2023 Best Films - Honorable Mentions
Actually it is still developing until for a date yet to be determined because i have not watched all the films from the data that I got (2023 Best Films Nominee - Final List), so this list will still be updated.
Film in this list failed to compete to top 2023 best films, but had a quality, uniqueness and significant characteristics, and will leave a landmark in the future.
All movies metascore by Metacritic minimum 70 and Rotten Tomatoes rating minimun 80% with average rating 7.10/10 (Untill 31 December 2023) except Wildcard.
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Ratings:
Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History of Popular Music 8.40/10
Afire 8.40
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 8.40
The Teachers' Longue 8.40
They Cloned Tyrone 8.40
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt 8.40
Family Dinner 8.40
Godland 8.40
Harka 8.40
Personality Crisis: One Night Only
8.40
Nelly & Nadine 8.40
Souad 8.40
Aurora's Sunrise 8.40
Ransomed 8.40
Cairo Conspiracy 8.35
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One 8.35
Oppenheimer 8.35
Eileen 8.35
Plan 75 8.35
One Fine Morning 8.35
Mariupolis 2 8.35
World War III 8.30
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood 8.30
Brooklyn 45 8.30
If You Were the Last 8.30
Rye Lane 8.30
Baloney 8.30
Last Stop Larrimah 8.25
Anchorage 8.25
BlackBerry 8.25
Polite Society 8.25
Saint Omer 8.25
The Eternal Memory 8.25
Immediate Family 8.25
Let It Be Morning 8.20
Jethica 8.20
Chop & Steele 8.20
Showing Up 8.20
The Hole in the Fence 8.20
The Holdovers 8.20
A Male 8.20
Orlando, My Political Biography 8.20
Waitress: The Musical 8.20
Subtraction 8.20
Rebel 8.20
La Chimera 8.20
They Carry Death 8.20
American Fiction 8.15
Chess Story 8.15
Birth/Rebirth 8.15
Invisible Beauty 8.15
Baby Assassins 2 Babies 8.15
Wolfkin 8.15
Women Talking 8.15
The Future Tense 8.15
Kokomo City 8.15
The Iron Claw 8.15
Polaris 8.15
Subject 8.15
Thunder 8.10
Viking 8.10
Metronom 8.10
Fair Play 8.10
The Pigeon Tunnel 8.10
Fast Charlie 8.10
Scarlet 8.10
Mother, May I? 8.10
Only the River Flows 8.10
The Stones and Brian Jones 8.10
All of Us Strangers 8.10
American Symphony 8.10
Mister Organ 8.05
Maestro 8.05
Tori and Lokita 8.05
The Story of Looking 8.05
The Outwaters 8.05
Infinity Pool 8.05
A Room of My Own 8.05
Theater Camp 8.05
Barbie 8.05
A Bunch of Amateurs 8.05
The Hermit of Treig 8.05
Fremont 8.05
The First Slam Dunk 8.05
Our Father, The Devil 8.05
Charcoal 8.00
Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV 8.00
May December 8.00
In My Mother's Skin 8.00
Plaza Catedral 7.95
The Disappearance Of Shere Hite 7.95
Actual People 7.95
A Couple 7.90
In Our Day 7.90
The Shadowless Tower 7.90
The Mission 7.90
I Like Movies 7.90
The Royal Hotel 7.90
Little Nicolas - Happy as Can Be 7.90
The Crime is Mine 7.90
The Night of the 12th 7.85
Scrapper 7.85
Cassandro 7.85
I Didn't See You There 7.75
Smoking Causes Coughing 7.75
Upon Entry 7.75
Earth Mama 7.75
Geographies of Solitude 7.65
A Gaza Weekend 7.65
The Unknown Country 7.65
Fresh Hell 7.55
Father of Flies 7.55
What We Do Next 7.30
The Fist of the Condor 7.25
Asteroid City 7.20
Social Hygiene 7.10
Film in this list failed to compete to top 2023 best films, but had a quality, uniqueness and significant characteristics, and will leave a landmark in the future.
