Thanks, Manolis.
Barring any last minute surprises, most, if not all, this year's major Oscar nominations will likely come from the films on this list.
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Oscar Hopefuls 2021-2022
Here is a list from upcoming films that could be released in time for the following Oscar season. Some like the new Scorsese or Luhrmann are less likely since they are still filming.
“Annette” (Amazon)
Director: Leos Carax
Cast: Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard
Plot: A stand-up comedian and his opera singer wife, have a 2 year old daughter with a surprising gift.
«Being the Ricardos» (Amazon Studios)
Director: Aaron Sorkin
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, Nina Arianda
Plot: Follows Lucy Ball and Desi Arnaz as they face a crises that could end their careers and another one that could end their marriage.
«Belfast»
Writer/Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Jamie Dornan, Ciaran Hinds, Judi Dench
Plot: A young boy and his working class family experience the tumultuous late 1960s.
“Blonde” (Netflix)
Writer/Director: Andrew Dominik
Cast: Ana De Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Julianne Nicholson
Plot: A fictionalized take on the life of Marilyn Monroe.
“Blue Bayou”
Director: Justin Chon
Cast: Justin Chon, Alicia Vikander, Emory Cohen
Plot: A hard working Korean-American family man must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.
“C’mon, C’mon” (A24)
Writer/Director: Mike Mills
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Gaby Hoffmann, Woody Norman, Artrial Clark
Plot: An artist (Phoenix) left to take care of his precocious young nephew (Norman) forge an unexpected bond over a cross country trip.
“Canterbury Glass” (New Regency)
Director: David O. Russell
Cast: Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, Robert De Niro Rami Malek, John David Washington, Zoe Saldana
Plot: A doctor and a lawyer form an unlikely partnership.
“The Card Counter”
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Oscar Isaac, Williem Dafie, Tye Sheridan
Plot: Follows a gambler and former serviceman who sets out to reform young men seeking revenge on a mutual enemy from their past.
“CODA” (Pathe)
Director: Sian Heder
Cast: Marlee Matlin, Emilia Jones
Plot: A Child Of Deaf Adults is the only hearing person in her family. When the family business is threatened, she finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.
“The Courier” (Lionsgate)
Director: Dominic Cooke
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel Brosnahan, Jessie Buckley
Plot: The true story of the British businessman who helped the CIA penetrate the Soviet nuclear programme during the Cold War.
«Cruella»
Director: Craig Gillespie
Cast: Emma Stone, Emma Thompson, Mark Strong
Plot: A live-action prequel following a young Cruella de Vil.
“Cry Macho” (Warner Bros.)
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Dwight Yoakam, Fernanda Urrejola
Plot: A one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder takes a job to bring a man’s young son home and away from his alcoholic mom.
«Cyrano» (MGM)
Director: Joe Wright
Cast: Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennett, Ben Mendelsohn
Plot: In short, it follows the life of Cyrano De Bergerac
“Decision to Leave”
Director: Chan Wook Park
Cast: Tang Wei
Plot: A detective investigating a man’s death in the mountains meet the dead man’s mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing.
“Dear Evan Hansen”
Director: Stephen Chbosky
Cast: Ben Platt, Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, Kaitlyn Dever
Plot: Film adaptation of the Tony and Grammy-winning musical about a high school senior with Social anxiety disorder and his journey of self discovery and acceptance following the suicide of a fellow classmate.
“Death on the Nile” (20TH Century)
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Gil Gadot, Armie Hammer, Kenneth Branagh, Annette Bening
Plot: While on vacation on the Nile, Hercule Poirot must investigate the murder of a young heiress.
«Don’t Look Up» (Netflix)
Director: Adam McKay
Cast: Leonardo Di Caprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Timothee Chalamet, Cate Blanchett, Mark Rylance, Jonah Hill
Plot: The story of two low-level astronomers who must go in a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet earth.
