Movies that can be seen on December 5

On December 5, 2025, we propose a selection of films that explore various emotions, inviting reflection and empathy in cinemas and on platforms: Valor sentimental by Joachim Trier, a reflective drama about the father-daughter relationship; blows by Rafael Cobos, thriller with social roots; Dreams in Oslo by Dag Johan Haugerud, the last part of a Norwegian trilogy about romantic relationships; The woman who never existed (Aicha) by Mehdi M. Barsaoui, a drama that denounces female oppression in Tunisia; and Young hearts de Anthony Schatterman, un coming of age queer set in Belgium.

Valor sentimental (Joachim Trier, 2025)

Excellent actors and a mosaic plot for a story that invites you to reflect on the parent-child relationship from each of the poles and throughout life, even when they are absent. This plot states that the theater actress Nora receives an invitation from her father, an almost retired film director, to play a film about the filmmaker's mother; Neither she nor her sister have had much of a relationship with their father. Her mother was a psychiatrist and, despite occasional stage fright, Nora enjoys being “other” in the theater. His father finds in cinematic fiction a way to understand his loved ones and even reconcile with them. Although at times it confuses us with sequences that are cut with abrupt fades to black, I thought it was a good film, with very rich fringes and backgrounds.

blows (Rafael Cobos, 2025)

After much work as a screenwriter – especially with Alberto Rodríguez – the Sevillian filmmaker Rafael Cobos offers a solid debut film in the form of a melancholic and emotional “thriller”. In the past of Franco's regime, a father was shot dead by the Civil Guard and buried hard in the countryside, in the present a police son who has to arrest his brother, determined to steal whatever it takes to unearth his father. Very competent actors, with new faces, and a very efficient setting in the 80s. As in other works by this filmmaker, the crime has a social dimension. Good cinema in all orders.

Dreams in Oslo (Day Johan Haugerud, 2024)

I think that this third installment of Haugerud's trilogy (the others, “Sex” and “Love”, are available on Filmin) is the least enjoyable to watch and the least interesting. The story of a teenager who falls in love with her teacher is given a twist to go beyond the already known themes of first love or the discovery of sexual orientation. An omnipresent, and tiresome, voice-over tells of the story that the girl writes down and gives to her grandmother to read, who manages to have it published as a book. The distance between the oral story and the written story chills the viewer, who contemplates the characters from the outside.

The woman who never existed (Aisha) (M.

Tunisian cinema and other Maghreb countries fight to denounce patriarchy, the humiliations suffered by women and the lack of human rights in societies with young generations eager for freedom: this film is good proof of this. Subjected to the director of the hotel where she works and oppressed by her family, young Aya takes the opportunity to go to the capital and start a new life with an invented identity. But she finds herself implicated as a witness to a murder. Maybe a little repetitive, it looks very good and is convincing.

Young Hearts (Anthony Schatterman, 2024) (Movistar+)

We already know how many illusions, doubts, disappointments, comings and goings generated by first love during adolescence. It is not a new theme in cinema, but it is when it comes to a homosexual couple: two boys, almost children, who have to go through the ridicule of their schoolmates and repress their feelings. Set in rural Belgium, it is a well-written story motivated by the visibility of gay people, but it seemed a little soft to me, with so much understanding towards the protagonist Elías in his grandfather, parents, brother, colleagues and even his old girlfriend.

Movies to watch on December 5, 2025