All movies metascore by Metacritic minimum 70 and Rotten Tomatoes rating minimun 80% with average rating 7.10/10 (Untill 31 December 2023) except Wildcard.
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List according to rank.
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Ratings:
Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History of Popular Music 8.40/10
Afire 8.40
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 8.40
The Teachers' Longue 8.40
They Cloned Tyrone 8.40
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt 8.40
Family Dinner 8.40
Godland 8.40
Harka 8.40
Personality Crisis: One Night Only
8.40
Nelly & Nadine 8.40
Souad 8.40
Aurora's Sunrise 8.40
Ransomed 8.40
Cairo Conspiracy 8.35
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One 8.35
Oppenheimer 8.35
Eileen 8.35
Plan 75 8.35
One Fine Morning 8.35
Mariupolis 2 8.35
World War III 8.30
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood 8.30
Brooklyn 45 8.30
If You Were the Last 8.30
Rye Lane 8.30
Baloney 8.30
Last Stop Larrimah 8.25
Anchorage 8.25
BlackBerry 8.25
Polite Society 8.25
Saint Omer 8.25
The Eternal Memory 8.25
Immediate Family 8.25
Let It Be Morning 8.20
Jethica 8.20
Chop & Steele 8.20
Showing Up 8.20
The Hole in the Fence 8.20
The Holdovers 8.20
A Male 8.20
Orlando, My Political Biography 8.20
Waitress: The Musical 8.20
Subtraction 8.20
Rebel 8.20
La Chimera 8.20
They Carry Death 8.20
American Fiction 8.15
Chess Story 8.15
Birth/Rebirth 8.15
Invisible Beauty 8.15
Baby Assassins 2 Babies 8.15
Wolfkin 8.15
Women Talking 8.15
The Future Tense 8.15
Kokomo City 8.15
The Iron Claw 8.15
Polaris 8.15
Subject 8.15
Thunder 8.10
Viking 8.10
Metronom 8.10
Fair Play 8.10
The Pigeon Tunnel 8.10
Fast Charlie 8.10
Scarlet 8.10
Mother, May I? 8.10
Only the River Flows 8.10
The Stones and Brian Jones 8.10
All of Us Strangers 8.10
American Symphony 8.10
Mister Organ 8.05
Maestro 8.05
Tori and Lokita 8.05
The Story of Looking 8.05
The Outwaters 8.05
Infinity Pool 8.05
A Room of My Own 8.05
Theater Camp 8.05
Barbie 8.05
A Bunch of Amateurs 8.05
The Hermit of Treig 8.05
Fremont 8.05
The First Slam Dunk 8.05
Our Father, The Devil 8.05
Charcoal 8.00
Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV 8.00
May December 8.00
In My Mother's Skin 8.00
Plaza Catedral 7.95
The Disappearance Of Shere Hite 7.95
Actual People 7.95
A Couple 7.90
In Our Day 7.90
The Shadowless Tower 7.90
The Mission 7.90
I Like Movies 7.90
The Royal Hotel 7.90
Little Nicolas - Happy as Can Be 7.90
The Crime is Mine 7.90
The Night of the 12th 7.85
Scrapper 7.85
Cassandro 7.85
I Didn't See You There 7.75
Smoking Causes Coughing 7.75
Upon Entry 7.75
Earth Mama 7.75
Geographies of Solitude 7.65
A Gaza Weekend 7.65
The Unknown Country 7.65
Fresh Hell 7.55
Father of Flies 7.55
What We Do Next 7.30
The Fist of the Condor 7.25
Asteroid City 7.20
Social Hygiene 7.10
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- DirectorRob EpsteinJeffrey FriedmanStarsTaylor MacMatt RayMachine DazzleCaptures Taylor Mac's exuberant, blatantly gay 24-hour musical performance in New York City, featuring skilled musicians, creative costumes, and the American myth as recounted through sailor's ditties, disco, and sugary pop alike.
- DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsThomas SchubertPaula BeerLangston UibelA group of friends are in a holiday home by the Baltic Sea where emotions run high as the parched forest around them catches fire.
- DirectorJoaquim Dos SantosKemp PowersJustin K. ThompsonStarsShameik MooreHailee SteinfeldBrian Tyree HenryMiles Morales catapults across the multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. When the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles must redefine what it means to be a hero.
- DirectorIlker ÇatakStarsLeonie BeneschAnne-Kathrin GummichRafael StachowiakWhen one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.
- DirectorJuel TaylorStarsJohn BoyegaJamie FoxxTeyonah ParrisA series of eerie events thrusts an unlikely trio onto the trail of a nefarious government conspiracy in this pulpy mystery caper.
- DirectorRaven JacksonStarsKaylee Nicole JohnsonChris ChalkJayah HenryA decades-spanning exploration of a woman's life in Mississippi and an ode to the generations of people, places, and ineffable moments that shape us.
- DirectorPeter HenglStarsPia HierzeggerMichael PinkNina KatleinAn overweight teenager spends the holidays at her aunt's farm in the hope of getting help to lose weight, but soon after her arrival, she begins to suspect that something is very wrong at this place.
- DirectorHlynur PálmasonStarsElliott Crosset HoveIngvar SigurdssonVic Carmen SonneAt the end of the 19th century, a young Danish priest is sent to a remote part of Iceland. The deeper he travels into the Icelandic landscape, the more he loses a sense of his own reality, his mission and his sense of duty.
- DirectorLotfy NathanStarsAdam BessaNajib AllaguiSalima MaatougAli is barely making a living selling contraband gas. The young Tunisian all of a sudden finds himself in charge of his two sisters after his father's death.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseDavid TedeschiStarsDebbie HarryDavid JohansenMorrisseyFollow musician David Johansen's luminous set at Café Carlyle from January 2020. A concert that is wonderfully intimate and a testament to both a lost New York and an artist who remains as fresh and exciting as ever.
- DirectorMagnus GerttenStarsTrien de Haan-ZwagermanLola SylmanNadine HwangNelly and Nadine is the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944, in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. For many years their relationship was kept a secret.
- DirectorAyten AminStarsBassant AhmedBasmala ElghaieshHussein GhanemThe film revolves around the relationship of two teenage sisters in one of Egypt's Nile Delta cities, one of them holds a secret life in the virtual world.
- DirectorInna SahakyanStarsAnzhelika HakobyanArpi PetrossianShushan AbrahamyanA genocide survivor becomes a silent movie star: Aurora Mardiganian's odyssey is close to unreal. After losing her family, escaping slavery, and enduring Hollywood greed, she journeys far to tell the world of the Armenian Genocide.
- DirectorKim Seong-hunStarsBurn GormanJu Ji-hoonMarcin DorocinskiA young diplomat is assigned the task of carrying the ransom money to rescue an abducted diplomat in Lebanon, and a local taxi driver accidently gets involved in the mission.
- DirectorTarik SalehStarsTawfeek BarhomFares FaresMohammad BakriAdam, the son of a fisherman, is offered the privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the center of power of Sunni Islam. Adam becomes a pawn in the conflict between Egypt's religious and political elites.
- DirectorChristopher McQuarrieStarsTom CruiseHayley AtwellVing RhamesEthan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands.
- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsCillian MurphyEmily BluntMatt DamonThe story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
- DirectorWilliam OldroydStarsThomasin McKenzieShea WhighamSam NivolaA woman's friendship with a new co-worker at the prison facility where she works takes a sinister turn.
- DirectorChie HayakawaStarsChieko BaishôHayato IsomuraStefanie ArianneGovernment program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be euthanized to remedy an aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a Filipino laborer face choices of life and death.
- DirectorMia Hansen-LøveStarsLéa SeydouxPascal GreggoryMelvil PoupaudWith a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.