“Don’t Worry Darling” (New Line)
Director: Olivia Wilde
Cast: Olivia Wilde, Florence Pugh, Chris Pine, Harry Styles
Plot: A 1950’s housewife living with her husband in a utopian experimental community begins to worry that his glamorous company may be hiding disturbing secrets.
“Downton Abbey 2”
Director: Simon Curtis
Cast: Maggie Smith, Dominic West, Michelle Dockery, Hugh Dancy, Imelda Staunton, Hugh Bonneville, Penelope Wilton, Nathalie Baye
Plot: Follow up to the acclaimed tv-series and feature film of 2019
“The Duke”
Director: Roger Michell
Cast: Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent
Plot: A working-class Englishman steals a Goys from the National Gallery with enjoyable bounce and a surprising political conscience.
“Dune” (Warner Bros.)
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin , Zendaya
Plot: The son of a noble family is entrusted with the protection of the most valuable asset and most vital element in the galaxy.
“Electrical Life of Louis Wain” (Amazon)
Director: Will Sharpe
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Andrea Riseborough, Claire Foy
Plot: The story of the prolific English artist who rose to prominence at the end of the 19th century.
“The Eternal Daughter”
Director: Joanna Hogg
Cast: Tilda Swinton
Plot: In this ghost story, a middle-aged daughter and her elderly mother must confront long buried secrets when they return to their old family home.
“Eternals” (Disney)
Director: Chloe Zhao
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Kit Harington, Richard Madden
Plot: The saga of the Eternals, a race of immortal beings who lived on Earth and shaped its history and civilizations.
“Everybody’s Talking About Jamie” (20th Century)
Dir: Jonathan Butterell
Cast: Max Harwood, Lauren Patel, Richard E. Grant
Plot: A teenager from Sheffield, England wants to be a drag queen.
“The Eyes Of Tammy Faye” (Searchlight Pic.)
Director: Michael Showalter
Cast: Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield, Vincent D’Onofrio
Plot: Televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker seek redemption after their religious empire and marriage crumbles.
“The Forgiven”
Director: John Michael McDonagh
Cast: Jessica Chastain, Ralph Fiennes, Matt Smith, Christophe Abbott
Plot: Takes place over a weekend in the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco and explores the reverberations of a random accident on the lives of both the locals and western visitors to a house party in a grand villa.
“French Dispatch” (Searchlight)
Writer/Director: Wes Anderson
Cast: Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet,Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Steve Park, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson.
Plot: A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in “The French Dispatch” magazine.
“The Great Escaper”
Director: Oliver Parker
Cast: Michael Caine, Glenda Jackson
Plot: Bernard Jordan escapes from his care home to attend the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings in France.
“The Guilty”
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Riley Keough, Ethan Hawke
Plot: A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.
“The Hand of God” (Netflix)
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Cast: Toni Servillo
Plot: Set in Naples and said to be a very personal film
«Harder they Fall» (Netflix)
Director: Jeymes Samuel
Cast: Idris Elba, Regina King. Lakeith Stanfield, Delroy Lindo
Plot: When an outlaw discovers his enemy is being released from prison, he reunites his gang to seek revenge in this western.
«A Hero» (Amazon)
Write/Director: Asghar Farhadi
Cast: Amir Jadidi
Plot: Unknown
“House of Gucci” (UA)
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Al Pacino, Salma Hayek, Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Lady Gaga, Jeremy Irons
Plot: The story of how Patrizia Reggiani, the ex-wife of Maurizio Gucci, plotted to kill her husband, the grandson of renowned fashion designer Guccio Gucci.
“The Humans”
Director: Stephen Karam
Cast: Steven Yeun, Beanie Feldstein, Richard Jenkins, Amy Schumer, June Squibb, Jayne Houdyshell
Plot: The Blake family gathers to celebrate Thanksgiving. As darkness falls outside the crumbling building, mysterious things start to go bump in the night and family tensions reach a boiling point.
“In the Heights” (Warner Bros. – June 26)
Director: John Chu
Cast: Anthony Ramos, Corey Hawkins, Jimmy Smits
Plot: A bodega owner has mixed feelings about closing his store and retiring to the Dominican Republic after inheriting his grandmother’s fortune.
