Every Venice Golden Lion winner, and where to watch it in India

2026·Dir. May el-Toukhy

Marie, a former housekeeper, plans an extravagant dinner party for her engagement to the household's patriarch. As preparations unfold, hidden aspects of her past begin to surface, threatening to disrupt the celebration.

2025·★IMDb 6.4·Dir. Jim Jarmusch

Estranged siblings reunite after years apart, forced to confront unresolved tensions and reevaluate their strained relationships with their emotionally distant parents.

2024·★IMDb 6.7·Dir. Pedro Almodóvar

Ingrid 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

2023·★IMDb 7.6·Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

Brought 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.

2022·★IMDb 7.1·Dir. Laura Poitras

The 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.

2021·★IMDb 7.2·Dir. Audrey Diwan

France, 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

2020·★IMDb 7.2·Dir. Chloé Zhao

A 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.

2019·★IMDb 8.1·Dir. Todd Phillips

During 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·★IMDb 7.6·Dir. Alfonso Cuarón

In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.

2017·★IMDb 7.2·Dir. Guillermo del Toro

An 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.

2016·★IMDb 6.9·Dir. Lav Diaz

After 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.

2015·★IMDb 6.1·Dir. Lorenzo Vigas

Armando, 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.

2014·★IMDb 6.8·Dir. Roy Andersson

An 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.

2013·★IMDb 5.9·Dir. Gianfranco Rosi

After 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

2012·★IMDb 7.0·Dir. Kim Ki-duk

A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.

2011·★IMDb 6.6·Dir. Aleksandr Sokurov

A 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.

2010·★IMDb 6.1·Dir. Sofia Coppola

After withdrawing to the Chateau Marmont, a passionless Hollywood actor reexamines his life when his eleven-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.

2009·★IMDb 6.5·Dir. Samuel Maoz

During the First Lebanon War in 1982, a lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town.

2008·★IMDb 7.5·Dir. Darren Aronofsky

Aging 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

2007·★IMDb 7.3·Dir. Ang Lee

During 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.

2006·★IMDb 7.2·Dir. Jia Zhangke

A 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.

2005·★IMDb 7.8·Dir. Ang Lee

In 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.

2004·★IMDb 7.2·Dir. Mike Leigh

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

2003·★IMDb 7.3·Dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev

Two young brothers in contemporary Russia are reunited with a father they know only from an old photograph after his sudden return from a long absence. With their mother’s reluctant consent, they set out on a remote trip that quickly becomes an uneasy test of authority, trust, and masculinity. As th

2002·★IMDb 7.5·Dir. Peter Mullan

Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.

2001·★IMDb 6.8·Dir. Mira Nair

A 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.

2000·★IMDb 7.0·Dir. Jafar Panahi

Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.

1999·★IMDb 7.5·Dir. Zhang Yimou

Set 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.

1998·★IMDb 6.8·Dir. Gianni Amelio

Studying 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.

1997·★IMDb 7.7·Dir. Takeshi Kitano

Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With those close to him suffering their own tribulations, Nishi's methods become increasingly extreme.

1996·★IMDb 6.9·Dir. Neil Jordan

Michael 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.

1995·★IMDb 6.9·Dir. Trần Anh Hùng

Follows 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

1994·★IMDb 7.3·Dir. Milcho Manchevski

The 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

1993·★IMDb 7.2·Dir. Robert Altman

Many 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

1992·★IMDb 7.3·Dir. Zhang Yimou

When 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.

1991·★IMDb 6.7·Dir. Nikita Mikhalkov

A 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

1990·★IMDb 6.9·Dir. Tom Stoppard

Rosencrantz 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

1989·★IMDb 7.5·Dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien

The 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.

1988·★IMDb 6.6·Dir. Ermanno Olmi

Andreas 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.

1987·★IMDb 7.5·Dir. Louis Malle

Au 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

1986·★IMDb 7.5·Dir. Éric Rohmer

A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.

1985·★IMDb 7.4·Dir. Agnès Varda

Mona 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

1984·★IMDb 6.5·Dir. Krzysztof Zanussi

Shortly 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,

1983·★IMDb 6.0·Dir. Jean-Luc Godard

A woman involved with a terrorist group becomes dangerously close to the police officer guarding the bank they plan to rob.

1982·★IMDb 6.4·Dir. Wim Wenders

On 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.

1981·★IMDb 7.0·Dir. Margarethe von Trotta

Germany, 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

1980·★IMDb 6.8·Dir. Louis Malle

In 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.

1979·Dir. Patricia Erens

Patricia 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.

1968·★IMDb 5.8·Dir. Alexander Kluge

A young circus director ends up going into television after her father, a trapeze performer, dies in a circus accident.

1967·★IMDb 7.3·Dir. Luis Buñuel

Beautiful 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

1966·★IMDb 7.9·Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo

Former petty criminal Ali la Pointe becomes a commander of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directing a guerilla insurgency against the colonial French occupation. Paratrooper commander Colonel Phillippe Mathieu, a veteran of World War II and the First Indochina War, is sent to Algeria to

1965·★IMDb 7.0·Dir. Luchino Visconti

Sandra returns to her hometown to take care of family business, but childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.

1964·★IMDb 7.3·Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni

In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.

1963·★IMDb 7.4·Dir. Francesco Rosi

Prior to a city council election, the collapse of a building leaves a land developer and his political backers defending themselves against a scandal.

1962·★IMDb 7.0·Dir. Valerio Zurlini

Enrico 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

1961·★IMDb 7.4·Dir. Alain Resnais

At 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

1960·★IMDb 6.5·Dir. André Cayatte

Following the defeat of France by Germany during WWII, two French soldiers are taken to a German farm as forced laborers.

1959·★IMDb 7.5·Dir. Roberto Rossellini

In WWII-Italy, the Gestapo blackmails a con man to impersonate a dead partisan commander in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.

1958·★IMDb 7.2·Dir. Hiroshi Inagaki

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

1957·★IMDb 7.8·Dir. Satyajit Ray

Apu 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

1955·★IMDb 7.9·Dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer

The 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

1954·★IMDb 5.4·Dir. Renato Castellani

In 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.

1952·★IMDb 7.8·Dir. René Clément

Orphaned 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

1951·★IMDb 8.0·Dir. Akira Kurosawa

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

1950·★IMDb 6.3·Dir. André Cayatte

Elsa 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.

1949·★IMDb 6.8·Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot

Port 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