Three films starring Tommy Lee Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer and Demi Moore are among the final 14 included in the 26-film competition line-up for February's Berlinale, festival director Dieter Kosslick said.
Jones features in In The Electric Mist by French director Bertrand Tavernier, about a detective hunting a serial killer in America's deep south, while Pfeiffer headlines in British director's Stephen Frears's period romance Cheri.
In independent production Happy Tears, Moore is launching a comeback to the cinema in a small budget family drama along with Ellen Barkin and Rip Torn .
The Berlinale, which runs from February 5-15, is Europe's first major film festival of the new year.
"With their very distinctive artistic styles, the films in competition provide evidence of living conditions in our globalised world," Kosslick said in a statement.
He added that 25 of the 26 films in the competition have now been confirmed.
The festival had already announced that The International, a thriller about the funding of war and terror by German director Tom Tykwer that features Clive Owen and Australia's Naomi Watts, will open the 59th annual festival.
Britain's Tilda Swinton , who won the Academy Award for best supporting actress last year for her performance in legal thriller Michael Clayton, will be jury president.
Swinton has appeared in 14 past Berlinale films.
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