- DirectorMantas KvedaraviciusHanna BilobrovaStarsNikolai ArabadzhiSafo BurievSveta BurievaIn 2022, Mantas Kvedaravicius returned to Mariupol, Ukraine, accompanied by his partner, Hanna Bilobrova, to re-engage with the people he had met and filmed in 2015 amidst the conflict. After his untimely passing, Hanna, the co-author of their film, and her team have put all their strength into continuing transmitting Mantas' work, his vision and his films. Also a Ph.D. in anthropology, Mantas Kvedaravicius wished to testify as a filmmaker as far as possible from the agitation of the media and the politicians. With huge force and sensitivity, MARIUPOLIS 2 depicts life as it continues amidst the bombing and reveals images that convey both tragedy and hope.
- DirectorHouman SeyyediStarsMohsen TanabandehMahsa HejaziNeda JebraeiliAfter being cast in a movie, a day laborer has to secretly shelter his lover on the set or else risk losing her and all that movie stardom has promised him.
- DirectorAnna HintsStarsKadi KiviloMaria MeresaarElsa SaksIn the darkness of a smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences, washing off the shame trapped in their bodies and regaining their strength through a sense of communion.
- DirectorTed GeogheganStarsAnne RamsayRon E. RainsJeremy HolmFive military veterans, best friends since childhood, gather together to support their troubled host, and the metaphoric ghosts of their past become all-too-literal.
- DirectorKristian MercadoStarsAnthony MackieZoë ChaoNatalie MoralesAdrift in their broken-down space shuttle with little hope of rescue, two astronauts argue over whether they're better off spending their remaining days as friends or something more.
- DirectorRaine Allen-MillerStarsDavid JonssonVivian OparahPoppy Allen-QuarmbyTwo youngsters reeling from bad breakups connect over an eventful day in South London.
- DirectorJoshua GuerciStarsMichael PhillisRory DavisJoe AndrewsThe story of San Francisco's gay all-male revue.
- Nestled deep in the Australian Outback is the town of Larrimah and its 11 eccentric residents. When one of them mysteriously disappears into thin air, the remaining residents become suspects and a long history of infighting is unveiled.
- DirectorScott MonahanStarsScott MonahanDakota LoeschChristopher Corey SmithTwo brothers attempt to drive a trunk full of opioids from Florida to Alaska to cash in big in the Land of Gold. A split-second act of violence somewhere in the California desert derails their trip and sets them on a crash course with tragedy.
- DirectorMatt JohnsonStarsJay BaruchelGlenn HowertonMatt JohnsonThe story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone.
- DirectorNida ManzoorStarsPriya KansaraRitu AryaRenu BrindleRia Khan believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting her friends' help, she attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.
- DirectorAlice DiopStarsKayije KagameGuslagie MalandaValérie DrévilleFollows Rama, a novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court to use her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea, but things don't go as expected.
- DirectorMaite AlberdiStarsAugusto GóngoraPaulina UrrutiaGustavo CeratiAugusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognizes her.
- DirectorDenny TedescoStarsStevie NicksPhil CollinsLyle LovettDocumentary follows the work and lives of legendary 1970s session musicians who were featured on some of the most iconic recordings of the era.
- DirectorEran KolirinStarsAlex BakriJuna SuleimanSalim DawA gently satirical tale of a man and his family trapped by military blockade inside a tiny Arab village in Israel.
- DirectorPete OhsStarsCallie HernandezAshley Denise RobinsonAndy FaulknerWhen Jessica's stalker surprises her in New Mexico, she must seek help from beyond the grave to get rid of him for good.
- DirectorBerndt MaderBen SteinbauerStarsJoe PickettNick PrueherScott BassWhen childhood friends Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett start booking their gag strongman routine on unsuspecting morning news shows, their pranks end up going viral, landing them in federal court with a vengeful media conglomerate.
