MIFF 2023
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1. Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
R | 151 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A woman is suspected of murder after her husband's death; their half-blind son faces a moral dilemma as the main witness.
Director: Justine Triet | Stars: Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado-Graner, Antoine Reinartz
Votes: 122,579
8/10
2. Perfect Days (2023)
PG | 124 min | Drama
Hirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo, lives his life in simplicity and daily tranquility. Some encounters also lead him to reflect on himself.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano, Miyako Tanaka
Votes: 37,939
9/10
3. About Dry Grasses (2023)
Not Rated | 197 min | Drama
A young teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after four years of mandatory service in a remote village, but is accused of inappropriate contact by two students. After losing hope, a colleague offers him new perspectives on life.
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Stars: Deniz Celiloglu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici, Ece Bagci
Votes: 11,656
8-9/10
4. Past Lives (2023)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama, Romance
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.
Director: Celine Song | Stars: Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro, Moon Seung-ah
Votes: 115,614
7/10
5. Monster (2023)
PG-13 | 127 min | Drama, Thriller
A mother demands answers from her son's teacher when her son begins acting strangely.
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Sakura Andô, Eita Nagayama, Soya Kurokawa, Hinata Hiiragi
Votes: 21,370
8/10
6. Cobweb (2023)
135 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Described as an experimental and genre-defying drama shot entirely on sound stages in support of a film-within-a-film narrative.
Director: Jee-woon Kim | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Lim Soo-jung, Oh Jung-se, Jeon Yeo-been
Votes: 1,335
7/10
7. Sleep (I) (2023)
95 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
A young, expectant wife must figure out how to stop her husband's nightmarish sleepwalking habits before he harms himself or his family.
Director: Jason Yu | Stars: Kim Gook Hee, Yoon Kyung-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Jung Yu-mi
Votes: 2,104
6/10
8. Subtraction (2022)
107 min | Drama, Mystery
A married couple believe they meet their doppelgängers in Tehran.
Director: Mani Haghighi | Stars: Navid Mohammadzadeh, Taraneh Alidoosti, Ali Bagheri, Saeed Changizian
Votes: 2,007
7/10
9. Disco Boy (2023)
92 min | Drama
After a painful journey through Europe, Aleksei arrives in Paris to join the Foreign Legion. Meanwhile, in the Niger Delta, Jomo struggles against the oil companies threatening his village and the lives of his family.
Director: Giacomo Abbruzzese | Stars: Morr Ndiaye, Wahab Oladiti, Salem Kisita, Mutamba Kalonji
Votes: 1,239
7/10
10. Animalia (2023)
90 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
As she nears the end of her pregnancy, Itto and her in-laws find their lives turned upside down by a supernatural event.
Director: Sofia Alaoui | Stars: Oumaima Barid, Mehdi Dehbi, Fouad Oughaou, Souad Khouyi
Votes: 532
6/10
11. The Rooster (2023)
101 min | Drama, Mystery
When the body of his oldest friend is found buried in a shallow grave, Dan, a small-town cop, seeks answers from a volatile Hermit who may have been the last person to see his friend alive.
Director: Mark Leonard Winter | Stars: Phoenix Raei, Hugo Weaving, John Waters, Rhys Mitchell
Votes: 121
8/10
12. Master Gardener (2022)
R | 111 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A meticulous horticulturist is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate and pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager.
Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Joel Edgerton, Sigourney Weaver, Quintessa Swindell, Esai Morales
Votes: 10,016
7/10
13. May December (2023)
R | 117 min | Drama
Twenty 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.
Director: Todd Haynes | Stars: Natalie Portman, Chris Tenzis, Charles Melton, Julianne Moore
Votes: 52,820
7/10
14. How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)
R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A crew of environmental activists plot a daring plan to disrupt an oil pipeline.
Director: Daniel Goldhaber | Stars: Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage, Forrest Goodluck
Votes: 10,124
6/10
15. BlackBerry (2023)
R | 120 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone.
Director: Matt Johnson | Stars: Jay Baruchel, Glenn Howerton, Matt Johnson, Kelly Van der Burg
Votes: 43,069
8/10
16. The Sweet East (2023)
104 min | Drama
A picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the U.S undertaken by Lillian, a high school senior from South Carolina. She gets her first glimpse of the wider world on a class trip to Washington, D.C.
