Watchlist (2025+)
by Col Needham | created - 04 Aug 2011 | updated - 2 weeks ago | PublicThis is my overflow Watchlist for movies opening in the UK in 2025 onwards. I prefer to keep my main Watchlist for upcoming theatrical releases in the current year.
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1. 100 Years
Short, Drama | Completed
The content of this film is currently a secret, due to be revealed only when the title is released in 2115.
Director: Robert Rodriguez | Stars: John Malkovich, Marko Zaror, Shuya Chang
2. Avatar 5 (2031)
Action, Adventure, Drama | Filming
Sequel of Avatar 4 (2029) and last movie of the "Avatar" saga. The plot is unknown.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana, Michelle Yeoh
3. Avatar 4 (2029)
Action, Adventure, Fantasy | Filming
Sequel of Avatar 3 (2025). The plot is unknown.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana, Michelle Yeoh
4. Avatar 3 (2025)
Action, Adventure, Fantasy | Post-production
Sequel of Avatar: The Way of Water (2022). The plot is unknown.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana, Michelle Yeoh
5. Fork in the Road
Announced
In this comedy, a young Irish woman who steals for a living meets and marries an American tourist. They move to America, but even this is not far enough to escape his Irish in-laws.
6. American Commerce
Action, Adventure, Drama | Announced
The epic and terrifying true story of Captain Riley and his crew of the American brig, The Commerce, which was wrecked on the desolate coast fringing the Western Sahara in 1815.
Director: Saul Dibb
7. Vivaldi (II)
Biography, Drama, History | Announced
A biography of Antonio Vivaldi's early life, when the young priest became the music teacher at a school for the illegitimate daughters of Venice's courtesans.
Director: Boris Damast
8. In the Garden of Beasts
Drama | Announced
A mild-mannered Chicago professor becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany just before the Nazis began to assert an iron grip across Europe.
Director: Joe Wright | Star: Tom Hanks
9. Aaron & Sara
Comedy | Announced
A comedy that follows a guy and a girl through the respective high school careers -- four years in which the duo become unlikely best friends and, ultimately, lovers.
10. American Darling
Drama | Announced
The account of a New England woman's life in Liberia from the mid-1970s to 1991.
11. Anything But Ordinary
Drama, Romance | Announced
A tragic accident puts a young diver into a coma for five years. Upon waking up, she discovers she has become a synesthete, someone who processes words and numbers through color, the third dimension and sound.
Director: Susan Johnson | Star: Isabelle Fuhrman
12. Engagement Games
Comedy | Announced
Three sisters are forced to compete for their mother's wedding wing when they all become engaged at the same time.
13. Freezing People Is Easy
Comedy, Drama, Horror | Pre-production
A man experiments within the burgeoning field of cryogenics during the 1960s.
14. Highlander
Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | Pre-production
An immortal Scottish swordsman faces off with other immortal warriors in order to obtain a coveted ability.
Director: Chad Stahelski | Star: Henry Cavill
15. Liars (A-E)
Comedy, Romance | Announced
A recently dumped woman takes a roadtrip with her girlfriend to President Obama's inauguration; en route, she stops off to see various ex's and retrieve her old stuff.
16. Robopocalypse
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Announced
A sci-fi story set in the aftermath of a robot uprising.
Director: Michael Bay
17. Everybody Here Wants You
Biography, Drama, Music | Announced
A chronicle of the life of Jeff Buckley, the critically acclaimed musician whose career was on the rise before he drowned in 1997.
Director: Orian Williams | Star: Reeve Carney
18. Outback
Action, Sci-Fi | Announced
Plot unknown. Described as an Australian set sci-fi action film.
19. The Pre-Nup
Comedy, Romance | Announced
A couple's wedding day hits a snag when the groom's father demands that the couple draft a prenuptial agreement.
Director: Jonathan Lynn
20. The Ten Best Days of My Life
Comedy | Announced
An angel tries to recount her best ten days on Earth in order to avoid demotion.
21. Tender Is the Night
Drama, Romance | Announced
Set in the 1920s, an American doctor and his wealthy patient travel to the French Riviera where they surround themselves with their circle of friends and become entwined in a complicated love triangle.
Star: Moira Kaye
22. 33 Liberty Lane
Comedy | Announced
A story of four women who join forces to start a phone-sex company.
23. A Thousand Words or Less
Comedy | Announced
A national essay competition puts three ambitious teenagers into a game of one-upmanship.
