2018 Most Anticipated Movies & Series

As we currently navigate through the awards season, Movie Parliament decided to contemplate the upcoming releases on film & TV. Result: 2018 announces to be very exciting. Here are our picks: Let's also hope we'll be surprised by films no one saw coming.
Whate are your most anticipated films? Share your thoughts on Twitter with #movieparliament @TheDaltonator @cinecharlie
Have all an excellent movie year.

(And in 2019: Glass (M. Night Shyamalan), Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho), Ad Astra (James Gray), Gemini Man (Ang Lee with Will Smith), The Little Drummer Girl (Park Chan-Wook with Florence Pugh and Alexander Skarsgard), Parasite (Bong Joon-Ho with Song Kang-ho), It: Chapter Two (Andy Muschietti), Star Wars: Episode IX (J.J. Abrams), ...)

100 - Good Manners (As Boas Maneiras)

Brazil
By Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra
Starring Isabél Zuaa, Marjorie Estiano
Release date: March 21 (France)

Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but a fateful night changes their plans.

99 - The Summit (La Cordillera)

Argentina
By Santiago Mitre (Paulina)
Starring Ricardo Darin (Wild Tales, Truman)
Release date: January 3 (France)
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The president of Argentina, Hernán Blanco, is facing a very important decision. He is participating in a meeting between different state leaders, which takes place in La Cordillera. From there, in the middle of the Summit of Latin American presidents, he will have to be able to solve a very complicated personal matter that can affect both his private and public life.

98 - Fahrenheit 451

USA
By Ramin Bahrani (99 Homes)
Starring Michael B. Jordan, Sofia Boutella, Michael Shannon
Release date: TBD on HBO

451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which paper self ignites. In this grim look at a totalitarian future, firemen have taken on a new duty of starting fires instead of putting them out, specifically with the task of burning all books, as way of suppressing independent thought and action in the public. A young fireman finds himself questioning his job, even as he encounters an odd young woman, and learns about an underground of rebels who each memorize the entire contents of a book, so that they can preserve it even without the use of paper.

97 - Toni Erdmann

USA
Starring Kristen Wiig, Jack Nicholson
Release date: TBD

The film is about a dad who creates an alter ego for himself in an effort to connect with his polar-opposite daughter.
Remake of Oscar-nominated 'Toni Erdmann' (2016) by Maren Ade.
This will be Nicholson's first leading role in 10 years.

96 - Inventing Tomorrow

USA / India / Indonesia / Mexico
By Laura Nix
Release date: January 21 (USA)

​Take a journey with young minds from around the globe as they prepare their projects for the largest convening of high school scientists in the world, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). Watch these passionate innovators find the courage to face the planet's environmental threats while navigating adolescence.

95 - Blessed Virgin

France / Netherlands
By Paul Verhoeven (Black Book, Elle)
Starring Virginie Efira (Elle)
Release date: TBD

​A 17th-century nun in Italy suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions. She is assisted by a companion, and the relationship between the two women develops into a romantic love affair.

94 - Annette

France / USA
By Leos Carax (Holy Motors)
Starring Adam Driver, Michelle Williams
Release date: TBD

​The film is about a stand-up comedian whose opera singer wife is deceased. He finds himself alone with his 2 year old daughter who has a surprising gift.

93 - Kings

France / Belgium
By Deniz Gamze Ergüven (Mustang)
Starring Halle Berry, Daniel Craig
Release date: April 25 (France)

​A foster family in South Central a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial in 1992.

92 - Le Chant du Loup

France
By Antonin Baudry (aka Abel Lanzac, writer of 'The French Minister')
Starring François Civil, Omar Sy, Mathieu Kassovitz, Reda Kateb (A Prophet), Paula Beer (Frantz)
Release date: TBD

The film is partly set in a French nuclear submarine.

91 - Une saison en France

France
By Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (A Screaming Man, Daratt)
Starring Eriq Ebouaney, Sandrine Bonnaire
Release date: January 31 (France)

An African high school teacher flees his war-torn country for France, where he falls in love with a Frenchwoman who offers a roof for him and his family.