“Italian Studies”
Director: Adam Leon
Cast: Vanessa Kirby
Plot: A writer loses her memory. Adrift in NY she connects with a group of teenagers and searches for a way home.
“Jockey”
Director: Clint Bentley
Cast: Clifton Collins Jr., Molly Parker
Plot: An aging jockey aims for a final championship, when a rookie rider arrives claiming to be his son.
“Journal for Jordan” (Sony)
Director: Denzel Washington
Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Tamara Tunie, Robert Wisdom, Chanté Adams
Plot: 1st Sgt. Charles Monroe King, before he is killed in action in Baghdad, authors a journal for his son intended to tell him how to live a decent life despite growing up without a father.
«Killers of the Flower Moon» (Apple tv)
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Jesse Plemons, Leonardo Di Caprio, Robert De Niro
Plot: Member of the Osage tribe in the United states are murdered under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s sparking a majord FBI investigation involving J. Edgar Hoover.
“Last Night in Soho” (Focus)
Director: Edgar Wright
Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Jessie Mei Li, Matt Smith
Plot: A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer.
“Next Goal Wins” (Searchlight Pictures)
Director: Taika Waititi
Cast:: Michael Fassbender, Elisabeth Moss, Armie Hammer.
Plot: A coach takes the American Samoa national football team to the World Cup.
“King Richard” (Warner Bros.)
Director: Reinaldo Marcus Green
Cast: Will Smith, Jon Bernthal
Plot: A look at how tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams became who they are after the coaching from their father Richard Williams.
«The Lost Daughter»
Director: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Cast: Olivia Colman, Dakota Jackson, Peter Sarsgaard, Ed Harris, Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal
Plot: A woman’s beach vacation takes a dark turn when she begins to confront the troubles of her past.
«The Last Duel»
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Damon, Affleck, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer
Plot: In 14th century France, the friendship of two knights is put to the test by a young woman.
“Madres Paralelas”
Director: Pedro Almadovar
Cast: Penelope Cruz, rosy de Palma
Plot: The story of two mothers who give birth the same day
“Many Saints of Newark” (Warner Bros.)
Director: Alan Taylor
Cast: Billy Magnussen, Vera Farmiga, Leslie Odom Jr., Corey Stoll, Ray Liotta
Plot: A look at the formative years of New Jersey gangster, Tony Soprano.
“Mass”
Director: Fran Kranz
Cast: Jason Isaacs, Martha Plimpton, Ann Dowd
Plot: The parents of the shooter meet the parents of a victim in a talk-therapy drama that packs a truthful punch.
“Mothering Sunday” (BIFA, Film4)
Director: Eva Husson
Cast: Olivia Colman, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Glenda Jackson
Plot: A maid living in post-World-War I England secretly plans to meet with the man she loves before he leaves to marry another woman.
“Mrs Harris Goes to Paris”
Director: Anthony Fabian
Cast: Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs, Lambert Wilson
Plot: A cleaning lady in 1950s London falls in love with a haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.
«Nightmare Alley» (Fox Searchlight)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Willem Dafoe
Plot: An ambitious carney with a talent for manipulating people with a few well chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist who is even more dangerous than he is.
“No Time to Die” (MGM)
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Cast: Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Ana de Armas, Ralph Fiennes, Christoph Waltz, Naomie Harris, Billy Magnussen, Lea Seydoux
Plot: James Bond has left active service, but an old friend turns up asking for help, leading him onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.
“The Northman” (New Regency)
Director: Robert Eggers
Cast: Anya Taylor- Joy, Ethan Hawke, Nicole Kidman, Alexander Skarsgard, Willem Dafoe
Plot: Set in Iceland at the turn of the 10th century, a Nordic prince sets out on a mission of revenge after his father is murdered.
“L’Ombra di Caravaggio”
Director: Michele Placido
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrell, Ricardo Scarmarcio
Plot: The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.
