The Toronto International Film Festival is known for offering up a cinematic buffet of titles that’ll satisfy any filmgoer’s taste.

Just interested in the stars? TIFF’s got plenty of them. Hoping to see what will likely be next year’s Best Picture Oscar winner? TIFF’s got a pretty good track record of picking that too. Only want docs? No problem. TIFF’s doc selections marry celebrity with thought provoking subject matter. In the mood for thrills and chills? TIFF’s Midnight Madness program pushes the envelope.

So there’s a lot to chew on – cinematically speaking – as the biggest film fest in Canada gets ready to unspool.

And even though we love to find hidden gems, we’ve sifted through all the titles headed to Hogtown to bring you the biggest and most intriguing films coming to this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.

Suburbicon (Special Presentations): Director George Clooney, co-writers Joel and Ethan Coen and stars Matt Damon, Julianne Moore and Oscar Isaac return to the festival with a tale about some very flawed people making very bad choices in an otherwise idyllic 1950s community. “It’s a pretty angry film,” Clooney said in a recent interview with the Associated Press. “There’s a lot of anger out there. I think that’s reflected in the film.

“The main idea of the film was to pick some fights and I always like picking fights.”

Sounds like there will be blood... and lots of it.

First screening: Saturday, Sept. 9, 6:30 p.m. – Visa Screening Room at the Princess of Wales Theatre

mother!(Special Presentations):“I want to make a paradise,” Jennifer Lawrence says in the trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s dark psychological horror. Co-starring Javier Bardem, the latest from the director of Black Swan examines a couple whose relationship is tested when two unexpected – and uninvited – guests show up at their country home.

First screening: Sunday, Sept. 10, 9:15 p.m. – Visa Screening Room at the Princess of Wales Theatre

Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars (TIFF Docs): Oscar winner Lili Fini Zanuck directs the definitive screen bio of Slowhand featuring interviews with Clapton’s family, friends and collaborators, including B.B. King, George Harrison and Jimi Hendrix. Zanuck was given access to Clapton’s “extensive personal archive of classic performance clips, on- and off-stage footage, iconic photos, concert posters, handwritten letters, drawings and personal diary entries.”

First screening: Sunday, Sept. 10, 6:15 p.m. – TIFF Bell Lightbox

Unicorn Store (Special Presentations):Before she joins the MCU as Captain Marvel, Brie Larson is taking a stab at directing with a quirky drama about a dreamer who gets offered the most magical gift she can imagine. "The idea of directing is not about success for me personally, it’s about putting more pieces on the board," Larson says of her first time effort. "My hope is that people watch the movie, and women can watch it and they can either go, 'Wow, I can’t believe she did that, I want to do that.' Or you can look at it and go, like, 'She did that?! I can do better than that! I’m up for the challenge.'”

First screening: Monday, Sept. 11, 3 p.m. – Ryerson

Molly’s Game (Special Presentations): Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut features Jessica Chastain in the true story of Molly Bloom, who ran one of the world’s most exclusive underground poker games for a decade before finding herself the target of an FBI investigation. “It feels like we’ve been to war together, and we’re closer from it,” Chastain tells EW of starring in the film with Idris Elba (who plays Molly’s lawyer).

First screening: Friday, Sept. 8, 6 p.m. – Elgin

I Love You, Daddy (Special Presentations): Comedian Louis C.K. steps behind the camera for the first time in 15 years for a fictional story about a television producer and his daughter (played by Chloe Grace Moretz). C.K. shot the film entirely in secret earlier this year in 35mm black and white. The cast also includes John Malkovich, Edie Falco and Charlie Day.

First screening: Saturday, Sept. 9, 5:30 p.m. – Ryerson

Long Time Running (Gala):Along with Life in 12 Bars, the festival has several other music-related films, including a doc on the Tragically Hip’s Man Machine Poem tour, which followed singer Gord Downie’s cancer diagnosis in 2016. “It was just a dream,” Downie says in the film’s trailer. “It was the best I’ve ever felt onstage. I wanted the shows to go on forever.” Pass the hankies.

First screening: Wednesday, Sept. 13, 9 p.m. – Roy Thompson Hall

The Carter Effect(TIFF Docs): It’ll be Vinsanity all over again as director Sean Menard gives moviegoers an unprecedented look at Vince Carter: the eight-time NBA All-Star who literally put the Toronto Raptors on the basketball map when he was drafted by the team in 1998. Produced by Drake and LeBron James, the film will feature a candid on-camera conversation from Carter himself as he reflects on his legacy both in Toronto and beyond.

First screening: Saturday, Sept. 9, 3:45 p.m. – Visa Screening Room at the Princess of Wales Theatre

Gaga: Five Foot Two (Special Event):Get ready Little Monsters: Lady Gaga is set to add some serious sparkle to the popcorn parade. The Grammy winner will attend the world premiere of her Netflix documentary Gaga: Five Foot Two. Following the screening, Gaga will perform an intimate musical set. The doc promises to give audiences an unfiltered look at the singer during the recording of her 2016 album Joanne, the aftermath of her breakup with fiancé Taylor Kinney and her appearance at Super Bowl 51.

First screening: Friday, Sept. 8, 6 p.m. – Visa Screening Room at the Princess of Wales Theatre

The Current War (Special Presentations): Oscar nominees Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon bring to life the rivalry between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse in the latest film from Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl). EW picked Cumberbatch’s portrayal as Edison as an early Oscar favourite in its recent fall preview.