90 - Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2

USA
by Phil Johnson, Rich Moore (Wreck-It Ralph)
Starring John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman
Release date: November 21 (USA)

6 years after the events of "Wreck-It Ralph", Ralph and Vanellope, now friends, discover a wi-fi router in their arcade, leading them into a new adventure.

89 - The Girl in the Spider's Web

USA / Sweden / UK
By Fede Alvarez (Don't Breathe, Evil Dead)
Starring Claire Foy, Sverrir Gudnason
Release date: October 19 (USA)

Young computer hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cybercriminals and corrupt government officials.

88 - A Star is Born

USA
By Bradley Cooper
Starring Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Dave Chappelle
Release date: May 16 (France)

A movie star helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

87 - Slender Man

USA
By Sylvain White (Miserere)
Starring Joey King, Javier Botet
Release date: May 18 (USA)

Slender Man tells the story of a tall, thin, horrifying figure with unnaturally long arms and a featureless face, who is reputed to be responsible for the haunting and disappearance of countless children and teens.
Screenplay by David Birke (Elle), based on the infamous creepypasta.

86 - Ready Player One

USA
By Steven Spielberg (The Post)
Starring Tye Sheridan, Mark Rylance
Release date: March 30 (USA)

When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune. Wade Watts finds the first clue and starts a race for the Egg.

85 - Ocean's 8

USA
By Gary Ross (The Hunger Games, Seabiscuit)
Starring Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter, Sarah Paulson, Anne Hathaway
Release date: June 8 (USA)

Debbie Ocean gathers a crew to attempt an impossible heist at New York City's yearly Met Gala.

84 - Hellfest

USA
By Gregory Plotkin (Paranormal Activity: Ghost Dimension)
Release date: October 12 (USA)

The film is set on Halloween night at a horror theme park where a costumed killer begins slaying innocent patrons who believe that it's all part of the show.

83 - Maniac

USA
By Cary Fukunaga (Beasts of No Nation)
Starring Emma Stone, Jonah Hill
Release date: TBD on Netflix

An institutionalized man dreams of a new life in a fantasy world.

82 - Halloween

USA
By David Gordon Green (Stronger, Our Brand Is Crisis)
Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer
Release date: October 19 (USA)

Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
Written by Gordon Green & Danny McBride.

81 - Hold the Dark

USA
By Jeremy Saulnier (Green Room, Blue Ruin)
Starring Riley Keough, Alexander Skarsgard
Release date: TBD
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After the deaths of three children suspected to be by wolves, writer Russell Core is hired by the parents of a missing six-year-old boy to track down and locate their son in the Alaskan wilderness.
Written by Macon Blair (I Don't Feel at Home in this World Anymore)

80 - Au Poste

France
By Quentin Dupieux (Rubber, Wrong Cops, Réalité)
Starring Benoît Poelvoorde, Anaïs Demoustier, Grégoire Ludig
Release date: TBD

​One night in a Paris police station.
First film shot in France for director & DJ Dupieux, creator of Mr Oizo. 
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79 - Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

USA
By Juan Antonio Bayona (A Monster Calls, The Impossible)
Starring Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard
​Release date: June 8 (UK), June 22 (USA)

When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event.

78 - Long Day's Journey Into Night

China
By Bi Gan (Kaili Blues)
Starring Tang Wei (Lust, Caution), Sylvia Chang (Mountains May Depart), Huang Jue (The Final Master)
​Release date: TBD

Luo Hongwu retourne dans la ville de son enfance 12 ans après avoir commis un meurtre resté impuni. Les souvenirs de la belle et énigmatique jeune femme qu'il a tuée refont surface. Le passé et le présent, le rêve et la réalité se confrontent alors dans un sombre ballet...

77 - El Autor

Spain
By Manuel Martin Cuenca (Canibal)
Starring Javier Gutierrez (Marshland, Assassin's Creed)
Release date: TBD

A man obsessed with the idea of writing "high literature" starts to cause conflicts around him to write about it.
Nominated for 9 Goya Awards.

