2018 Chronicle of The Cinema
Annual looks at The Best Films from around the world.
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- DirectorMuayad AlayanStarsAdeeb SafadiSivane KretchnerIshai GolanThe affair of a married Palestinian man and a married Israeli woman in Jerusalem takes a dangerous political dimension when they are spotted in the wrong place at the wrong time, leaving them to deal with more than their broken marriages.FSCOPE
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTye SheridanOlivia CookeBen MendelsohnWhen the creator of a virtual reality called the OASIS dies, he makes a posthumous challenge to all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune and control of his world.
- DirectorMarcelo MartinessiStarsNorma CodasMargarita IrunAna BrunMarcelo Martinessi's stunning debut The Heiresses is an immersive and emotionally compelling look into the lives of the privileged, through the tribulations of a hesitant woman in quiet crisis.
- DirectorJohn KrasinskiStarsEmily BluntJohn KrasinskiMillicent SimmondsA family struggles for survival in a world where most humans have been killed by blind but noise-sensitive creatures. They are forced to communicate in sign language to keep the creatures at bay.
- DirectorShoojit SircarStarsVarun DhawanBanita SandhuGitanjali RaoA group of interns are going through the usual grind when suddenly an accident changes their lives. The protagonist can't get let go of it and becomes obsessed with it. What does it all lead to? Is it love or something else?
- DirectorEmily AtefStarsMarie BäumerBirgit MinichmayrCharly HübnerIn a rehab clinic Romy Schneider gives her last interview to two journalists. Three days, driven by romantic desire, professional ambition and the urge for living.
- DirectorLars KraumeStarsLeonard ScheicherTom GramenzLena KlenkeA group of twelfth-grade pupils in East Germany decide to show their solidarity with the victims of the 1956 Hungarian uprising by staging two minutes of silence during lessons.
- DirectorThomas StuberStarsAndreas LeupoldFranz RogowskiPeter KurthChristian begins to work as a shelf stacker at a supermarket and finds himself in a new, unknown world: the long aisles, the bustle at the checkouts, the forklifts.MUBI
- DirectorDebra GranikStarsThomasin McKenzieBen FosterJeffery RifflardA father and his seventeen-year-old daughter are living an ideal existence in a vast urban park in Portland, Oregon when a small mistake derails their lives forever.
- DirectorDerek DoneenStarsAsmitaSwati JhaSumedha KailashThe story of how Kailash Satyarthi built a global movement to rescue children from slavery.
- DirectorLouie PsihoyosStarsJames WilksArnold SchwarzeneggerPatrik BaboumianA UFC fighter's world is turned upside down when he discovers an elite group of world-renowned athletes and scientists who prove that everything he had been taught about protein was a lie.
- DirectorWash WestmorelandStarsKeira KnightleyFiona ShawDominic WestColette is pushed by her husband to write novels under his name. Upon their success, she fights to make her talents known, challenging gender norms.
- DirectorValeria BertuccelliFabiana TiscorniaStarsValeria BertuccelliSary LópezFacundo GómezAn actress becomes over anxious in the days leading up to the premiere of her one-woman show.
- DirectorFrançois SimardAnouk WhissellYoann-Karl WhissellStarsGraham VerchereJudah LewisCaleb EmeryAfter suspecting that their police officer neighbor is a serial killer, a group of teenage friends spend their summer spying on him and gathering evidence, but as they get closer to discovering the truth, things get dangerous.
- DirectorNag AshwinStarsKeerthy SureshDulquer SalmaanSamantha Ruth PrabhuBiography of Savitri, an actress from South India movie industry, who ruled the industry for two decades during 50s and 60s.
- DirectorMeghna GulzarStarsAlia BhattVicky KaushalRajit KapoorA Kashmiri woman agrees to marry a Pakistani army officer in order to spy on Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971.
- DirectorVenky AtluriStarsVarun TejRaashi KhannaPriyadarshi PulikondaA love story that weathers time and emotions. Aditya sees Varsha and it is love at first sight for him. What transpires over the next 7 years is what makes their love stronger.
- DirectorNadine LabakiStarsZain Al RafeeaYordanos ShiferawBoluwatife Treasure BankoleWhile serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents for neglect.
- DirectorMatteo GarroneStarsMarcello FonteEdoardo PesceNunzia SchianoA timid dog groomer living in a poor suburb sells cocaine on the side and stays out of trouble, while trying to deal with his unstable, violent acquaintance who is a menace to the whole neighborhood.
