‘The Thursday Murder Club’ Is on Top This Week; Here Are the 14 Other Movies Atop IMDb’s Most-Popular List This Week

Big studio tentpoles, buzzy festival breakouts, and a couple of streaming juggernauts all collide on this week’s slate. From dino mayhem and superhero squads to body-horror romances and cozy crime capers, there’s a little of everything—plus some surprise distribution choices and franchise resurrections that defined the summer.

Below, we count down from 15 to 1 using the exact titles you provided. For each entry, you’ll find quick, concrete details on plot, cast, key filmmakers, and how/where it released—so you can zero in on what to watch next.

15. ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ (2025)

An extraction team ventures to a perilous island research facility near the equator—now one of the last viable climates for dinosaurs—to retrieve genetic samples critical to a heart-disease treatment, while also attempting a rescue after a shipwreck leaves a family stranded. The story repositions the saga several years after the events of ‘Jurassic World Dominion’, with the action expanding to aquatic and aerial prehistoric threats.

Directed by Gareth Edwards from a script by David Koepp, the film stars Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, Mahershala Ali, Rupert Friend, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, and Ed Skrein; Universal handled the release with an extensive global rollout that included a Leicester Square premiere and a marketing push touting a “new era” for the franchise.

14. ‘Eenie Meanie’ (2025)

A reformed teenage getaway driver gets yanked back into her old life when a former employer offers a grim bargain to save her chronically unreliable ex; the premise sets up a heist-thriller with a propulsive “one last job” hook.

Written and directed by Shawn Simmons in his feature debut, the film stars Samara Weaving, Karl Glusman, Jermaine Fowler, Marshawn Lynch, Steve Zahn, and Andy Garcia, and it debuted in the U.S. on Hulu/Disney’s streaming platforms after its late-August 2025 bow.

13. ‘Param Sundari’ (2025)

Set between Delhi and Kerala, this Hindi-language romantic comedy follows Param, who uses an AI “soulmate” app that matches him with Sundari, a homestay owner from a traditional family; culture clash and family dynamics drive the courtship.

Directed by Tushar Jalota and produced by Dinesh Vijan’s Maddock Films, the movie stars Sidharth Malhotra and Janhvi Kapoor and opened in India on August 29, 2025, with Pen Marudhar as distributor; box-office updates and conversation around its portrayal of regional culture have kept it in headlines.

12. ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ (2025)

Ethan Hunt and the IMF continue their battle against the Entity—an advanced rogue AI—while governments and figures from Ethan’s past close in, pushing the globe-trotting spy saga into a high-stakes endgame.

Christopher McQuarrie returned to direct, with Tom Cruise leading a cast that includes Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, and others; after a May 2025 world premiere and Cannes screening, Paramount launched the film wide in late May.

11. ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ (2025)

Set decades after the Tower Bay murders, a new hook-wielding killer stalks a group of friends one year after they covered up a deadly car crash, linking back to the original killings and reigniting the whodunit slasher mystery.

Directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson and produced by Neal H. Moritz, the sequel features Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King, Tyriq Withers, Sarah Pidgeon, and more, with Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. reprising their roles; Sony released it theatrically in the U.S. on July 18, 2025.

10. ‘Together’ (2025)

After relocating to the countryside to salvage their relationship, Tim and Millie confront an uncanny, invasive force that warps body and mind—an intimate two-hander that fuses relationship drama with body horror.

Written and directed by Michael Shanks and starring Alison Brie and Dave Franco, the Sundance 2025 Midnight selection sold to NEON in one of the festival’s first major deals and hit U.S. theaters in late July before a late-August digital release.

9. ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ (2025)

Three global K-pop idols—Rumi, Mira, and Zoey—double as secret demon hunters protecting their fans from a supernatural threat; the movie blends glossy concert energy with monster-of-the-week stakes and original songs.

Co-directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans and produced with Sony Pictures Animation, the film began streaming on Netflix on June 20, 2025; its fictional girl group HUNTR/X and the soundtrack became a phenomenon, and Netflix even staged a sing-along theatrical event later in the summer.