Director: Bert V. Royal
25. Wish List
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | Announced
Life changes for a thirtysomething career woman when a coin she threw in a magic fountain as a girl finally reaches the bottom.
Star: Reese Witherspoon
26. Fuel (I)
Comedy, Thriller | Announced
A humbled surveillance expert investigating a corporate theft falls in love while he stumbles onto a scheme of murder that has something to do with electricity.
Directors: Nicholas Jarecki, Amy Gardner
27. La trilogie marseillaise: César
Drama | Announced
Remake of Pagnol classic. Third in the Marseille Trilogy.
Director: Daniel Auteuil
28. Beautiful Ruins
Drama | Pre-production
In 1962 Italy, a hotel owner's solitary life is disrupted when a visiting American actress steals his heart. 50 years on, his tale enchants a jaded Hollywood assistant who decides to give him the happy ending he deserves.
Director: Niki Caro
29. Nexus (I)
Sci-Fi | Announced
A young scientist becomes the target of government agencies and international mercenaries after creating software that facilitates mind control.
30. The Good Luck of Right Now
Drama | Announced
Four people form a common bond while dealing with their own struggles of grief, pain and loss.
Directors: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris | Star: Brie Larson
31. Mean Business on North Ganson Street
Crime, Drama | Announced
A disgraced detective is assigned to work with a demoted cop in a violent Midwest town where there's killing spree targeting police officers.
32. Time and Again (I)
Romance, Sci-Fi | Announced
An artist signs up for a top secret government time-travel experiment that transport him to 1880s New York. Based on Jack Finney's illustrated novel "Time and Again."
Director: Doug Liman
33. Untitled 'Ideal' Film
Comedy | Announced
Plot unknown. Feature film based on the sitcom, 'Ideal'.
Director: Ben Wheatley | Star: Johnny Vegas
34. Life Coach (I)
Comedy | Announced
A young woman's decision to turn things around by hiring "life coach" is thrown for a serious loop when the person she hires turns out to be a real mess.
35. The Wright Girls
Comedy, Thriller | Announced
A pair of young actresses who play best friends on a hit TV show, actually can't stand each other and go to great lengths to sabotage the other's chances to of landing a major movie role
Director: Kevin Connolly
36. The Locals
Comedy | Announced
The Locals is a comedic love story set in the Bronx about two three generational families; one Jewish, one Italian. Ironically, these families as most Jews and Italians have so much in ... See full summary »
Director: Sue Kramer
37. Brooklyn Bridge
Drama | Announced
Washington Roebling, a civil engineer and son of architect, John A. Roebling, is entrusted with completing his father's famous Brooklyn Bridge.
Director: Douglas McGrath
38. Cockeyed
Drama | Announced
Ryan Knighton chronicles the experience of losing his ability to see.
39. The Believers (I)
Drama | Announced
A dysfunctional New York City family is forced to confront their lives and relationships with one another after their patriarch suffers a stroke that leaves him in a coma.
40. Dancing Mood
Drama | Announced
Set in Jamaica in the early '60s, the film centers on a gospel church and the music scene of the time.
Director: Whit Stillman
41. Departure (I)
Romance, Sci-Fi | Announced
An FAA agent investigates a mysterious disappearance of passenger jet in mid-flight.
43. Impossible Odds
Drama | Announced
Aid worker Jessica Buchanan and a co-worker are kidnapped by Somali pirates and held captive for months in the desert while President Obama works to find a way to save them.
44. The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
Thriller | Announced
Plot under wraps. Remake of the cult-classic 1975 psychological thriller of the same name.
Director: Sean Durkin
45. Cleveland.
Drama | Announced
A young, struggling writer in New York maneuvers friendship, love, acceptance, family, and addiction as he and his friends discover the joys of life's interim periods.
Director: Danny Ward | Stars: Amber Tamblyn, Lucy Fry, Liam Aiken, Jackie Cruz
46. Courting Danger
Biography, Drama | Announced
About Alice Marble, a three-time tennis world champion who at the time, defied the wishes of her longtime coach and left the sport in order to become an Allied spy, gathering intel on the ... See full summary »
48. The Defection
Drama, Mystery | Announced
The CIA hires a charismatic case officer from the Cold War-era to track down a contractor who's defected to North Korea with a mysterious bag.
Director: Jeremy Saulnier
50. Untitled Harriet Tubman Project
Biography, Drama, History | Announced
The life of Civil War-era activist Harriet Tubman, who worked to liberate slaves in the American South by developing an a secretive system that allowed them to escape to freedom.
