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Saturday, 11 October 2025

100 latest films and plays I've watched

From December 2024 to October 2025 

In bold: films and plays I think are good 


1/ Až přijde kocour (When the Cat Comes/ The Cassandra Cat - Czechoslovakia - 1963) 

2/ Lekce Faust (Faust - Czech Republic, France, UK, US, Germany - 1994) 

3/ Cléo de 5 à 7 (Cléo from 5 to 7 - France, Italy - 1962)

4/ To Be or Not to Be (1942)

5/ Kedi (Turkey - 2016) 

6/ A Midsummer Night's Dream (2024, Royal Shakespeare Company, dir. Eleanor Rhode, starring Mathew Baynton as Bottom) - onstage 

7/ I Slept with 100 Men in One Day (2024)

8/ The Wizard of Oz (1939) 

9/ Burning Sun: Exposing the Secret K-pop Chat Groups (2024) 

10/ The Ladykillers (1955) 

11/ Cien Años de Soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude - Colombia - 2024) - Series 1, 8 episodes

12/ Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror - Germany - 1922) 

13/ Daughters of Darkness (Belgium, France, West Germany - 1971) 

14/ In Bruges (2008)

15/ PinkNews: Behind Closed Doors (2024) 

16/ The Man in the White Suit (1951)

17/ Nosferatu (2024) 

18/ Dispatches: Beneath the Veil (2001) 

19/ The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

20/ A Real Pain (2024) 

21/ Wonka (2023)

22/ It Happened One Night (1934) 

23/ The Palm Beach Story (1942)

24/ Midnight (1939) 

25/ Cleopatra (1934) 

26/ A Star Is Born (2018) 

27/ The Flame of New Orleans (1941)

28/ Coriolanus (2024, National Theatre, dir. Lyndsey Turner, with David Oyelowo as Coriolanus) 

29/ King Lear (2018, National Theatre, dir. Jonathan Munby, with Ian McKellen as Lear) 

30/ The Brutalist (2024) 

31/ Othello (2013, National Theatre, dir. Nicholas Hytner, with Adrian Lester as Othello) 

32/ Julius Caesar (2018, National Theatre. dir. Nicholas Hytner, with Ben Whishaw as Brutus) 

33/ Mahanagar, aka The Big City (India - 1963) 

34/ Anora (2024)

35/ L'Amour l'après-midi (Love in the Afternoon - France - 1972) 

36/ Hunting the Catfish Crime Gang (2023) 

37/ Panorama - My Online Stalker (2025) 

38/ Eye Investigations: Liked, Lured, Livestreamed (2025) 

39/ Moonstruck (1987)

40/ Le ballon rouge (The Red Balloon - France - 1956) 

41/ Heathers (1988) 

42/ Tom Jones (1963) 

43/ The Big Clock (1948) 

44/ Groomed: A National Scandal (2025) 

45/ Eye Investigations: Make Me Perfect: Manufacturing Beauty in China (2025) 

46/ 晩菊 (Late Chrysanthemums - Japan - 1954) 

47/ Macbeth (1971) 

48/ 龍門客棧 (Dragon Inn - Taiwan - 1967) 

49/ Cyrano de Bergerac (France, Hungary - 1990) 

50/ Hamlet (2009, RSC, ft. David Tennant) 

51/ Paper Moon (1973)

52/ タンポポ (Tampopo - Japan - 1985) 

53/ Diddy in Plain Sight: UNTOLD (2025) 

54/ Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) 

55/ Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025) 

56/ Stacey Dooley: Meet the Shoplifters (2025) 

57/ Anna Karenina (1977) - 10 episodes 

58/ Mansfield Park (1983) - 6 episodes 

59/ Pride and Prejudice (2005) - again 

60/ North and South (2004) - 4 episodes 

61/ Братья Карамазовы (The Brothers Karamazov - Soviet Union - 1969) 

62/ Straume (Flow - Latvia, France, Belgium - 2024)

62/ The Apartment (1960) - again

63/ The Servant (1963) 

64/ Some Like It Hot (1959) - again 

65/ Ball of Fire (1941) 

66/ The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) 

67/ Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) 

68/ Citizen Kane (1941) - again 

69/ Sound of Metal (2019)

70/ My Man Godfrey (1936) 

71/ The Naked Gun (2025) 

72/ Odd Man Out (1947) 

78/ 12 Angry Men (1957) - again 

79/ Ninotchka (1939)

80/ Frankenstein (1931) 

81/ Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

82/ 千と千尋の神隠し (Spirited Away - Japan - 2001)

83/ Casablanca (1942) - again 

84/ The Plot Against Harry (1971)

85/ The Three Faces of Eve (1957) 

86/ Poor Things (2023) 

87/ Young Frankenstein (1974) 

88/ High Anxiety (1977) 

89/ Dark Waters (2019) 

90/ Dracula (1931, English-language version) 

91/ Son of Frankenstein (1939) 

92/ Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931) 

93/ The Invisible Man (1933) 

94/ The Black Cat (1934) 

95/ The Return (2024)

96/ The Public Enemy (1931) 

97/ Steve Jobs (2015)

98/ パーフェクトブルー (Perfect Blue - Japan - 1997)

99/ ハウルの動く城 (Howl's Moving Castle - Japan - 2004) 

100/ となりのトトロ (My Neighbour Totoro - Japan - 1988) 

2 comments:

  1. 'Anora' is getting so many divisive opinions, what makes it good for you.

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    1. I think it's a funny film, with well-written dialogue and good acting.
      Do I think it's one of the greatest films of all time? No. Do I think it's as good as some of the Oscar winners in the 50s-70s? Also no. But it's a good, enjoyable, rewatchable film.
      From that year, I think The Brutalist is a deeper, more thought-provoking film, though I'm not sure it's a film I want to watch many times.

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