«Passing» (Film4)
Director: Rebecca Hall
Cast: Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, Andre Holland
Plot: Follow the unexpected reunion of two high school friends, whose renewed acquaintance ignites a mutual obsession that threatens both of their carefully constructed realities.
“Power of the Dog” (Netflix)
Director: Jane Campion
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons
Plot: A pair of brothers who own a large ranch in Montana are pitted against each other when one of them gets married.
“Red, White, and Water” (A24)
Director: Lila Neugebauer
Cast; Jennifer Lawrence, Brian Tyree Henry, Samira Wiley
Plot: A US soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home.
“Respect” (UA)
Director: Liesl Tommy
Cast: Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, Tate Donovan
Plot: The life story of legendary R&B singer Aretha Franklin.
“Rifkin’s Festival”
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Louis Garrell, Gina Gershon
Plot: A married American couple go to the San Sebastian Festival and get caught up in the magic of the event, the beauty and charm of the city and the fantasy of movies
“Soggy Bottom” (UA)
Writer/Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Cooper Hoffman, Bradley Cooper, Alana Haim and Benny Safdie
Plot: Set in 1970s San Fernando Valley, the film follows a high school student, who is also a successful child actor
“Spencer”
Director: Pablo Larrain
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Sally Hawkins, Timothy Spall
Plot: During her Christmas holidays with the royal family, Diana decides to leave her marriage to Prince Charles.
“Stillwater” (Focus)
Director: Tom McCarthy
Cast: Matt Damon, Abigail Breslin, Camille Cottin, Deanna Dunagan
Plot: A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his daughter who has been arrested for murder.
“Swan Song”
Director: Benjamin Cleary
Cast: Mahershala Ali, Glenn Close, Naomie Harris, Awkwafina
Plot: When a loving husband and father is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he’s presented with a controversial alternative solution to replace himself with a carbon copy clone.
“Tender Bar”
Director: George Clooney
Cast: Ben Affleck, Lily Rabe
Plot: A boy growing up on Long Island seeks out father figures among the patrons at his uncle’s bar.
“Those Who Wish Me Dead” (Warner Bros.)
Director: Taylor Sheridan
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Hoult, Jon Bernthal
Plot: A teenage murder witness finds himself pursued by twin assassins in the Montana wilderness with a survival expert tasked with protecting him — and a forest fire threatening to consume them all.
“Tick, Tick… Boom” (Netflix)
Director: Lin Emmanuel Miranda
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Vanessa Hudgens
Plot: The story of an aspiring theatre composer who is waiting tables in New York while writing Suburbia, which he hopes will be the next great American musical and finally give him his big break.
“Tragedy of Macbeth” (A24)
Director: Joel Coen
Cast: Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Brendan Gleeson
Plot:A Scottish lord becomes convinced by a trio of witches that he will become the next King of Scotland, and his ambitious wife supports him in his plans of seizing power.
“Triangle of Sadness”
Director: Ruben Ostlund
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Harris Dickinson
Plot: A pair of models find themselves at a crossroads in their careers during a cruise in the greek islands.
“Unforgiven” (Netflix)
Director: Nora Fingscheidt
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Vincent D’Onofrio, Jon Bernthal
Plot: Ruth Slater, a woman released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
“Untitled Elvis Priestley Project” (Warner Bros)
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Cast: Tom Hanks, Richard Roxburgh, Austin Butler
Plot: A look at the life of the legendary rock & roll star Elvis Priestley.
“The Way of the Wind”
Director: Terrence Malick
Cast: Joseph Fiennes, Mark Rylance, Ben Kingsley, Matthias Schoenaerts, Matthieu Kassovitz
Plot: A retelling of several episodes in the life of Christ.
“West Side Story” (20th Century)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose, Corey Stoll, Rita Moreno
Plot: Teenagers Tony and Maria, despite having affiliations with rival street gangs, the white Jets and Puerto Rican Sharks, fall in love in 50s New York.
