69th Venice Film Festival (2012)
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1. Pieta (2012)
Not Rated | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.
Director: Kim Ki-duk | Stars: Jo Min-soo, Lee Jung-Jin, Woo Ki-hong, Eunjin Kang
Votes: 15,774 | Gross: $0.02M
2. The Master (2012)
R | 138 min | Drama, History
A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by the Cause and its charismatic leader.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Jesse Plemons
Votes: 186,289 | Gross: $16.38M
3. Paradise: Faith (2012)
Unrated | 115 min | Drama
A single woman in her 50s devotes her vacations to doing Catholic missionary work in Vienna, descending into violent self-punishment as part of her faith.
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Maria Hofstätter, Nabil Saleh, René Rupnik, Natalija Baranova
Votes: 5,163 | Gross: $0.01M
4. Something in the Air (2012)
Not Rated | 122 min | Drama
In the months after the heady weeks of May '68, a group of young Europeans search for a way to continue the revolution believed to be just beginning.
Director: Olivier Assayas | Stars: Clément Métayer, André Marcon, Lola Créton, Felix Armand
Votes: 4,716 | Gross: $0.07M
5. Fill the Void (2012)
PG | 90 min | Drama, Romance
When the older sister of Shira, an 18-year-old Hasidic Israeli, dies suddenly in childbirth, Shira must decide if she can and should marry her widowed brother-in-law, which also generates tensions within her extended family.
Director: Rama Burshtein | Stars: Hadas Yaron, Yiftach Klein, Irit Sheleg, Chaim Sharir
Votes: 3,994 | Gross: $1.77M
6. Dormant Beauty (2012)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama
A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Toni Servillo, Isabelle Huppert, Alba Rohrwacher, Michele Riondino
Votes: 1,767
7. It Was the Son (2012)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
In 1970s, the Ciraulos are modest scrap-dealers whose uneventful lives are turned upside-down the day their youngest daughter is accidentally killed by clumsy killers. Their immense grief ... See full summary »
Director: Daniele Ciprì | Stars: Toni Servillo, Giselda Volodi, Alfredo Castro, Aurora Quattrocchi
Votes: 1,331
8. Mold (2012)
94 min | Drama
Basri, a widower little out of retirement, walks every day along the railroad tracks to check the status. Aside from his work, his only thought is to have news of his son, who's been ... See full summary »
Director: Ali Aydin | Stars: Ercan Kesal, Muhammet Uzuner, Tansu Biçer, Ali Çoban
Votes: 1,008
9. Three Sisters (2012)
Not Rated | 153 min | Documentary
Three young sisters live and work in extreme poverty in the harsh environment of Yunnan, a province on the Sino Burmese border area of China.
Director: Wang Bing
Votes: 475
10. The Interval (2012)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Because of an offense to a Camorra chief's neighborhood, the sixteen-year-old Veronica become hostage inside an abandoned building on the far outskirts of Naples, pending punishment. One to... See full summary »
Director: Leonardo Di Costanzo | Stars: Salvatore Ruocco, Francesca Riso, Alessio Gallo, Carmine Paternoster
Votes: 461
11. To the Wonder (2012)
R | 112 min | Drama, Romance
After falling in love in Paris, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Their church's Spanish-born pastor struggles with his faith, while Neil encounters a woman from his childhood.
Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Javier Bardem, Rachel McAdams
Votes: 29,978 | Gross: $0.59M
12. Wadjda (2012)
PG | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.
Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour | Stars: Waad Mohammed, Reem Abdullah, Abdullrahman Al Gohani, Ahd
Votes: 21,483 | Gross: $1.35M
13. A Month in Thailand (2012)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy
Radu and Adina, a young couple of graduates, have just made love. She is profoundly in love with him and cannot wait to move to his place; however, he has reservations. While going shopping... See full summary »
Director: Paul Negoescu | Stars: Andrei Mateiu, Ioana Anastasia Anton, Sinziana Nicola, Tudor Istodor
Votes: 622
14. Balancing Act (2012)
112 min | Drama
A married man with children has to move out after his wife can't cope with his cheating with another woman once. He then has to cope to support his family although he has just not very ... See full summary »
Director: Ivano De Matteo | Stars: Valerio Mastandrea, Barbora Bobulova, Maurizio Casagrande, Rolando Ravello
Votes: 831
15. The Human Cargo (2012)
90 min | Documentary
On August 8, 1991 about 20,000 Albanians arrive in Bari, Italy looking for a better life. This is their story.
