Best Fantasy & Sci-Fi Movies of 2025: Top Must-Watch Films This Year

2025 is shaping up to be an unforgettable year for fantasy and science fiction enthusiasts! Get ready to explore the most anticipated genre films of the year, from epic high-fantasy adventures to mind-bending sci-fi thrillers. Our carefully curated list features groundbreaking visual effects, visionary directors, and immersive storytelling that will transport you to other worlds. Whether you’re into space operas, magical realms, or dystopian futures, these must-watch movies are redefining cinema. Don’t miss the films everyone will be talking about!

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30 Ash

A woman wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her space station viciously killed. Her investigation into what happened sets in motion a terrifying chain of events.

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29 Love Me

A post-apocalyptic romance in which a buoy and a satellite meet online and fall in love after the end of human civilization.

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28 The Astronaut

After returning from her first space mission, astronaut Sam Walker is placed under NASA’s care at a high security house for rehabilitation and medical testing. However, when disturbing occurrences begin happening around the property, she fears that something extraterrestrial has followed her back to Earth.

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27 The Shrouds

Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, builds a device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud.

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26 Jurassic World: Rebirth

Five years after the catastrophic global spread of dinosaurs, Earth’s climate has turned against its prehistoric inhabitants. Most have perished; the survivors cluster in an equatorial refuge near the original Jurassic Park research facility on Île Saint-Hubert. Covert operations expert Zora Bennett assembles a team to extract DNA from the world’s three largest dinosaurs, a pharmaceutical breakthrough with the potential to cure heart disease. Accompanying her are Duncan Kincaid, her trusted logistics specialist, and Dr. Henry Loomis, a paleontologist and former student of Alan Grant. Their mission intersects with the Delgado family, whose boat capsized in dinosaur-infested waters, stranding them on the island. Together, both groups confront not only the prehistoric predators that stalk the terrain but a sinister, long-hidden discovery buried within the facility’s ruins. The expedition quickly transforms from a scientific endeavor into a fight for survival against creatures that have mutated and evolved in ways no one anticipated.

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25 Tron: Ares

«TRON: Ares» follows a highly sophisticated Program, Ares, who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with A.I. beings.

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24 Death of a Unicorn

Elliot and Ridley Kintner, a father-daughter duo, accidentally strike a wayward animal with their car while traveling to a weekend vacation. What begins as a bizarre and unfortunate accident descends into pandemonium involving a billionaire boss, supernatural healing, and some very angry parents.

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23 The Electric State

Based on the graphic novel of the same name by Simon Stålenhag, the story takes place in a reimagined version of 1997. With humans isolated in their VR helmets and a continuing battle against a strange breed of monstruous drones in the wake of a technological meltdown, a teenage girl named Michelle and a robot travel the West Coast of the U.S in search of the girl’s missing brother.

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22 Wicked: For Good

After challenging the Wizard’s totalitarian regime in Oz, Elphaba must grapple with her identity as the «Wicked Witch of the West.» Meanwhile, the Wizard has given Glinda the title «Glinda the Good» and a public status as the nation’s defender against Elphaba. The two witches must make decisions that seal their fates in this second musical installment.

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21 Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy (전지적 독자 시점 | Jeokjijeok dokja sijeom)

Dokja was an average office worker whose sole interest was reading his favorite web novel ‘Three Ways to Survive the Apocalypse.’ But when the novel suddenly becomes reality, he is the only person who knows how the world will end. Armed with this realization, Dokja uses his understanding to change the course of the story, and the world, as he knows it.

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20 Superman

Superman must reconcile his alien Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as reporter Clark Kent. As the embodiment of truth, justice and the American way he soon finds himself in a world that views these as old-fashioned.

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19 The Assessment

Set in a world destroyed by climate change. Part of society has created a parallel world for itself. Life is controlled and optimized, and the desire to have children is also not left to chance. The lives of a successful young couple are therefore put under close scrutiny by a female assessor over the course of seven days.

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18 Golosovoy pomoshchnik (Голосовой помощник)

A group of former classmates rent a country house to relax like in the good old days. The modern chalet has everything for a comfortable and fun vacation, including the smart speaker «Alyona». «Alyona» knows how to entertain her guests, she has many «skills». She can solve puzzles, manage the house, and she also knows all the «skeletons in the closet» that friends are hiding. The device invites the company to play the game «Find the Killer» and find out the circumstances of the death of their best friend, who died less than a year ago under strange circumstances.

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17 The Fantastic Four: First Steps

Set against the vibrant backdrop of a 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm face their most daunting challenge yet. Forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, they must defend Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus and his enigmatic herald, then Silver Surfer. And if Galactus’ plan to devour the entire planet and everyone on it weren’t bad enough, it suddenly gets very personal.