“The Whale”
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Cast: Brenda Fraser, Samantha Morton, Hong Chau
Plot: A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
«Woman In the Window» (Netflix)
Director: Joe Wright
Cast: Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman
Plot: An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors, only to witness a disturbing act of violence.
“Annette” (Amazon)
Director: Leos Carax
Cast: Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard
Plot: A stand-up comedian and his opera singer wife, have a 2 year old daughter with a surprising gift.
«Being the Ricardos» (Amazon Studios)
Director: Aaron Sorkin
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, Nina Arianda
Plot: Follows Lucy Ball and Desi Arnaz as they face a crises that could end their careers and another one that could end their marriage.
«Belfast»
Writer/Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Jamie Dornan, Ciaran Hinds, Judi Dench
Plot: A young boy and his working class family experience the tumultuous late 1960s.
“Blonde” (Netflix)
Writer/Director: Andrew Dominik
Cast: Ana De Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Julianne Nicholson
Plot: A fictionalized take on the life of Marilyn Monroe.
“Blue Bayou”
Director: Justin Chon
Cast: Justin Chon, Alicia Vikander, Emory Cohen
Plot: A hard working Korean-American family man must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.
“C’mon, C’mon” (A24)
Writer/Director: Mike Mills
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Gaby Hoffmann, Woody Norman, Artrial Clark
Plot: An artist (Phoenix) left to take care of his precocious young nephew (Norman) forge an unexpected bond over a cross country trip.
“Canterbury Glass” (New Regency)
Director: David O. Russell
Cast: Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, Robert De Niro Rami Malek, John David Washington, Zoe Saldana
Plot: A doctor and a lawyer form an unlikely partnership.
“The Card Counter”
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Oscar Isaac, Williem Dafie, Tye Sheridan
Plot: Follows a gambler and former serviceman who sets out to reform young men seeking revenge on a mutual enemy from their past.
“CODA” (Pathe)
Director: Sian Heder
Cast: Marlee Matlin, Emilia Jones
Plot: A Child Of Deaf Adults is the only hearing person in her family. When the family business is threatened, she finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.
“The Courier” (Lionsgate)
Director: Dominic Cooke
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel Brosnahan, Jessie Buckley
Plot: The true story of the British businessman who helped the CIA penetrate the Soviet nuclear programme during the Cold War.
«Cruella»
Director: Craig Gillespie
Cast: Emma Stone, Emma Thompson, Mark Strong
Plot: A live-action prequel following a young Cruella de Vil.
“Cry Macho” (Warner Bros.)
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Dwight Yoakam, Fernanda Urrejola
Plot: A one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder takes a job to bring a man’s young son home and away from his alcoholic mom.
«Cyrano» (MGM)
Director: Joe Wright
Cast: Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennett, Ben Mendelsohn
Plot: In short, it follows the life of Cyrano De Bergerac
“Decision to Leave”
Director: Chan Wook Park
Cast: Tang Wei
Plot: A detective investigating a man’s death in the mountains meet the dead man’s mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing.
“Dear Evan Hansen”
Director: Stephen Chbosky
Cast: Ben Platt, Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, Kaitlyn Dever
Plot: Film adaptation of the Tony and Grammy-winning musical about a high school senior with Social anxiety disorder and his journey of self discovery and acceptance following the suicide of a fellow classmate.
“Death on the Nile” (20TH Century)
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Gil Gadot, Armie Hammer, Kenneth Branagh, Annette Bening
Plot: While on vacation on the Nile, Hercule Poirot must investigate the murder of a young heiress.
«Don’t Look Up» (Netflix)
Director: Adam McKay
Cast: Leonardo Di Caprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Timothee Chalamet, Cate Blanchett, Mark Rylance, Jonah Hill
Plot: The story of two low-level astronomers who must go in a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet earth.
“Don’t Worry Darling” (New Line)
Director: Olivia Wilde
Cast: Olivia Wilde, Florence Pugh, Chris Pine, Harry Styles
Plot: A 1950’s housewife living with her husband in a utopian experimental community begins to worry that his glamorous company may be hiding disturbing secrets.
