2025 Movie Anniversaries: All the Biggest Genre Movies Celebrating Milestones This Year

That was morbid . dreary . But when you bet at the leaning of genre films celebrating milestone anniversaries in 2025 , we promise you ’ll understand . It ’s an incredible inclination of classics that fare out way longer ago than you may actually bring in . So sit back , catch some tissue , and read about all the musical style movies celebrating milestone anniversaries in 2025 .

1925 – 100th Anniversary

The Phantom of the Opera – When we think of Universal Monsters we cerebrate of Frankenstein , Wolf Man , Invisible Man , etc . ButThe Phantom of the Operais for sure one of those and this original dumb rendering is an all - time classic .

Also : The Lost World , The Wizard of Oz(no not that one , an even early version )

1935 – 90th Anniversary

The Bride of Frankenstein – Another Universal Monster celebrate a milepost this year , and with a new modern remaking from filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal coming out to kick !

Also : Captain pedigree , The Raven

1940 – 85th Anniversary

Fantasia , Pinocchio

1945 – 80th Anniversary

Dick Tracy , The Picture of Dorian Gray , The Three Caballeros

1950 – 75th Anniversary

Cinderella – The glass skidder , the severe stepsisters , midnight … few Disney movies are as iconic asCinderella . And , at 75 , she ’s well retired and collect social security now too .

Also : Harvey , Rashomon , Treasure Island

1955 – 70th Anniversary

Animal Farm , Godzilla Raids Again , Lady and the Tramp , Tarantula

1960 – 65th Anniversary

Psycho – Alfred Hitchcock ’s fib about a man and his hotel is probably on the Mount Rushmore of repulsion . Worthy of festivity at any time , but especially on an day of remembrance .

Also : Little Shop of Horrors , Swiss Family Robinson , The Time car

1965 – 60th Anniversary

Alphaville , Thunderball

1975 – 50th Anniversary

jaw – Certainly it ’s a big deal that Steven Spielberg ’s landmark shark picture show is celebrating its 50th anniversary . But , even more so , it means that the modernistic Hollywood blockbuster is celebrating the same anniversary . It seems almost too young , does it not ?

Also : Death Race 2000 , Monty Python and the Holy Grail , The Rocky Horror Picture Show , Rollerball

1980 – 45th Anniversary

The Empire Strikes Back – The bestStar Warsmovie is turning 45 and , as exciting as that is , it ’s almost more exciting / frightening that we ’re only five years away from it being 50 .

Also : Cannibal Holocaust , Elephant Man , Flash Gordon , Friday the 13th , Popeye , The Shining , Superman II

1985 – 40th Anniversary

Also : The Black Cauldron , Brazil , Clue , Cocoon , D.A.R.Y.L. , Enemy Mine , Explorers , Ewoks : Battle of Endor , Friday the 13th Part V : A New showtime , Fright Night , The Goonies , The Last Dragon , Legend , Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome , My Science Project , A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2 : Freddy ’s Revenge , Pee - wee ’s Big Adventure , Real Genius , Teen Wolf , Weird Science , Young Sherlock Holmes

1990 – 35th Anniversary

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – The Turtles themselves rise on comic leger pages back in 1984 . But , a few years by and by , after a successful television receiver show and toy dog billet , they jumped to the cock-a-hoop screen . And it was awesome .

1995 – 30th Anniversary

Toy Story – It ’s hard to amplify the grandness and impingement of Pixar ’s first feature , Toy Story . Quite literally , it changed the entire living industry which soon swivel from hand - draw to computers . But , also , it ’s still just an absolutely marvelous motion-picture show .

Also : Apollo 13 , Babe , Batman Forever , Billy Madison , Casper , Congo , Desperado , Goldeneye , Hackers , A Goofy Movie , Johnny Mnemonic , Judge Dredd , Jumanji , Mighty Morphin Power Rangers , Mortal Kombat , The Net , Outbreak , Pocahontas , Se7en , Species , Strange Days , Tank Girl , Twelve Monkeys , Virtuosity , Waterworld

2000 – 25th Anniversary

X - Men – Kids these Clarence Day do n’t know how good they have it . These days , we see Deadpool and Wolverine team up on screen with Gambit , Blade , and Elektra and it ’s no big bargain . Harrison Ford is Red Hulk . Three Spider - Men . Whatever . But just 25 years ago , the simple musical theme of a superhero team - up picture on screenwasstill a gravid plenty . Thanks to theX - Men , that presently change .

Also : American Psycho , The Beach , The Cell , Charlie ’s Angels , Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon , Dungeons & Dragons , The Emperor ’s New Groove , Final Destination , Frequency , Hollow Man , How the Grinch Stole Christmas , Mission : Impossible 2 , Pitch Black , Scary Movie , Scream 3 , Shadow of the Vampire

2005 – 20th Anniversary

Star Wars Episode III : Revenge of the Sith – The bestStar Warsmovie and the bestStar Warsprequel both celebrate milestones in 2025 . This one , however , just hits harder because so many of us have fond memories of its release . We thought it would be the lastStar Warsmovie . And yet , just 10 years afterwards …

Also : Batman Begins , The Chronicles of Narnia : The Lion , The Witch , and The Wardrobe , Constantine , Doom , Elektra , Fantastic Four , Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire , The Hitchhiker ’s Guide to the Galaxy , King Kong , Kiss Kiss Bang Bang , Madagascar , Saw 2 , Serenity , Sin City , Sky High , Stealth , War of the public

2010 – 15th Anniversary

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World – Scott Pilgrimwas so unique and different when it was secrete , I remember almost being against it . It was too out there . Too audacious . I was , obviously , too wrong . Fifteen yr after , everyone in the movie , and the film itself , have only gotten honorable .

Also : Black Swan , The Book of Eli , Despicable Me , How to prepare Your Dragon , Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 , Hot Tub Time Machine , Inception , Iron Man 2 , The Karate Kid , Kick - Ass , allow Me In , The Losers , MacGruber , Never countenance Me Go , Percy Jackson & the Olympians : The Lightning Thief , Predators , Red , The Social internet , Saw 3D , Tron : Legacy

2015 – 10th Anniversary

Star Wars Episode VII : The Force Awakens – Three , count ’em , threeStar Warsmovies have milestones this class . ( And yeah , I could ’ve written about anything besidesStar war , but it ’s my article.)The Force Awakenskicked off a whole new era ofStar war , one that still has n’t quite found its footing yet . Nevertheless , I reckon I talk for most of us when we say we ’re well-chosen it ’s still around rather than not .

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