2025 TV Shows

2025 was a year of consolidation. Studios doubled down on franchise tentpoles after the post-strike recovery, while streamers refined their original-content economics. Notable theatrical releases included Sinners (Ryan Coogler's vampire thriller widely regarded as the year's prestige peak), A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg's direct-to-the-Holocaust-question Polish-set drama, Best Adapted Screenplay), Materialists (Celine Song's follow-up to Past Lives), Mickey 17 (Bong Joon-ho's first English-language film since Snowpiercer / Okja), and the Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, Wicked: For Good (Part Two of the Universal stage adaptation), and Avatar: Fire and Ash (the third entry in James Cameron's planned five-film cycle) blockbusters. Prestige TV continued at scale: Severance Season 2's January–March run dominated awards conversation; The White Lotus Season 3 arrived from Thailand; The Last of Us Season 2 expanded the post-apocalyptic universe; and the Mr. Bates vs The Post Office cultural-political ITV docudrama pattern repeated through several international productions. International cinema produced strong work: Brazilian I'm Still Here (which won Best International Feature 2025 for Walter Salles), Mexican-American work from Iñárritu and Cuarón continuing, Korean-Thai-Japanese co-productions from Bong, Park, and the Studio Ghibli post-Boy-and-the-Heron successor generation. The most-watched titles on Zoovie from 2025 are listed first.