8. ‘The Roses’ (2025)

A contemporary reimagining of Warren Adler’s ‘The War of the Roses’ follows Ivy and Theo, a successful couple whose marriage implodes into a scorched-earth divorce that engulfs their friends, work, and home.

Directed by Jay Roach from a screenplay by Tony McNamara, the Searchlight release stars Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch alongside Andy Samberg, Allison Janney, Kate McKinnon, Sunita Mani, Jamie Demetriou, Zoë Chao, and Ncuti Gatwa; it opened August 29, 2025.

7. ‘F1’ (2025)

Brad Pitt plays Sonny Hayes, a retired Formula 1 prodigy coaxed back to help the underdog APXGP team and mentor rookie Joshua Pearce; the film integrates sequences shot during real Grand Prix weekends to ground the racing and paddock drama.

Directed by Joseph Kosinski and produced by Apple Original Films with Warner Bros. handling theatrical distribution, the movie co-stars Damson Idris, Javier Bardem, Kerry Condon, and Tobias Menzies; after its late-June 2025 release, Apple announced IMAX re-engagements following a strong global box office run.

6. ‘Superman’ (2025)

Clark Kent navigates his dual identity while facing Lex Luthor and crossing paths with other heroes in the first feature of DC Studios’ new continuity, setting the tone for Chapter One: Gods and Monsters.

Written and directed by James Gunn, the film stars David Corenswet as Superman with Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Hoult, Isabela Merced, Edi Gathegi, Nathan Fillion, and María Gabriela de Faría among the ensemble; it opened July 11, 2025, and arrived on digital in mid-August ahead of a late-September physical release.

5. ‘Bugonia’ (2025)

Two conspiracy-obsessed men kidnap a pharmaceutical CEO they believe is an alien, spiraling into a genre-bending hostage scenario that riffs on paranoia and messianic delusions; the film is an English-language remake of Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 cult favorite ‘Save the Green Planet!’.

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos from a screenplay by Will Tracy, ‘Bugonia’ stars Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons; Focus Features acquired worldwide rights and positioned the release for the autumn corridor following production in the U.K.

4. ‘Caught Stealing’ (2025)

Hank Thompson, a onetime baseball phenom now tending bar in New York, agrees to watch a neighbor’s cat and inadvertently collides with the city’s criminal underworld—triggering a violent, darkly comic scramble to stay alive.

Darren Aronofsky directs from Charlie Huston’s adaptation of his own novel; the cast includes Austin Butler, Regina King, Zoë Kravitz, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Benito Martínez Ocasio (Bad Bunny). Sony released the film theatrically in the U.S. on August 29, 2025.

3. ‘Thunderbolts*’ (2025)

An unconventional team of antiheroes—Yelena Belova, Bucky Barnes, Red Guardian, Ghost, Taskmaster, and John Walker—are forced into a dangerous mission after getting ensnared in a trap set by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, pushing them to confront their pasts.

Directed by Jake Schreier for Marvel Studios, the PG-13 film features Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell, Hannah John-Kamen, Olga Kurylenko, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lewis Pullman, and Geraldine Viswanathan; Disney released it theatrically on May 2, 2025, with a 2h06m runtime.

2. ‘Weapons’ (2025)

A sprawling mystery begins when seventeen children from the same classroom disappear on the same night, with the investigation revealing interlocking stories and a sinister unseen force; the narrative structure nods to networked dramas.

Written, directed, and co-scored by Zach Cregger, the New Line/Warner Bros. release stars Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan; it opened August 8, 2025, and has since crossed $200M worldwide.

1. ‘The Thursday Murder Club’ (2025)

At a peaceful retirement community, four friends who meet weekly to examine cold cases find themselves pulled into an active murder investigation, adapting the premise of Richard Osman’s bestselling novel for the screen.

Directed by Chris Columbus from a screenplay by Katy Brand and Suzanne Heathcote, the Netflix film stars Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, and Celia Imrie, with David Tennant, Jonathan Pryce, Naomi Ackie, and Tom Ellis among the ensemble; it premiered in U.K. cinemas before its August 28, 2025 global streaming debut.

Tell us which titles you’re queuing up first—and what surprised you most—down in the comments.