First screening: Saturday, Sept. 9, 9:30 p.m. – Visa Screening Room at the Princess of Wales Theatre

Battle of the Sexes (Special Presentations):After finding Oscar gold at TIFF with last year’s crowd-pleasing La La Land, Emma Stone returns as tennis champ Billie Jean King in a biopic that examines her historic 1973 match against Bobby Riggs (played by Steve Carell). Riggs, decades removed from any sort of tennis relevance, came up with the $100,000 winner-take-all match. King was game, wanting to prove a woman could be just as good as a man in tennis.

First screening: Sunday, Sept. 10, 6 p.m. – Ryerson

Downsizing (Special Presentations):Matt Damon is aiming to make everyone forget about The Great Wall – his fantasy flop from earlier this year – by starring in a drama that mixes sci-fi and the human heart. Sideways director Alexander Payne taps Damon to play an unhappy everyman who tries to solve his problems — and help save the planet — by undergoing an experimental procedure that shrinks him down in size.

First screening: Monday, Sept. 11, 6 p.m. – Elgin

Borg/McEnroe (Gala Presentations): The epic rivalry between tennis legends Bjorn Borg (Sverrir Gudnason) and acerbic bad boy John McEnroe (Shia LaBeouf) culminated in one of the most tense sports events in history – the 1980 Wimbledon Championship. There could be some awkwardness with opening the fest with a film starring LaBeouf, who earlier this summer was arrested for public intoxication and was videotaped hurling racial epithets.

First screening: Thursday, Sept. 7, 8 p.m. – Roy Thompson Hall

The Shape of Water(Special Presentations): Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has enjoyed a love affair with screen monsters since his 1993 debut Cronos. The director returns to his adopted hometown of Toronto for the Canadian premiere of his horror romance that follows a janitor (Sally Hawkins) who finds love with a strange creature in a secretive government lab. The film also stars Michael Shannon and Octavia Spencer.

First screening: Monday, Sept. 11, 9:30 p.m. – Elgin

Dunkirk (Special Event):Ontario Place’s historic Cinesphere is getting dusted off for a special free screening of Christopher Nolan’s Second World War epic, which was shot in 70mm Imax. Nolan will stick around afterwards for an onstage conversation about the craft of making the immersive thriller. The world’s first permanent Imax theatre will also screen North of Superior, which helped open the Cinesphere in 1971.

Free screening: Sunday, Sept. 10, 1 p.m. – Ontario Place Cinesphere

Breathe (Gala Presentations): After last year’s stunning turn as Desmond Doss in Hacksaw Ridge, Andrew Garfield tackles another real-life tale, this time as Robin Cavendish, who was stricken by polio at age 28 and became an activist for the disabled. Lord of the Rings star Andy Serkis directs.

First screening: Monday, Sept. 11, 6 p.m. – Roy Thompson Hall

The Disaster Artist (Midnight Madness): James Franco really should just move to Toronto. He returns to the fest (again) with a spoof tribute to eccentric filmmaker Tommy Wiseau and his friend, actor Greg Sestero, who teamed up to make what is widely considered the worst movie of all time – The Room.

First screening: Monday, Sept. 11, 11:59 p.m. – Ryerson

The Killing of the Sacred Deer (Special Presentations):The newest feature from Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster) is a supernatural thriller revolving around a cardiac surgeon (Colin Farrell) who develops a paternal friendship with a 16-year-old named Martin (Barry Keoghan). Over time Steven introduces Martin to his wife (Nicole Kidman)... bad things probably happen. “I’m used to people being shocked,” Kidman told us about the film last year. “They’re going to be shocked at the thing I’m doing now — The Killing of a Sacred Deer. I’ll just let that sit there for a moment. That’s the title, get ready.”

First screening: Saturday, Sept. 9, 9 p.m. – Elgin

I, Tonya (Special Presentations): Margot Robbie is a master of physical transformation. This time, the Aussie actress steps into the skates of Tonya Harding in this biopic of one of the most harrowing moments in sports history – the attack on Olympic medal hopeful Nancy Kerrigan.

First screening: Friday, Sept. 8, 9:30 p.m. – Visa Screening Room at the Princess of Wales Theatre

The Mountain Between Us (Gala Presentations): Oscar winner Kate Winslet and Golden Globe winner Idris Elba star in this survival drama about strangers who must come together after their small plane crashes in the wilderness. It could be a case where the sum won’t equal the parts, but we’ll take a gamble on watching Elba and Winslet chew scenery for 104 minutes any day.

First screening: Sunday, Sept. 10, 6:30 p.m. – Roy Thompson Hall

Professor Marston & the Wonder Women (Special Presentations):One of the timeliest stories at TIFF this year – the true tale behind Wonder Woman's genesis. Luke Evans plays psychologist William Moulton Marston – the man who invented the DC superhero – with the film examining the relationship between himself, his wife Elizabeth (Rebecca Hall), and their shared romantic partner Olive Byrne (Bella Heathcote). “It’s fundamentally a love story between the three of them,” director Angela Robinson told EW.

First screening: Tuesday, Sept. 12, 6 p.m. – Visa Screening Room at the Princess of Wales Theatre

Roman J. Israel, Esq. (Special Presentations): A last-minute add to the fest, the latest from Dan Gilroy (Nightcrawler) finds Denzel Washington as an idealistic lawyer whose morals are threatened. Early reports have compared the film to Paul Newman’s The Verdict.

First screening: Sunday, Sept. 10, 9 p.m. — Ryerson

TIFF runs Sept. 7-17. For tickets and info, visitTIFF.net/tickets.

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