“Downton Abbey 2”
Director: Simon Curtis
Cast: Maggie Smith, Dominic West, Michelle Dockery, Hugh Dancy, Imelda Staunton, Hugh Bonneville, Penelope Wilton, Nathalie Baye
Plot: Follow up to the acclaimed tv-series and feature film of 2019
“The Duke”
Director: Roger Michell
Cast: Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent
Plot: A working-class Englishman steals a Goys from the National Gallery with enjoyable bounce and a surprising political conscience.
“Dune” (Warner Bros.)
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin , Zendaya
Plot: The son of a noble family is entrusted with the protection of the most valuable asset and most vital element in the galaxy.
“Electrical Life of Louis Wain” (Amazon)
Director: Will Sharpe
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Andrea Riseborough, Claire Foy
Plot: The story of the prolific English artist who rose to prominence at the end of the 19th century.
“The Eternal Daughter”
Director: Joanna Hogg
Cast: Tilda Swinton
Plot: In this ghost story, a middle-aged daughter and her elderly mother must confront long buried secrets when they return to their old family home.
“Eternals” (Disney)
Director: Chloe Zhao
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Kit Harington, Richard Madden
Plot: The saga of the Eternals, a race of immortal beings who lived on Earth and shaped its history and civilizations.
“Everybody’s Talking About Jamie” (20th Century)
Dir: Jonathan Butterell
Cast: Max Harwood, Lauren Patel, Richard E. Grant
Plot: A teenager from Sheffield, England wants to be a drag queen.
“The Eyes Of Tammy Faye” (Searchlight Pic.)
Director: Michael Showalter
Cast: Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield, Vincent D’Onofrio
Plot: Televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker seek redemption after their religious empire and marriage crumbles.
“The Forgiven”
Director: John Michael McDonagh
Cast: Jessica Chastain, Ralph Fiennes, Matt Smith, Christophe Abbott
Plot: Takes place over a weekend in the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco and explores the reverberations of a random accident on the lives of both the locals and western visitors to a house party in a grand villa.
“French Dispatch” (Searchlight)
Writer/Director: Wes Anderson
Cast: Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet,Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Steve Park, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson.
Plot: A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in “The French Dispatch” magazine.
“The Great Escaper”
Director: Oliver Parker
Cast: Michael Caine, Glenda Jackson
Plot: Bernard Jordan escapes from his care home to attend the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings in France.
“The Guilty”
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Riley Keough, Ethan Hawke
Plot: A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.
“The Hand of God” (Netflix)
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Cast: Toni Servillo
Plot: Set in Naples and said to be a very personal film
«Harder they Fall» (Netflix)
Director: Jeymes Samuel
Cast: Idris Elba, Regina King. Lakeith Stanfield, Delroy Lindo
Plot: When an outlaw discovers his enemy is being released from prison, he reunites his gang to seek revenge in this western.
«A Hero» (Amazon)
Write/Director: Asghar Farhadi
Cast: Amir Jadidi
Plot: Unknown
“House of Gucci” (UA)
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Al Pacino, Salma Hayek, Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Lady Gaga, Jeremy Irons
Plot: The story of how Patrizia Reggiani, the ex-wife of Maurizio Gucci, plotted to kill her husband, the grandson of renowned fashion designer Guccio Gucci.
“The Humans”
Director: Stephen Karam
Cast: Steven Yeun, Beanie Feldstein, Richard Jenkins, Amy Schumer, June Squibb, Jayne Houdyshell
Plot: The Blake family gathers to celebrate Thanksgiving. As darkness falls outside the crumbling building, mysterious things start to go bump in the night and family tensions reach a boiling point.
“In the Heights” (Warner Bros. – June 26)
Director: John Chu
Cast: Anthony Ramos, Corey Hawkins, Jimmy Smits
Plot: A bodega owner has mixed feelings about closing his store and retiring to the Dominican Republic after inheriting his grandmother’s fortune.
