#Venezia71 - seen @ Venice Film Festival 2014
by DesertoRosso | created - 07 Sep 2014 | updated - 07 Sep 2014 | Publicscreenings order PLUS (titles not in database): Spark and Light (short movie); Binguan (The coffin in the Mountain) by Xin Yukun; Flowers of taipei (documentary) by Chinlin Hsieh;
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1. One on One (2014)
Not Rated | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
One on One: After a high school student is murdered, the seven suspects are hunted down by members of a terrorist organization.
Director: Kim Ki-duk | Stars: Ma Dong-seok, Kim Young-min, Lee Yi-kyeong, Cho Dong-in
Votes: 1,122
2. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
R | 119 min | Comedy, Drama
A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough
Votes: 666,596 | Gross: $42.34M
3. Before I Disappear (2014)
Unrated | 93 min | Adventure, Drama
At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister, asking him to look after his 11-year old niece Sophia for a few hours.
Director: Shawn Christensen | Stars: Shawn Christensen, Fatima Ptacek, Emmy Rossum, Paul Wesley
Votes: 10,070 | Gross: $0.01M
4. The Look of Silence (2014)
PG-13 | 103 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A family that survived the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers.
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer | Stars: Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Volker Hanisch, Amir Hasan
Votes: 13,884 | Gross: $0.11M
5. Dearest (2014)
128 min | Drama
A story centered around a divorced couple living in a southern Chinese city Shenzhen and dealing with the disappearance of their missing son.
Director: Peter Ho-Sun Chan | Stars: Wei Zhao, Huang Bo, Dawei Tong, Lei Hao
Votes: 2,617
6. The President (2014)
119 min | Drama
A brutal dictator comes face to face with the injustices committed by his regime when his country is taken over by revolutionists.
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Stars: Mikheil Gomiashvili, Dachi Orvelashvili, Ia Sukhitashvili, Guja Burduli
Votes: 1,797
7. Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama
A self-diagnosed nymphomaniac recounts her erotic experiences to the man who saved her after a beating.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf
Votes: 131,553 | Gross: $0.79M
8. Reality (2014)
Unrated | 95 min | Comedy
A wanna-be director is given 48 hours by a producer to find the best groan of pain, worthy of an Oscar, as the only condition to back his film.
Director: Quentin Dupieux | Stars: Alain Chabat, Jonathan Lambert, Élodie Bouchez, Kyla Kenedy
Votes: 6,950
9. Somebody (2014)
10 min | Short, Comedy
The movie is about an app called Somebody, if you sent a message through somebody it goes not to your friend but a user nearer to your friend and they deliver your message verbally for you ... See full summary »
Director: Miranda July | Stars: Sophie Hannah, Cory Roberts, Ian Lerch, Lika Bosman
Votes: 361
10. 99 Homes (2014)
R | 112 min | Crime, Drama
A recently unemployed single father struggles to get back his foreclosed home by working for the real estate broker who is the source of his frustration.
Director: Ramin Bahrani | Stars: Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon, Laura Dern, Clancy Brown
Votes: 38,254 | Gross: $1.41M
11. In the Basement (2014)
Not Rated | 81 min | Documentary
A documentary that reveals what its subjects do in their respective basements.
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Fritz Lang, Alfreda Klebinger, Manfred Ellinger, Inge Ellinger
Votes: 3,103 | Gross: $0.00M
12. She's Funny That Way (2014)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
On the set of a playwright's new project, a love triangle forms between his wife, her ex-lover and the call-girl-turned-actress cast in the production.
Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Imogen Poots, Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Kathryn Hahn
Votes: 28,853 | Gross: $0.09M
13. Black Souls (2014)
Not Rated | 109 min | Crime, Drama
The story of three brothers, the sons of a shepherd, close to the ndrangheta and of their divided soul.
Director: Francesco Munzi | Stars: Marco Leonardi, Peppino Mazzotta, Fabrizio Ferracane, Barbora Bobulova
Votes: 3,140 | Gross: $0.10M
14. These Are the Rules (2014)
78 min | Drama
After their son has been beaten up in the street, parents find their world of false security collapsing and have to re-examine their lives and question everything into what they believed.
Director: Ognjen Svilicic | Stars: Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, Jasna Zalica, Hrvoje Vladisavljevic, Mirela Brekalo
Votes: 635
15. The Humbling (2014)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A stage actor who is slowly losing his mind engages in a relationship with a sexually confused younger woman.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Al Pacino, Greta Gerwig, Nina Arianda, Charles Grodin
Votes: 7,204
16. Senza nessuna pietà (2014)
95 min | Crime, Drama
Mimmo, a worker respected by his friends and colleagues, actually collects debts with violent methods on behalf of his uncle. After meeting with young escort Tania, Mimmo decides to redeem himself from a life that let him down.
