Movies to Watch in June 2025: Unmissable Cinema Releases
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The Champs-Élysées Film Festival celebrates independent cinema and new voices. A perfect context to explore the films shaping this June 2025.
Here is our curated selection of the must-see films in June 2025, ranging from bold first features to powerful stories on screen.
The Life of Chuck by Mike Flanagan emerges as an unexpected masterpiece. Adapted from a Stephen King novella, this film unfolds in three acts in reverse, painting an intimate portrait of an ordinary man. Flanagan steps away from horror in favor of grace, memory, and a mesmerizing Tom Hiddleston.
Films to See in Theaters – Movies to Watch in June 2025
Releases on June 11, 2025
Crasse – Luna Carmoon
A first feature where sensory realism meets a disturbing fairy tale. Carmoon captures, in a controlled chaos, the unsettling poetry of childhood as a survival force. A raw, inhabited cinematic gesture.
The Life of Chuck – Mike Flanagan
Flanagan breaks genre conventions to deliver a backward fable, stripped-down and haunted by loss and beauty. Tom Hiddleston gives ethereal depth to a man who only exists through others’ memories.
Différente – Lola Doillon
A romantic comedy that rejects the usual couple archetypes. Doillon sketches a cartography of dissonance: never being where others expect you. Moving in its emotional ambiguity.
Vacances forcées – Archinard & Prévôt-Leygonie
Behind its light tone lies a subtle critique of bourgeois hypocrisy. This closed-door comedy becomes an ideological playground, mixing social clash and Molière-esque satire. The writing lacks bite at times.
Indomptables – Thomas Ngijol
A classically structured crime drama that questions authority figures. Ngijol portrays Yaoundé as a fractured space where the virile myth of the policeman buckles under cultural pressures.
A Normal Family – Jin-Ho Hur
The Korean director delivers a muted moral ballet. The polished mise-en-scène unfolds in an ultra-modern setting where judgment is suspended. A restrained, almost surgical tension around fraying relationships.
Le Rendez-vous de l’été – Valentine Cadic
A summer chronicle whose discreet elegance reveals sharp observational skills. Paris becomes the backdrop for a fragile family reconnection, gently mirroring the main character’s emotional drift.
Releases on June 18, 2025
28 Years Later – Danny Boyle
Boyle returns to his virus saga as a director of contemporary dread. The imagery is raw, the urban space turned into a paranoid battlefield. A radical sequel, far from franchise formula.
Avignon – Johann Dionnet
A comedy of façades where theater spills beyond its stage. Dionnet captures the ambivalence of the artistic scene: precarity, ego, imposture. A bittersweet farce with heartfelt affection for its characters.
Enzo – Cantet & Campillo
This film captures youth’s vertigo in the face of social determinism. Each shot suggests the claustrophobia of an exhausted working-class world, filmed with sobriety, never pity.
The Return – Uberto Pasolini
Pasolini adapts the Odyssey on a human scale. Ralph Fiennes plays a worn, absent father figure. Tragedy unfolds in subtle gestures, turning epic into intimate chamber drama.
Sur la route de papa – Aitakkaoua & Dacourt
A family comedy adopting the road-movie’s structure of emotional revelation. Amid silly jokes emerges a rugged tenderness in intergenerational ties.
Peacock – Bernhard Wenger
A gentle fable on social imposture and the fear of selfhood. The narrative device may seem contrived, but Wenger pushes it to absurdity, exposing both literal and symbolic vulnerability.
Loveable – Lilja Ingolfsdottir
An intimate drama with clinical precision. The domestic space becomes a charged arena where every object and silence reflects a crumbling feminine identity.
Releases on June 19 & 25, 2025
Dakar Chronicles – Jalil Lespert
This documentary embraces the physical and mental ordeal of rally racing. More than a sports film, it’s a sensorial and rhythmic immersion into sand, fatigue, and mechanical brotherhood.
F1® THE MOVIE – Joseph Kosinski
An immersive blockbuster shot at the speed of racecars. Kosinski favors sleek visuals and syncopated rhythm, filming velocity as existential vertigo. Brad Pitt haunts the screen like a ghost from another era.
Vera’s Rhythm – Ido Fluk
A luminous, fragile biopic without melodrama. Ido Fluk captures the faith of youth in art’s transformative power. Sometimes, that belief is enough. The sincerity is palpable.
Release on June 27, 2025
13 Days 13 Nights – Martin Bourboulon
A tense, visceral film where evacuation urgency meets diplomatic complexity. Roschdy Zem exudes anxious presence. Far from pathos, Bourboulon opts for rhythm and restraint.
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Don’t miss these movies to watch in June 2025 — each one reveals a unique facet of our time.
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