Director: Daniele Vicari | Stars: Ervis Alia, Giuseppe Belviso, Maria Brescia, Robert Budina
Votes: 148
16. Eat Sleep Die (2012)
104 min | Drama
A young Eastern European immigrant, working in Sweden, is faced with a painful choice when she's laid off from her factory in the name of efficiencies.
Director: Gabriela Pichler | Stars: Nermina Lukac, Milan Dragisic, Jonathan Lampinen, Peter Fält
Votes: 2,290
17. Pretty Butterflies (2012)
100 min | Drama
A day in Cagliari narrated by the young Caterina.
Director: Salvatore Mereu | Stars: Sara Podda, Maya Mulas, Davide Todde, Micaela Ramazzotti
Votes: 399
18. The Weight (2012)
107 min | Drama
The Weight, portrays the life of Jung(Cho Jae-Huyn) who grew up as an orphan and was adopted into a family of only a mother and a son. Jung is now a hunchback man due to scoliosis and is a ... See full summary »
Director: Jeon Kyu-hwan | Stars: Cho Jae-hyun, Park Ji-ah, Kim-Choi Yong-joon, Zia
Votes: 247
19. Crawl (2012)
95 min | Drama
First-time filmmaker Hervé Lasgouttes puts an aimless young man to the test in a crime-tinged romance set on the stormy Brittany coast.
Director: Hervé Lasgouttes | Stars: Swann Arlaud, Anne Marivin, Nina Meurisse, Gilles Cohen
Votes: 70
20. La cinquième saison (2012)
93 min | Drama, Mystery
In a scenic Belgian village, nature is turning its back on man. How will the locals cope with this new reality?
Directors: Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth | Stars: Aurélia Poirier, Django Schrevens, Sam Louwyck, Gill Vancompernolle
Votes: 1,482
21. The Ideal City (2012)
105 min | Drama, Thriller
A man takes his ecological lifestyle to the extreme.
Director: Luigi Lo Cascio | Stars: Luigi Lo Cascio, Luigi Maria Burruano, Massimo Foschi, Alfonso Santagata
Votes: 350
22. The Company You Keep (2012)
R | 125 min | Drama, Thriller
After a journalist discovers his identity, a former Weather Underground activist goes on the run.
Director: Robert Redford | Stars: Robert Redford, Brit Marling, Stanley Tucci, Nick Nolte
Votes: 34,989 | Gross: $5.13M
23. Queen of Montreuil (2012)
87 min | Comedy, Drama
It's early summer and Agathe is back in France, at home in Montreuil. She has to get over her husband's death and return to her work as a film director. The unexpected arrival at her house ... See full summary »
Director: Sólveig Anspach | Stars: Florence Loiret Caille, Didda Jónsdóttir, Úlfur Ægisson, Éric Caruso
Votes: 363
24. Bad 25 (2012)
Not Rated | 131 min | Documentary, Music
A documentary on Michael Jackson and the legacy of his record "Bad".
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Michael Jackson, Glen Ballard, John Barnes, Jennifer Batten
Votes: 2,416
25. Spring Breakers (2012)
R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Four college girls hold up a restaurant in order to fund their spring break vacation. While partying, drinking, and taking drugs, they are arrested, only to be bailed out by a drug and arms dealer.
Director: Harmony Korine | Stars: Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine
Votes: 148,831 | Gross: $14.12M
26. Low Tide (2012)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama
A 12 year old boy and his single mother live parallel lives. The boy spends his days alone while his mother works and goes out with her friends. The boy's solitude is both a source of ... See full summary »
Director: Roberto Minervini | Stars: Daniel Blanchard, Melissa McKinney, Vernon Wilbanks, Colby Trichell
Votes: 671
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