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Gaga
Gaga (哈勇家) is a 2022 Taiwanese family drama by Laha Mebow, Taiwan's first female indigenous director, about an Atayal family after their patriarch's death; it won Golden Horse Best Director and Best Supporting Actress.
Grand Jeté
Grand Jeté: 2022 German drama by Isabelle Stever, screenplay Anna Melikova from Anke Stelling's novel Fürsorge; ballet teacher Nadja reunites with son Mario; Berlinale Panorama premiere 2022.
Great Freedom
Great Freedom (Große Freiheit) is a 2021 Austrian-German prison drama by Sebastian Meise starring Franz Rogowski as Hans, repeatedly jailed under Paragraph 175, with Georg Friedrich as cellmate Viktor; Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury Prize winner and Austria's Oscar entry.
Horse Girl
Horse Girl is a 2020 Netflix psychological drama directed by Jeff Baena, co-written with and starring Alison Brie as Sarah, whose dreams and sleepwalking blur reality; inspired by Brie's grandmother's paranoid schizophrenia, premiered at Sundance 2020.
House of Gucci
House of Gucci is Ridley Scott's 2021 crime drama starring Lady Gaga and Adam Driver, adapted from Sara Gay Forden's book about Patrizia Reggiani's conviction for orchestrating Maurizio Gucci's 1995 murder, with mixed reviews and family objections.
In Front of Your Face (당신 얼굴 앞에서)
In Front of Your Face (당신 얼굴 앞에서, Dangsin-eolgul-apeseo) is Hong Sang-soo's 2021 drama, his 26th feature, about a terminally ill former actress returning to Seoul; it premiered at Cannes and holds 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.
In Our Prime (이상한 나라의 수학자)
In Our Prime (이상한 나라의 수학자) is a 2022 South Korean drama, Park Dong-hoon's film about a North Korean defector math genius hiding as a school security guard who tutors a struggling elite-high-school student, starring Choi Min-sik and Kim Dong-hwi; 534,489 admissions.
Infinite Storm
Infinite Storm is a 2022 survival drama directed by Małgorzata Szumowska, starring Naomi Watts as rescuer Pam Bales, who saved a stranded hiker on Mount Washington in 2010.
Introduction (인트로덕션) (2021 film)
Introduction (인트로덕션, Inteurodeoksyeon) is Hong Sang-soo's 2021 South Korean black-and-white drama, 66 minutes, in three episodes about Young-ho visiting his father, girlfriend, and mother; it won the Berlinale Silver Bear for Best Screenplay.
Joyland (film)
Joyland is a 2022 Pakistani Urdu and Punjabi drama, Saim Sadiq's debut feature, about a Lahore man's love for a trans dancer; first Pakistani Cannes entry, briefly banned at home, Oscar-shortlisted.
Kingmaker (킹메이커) (2022 film)
Kingmaker (킹메이커) is a 2022 South Korean political drama by Byun Sung-hyun, starring Sul Kyung-gu and Lee Sun-kyun, inspired by Kim Dae-jung and strategist Eom Chang-rok; released January 26, 2022, 123 minutes, 783,759 admissions.
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend, also released as Lamborghini: The Legend, is a 2022 biographical drama directed by Bobby Moresco, starring Frank Grillo as Ferruccio Lamborghini and Gabriel Byrne as Enzo Ferrari; loosely based on Tonino Lamborghini's book, it premiered in Rome and was panned by critics.
Land (2021 film)
Land (2021) is a survival drama and Robin Wright's feature directorial debut, also called Land. Wright stars as grieving lawyer Edee Holzer, who retreats to a remote Rockies cabin and is saved by hunter Miguel (Demián Bichir); Focus Features released it February 12, 2021.
Leap (夺冠)
Leap (夺冠), also known as China Women's Volleyball Team, is Peter Chan's 2020 sports drama starring Gong Li as Lang Ping, covering the Chinese women's volleyball team from 1981 to Rio 2016; Golden Rooster Best Feature Film and China's 2021 Oscar submission.
Little Big Women
Little Big Women (孤味, Guo Mie) is a 2020 Taiwanese family drama by Joseph Chen-chieh Hsu, adapted from his 2017 short film; Taiwan's top-grossing 2020 film, starring Golden Horse Best Actress Chen Shu-fang, streamed on Netflix from February 2021.