76 - Mary and the Witch's Flower

Japan
By Hiromasa Yonebayashi (When Marnie Was There)
Release date: May 18 (UK)

Based on The Little Broomstick by Mary Stewart, a strange flower grants a girl magic powers.
​The first animated feature by Studio Ponoc.

75 - Vision

Japan
By Naomi Kawase (Sweet Bean, The Mourning Forest)
Starring Juliette Binoche, Masatoshi Nagase
Release date: TBD #Cannes2018

La confrontation d'un homme et d'une femme, et sa recherche, dans la forêt de Nara, d'une herbe qui revient tous les 997 ans.

74 - The Terror

USA
Executive Producer: Ridley Scott
Starring Jared Harris, Ciaran Hinds
Release date: March 26 on AMC

Set in 1847. A crew of a Royal Naval expedition is sent to find the Arctic's treacherous Northwest Passage but instead discovers a monstrous predator, a cunning and vicious Gothic horror that stalks the ships in a desperate game of survival, the consequences of which could endanger the region and its native people forever.

73 - Piercing

USA
By Nicolas Pesce (The Eyes of my Mother)
Starring Mia Wasikowska, Christopher Abbott
Release date: January 20 (USA)

A man who kisses his wife and baby goodbye, seemingly headed away on business, with a plan to check into a hotel, call an escort service and kill an unsuspecting prostitute.
​Based on a novel by Ryu Murakami.

72 - The Women of Marwen

USA
By Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, The Walk)
​Starring Steve Carell, Gwendoline Christie, Diane Kruger
Release date: November 21 (USA)

A victim of a brutal attack finds a unique and beautiful therapeutic outlet to help him through his recovery process.
Zemeckis is back to Universal for the first time in 25 years, with an original screenplay he wrote with Caroline Thompson (The Addams Family, Edward Scissorhands).

71 - E-Book

France
By Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper, Carlos)
Starring Juliette Binoche, Guillaume Canet
Release date: TBD #Cannes2018

Alain et Léonard, écrivain et éditeur, dépassés par les nouvelles pratiques du monde de l’édition, sourds aux désirs de leurs épouses, peinent à retrouver leur place au sein de cette société dont ils ne maîtrisent plus les codes.
​Announced as a comedy.

70 - The Irishman

USA
By Martin Scorsese (Silence)
Starring Robert de Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Jesse Plemons, Anna Paquin, Bobby Cannavale
Release date: TBD on Netflix

A mob hitman recalls his possible involvement with the slaying of Jimmy Hoffa.

69 - Burning

South Korea
By Lee Chang-Dong (Poetry)
Starring Yoo Ah-in, Jeong Jong-seo, Steven Yeun
Release date: TBD #Cannes2018
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A mysterious incident takes place among three young persons Jong-soo, Ben, Hae-mi, who have lived in their own way.
Based on the short story Barn Burning written by Haruki Murakami.

68 - Todos lo saben (Everybody Knows)

Spain / France / Italy
By Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Salesman)
Starring Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Ricardo Darin, Barbara Lennie
Release date: TBD #Cannes2018

Carolina, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, who returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her Argentinian husband and children. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.

67 - Under the Silver Lake

USA
By David Robert Mitchell (It Follows)
Starring Riley Keough, Andrew Garfield, Topher Grace
Release date: TBD #Sundance2018

A modern-day noir thriller set in Los Angeles.

66 - Fireworks

Japan
By Akiyuki Shinbo, Nobuyuki Takeuchi
Release date: January 3 (France)

A school girl finds a pretty transparent ball by the sea, on the day of a fireworks display of a religious festival in a seaside town in Japan.
Literal title is ​"Skyrockets, Watch from Below? Watch from the Side?"

65 - Nappily Ever After

USA
By Haifaa Al-Mansour (Wadjda, Mary Shelley)
Starring Sanaa Lathan, Ricky Whittle
​Release date: TBD

Venus Johnson, tired of waiting for her longtime boyfriend to propose, breaks up with him. But old feelings, and heaps of jealousy, no doubt, arise when he promptly begins dating another woman.

64 - The Beach Bum

USA
​By Harmony Korine (Spring Breakers)
Starring Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, Isla Fisher
Release date: TBD

A rebellious stoner named Moondog lives life by his own rules.
Some cinemas in Los Angeles have agreed to show the movie while spreading curls of marijuana.