- DirectorKelly ReichardtStarsMichelle WilliamsHong ChauAndré 3000A sculptor preparing to open a new show tries to work amidst the daily dramas of family and friends.
- DirectorJoaquin del PasoStarsValeria LammLucciano KurtiEric David WalkerExposes the fault lines and schisms of contemporary Mexican society.
- DirectorAlexander PayneStarsPaul GiamattiDa'Vine Joy RandolphDominic SessaA cranky history teacher at a prep school is forced to remain on campus over the holidays with a grieving cook and a troubled student who has no place to go.
- DirectorFabian HernándezStarsDilan Felipe Ramírez EspitiaJesus Alberto CueroDiego Alexander MayorgaCarlos lives in a youth shelter in the center of Bogota, a kind of refuge trying to mitigate the harshness of life. Its Christmas and Carlos longs to spend the day with his mother and sister, who are lost in the spiral of urban violence. As he leaves the shelter, Carlos is confronted with the rigor of the streets in his neighborhood, where the law of the strongest, the alfa 'macho', rules. As he seeks for a family reunion, Carlos must show he can be one of them. While deep inside him, he must face decisions, contradicting these expressions of masculinity.
- DirectorPaul B. PreciadoStarsArthurEmma AvenaAmir BayllyAcademic virtuoso turned filmmaker Paul B. Preciado's Berlin Film Festival award-winning doc tells his and others' stories of transition through unique reenactments and visual interpretations of Virginia Woolf's Orlando: A Biography.
- DirectorDiane PaulusBrett SullivanStarsSara BareillesDrew GehlingCharity DawsonThe hit Broadway musical about a small-town pie baker with big dreams gets the silver screen treatment.
- DirectorMani HaghighiStarsNavid MohammadzadehTaraneh AlidoostiAli BagheriA married couple believe they meet their doppelgängers in Tehran.
- DirectorAdil El ArbiBilall FallahStarsAboubakr BensaihiLubna AzabalTara AbboudA portrayal of a family torn apart over a little Muslim boy's future.
- DirectorAlice RohrwacherStarsJosh O'ConnorCarol DuarteVincenzo NemolatoA group of archaeologists and the black market of historical artifacts.
- DirectorSamuel M. DelgadoHelena GirónStarsXoán ReicesDavid PantaleónValentín Estévez1492. Among the crew captained by Christopher Columbus, travel three men who should have been dead by now. They have managed to avoid their sad fate by participating in this uncertain journey. When reaching the Canary Islands they flee, taking one of the ship's sails with them. Meanwhile, in the "Old World", a woman tries to save her dying sister by bringing her to a healer. Both of these journeys attempt to laugh at death. Both journeys are at the mercy of History.
- DirectorCord JeffersonStarsJeffrey WrightTracee Ellis RossJohn OrtizA novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from Black entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of the hypocrisy and madness he claims to disdain.
- DirectorPhilipp StölzlStarsOliver MasucciDieter BernhardtElias GabeleTo withstand the psychological torture of the Gestapo, a lawyer imprisoned by the Nazis finds refuge in the world of chess.
- DirectorLaura MossStarsMarin IrelandJudy ReyesA.J. ListerA morgue technician successfully reanimates the body of a little girl, but to keep her breathing, she will need to harvest biological materials from pregnant women. When the girl's mother, a nurse, discovers her baby alive, they enter into a deal that forces them both down a dark path of no return.
- DirectorBethann HardisonFrédéric TchengStarsTyson BeckfordStephen BurrowsNaomi CampbellFashion revolutionary Bethann Hardison looks back on her journey as a pioneering Black model, modeling agent, and activist, shining a light on an untold chapter in the fight for racial diversity.
- DirectorYugo SakamotoStarsAkari TakaishiSaori IzawaJoey IwanagaChisato and Mahiro were banned from performing tasks because they violated the organization's rules. Needing money to make ends meet, they resumed their days as part-time workers. Suddenly two other assassins are after them.
