42nd São Paulo International Film Festival
by rkiste | created - 07 Oct 2018 | updated - 14 Oct 2018 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
188 min | Drama
An unpublished writer returns to his hometown after graduating, where he seeks sponsors to publish his book while dealing with his father's deteriorating indulgence into gambling.
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Stars: Dogu Demirkol, Murat Cemcir, Bennu Yildirimlar, Hazar Ergüçlü
Votes: 27,888 | Gross: $0.03M
2. Shoplifters (2018)
R | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence.
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Lily Franky, Sakura Andô, Kirin Kiki, Mayu Matsuoka
Votes: 86,473 | Gross: $3.31M
3. The Favourite (2018)
R | 119 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
In 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.
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult
Votes: 233,633 | Gross: $34.37M
4. Roma (2018)
R | 135 min | Drama
A year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
Director: Alfonso Cuarón | Stars: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta
Votes: 169,835
5. Cold War (2018)
R | 89 min | Drama, Music, Romance
In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France.
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski | Stars: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza
Votes: 61,934 | Gross: $4.57M
6. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)
Not Rated | 132 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Toby, a disillusioned film director, is pulled into a world of time-jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes himself to be Sancho Panza. He gradually becomes unable to tell dreams from reality.
Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: José Luis Ferrer, Ismael Fritschi, Juan López-Tagle, Adam Driver
Votes: 22,185 | Gross: $0.39M
7. The House That Jack Built (2018)
R | 152 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
In five episodes, failed architect and vicious sociopath Jack recounts his elaborately orchestrated murders -- each, as he views them, a towering work of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer in the Pacific Northwest.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman, Siobhan Fallon Hogan
Votes: 92,064 | Gross: $0.09M
8. Capernaum (2018)
R | 126 min | Drama
While serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents for neglect.
Director: Nadine Labaki | Stars: Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Kawsar Al Haddad
Votes: 105,450 | Gross: $1.66M
9. I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018)
140 min | Comedy, Drama
An artist commissioned to stage a re-enactment of a Romanian war battle receives pushback from producers for including a realistic portrayal of her country's treatment of Jews during WWII.
Director: Radu Jude | Stars: Ioana Iacob, Alex Bogdan, Alexandru Dabija, Ion Rizea
Votes: 2,002 | Gross: $0.01M
10. Double Lives (2018)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Set 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.
Director: Olivier Assayas | Stars: Guillaume Canet, Juliette Binoche, Vincent Macaigne, Christa Théret
Votes: 5,787 | Gross: $0.70M
11. 3 Faces (2018)
100 min | Drama
Three actresses at different stages of their career. One from before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, one popular star of today known throughout the country, and a young girl longing to attend a drama conservatory.
Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei, Maedeh Erteghaei
Votes: 4,793 | Gross: $0.07M
12. BlacKkKlansman (2018)
R | 135 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
Ron 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.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Topher Grace
Votes: 291,193 | Gross: $49.28M
13. Mug (2018)
91 min | Comedy, Drama
A man undergoes a face transplant and experiences ensuing identity issues.
Director: Malgorzata Szumowska | Stars: Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Malgorzata Gorol, Roman Gancarczyk
Votes: 2,807
14. The Dead and the Others (2018)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama
Drama 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.
Directors: Renée Nader Messora, João Salaviza | Stars: Henrique Ihjãc Krahô, Raene Kôtô Krahô, Douglas Tiepre Krahô, Iasmin Kropej Krahô
Votes: 840
15. Burning (2018)
Not Rated | 148 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Jong-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.
Director: Lee Chang-dong | Stars: Yoo Ah-in, Steven Yeun, Jeon Jong-seo, Kim Soo-Kyung
Votes: 76,373 | Gross: $0.72M
16. Rojo (2018)
109 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In Argentina pre-coup d'etat, a successful lawyer starts to feel against the ropes when a secret of the past threatens his present.
Director: Benjamín Naishtat | Stars: Darío Grandinetti, Andrea Frigerio, Alfredo Castro, Diego Cremonesi
Votes: 2,779 | Gross: $0.08M
17. Wildlife (2018)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama
A teenage boy must deal with his mother's complicated response after his father temporarily abandons them to take a menial and dangerous job.
Director: Paul Dano | Stars: Ed Oxenbould, Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan, Travis W Bruyer
Votes: 31,387 | Gross: $1.03M
18. Touch Me Not (I) (2018)
Not Rated | 123 min | Drama
Together, a filmmaker and her characters venture into a personal research project about intimacy. On the fluid border between reality and fiction, Touch Me Not follows the emotional journeys of Laura, Tómas and Christian, offering a deeply empathic insight into their lives.
Director: Adina Pintilie | Stars: Laura Benson, Tómas Lemarquis, Christian Bayerlein, Grit Uhlemann
Votes: 3,029 | Gross: $0.01M
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