Grand Prize of the Jury

1980 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury WinnerMy American UncleAlain ResnaisThe intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society.Amazon

1992 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury WinnerThe Stolen ChildrenGianni AmelioAntonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing ...Amazon

1991 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury WinnerLa belle noiseuseJacques RivetteThe former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.Amazon

1990 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury WinnerThe LawIdrissa OuedraogoSet in a pre-colonial African past, Tilai is about an illicit love affair and its consequences. Saga returns to his village after an extended absence to discover that his father has taken ...AmazonThe Sting of DeathKôhei OguriPeriod drama set in the 1950's about a couple isolating themselves from the outside world as they attempt to salvage their faltering marriage, no matter what the costs, after the husband has an affair.Amazon

1989 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury WinnerCinema ParadisoGiuseppe TornatoreA filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema's projectionist.AmazonToo Beautiful for YouBertrand BlierA car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon ...Amazon

1988 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury WinnerA World ApartChris MengesA White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her ...Amazon

1987 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury WinnerRepentanceTengiz AbuladzeThe day after the funeral of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, his corpse turns up in his son's garden and is secretly reburied. But the corpse keeps returning, and the ...Amazon

1986 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury WinnerThe SacrificeAndrei TarkovskyAt the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.Amazon

1985 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury WinnerBirdyAlan ParkerAfter two friends return home from the Vietnam War one becomes mentally unstable and obsesses with becoming a bird.Amazon

1984 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury WinnerDiary for My ChildrenMárta MészárosFrom one of the foremost woman directors comes a personal story of how history and the individual impact each other. A young woman (Juli) returns to her homeland only to find the horrors she escaped have infected it also.Amazon