Stars: Viola Davis, Mike Gassaway
51. Abominable
Action, Adventure, Horror | Announced
A supernatural thriller set in a remote town that is being terrorized by a Yeti.
Director: Corin Hardy
52. The Cradle (II)
Comedy, Drama | Announced
A couple expecting their first child track down a cradle from their childhood and make a discovery that will change their family forever.
53. The Creed of Violence
Action, Crime, Drama | Announced
Story takes place in 1910, as two men - an assassin and a government agent with a hidden connection to him - try to stop an organization behind an arms smuggling ring.
Director: Todd Field | Star: Daniel Craig
54. The Shoes (II)
90 min | Drama | Post-production
Two shattered families struggle to survive tragic events that hurl a bully and her perceptive target on a collision course of love, loss, and redemption.
Director: Ramsey Stoneburner | Stars: Jon Briddell, Angela Cole, Deborah Tucker, Robert Pralgo
55. Any Girl Who Loves the Beatles Is Bound to Break Your Heart
Romance | Announced
On a sweltering summer's day in Sydney, two strangers, a vivacious English musician and a cynical local travel writer fall for each other's charms when circumstances throw them together for twenty-four hours after a missed flight.
56. Thomasina
Horror | Announced
Set in the underbelly of Los Angeles, Thomasina, a mysterious, down on her luck teenager life begins to spin out of control after her mother's murder. Female obsession becomes dangerous ... See full summary »
Stars: Greta Bellamacina, Rileigh McDonald
57. Unforgiving World
Comedy | Announced
A couple who discreetly work at the same law firm find themselves competing for the same job promotion.
Director: Nanette Burstein
58. Hug Chickenpenny
Drama | Announced
Hug Chickenpenny is an anomalous child. Born from tragedy and unknown paternity, this asymmetrical and white-haired baby inspires both ire and pity at the orphanage, until the day that an elderly eccentric adopts him as a pet. The upbeat boy's spirit is challenged in his new home as he is exposed to prejudiced members of society in various encounters.
Director: S. Craig Zahler | Stars: Vince Vaughn, Fred Melamed
59. Live Die Repeat and Repeat
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Announced
Plot unknown. A follow-up to the 2014 sci-fi film, 'Edge of Tomorrow'.
Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Emily Blunt, Tom Cruise, Rolando Davila-Beltran
60. Luna Park (I)
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Announced
A group of renegade employees who venture to the moon to steal an energy source.
Director: Doug Liman
61. The Actor (VI)
Crime, Drama, Mystery | Post-production
When New York actor Paul Cole is beaten and left for dead in 1950s Ohio, he loses his memory and finds himself stranded in a mysterious small town where he struggles to get back home and reclaim what he's lost.
Director: Duke Johnson | Stars: Gemma Chan, Toby Jones, Joe Cole, Tracey Ullman
62. The Nightingale
Drama, History, War | Announced
The lives of two sisters living in France are torn apart at the onset of World War II. Based on Kristin Hannah's novel 'The Nightingale'.
Directors: Mélanie Laurent, Maria K. Singh | Stars: Dakota Fanning, Elle Fanning
63. Sherlock Holmes 3
Action, Adventure, Mystery | Pre-production
The plot is unknown at this time.
Director: Dexter Fletcher | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Eddie Marsan, Jared Harris
64. Hush, Hush
Drama, Fantasy, Romance | Pre-production
Based on the New York Times best-selling book franchise series.
Director: Matthew Hastings | Stars: Shay Mitchell, Wolfgang Novogratz
65. Fast and Loose (II)
Action, Crime, Thriller | Pre-production
After the leader of a criminal organization suffers memory loss from an attack, he reunites with his crew, only to find that things aren't what he thinks they are.
Star: Will Smith
66. Crying in H Mart
Drama | Pre-production
Zauner's relationship with her mother, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer, at which point Zauner reckons with her identity both as a daughter and a Korean American.
67. Bogieville
R | Horror | Post-production
A young couple on the run come across a derelict trailer park 'Bogieville'.
Director: Sean Cronin | Stars: Arifin Putra, Eloise Lovell Anderson, Sean Cronin, Daniel P Lewis
68. Legally Blonde 3
Comedy | Pre-production
Plot unknown. Third installment of 'Legally Blonde'.
