Last month, there was an abundance of thrillers released on the big screen. What a great way to kick off 2025! But if you think Valentine’s Day means February is going to be filled with nothing but love and romance, you’re going to be surprised by the assortment of movies releasing at the theaters this month. As you’ll see when you scroll, there are family-friendly options, as well as horror films, action-adventures, thrillers, dramas and comedies. While there’s plenty to choose from, the top of my list is naturally Captain America: Brave New World. We bought tickets the first day possible! Check out all the other options that are sure to make this month a popcorn-filled delight:
Heart Eyes
Release Date: February 7, 2025 Genre: Horror Cast: Olivia Holt, Mason Gooding, Gigi Zumbado, Michaela Watkins, with Devon Sawa, and Jordana Brewster
For the past several years, the “Heart Eyes Killer” has wreaked havoc on Valentine’s Day by stalking and murdering romantic couples. This Valentine’s Day, no couple is safe…
Love Hurts
Release Date: February 7, 2025 Genre: Action, Comedy Cast: Ke Huy Quan, Ariana DeBose, Daniel Wu, Sean Astin, Mustafa Shakir, Lio Tipton, Rhys Darby, Marshawn Lynch, André Eriksen
No matter how hard you try, you can’t break up with your past. This Valentine’s Day, Oscar® winner Ke Huy Quan rockets into his first major leading man role as an unlikely hero, a seemingly mild-mannered realtor with a dark secret that he is desperate to leave behind. Spoiler alert: He won’t. Quan stars as Marvin Gable, a realtor working the Milwaukee suburbs, where ‘For Sale’ signs bloom. Gable receives a crimson envelope from Rose, a former partner-in-crime that he had left for dead. She’s not happy. Now, Marvin is thrust back into a world of ruthless hitmen, filled with double-crosses and open houses turned into deadly warzones. With his brother Knuckles, a volatile crime lord, hunting him, Marvin must confront the choices that haunt him and the history he never truly buried.
Parthenope
Release Date: February 7, 2025 Genre: Drama Cast: Celeste Dalla Porta, Stefania Sandrelli, Gary Oldman, Silvio Orlando, Luisa Ranieri, Isabella Ferrari, Silvia Degrandi, Lorenzo Gleijeses, Daniele Rienzo, Dario Aita, Marlon Joubert, Alfonso Santagata, Biagio Izzo, Peppe Lanzetta
Parthenope, born in the sea of Naples in 1950, searches for happiness over the long summers of her youth, falling in love with her home city and its many memorable characters. From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino comes a monumental and deeply romantic story of a lifetime.
Captain America: Brave New World
Release Date: February 14, 2025 Genre: Action-Adventure, Superhero, Sequel Cast: Anthony Mackie, Danny Ramirez, Shira Haas, Carl Lumbly, Xosha Roquemore, with Giancarlo Esposito, Liv Tyler, Tim Blake Nelson, and Harrison Ford
After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.
Paddington in Peru
Release Date: February 14, 2025 Genre: Family, Adventure, Sequel Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Imelda Staunton, Carla Tous, Madeleine Harris, Samuel Joslin, with Olivia Colman, with Antonio Banderas and Ben Whishaw as the voice of Paddington
Full of Paddington’s signature blend of wit, charm, and laugh-out-loud humor, Paddington in Peru finds the beloved, marmalade-loving bear lost in the jungle on an exciting, high-stakes adventure. When Paddington discovers his beloved Aunt Lucy has gone missing from the Home for Retired Bears, he and the Brown family head to the wilds of Peru to look for her, the only clue to her whereabouts a spot marked on an enigmatic map. Determined to solve the mystery, Paddington embarks on a thrilling quest through the rainforests of the Amazon to find his aunt…and may also uncover one of the world’s most legendary treasures.
The Unbreakable Boy
Release Date: February 21, 2025 Genre: Family, Drama, True Story Cast: Zachary Levi, Meghann Fahy, Jacob Laval, Drew Powell, Peter Facinelli and Patricia Heaton
When his parents, Scott (Zachary Levi) and Teresa (Meghann Fahy), learn that Austin is both autistic and has brittle bone disease, they initially worry for their son’s future. But with Scott’s growing faith and Austin’s incredible spirit, they become “unbreakable,” finding joy, gratitude, and courage even in the most trying times — an extraordinary true story about a father and son learning together that every day can be the best day of your life!
The Monkey
Release Date: February 21, 2025 Genre: Thriller, Horror Cast: Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Elijah Wood, Christian Convery, Colin O’Brien, Rohan Campbell, Sarah Levy
When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy.
Last Breath
Release Date: February 28, 2025 Genre: Thriller Cast: Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu, Finn Cole, Cliff Curtis
A heart-pounding film that follows seasoned deep-sea divers as they battle the raging elements to rescue their crewmate trapped hundreds of feet below the ocean’s surface. Based on a true story, Last Breath is an electrifying story about teamwork, resilience, and a race against time to do the impossible.
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
Release Date: February 28, 2025 Genre: Family, Animation, Adventure
It’s bigger! It’s bolder! It’s LOONIER! And it’s coming to the big screen like never before… The FIRST fully-animated feature-length #LooneyTunesMovie in history–The Day the Earth Blew Up–arrives exclusively in theaters! That’s not all folks! Catch up with all your favorite characters – Bugs and Daffy, Tweety and Sylvester, and Coyote and Road Runner as they play pranks, have high-speed chases, and outsmart their enemies.
Riff Raff
Release Date: February 28, 2025 Genre: Comedy, Crime Cast: Jennifer Coolidge, Ed Harris, Gabrielle Union, Lewis Pullman, Pete Davidson, Bill Murray, Miles J. Harvey, Emanuela Postacchini, Michael Angelo Corvino
Vincent is an ex-criminal who more than anything, just wants a normal, peaceful life. He and his wife Sandy have built a loving family with their son DJ and are spending the winter break in a cabin before he goes off to college. Chaos ensues when Vincent’s disowned son Rocco, his girlfriend Marina and Vincent’s ex-wife Ruth abruptly show up to spoil the festivities with an ominous warning: the famed gangsters Leftie and Lonnie are coming for them.
My Dead Friend Zoe
Release Date: February 28, 2025 Genre: Drama, Dark Comedy, War Cast: Sonequa Martin-Green, Natalie Morales, Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Gloria Reuben
MY DEAD FRIEND ZOE is a dark comedy drama that follows the journey of Merit, a U.S. Army Afghanistan veteran who is at odds with her family thanks to the presence of Zoe, her dead best friend from the Army. Despite the persistence of her VA group counselor, the tough love of her mother and the levity of an unexpected love interest, Merit’s cozy-dysfunctional friendship with Zoe keeps the duo insulated from the world. That is until Merit’s estranged grandfather—holed up at the family’s ancestral lake house—begins to lose his way and is in need of the one thing he refuses… help. At its core, this is about a complicated friendship, a divided family and the complex ways in which we process grief.
I put a lot of work into finding new movie releases each month and gathering information so you can work more movies into your schedule. But also regularly check your local theater. Sometimes there are regional or limited releases (which we don’t generally add here). We’ve seen two recently that weren’t even on our radar.
