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The Martini Shot
The Martini Shot (2023) is a Stephen Wallis existential drama starring Matthew Modine as a dying director shooting his final film in Ireland, with John Cleese and Derek Jacobi; also a Kyiv production company and other same-named works.
The Outrun
The Outrun (2024 film), Nora Fingscheidt's adaptation of Amy Liptrot's 2016 memoir, stars Saoirse Ronan as Rona, a recovering alcoholic returning to Scotland's Orkney Islands; Sundance and Berlinale premieres, two BAFTA nominations.
The Quiet Maid
The Quiet Maid (Calladita) is a 2023 Spanish satirical drama, Miguel Faus's debut feature, about a Colombian maid in a Costa Brava mansion; the first European feature funded by NFT sales, premiering at Tallinn 2023.
The Room Next Door
The Room Next Door (La habitación de al lado) is Pedro Almodóvar's 2024 first English-language drama, adapted from Sigrid Nunez's novel What Are You Going Through, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton; it won the 2024 Venice Golden Lion.
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (دانهی انجیر معابد) is Mohammad Rasoulof's 2024 Germany-France-Iran drama about a Tehran investigating judge turning on his family during the 2022 protests; shot in secret, it won Cannes' Special Prize and an Oscar nomination.
The Shadowless Tower (白塔之光)
The Shadowless Tower (白塔之光) is Zhang Lü's 2023 Chinese drama about Beijing food critic Gu Wentong reconnecting with his long-estranged father, named for the shadowless White Pagoda of Miaoying Temple; Berlinale competition entry and four-time Tiantan Award winner.
The Taste of Things
The Taste of Things (La Passion de Dodin Bouffant) is a 2023 French period romance by Trần Anh Hùng, starring Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel as cook Eugénie and gourmet Dodin; it won Best Director at Cannes 2023 and was France's 96th Oscars submission.
The Ties That Bind Us
The Ties That Bind Us (L'Attachement) is a 2024 French-Belgian drama by Carine Tardieu, adapted from Alice Ferney's L'Intimité, starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi; it won three 2026 Césars including Best Film.
The Visitor (2024 film)
The Visitor (2024) is Bruce LaBruce's British experimental dark comedy reimagining Pasolini's Teorema: a refugee washes up on the Thames and seduces an upper-class family. Premiered at Berlinale Panorama, February 17, 2024; 101 minutes; stars Bishop Black.
Time Still Turns the Pages (年少日记)
Time Still Turns the Pages (年少日記, also known as 遺書) is a 2023 Hong Kong Cantonese drama, Nick Cheuk's debut feature produced by Derek Yee, about a teacher tracing a student suicide note to his own abusive childhood; it won Best New Director at the Golden Horse and Hong Kong Film Awards.
Tinā
Tinā (Samoan for "mother") is a 2024 New Zealand drama by Miki Magasiva, his feature debut, starring Anapela Polataivao as grieving Samoan teacher Mareta Percival, who forms a choir at an elite Christchurch private school; a record-breaking NZ box-office hit.
Touch (2024 film)
Touch (Icelandic: Snerting) is Baltasar Kormákur's 2024 romantic drama, adapted from Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson's novel, in which elderly Icelander Kristófer (Egill Ólafsson) searches pandemic-era London and Japan for Miko, his lost 1969 love; Nordic Council Film Prize nominee and Iceland's 97th Oscars entry.
Toxic (2024 film)
Toxic (Akiplėša) is Saulė Bliuvaitė's 2024 Lithuanian debut feature about two 13-year-old girls in an industrial town who enter a modeling school; it won the Locarno Golden Leopard and IFFI Golden Peacock.
Treasure (2024 German-French film)
Treasure (German title Treasure – Familie ist ein fremdes Land) is a 2024 German-French-Polish drama by Julia von Heinz, adapted from Lily Brett's Too Many Men, starring Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry; Berlinale Special Gala premiere, Friedenspreis des Deutschen Films winner.
Unstoppable (2024 film)
Unstoppable (2024) is William Goldenberg's biographical sports drama about one-legged NCAA wrestling champion Anthony Robles, starring Jharrel Jerome and Jennifer Lopez, released by Amazon MGM on Prime Video January 16, 2025.
Unsung Hero (film)
Unsung Hero is a 2024 American faith-based drama film about the Smallbone family, who left Australia for Nashville in the early 1990s; it was co-directed by Joel Smallbone, who plays his own father.
Vermiglio (film)
Vermiglio is a 2024 Italian-French-Belgian historical drama directed by Maura Delpero, set in 1944 in a Trentino Alpine village. It won the Venice Silver Lion, was Italy's 2025 Oscar submission, and won the David di Donatello for Best Film.
When Fall Is Coming
When Fall Is Coming (Quand vient l'automne) is a 2024 French drama-thriller by François Ozon, starring Hélène Vincent, Josiane Balasko, Ludivine Sagnier, and Pierre Lottin; a Burgundy grandmother is accused of mushroom poisoning, and the film won San Sebastián screenplay and supporting-actor prizes.
Widow Clicquot
Widow Clicquot, Barbe-Nicole Clicquot-Ponsardin (1777-1866), French widow who took over the Veuve Clicquot champagne house in 1805, invented riddling (remuage), created the first blended rose champagne, and shipped her 1811 comet vintage to Russia; also the 2023 film starring Haley Bennett.
You Gotta Believe (film)
You Gotta Believe is a 2024 sports drama directed by Ty Roberts, starring Luke Wilson as Bobby Ratliff and Greg Kinnear as Coach Jon Kelly, dramatizing the 2002 Fort Worth Westside Little League All-Stars' run to the Little League World Series.
Young Hearts (2024 film)
Young Hearts (2024) is Anthony Schatteman's Belgian-Dutch debut feature, a queer coming-of-age drama starring Lou Goossens and Marius De Saeger; it premiered at the Berlinale's Generation Kplus section and won the Teddy Award for Best Feature Film.
Young Woman and the Sea
Young Woman and the Sea is Disney's 2024 biographical sports drama directed by Joachim Rønning, starring Daisy Ridley as swimmer Gertrude 'Trudy' Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel in 1926, adapted from Glenn Stout's 2009 book.
Your Letter (film)
Your Letter (연의 편지) is a 2025 South Korean animated drama directed by Kim Yong-hwan, adapted from Hyeon A Cho's Naver webtoon. Transfer student So-ri follows hidden letters from Ho-yeon; Studio LICO and Studio N produced, Lotte distributed, pre-sold to 166 countries.