Director: Jamie Suk | Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Alanna Ubach, Jennifer Coolidge, Jessica Cauffiel
69. Dust
R | Drama, Horror, Thriller | Completed
In 1930s Oklahoma amid the region's horrific dust storms, a woman is convinced that a sinister presence is threatening her family.
Directors: Karrie Crouse, William Joines | Stars: Sarah Paulson, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Amiah Miller, Annaleigh Ashford
70. Aliens Expanded
Documentary | Pre-production
An in-depth and innovative documentary that explores the story behind James Cameron's beloved sci-fi epic Aliens (1986) and its incredible impact.
Director: Ian Nathan | Stars: Jenette Goldstein, Carrie Henn, Mark Rolston, Matt Winston
71. Batgirl
Action, Adventure, Crime | Completed
Based upon the popular DC character, Barbara Gordon dons the guise of Batgirl to fight crime.
Directors: Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah | Stars: Michael Keaton, Brendan Fraser, J.K. Simmons, Jacob Scipio
72. The Wild Bunch (I)
Western | Announced
A gang of American bandits try to elude bounty hunters during the waning days of the wild West. A remake of the 1969 film directed by Sam Peckinpah.
Stars: Peter Dinklage, Jamie Foxx
73. Hate to See You Go
Drama | Pre-production
Sonny Bell (Freeman), an aging Chicago Blues musician, who refuses to retire and defiantly hits the road with his band for one last long-shot to keep doing the only thing that makes them all feel truly alive: play Blues.
Director: Ben Tishler | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Bill Burr, Common, Alfre Woodard
74. Emperor (II)
Adventure, Thriller | Completed
XVI Century. Action epic about young Johanna "Of Ghent", who seeks revenge on the holy Roman Emperor Charles V for the death of her father. It happens in a world of wealth, debauchery, violent retaliations, sex, manipulation, and treason.
Director: Lee Tamahori | Stars: Adrien Brody, Sophie Cookson, Paz Vega, Thomas Kretschmann
75. Interspecies
Documentary | Post-production
Humans demonstrate and passionately argue that plants have as much by way of brainpower as they do beauty. And what if they were actually communicating with us? And if they were, what do they have to tell us?
Director: Lucy Walker
76. The Division (I)
Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Announced
In the near future, a pandemic virus is spread via paper money on Black Friday, decimating New York. A group of civilians, trained to operate in catastrophic times, are activated in an attempt to save who and what remains.
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jessica Chastain, McKinley Stamper
77. Francis and the Godfather
Drama | Announced
Young director Francis Ford Coppola faces off against producer Robert Evans during the production of 'The Godfather.'
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Oscar Isaac, Elle Fanning, Elisabeth Moss
78. The Brutalist
Drama | Post-production
When visionary architect László Toth and his wife Erzsébet flee post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious and wealthy client.
Director: Brady Corbet | Stars: Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn
79. Maria (XVII)
Comedy | Pre-production
Maria is having a crisis. Struggling to accept her age, her boyfriend's love and her father's imminent death, she runs from reality and falls for her new stepbrother.
Director: Simon Amstell | Star: Jason Isaacs
80. Blood Mother (II)
Announced
Follows an Oxford professor who discovers her baby is inhuman and finds herself doing the unimaginable to keep him alive.
Star: Felicity Jones
81. Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
Animation, Action, Adventure | Filming
After leaving off from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the story continues.
Directors: Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson | Stars: Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Brian Tyree Henry, Luna Lauren Velez
82. Coyote vs. Acme
PG | 101 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | Completed
A story set in the ACME warehouse, the manufacturer of anything and everything used by the Looney Tunes characters.
Director: Dave Green | Stars: John Cena, Lana Condor, Will Forte, P.J. Byrne
83. Turn Me On
Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi | Post-production
Under the control of a pill that eradicates human emotion, a young couple skip doses and discover new feelings, but realize that comes with emotional baggage to deal with.
Director: Michael Tyburski | Stars: Nick Robinson, Bel Powley, Justin H. Min, Nesta Cooper
84. Gremlins 3
Comedy, Fantasy, Horror | Announced
A sequel to Gremlins (1984) about cute little creatures that transform into uncontrollable monsters.
85. Distant
PG-13 | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi | Completed
It follows an asteroid miner who, after crash-landing on an alien planet, must make his way across the harsh terrain, running out of oxygen, hunted by strange creatures, to the only other survivor.
