1983 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or Winner and Nominees

The Ballad of Narayama

Shôhei Imamura

In a poor 19th century rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a nearby mountain to die. An old woman is getting close to the cut-off age, and we follow her last days with her family.

A Railway Station for Two

Eldar Ryazanov

Carmen

Carlos Saura

Cross Creek

Martin Ritt

El sur

Víctor Erice

Eréndira

Ruy Guerra

Forbidden Relations

Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács

Heat and Dust

James Ivory

L’argent

Robert Bresson

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

Nagisa Ôshima

Nostalgia

Andrei Tarkovsky

One Deadly Summer

Jean Becker

Tender Mercies

Bruce Beresford

The Case Is Closed

Mrinal Sen

The Death of Mario Ricci

Claude Goretta

The King of Comedy

Martin Scorsese

The Meaning of Life

Terry Jones

The Moon in the Gutter

Jean-Jacques Beineix

The Story of Piera

Marco Ferreri

The Wall

Yilmaz Güney

The Wounded Man

Patrice Chéreau

The Year of Living Dangerously

Peter Weir