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1974 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury WinnerArabian NightsPier Paolo PasoliniAncient Arabia. A youth is chosen by a beautiful slave girl to be her new master; she is kidnapped and they must search for each other. Stories are told within stories; love, travel and the whims of destiny.Amazon

1975 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury WinnerThe Enigma of Kaspar HauserWerner HerzogA young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note.Amazon

1976 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury WinnerCría cuervosCarlos SauraIn the twilight of Francisco Franco's dictatorship, an eight-year-old orphan and her two sisters find shelter in the house of their stern aunt, trying their best to acclimatise to a new reality. Will they summon up the courage to grow up?AmazonThe Marquise of OÉric RohmerA German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.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

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

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

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

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

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

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