What to See at 75th Venice International Film Festival

Today the 75th Venice International Film Festival is held in Venice, Italy which will take place from August 29 to September 8, 2018. The Venice International Film Festival was born in 1932 which is the first film festival in the world. The director of the La La Land  whose new film First Man is the opening film. Guillermo del Toro who is jury president of the main international competition. The official selection include in competition, out of competition, horizons, venice classics and sconfini.

The following films were selected for the main international competition. 


Release Date
2019-08-16
  • Rate : 6.8
  • Production Companies : Okta Film, Shellac Sud
  • Director : Roberto Minervini
  • Stars :
  • Summer 2017, a string of brutal police killings of young African American men has sent shockwaves throughout the country. A Black community in the American South tries to cope with the lingering effects of the past and navigate their place in a country that is not on their side. Meanwhile, the Black Panthers prepare a large-scale protest against police brutality.
Release Date
2018-12-07
  • Rate : 5.8
  • Production Companies : Sierra/Affinity, Bold Films
  • Director : Ivan J. Fonseca, Cassandra Santiago, Brady Corbet
  • Stars : Natalie Portman , Jude Law , Raffey Cassidy
  • In 1999, teenage sisters Celeste and Eleanor survive a seismic, violent tragedy. The sisters compose and perform a song about their experience, making something lovely and cathartic out of a catastrophe - while also catapulting Celeste to stardom. By 2017, Celeste is a mother to a teenage daughter of her own and is struggling to navigate a career fraught with scandals when another act of terrifying violence demands her attention.
Release Date
2019-03-22
  • Rate : 6.3
  • Production Companies : Lakoon Filmgroup, Playtime
  • Director : László Nemes
  • Stars : Juli Jakab , Vlad Ivanov , Evelin Dobos
  • In 1913, an orphaned young woman arrives in Budapest to take up employment as a milliner at the hat store that belonged to her late parents but becomes mired in a search for a brother she had never known of.
Release Date
2018-09-21
  • Rate : 6.9
  • Production Companies : Why Not Productions, Mobra Films
  • Director : Jacques Audiard, Emmanuel Granados, Jean-Baptiste Pouilloux
  • Stars : John C. Reilly , Joaquin Phoenix , Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.
Release Date
2018-11-21
  • Rate : 7.7
  • Production Companies : Participant, Esperanto Filmoj
  • Director : Alfonso Cuarón, Natalia Moguel
  • Stars : Yalitza Aparicio , Marina de Tavira , Diego Cortina Autrey
  • In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.
Release Date
2019-04-05
  • Rate : 6.5
  • Production Companies : Thin Man Films, Film4 Productions
  • Director : Mike Leigh, Dan Channing-Williams, Frank Macpherson
  • Stars : Rory Kinnear , Maxine Peake , Pearce Quigley
  • An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history. The massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of over 60,000 that had gathered to demand political reforms and protest against rising levels of poverty.
Release Date
2018-10-11
  • Rate : 6.4
  • Production Companies : CG Cinéma, ARTE France Cinéma
  • Director : Olivier Assayas, Julie Grumbach, Hugo Le Gourrierec
  • Stars : Guillaume Canet , Juliette Binoche , Vincent Macaigne
  • Alain, a successful Parisian publisher struggling to adapt to the digital revolution, has major doubts about the new manuscript of Léonard, one of his long-time authors — another work of auto-fiction recycling his love affair with a minor celebrity. Selena, Alain’s wife, a famous stage actress, is of the opposite opinion.
Release Date
2019-08-02
  • Rate : 7.3
  • Production Companies : Bron Studios, Causeway Films
  • Director : Jennifer Kent, Killian Maguire, Jay Corry
  • Stars : Aisling Franciosi , Sam Claflin , Baykali Ganambarr
  • In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.
Release Date
2018-11-01
  • Rate : 7.7
  • Production Companies : Pergamon Film, Wiedemann & Berg Film
  • Director : Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
  • Stars : Tom Schilling , Sebastian Koch , Paula Beer
  • German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.
Release Date
2019-07-26
  • Rate : 5.5
  • Production Companies : The Match Factory, 30WEST
  • Director : Lain Kienzle, Rick Alverson
  • Stars : Tye Sheridan , Jeff Goldblum , Hannah Gross
  • 1950s America. Since his mother‘s confinement to an institution, Andy has lived in the shadow of his stoic father. A family acquaintance, Dr. Wallace Fiennes, employs the introverted young man as a photographer to document an asylum tour advocating for his increasingly controversial lobotomy procedure.
Release Date
2018-10-12
  • Rate : 7.3
  • Production Companies : DreamWorks Pictures, Temple Hill Entertainment
  • Director : Scott Robertson, James M. Churchman, Sheila Waldron
  • Stars : Ryan Gosling , Claire Foy , Jason Clarke
  • A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
Release Date
2018-11-23
  • Rate : 7.5
  • Production Companies : Waypoint Entertainment, Element Pictures
  • Director : Atilla Salih Yücer, Sylvia Parker, Toby Ford
  • Stars : Olivia Colman , Emma Stone , Rachel Weisz
  • England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threatened by the arrival of Sarah's cousin, Abigail Hill, resulting in a bitter rivalry between the two cousins to be the Queen's favourite.
Release Date
2018-12-13
  • Rate : 6.1
  • Production Companies : Rai Cinema, 01 Distribution
  • Director : Mario Martone, Edoardo Petti, Francesca Lepore
  • Stars : Marianna Fontana , Reinout Scholten van Aschat , Antonio Folletto
  • In 1914, with Italy on the cusp of joining World War I, a group of foreign artists establishes a commune on the rural island of Capri, catching the attention of young Lucia, a local illiterate shepherdess who soon falls under their spell.
Release Date
2018-11-09
  • Rate : 7.2
  • Production Companies : Annapurna Pictures, Annapurna Television
  • Director : Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Betsy Magruder
  • Stars : Tim Blake Nelson , Willie Watson , Zoe Kazan
  • Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.
Release Date
2018-11-16
  • Rate : 6.9
  • Production Companies : Iconoclast, Riverstone Pictures
  • Director : Julian Schnabel, Jérémy Debord, Johana Katz
  • Stars : Willem Dafoe , Rupert Friend , Oscar Isaac
  • Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
Release Date
2018-10-04
  • Rate : 6.8
  • Production Companies : Scott Rudin Productions, Netflix
  • Director : Chris Carreras, Zoe Morgan, Paul Greengrass
  • Stars : Jonas Strand Gravli , Anders Danielsen Lie , Jon Øigarden
  • On 22 July 2011, neo-Nazi terrorist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 young people attending a Labour Party Youth Camp on Utøya Island outside of Oslo. This three-part story focuses on the survivors, the political leadership of Norway, and the lawyers involved.