BAM Film 2025

Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, Licorice Pizza) is back with a big, splashy thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Teyana Taylor, and Regina Hall.

Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap a high-powered company CEO, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth, in a black-comedy thriller reuniting Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone.

An unassuming mechanic is suddenly reminded of his time in an Iranian prison when he encounters a man he suspects to be his sadistic jailhouse captor, in a deeply felt moral thriller by Jafar Panâhi.

Jennifer Lawrence delivers “one of her most fearless performances” (AV Club) as a writer locked in the grip of post-partum depression in the latest black-comedy psychological thriller from Lynne Ramsay.

Joachim Trier follows The Worst Person in the World (2021) with a deeply felt comedy-drama about legacy, art, and the performances that bind—and divide—families.

Brendan Fraser portrays a Tokyo-based American actor who struggles to find purpose until an unusual gig working for a “rental family” agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers, helps him form bonds.

Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley star in Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of a novel about William Shakespeare, his free-spirited wife Agnes, and the tragedy that led to the creation of one of his greatest plays.

In an afterlife where souls must pick where to spend eternity, Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) must choose between the husband she spent her life with (Miles Teller) and the love she lost decades ago (Callum Turner).

Hailed by critics as a masterpiece, Park Chan-wook’s (Oldboy, Decision to Leave) black-comedy thriller follows one man’s berserk search for a new job after he is abruptly laid off.

Join writer-director Noah Baumbach and guests in a 20th-anniversary celebration of Baumbach’s autobiographical third feature, about two young brothers navigating the jagged contours of their parents’ divorce.

Non-professional Tuscan actors voice godly concerns in the final Straub-Huillet collaboration, screening in 35mm to celebrate a new translation of its source, Cesare Pavese’s The Leucothea Dialogues.

The most awarded film at Cannes this year follows a former teacher and political dissident on the run during the waning years of Brazil’s military dictatorship.

Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson find love and follow their dreams belting out Neil Diamond hits in this based-on-a-true-story saga written and directed by Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow, Dolemite Is My Name).

Bradley Cooper writes, directs, and co-stars in this understated comedy drama starring Will Arnett and Laura Dern as a middle-aged couple navigating divorce.

Academy Award nominee Amanda Seyfried stars as Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers devotional sect, in writer-director Mona Fastvold’s portrait of an irrepressible leader who preached gender and social equality.