10 More Titles To Put on Your Fall 2025 Watchlist

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This is the second of two previews of the Fall Movie Festival season. The next one will be exclusive to Paid Subscribers of the It’s the Pictures newsletter and include films from Venice and NYFF as well.

If you’d like to hear about movies from other festivals and a broader Fall Film preview, the It’s the Pictures podcast will be recording a new episode that expands on some of the movies below.

I’ve used the synopsis for some of the titles directly from TIFF for the Pitch sections, and included a little bit of why I’m interested in the movies.

There is a new episode of the It’s the Pictures podcast where my co-host Evan Crean and I talk about some movies we are excited to see this Fall.

Frankenstein (Director: Guillermo del Toro) (Venice In Competition) (TIFF Special Presentations / North American Premiere) (Netflix)

Pitch: Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro’s visually sumptuous adaptation of Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece finds Oscar Isaac as the brilliant scientist whose unearthly creation, eerily and ingeniously conjured by Jacob Elordi, blurs the boundaries between life, death, and madness.

Why I’m interested: It’s Guillermo del Toro doing Frankenstein, I don’t really need anything else! But honestly, this doesn’t just look like a modern retread of the classic story, but rather GDT’s signature flair on the story. He’s apparently been waiting to make this movie his entire career. (Netflix Release. Opens October 17th. Streaming November 7th.)

No Other Choice (Director: Park Chan-Wook) (Venice In Competition) (TIFF Special Presentations) (NYFF)

Pitch: After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition.

Why I’m interested: I’ve really enjoyed Park Chan-Wook’s previous two movies, The Handmaiden and Decision to Leave. The source material also interests me as the story is based on the 1997 novel, The Ax by Donald E. Westlake. Apparently, it talks about the deadly consequences of corporate downsizing. In a year where so many people have been laid off, this one feels particularly poignant. (Opens TBD in the US. A Neon Release.)