63 - M:I 6 - Mission Impossible

USA
​By Christopher McQuarrie (Mission: Impossible 5)
Starring Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Henry Cavill
​Release date: July 27 (USA)

Christopher McQuarrie is the first director in the franchise to direct more than one film.
Henry Cavill grew a mustache in order to play the villain and was expected to shave it off for Justice League reshoots. However, Paramount would not allow this, meaning Warner Bros had to pay millions to have it digitally removed in post-production, making it the most expensive mustache in movie history.

62 - Mowgli

USA
​By Andy Serkis (Breathe)
Starring Cate Blanchett, Andy Serkis, Christian Bale, Benedict Cumberbatch, Naomie Harris
Release date: October 19 (USA)

​Originally titled "Jungle Book Origins".

61 - Fiertés (Prides)

France
​By Philippe Faucon (Fatima - César Best Film 2015)
Starring Samuel Theis, Emmanuelle Bercot, Chiara Mastroianni
Release date: TBD on Arte

De la veille de l’arrivée de François Mitterrand au pouvoir le 10 mai 1981 à l’adoption de la loi Taubira sur le mariage promulguée le 18 mai 2013 et votée le 23 avril, Fiertés s'intéresse à une histoire d’amour, et plus largement, la vie d’une famille et des combats menés par les homosexuels autour du Pacs, du mariage et de l’adoption.

60 - Black Panther

USA
​By Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station, Creed)
Starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o
Release date: February 12 (UK), February 16 (USA)

T'Challa, after the death of his father, the King of Wakanda, returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation to succeed to the throne and take his rightful place as king.

59 - Wildlife

USA
​By Paul Dano
Starring Carey Mulligan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ed Oxenbould
​Release date: January 20 (USA) #Sundance2018

A boy witnesses his parent's marriage falling apart after his mom finds another man.
Paul Dano & Zoe Kazan wrote the screenplay from a novel by Richard Ford. This is Dano's directorial debut.

58 - Sense8 Finale Special

USA
​By Lana Wachowski (The Matrix, Cloud Atlas)
​Starring Tina Desai, Doona Bae, Jamie Clayton
​Release date: TBD on Netflix

A two hour wrap up of the series.

57 - Colette

USA
​By Wash Westmoreland (Still Alice)
Starring Keira Knightley, Dominic West
​Release date: January 20 (USA) #Sundance2018

French novelist, Colette, overcomes an abusive marriage to emerge as a leading writer in her country and a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

56 - Baron Noir (season 2)

France
​By Ziad Doueiri (The Insult - Best Actor Venice 2017)
Starring Kad Merad, Anna Mouglalis
Release date: January 22 on Canal+

The rise and fall of a corrupted politician in the midst of France's presidential election.
Kad Merad won an International Emmy Award for his performance.

55 - Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald 

USA / UK
​By David Yates. Written By J.K. Rowling
​Starring Jude Law, Johnny Depp, Katherine Waterston, Zoë Kravitz, Eddie Redmayne
Release date: November 16 (UK, USA)

The second installment of the 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' series which follows the adventures of Newt Scamander.

54 - Before We Vanish

Japan
By Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse)
Starring Masami Nagasawa, Ryûhei Matsuda, Hiroki Hasegawa
​Release date: March 14 (France)

Three aliens travel to Earth in preparation for a mass invasion, taking possession of human bodies.​

53 - If Beale Street Could Talk

USA
By Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)
Starring Pedro Pascal, Dave Franco, Diego Luna
Release date: TBD

A woman in Harlem desperately scrambles to prove her fiancé innocent of a crime while carrying their first child.
It's a celebration of love told through the story of a young couple, their families, and their lives

52 - The 15:17 to Paris

USA
​By Clint Eastwood (Sully, American Sniper)
Starring Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos
Release date: February 9 (USA)

American soldiers discover a terrorist plot on a Paris-bound train.
Inspired by real-life events. Stone, Sadler and Skarlatos star as themselves.