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16 A Girl Named Willow (Ein Mädchen namens Willow)

What is Willow supposed to do with a forest? She inherited it from her great-aunt Alwina. And not only that — Alwina also left Willow a little crooked house and, above all, her witchcraft. But does Willow really want to accept this inheritance and everything that goes with it? And on top of that, she has to find three girls who also have the gift of witchcraft and save the forest together with them. But where? And above all, how? Fortunately, Willow is not alone, because Rufus the fox will not leave her side.

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15 The Running Man

A desperate contestant enters a globally broadcast death game where hired killers track participants across international borders. Cameras document every chase, every near miss, every kill. Audiences vote, sponsors intervene, and survival becomes performance art. The hunted runs while the world watches, entertains itself, and waits for the inevitable collapse of flesh against choreography.

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14 Thunderbolts*

A team of reformed supervillains is recruited for covert missions by a secret organization. They navigate internal conflict, moral dilemmas, and external threats while attempting to prove loyalty and effectiveness. The film blends superhero action, intrigue, and ensemble dynamics, exploring redemption, trust, and the blurred line between heroism and villainy in a high-stakes environment.

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13 KPop Demon Hunters

When they aren’t selling out stadiums, Kpop superstars Rumi, Mira and Zoey use their secret identities as badass demon hunters to protect their fans from an ever-present supernatural threat. Together, they must face their biggest enemy yet — an irresistible rival boy band of demons in disguise.

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12 28 Years Later

It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.

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11 Lilo & Stitch

Stitch, an extraterrestrial entity, comes to Earth after escaping prison, where he tries to impersonate a dog. Things take a turn when a lonely Hawaiian girl, Lilo, adopts him from an animal shelter and he helps mend her broken family.

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10 The Gorge

Two highly-trained operatives are appointed to posts in guard towers on opposite sides of a vast and highly classified gorge, protecting the world from an undisclosed, mysterious evil that lurks within. They bond from a distance while trying to stay vigilant in defending against an unseen enemy. When the cataclysmic threat to humanity is revealed to them, they must work together in a test of both their physical and mental strength to keep the secret in the gorge before it’s too late.

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9 Mickey 17

Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.

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8 Sinners

1930s. Brothers «Smoke» and «Stack» Moore return home to Mississippi after working for the Chicago Mafia. They buy a sawmill and a juke joint and use their experience as gangsters to ensure that their businesses flourish. Things appear to be going well but trouble has just hit town, trouble in supernatural form.

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7 Companion

Since Iris and Josh met in a supermarket, the two have been inseparable. Now they want to spend the weekend together with Josh’s friends at the luxurious lake estate of Sergey. His mistress Kat, and friends Eli and Patrick will also be there. At first, Iris is unsure, convinced that everyone hates her. After a bumpy start, the six spend a boisterous evening together. But the following morning will change their lives forever.

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6 Predator: Killer of Killers

An animated anthology that follows three legendary warriors across time, a Viking raider seeking revenge alongside her young son, a ninja who turns against his Samurai brother, and an inexperienced American WWII pilot in deadly aerial combat. Each face unimaginable danger when they become prey against the brutal alien Yautja, the ultimate extraterrestrial hunter. The Yautja battle through history to discover the fiercest human killers that will be the true killer of killers.

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5 How to Train Your Dragon

As an ancient threat endangers both Vikings and dragons alike on the isle of Berk, the friendship between Hiccup, an inventive Viking, and Toothless, a Night Fury dragon, becomes the key to both species forging a new future together.

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4 Frankenstein

Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley’s classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.

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3 Bugonia

Strange beliefs and unfounded convictions have shaped conspiracy theorist Teddy Gatz into the man he is today. And haunted by the crazy idea that malevolent extraterrestrials live among us, Teddy has embarked on a quixotic crusade to rid humankind of the otherworldly menace. His latest target is Michelle Fuller, the high-profile CEO of Auxolith Biomedical, and Teddy is determined to beat a confession out of her. All he needs is courage. Now, reason won’t cut it, and Fuller’s intricate mind games won’t save her skin, unless she comes clean about her sinister hidden agenda. However, Michelle is such a lovely person—perhaps a bit cold, but still a living, breathing human being. Then again, what if Gatz is onto something?

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2 Predator: Badlands

In the future, on a distant planet, a young predator, recently exiled from his native clan, finds an unlikely ally. Together, they soon embark on an extremely dangerous and thorny journey to ultimately find their most fierce and cruel enemy.

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1 Avatar: Fire and Ash

Jake and Neytiri’s family grapples with grief, encountering a new, aggressive Na’vi tribe, the Ash People, who are led by the fiery Varang, as the conflict on Pandora escalates and a new moral focus emerges.

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