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1963 Cannes Film Festival - Best Screenplay WinnerThe 317th PlatoonPierre SchoendoerfferIn Vietnam, 1954, a French platoon isolated behind enemy lines tries to come back. It is led by the inexperienced, idealistic sous-lieutenant Torrens, and by adjutant Willsdorf, a WWII veteran of the Werhmacht.AmazonThe HillRay RigbyIn a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards.Amazon

1967 Cannes Film Festival - Best Screenplay WinnerThe Killing GameAlain JessuaTwo cartoonists meet a playboy who lives out the fantasies created in their cartoons. He hires them to create a new comic strip. As they work on the new strip, the playboy begins to live it...AmazonWe Still Kill the Old WayElio PetriA leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to learn it.Amazon

1974 Cannes Film Festival - Best Screenplay WinnerThe Sugarland ExpressHal BarwoodA woman attempts to reunite her family by helping her husband escape prison and together kidnapping their son. But things don't go as planned when they are forced to take a police hostage on the road.Amazon

1980 Cannes Film Festival - Best Screenplay WinnerLa terrazzaEttore ScolaExpensive vines, tables filled with food, but emptiness inside. Everyone has stopped developing, and fastened in their roles. Hurtful, but still funny story about human development.Amazon

1981 Cannes Film Festival - Best Screenplay WinnerMephistoIstván SzabóA German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and ...Amazon

1982 Cannes Film Festival - Best Screenplay WinnerMoonlightingJerzy SkolimowskiA Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) has to manage the project and the men as ...Amazon

1984 Cannes Film Festival - Best Screenplay WinnerVoyage to CytheraTheodoros AngelopoulosAn old communist returns to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union. However, things aren't the way he had hoped for.Amazon

1994 Cannes Film Festival - Best Screenplay WinnerDead TiredMichel BlancWhat is going on here?!? French director, Michel Blanc (as Himself), just doesn't understand why his life is suddenly falling apart. This nightmarish comedy-thriller is all about identity. ...Amazon

1996 Cannes Film Festival - Best Screenplay WinnerA Self-Made HeroJacques AudiardSet in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator. He leaves his wife and goes to Paris. Gradually he ...Amazon

1997 Cannes Film Festival - Best Screenplay WinnerThe Ice StormJames SchamusIn suburban New Canaan, Connecticut, 1973, middle class families experimenting with casual sex and substance abuse find their lives beyond their control.Amazon