Venice 2019 Out of Competition - Fiction, Non-Fiction and Special Screenings
by keithsim | created - 22 Aug 2019 | updated - 27 Aug 2019 | PublicCosta Gavras (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002020/), a new Michod (I'm a big fan), and a film about the French New Wave ingenue Jean Seberg (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0781029/) starring the excellent rebel Kristen Stewart, headline another great field, arguably as compelling as the In Competition group. Other Venice sections: In Competition (https://www.imdb.com/list/ls048890799/) , Venice Classics (https://www.imdb.com/list/ls090367437/), Orizzonti (https://www.imdb.com/list/ls090336956/), Best Documentary about Cinema (https://www.imdb.com/list/ls090367465/)
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1. Seberg (2019)
R | 102 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller
Inspired by real events in the life of French New Wave icon Jean Seberg. In the late 1960s, Hoover's FBI targeted her because of her political and romantic involvement with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal.
Director: Benedict Andrews | Stars: Kristen Stewart, Yvan Attal, Gabriel Sky, Jack O'Connell
Votes: 10,335
Out of Competition, Fiction
2. The King (I) (2019)
R | 140 min | Biography, Drama, History
Young Henry V encounters deceit, war and treachery after becoming King of England in the 15th century, in the aftermath of his brother's death.
Director: David Michôd | Stars: Tom Glynn-Carney, Gábor Czap, Tom Fisher, Edward Ashley
Votes: 152,739
Out of Competition, Fiction
3. The Burnt Orange Heresy (2019)
R | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Hired to procure a rare painting from one of the most enigmatic painters of all time, an ambitious art scholar becomes consumed by his own greed and insecurity as the operation spins out of control.
Director: Giuseppe Capotondi | Stars: Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki, Mick Jagger, Donald Sutherland
Votes: 6,116
Out of Competition, Fiction
4. American Skin (2019)
R | 90 min | Drama, Thriller
A Marine veteran working as a school janitor tries to mend his relationship with his son after a divorce. When his son is killed by a police officer found innocent without standing trial, he takes matters into his own hands.
Director: Nate Parker | Stars: Nate Parker, Omari Hardwick, Beau Knapp, Theo Rossi
Votes: 3,895
Out of Competition, Sconfini
5. Mosul (II) (2019)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, War
The gritty, thrilling story of local militias and uneasy allies who banded together to liberate Iraq's second-largest city of 1.3 million people from ISIS in 2017.
Director: Daniel Gabriel | Stars: Bashar Atiyat, Ali Mula, Anouar H. Smaine, Mahdi Chalkhaoui
Votes: 7,421
Out of Competition, Fiction
6. Adults in the Room (2019)
124 min | Drama, History
Greece in 2015: the economy is in tatters and the country is on the verge of bankruptcy. A new government rebels against the EU's iron-fisted rule and inspires millions of Europeans. Based on the political memoirs of Yanis Varoufakis.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Christos Loulis, Alexandros Bourdoumis, Ulrich Tukur, Daan Schuurmans
Votes: 6,209
Out of Competition, Fiction -
7. All my crazy love (2019)
97 min | Drama
When his estranged father, a singer, unexpectedly shows up the mentally challenged Vincent decides to secretly join him on his concert tour, and the baffled father takes him from Italy to Slovenia and Croatia.
Director: Gabriele Salvatores | Stars: Claudio Santamaria, Valeria Golino, Diego Abatantuono, Giulio Pranno
Votes: 1,079
Out of Competition, Fiction -
8. Woman (2019)
G | 105 min | Documentary
WOMAN is a worldwide project giving voice to 2000 women in 50 different countries.
Directors: Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Anastasia Mikova | Stars: Norma Bastidas, Gabriela Melgoza, Shantel Nasir, Aleksandra Orbeck-Nilssen
Votes: 929
Out of Competition, Non-Fiction
9. Roger Waters - Us + Them (2019)
Not Rated | 135 min | Documentary, Music
A look at Roger Waters' 2017-2018 concert tour.
Directors: Sean Evans, Roger Waters | Stars: Rufat Aliyev, Farshid Azizi, Nikoo Bafti, Azzurra Caccetta
Votes: 1,346
Out of Competition, Non-Fiction
10. I diari di Angela - Noi due cineasti (2018)
125 min | Documentary
A director revisits the diaries of Angela, a fellow film-lover and companion, many years later.
Director: Yervant Gianikian | Stars: Walter Chiari, Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi
Votes: 54
Out of Competition, Non-Fiction
11. Citizen K (2019)
Not Rated | 126 min | Documentary
The strange case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia, who rocketed to prosperity and prominence in the 1990s, served a decade in prison, and became an unlikely martyr for the anti-Putin movement.
Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Vladimir Putin, Leonid Nevzlin, Boris Berezovsky
Votes: 1,603
Out of Competition, Non-Fiction
12. Citizen Rosi (2019)
130 min | Documentary
The documentary traces the history of our country through the cinema of Francesco Rosi, starting from the film that the director thought told the mother of all negotiations between the ... See full summary »
Directors: Didi Gnocchi, Carolina Rosi | Stars: Francesco Rosi, Carolina Rosi, Lirio Abbate, Roberto Andò
Votes: 87
Out of Competition, Non-Fiction
13. The Kingmaker (2019)
R | 101 min | Documentary, Biography, History
An extraordinary look into the political career of Imelda Marcos, this documentary tells a cautionary tale of a powerful leader whose questionable sense of reality divided the Philippines.
Director: Lauren Greenfield | Stars: Imelda Marcos, Etta Rosales, Ferdinand Marcos, George Bush
Votes: 2,625
Out of Competition, Non-Fiction
14. State Funeral (2019)
135 min | Documentary, History
The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Joseph Stalin's funeral.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa | Stars: Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Lavrenti Beria, Vyacheslav Molotov
Votes: 1,255
Out of Competition, Non-Fiction
15. Collective (2019)
Not Rated | 109 min | Documentary, Crime
Director Alexander Nanau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians and led to the deaths of innocent citizens.
Director: Alexander Nanau | Stars: Dan Alexandru Condrea, Liviu Iolu, Razvan Lutac, Mirela Neag
Votes: 13,436
Out of Competition, Non-Fiction
16. 45 Seconds of Laughter (2019)
95 min | Documentary
Actor and director Tim Robbins goes to the maximum-security fortress of Calipatria State Prison to teach prisoners about acting and commedia dell'arte through insightful workshops that ... See full summary »
Director: Tim Robbins | Stars: Tim Robbins, Sabra Williams, Hannah Chodos, Jeremie Loncka
Votes: 31
Out of Competition, Non-Fiction
17. A Planet in the Sea (2019)
93 min | Documentary
After the II World War Italy came out of poverty thanks to industrial development, which gave to the country both new dreams and wounds. Today, Italy is experiencing a profound economic ... See full summary »
Director: Andrea Segre
Votes: 73
Out of Competition, Non-Fiction
18. No One Left Behind (2019)
31 min | Short, Drama
A group of American soldiers travel into Mexico for an unknown mission and they encounter a surprising world which changes their views.
Director: Guillermo Arriaga | Stars: Isabel Aerenlund, Danny Huston, Jorge A. Jimenez
Votes: 105
Out of Competition, Special Screenings
19. Electric Swan (2019)
40 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
On Avenida Libertador 2050, a building moves and the ceiling shivers, causing a strange nausea that devours its residents. Those who live on the top are afraid they'll fall, the ones who live beneath are afraid they'll drown.
Director: Konstantina Kotzamani | Stars: Juan Carlos Aduviri, Nelly Prince, Elisa Massino, Nikita Zuckerberg
Votes: 352
Out of Competition, Special Screenings
20. The New Pope (2020)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama
Two Popes. Only one Vatican. A holy war to come.
Stars: Jude Law, John Malkovich, Silvio Orlando, Cécile de France
Votes: 18,473
Out of Competition, Special Screenings
21. ZeroZeroZero (2019–2020)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A cocaine shipment makes its way to Europe, starting from the moment a powerful cartel of Italian criminals decides to buy it, to its journeys through Mexico, to its shipment across the Atlantic Ocean.
Stars: Andrea Riseborough, Dane DeHaan, Giuseppe De Domenico, Harold Torres
Votes: 29,340
Out of Competition, Special Screenings
22. Irreversible (2002)
Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in an underpass tunnel.
Director: Gaspar Noé | Stars: Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel, Philippe Nahon
Votes: 147,628 | Gross: $0.75M
Out of Competition, Special Screenings
23. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
R | 159 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Todd Field, Sydney Pollack
Votes: 375,015 | Gross: $55.69M
Out of Competition, Special Screenings
24. Never Just a Dream : Stanley Kubrick And Eyes Wide Shut (2019)
9 min | Documentary, Short
People involved with the making of Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, as well as some of Kubrick's family, give their thoughts on the film, its production, its critical and commercial reception and its meaning.
Director: Matthew Wells | Stars: Anthony Frewin, Jan Harlan, Katharina Kubrick, Julian Senior
Votes: 20
Out of Competition, Special Screenings
25. Vivere (2019)
103 min | Drama
Little Lucilla suffers from asthma and it is immediately evident that it is a psychosomatic affection. Her mother Susi, a dance teacher, is always in a hurry.
Director: Francesca Archibugi | Stars: Micaela Ramazzotti, Adriano Giannini, Roisin O'Donovan, Marcello Fonte
Votes: 376
Out of Competition, Fiction
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