Most Wanted Movies October 2025 – London Film Festival Special

The London Film Festival is taking over October 2025 with new movies from Hollywood’s most innovative storytellers

Hey film fans, it’s Dani from We Talk Film here with the October 2025 edition of Most Wanted Movies.
And this is a very special London Film Festival edition. Every film I feature today is receiving its UK premiere at the BFI London Film Festival this month, but they are all coming to screens near you very soon afterwards, so let’s dive into it.

Roofman

First up on my list, out in cinemas from the 3rd of October, is Roofman. This is an unbelievable true story starring Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst, and Peter Dinklage. Channing Tatum plays a down on his luck
father who resorts to robbing a series of McDonald’s by cutting holes in the roof, earning his bad guy nickname. He gets caught, gets sent to prison, and breaks out, only to spend an entire six months
hiding out inside his local Toys R Us.

His life on the run is disrupted when he falls for a local single mom and has to decide what to do with his time. Now, I don’t think Channing Tatum is a particularly great dramatic actor, but I think he’s a seriously underrated comedian, and this looks like a real good chance for him to flex those underutilised comedy muscles. So I’m excited to check it out.

#roofman #channingtatum #peterdinklage #kirstendunst #lff2025

After The Hunt

Next up, and in cinemas from the 17th of October, is After The Hunt, which is a new film from Luca Guadagnino. He’s one of my favourite filmmakers, very well respected, and all of his films for the last ten years or so have had a theme around romantic relationships. Be they horny as in ‘Call me by your Name’ and ‘Challengers’, or really bloody weird as in ‘Bones and All’ or ‘Queer’ from last year, this looks like something completely different, a very different vein.

It stars Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, and Ayo Edebiri. Julia Roberts is a powerful professor at the university. Has a crisis of conscience when one of her students makes an allegation against one of her favourite colleagues. It’s been so long since I saw Julia Roberts in anything that actually felt decent, so I’m really excited to give this a shot

#juliaroberts #afterthehunt #andrewgarfield #ayoedebiri #lff2025

Frankenstein

Next up, probably my most anticipated movie of the year. This is Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.
It’s out in cinemas on the 17th of October. I do think it’s one to see on a big screen, but if you can’t quite stretch to that, it goes to Netflix on the 7th of November.

Del Toro is the ultimate monster movie guy, but all of his movies have always had this theme of, you know, scary monster. And then finding out that the real bad guys were the humans all along. And that is Frankenstein. This is a marriage made in heaven. Jacob Elordi is the monster. Oscar Isaac is the creator in this story, and you just know it’s going to be a high-value gothic drama. Cannot wait for this one.

#oscarissac #frankenstein #guillermodeltoro #lff2025

Sprinsteen, Deliver me from Nowhere

Next up out in cinemas on the 24th of October. I love a music biopic.This is a new one. It’s Springsteen.
Deliver me from Nowhere. I was really pleasantly surprised by Timothee Chalamet Bob Dylan biopic last year. This takes a similar vein in that it chooses to focus on only one really small period of Bruce Springsteen’s life.

It’s about the period where he was recording Nebraska, which was a very stripped-back, folk album, when all his studio and his fans wanted him to do was make studio hits, and he was going the opposite direction. I’m hopeful for this. I do love Bruce Springsteen. I think it’s a great story. It’s a great album that this is based on. It remains to be seen if Jeremy Allen White can get lost in this role, or if I will just forever see Carmy from ‘the Bear’? I hope it works. I think the music really rocks.

#springstein #brucespringsteen #biopic #musicalbiopic #springsteindelivermefromnowhere #jeremyallenwhite #lff2025

Bugonia

Finally, on the big screen, one of my other most anticipated movies of the year, This is Bugonia, which is out just sneaking in on the 31st of October. The latest team up between Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos, following The Favourite and Poor Things, for which they won all the awards. You can be sure of another great partnership here.

Emma plays a high-powered CEO of a multibillion-dollar company. She is kidnapped by a conspiracy theorist, played by Jesse Plemons, who is convinced that she is an alien trying to destroy the world. Yorgos’ films all have a similar thing in common: the very twisted, dark sense of humour, and I’m sure that will come into play here. And it’s going to be another great performance. You can just tell. I cannot wait to watch Bugonia. Trailer here

#emmastone #bugonia #jesseplemons #lff2025

Finally, if you can’t quite stretch to the big screen, there are a couple of London
Film Festival standouts that are coming immediately to streaming so you can catch them straight away
at home.

Check out more episodes of Most Wanted Movies here

Ballad of a Small Player

The first of those from the 17th of October on Netflix is Ballad of a Small Player. This is the new film from Edward Berger. If you don’t know the name, you know the films, because this guy made Conclave
And he made All Quiet on the Western Front. Huge success for him in the last few years.
It’s a big character piece for Colin Farrell, who plays a down his luck gambler who’s hiding out in the casinos of Macao.

Almost down to his last dollar, he is torn between doing jobs for the local mafia
and staying on the run from a private investigator out to find him. This looks slightly trippy. There’s a hint of fear and loathing in Las Vegas about it, and I am really loving this era of Colin Farrell and these unhinged performances he’s turning in, and it’s like a really fun one. Trailer here

#balladofasmallplayer #colinfarrell #netflix #lff2025

Hedda

And finally, on the small screen, a very different direction out on the 29th of October
and streaming on Prime Video is Hedda. This is a retelling of the Ibsen play Hedda Gabler,
which is one of the great, heroic sort of feminine, tragic roles. It’s a period piece
done with modern music. So think, Great Gatsby or Marie-Antoinette?

Tessa Thompson plays Hedda, who is a former society party animal, who is now restrained into a stifling, loveless marriage. When her husband throws a party,and a former lover of hers arrives. She is sent spiralling back into her bad behaviour from days gone by, and the whole thing might just fall apart. Definitely looks like one worth watching. Trailer here

#hedda #tessathompson #lff2025 #primevideo

So that is a lot. A whole selection of incredible films, and I haven’t even got into the normal everyday studio releases that you could catch on your local multiplex. But do check these out.
Let us know what you think of them