51 - The Happy Prince

UK / Germany
By Rupert Everett
Starring Rupert Everett, Anna Chancellor
Release date: January 21 (USA) #Sundance2018

The untold story of the last days in the tragic times of Oscar Wilde, a person who observes his own failure with ironic distance and regards the difficulties that beset his life with detachment and humor.

50 - The First

USA
Created by Beau Willimon (House of Cards)
Starring T.C. Matherne
Release date: TBD on Hulu

A drama set in the near future about the first human mission to Mars.

49 - Un couteau dans le coeur (Knife + Heart)

France
By Yann Gonzalez (You and the Night)
Starring Vanessa Paradis, Kate Moran, Nicolas Maury
​Release date: TBD

Au cœur du Paris sulfureux de la fin des années 70, Anne a fait carrière en produisant à la chaîne des films pornographiques. Pour retrouver les faveurs de sa compagne, Loïs, Anne décide de changer de registre en finançant un film beaucoup plus ambitieux, dont elle confie la réalisation à Archibald. Mais un mystérieux tueur en série contrarie ses plans et s'attaque à tous les acteurs liés au projet.

48 - On Becoming a God in Central Florida

USA
By Yorgos Lanthimos (The Killing of a Sacred Deer)
Starring Kirsten Dunst
Release date: TBD on AMC

A recently widowed, impoverished Orlando water park employee schemes and cons her way up the ranks of the multi-billion dollar pyramid scheme which ruined her financially in the first place.

47 - Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot

USA
By Gus Van Sant (Milk, Good Will Hunting)
Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara, Jack Black, Beth Ditto
Release date: May 11 (USA) #Berlinale2018

About the true life of John Callahan, who became paralyzed after a car accident at age 21, and turned to drawing as a form of therapy.

46 - Psychokinesis

South Korea
By Sang-ho Yeon (Train to Busan)
Starring Yeong-gi Jeong, Yu-mi Jung
Release date: January (South Korea)

A father sets out to save his troubled daughter with superpowers that he discovers he possesses.

45 - Radegund

USA
​By Terrence Malick (Song to Song, The Tree of Life)
Starring August Diehl, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Nyqvist, Bruno Ganz
Release date: TBD
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The Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II.

44 - Widows

UK / USA
By Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave, Hunger)
Starring Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki, Jon Bernthal, Michelle Rodriguez, Liam Neeson
​Release date: November 9 (UK)

Set in contemporary Chicago, amidst a time of turmoil, four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities, take fate into their own hands, and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
Written by McQueen and Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl), based upon the 1983 ITV series.

43 - Mary Queen of Scots

UK
By Josie Rourke
Starring Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, David Tennant
Release date: November 2 (USA)

Mary Stuart's attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I, Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution.
Written by Beau Willimon (House of Cards).

42 - Sicario 2: Soldado

USA / Italy
By Stefano Sollima (Suburra, Gomorra - TV series)
Starring Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro
Release date: June 29 (USA)

The drug war on the US-Mexico border has escalated as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the US border. To fight the war, federal agent Matt Graver re-teams with the mercurial Alejandro.

41 - Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind

USA
By Marina Zenovich (Roman Polanski: Wanted & Desired)
Release date: January (USA)

An intimate into the life and work of the late comedian, Robin Williams.

40 - Mandy

USA
By Panos Cosmatos
Starring Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough
Release date: January 19 (USA)
​
Mandy is set in the primal wilderness of 1983 where Red Miller, a broken and haunted man hunts an unhinged religious sect who slaughtered the love of his life.

39 - Loro

Italy
By Paolo Sorrentino
Starring Toni Servillo, Riccardo Scamarcio
Release date: TBD #Cannes2018

​A film about the life of Silvio Berlusconi.

38 - Fahrenheit 11/9

USA
By Michael Moore (Where to Invade Next, Fahrenheit 9/11)
​Release date: TBD

Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore seeks to expose secrets about U.S. President Donald Trump.

37 - Winter Brothers

Denmark
By Hlynur Palmason
Starring Elliott Crosset Hove, Simon Sears
Release date: February 21 (France)

​A brother odyssey set in a worker environment during a cold winter. We follow two brothers, their routines, habits, rituals and a violent feud that erupts between them and another family.

