The Life List and 3 Other Best Romantic Movies Released in 2025 So Far
Love stories intertwined with spy thrillers and even horror.
Romantic comedies are reborn almost every year. Melodramas about love adapt to the demands of modern viewers and trends by sometimes mutating into other genres and sometimes nostalgically rewriting the classics.
1. Black Bag, 2025
George and Kathryn are a happily married couple and British intelligence agents who are facing their first crisis. George receives a list of colleagues suspected of stealing the secret Severus software.
Kathryn is among the possible traitors. George must find the culprit and decide what is more important to him: love or duty.
Steven Soderbergh experiments with genres. In Black Bag, the director enters the territory of a spy thriller but places a romantic subplot at the heart of the intrigue and makes the issue of trust in marriage, rather than the confrontation between intelligence agencies, the central focus.
2. Heart Eyes, 2025
For the past couple of years, it has become a Seattle tradition to cancel Valentine's Day dates because, on February 14, the maniac named Heart Eyes takes to the city streets, brutally killing couples.
Ally, a cynical and lonely advertising executive, is not afraid of anyone. However, during the holiday season, she must solve work issues with her colleague Jay, who is a walking green flag.
By pure chance, the two find themselves in the killer's crosshairs. The maniac notices the spark between them before they have time to realize they're in love.
3. The Life List, 2025
Elizabeth, the founder of a cosmetics brand, dies suddenly, leaving behind an ambiguous will. At her mother's behest, her beloved daughter, Alex, loses her position in the company and a block of shares. Instead, she inherits a video message and a lost wish list that she wrote at age thirteen.
Elizabeth asks Alex to fulfill her childhood dreams before the new year. First, she dumps her childish boyfriend, then gets a tattoo, performs stand-up comedy, and becomes a teacher, just as she had wanted.
With each item checked off, new difficulties arise – as well as video advice from her mother. Elizabeth's lawyer possesses the entire DVD collection, and he becomes the woman's guide to a better life.
4. Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, 2025
Four years ago, Mark Darcy died while on a humanitarian mission in Sudan. Since then, Bridget Jones has existed rather than lived, grieving alone and raising two children.
Following her father's and friends' advice, Bridget gets a job as a TV show producer again and allows herself to fall in love with Roxster, a charming 29-year-old.
Bridget rediscovers her passion for life. Most importantly, through repetition of past situations and mistakes, she realizes her transformation from an insecure journalist to an independent woman who knows what she wants.