“Italian Studies”
Director: Adam Leon
Cast: Vanessa Kirby
Plot: A writer loses her memory. Adrift in NY she connects with a group of teenagers and searches for a way home.
“Jockey”
Director: Clint Bentley
Cast: Clifton Collins Jr., Molly Parker
Plot: An aging jockey aims for a final championship, when a rookie rider arrives claiming to be his son.
“Journal for Jordan” (Sony)
Director: Denzel Washington
Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Tamara Tunie, Robert Wisdom, Chanté Adams
Plot: 1st Sgt. Charles Monroe King, before he is killed in action in Baghdad, authors a journal for his son intended to tell him how to live a decent life despite growing up without a father.
«Killers of the Flower Moon» (Apple tv)
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Jesse Plemons, Leonardo Di Caprio, Robert De Niro
Plot: Member of the Osage tribe in the United states are murdered under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s sparking a majord FBI investigation involving J. Edgar Hoover.
“Last Night in Soho” (Focus)
Director: Edgar Wright
Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Jessie Mei Li, Matt Smith
Plot: A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer.
“Next Goal Wins” (Searchlight Pictures)
Director: Taika Waititi
Cast:: Michael Fassbender, Elisabeth Moss, Armie Hammer.
Plot: A coach takes the American Samoa national football team to the World Cup.
“King Richard” (Warner Bros.)
Director: Reinaldo Marcus Green
Cast: Will Smith, Jon Bernthal
Plot: A look at how tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams became who they are after the coaching from their father Richard Williams.
«The Lost Daughter»
Director: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Cast: Olivia Colman, Dakota Jackson, Peter Sarsgaard, Ed Harris, Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal
Plot: A woman’s beach vacation takes a dark turn when she begins to confront the troubles of her past.
«The Last Duel»
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Damon, Affleck, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer
Plot: In 14th century France, the friendship of two knights is put to the test by a young woman.
“Madres Paralelas”
Director: Pedro Almadovar
Cast: Penelope Cruz, rosy de Palma
Plot: The story of two mothers who give birth the same day
“Many Saints of Newark” (Warner Bros.)
Director: Alan Taylor
Cast: Billy Magnussen, Vera Farmiga, Leslie Odom Jr., Corey Stoll, Ray Liotta
Plot: A look at the formative years of New Jersey gangster, Tony Soprano.
“Mass”
Director: Fran Kranz
Cast: Jason Isaacs, Martha Plimpton, Ann Dowd
Plot: The parents of the shooter meet the parents of a victim in a talk-therapy drama that packs a truthful punch.
“Mothering Sunday” (BIFA, Film4)
Director: Eva Husson
Cast: Olivia Colman, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Glenda Jackson
Plot: A maid living in post-World-War I England secretly plans to meet with the man she loves before he leaves to marry another woman.
“Mrs Harris Goes to Paris”
Director: Anthony Fabian
Cast: Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs, Lambert Wilson
Plot: A cleaning lady in 1950s London falls in love with a haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.
«Nightmare Alley» (Fox Searchlight)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Willem Dafoe
Plot: An ambitious carney with a talent for manipulating people with a few well chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist who is even more dangerous than he is.
“No Time to Die” (MGM)
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Cast: Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Ana de Armas, Ralph Fiennes, Christoph Waltz, Naomie Harris, Billy Magnussen, Lea Seydoux
Plot: James Bond has left active service, but an old friend turns up asking for help, leading him onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.
“The Northman” (New Regency)
Director: Robert Eggers
Cast: Anya Taylor- Joy, Ethan Hawke, Nicole Kidman, Alexander Skarsgard, Willem Dafoe
Plot: Set in Iceland at the turn of the 10th century, a Nordic prince sets out on a mission of revenge after his father is murdered.
“L’Ombra di Caravaggio”
Director: Michele Placido
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrell, Ricardo Scarmarcio
Plot: The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.
«Passing» (Film4)
Director: Rebecca Hall
Cast: Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, Andre Holland
Plot: Follow the unexpected reunion of two high school friends, whose renewed acquaintance ignites a mutual obsession that threatens both of their carefully constructed realities.