36 - Suspiria

Italy / USA
By Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name)
Starring Dakota Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Tilda Swinton
Release date: TBD

​A young American ballerina comes to train at a prestigious German dance academy and uncovers the school's dark and menacing secrets.

35 - Sister

USA
By Sia
Starring Kate Hudson, Maddie Ziegler
Release date: TBD

Details the story of a sober drug dealer and their disabled sister.
Directorial debut of famous singer/composer Sia, who also co-directed her videos (Elastic Heart, Chandelier, ...)

34 - Tully

USA
By Jason Reitman
​Written by Diablo Cody (Young Adult, Juno)
Starring Charlize Theron, Mackenzie Davis
Release date: April 20 (USA)
​
The film is about Marlo, a mother of three including a newborn, who is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant to the extravagance at first, Marlo comes to form a unique bond with the thoughtful, surprising and sometimes challenging young nanny named Tully.

33 - Altered Carbon

USA
By Miguel Sapochnik (Repo Men)
Starring James Purefoy, Joel Kinnaman
Release date: February 2 on Netflix

In the distant future, human consciousness can be digitized and downloaded into different bodies. Brought back to life after 250 years by Laurens Bancroft, the richest man on Earth, ex-Envoy soldier Takeshi Kovacs must solve Bancroft's attempted murder for the chance to live again in a world he doesn't recognize. 

32 - I Feel Good

France
By Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern (Mammuth)
Starring Jean Dujardin (The Artist), Yolande Moreau
Release date: September 26 (France)

Poussé hors du foyer par ses vieux parents, Jacques décide à 40 ans de devenir riche et célèbre, en exploitant le filon de la chirurgie esthétique low cost. Pour mettre au point son projet d’entreprise, il se réfugie chez sa sœur, directrice d’un village Emmaüs. A force de leur faire miroiter un avenir meilleur, il finira par emmener tout un groupe de compagnons dans une clinique en Roumanie… pour tous revenir plus beaux.

31 - The Bookshop

Spain / UK
By Isabel Coixet (The Secret Life of Words)
Starring Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Patricia Clarkson
Release date: TBD

Set in a small town in 1959 England, it is the story of a woman who decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.
​Nominated for 12 Goya Awards.

30 - Where'd You Go, Bernadette

USA
By Richard Linklater (Last Flag Flying, Boyhood)
Starring Cate Blanchett, Kristen Wiig, Judy Greer
Release date: May 11 (USA)

After her anxiety-ridden mother disappears, 15-year-old Bee does everything she can to track her down, discovering her troubled past in the process.

29 - Anna

France
By Luc Besson
Starring Sasha Luss, Luke Evans, Cillian Murphy, Helen Mirren
Release date: TBD

WIll focus on an action heroine.

28 - Un peuple et son roi (The People and their King)

France
By Pierre Schoeller (The Minister)
​Starring Gaspard Ulliel, Louis Garrel, Adèle Haenel
Release date: September 26 (France) #Cannes2018

Le film croise les destins d’hommes et de femmes du peuple français de 1789, et de figures historiques. Leur lieu de rencontre est la toute jeune Assemblée nationale. Au cœur de l’histoire, il y a le sort du Roi et le surgissement de la République…

27 - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

USA
By Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (Hail, Caesar!)
Starring Bill Heck, Charles Ash, Brian Brown
Release date: TBD on Netflix

The miniseries will be an anthology western following six different storylines.

26 - Umi wo Kakeru (The Man from the Sea)

Japan / Indonesia
By Kôji Fukada (Harmonium, Sayonara)
Starring Dean Fujioka, Tsurata Mayu, Taiga
Release date: TBD

A mysterious man appears on the shores of an Indonesian beach. He is discovered by a Japanese woman and her son who are there to help with disaster recovery efforts in the aftermath of war and the 2004 tsunami. This marks the beginning of strange happenings.

25 - Mary Magdalene

UK
By Garth Davis (Lion)
Starring Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Release date: March 16 (UK)

​The story of Mary Magdalene.