- DirectorPawel PawlikowskiStarsJoanna KuligTomasz KotBorys SzycIn the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France.
- DirectorSergei DvortsevoyStarsSamal YeslyamovaSergey MazurZhipara AbdilaevaA poor migrant woman in Moscow struggles with her life.Los Movies
- DirectorAlice RohrwacherStarsAdriano TardioloAgnese GrazianiAlba RohrwacherAn unceasingly kind Italian peasant and his family are blatantly exploited by a tobacco baroness.
- DirectorLukas DhontStarsVictor PolsterArieh WorthalterOliver BodartA promising teenage dancer enrolls at a prestigious ballet school while grappling with her gender dysphoria.
- DirectorAli AbbasiStarsEva MelanderEero MilonoffJörgen ThorssonA customs officer who can smell fear develops an unusual attraction to a strange traveler while aiding a police investigation which will call into question her entire existence.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsTamara YatsenkoIrina ZayarmiukGrigory MasliukIn eastern Ukraine, society begins to degrade as the effects of propaganda and manipulation begin to surface in this post-truth era.Nova
- DirectorMeryem Benm'Barek-AloïsiStarsMaha AlemiLubna AzabalSarah PerlesSofia, 20, lives with her parents in Casablanca. Following a denial of pregnancy, she finds herself illegally giving birth to a baby out of wedlock. The hospital leaves her 24h to provide the papers of the father of the child before alerting the authorities .
- DirectorRenée Nader MessoraJoão SalavizaStarsHenrique Ihjãc KrahôRaene Kôtô KrahôDouglas Tiepre KrahôDrama about a boy who denies the call of his culture to become a shaman, when he hears his dead father's voice asking him to celebrate the funerary feast, so his spirit can depart to the village of the dead.
- DirectorGaspar NoéStarsSofia BoutellaRomain GuillermicSouheila YacoubFrench dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD.HDONLINE
- DirectorGianni ZanasiStarsAlba RohrwacherElio GermanoGiuseppe BattistonLucia, a single mother, struggles to find the right balance between her teenage daughter, a complicated love story and her career as a geometer. Her professional future is compromised when she realizes that the future construction of an ambitious building turns out to be dangerous for the environment because of the inaccurate topographic maps of the city council.
- DirectorPierre SalvadoriStarsAdèle HaenelPio MarmaïAudrey TautouYvonne is a police detective in a town on the French Riviera and the young widow of police chief Santi, a local hero. One day, she learns that her husband was in fact a crooked cop.Nova / Film 103
- DirectorGabriel AbrantesDaniel SchmidtStarsCarloto CottaCleo TavaresAnabela MoreiraA fallen soccer superstar vows to adopt a refugee child, while becoming the naive unwitting centerpiece in in a bizarre plot to Make Portugal Great Again.
- DirectorBenedikt ErlingssonStarsHalldóra GeirharðsdóttirJóhann SigurðarsonJuan Camilo Román EstradaHalla becomes a determined environmental activist, but this threatens a long-held hope of hers.
- DirectorCamille Vidal-NaquetStarsFélix MaritaudFarid-Eric BernardNicolas DiblaLeo is 22 and sells his body on the street for a bit of cash. The men come and go, and he stays right here - longing for love. He doesn't know what the future will bring. He hits the road. His heart is pounding.LOS MOVIES
- DirectorRohena GeraStarsTillotama ShomeVivek GomberGeetanjali KulkarniA prosperous young Indian man falls in love with his servant, a widow with the dream of becoming a fashion designer.
- DirectorLee Chang-dongStarsYoo Ah-inSteven YeunJeon Jong-seoJong-su bumps into a girl who used to live in the same neighborhood, who asks him to look after her cat while she's on a trip to Africa. When back, she introduces Ben, a mysterious guy she met there, who confesses his secret hobby.
- DirectorZsófia SzilágyiStarsZsófia SzamosiLeó FürediAmbrus BarczaA day in the life of a mother, caught in the relentlessness of daily life, between her work, her home and her children.
- DirectorMuye WenStarsZheng XuYiwei ZhouChuan-jun WangThe story of how a small drugstore owner became the exclusive selling agent of a cheap Indian generic drug against Chronic Granulocytic Leukemia in China.
- DirectorRajkumar HiraniStarsRanbir KapoorParesh RawalManisha KoiralaBiopic of the controversial life of actor Sanjay Dutt: his film career, jail sentence, and personal life.