Directors: Josh Gordon, Will Speck | Stars: Anthony Ramos, Naomi Scott, Kristofer Hivju, Zachary Quinto
86. Twilight of the Mallrats
Comedy | Pre-production
Plot unknown.
Director: Kevin Smith | Stars: Claire Forlani, Ethan Suplee, Shannen Doherty, Jason Lee
87. The Bitter Tears of Zahra Zand
Post-production
An 80's Set Iranian Reimagining Of Fassbinder's 'Petra Von Kant'
Director: Vahid Hakimzadeh | Stars: Boshra Dastournezhad, Pari Armineh, Melina Farahani, Goli Samii
88. Borderline (VI)
R | Thriller | Completed
A bodyguard protects a pop superstar and her athlete boyfriend from a determined stalker in 1990s Los Angeles.
Director: Jimmy Warden | Stars: Samara Weaving, Eric Dane, Ray Nicholson, Jimmie Fails
89. Babygirl (II)
Crime, Mystery, Thriller | Post-production
Despite the risk and prejudices, a very successful CEO begins an illicit affair with her much younger intern.
Director: Halina Reijn | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas, Jean Reno
90. The Mothership
Adventure, Drama, Family | Completed
One year after her husband's mysterious disappearance, Sara Morse discovers a strange, extraterrestrial object underneath their home. She and her kids are on a race to find their husband, father, and the truth.
Director: Matt Charman | Stars: Halle Berry, John Ortiz, Molly Parker, Omari Hardwick
91. Havoc
Action, Thriller | Completed
After a drug deal gone wrong, a bruised detective must fight his way through the criminal underworld to rescue a politician's estranged son, unraveling a deep web of corruption and conspiracy that ensnares his entire city.
Director: Gareth Evans | Stars: Xelia Mendes-Jones, Tom Hardy, Timothy Olyphant, Forest Whitaker
92. Empire Waist
Comedy, Drama | Post-production
Follows a group of teens who overcome societal bias and through inclusive fashion design and friendship.
Director: Claire Ayoub | Stars: Missi Pyle, Rainn Wilson, Jolene Purdy, Tabyana Ali
93. The Front Room (II)
Horror, Thriller | Post-production
It tells the story of a young, newly pregnant couple who is forced to take in an ailing, estranged stepmother.
Directors: Max Eggers, Sam Eggers | Stars: Neal Huff, Kathryn Hunter, Brandy Norwood, Morgen McKynzie
94. Hot Milk
Drama | Post-production
With a strange illness, a mother and her daughter embark on a journey to the Spanish coast to find a cure, and along the way the daughter discovers another reality far from her controlling mother.
Director: Rebecca Lenkiewicz | Stars: Fiona Shaw, Emma Mackey, Vicky Krieps, Vincent Perez
95. Nickel Boys
PG-13 | Drama | Completed
Adaptation of Colson Whitehead's 2019 Pulitzer Prize winning novel 'The Nickel Boys.'
Director: RaMell Ross | Stars: Hamish Linklater, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Fred Hechinger, Craig Tate
96. Nightbitch (2024)
R | Comedy, Drama, Horror | Completed
A woman pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom, but soon her domesticity takes a surreal turn.
Director: Marielle Heller | Stars: Amy Adams, Scoot McNairy, Mary Holland, Jessica Harper
97. Nonnas
Comedy | Post-production
Follows Joe Scaravella, who realizes he's wasted time as a single man at a dead-end job and yearns for a second chance, so he opens a restaurant and hires the a group of grandmothers as chefs.
Director: Stephen Chbosky | Stars: Linda Cardellini, Susan Sarandon, Lorraine Bracco, Vince Vaughn
98. One of Us (IX)
Horror, Mystery | Post-production
Members of a family begin dying one by one at a funeral, while Youngest searches for the stranger in their midst.
Director: Stefan van de Graaff | Stars: Kit Connor, Sienna Guillory, Charlotte Hope, Douglas Henshall
99. The Order (X)
Crime, Drama, Thriller | Post-production
A series of bank robberies and car heists frightened communities in the Pacific Northwest. A lone FBI agent believes that the crimes were not the work of financially motivated criminals, but rather a group of dangerous domestic terrorists.
Director: Justin Kurzel | Stars: Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett
100. Pierce (I)
Drama, Sport | Pre-production
When his dangerous older brother is released from prison, high school fencer Jie helps him, defying their mother's attempts to bury his existence.
Director: Nelicia Low | Stars: Yu-Ning Tsao, Hsiu-Fu Liu, Ning Ding
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