24 - Good Omens

UK
By Neil Gaiman (American Gods)
Starring David Tennant, Michael Sheen
Release date: TBD on Amazon

A tale of the bungling of Armageddon features an angel, a demon, an 11-year-old Antichrist and a doom-saying witch.
The series is adapted from the 1990 novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, with the screenplay written by Gaiman based on the novel.

23 - Vernon Subutex

France
Starring Romain Duris (All the Money in the World)
Release date: TBD on Canal+

Un ancien disquaire parisien est expulsé de chez lui. L'histoire de cet homme en marge et à la dérive permet de faire la connaissance de personnages issus de différentes classes sociales.
Adapted from the best-selling books by Virginie Despentes (Bye Bye Blondie, King Kong Theory).

22 - Roma

Mexico
By Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity)
Starring Marina de Tavira, Daniela Demesa
Release date: TBD #Venice2018

A story that chronicles a year in the life of a middle-class family in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
​Based on an original screenplay by Cuaron.

21 - Peterloo

UK
By Mike Leigh (Mr. Turner, Another Year)
Starring Teresa Mahoney, Adam Long, Rory Kinnear
Release date: TBD #Cannes2018

The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.

20 - Mirai no Mirai (Mirai of the Future)

Japan
By Mamoru Hosoda (Boy and the Beast, Summer Wars)
Release date: July 20 (Japan)

A young boy encounters a magical garden which enables him to travel through time and meet his relatives from different eras, with guidance by his younger sister from the future.

19 - Black Klansman

USA
By Spike Lee (Chi-Raq)
Starring John David Washington, Adam Driver, Topher Grace, Laura Harrier
Release date: TBD

Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully managed to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan and became the head of the local chapter.
​Produced by Jason Blum & Jordan Peele (Get Out).

18 - Kidding

USA
By Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
Starring Jim Carrey, Catherine Keener, Frank Langella
Release date: TBD on Showtime

Jeff, aka Mr. Pickles, an icon of children's television, a beacon of kindness and wisdom to America's impressionable young minds and the parents who grew up with him - who also anchors a multimillion-dollar branding empire. But when this beloved personality's family begins to implode, Jeff finds no fairy tale or fable or puppet will guide him through the crisis. The result: a kind man in a cruel world faces a slow leak of sanity as hilarious as it is heartbreaking.

17 - Annihilation

UK / USA
By Alex Garland (Ex Machina)
Starring Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, Oscar Isaac, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Release date: February 23 (UK)

A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition where the laws of nature don't apply.

16 - Isle of Dogs

USA / Germany
By Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Starring Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Greta Gerwig, Edward Norton
Release date: March 23 (USA) #Berlinale2018

Set in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy's odyssey in search of his dog.

15 - Bohemian Rhapsody

UK / USA
By Dexter Fletcher (Eddie the Eagle), Bryan Singer
Starring Rami Malek (Mr. Robot), Aidan Gillen
Release date: December 25 (USA)

A chronicle of the years leading up to Queen's legendary appearance at the Live Aid concert in 1985.

14 - First Man

USA
By Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
Starring Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy
Release date: October 12 (USA)

A look at the life of the astronaut Neil Armstrong and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.

13 - The Man who killed Don Quixote

UK / Spain
By Terry Gilliam (Zero Theorem, Brazil)
Starring Jonathan Pryce, Adam Driver
Release date: May (France) #Cannes2018

An advertising executive jumps back and forth in time between 21st century London and 17th century La Mancha, where Don Quixote mistakes him for Sancho Panza.

12 - The Incredibles 2

USA
By Brad Bird (Tomorrowland, The Incredibles)
Starring Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter
Release date: June 15 (USA)

Bob Parr (Mr. Incredible) is left to care for Jack-Jack while Helen (Elastigirl) is out saving the world.

11 - I Think We're Alone Now

USA
By Reed Morano (The Handmaid's Tale)
Starring Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones), Elle Fanning
Release date: January 21 (USA)

The apocalypse proves a blessing in disguise for one lucky recluse -- until a second survivor arrives with the threat of companionship.