- DirectorDesiree AkhavanStarsChloë Grace MoretzSteven HauckQuinn ShephardIn 1993, a teenage girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy center by her conservative guardians.
- DirectorChristopher McQuarrieStarsTom CruiseHenry CavillVing RhamesEthan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong.
- DirectorReema KagtiStarsKrishan TandonHubertus GellerSiddharth KherThe journey of a man who was instrumental in making India win its first Olympic gold medal as a free nation.
- DirectorAlfonso CuarónStarsYalitza AparicioMarina de TaviraDiego Cortina AutreyA year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
- DirectorJulian SchnabelStarsWillem DafoeRupert FriendOscar IsaacA look at the life of painter Vincent van Gogh during the time he lived in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
- DirectorZhangke JiaStarsTao ZhaoFan LiaoZheng XuA story of violent love within a time frame spanning from 2001 to 2017.
- DirectorLouis GarrelStarsLouis GarrelLaetitia CastaLily-Rose DeppA couple's relationship becomes complicated when she leaves him for his best friend, and returns after he dies.
- DirectorLiang YingStarsNai AnJoe CheungZhe GongA filmmaker who has been living in exile in Hong Kong visits a festival in Taipei to present a film has been banned in Mainland China.
- DirectorJoel EdgertonStarsLucas HedgesNicole KidmanJoel EdgertonThe son of a Baptist preacher unwillingly participates in a church-supported gay conversion program after being forcibly outed to his parents.
- DirectorMarielle HellerStarsMelissa McCarthyRichard E. GrantDolly WellsWhen Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.
- DirectorKaryn KusamaStarsNicole KidmanToby KebbellTatiana MaslanyA police detective reconnects with people from an undercover assignment in her distant past in order to make peace.
- DirectorAleksey German Jr.StarsMilan MaricDanila KozlovskiyHelena SujeckaThe film actions unfold in 1971, telling about the four days of life of famous writer Sergei Dovlatov. The film raises the eternal issue of the Russian and European culture - the issue of moral choice.
- DirectorDamien ChazelleStarsRyan GoslingClaire FoyJason ClarkeA 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.
- DirectorJason ReitmanStarsHugh JackmanVera FarmigaJ.K. SimmonsIn 1987, U.S. Senator Gary Hart's presidential campaign is derailed when he's caught in a scandalous love affair.
- DirectorOlivier AssayasStarsGuillaume CanetJuliette BinocheVincent MacaigneSet in the Parisian publishing world, an editor and an author find themselves in over their heads, as they cope with a middle-age crisis, the changing industry and their wives.
- DirectorDavid LoweryStarsRobert RedfordCasey AffleckSissy SpacekBased on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public.
- DirectorMike LeighStarsRory KinnearMaxine PeakeNeil BellThe story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre in which British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.
- DirectorMorgan NevilleStarsAlan CummingPeter BogdanovichOja KodarIn the final fifteen years of the life of legendary director Orson Welles, he pins his Hollywood comeback hopes on a film, The Other Side of the Wind (2018), in itself a film about an aging film director trying to finish his last great movie.NETFLIX
- DirectorRalph FiennesStarsOleg IvenkoRalph FiennesLouis HofmannThe story of Rudolf Nureyev's defection to the West.
- DirectorEdward ZwickStarsJack O'ConnellLaura DernEmily MeadeThe tragic and controversial story of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was sentenced to death in Texas for killing his three children even after scientific evidence and expert testimony bolstered his claims of innocence.
- DirectorFlorian Henckel von DonnersmarckStarsTom SchillingSebastian KochPaula BeerGerman 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.
- DirectorMahmut Fazil CoskunStarsAli Seçkiner AliciTarhan KaragözMurat KiliçThe night long journey of the 4 soldiers discharged from the army.
- DirectorDavid OelhoffenStarsMatthias SchoenaertsReda KatebAdel BencherifDriss and Manuel are two childhood friends who end up taking opposite paths: Manuel chose to embrace the thug life, while Driss becomes a cop. When Manuel's biggest deal goes terribly wrong, the two men meet again and come to realize they both need each other to survive in their worlds.
- DirectorLuca GuadagninoStarsChloë Grace MoretzTilda SwintonDoris HickA darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsJohn David WashingtonAdam DriverLaura HarrierRon Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, Colorado, successfully infiltrates the local Ku Klux Klan branch aided by a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.
