With the year now beginning to draw to a close, IMDb has announced it most popular movies, shows, and stars of 2025. While Superman took the top movie spot, The White Lotus was the most popular show of the year.
Key Takeaways
- Superman ranked as the most popular movie, while The White Lotus led the TV series list.
- Highlighting its dominance this year, Warner Bros. secured the top four movie spots.
- Despite new entries like Dexter: Resurrection and Dept. Q, returning series drove show rankings.
IMDb uses data from its IMDbPro MOVIEmeter and STARmeter rankings to determine its annual rankings. This also means the rankings are based on actual page views of the more than 250 million monthly visitors to IMDb.
In terms of the most popular movies, Superman took the top spot overall, followed by Weapons and Sinners.
Full list of IMDb’s top 10 movies of 2025
- Superman
- Weapons
- Sinners
- One Battle After Another
- Jurassic World: Rebirth
- Frankenstein
- Happy Gilmore 2
- Thunderbolts
- Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
- F1: The Movie
With the top four spots, Warner Bros. dominated this year’s movie list overall.
On the series side of things, HBO Max’s The White Lotus proved to be the most popular show of the year, followed by HBO Max’s The Last of Us and Apple TV’s Severance.
Full list of IMDb’s top 10 shows of 2025
- The White Lotus
- The Last of Us
- Severance
- Wednesday
- Squid Game (Ojing-eo geim)
- Dexter: Resurrection
- Monster
- Dept. Q
- Andor
- Black Mirror
In spite of a couple of new arrivals (Paramount’s Dexter: Resurrection and Netflix’s Dept. Q), this year’s top 10 list highlights the overall popularity of returning shows.
A Good Year For Warner Bros. Discovery
With Warner Bros. Discovery currently still the owner of both HBO Max and Warner Bros., 2025 proved to be a good year for the company in terms of IMDb’s rankings.
This wasn’t the only title Warner Bros. Discovery was awarded this month either. Apple announced its App Store Awards winners last week and HBO Max secured the ‘Apple TV app of the year’ award for 2025.
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