Cannes Film Festival

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

1983 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury WinnerThe Meaning of LifeTerry JonesThe comedy team takes a look at life in all its stages in their own uniquely silly way.Amazon

1982 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury WinnerThe Night of the Shooting StarsPaolo TavianiIn 1944, the residents of a small Italian town under Axis control flee their homes to seek out the liberating Allied forces.Amazon

1981 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury WinnerLight Years AwayAlain TannerA young drifter meets up with a strange old man who claims that he has been taught to fly by birds.Amazon

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

1979 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury WinnerSiberiadeAndrey KonchalovskiyThe story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till early 80s. Three generations try to find the land of ...Amazon

1978 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury WinnerBye Bye MonkeyMarco FerreriA man walking on the beach near New York City finds the corpse of King Kong. He also finds Kong's orphaned son, and takes it to a friend who lives in the city, and they decide to raise it.AmazonThe ShoutJerzy SkolimowskiA traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.Amazon