Best of 2023
by JohnFarrowKarrtorp | created - 10 months ago | updated - 4 months ago | PublicAs picked by the Guardian.
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1. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2022)
108 min | Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
A giant talkative frog, a lost cat, and a tsunami help a bank employee, his wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tokyo from an earthquake and find a meaning to their lives.
Director: Pierre Földes | Stars: Amaury de Crayencour, Mathilde Auneveux, Arnaud Maillard, Bruno Paviot
Votes: 924
2. Law of Tehran (2019)
131 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The police are after a drug lord named Naser Khakzad, but when they finally manage to catch him, he tries whatever he can think of to escape and save his family.
Director: Saeed Roustayi | Stars: Payman Maadi, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Parinaz Izadyar, Farhad Aslani
Votes: 18,522
3. Chile '76 (2022)
95 min | Drama
Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.
Director: Manuela Martelli | Stars: Aline Küppenheim, Nicolás Sepúlveda, Hugo Medina, Alejandro Goic
Votes: 1,847
4. The Beasts (2022)
137 min | Drama, Thriller
An expatriate French couple operate an organic farm in the Spanish countryside but clash with villagers.
Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen | Stars: Marina Foïs, Denis Ménochet, Luis Zahera, Diego Anido
Votes: 18,270
5. Pearl (2022)
R | 103 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
In 1918, a young woman on the brink of madness pursues stardom in a desperate attempt to escape the drudgery, isolation, and lovelessness of life on her parents' farm.
Director: Ti West | Stars: Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland
Votes: 96,415 | Gross: $9.42M
6. Creatura (2023)
112 min | Drama
A sexual awakening causes a woman to reconsider her past relationships.
Director: Elena Martín | Stars: Elena Martín, Mila Borràs, Clàudia Malagelada, Oriol Pla
Votes: 1,012
7. Sharper (2023)
R | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Motivations are suspect and expectations are turned to chaos as a con artist takes on Manhattan billionaires.
Director: Benjamin Caron | Stars: Julianne Moore, Sebastian Stan, Justice Smith, Briana Middleton
Votes: 30,533
8. Town of Strangers (2018)
86 min | Documentary, Western
TOWN OF STRANGERS is a documentary of the imagination, with many scenes transcending the genres of documentary and fiction, going deep into the experiences of migration and home through cinematic methods.
Director: Treasa O'Brien
Votes: 13
9. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021)
PG | 90 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
A cash-strapped documentary maker decides to make his newest documentary about a mollusk shell he finds living in his Airbnb with his friends.
Director: Dean Fleischer Camp | Stars: Jenny Slate, Dean Fleischer Camp, Isabella Rossellini, Joe Gabler
Votes: 27,021 | Gross: $5.79M
10. Enys Men (2022)
96 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast, a wildlife volunteer's daily observations of a rare flower turn into a metaphysical journey that forces her as well as the viewer to question what is real and what is a nightmare.
Director: Mark Jenkin | Stars: Mary Woodvine, Edward Rowe, Flo Crowe, John Woodvine
Votes: 3,285
11. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)
Unrated | 113 min | Documentary
Follows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.
Director: Laura Poitras | Stars: Nan Goldin, David Velasco, Megan Kapler, Marina Berio
Votes: 7,787
12. Nostalgia (I) (2022)
Unrated | 117 min | Drama
After 40 years of absence, Felice returns to his hometown: Naples. He rediscovers the places, the codes of the city and a past that eats away at him.
Director: Mario Martone | Stars: Pierfrancesco Favino, Francesco Di Leva, Tommaso Ragno, Aurora Quattrocchi
Votes: 3,294
13. Creature (III) (2022)
87 min | Horror
Follows an outsider's search for belonging, set in a dilapidated former Arctic research station.
Director: Asif Kapadia | Stars: Jeffrey Cirio, Stina Quagebeur, Erina Takahashi
Votes: 117
14. The Eight Mountains (2022)
Not Rated | 147 min | Drama
An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains follows over four decades the profound, complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno.
Directors: Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch | Stars: Lupo Barbiero, Cristiano Sassella, Elena Lietti, Chiara Jorrioz
Votes: 14,724
15. The Full Monty (2023– )
TV-MA | Comedy, Drama
The original band of brothers as they navigate Sheffield and its crumbling healthcare, education and employment sectors, exploring the brighter, sillier and more humane way forward where communal effort can still triumph over adversity.
Stars: Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, Paul Barber, Steve Huison
Votes: 3,006
16. The King of Staten Island (2020)
R | 136 min | Comedy, Drama
Scott has been a case of arrested development since his firefighter dad died. He spends his days smoking weed and dreaming of being a tattoo artist until events force him to grapple with his grief and take his first steps forward in life.
Director: Judd Apatow | Stars: Pete Davidson, Bel Powley, Ricky Velez, Lou Wilson
Votes: 76,796
17. There's Still Tomorrow (2023)
118 min | Comedy, Drama
Trying to escape from the patriarchy in the Italian post-war society, Delia plots an act of rebellion against her violent husband.
Director: Paola Cortellesi | Stars: Paola Cortellesi, Valerio Mastandrea, Romana Maggiora Vergano, Emanuela Fanelli
Votes: 7,560
18. Ernest & Celestine (2012)
PG | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The story of an unlikely friendship between a bear, Ernest, and a young mouse named Celestine.
Directors: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner | Stars: Lambert Wilson, Pauline Brunner, Anne-Marie Loop, Patrice Melennec
Votes: 22,249 | Gross: $0.29M
19. On the Adamant (2023)
109 min | Documentary
Follows patients and caregivers at a psychiatric centre with a unique floating structure located in the middle of the Seine river in central Paris.
Director: Nicolas Philibert | Stars: Mamadi Barri, Walid Benziane, Sabine Berlière, Romain Bernardin
Votes: 834
20. Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (2023)
89 min | Documentary
In the darkness of a smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences, washing off the shame trapped in their bodies and regaining their strength through a sense of communion.
Director: Anna Hints | Stars: Kadi Kivilo, Maria Meresaar, Elsa Saks, Marianne Liiv
Votes: 1,968
21. Hit Man (2023)
R | 115 min | Action, Comedy
A professor moonlighting as a hit man of sorts for his city police department, descends into dangerous, dubious territory when he finds himself attracted to a woman who enlists his services.
Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Adria Arjona, Glen Powell, Retta, Austin Amelio
Votes: 1,089
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