Silver Lion – Best Director

1989 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Best Director WinnerDeath of a Tea MasterKei KumaiYears after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death. Years before: Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who ...AmazonRecollections of the Yellow HouseJoão César MonteiroLisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor idiot, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.Amazon

1988 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Best Director WinnerLandscape in the MistTheodoros AngelopoulosTwo children journey the long road to Germany to find the man they believe to be their father.Amazon

1987 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Best Director WinnerLong Live the Lady!Ermanno OlmiAmazonMauriceJames IvoryAfter his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.Amazon

1957 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Best Director WinnerLe notti biancheLuchino ViscontiA humble clerk courts a woman who night after night awaits for the return of her lover.Amazon

1955 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Best Director WinnerCiske de RatWolfgang StaudteAmazonLe amicheMichelangelo AntonioniA young woman returns to her home town of Turin to set up a new fashion salon and gets involved with a troubled woman and her three wealthy friends.AmazonThe Big KnifeRobert AldrichHollywood actor Charles Castle is pressured by his studio boss into a criminal cover-up to protect his valuable career.AmazonThe GrasshopperSamson SamsonovOsip Ivanovich Dymov, the titular counselor and the doctor of thirty one years, serves in two hospitals at the same time: intern and anatomist. From nine o'clock in the morning and in the ...Amazon

1954 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Best Director WinnerLa stradaFederico FelliniA care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.AmazonOn the WaterfrontElia KazanAn ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.AmazonSansho the BailiffKenji MizoguchiIn medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.AmazonSeven SamuraiAkira KurosawaA poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.Amazon

1953 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Best Director WinnerI vitelloniFederico FelliniA character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.AmazonLittle FugitiveRay AshleyA young boy fears that he shot his older brother, who is only faking. He then runs away to Coney Island, a crowded beach area, and gets money by returning soda bottles for their deposits.AmazonMoulin RougeJohn HustonFictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.AmazonSadkoAleksandr PtushkoArriving home to find his native land under the yoke of corrupt merchants, an adventurer named Sadko sets sail in search of a mythical bird of happiness.AmazonThe AdultressMarcel CarnéA truckdriver kills the husband of the woman he loves, and becomes the object of blackmai...

2018 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Best Director WinnerThe Sisters BrothersJacques AudiardIn 1850s Oregon, the infamous duo of assassins, Eli and Charlie Sisters, chase a gold prospector and his unexpected ally.Amazon

2017 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Best Director WinnerCustodyXavier LegrandA broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the centre.Amazon