Cannes Film Festival

1998 Cannes Film Festival - Jury Prize WinnerClass TripClaude MillerA schoolboy Nicholas always worries about something. When he goes on a school skiing trip, all his visions and nightmares take him over.AmazonThe CelebrationThomas VinterbergAt Helge's 60th birthday party, some unpleasant family truths are revealed.Amazon

1997 Cannes Film Festival - Jury Prize WinnerWesternManuel PoirierCatalonian Paco is a traveling rep for a shoe manufacturer. When he stops to pick up Russian emigree hitchhiker Nino, Paco soon finds himself on the side of the road with everything stolen ...Amazon

1996 Cannes Film Festival - Jury Prize WinnerCrashDavid CronenbergAfter getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.Amazon

1995 Cannes Film Festival - Jury Prize WinnerCarringtonChristopher HamptonThe platonic relationship between artist Dora Carrington (Dame Emma Thompson) and writer Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce) in the early twentieth century.AmazonDon't Forget You're Going to DieXavier BeauvoisBenoit has planned out his life. Unfortunately he has forgotten the military duty. After he is called to duty he tries everything to get around. The story gets even worse as he is told by a military doctor that he is HIV positive.Amazon

1994 Cannes Film Festival - Jury Prize WinnerQueen MargotPatrice ChéreauYoung Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between Catholics and Protestants. She hopes to escape with a new lover, but finds herself imprisoned by her powerful and ruthless family.Amazon

1993 Cannes Film Festival - Jury Prize WinnerRaining StonesKen LoachThis Ken Loach film tells the story of a man devoted to his family and his religion. Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her ...AmazonThe PuppetmasterHsiao-Hsien HouPuppeteer Li Tian-lu tells his life story, and through it, the story of Taiwan in the first half of the 20th century.Amazon

1992 Cannes Film Festival - Jury Prize WinnerAn Independent LifeVitali KanevskyLittle Valerka has become a real teenager. He discovers love.AmazonThe Quince Tree SunVíctor EriceThe artist Antonio López tries to capture the sunlight hitting his quince tree all autumn, but the struggle seems futile.Amazon

1991 Cannes Film Festival - Jury Prize WinnerEuropaLars von TrierJust after W.W.II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.AmazonOut of LifeMaroun BagdadiA French photograher is kidnapped and held hostage in a war-torn Beirut. Slowly but surely his integrity and self-respect is broken.Amazon

1990 Cannes Film Festival - Jury Prize WinnerHidden AgendaKen LoachWhen an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth... which they soon ...Amazon

1989 Cannes Film Festival - Jury Prize WinnerJesus of MontrealDenys ArcandA group of actors put on an unorthodox, but acclaimed Passion Play which incites the opposition of the Catholic Church while the actors' lives themselves begin to mirror the Passion itself.Amazon