- DirectorAndrew HecklerStarsGarrett HedlundAndrea RiseboroughForest WhitakerWhen a museum celebrating the Ku Klux Klan opens in a South Carolina town, the idealistic Reverend Kennedy strives to keep the peace even as he urges the group's Grand Dragon to disavow his racist past.
- DirectorMichael NoerStarsJesper ChristensenClara RosagerMagnus KrepperIn 1800s Denmark, a farmer has a bad harvest and thus not enough food for his family. He makes a deal, that includes his farm and his daughter getting married, with a nearby rich farmer.
- DirectorClaire BurgerStarsBouli LannersJustine LacroixSarah HenochsbergForbach, Eastern France. Since his wife walked out to the family, Mario has raised their daughters on his own. Frida, 14, blames him for her mother leaving. Niki, 17, dreams of independence. Meanwhile Mario waits for his wife to come home.
- DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsMatthias SchoenaertsLéa SeydouxPeter SimonischekThe 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster is followed by governmental negligence. As the sailors fight for survival, their families desperately battle political obstacles and impossible odds to save them.
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsAlexandre LandryMaripier MorinRémy GirardA shy and insecure delivery truck driver accidentally arrives on the scene of a major crime and picks up two bags of cash and hides them. Only the help of a prostitute and a former biker released from jail might get him out of trouble.
- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsChao DengLi SunRyan ZhengIn a Chinese royal court, an army commander secretly trains a "shadow" to retake a city against the wishes of the king.
- DirectorJennifer KentStarsAisling FranciosiMaya ChristieBaykali GanambarrSet in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict woman, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy, who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.
- DirectorPhuttiphong AroonphengStarsAphisit HamaWanlop RungkumjadRasmee WayranaNear a coastal village of Thailand, by the sea where thousands of Rohingya refugees have drowned, a local fisherman finds an injured man lying unconscious in the forest. He rescues the stranger, who does not speak a word, offers him his friendship and names him Thongchai. But when the fisherman suddenly disappears at sea, Thongchai slowly begins to take over his friend's life - his house, his job and his ex-wife.AMO
- DirectorEmir BaigazinStarsZhalgas KlanovZhasulan UserbayevRuslan UserbayevA portrait of five brothers living on a farm on the Kazakh plains, where the sudden intrusion of the modern world brings corruption, temptation and deceit.
- DirectorPema TsedenStarsJinpaGenden PhuntsokSonam WangmoOn an isolated road passing through the vast barren plains of Tibet, a truck driver who has accidentally run over a sheep chances upon a young man who is hitching a ride. As they drive and chat, the truck driver notices that his new friend has a silver dagger strapped to his leg. He comes to understand that his man is out to kill someone who wronged him earlier in life. As he drops the hitch-hiker off at a fork in the road, little does the truck driver realize their short time together has changed everything, and that their destinies are inexorably intertwined.
- DirectorSameh ZoabiStarsKais NashifLubna AzabalYaniv BitonSalam is a consultant on a popular Palestinian TV series filmed in Ramallah who rather stupidly runs afoul of an Israeli checkpoint commander who uses his military influence to begin to manipulate Salam and the writing of the show.
- DirectorNatasha MerkulovaAlexey ChupovStarsEvgeniy TsyganovNatalya KudryashovaYuriy KuznetsovWhen a Siberian state forest guard discovers he has cancer and only two months left to live he chooses to take the identity of a woman as a way of fighting the disease.
- DirectorJohn ButlerStarsMatt BomerAlejandro PatiñoElena Campbell-MartinezA lonely TV weatherman strikes up an unusual friendship with a middle-aged Latino migrant worker.
- DirectorTrivikram SrinivasStarsN.T. Rama Rao Jr.Pooja HegdeJagapathi BabuA young scion of a powerful family with a long history of violence decides to put an end to the bloodshed which leads him to a path of self discovery.
- DirectorJacques AudiardStarsJohn C. ReillyJoaquin PhoenixJake GyllenhaalEli and Charlie Sisters, an infamous duo of gunslinging assassins, chase a gold prospector and his unexpected ally in 1850s Oregon.
- DirectorJimmy ChinElizabeth Chai VasarhelyiStarsAlex HonnoldTommy CaldwellJimmy ChinAlex Honnold faces the biggest challenge of his career, climbing El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. He pursues it Free Solo, which means climbing without a rope and alone.
- DirectorRyan CooglerStarsChadwick BosemanMichael B. JordanLupita Nyong'oT'Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country's past.
