The 11th Annual Letterboxd Season Challenge: 2025-26 Original List
Week 1 - These Go to 11
Your challenge this week is to embrace the spirit of Nigel Tufnel. So, throw on a sleeveless shirt, apply some eyeliner, grab your axe, and go one louder by watching a film from Dozzyrok's Maximalist Cinema list.
Week 2 - Lesser-Known Labels: Indicator Week
This week's challenge is to watch a film released by Indicator.
Week 3 - Erotic 80s Week
This week let’s dive into this unique part of Hollywood’s history unashamedly and watch a movie that was featured on the You Must Remember This season Erotic 80s with this list from Gentry here.
Week 4 - Young Guns Week
This week's challenge is to watch a film from slinkyman's Films Made By 80+ Year Old Directors.
Week 5 - This Is a Disaster Week
This week's challenge is to watch a disaster film from the 1970s. This list is a good place to start looking.
Week 6 - The First Talkies Week
This week’s task is to watch one of the first talkies ever created, specifically one that features synchronized sound, recorded dialogue, and made before 1930. Here is a helpful list from Zach.
Week 7 - Multiple Roles Week
So whether you find a movie with obvious multiple roles like Michael B. Jordan in Sinners or a hidden one like Tilda Swinton in Suspiria, this week watch a movie featuring an actor playing multiple roles. Here is a list from Antoine Cournoyer to help.
Week 8 - BLEEDING SKULL!
It's almost Halloween! In the spirit of the spooky season, let's virtually rummage through that mythical video store's grimy selection and pluck out an 80s trash-horror movie to watch from Bleeding Skull's BLEEDING SKULL! A 1980s TRASH-HORROR ODYSSEY list.
Week 9 - A24 Horror Week
This week's challenge is to watch a horror film released by A24.
Week 10 - Fringe Cinema Week
For this week's challenge, take a look through ElNapalmo's extensive Fringe & Outsider Cinema list. Whatever you choose to watch, we hope it'll be an eye-opening experience and expose you to the relatively hidden world of cinema made outside the usual channels.
Week 11 - You Don't Know Jack Week
With a mind-boggling 90 years in the movie industry, Cardiff was one of the most lauded and esteemed cinematographers of all time and the first person ever to be awarded a technical honorary Oscar for their work. For these reasons and many more, let's get to know Jack Cardiff, one of the industry's finest artisans and a man who left a lasting mark on the way movies look.
Week 12 - Direct Cinema Week
This week's challenge is to watch a Direct Cinema documentary. This list has plenty of examples.
Week 13 - Family Business
This week’s task is to watch a film directed by a pair of siblings. Although many of these duos are listed above there are others you can seek out, just make sure you find a movie directed by two siblings as many have directed solo.
Week 14 - We Love Docs Week
This week let’s watch one of the documentaries that won Best Feature at the IDA Awards as compiled in this list from Y2K.
Week 15 - Underseen Excellence Week
This week's challenge is to watch a film from one of the top 100 films with under 15,000 ratings.
Week 16 - Beach Week
This week escape winter and soak up the sun with a Beach Party movie from the 60s! Here’s a good list from lmgiannone.
Week 17 - Great Literature Week
This week's challenge is to watch a film adapted from a classic novel. Here is a list of novels that can fairly be called classics, and most of them have at least one film version.
Week 18 - Demi, Demme, Demy Week
We're back at it again! At LSC, we love having fun with names. For the past seven seasons, we've cleverly chosen individuals with sound-alike names from in front of- and behind the camera to form an eclectic group from which we torturously make you choose just one. This year, our cruelty limits you to one of only three choices: Demi Moore, Jonathan Demme, and Jacques Demy. Who will you select? A former world's highest-paid female actor making a late-career comeback? Or perhaps one of two dearly departed directors, an unlikely duo who happened to direct a pair of wildly different films that, nonetheless, share one uncommon, elemental trait: wall-to-wall music. It's a tough choice; good luck!
Week 19 - Social Conscience Week
This week let’s grow our empathy and become more socially conscious by watching a film awarded the grand prize by the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights for either documentary from this list here or fiction from this list here.
Week 20 - The Sundance Kids Week
This week's challenge is to watch a film that won either the Grand Jury Prize or the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
Week 21 - Regeneration (poster: Regeneration)
In celebration of Black History Month, this week's challenge is to watch a film from bobbiana's handily compiled list of all the titles featured in the exhibit.
Week 22 - Lessons in Chemistry Week
This week's challenge is to watch a film with acting chemistry or a film about science.
Week 23 - Bill Hader’s Essential Comedies Week
This week enjoy some comedic genius by watching a movie from Bill Hader’s Essential Comedies list, which can be found in this helpful list from Aaron.
Week 24 - It's a Woman's World Week
This week's challenge is to drastically—if only briefly—tip the scales by watching a film with an all-female cast from Ian Casocot's The Women [or Films with an All- or Predominantly Female Cast] list.
Week 25 - Won Once: Best International Feature Week
This week’s task is to watch one of the movies from a country that has only won Best International Feature once, which can be found in this list.
Week 26 - Hungary for Cinema Week
This week's challenge is to watch a Hungarian New Wave film.
Week 27 - Lucha Libre Week
This week's challenge is to climb into the ring with the Lucha Libre. Paul D's Mucho Lucha Libre: Mexican Wrestling Movies has plenty of titles for you to wrap your arms around and wrestle into submission.
Week 28 - Uncharted Lands Week
This week's challenge is to watch a film from a country from which you haven't seen any films.
Week 29 - Classic Performers: Mary Pickford Week
Nowadays, you don't hear much about Mary Pickford. So for this week's challenge, let's return the spotlight to the "Queen of Movies" by watching a film starring the world's first movie star and the most powerful woman in Hollywood, the singular Mary Pickford.
Week 30 - Everything Is Connected Week
This week's challenge is to watch a hyperlink film. This list is a good place to start.
Week 31 - The Roger Corman Film School Week
This week let’s honor Corman’s legacy by watching the first movie one of his collaborators, who would later become famous, worked with him on from this list here.
Week 32 - Nature Week
This week turn on your screen and get swept away in a movie that features nature as a major theme with this list from MorganLightle or this list from rscusick and after maybe go for a walk in the woods.
Week 33 - Contemporary Performers: Willem Dafoe Week
This week, let's take a look at one of contemporary cinema's most interesting and valuable on-screen presences, Willem Dafoe.
