Every Venice Golden Lion winner — and where to watch it in India
The Venice Film Festival Golden Lion is the Venice Film Festival's top prize and the oldest award in world cinema. This guide tracks all 66 films to win it, from 1949–2025, and shows exactly where to stream each one in India. 4 of the 66 winning films are on an Indian OTT subscription right now — across JioHotstar, Netflix and Prime Video — and the rest are listed with their rent or buy options or marked as not yet on Indian streaming. The most recent winner is Father Mother Sister Brother (2025), available to rent or buy in India.
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Golden Lion winners streaming on Indian OTT now
4 of the 66 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion winners you can watch on a subscription in India right now, best-known first.
All 66 Venice Golden Lion winners, 1949–2025
Every winner in reverse-chronological order, with its India streaming home, director and a short synopsis.
- 2025

Father Mother Sister Brother
6.4Dir. Jim JarmuschEstranged siblings reunite after years apart, forced to confront unresolved tensions and reevaluate their strained relationships with their emotionally distant parents.
Rent or buy in IndiaComedyDrama - 2024

The Room Next Door
6.7Dir. Pedro AlmodóvarIngrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an ext
Rent or buy in IndiaDramaComedy - 2023

Poor Things
7.6Dir. Yorgos LanthimosBrought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.
Rent or buy in IndiaScience FictionRomance - 2022

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
7.2Dir. Laura PoitrasThe life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.
Not on Indian OTT yetDocumentary - 2021

Happening
7.2Dir. Audrey DiwanFrance, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves
Not on Indian OTT yetDrama - 2020

Nomadland
7.2Dir. Chloé ZhaoA woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
Not on Indian OTT yetDrama - 2019

Joker
8.1Dir. Todd PhillipsDuring the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
- 2018

- 2017

The Shape of Water
7.2Dir. Guillermo del ToroAn other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
Rent or buy in IndiaDramaFantasy - 2016

The Woman Who Left
6.9Dir. Lav DiazAfter three decades' wrongful incarceration for murder, a woman discovers that her friend and fellow inmate committed the murder of which she was accused. This leads to her release and subsequent discovery of the man who framed her — her ruling class ex-lover.
Not on Indian OTT yetDrama - 2015

From Afar
6.1Dir. Lorenzo VigasArmando, a 50 year man, seeks young men in Caracas and pays them just for company. One day he meets Elder, a 17 years boy that is the leader of a criminal gang, and that meeting changes their lives forever.
Not on Indian OTT yetDrama - 2014

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
6.8Dir. Roy AnderssonAn absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.
Not on Indian OTT yetDramaComedy - 2013

Sacro GRA
5.9Dir. Gianfranco RosiAfter the India of Varanasi’s boatmen, the American desert of the dropouts, and the Mexico of the killers of drugtrade, Gianfranco Rosi has decided to tell the tale of a part of his own country, roaming and filming for over two years in a minivan on Rome’s giant ring road—the Grande Raccordo Anulare
Not on Indian OTT yetDocumentary - 2012

Pietà
7.0Dir. Kim Ki-dukA loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.
Not on Indian OTT yetDrama - 2011

Faust
6.6Dir. Aleksandr SokurovA doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionally killed and bargains with the Devil incarnate to conjure their union in exchange for his soul.
Not on Indian OTT yetFantasyDrama - 2010

Somewhere
6.1Dir. Sofia CoppolaAfter withdrawing to the Chateau Marmont, a passionless Hollywood actor reexamines his life when his eleven-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.
Rent or buy in IndiaDrama - 2009

Lebanon
6.5Dir. Samuel MaozDuring the First Lebanon War in 1982, a lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town.
Not on Indian OTT yetDramaWar - 2008

The Wrestler
7.5Dir. Darren AronofskyAging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy hangs up his tights, pursues a serious relationship with a long-in-the-tooth stripper, and tries to reconnect with his est
Not on Indian OTT yetDramaRomance - 2007

Lust, Caution
7.3Dir. Ang LeeDuring World War II, a secret agent must seduce, then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.
Not on Indian OTT yetActionDrama - 2006

Still Life
7.2Dir. Jia ZhangkeA town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and become witness to the societal changes.
Not on Indian OTT yetDramaRomance - 2005

Brokeback Mountain
7.8Dir. Ang LeeIn 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.
Rent or buy in IndiaDramaRomance - 2005

Orson Welles
Dir. Françoise LevieMalpertuis featurette on the casting of Welles, including rare outtakes of the actor
Not on Indian OTT yetDocumentary - 2004

Vera Drake
7.2Dir. Mike LeighAbortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
Not on Indian OTT yetDrama - 2003

The Return
8.5Dir. Peter JacksonAs armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forces of Light and Dark compete to determine the outcome--one member of the Fellowship of the Ring is revealed as the noble heir to the throne of the Kings of Men. Yet, the sole hope for triumph over evi
- 2002

