'Materialists' And 4 Other Best Melodramas Released in 2025, Ranked by Rotten Tomatoes

In a cinematic landscape dominated by blockbuster franchises and action-packed thrillers, melodrama remains a haven where the human heart, in all its fragility and strength, takes center stage.

These are stories of love, loss, hope, and forgiveness that touch the heart and remind us of our shared vulnerability and emotional complexity.

5. 'Materialists', 2025

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 77%

Lucy is a calculating matchmaker from New York who has planned nine weddings. While arranging the happiness of others, she never lets anyone into her heart.

But love sometimes comes uninvited, even to marriage brokers. Without trying to find a suitor, Lucy finds herself drawn to two men: a new client, the handsome businessman Harry, and her ex-lover, John, an unsuccessful actor who works as a waiter.

4. 'Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write about a Serial Killer', 2025

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 83%

For four years, Keane has been unsuccessfully working on his second novel, a love story between a Neanderthal and a Cro-Magnon woman. His wife, Suzie, a space organization consultant, grows tired of his creative ambitions and egocentrism and files for divorce.

During this difficult time, a passionate admirer appears: Mr. Kollmick, a retired serial killer. Kollmick invites Keane to write a book about his life and becomes his mentor.

To avoid arousing his soon-to-be ex-wife's suspicion, Keane disguises his new friend as a family therapist.

3. 'Splitsville', 2025

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 84%

Carey and Ashley were married only a year ago and are already going through a crisis. While en route to visit their wealthy friends, Julie and Paul, the couple causes a car accident that results in a fatality.

The accident forces Ashley to reflect on her life and confess her infidelity. Carey forgives his wife, but she insists on getting a divorce. He sets out on foot to ask his friends for advice.

However, Julie and Paul only offer abstract phrases about the perks of their open marriage. Ashley and Paul have fun with someone off-screen, while Julie and Carey begin an affair out of spite for their unfaithful spouses.

2. 'Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy', 2025

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 88%

Four years ago, Mark Darcy died while on a humanitarian mission in Sudan. Since then, Bridget Jones has merely existed, grieving alone while raising her two children, Billy and Mabel.

On the advice of friends, Bridget returns to work as a TV show producer and allows herself to fall in love with Roxster, a charming 29-year-old.

Bridget regains her passion for life. Most importantly, she reflects on her transformation from an insecure journalist to an independent woman by reliving the situations and mistakes of her past.

1. 'Eternity', 2025

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90%

After a painful death, Joan enters the afterlife. There, she has one week to decide whom to spend eternity with: her first husband, Luke, who died young, or her second husband, Larry, who died choking on a pretzel.

Eternity plunges the love triangle into a retrofuturistic afterlife, captivating viewers with its visual richness and the actors' dynamic performances.

Joan must revisit her past, juxtaposing the man whose death broke her heart with the man who rescued her from depression and supported her through her hardest years.