- DirectorJacques MolitorStarsLouise ManteauVictor DieuMarja-Leena JunkerSingle mother Elaine is disturbed by her son Martin's aggressive behaviour, she visits his late father's estranged family in small-town Luxembourg, which hides a much darker nature.
- DirectorSarah PolleyStarsRooney MaraClaire FoyJessie BuckleyDo nothing, stay and fight, or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.
- DirectorJoe LawlorChristine MolloyStarsDerry LawlorJoe LawlorMolly Rose LawlorStaged as a series of voiceover sessions, The Future Tense unfolds as a poignant tale of tales, exploring the filmmakers' own experiences in aging, parenting, mental illness, and the brutal history beneath Ireland's heavy earth.
- DirectorD. SmithStarsDaniella CarterDominique SilverKoko Da DollA raw depiction of the lives of four black trans sex workers as they confront the dichotomy between the black community and themselves.
- DirectorSean DurkinStarsZac EfronJeremy Allen WhiteHarris DickinsonThe true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s.
- DirectorKirsten CarthewStarsViva LeeMuriel DutilCharlene AbrahamSet in the frozen world of a post-apocalyptic 2144, a young warrior girl raised by a polar bear must fight to survive after she is captured and escapes from a brutal rival tribe.
- DirectorCamilla HallJennifer TiexieraStarsEvgeny AfineevskyArthur AgeeMukunda AnguloFilmmakers examine the impact that well-known documentaries and their commercial success have had on the lives of their subjects. They focus on the ethics and responsibility inherent in documentary filmmaking.
- DirectorCarmen JaquierStarsLilith GrasmugMermoz MelchiorBenjamin PythonIn a Swiss village, Elisabeth, 17, returns home from the convent after learning of her sister's mysterious death. Reunited with her three childhood friends, she discovers that faith and desire can sometimes be intertwined.
- DirectorStéphane LafleurStarsSteve LaplanteLarissa CorriveauFabiola Nyrva AladinA behavioral research team observes and attempts to replicate the experiences of the first manned mission to Mars.
- DirectorAlexandru BelcStarsMara BugarinSerban LazaroviciVlad IvanovRomania, the autumn of the year 1972. Ana, a 17 year-old teenager, finds out that her boyfriend will flee the country for good in a few days. The two lovers decide to spend their last days together.
- DirectorChloe DomontStarsPhoebe DynevorAlden EhrenreichEddie MarsanAn unexpected promotion at a cutthroat hedge fund pushes a young couple's relationship to the brink, threatening to unravel far more than their recent engagement.
- DirectorErrol MorrisStarsJake DoveCharlotte HamblinGarry CooperSpans six decades as le Carré gives his final and most personal interview, interrupted with rare archival footage and dramatic anecdotes. It is set against the stormy Cold War backdrop that extends into the present day.
- DirectorPhillip NoyceStarsPierce BrosnanMorena BaccarinJames CaanCharlie Swift is a fixer with a problem: the thug he's whacked is missing his head and Charlie will only be paid if the body can be identified. Enter Marcie Kramer, the victim's ex-wife and a woman with all the skills Charlie needs.
- DirectorPietro MarcelloStarsRaphaël ThiéryJuliette JouanNoémie LvovskyThe emancipation of a woman over twenty years, between 1919 and 1939, a time of great inventions and great dreams.
- DirectorLaurence VannicelliStarsHolland RodenKyle GallnerChris MulkeyWhen Anya starts behaving like her fiancée's recently-deceased mother, Emmett must confront his deepest traumas to free his fiancee from this bewildering possession.
- DirectorWei ShujunStarsYilong ZhuChloe MaayanHou TianlaiChief police investigates a series of murders in a riverside town in rural China in the 1990s. An arrest is made quickly, clues push the policeman to dive deeper into the hidden behaviour of the locals
- DirectorNick BroomfieldStarsBrian JonesMick JaggerKeith RichardsThe Stones and Brian Jones examines the musical creativity of Jones, the secret to the band's success, through candid interviews with all the essential performers and previously unreleased archive.