- DirectorKwang-shik KimStarsNam Joo-hyukZo In-sungPark Sung-woongA historical film about the siege of Ansi Fortress and the epic eighty-eight day battle that Yang Man-chun and his Goguryeo troops fought against 500,000 invading Tang dynasty men to defend it.
- DirectorRubén MendozaStarsLina Sanchez CalderonLoren Paz JaraSofía Paz JaraA girl meets her three older stepsisters for the first time following the death of their father and embarks on a life-changing road trip.
- DirectorBing LiuStarsKent AbernathyMengyue BolenNina BowgrenFilmmaker Bing Liu searches for correlations between his skateboarder friends' turbulent upbringings and the complexities of modern masculinity.
- DirectorAlex GarlandStarsNatalie PortmanJennifer Jason LeighTessa ThompsonA biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
- DirectorSteve McQueenStarsViola DavisMichelle RodriguezElizabeth DebickiFour women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities take fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
- DirectorBryan SingerStarsRami MalekLucy BoyntonGwilym LeeThe story of the legendary British rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid (1985).
- DirectorFangfang LiStarsZiyi ZhangXiaoming HuangLeehom WangFrom World War, to revolution and ultimately rebirth, Forever Young is the story of four generations spanning a hundred years of modern Chinese history. Each generation faces its own unique set of challenges. Up against corporate corruption, the trials and tribulations of the cultural revolution, and one's duty to nation in time of war, they are faced with choosing their individual paths through history. But as the challenges and turmoil of each generation may differ as time changes, what was learned in the past cannot help but effect the choices that are made in the future as it is passed down from generation to generation. And that is the universal message that being true to yourself is precious. It is the source of strength that empowers one to become the person they want to be, to march forward as far as their hearts desire, into the future.
- DirectorLun SuStarsJiayin LeiLiya TongHao ChenA woman from 2018 and a man from 1999 wake up in the same bed. They discover they can time travel using the bedroom door, and make changes to their eras, but that their destinies may not be in their own hands.
- DirectorRene LiuStarsBoran JingDongyu ZhouZhuangzhuang TianDuring the hectic chunyun period, two strangers traveling home meet on the train.NOVA
- DirectorRaman HuiStarsTony Leung Chiu-waiBaihe BaiBoran JingThe story continues with Wuba after he parts way with his human parents Tian and Lan for his own journey. Peace has not been restored in the monster world after the death of the evil monster king.
- DirectorSicheng ChenStarsHaoran LiuBaoqiang WangYang XiaoTang and Qin team up to solve a murder in New York's Chinatown.
- DirectorDante LamStarsYi ZhangJohnny HuangHai-QingPLA Navy Marine Corps launch a hostage rescue operation in the fictional Republic of Ihwea and undergo a fierce battle with rebellions and terrorism.
- DirectorDa-Mo PengFei YanStarsTeng ShenVivian SungLun AiA pathetic minor league Soccer Goalkeeper was given a task - to spend 1 Billion in thirty days, if successful he will get 30 Billion. However, he's not allowed to tell anyone about the task and he must not own any valuables by end of it.
- DirectorHuang BoStarsHuang BoShu QiBaoqiang WangA cataclysmic event causes a man, who dreams of winning the lottery, to become stranded on an island with his co-workers.
- DirectorFelix ChongStarsChow Yun-FatAaron KwokJingchu ZhangHong Kong police are hunting a counterfeiting gang led by a mastermind code-named "Painter". In order to crack this true identity, the police recruit gang member Lee Man to unmask "Painter's" secret identity.
- DirectorXiaozhi RaoStarsJianbin ChenSuxi RenBinlong PanWhile two criminals hide out at a woman's apartment after a botched robbery, an ex-cop tries to find a missing gun.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsOlivia ColmanEmma StoneRachel WeiszIn early 18th-century England, the status quo at the court is upset when a new servant arrives and endears herself to a frail Queen Anne.
- DirectorMariano LlinásStarsElisa CarricajoValeria CorreaPilar GamboaA film in six episodes, connected by the same four actresses, full of various subplots that play with narrative and different cinematic genres , everything structured in an unusual way.
- DirectorHong Sang-sooStarsKim Min-heeJoobong KeeAhn Jae-hongIn a small Café, Min-hee Kim plays a guest who prefers to observe but not interact with the other guests herself.
- DirectorAlex Ross PerryStarsElisabeth MossCara DelevingneDan StevensA self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.