Best festival movies

Triangle of Sadness

Absurd Requests • Island Survival • Luxury Yacht • Survivors • Appearance As Currency • Modern Social Critique

2022 • Movie • GR, MX, DK, SE, US, FR, GB, DE, TR

The Square

Social Critique • Berlin • Personal Integrity • Urban Environment • Social Critics • Critical Acclaim

2017 • Movie • FR, US, DE, SE, DK

Volver

Contemporary Spain • Almagro • The Plain • Family Revelation • Mid-Budget • Family Unity

2006 • Movie • US, ES

Flee

Soviet-Afghan War • Marriage • Traumatic Journey • Animation • Amin • Annecy

2021 • Movie • IT, SE, US, NO, ES, FR, EE, FI, GB, SI, DK

Quo vadis, Aida?

Survival • Husband • Un Camp • Minimalist Score • Critically Acclaimed • Ethnic Genocide

2021 • Movie • PL, TR, AT, NO, FR, NL, ME, DE, RO, BA

Cold War

Musician • Imprisonment • Escape Attempt • Episodic • Folk Music • Espionage Suspicion

2018 • Movie • GB, FR, PL

Gomorrah

Violent • Campania • Naples • Slow-Paced • Tragic • Handheld

2008 • Movie • IT

Toni Erdmann

Ines Conradi • Winfried Conradi • Office Complex • 93% Rotten Tomatoes • Work-Life Imbalance • Venice

2016 • Movie • FR, CH, DE, AT, BE, RO

Talk to Her

Coma Care • Reconciliation • Urban Spain • Moral Ambiguity • Hospital • Cult Classic

2002 • Movie • US, ES

The White Ribbon

Lübeck • Leipzig • Village Children • Parabolic • Art-House Length • The White Ribbon

2009 • Movie • DE, CA, FR, AT, IT

Melancholia

Castle Estate • Apocalyptic • Leo • France • Positive Reviews • Lars Von Trier

2011 • Movie • DE, FR, SE, DK

Head-On

Search For Sibel • Prison • Immigration Issues • Critically Acclaimed • Provocative • Contemporary

2004 • Movie • DE, TR

The Man Without a Past

Finding Community • Memory Loss • Open-Ended • Heartwarming • 84 Metacritic • Art-House Popularity

2002 • Movie • DE, FR, FI

The Great Beauty

Jep Gambardella • Renewed Writing • Artist • Meditative • Art Drama • Universal Acclaim

2013 • Movie • IT, FR

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Castle • Open-Ended • Reunion • Female Friendship • Housemaid • 98% Rotten Tomatoes

2019 • Movie • FR

Un prophète

Urban Marseille • Hopeful • Marseille • Methodical • Survival • 96% Rotten Tomatoes

2009 • Movie • IT, FR

Amélie

Helping Others • Happy Ending • Paris • Slow-Paced • Episodic • Original Screenplay

2001 • Movie • DE, FR

Corsage

Marital Discord • Belgium • Empress Elisabeth • Fictive Elements • France • Nonlinear Elements

2022 • Movie • DE, FR, LU, AT

Close

Bittersweet • Classmates • Teen Boys • Suicide • Gustav De Waele

2022 • Movie • NL, FR, BE

The Lobster

Dublin • City • Escape From Hotel • Near Future • Episodic • Hotel

2015 • Movie • GR, IE, FR, GB, NL

Drunk - Another Round

Contemporary • Marital Issues • Post-2020 • Copenhagen • Award-Winning • Midlife Crisis Audience

2020 • Movie • NL, SE, DK

Girl

Resolute • Lgbtq+ Issues • Ambiguous • Lukas Dhont • Cannes • Supportive Father

2018 • Movie • NL, BE

The Lives of Others

State Repression • Cold War • Reconciliation • East Germany • Muted Tones • Gdr

2006 • Movie • DE, FR

Titane

Firefighter Father • Pregnancy • 2020S • France • Visual Metaphor • Fire Station

2021 • Movie • FR, BE

Alcarràs

Solar Panel Plans • Bittersweet • Family Stand-Off • Neorealism • Family Unity • Agricultural Conflict

2022 • Movie • ES

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

Holocaust • Hans Scholl • German Prison • Marc Rothemund • Trial • Leaflet Distribution

2005 • Movie • DE

The Queen

Royal Protocol • Westminster Abbey • Prince Charles • Balmoral Castle • Award Nominations • Media Controversy

2006 • Movie • IT, FR, GB, US

The English Patient

Katharine • Desert Plane Crash • Burned Patient • Color Grading • Flashbacks

1996 • Movie • US, GB

Les Misérables

Police Officers • Drone Filming • Montfermeil • Suburb • Social Commentary

2019 • Movie • FR

Mr. Turner

Ambiguous • Peaceful • Cornwall • Best Cinematography • Adults

2014 • Movie • DE, FR, GB, US