- DirectorAndrew HaighStarsAndrew ScottPaul MescalCarter John GroutA screenwriter drawn back to his childhood home enters into a fledgling relationship with his downstairs neighbor while discovering a mysterious new way to heal from losing his parents 30 years ago.
- DirectorMatthew HeinemanStarsJon BatisteLindsey ByrnesJonathan DinklageIn this deeply intimate documentary, musician Jon Batiste attempts to compose a symphony as his wife, writer Suleika Jaouad, undergoes cancer treatment.
- DirectorDavid FarrierStarsDavid FarrierMichael OrganJournalist David Farrier (Tickled) is drawn into a game of cat and mouse with a mysterious individual. Delving deeper he unearths a trail of court cases, royal bloodlines and ruined lives, in this true story of psychological warfare.
- DirectorBradley CooperStarsCarey MulliganBradley CooperMatt BomerThis love story chronicles the lifelong relationship of conductor-composer Leonard Bernstein and actress Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein.
- DirectorJean-Pierre DardenneLuc DardenneStarsPablo SchilsJoely MbunduAlban UkajFrom two-time Palme d'Or-winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Tori and Lokita is a heart-stopping thriller that casts an unflinching eye on the trials of the young and dispossessed.
- DirectorMark CousinsStarsMark CousinsThe Story of Looking sees Mark Cousins prepare for surgery to restore his vision. Cousins explores the role that visual experience plays in our individual and collective lives. In a deeply personal meditation on the power of looking in his own life, he guides us through the riches of the visible world, a kaleidoscope of extraordinary imagery across cultures and eras. At a time when we are more assailed by images than ever, he reveals how looking makes us who we are, lying at the heart of human experience, empathy, discovery and thought. He shares the pleasure and pain of seeing the world, in all its complexity and contradiction, with eyes wide open.
- DirectorRobbie BanfitchStarsRobbie BanfitchAngela BasolisScott SchamellFour travelers encounter menacing phenomena while camping in a remote stretch of the Mojave Desert.
- DirectorBrandon CronenbergStarsAlexander SkarsgårdMia GothCleopatra ColemanJames and Em Foster are enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation in the fictional island of La Tolqa, when a fatal accident exposes the resort's perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence and surreal horrors.
- DirectorIoseb 'Soso' BliadzeStarsTaki MumladzeMariam KhundadzeSophio ZeragiaTina, a young woman who has lost her way in life, rents a room from the vibrant Megi, thanks to whom she gradually starts to discover what it's like to be free and to be able to make her own decisions.
- DirectorMolly GordonNick LiebermanStarsBen PlattMolly GordonNoah GalvinThe eccentric staff of a rundown theater camp in upstate New York must band together with the beloved founder's bro-y son to keep the camp afloat.
- DirectorGreta GerwigStarsMargot RobbieRyan GoslingIssa RaeBarbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.
- DirectorKim HopkinsStarsColin EgglestoneHarry NichollsJoe OgdenBradford Movie Makers is one of the oldest amateur filmmaking clubs in the world. Once a thriving community, these days the membership is dwindling and the group struggle to keep the wolf from the door.
- DirectorLizzie MacKenzieStarsKen SmithAfter 40 years of solitude, a spirited elderly hermit opens his life to young female director as he tackles ill health, a declining memory, and questions whether he can live out his last years in the wilderness he calls home.
- DirectorBabak JalaliStarsAnaita Wali ZadaGregg TurkingtonJeremy Allen WhiteDonya works for a Chinese fortune cookie factory. Formerly a translator for the U.S. military, she struggles to put her life back in order. In a moment of sudden revelation, she decides to send out a special message in a cookie.
- DirectorTakehiko InoueStarsShugo NakamuraJun KasamaShinichiro KamioFollows 17-year-old Ryota Miyagi, who struggles to accomplish his late elder brother's dream of becoming a basketball star.
