Whether it’s stumbling across a movie or TV show filming or just wandering around downtown, you can regularly catch a glimpse of celebrities in Toronto. But during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), wherever you go about town, it’s a regular smorgasbord of celebrity sightings.
There are many great movies coming to TIFF this year from September 5-15, 2013, but if you want to get your fill of star gazing, here’s the movies that may just give you want you’re looking for:
| Movie | Stars |
| 12 Years a Slave | Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Paul Giamatti, Alfre Woodard and Benedict Cumberbatch |
| The Art of the Steal | Kurt Russell, Matt Dillon, Terence Stamp and Jay Baruchel |
| August: Osage County | Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Abigail Breslin, Sam Shepard, Dermot Mulroney, Juliette Lewis, Chris Cooper, and Benedict Cumberbatch |
| Bad Words | Jason Bateman and Allison Janney |
| Belle | Gugu Mbatha Raw, Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Penelope Wilton, Tom Felton, Matthew Goode, and Emily Watson |
| The Big Chill (35th anniversary) | Glenn Close and Meg Tilly |
| Blood Ties | Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Marion Cotillard, Mila Kunis, Zoe Saldana, and James Caan |
| Can a Song Save Your Life? | Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, Hailee Steinfeld, Adam Levine, Cee Lo Green, and Catherine Keener |
| Child of God | James Franco |
| Dallas Buyers Club | Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, and Jared Leto |
| Devil’s Knot | Reese Witherspoon, Colin Firth, Kevin Durand, Bruce Greenwood, and Stephen Moyer |
| The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her | Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Viola Davis, Bill Hader, Ciaran Hinds, Isabelle Huppert, and William Hurt |
| Dom Hemingway | Jude Law, Richard E. Grant, and Emilia Clarke |
| Don Jon | Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt |
| The Double | Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, and Wallace Shawn |
| Enemy | Jake Gyllenhaal and Isabella Rossellini |
| Enough Said (one of the late James Gandolfini‘s final films) | Catherine Keener, Toni Collette, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus |
| The F Word | Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan |
| The Face of Love | Annette Bening, Ed Harris, Robin Williams, and Amy Brenneman |
| Fading Gigolo | John Turturro, Woody Allen, Vanessa Paradis, Liev Schreiber, Sharon Stone, and Sofia Vergara |
| Felony | Tom Wilkinson, Joel Edgerton, and Melissa George |
| The Fifth Estate (festival opening film) | Benedict Cumberbatch, Anthony Mackie, David Thewlis, Peter Capaldi, Dan Stevens, Stanley Tucci, and Laura Linney |
| Gravity | Sandra Bullock and George Clooney |
| Hateship Loveship | Kristen Wiig, Guy Pearce, Hailee Steinfeld, Nick Nolte, Christine Lahti, and Jennifer Jason Leigh |
| Horns | Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple, Heather Graham, David Morse, and Kathleen Quinlan |
| How I Live Now | Saoirse Ronan |
| The Invisible Woman | Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, and Kristin Scott Thomas |
| Joe | Nicolas Cage |
| Khumba (animated) | Steve Buscemi, Laurence Fishburne, Richard E. Grant, Catherine Tate, and Liam Neeson |
| Kill Your Darlings | Daniel Radcliffe, Michael C. Hall, Ben Foster, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Elizabeth Olsen, and Kyra Sedgwick |
| Labor Day | Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin, Tobey Maguire, Clark Gregg, JK Simmons, and James Van Der Beek |
| The Last of Robin Hood | Dakota Fanning, Susan Sarandon, and Kevin Kline |
| Life of Crime (festival closing film) | Jennifer Aniston, Isla Fisher, and Tim Robbins |
| The Love Punch | Emma Thompson and Pierce Brosnan |
| Lucky Them | Toni Collette, Oliver Platt, and Thomas Haden Church |
| Man of Tai Chi | Keanu Reeves |
| Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom | Idris Elba |
| Night Moves | Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, and Peter Sarsgaard |
| OCULUS | Karen Gillan and Katee Sackhoff |
| Only Lovers Left Alive | Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt, and Anton Yelchin |
| Parkland | Zac Efron, Colin Hanks, Marcia Gay Harden, Billy Bob Thornton, Jacki Weaver, Tom Welling, and Paul Giamatti |
| Philomena | Judi Dench and Steve Coogan |
| Prisoners | Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Melissa Leo, Paul Dano, Maria Bello, Viola Davis, and Terrence Howard |
| A Promise | Rebecca Hall, Alan Rickman, and Richard Madden |
| The Railway Man | Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, and Stellan Skarsgård |
| The Right Kind of Wrong | Catherine O’Hara and Ryan Kwanten |
| Rush | Chris Hemsworth and Olivia Wilde |
| Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon | Mike Myers |
| Therese | Elizabeth Olsen, Tom Felton, and Jessica Lange |
| Third Person | Liam Neeson, Mila Kunis, Adrien Brody, James Franco, Olivia Wilde, Maria Bello, and Kim Basinger |
| Tracks | Mia Wasikowska |
| Under the Skin | Scarlett Johansson |
| Words and Pictures | Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche |
| You Are Here | Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis, and Amy Poehler |
Two other movies you may also want to check out are All the Wrong Reasons and McCanick, the two final onscreen performances by the late Corey Monteith.
The schedule will be announced August 20th, so keep an eye on OLV and we’ll keep you up-to-date on festival happenings!
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