160 articles
Bucking Fastard
Bucking Fastard is a 2026 Werner Herzog drama starring Kate and Rooney Mara as sisters Jean and Joan Holbrooke who speak in unison, premiered in competition at the 83rd Venice Film Festival on 3 September 2026, inspired by the Chaplin twins.
Burn (炎上) (2026 film)
Burn (炎上, Enjo) is a 2026 Japanese drama by director Makoto Nagahisa starring Nana Mori as Ju-Ju, a runaway from a cult family in Kabukicho; released April 10, 2026, NAKACHIKA PICTURES, 103 min, PG12, Sundance NEXT nominee.
Butterfly Jam
Butterfly Jam is Kantemir Balagov's 2026 English-language debut drama, starring Barry Keoghan, Talha Akdogan, Riley Keough, and Harry Melling, set in Newark's Circassian community; it opened Cannes Directors' Fortnight 2026 and was released in France October 7, 2026. Not the 2021 Shih-Yen Huang animated short.
California Scenario
California Scenario is a 2026 American indie drama directed by James Takata, co-written with Dara Resnik, set in Isamu Noguchi's Costa Mesa sculpture garden; it premiered at SBIFF 2026 and follows two single parents confronting internment and Holocaust family trauma.
Chork (film)
Chork is an upcoming British drama film directed by Shane Meadows and co-written with Jack Thorne, following two foster siblings fleeing along England's eastern coast.
Clarissa (2026 film)
Clarissa (2026) is a drama by Nigerian twin directors Arie and Chuko Esiri, adapting Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway to contemporary Lagos. Premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight; Sophie Okonedo stars; Neon released it December 11, 2026.
Clean Hands (2026 film)
Clean Hands is a 2026 American drama film directed by Jake Allyn, starring Zach Braff as narcotics officer Kevin Simmers, based on his daughter Brooke's opioid addiction.
Clika
Clika is a 2026 American music drama directed by Michael Greene, the debut film of Jimmy Humilde's Rancho Humilde, starring Jay Dee as small-town musician Chito; it grossed $2,679,904 worldwide.
Come with Me (film)
Come with Me is a 2026 American psychological thriller directed by Aaron Harvey, starring Theo Rossi as Simon Ward and Ron Perlman as radio host Dalton Kirby; premiered at Beverly Hills Film Festival, released September 4, 2026 by Vertical.
Cotton Fever
Cotton Fever is Daniel Blake Schwartz's 2026 debut feature drama about interconnected lives in addiction and recovery in Chelsea, Massachusetts, starring Kyle Gallner and Sosie Bacon; it won Best U.S. Narrative Feature and Best Cinematography at the 2026 Tribeca Festival.
Dark Horse (2026 film)
Dark Horse (2026 film), Brazilian title O Azarão, is a Cyrus Nowrasteh biopic of Jair Bolsonaro starring Jim Caviezel. Its R$134 million financing became a criminal investigation, and Europa Filmes left it without a Brazilian release date.
Dear You (film)
Dear You (给阿嬷的情书) is a 2026 Chinese family drama directed by Lan Hongchun, shot mostly in Teochew about qiaopi remittance letters; a low-budget breakout that became China's second-highest-grossing film of 2026.
Dora (2026 film)
Dora (도라) is a 2026 South Korean psychological drama by July Jung, loosely based on Freud's Dora case, starring Kim Do-yeon and Sakura Ando; it premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight 2026.
Dua (film)
Dua is a 2026 Kosovo-Switzerland-France coming-of-age war drama by Blerta Basholli, her second feature. Set in late-1990s Prishtina, it premiered at Cannes Critics' Week, won the SACD Award, and is Kosovo's 99th Oscars submission.
Eephus
Eephus (2024) is Carson Lund's directorial debut, an Omnes Films comedy-drama about two amateur Massachusetts baseball teams playing a final game before their field is demolished; Cannes Directors' Fortnight premiere, Music Box Films release, Metascore 84.
Effi o Blaenau
Effi o Blaenau is a 2026 Welsh-language drama directed by Marc Evans, adapted from Gary Owen's monodrama Iphigenia in Splott, starring Leisa Gwenllian as Effi in Blaenau Ffestiniog; it set a Welsh-language box office record with £215,000 for MetFilm.
