The Highest-Grossing Films of 2025 — and Where to Stream Them in India

The second-highest-grossing animated film ever made and only the second non-Hollywood production to finish a year as the world's number one. Ne Zha 2 earned the overwhelming majority of that $2.22 billion inside China, which is the detail that makes it hard to compare with anything else on this list: it is not a global hit in the way the films below it are, it is one market's phenomenon at a scale no other market can produce. It streams on JioHotstar in India.

Nine years after the first film, the sequel became the biggest Disney Animation release ever and the year's highest-grossing Hollywood title. Like Ne Zha 2, a very large share of it came from China, where the original had been an unusually durable hit. On JioHotstar in India.

The third Avatar cleared $1.49 billion, which for any other series would be a triumph and for this one is a step down from both predecessors. It went on to win Best Visual Effects at the 2026 Oscars, the same award the first two won. On JioHotstar in India.

Disney's live-action remake programme has produced some expensive disappointments; this was not one of them. A billion dollars from a modestly budgeted May release, driven by families and by a character who was already merchandising gold. On JioHotstar in India.

The year's first genuine surprise: a video-game adaptation that critics were lukewarm on and that opened to an audience treating it as an event, complete with the cinema-hall behaviour that made the news for a fortnight. It finished just short of a billion. On JioHotstar in India.

Gareth Edwards restarted the series with Scarlett Johansson and a fresh cast, and $872 million says the franchise is not tired yet. It is one of two films in this top ten with no Indian subscription streaming home more than a year after release — you can rent it on Apple TV or Amazon Video, but there is no service in India that includes it.

The highest-grossing anime film ever made, and the second Demon Slayer film to hold that record — it took the title from Mugen Train, which its own studio released five years earlier. It is on Crunchyroll in India, directly or as an add-on channel through Prime Video, which is where most of the anime catalogue here lives.

Dean DeBlois remade his own animated film in live action and it worked commercially, which is not the usual outcome. Like Jurassic World Rebirth it is a Universal title, and like Jurassic World Rebirth it has no Indian subscription home — rental only. Two of the ten biggest films of 2025 are unavailable to an Indian subscriber, and both come from the same studio.

Apple's first real theatrical hit, and the highest-grossing live-action film of the year that was not a sequel, a remake or an adaptation. It won Best Sound at the 2026 Oscars from four nominations. It streams on Apple TV in India, which is the cheapest of the major services here and still the one people forget they can subscribe to.

James Gunn's reboot had to restart a universe and clear the memory of the last one, and $618 million worldwide is a respectable rather than spectacular answer — enough to build on, not enough to settle the argument. On JioHotstar in India.