Golden Lion winners

2005 film directed by Ang Lee

2019 musical film directed by Todd Phillips

2017 film by Guillermo del Toro

is a 1950 Japanese period drama (jidaigeki) film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay he co-wrote with Shinobu Hashimoto. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura, it follows various people who describe how a samurai was murdered in a forest. The plot and characters are based upon Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's short story "In a Grove", with the title and framing story taken from Akutagawa's "Rashōmon". Every element is largely identical, from the murdered samurai speaking through a Shinto psychic to the bandit in the forest, the monk, the assault of the wife, an

Nomadland is a 2020 American drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Chloé Zhao. Based on the 2017 nonfiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder, it stars Frances McDormand as a widow who leaves her life in Nevada to drift around the United States in her van. A number of real-life nomads appear as fictionalized versions of themselves, including Linda May, Swankie, and Bob Wells. David Strathairn also stars in a supporting role.

2018 film directed by Alfonso Cuarón

1962 film by Andrei Tarkovsky

2023 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

2008 film directed by Darren Aronofsky

1948 film directed by Laurence Olivier

1966 film by Gillo Pontecorvo

1967 film directed by Luis Buñuel

1993 film by Krzysztof Kieślowski

2003 film directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev

1961 film by Alain Resnais

1952 French film by René Clément

1987 autobiographical film directed by Louis Malle

2007 film by Ang Lee

1964 film by Michelangelo Antonioni

1959 film by Mario Monicelli

1980 film directed by Louis Malle

1994 film by Milcho Manchevski

1996 film directed by Neil Jordan

1993 film by Robert Altman

Aparajito ( ; The Unvanquished) is a 1956 Indian Bengali-language drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray, and is the second part of The Apu Trilogy. It is an adaptation of the last part of Bibhutibhushan Bannerjee's novel Pather Panchali and the first part of his followup novel Aparajito. The film starts off where the previous film Pather Panchali (1955) ended, with Apu's family moving to Varanasi, and chronicles Apu's life from childhood to adolescence in college.

2004 film by Mike Leigh

2002 film by Peter Mullan

1991 film by Nikita Mikhalkov

2024 film by Pedro Almodóvar

Hana-bi (), released in the United States as Fireworks, is a 1997 Japanese crime drama film written, directed and edited by Takeshi Kitano, who also stars in it. The film's score was composed by Joe Hisaishi in his fourth collaboration with Kitano.

2010 film directed by Sofia Coppola

Ordet (, meaning "The Word" and originally released as The Word in English) is a 1955 Danish drama film, written and directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer. It is based on a play by Kaj Munk, a Danish Lutheran priest, first performed in 1932. The film won the Golden Lion at the 16th Venice International Film Festival, and was the only film by Dreyer to be both a critical and financial success.

2012 film by Kim Ki-duk

1985 film directed by Agnès Varda

2011 film directed by Aleksandr Sokurov

2009 film by Samuel Maoz

1986 film by Éric Rohmer

2015 film by Lorenzo Vigas

1959 film by Roberto Rossellini

1980 film directed by John Cassavetes

1990 film by Tom Stoppard

1965 film by Luchino Visconti

2014 film directed by Roy Andersson

1983 film by Jean-Luc Godard

2000 film directed by Jafar Panahi

1984 film by Krzysztof Zanussi

1989 film by Hou Hsiao-Hsien

2001 film by Mira Nair

2016 film by Lav Diaz

1981 film by Margarethe von Trotta

1982 film by Wim Wenders

1999 film by Zhang Yimou

1945 film by Jean Renoir

2022 film directed by Laura Poitras

2021 film directed by Audrey Diwan

2025 film directed by Jim Jarmusch

1950 film by André Cayatte

1963 film by Francesco Rosi

2013 film by Gianfranco Rosi

1949 film by Henri-Georges Clouzot