Most Popular World Cinema 2025

Nick Cave and Sarah Snook voice an Oscar-nominated stop-motion classic of divided twins, told with adult candour and uncanny warmth.

A teenager is taken to a Corsican villa where her fugitive mob boss father is hiding, before an assassination attempt forces them to go on the run.

In the heart of the French Alps, a wayward teen finds his purpose in cheese – and discovers that maturity isn’t just for Comté.

A young girl experiences the turmoil of love and friendship in this nuanced coming-of-age tale with echoes of Céline Sciamma.

Unfolding against the stunning backdrop of a remote Italian mountain village, Maura Delpero’s film is a hauntingly beautiful period tale of family life gradually torn apart.

The spirits of Lynch, Lang and Hitchcock haunt this cold war mystery-thriller with an awesome Alpine backdrop.

Gripping drama in which a nurse finds herself caught in a race against time during an unrelenting night shift.

Life begins at 70 for Mahin, who decides to shake her life up in this charming, quietly subversive tale from Iran.

Psychological drama in which a talented young tennis player comes under pressure to talk when her coach is investigated for abusing his position.

Victor Kossakovsky’s film essay looks at the way we have constructed our built world through a series of breathtaking sequences.

Acclaimed filmmaker Karim Aïnouz’s Brazilian erotic noir sees an escaped young hustler flee to a roadside sex motel run by a hot-headed couple.

A frustrated stage mother exploits her star daughter’s coma for her own artistic gains, in this wickedly dark Australian comedy.

An acclaimed conductor strikes up a relationship with a brother he never knew he had in this touching French drama with echoes of Brassed Off.

Tragedy draws a successful German orchestra conductor back to his complicated family in an epic saga that finds hope in the darkest of places.

A fiercely independent woman’s tranquillity is disturbed by an unexpected affair, in this wry, tender and understated drama from Georgia.

A powerful historical drama inspired by the true story of the Red Orchestra Nazi-resistance group and two courageous resistance fighters.

A doctor in rural Georgia faces scrutiny after a baby dies during childbirth in this affecting and atmospheric abortion drama.

Berlin Film Festival award winner Lois Patiño’s assured third feature transports us to magical places in Laos and Zanzibar, where the visible and the invisible merge.

A young man seeks those responsible for his social activist mother’s disappearance, in this intense thriller from Amat Escalante (Heli, The Untamed).

A richly rendered story of anticolonial score-settling in 19th century Chile that dabbles in magical realism, folk horror and fairytale iconography.