out her son, Sara takes issues into her personal fingers and goes deeper into the consulate to search for Josh. Dougray Scott has a darkish flip as Erik Kynch, one of many consulate's major safety officers. It's his job to ensure that Sara's search involves a everlasting finish.
Extraterritorial is streaming on Netflix.
3. ‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl' (2025)
Within the age of CGI animation, it's refreshing {that a} very old-school title like Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl nonetheless stands out as probably the greatest of the 12 months. This full-length animated movie revisits the eccentric inventor named Wallace (Ben Whitehead) and his loyal canine, Gromit.
For his or her newest misadventure, Wallace has invented a robotic gnome, Norbot (Reece Shearsmith), to take over the family chores. Gromit's fears about Norbit are confirmed to be right when their previous adversary, Feathers McGraw, reprograms Norbot and the opposite gnomes in a scheme for revenge and world domination. It's as foolish because it sounds, and we like it.
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is streaming on Netflix.
2. ‘Bullet Prepare Explosion' (2025)
For those who've by no means seen the 1975 Japanese motion thriller The Bullet Prepare, don't fear. Bullet Train Explosion is extra of a thematic sequel, though it does reference its now 50-year-old predecessor. Consider it as Velocity on a prepare, as a mad bomber forces the Hayabusa 60 to keep up an unsafe velocity or else everybody on board will likely be killed. The bomber additionally calls for a big ransom for his or her lives from everybody in Japan.
Whereas Detective Yoshiharu Kawagoe (Kenji Iwaya) makes an attempt to search out the bomber exterior of the prepare, head supervisor Kazuya Takaichi (Kazuya Takaichi) tries to avoid wasting everybody on Hayabusa 60 after the passengers uncover what's taking place. That is an unusually good thriller that lets its heroic characters make good decisions as an alternative of main them down the mistaken path for the sake of contrivance.
Bullet Prepare Explosion is streaming on Netflix.
1. ‘Havoc' (2025)
The Raid director Gareth Evans delivered one other nice motion thriller in Havoc. Tom Hardy stars as Patrick Walker, a murder detective who's estranged from his fellow cops and on the payroll for an area businessman, Lawrence Beaumont (Forest Whitaker). There's a gang struggle brewing among the many Chinese language Triad, and Beaumont's son, Charlie (Justin Cornwell), is unintentionally on the middle of it.
Charlie and his girlfriend, Mia (Quelin Sepulveda), have been framed for murdering a Triad chief, and now there's a worth on their heads. Beaumont needs Walker to search out and shield Charlie in any respect prices, however he doesn't notice that he's change into a goal as effectively.
Havoc is streaming on Netflix.
Led by Senior Editor and skilled critic Jason Struss, Watch With Us' workforce of writers and editors sees virtually each film and TV present from the distant previous to the current to find out what's price your money and time. Our numerous hours of multimedia consumption — mixed with years of expertise within the leisure business — assist us decide the most effective motion pictures and TV exhibits try to be streaming proper now.
To be thought-about “the most effective,” these movies and sequence might be visually participating, intellectually stimulating or just simply enjoyable to observe, however the one trait they should have is that they're all, in a roundabout way, entertaining. We then examine which platform they're streaming on and how one can entry them as a subscriber. No algorithm nonsense or paid endorsements right here — our suggestions are based mostly purely on our love and curiosity for the movies and exhibits we love.