Director: Sean Price Williams | Stars: Talia Ryder, Earl Cave, Simon Rex, Ayo Edebiri
Votes: 1,692
17. Showing Up (2022)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
A sculptor preparing to open a new show tries to work amidst the daily dramas of family and friends.
Director: Kelly Reichardt | Stars: Michelle Williams, Hong Chau, André 3000, Todd-o-Phonic Todd
Votes: 5,486
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18. Afire (2023)
102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A group of friends are in a holiday home by the Baltic Sea where emotions run high as the parched forest around them catches fire.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Langston Uibel, Enno Trebs
Votes: 7,342
7/10
19. La Chimera (2023)
130 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
A group of archaeologists and the black market of historical artifacts.
Director: Alice Rohrwacher | Stars: Josh O'Connor, Carol Duarte, Vincenzo Nemolato, Isabella Rossellini
Votes: 5,583
20. The Eternal Daughter (2022)
PG-13 | 96 min | Drama, Mystery
Returning to a hotel now haunted by its mysterious past, an artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets in their former family home.
Director: Joanna Hogg | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Louis, August Joshi, Carly-Sophia Davies
Votes: 6,148
21. Medusa Deluxe (2022)
R | 101 min | Drama, Mystery
A murder mystery set in a competitive hairdressing contest. Extravagance and excess collide, as the death of a contestant sows seeds of division in a community whose passion for hair verges on obsession.
Director: Thomas Hardiman | Stars: Luke Pasqualino, Lilit Lesser, Clare Perkins, Kayla Meikle
Votes: 1,885
5/10
22. Riddle of Fire (2023)
PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Three mischievous children embark on a woodland odyssey when their mother sends them on an errand.
Director: Weston Razooli | Stars: Lio Tipton, Charles Halford, Charlie Stover, Skyler Peters
Votes: 835
23. Late Night with the Devil (2023)
R | 93 min | Horror
A live television broadcast in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation's living rooms.
Directors: Cameron Cairnes, Colin Cairnes | Stars: David Dastmalchian, Laura Gordon, Ian Bliss, Fayssal Bazzi
Votes: 36,463
24. Monolith (2022)
R | 94 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A headstrong journalist whose investigative podcast uncovers a strange artifact, an alien conspiracy, and the lies at the heart of her own story.
Director: Matt Vesely | Stars: Lily Sullivan, Ling Cooper Tang, Ansuya Nathan, Erik Thomson
Votes: 1,915
25. Return to Reason (2023)
70 min | Music, Romance
An anthology of four Man Ray short films, with original music by SQÜRL (Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan). Includes the films L'étoile de mer (1928), Emak-Bakia (1927), Le retour à la raison (1923) and Les Mystères du Château du Dé (1929).
Director: Man Ray | Stars: André de la Rivière, Robert Desnos, Kiki of Montparnasse
Votes: 30
8/10
26. Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story (2023)
111 min | Documentary
The wild ride of maverick entrepreneur Michael Gudinski who defied convention and revolutionised the Australian music industry.
Director: Paul Goldman | Stars: Kate Alexa, Christine Anu, Mary Bainbridge, Jane Barnes
Votes: 115
27. Squaring the Circle: The Story of Hipgnosis (2022)
101 min | Documentary
The story of the album art design studio, Hipgnosis, who created some of the most iconic album covers of all time.
Director: Anton Corbijn | Stars: Paul McCartney, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, David Gilmour
Votes: 1,548
6/10
28. Room 999 (2023)
86 min | Documentary
In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in Cannes, director Lubna Playoust asks a new generation of filmmakers similar questions.
Director: Lubna Playoust | Stars: Wim Wenders, Audrey Diwan, David Cronenberg, Joachim Trier
Votes: 79
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29. A Storm Foretold (2023)
90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
With Trump's political godfather, Roger Stone, as the film's central character the film documents how Trump's presidential period had to find its logical end point in The Storm at the Capitol.
Director: Christoffer Guldbrandsen | Stars: Christoffer Guldbrandsen, Roger Stone, Joe Biggs, Kristin Davis
Votes: 496
7/10
30. Beyond Utopia (2023)
PG-13 | 115 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The story of several families as they attempt to escape oppression in North Korea, revealing a world most of us have never seen.