- DirectorEllie FoumbiStarsBabetida SadjoSouleymane Sy SavaneJennifer TchiakpeAn African refugee's quiet existence in a sleepy mountain town in the south of France is upended by the arrival of a charismatic Catholic priest whom she recognizes as the warlord who slaughtered her family.
- DirectorCarolina MarkowiczStarsMaeve JinkingsCésar BordónRômulo BragaA family straining to care for their bedridden patriarch is offered a diabolical deal: to put their elder to rest and host an Argentinian drug kingpin in need of a place to hide.
- DirectorAmanda KimStarsNam June PaikSteven YeunThe life and times of Nam June Paik, the father of video art, who coined the phrase "Electronic Superhighway."
- DirectorTodd HaynesStarsNatalie PortmanChris TenzisCharles MeltonTwenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.
- DirectorKenneth DagatanStarsBeauty GonzalezFelicity Kyle NapuliJames Mavie EstrellaStranded in the Philippines during World War II, a young girl finds that her duty to protect her dying mother is complicated by her misplaced trust in a beguiling, flesh-eating fairy.
- DirectorAbner BenaimStarsIlse SalasFernando Xavier De CastaManolo CardonaThe 42-year-old Alicia is a grief-stricken woman, a grief that has caused her to be estranged from society. Her world is turned upside down when a 14-year-old boy who looks after people's cars, stumbles into her house, bleeding.
- DirectorNicole NewnhamStarsDakota JohnsonShere HiteMichael ConradShere Hite's bestselling book The Hite Report liberated female orgasm by revealing the most private experiences of thousands of anonymous surveys. Her findings rocked the American establishment and conversations about gender and sexuality.
- DirectorKit ZauharStarsIsabelle BarbierGabrielle RichardsonFraser JonesA girl in her final week of college goes to great lengths to win the affections of a boy from her home town of Philadelphia and ends up having to confront her escalating anxieties about her love life, family and future.
- DirectorFrederick WisemanStarsNathalie BoutefeuThe film follows a long-term relationship between a man and a woman. The man is Leo Tolstoy. The woman is his wife, Sophia.
- DirectorHong Sang-sooStarsGi Ju-bongKim Min-heeA woman in 40s living at friends home answers briefly, and a man in 70s living alone end up giving longer answers, had visitor for lunch in front of their guests, coincidentally they both added hot pepper paste to their ramyun.
- DirectorLu ZhangStarsBai Qing XinYao HuangZhuangzhuang TianGu Wentong learns the whereabouts of his father, who lost contact with him more than 40 years ago. Encouraged by his new friend, Gu Wentong decides to face his father and rebuild the long-lost father-son relationship.
- DirectorAmanda McBaineJesse MossStarsPam ArlundDan DavisLevi Davis26-year-old American missionary John Chau was killed as he attempted to make contact with an Indigenous group off the coast of India, one of the last communities on the planet still living in isolation.
- DirectorChandler LevackStarsIsaiah LehtinenPercy Hynes WhiteAnand RajaramLawrence Kweller, a socially inept 17-year old cinephile, gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.
- DirectorKitty GreenStarsJulia GarnerJessica HenwickHerbert NordrumBackpackers Hanna and Liv take a job in a remote Australian pub for some extra cash and are confronted with a bunch of unruly locals and a situation that rapidly leaps out of their control.
- DirectorAmandine FredonBenjamin MassoubreStarsAlain ChabatLaurent LafitteSimon FaliuYoung Nicolas lives a childhood full of joy and learning in between camaraderie, arguments, fights, punishments, pranks and games.
- DirectorFrançois OzonStarsNadia TereszkiewiczRebecca MarderIsabelle HuppertParis, France, 1935, and a young actress has just been acquitted of murdering a famous French Producer. However, this is where the story just begins. Is she really innocent?, or has she gotten away with Murder?