Director: Michele Alhaique | Stars: Pierfrancesco Favino, Greta Scarano, Claudio Gioè, Adriano Giannini
Votes: 513
17. Manglehorn (2014)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama
Left heartbroken by the woman he loved and lost many years ago, Manglehorn, an eccentric small-town locksmith, tries to start his life over again with the help of a new friend.
Director: David Gordon Green | Stars: Al Pacino, Holly Hunter, Harmony Korine, Chris Messina
Votes: 7,997 | Gross: $0.13M
18. 3 Hearts (2014)
PG-13 | 108 min | Drama, Romance
A tax inspector, his new bride and her sister become entwined in a love triangle.
Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Benoît Poelvoorde, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve
Votes: 2,632 | Gross: $0.15M
19. Goodnight Mommy (2014)
R | 99 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Twin boys move to a new house with their mother after she has face-changing cosmetic surgery, but under the bandages is someone the boys don't recognize.
Directors: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz | Stars: Lukas Schwarz, Elias Schwarz, Susanne Wuest, Hans Escher
Votes: 59,774 | Gross: $1.17M
20. Far from Men (2014)
PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, War
Algeria, 1954. Two very different men thrown together by a world in turmoil are forced to flee across the Atlas mountains. Daru, the reclusive teacher, has to escort Mohamed, a villager accused of murder.
Director: David Oelhoffen | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Reda Kateb, Djemel Barek, Vincent Martin
Votes: 8,810
21. The Boxtrolls (2014)
PG | 96 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A young orphaned boy raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collectors tries to save his friends from an evil exterminator.
Directors: Graham Annable, Anthony Stacchi | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Jared Harris, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade
Votes: 61,516 | Gross: $50.84M
22. The Cut (I) (2014)
Not Rated | 138 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Tahar Rahim, Simon Abkarian, Makram Khoury, Hindi Zahra
Votes: 8,004 | Gross: $0.03M
23. Hungry Hearts (2014)
Unrated | 109 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life-or-death circumstance.
Director: Saverio Costanzo | Stars: Adam Driver, Alba Rohrwacher, Roberta Maxwell, Brandon Reiss
Votes: 5,942
24. Belluscone. Una storia siciliana (2014)
95 min | Documentary
The director documents his failure to make a film connecting the Mafia in Sicily and Italy's prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Director: Franco Maresco | Stars: Ciccio Mira, Pino Maniaci, Salvatore De Castro, Vittorio Ricciardi
Votes: 551
25. Jackie & Ryan (2014)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Family, Music
A modern day train hopper fighting to become a successful musician, and a single mom battling to maintain custody of her daughter, defy their circumstances by coming together in a relationship that may change each others lives forever.
Director: Ami Canaan Mann | Stars: Katherine Heigl, Ben Barnes, Clea DuVall, Emily Alyn Lind
Votes: 4,721
26. Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)
Not Rated | 124 min | Drama
The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adulthood, obsessions and what led to her being in Seligman's care.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Willem Dafoe, Jamie Bell
Votes: 98,192 | Gross: $0.33M
27. Tsili (2014)
88 min | Drama
Director: Amos Gitai | Stars: Sarah Adler, Meshi Olinski, Leah Koenig, Adam Tsekhman
Votes: 66
28. Leopardi (2014)
143 min | Biography, Drama, History
Based upon the short but fruitful life of illness-racked Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi.
Director: Mario Martone | Stars: Elio Germano, Michele Riondino, Massimo Popolizio, Anna Mouglalis
Votes: 3,049
29. Olive Kitteridge (2014)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama
A middle-school math teacher Olive and her marriage with Henry which spans 25 years.
Stars: Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins, Ann Dowd, Ken Cheeseman
Votes: 26,110
30. Fires on the Plain (2014)
87 min | Drama, War
A Japanese soldier endures illness, starvation and brutality in the Philippines at the tail end of WW2.
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Lily Franky, Tatsuya Nakamura, Yûsaku Mori
Votes: 852
31. O Velho do Restelo (2014)
19 min | Short, Drama, History
Don Quixote, Luís de Camões, Camilo Castelo Branco and Teixeira de Pascoaes meet in an eternal garden in the middle of a modern city and talk about life.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Diogo Dória, Luís Miguel Cintra, Ricardo Trêpa, Mário Barroso
Votes: 157
32. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)
PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Sam and Jonathan, a pair of hapless novelty salesmen, embark on a tour of the human condition in reality and fantasy that unfold in a series of absurdist episodes.
Director: Roy Andersson | Stars: Holger Andersson, Nils Westblom, Viktor Gyllenberg, Lotti Törnros
Votes: 19,632 | Gross: $0.22M
33. Near Death Experience (2014)
87 min | Comedy, Drama
Follows a man wandering in the wilderness.
Directors: Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern | Stars: Michel Houellebecq, Marius Bertram, Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern
Votes: 369
34. Bypass (2014)
105 min | Drama, Thriller
After the tragic death of his mother, a teenage boy turns to a life of crime in order to make ends meet.
