I Watched Movies in 2025. Here is Some Info About Them.

I like movies. If you've seen any of my quizzes (in my Cinemasorsa account), read my older blogs, frequented the JetPunk Discord server, or read my interview by Poirot, this should be old news. Thus, the year 2025 for me included watching quite a few movies. At some point, I thought about writing a blog about this year and my film adventure, which would give me an opportunity to better visualize and create stats about the movies I watched.

This blog will go through the types of movies I saw, how I liked them, and what my 2025 in film looked like. This means that this is more of a fun project for myself above anything else, leading to the blog having a more breakneck structure, and less polished look. I still hope at least someone else will be interested in these statistics.

Going into 2025, I did not have any goals or dreams regarding movies. The most I had in mind was my watchlist with several films I planned on watching at some point, and the fact I was going to watch as many new movies as possible. Did I succeed? Well, the watchlist is still large and I watched a total of 92 new movies during 2025. Just shy of 100, pity that.

I tried to really broaden my horizon with watching classic, older films that had always felt kinda intimidating and too grand for my scope. I also wanted to see movies from around the world, including my home country, Finland. Despite this, I did not stress too much about what I should watch, and went with which film felt like would be a good time whenever choosing what to watch.

I mostly watched movies at home, with also visiting the cinema and watching pictures from the big screen whenever my financial state allowed for this. Speaking of financial state, I did not use that many streaming services you had to pay for. I did have Disney+ for the better part of the year, but have been living without it for several months now (and seeing the direction they're going for right now, that probably was the right choice).

The other sites, including but not limited to, were Yle Areena (free streaming site owned by Finland's broadcasting company), Cineast (another free site that I was able to access with my library card, genuinely a goldmine for content!), and occasionally (ahem) sailing the high seas.

Not bad, all things considered. In case you're wondering why Russia is in a different shade, it's because I watched a movie from the Soviet Union, Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris, and figured this would be the smartest way to include it on the map. Is there room to improve? Most definitely. There are massive blind spots on the map and almost all the movies were from the western world. Almost nothing from Latin America, nothing from Africa, with Asia being very empty as well (nothing from China or India!) This does set a good challenge to me regarding 2026, though, as there definitely are ways for me to broaden my horizon.

Below is a table of the number of films I watched by country. No surprise, the US clears every other country and that will probably be the case in future years as well.

When were these movies made? Did I have any success in attempting to watch more so-called old movies? Below is a breakdown of the decades the movies I watched were released in.

Quite recent, as you can tell, but a decent amount of older flicks as well, some from a century ago. The oldest movie I watched was Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush from 1925, and saw a total of 7 movies released in 2025. Pretty interesting, not gonna lie. I would say I had some success in attempting to see older movies, but newer cinema seemed to interest me more. To be completely honest, I wasn't expecting 23 movies from the 2020s.

Of course, I had to rate every movie I watched. I feel like Letterboxd's 5-star system is the best way to rate, which is why I also used it in this blog. At this point, I have to admit that I did not go out of my way to voluntarily watch movies that I had no interest in, or were almost universally considered bad. That's why my average rating score is so high, this is what happens when you want to watch movies that are considered great instead of movies that might be a waste of your time. Not the best mentality, but I digress. Below is a breakdown of the 92 films's ratings.

I also wanted to rank my favorite movies, so here goes. I picked my 5 favorites and also 5 other movies I wanted to give some love to (the latter not being in any particular order). It was hard to choose, but I'm happy with what I chose and the ratings I gave. Who knows, maybe upon a few rewatches I completely disagree with the orders.

I'm not going to list every single movie I watched in this blog, but in case you're interested, I listed all of them in a sheet that you can access below. Note that the movies are listed alphabetically.

Well, that was that. A brief look into my year in film. Honestly, it was very interesting for me to look closer at what I watched and so forth. How will 2026 fare? I do want to watch as many movies as plausible, but as my pace slowed down in 2025 due to life getting in the way, especially in December, I do fear this trend will carry on to this year as well. Nevertheless, I will continue to enjoy movies and always find new, interesting ones to watch, and with the award season rolling in, will probably watch more 2025 films. My other goals include watching more and more movies from around the world, watching as many of the highest-rated movies in Letterboxd as I can muster, trying to get into Kurosawa's filmography, and continue to watch the films on my watchlist.

I hope you picked something from reading this. As I said, this was a bit different from the usual movie blogs and perhaps only interested a few people based on the topic alone. How was your movie year? What did you like the most? Are you anticipating something in 2026?