“Power of the Dog” (Netflix)
Director: Jane Campion
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons
Plot: A pair of brothers who own a large ranch in Montana are pitted against each other when one of them gets married.
“Red, White, and Water” (A24)
Director: Lila Neugebauer
Cast; Jennifer Lawrence, Brian Tyree Henry, Samira Wiley
Plot: A US soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home.
“Respect” (UA)
Director: Liesl Tommy
Cast: Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, Tate Donovan
Plot: The life story of legendary R&B singer Aretha Franklin.
“Rifkin’s Festival”
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Louis Garrell, Gina Gershon
Plot: A married American couple go to the San Sebastian Festival and get caught up in the magic of the event, the beauty and charm of the city and the fantasy of movies
“Soggy Bottom” (UA)
Writer/Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Cooper Hoffman, Bradley Cooper, Alana Haim and Benny Safdie
Plot: Set in 1970s San Fernando Valley, the film follows a high school student, who is also a successful child actor
“Spencer”
Director: Pablo Larrain
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Sally Hawkins, Timothy Spall
Plot: During her Christmas holidays with the royal family, Diana decides to leave her marriage to Prince Charles.
“Stillwater” (Focus)
Director: Tom McCarthy
Cast: Matt Damon, Abigail Breslin, Camille Cottin, Deanna Dunagan
Plot: A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his daughter who has been arrested for murder.
“Swan Song”
Director: Benjamin Cleary
Cast: Mahershala Ali, Glenn Close, Naomie Harris, Awkwafina
Plot: When a loving husband and father is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he’s presented with a controversial alternative solution to replace himself with a carbon copy clone.
“Tender Bar”
Director: George Clooney
Cast: Ben Affleck, Lily Rabe
Plot: A boy growing up on Long Island seeks out father figures among the patrons at his uncle’s bar.
“Those Who Wish Me Dead” (Warner Bros.)
Director: Taylor Sheridan
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Hoult, Jon Bernthal
Plot: A teenage murder witness finds himself pursued by twin assassins in the Montana wilderness with a survival expert tasked with protecting him — and a forest fire threatening to consume them all.
“Tick, Tick… Boom” (Netflix)
Director: Lin Emmanuel Miranda
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Vanessa Hudgens
Plot: The story of an aspiring theatre composer who is waiting tables in New York while writing Suburbia, which he hopes will be the next great American musical and finally give him his big break.
“Tragedy of Macbeth” (A24)
Director: Joel Coen
Cast: Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Brendan Gleeson
Plot:A Scottish lord becomes convinced by a trio of witches that he will become the next King of Scotland, and his ambitious wife supports him in his plans of seizing power.
“Triangle of Sadness”
Director: Ruben Ostlund
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Harris Dickinson
Plot: A pair of models find themselves at a crossroads in their careers during a cruise in the greek islands.
“Unforgiven” (Netflix)
Director: Nora Fingscheidt
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Vincent D’Onofrio, Jon Bernthal
Plot: Ruth Slater, a woman released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
“Untitled Elvis Priestley Project” (Warner Bros)
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Cast: Tom Hanks, Richard Roxburgh, Austin Butler
Plot: A look at the life of the legendary rock & roll star Elvis Priestley.
“The Way of the Wind”
Director: Terrence Malick
Cast: Joseph Fiennes, Mark Rylance, Ben Kingsley, Matthias Schoenaerts, Matthieu Kassovitz
Plot: A retelling of several episodes in the life of Christ.
“West Side Story” (20th Century)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose, Corey Stoll, Rita Moreno
Plot: Teenagers Tony and Maria, despite having affiliations with rival street gangs, the white Jets and Puerto Rican Sharks, fall in love in 50s New York.
“The Whale”
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Cast: Brenda Fraser, Samantha Morton, Hong Chau
Plot: A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
«Woman In the Window» (Netflix)
Director: Joe Wright
Cast: Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman
Plot: An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors, only to witness a disturbing act of violence.