Living (2022 film)
Living (2022) is a British drama directed by Oliver Hermanus, scripted by Kazuo Ishiguro, adapting Kurosawa's Ikiru to 1953 London; Bill Nighy plays a dying civil servant, earning an Oscar nomination.
Loving Adults
Loving Adults (Kærlighed for voksne) is a 2022 Danish Netflix psychological thriller directed by Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg, starring Dar Salim and Sonja Richter, adapted from Anna Ekberg's novel; 67 million hours viewed in Q3 2022.
Lucky Chan-sil (찬실이는 복도 많지)
Lucky Chan-sil (찬실이는 복도 많지) is Kim Cho-hee's 2019 South Korean indie debut about a jobless film producer, ghost of Leslie Cheung, starring Kang Mal-geum and Youn Yuh-jung, a triple BIFF 2019 award winner.
Mass (2021 film)
Mass (2021) is an American chamber drama, the writing-directing debut of actor Fran Kranz, premiering at Sundance 2021. Jason Isaacs, Martha Plimpton, Reed Birney, and Ann Dowd play parents of a school shooting victim and shooter meeting six years later.
Minari (미나리)
Minari (미나리) is Lee Isaac Chung's 2020 semi-autobiographical A24/Plan B drama about a Korean-American family farming in 1980s Arkansas; it won Sundance's Grand Jury and Audience prizes and six Oscar nominations, with Youn Yuh-jung winning Best Supporting Actress.
Moneyboys (金钱男孩MONEYBOYS)
Moneyboys (金錢男孩MONEYBOYS) is a 2021 drama by Chinese-Austrian director C.B. Yi, an Austria-France-Belgium-Taiwan co-production starring Kai Ko as Fei, a gay hustler whose family takes his money but rejects him; it premiered at Cannes Un Certain Regard 2021.
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Never Rarely Sometimes Always is Eliza Hittman's 2020 drama starring Sidney Flanigan and Talia Ryder as Pennsylvania cousins traveling to New York for an abortion; Sundance and Silver Bear winner.
Next Sohee (다음 소희)
Next Sohee (다음 소희) is July Jung's 2022 South Korean drama, Cannes Critics' Week closing film, about a vocational student's death after an exploitative call-center internship, starring Kim Si-eun and Bae Doona, released in Korea February 8, 2023.
Nomadland
Nomadland (2020) is Chloé Zhao's drama starring Frances McDormand as van-dwelling nomad Fern, adapted from Jessica Bruder's 2017 book; it won the Venice Golden Lion and three Oscars including Best Picture.
Once Upon a Time in Croatia
Once Upon a Time in Croatia (Bilo jednom u Hrvatskoj; also Tuđman: Nepoznata priča) is a 2022 Croatian docu-drama directed by Jakov Sedlar about Franjo Tuđman, Croatia's first president.
Ordinary Hero (平凡英雄)
Ordinary Hero (平凡英雄, also 中国英雄) is a 2022 Chinese drama directed by Tony Chan, starring Li Bingbing and Feng Shaofeng, adapted from the 2021 Hotan broken-arm boy rescue aboard China Southern flight CZ6820, released 30 September 2022, grossing about 222 million yuan.
Palmer (film)
Palmer (2021) is an Apple TV+ drama directed by Fisher Stevens, written by Cheryl Guerriero, starring Justin Timberlake as an ex-convict caring for a gender-nonconforming boy; Metascore 53, released January 29, 2021.
Parallel Mothers
Parallel Mothers (Madres paralelas) is Pedro Almodóvar's 2021 Spanish drama starring Penélope Cruz and Milena Smit as two mothers who give birth the same day, intertwining motherhood melodrama with Spain's Civil War mass graves; Venice premiere, Volpi Cup, 8 Goya nominations.
Passing (film)
Passing (2021) is Rebecca Hall's directorial debut, adapted from Nella Larsen's 1929 novel, starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga as light-skinned Black women on opposite sides of the color line in 1920s New York, shot in black-and-white 4:3.
Penguin Bloom
Penguin Bloom is a 2020 Australian drama directed by Glendyn Ivin, starring Naomi Watts as Sam Bloom, paralyzed in a 2013 Thailand fall, whose family nurses an injured magpie named Penguin; Netflix release January 27, 2021.