Everybody Digs Bill Evans (film)
Everybody Digs Bill Evans is a 2026 Irish-British biographical drama by Grant Gee, adapted from Owen Martell's novel Intermission, starring Anders Danielsen Lie as pianist Bill Evans after Scott LaFaro's 1961 death; it won the Berlin Silver Bear for Best Director.
Everytime (film)
Everytime is a 2026 Austrian-German drama directed by Sandra Wollner about a Berlin family grieving a teenage daughter's death, starring Birgit Minichmayr; it won the Un Certain Regard Prize at Cannes 2026 and the Heart of Sarajevo.
Extra Geography
Extra Geography is a 2026 British coming-of-age comedy-drama, Molly Manners' feature debut, adapted from Rose Tremain's 2007 short story by Miriam Battye. It premiered in Sundance's World Cinema Dramatic Competition and stars Marni Duggan, Galaxie Clear, and Alice Englert.
Facing El Chapo
Facing El Chapo (La Captura) is a 2026 Mexican Netflix thriller directed by Chava Cartas, starring Alfonso Herrera and Noé Hernández as federal officers who recapture El Chapo in Los Mochis, 2016.
Filipiñana
Filipiñana (2026) is Rafael Manuel's debut feature, a class satire set at a Manila country club, expanded from his Silver Bear-winning 2020 short; it won a Sundance Special Jury Award and is the Philippines' 99th Oscars entry.
Fjord (film)
Fjord is a 2026 drama by Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve as a devout Romanian-Norwegian couple whose children are seized by Norway's Barnevernet; it won the 2026 Cannes Palme d'Or and echoes the 2015 Bodnariu case.
Flesh and Fuel
Flesh and Fuel (Du fioul dans les artères) is Pierre Le Gall's 2026 French-Polish debut feature, a queer romantic drama about truckers Étienne and Bartosz; it premiered at Cannes Critics' Week and won the Queer Palm Revelation award.
Frank & Louis
Frank & Louis is a 2026 Swiss-British prison drama, Petra Volpe's English-language debut, starring Kingsley Ben-Adir and Rob Morgan. Inspired by California's Gold Coat prison caregiver program, it premiered at Sundance 2026 and won the Locarno Audience Award.
Furies (2026 film)
Furies (2026 film): Rami Kodeih's debut Lebanese-Brazilian Arabic-language heist thriller, premiered Venice Spotlight 2026, starring Maria Nakouzi and Rym Mroue as sisters robbing a Beirut bank to reclaim frozen savings; distinct from the 1950 western, 2023 Vietnamese film, and French series.
Gauthali (गौंथली)
Gauthali (गौँथली) is a 2026 Nepali social drama directed by Dr. Kapil Rijal from a story by Dr. Bhola Rijal, about child marriage, denied education, and an autistic husband; released July 17, 2026, it became Nepal's second highest-grossing film.
Gentle Monster (film)
Gentle Monster is a 2026 drama by Austrian director Marie Kreutzer, starring Léa Seydoux, Jella Haase, Laurence Rupp, and Catherine Deneuve. It premiered in Competition at Cannes 2026; a pianist's husband is arrested over child abuse material, and it streamed on Netflix from November 18, 2026.
Gohan (โกหาน) (film)
Gohan (โกฮัง..หัวใจโกโฮม) is a 2026 Thai drama from GDH 559, BASK, and Houston Films, co-directed by Chayanop Boonprakob, Baz Poonpiriya, and Atta Hemwadee, following a white stray dog through three owners over a decade; released 2 April 2026.
Growth of the Soil (2026 film)
Growth of the Soil (Markens grøde) is Hans Petter Moland's 2026 Norwegian drama adapting Knut Hamsun's 1917 Nobel-winning novel, starring Herbert Nordrum and Asta Kamma August, Norway's Oscar submission for the 99th Academy Awards.
Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (愛到舞春) is a 2026 American comedy-drama by Josef Kubota Wladyka starring Rinko Kikuchi as a Tokyo widow returning to ballroom dancing; Sundance 2026 Directing Award winner, released by Sony Pictures Classics September 25, 2026.