Director: Duane Hopkins | Stars: George MacKay, Ben Dilloway, Charlotte Spencer, Donald Sumpter
Votes: 347
35. Sivas (2014)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
An eleven-year-old boy and a weathered fighting dog develop a strong relationship after the boy finds the dog wounded in a ditch, left to die.
Director: Kaan Müjdeci | Stars: Okan Avci, Cakir, Ezgi Ergin, Banu Fotocan
Votes: 3,693
36. Revivre (2014)
89 min | Drama
A middle-aged man who has recently lost his wife to cancer indulges in fantasies about a young woman at his work.
Director: Im Kwon-taek | Stars: Kim Gyu-ri, Kim Ho-jung, Park Jeong-sik, Ahn Sung-ki
Votes: 212
37. The Last Hammer Blow (2014)
82 min | Drama
A 13-year old boy who lives with his single sick mom in a trailer near the beach, comes in contact with the father he never knew when the man performs as a conductor at the local music theater.
Director: Alix Delaporte | Stars: Romain Paul, Clotilde Hesme, Grégory Gadebois, Candela Peña
Votes: 526
38. Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere (2014)
99 min | Drama, Romance
When young Hanoi couple, Tung and Huyen, discover they are going to have a baby, it inspires two desperate quests to raise money for an abortion. While Tung looks to illegal cockfighting, ... See full summary »
Director: Diep Hoang Nguyen | Stars: Nguyen Thuy Anh, Thanh Duy, Hoang Ha, Son Bao Tran
Votes: 149
39. Hill of Freedom (2014)
66 min | Drama
Kwon returns to Seoul from the mountains and is given a packet of letters from Mori back from Japan to propose to her. Kwon drops and scatters the undated letters. She reads them and has to make sense of the chronology - and so must we?
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Ryô Kase, Moon So-ri, Seo Young-hwa, Kim Eui-sung
Votes: 1,437
40. Cymbeline (2014)
R | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A gritty story of a take-no-prisoners war between dirty cops and an outlaw biker gang. A drug kingpin is driven to desperate measures.
Director: Michael Almereyda | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris, Milla Jovovich, John Leguizamo
Votes: 4,260
41. Red Amnesia (2014)
116 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Deng is a stubborn retired widow who spends her days caring about her two grown up sons and her elderly mother, despite her family efforts to stop her. But her daily routine starts derailing when she keeps receiving anonymous calls..
Director: Xiaoshuai Wang | Stars: Zhong Lü, Yuanzheng Feng, Hailu Qin, Hao Qin
Votes: 705
42. The State-Mafia Pact (2014)
108 min | Crime
The story about how the pact beetween Italian State and Mafia was inked with innocence blood.
Director: Sabina Guzzanti | Stars: Sabina Guzzanti, Antonino Bruschetta, Sabino Civilleri, Enzo Lombardo
Votes: 686
43. Burying the Ex (2014)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance
A guy's regrets over moving in with his girlfriend are compounded when she dies and comes back as a zombie.
Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Anton Yelchin, Ashley Greene, Alexandra Daddario, Oliver Cooper
Votes: 11,487
44. Pasolini (2014)
84 min | Biography, Drama
A kaleidoscopic look at the last day of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975.
Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Ninetto Davoli, Riccardo Scamarcio, Valerio Mastandrea
Votes: 4,555 | Gross: $0.03M
45. The Sound and the Fury (2014)
TV-MA | 101 min | Drama
A look at the trials and tribulations of the Compson family, living in the Deep South during the early 20th century.
Director: James Franco | Stars: James Franco, Tim Blake Nelson, Scott Haze, Loretta Devine
Votes: 1,255
46. The Postman's White Nights (2014)
100 min | Drama
The film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. The only way to reach the mainland is to cross the lake by boat and a postman became the only connection with the outside world. A... See full summary »
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Aleksey Tryapitsyn, Irina Ermolova, Timur Bondarenko, Viktor Kolobkov
Votes: 2,099
47. Good Kill (2014)
R | 102 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A family man begins to question the ethics of his job as a drone pilot.
Director: Andrew Niccol | Stars: Ethan Hawke, January Jones, Zoë Kravitz, Fatima El Bahraouy
Votes: 24,911 | Gross: $0.32M
48. The Golden Era (2014)
177 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The life story of Xiao Hong, one of China's most famous essayists and novelists, who reflected the progressive thinking not frequently seen during the 1930s.
Director: Ann Hui | Stars: Tang Wei, Shaofeng Feng, Zhiwen Wang, Yawen Zhu
Votes: 1,252 | Gross: $0.10M
49. No One's Child (2014)
95 min | Drama
In the late 1980s, a boy has been found in the mountains of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Nobody knows how he came about in the wild, nor if animals fed and raised him.
Director: Vuk Rsumovic | Stars: Denis Muric, Milos Timotijevic, Pavle Cemerikic, Isidora Jankovic
Votes: 1,727
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