Director: Madeleine Gavin | Stars: Hyeonseo Lee, Sung-eun Kim, So-yeon Lee, Sue Mi Terry
Votes: 3,420
7/10
31. No Bears (2022)
106 min | Drama, Romance
Two parallel love stories in which the partners are thwarted by hidden, inevitable obstacles, the force of superstition, and the mechanics of power.
Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Jafar Panahi, Vahid Mobasseri, Bakhtiyar Panjeei, Mina Kavani
Votes: 3,806
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32. Eureka (2023)
147 min | Drama
Murphy searches for his daughter after she is kidnapped by the outlaw Randall.
Director: Lisandro Alonso | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Chiara Mastroianni, Alaina Clifford, Sadie LaPointe
Votes: 300
33. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (2023)
179 min | Drama
A man returns to his hometown, where he's haunted by past memories and desires.
Director: Thien An Pham | Stars: Le Phong Vu, Nguyen Thinh, Vu Ngoc Manh, Nguyen Thi Truc Quynh
Votes: 1,097
6/10
34. Millennium Mambo (2001)
R | 119 min | Drama, Romance
The ethereally beautiful Vicky recalls her romances with Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Shu Qi, Jack Kao, Chun-hao Tuan, Jun Takeuchi
Votes: 6,763 | Gross: $0.01M
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35. Japanese Story (2003)
R | 106 min | Drama, Romance
Against the background of an Australian desert, Sandy, a geologist, and Hiromitsu, a Japanese businessman, play out a story of human inconsequence in the face of the blistering universe. ... See full summary »
Director: Sue Brooks | Stars: Toni Collette, Gotaro Tsunashima, Lynette Curran, Matthew Dyktynski
Votes: 6,762 | Gross: $0.65M
6/10
36. Trouble Every Day (2001)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Two American newlyweds in Paris experience a love so strong, it almost devours them.
Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Vincent Gallo, Tricia Vessey, Béatrice Dalle, Alex Descas
Votes: 9,311 | Gross: $0.01M
6/10
37. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
GP | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An American expatriate in Rome attempts to unmask a serial killer he witnessed in the act of an attempted murder - and is now hunting him and his girlfriend.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno, Eva Renzi
Votes: 24,104 | Gross: $0.42M
7/10
38. The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)
GP | 112 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Two journalists try to solve a series of murders connected to a pharmaceutical company's secret experiments, becoming targets of the killer themselves.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak, Pier Paolo Capponi
Votes: 13,033
6/10
39. Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
PG | 104 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A musician is stalked by an unknown homicidal maniac, who blackmails him for the accidental killing of another stalker.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Michael Brandon, Mimsy Farmer, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Aldo Bufi Landi
Votes: 9,887
7/10
40. Deep Red (1975)
R | 127 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist are pulled into a complex web of mystery after the former witnesses the brutal murder of a psychic.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia, Macha Méril
Votes: 42,672
9/10
41. Suspiria (1977)
R | 92 min | Horror
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé
Votes: 105,518
10/10
42. Tenebrae (1982)
R | 101 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An American novelist visiting Rome to promote his latest book is stalked and harassed by an obsessed fan who is committing a string of murders that appear to be tributes to his work.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Anthony Franciosa, Giuliano Gemma, John Saxon, Daria Nicolodi
Votes: 27,451
7/10 - need to rewatch
43. Phenomena (1985)
R | 116 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A young girl who has an amazing ability to communicate with insects is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Donald Pleasence, Daria Nicolodi, Dalila Di Lazzaro
Votes: 30,076
6/10
44. Opera (1987)
R | 107 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Cristina Marsillach, Ian Charleson, Urbano Barberini, Daria Nicolodi
Votes: 19,504
6/10
45. Blood (1989)
95 min | Drama, Mystery
Vicente, seventeen, lives with brother Nino, ten-years-old, and his ailing father in a derelict house on the outskirts of the capital. They don't seem to remember their mother, and are very... See full summary »
Director: Pedro Costa | Stars: Pedro Hestnes, Nuno Ferreira, Inês de Medeiros, Luís Miguel Cintra
Votes: 1,157
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46. Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Not Rated | 145 min | Drama, Mystery
A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.
Directors: Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky | Stars: Lars Rudolph, Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla, János Derzsi
Votes: 15,978 | Gross: $0.03M
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