The Magdalene Sisters
7.4Dir. Peter MullanThree young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
Not on Indian OTT yetDramaHistory - 2001

Monsoon Wedding
6.8Dir. Mira NairA stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around the world create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India.
Not on Indian OTT yetComedyDrama - 2000

The Circle
7.0Dir. Jafar PanahiVarious women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.
Not on Indian OTT yetDrama - 1999

Not One Less
7.5Dir. Zhang YimouSet in the People's Republic of China during the 1990s, the film centers on a 13-year-old substitute teacher, Wei Minzhi, in the Chinese countryside. Called in to substitute for a village teacher for one month, Wei is told not to lose any students.
Not on Indian OTT yetDrama - 1998

The Way We Laughed
6.9Dir. Gianni AmelioStudying to become a teacher in 1950s Northern Italy, Sicilian immigrant Pietro is joined by his big brother Giovanni. Pietro shows considerable promise in his field, prompting illiterate Giovanni to take on even the toughest jobs in order to support his sibling's academic pursuits.
Not on Indian OTT yetDrama - 1997

Hana-bi
7.7Dir. Takeshi KitanoBeleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.
Not on Indian OTT yetCrimeDrama - 1996

Michael Collins
6.9Dir. Neil JordanMichael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.
Rent or buy in IndiaWarDrama - 1995

Cyclo
6.9Dir. Trần Anh HùngFollows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to petty crime on behalf of a mysterious Madame from whom he rents his cycl
Not on Indian OTT yetDramaCrime - 1994

Before the Rain
7.4Dir. Milcho ManchevskiThe circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during the war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant
Not on Indian OTT yetDramaWar - 1993

Short Cuts
7.2Dir. Robert AltmanMany loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his p
Not on Indian OTT yetDramaComedy - 1992

The Story of Qiu Ju
7.3Dir. Zhang YimouWhen her husband is kicked in the groin by the village head, Qiu Ju, a peasant woman, despite her pregnancy, travels to a nearby town, and later a big city to deal with its bureaucrats and find justice.
Not on Indian OTT yetComedyDrama - 1991

Close to Eden
6.7Dir. Nikita MikhalkovA farmer and his wife live in a rural part of Inner Mongolia with their three children. Chinese population control policies prevent them from having any more. The farmer sets out for the nearest town to obtain birth control. He comes upon a Russian truck driver who has ended up in a lake. The farmer
Not on Indian OTT yetDrama - 1990

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
6.9Dir. Tom StoppardRosencrantz and Guildenstern, minor characters from the play 'Hamlet', find themselves on the road to Elsinore Castle at the behest of the King of Denmark. The duo encounter a band of players before arriving to find that they are needed to try to discern what troubles the prince Hamlet. Meanwhile, t
Not on Indian OTT yetComedyDrama - 1989

A City of Sadness
7.5Dir. Hou Hsiao-hsienThe story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror," the Kuomintang government's anti-communist political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people from 1947-1987.
Not on Indian OTT yetDramaHistory - 1988

The Legend of the Holy Drinker
6.6Dir. Ermanno OlmiAndreas Kartak, a homeless man living under the bridges of Paris, is lent 200 francs by a stranger as long as he promises to repay it to a local church when he can afford to. Kartak is determined to pay back his debt but circumstances, and his alcoholism, forever intervene.
Not on Indian OTT yetDrama - 1987

Au revoir les enfants
7.5Dir. Louis MalleAu revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own
Not on Indian OTT yetDramaWar - 1986

The Green Ray
7.5Dir. Éric RohmerA lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.
Not on Indian OTT yetDramaRomance - 1985

Vagabond
7.3Dir. Agnès VardaMona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a p
Not on Indian OTT yetDrama - 1984

A Year of the Quiet Sun
6.5Dir. Krzysztof ZanussiShortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. Eventually he will return to the U.S. and both expect that she will soon follow him with her mother. Emilia's mother is sick, but will recover with the right medicine. But the mother, and not Emilia,
Not on Indian OTT yetRomanceDrama - 1983

First Name: Carmen
6.0Dir. Jean-Luc GodardA woman involved with a terrorist group becomes dangerously close to the police officer guarding the bank they plan to rob.
Not on Indian OTT yetCrimeDrama - 1982

The State of Things
6.4Dir. Wim WendersOn location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.
Not on Indian OTT yetDrama - 1981

Marianne and Juliane
7.0Dir. Margarethe von TrottaGermany, 1968: The priest's daughters Marianna and Juliane both fight for changes in society, like making abortion legal. However their means are totally different: while Juliane's committed as a reporter, her sister joins a terroristic organization. After she's caught by the police and put into iso
Rent or buy in IndiaDrama - 1980

Atlantic City
6.8Dir. Louis MalleIn a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
Not on Indian OTT yetCrimeDrama - 1979
The New York Times
Dir. Patricia ErensPatricia Erens interviews patrons of the local drugstore in the tiny village of Three Oaks, Michigan, who all get up early Sunday morning to pay five dollars for one of the limited number of copies of The New York Times Sunday newspaper.
Not on Indian OTT yet - 1968

