Lokah, Dhurandhar, Bison Kaalamaadan make it to top 10 action films of 2025 by Letterboxd; beat Avatar Fire and Ash

Letterboxd's list of top 10 action films of 2025 featured some usual suspects, and three of the best Indian films made through the year.

Updated on: Jan 14, 2026, 10:55:14 IST

By Abhimanyu Mathur

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Letterboxd, the social cataloguing service for films, has unveiled its 2025 year in review. The website has published several lists of the best-rated films of 2025 on the platform, differentiated by genres and categories. And highlighting a red-letter year for Indian films, many desi titles have made it to the various top 10 lists and the overall top 50. It’s the list of the top 10 action films that has seen the highest concentration of Indian films, with Dhurandhar, Lokah Chapter 1, and Bison leading the charge.

Bison, Dhurandhar, Lokah were in the top 10 action films of 2025, collated by Letterboxd.

Three Indian films in top 10 action films

Letterboxd shared top 10 lists of films of 2025, based on genres like action/adventure, romance, thriller, drama, and horror, to name a few. In the list of the highest-rated action/adventure films of 2025, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another topped. Other usual suspects in the top 10 include Sinners, Superman, F1, and How To Drain Your Dragon.

However, the highlight for Indian film buffs is the presence of three Indian films. Bison Kaalamaadan, stylised simply as Bison, is at number 5, ahead of Brad Pitt’s F1. The two are then followed by two other action blockbusters of the year: the highest-grossing Malayalam film of all time, Lokah Chapter 1, and Ranveer Singh’s all-time grossing Bollywood actioner, Dhurandhar. The three Indian films have notably beaten James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash, which finds itself in the 9th spot.

Three Indian films find a place in Letterboxd's top 10 action films of 2025.

About the films

Directed by Mari Selvaraj, Bison stars Dhruv Vikram, Pasupathy, Ameer, Lal, Anupama Parameswaran, Rajisha Vijayan, and Azhagam Perumal. A critical and commercial success, the sports drama grossed ₹63 crore worldwide. Lokah Chapter 1, starring Kalyani Priyadarshan, was an even bigger success. The Dominic Arun film set up the Lokah universe and was noted for blending sci-fi with Indian folklore. The film grossed over ₹300 crore, becoming the first Malayalam film to do so.

Dhurandhar, directed by Aditya Dhar and starring Ranveer Singh in the lead, has also broken box office records during its run to ₹1300 crore. It is the 4th-highest-grossing Indian film of all time. A sequel - Dhurandhar Part 2 - will release in March.

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Abhimanyu Mathur
Abhimanyu Mathur is Deputy Editor, Entertainment at Hindustan Times. With almost 15 years of experience in writing about everything from films and TV shows to cricket matches and elections, he inhales and exhales pop culture and news. Currently, he watches movies and TV shows and talks to celebrities for a living, while occasionally writing about them as well. A journalism graduate of Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, Delhi University, Abhimanyu began his career with Hindustan Times at the age of 20, swapping classrooms for newsrooms at an early age. He began his journey in the early days of digital journalism, later switching to the madness of print journalism. Work has led him to far off places like Japan and Jordan, as well as to the interiors of Haryana and the Indo-Pak border. He dabbled in city reporting in places like Meerut, Gurgaon, and Delhi, covered the Olympics and Cricket World Cups, before finding his calling in entertainment and lifestyle during the pandemic. A Rotten Tomatoes Certified Film Critic, he is equally at home covering stories on ground as he is interviewing celebrities and studios, and sometimes prefers to shepherd teams in delivering traffic through the day. Even as his role has evolved from reporter to supervisor over the years, his first love remains writing (and of late, talking on camera). With a good understanding of cinema and its trends, and a keen eye for detail, he continues to spark conversations around showbiz for readers around the world.Read More

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