10 - The House That Jack Built

Denmark
By Lars Von Trier (Nymphomaniac, Melancholia)
Starring Matt Dillon, Uma Thurman, Bruno Ganz
Release date: TBD #Cannes2018

USA in the 1970s. We follow the highly intelligent Jack over a span of 12 years and are introduced to the murders that define Jack's development as a serial killer. Along the way we experience Jack's descriptions of his personal condition, problems and thoughts through a recurring conversation with the unknown Verge - a grotesque mixture of sophistry mixed with an almost childlike self-pity and psychopathic explanations.
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9 - Mute

UK / Germany
By Duncan Jones (Moon, Warcraft)
Starring Alexander Skarsgard, Paul Rudd, Justin Theroux
Release date: TBD on Netflix

Berlin. Forty years from today. A roiling city of immigrants, where East crashes against West in a science-fiction Casablanca. Leo Beiler, a mute bartender has one reason and one reason only for living here, and she's disappeared. But when Leo's search takes him deeper into the city's underbelly, an odd pair of American surgeons seem to be the only recurring clue, and Leo can't tell if they can help, or who he should fear most.

8 - Backseat

USA
By Adam McKay (The Big Short)
Starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams
Release date: TBD

The story of Dick Cheney, the most powerful Vice President in history, and how his policies changed the world as we know it.

7 - The Sisters Brothers

USA / France
By Jacques Audiard (Dheepan, A Prophet)
Starring John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal, Riz Ahmed
Release date: TBD #Cannes2018

The story revolves around the gold prospector Hermann Kermit Warm, who's being pursued across 1000 miles of 1850s Oregon desert to San Francisco by the notorious assassins Eli and Charlie Sisters. Except Eli is having a personal crisis and beginning to doubt the longevity of his chosen career. And Hermann might have a better offer.

6 - Jusqu'à la garde (Custody)

France
By Xavier Legrand
Starring Léa Drucker, Denis Ménochet (Inglourious Basterds)
Release date: February 7 (France)

A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the centre.
Won Best Director & Best Debut in Venice. Based on the Oscar-nominated short 'Avant que de tout perdre'.

5 - Alita: Battle Angel

USA
By Robert Rodriguez (Sin City: A Dame To Kill For)
Starring Rosa Salazar, Jennifer Connelly, Christoph Waltz, Mahershala Ali
Release date: July 20 (USA)

A story of one young woman's journey to discover the truth of who she is and her fight to change the world.
Written by James Cameron, based on the manga 'Gunnm'.

4 - Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno

France / Italy
By Abdellatif Kechiche (Blue is the Warmest Color)
Starring Shaïn Boumedine, Ophélie Bau
Release date: February 14 (France)

Amin, a young screenwriter goes to his Mediterranean home town for a summer vacation where he falls in love with Jasmine, and meets a producer who agrees to finance his first film. But the producer's wife shows interest in Amin, leaving him to decide between her, Jasmine and his career.
Based on a novel by François Bégaudeau (The Class).

3 - Too Old to Die Young

USA
By Nicolas Winding Refn (The Neon Demon)
Starring William Baldwin, Miles Teller, Jena Malone
Release date: TBD on Amazon

It explores the criminal underbelly of Los Angeles by following characters' existential journeys from being killers to becoming samurais in the City of Angels.

2 - High Life

UK / France / Germany
By Claire Denis (White Material, Trouble Every Day)
Starring Robert Pattinson, Mia Goth (A Cure For Wellness), Juliette Binoche
Release date: TBD

Takes place beyond the solar system in a future that seems like the present. About a group of criminals who accept a mission in space to become the subjects of a human reproduction experiment. They find themselves in the most unimaginable situation after a storm of cosmic rays hit the ship.

1 - The Death and Life of John F. Donovan

Canada
By Xavier Dolan (Laurence Anyways, Mommy)
​Starring Kit Harington, Jacob Tremblay, Natalie Portman, Kathy Bates, Susan Sarandon, Thandie Newton, Jessica Chastain, Michael Gambon, Bella Thorne, Ben Schnetzer
Release date: TBD #Cannes2018

A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces the written correspondence he shared with him, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.