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
5.9Dir. Alexander KlugeA young circus director ends up going into television after her father, a trapeze performer, dies in a circus accident.
Not on Indian OTT yetDrama - 1967

Belle de Jour
7.3Dir. Luis BuñuelBeautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Bell
Rent or buy in IndiaDramaRomance - 1966

The Battle of Algiers
7.9Dir. Gillo PontecorvoParatrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings of the Algerian War. There he faces Ali la Pointe, a former petty criminal who, as the leader of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale,
Not on Indian OTT yetDramaWar - 1965

Sandra
7.0Dir. Luchino ViscontiSandra returns to her hometown to take care of family business, but childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.
Not on Indian OTT yetDramaMystery - 1964

Red Desert
7.3Dir. Michelangelo AntonioniIn an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.
Not on Indian OTT yetDrama - 1963

Hands over the City
7.4Dir. Francesco RosiPrior to a city council election, the collapse of a building leaves a land developer and his political backers defending themselves against a scandal.
Not on Indian OTT yetDrama - 1962

Family Diary
7.0Dir. Valerio ZurliniEnrico is a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945. He receives a phone call informing him that his younger brother Lorenzo has died. Enrico recalls their long and difficult relationship; he was brought up by their poor but warm-hearted grandmother, Lorenzo was raised as a gentleman by a wealthy
Not on Indian OTT yetDrama - 1961

Last Year at Marienbad
7.4Dir. Alain ResnaisAt a weekend gathering, a man tells a woman that they had spent time there together a year prior. But, the woman has no recollection whatsoever and is convinced that he is simply fabricating the encounter. The more he speaks about their activities the previous year however, the more compelling he be
Not on Indian OTT yetDramaRomance - 1960

Tomorrow Is My Turn
6.5Dir. André CayatteFollowing the defeat of France by Germany during WWII, two French soldiers are taken to a German farm as forced laborers.
Not on Indian OTT yetDramaWar - 1959

General Della Rovere
7.5Dir. Roberto RosselliniIn WWII-Italy, the Gestapo blackmails a con man to impersonate a dead partisan commander in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.
Not on Indian OTT yetDramaWar - 1958

Rickshaw Man
7.2Dir. Hiroshi InagakiA poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.
Not on Indian OTT yetDramaComedy - 1957

Aparajito
7.9Dir. Satyajit RayApu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As he progresses from wide-eyed child to intellectually curious teenager, eventually studying in Kolkata, we witness his academic and moral education, as well as the growing complexity of his relationsh
Drama - 1955

Ordet
7.9Dir. Carl Theodor DreyerThe three sons of devout Danish farmer Morten have widely disparate religious beliefs. Youngest son Anders shares his father's religion, but eldest son Mikkel has lost his faith, while middle child Johannes has become delusional and proclaims that he is Jesus Christ himself. When Mikkel's wife, Inge
Not on Indian OTT yetDrama - 1954

Romeo and Juliet
5.4Dir. Renato CastellaniIn Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.
Not on Indian OTT yetDramaRomance - 1952

Forbidden Games
7.8Dir. René ClémentOrphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant boy, and the two quickly become close. Together, they try to make sense of the chaotic and crumbling world around them, attempting to cope with death as they create a burial ground for Paulette's dece
Not on Indian OTT yetDramaWar - 1951

Rashomon
8.0Dir. Akira KurosawaFour people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
Not on Indian OTT yetCrimeDrama - 1950

Justice Is Done
6.4Dir. André CayatteElsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal life experience and subsequently each member reads something different into the presented facts.
Not on Indian OTT yetDramaMystery - 1949

Manon
6.9Dir. Henri-Georges ClouzotPort of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of collaborating with the Nazis, and Robert, a freedom fighter who saved her from reprisals, tell the captain about the many challenges they have had to face in
Not on Indian OTT yetDramaAdventure
Venice Golden Lion winners on OTT — FAQ
- How many Venice Golden Lion winners can I watch on OTT in India?
- 4 of the 66 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion winners are streaming on an Indian OTT subscription right now. Use the "Streaming in India" filter above to see just those.
- What is the latest Venice Golden Lion winner?
- The most recent Venice Film Festival Golden Lion winner is Father Mother Sister Brother (2025). It is available to rent or buy in India.
- Which platform has the most Venice winners in India?
- JioHotstar carries the most Venice Film Festival Golden Lion winners on Indian OTT — 2 of them right now.
- Where can I watch Joker?
- Joker (2019), which won the Venice Film Festival Golden Lion, is streaming on JioHotstar in India.
- How often is this films availability updated?
- We refresh the streaming availability for every Venice Film Festival Golden Lion winner regularly as titles move between Indian OTT platforms, so this list reflects where each winner streams now — not where it launched.
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