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2008 Cannes Film Festival - Best Screenplay WinnerLorna's SilenceJean-Pierre DardenneSokol and Lorna, two Albanian emigrants in Belgium, dream of leaving their dreary jobs to set up a snack bar. They need money, and a permanent resident status. Claudy is a junkie - he needs...Amazon

2009 Cannes Film Festival - Best Screenplay WinnerSpring FeverFeng MeiHired to spy on a philandering husband, Luo Haitao soon becomes entangled in a clandestine affair with the other man. Along with Luo's girlfriend, they succumb to the delirium of drunken nights, but how long can their tryst last?Amazon

2010 Cannes Film Festival - Best Screenplay WinnerPoetryChang-dong LeeA sixty-something woman, faced with the discovery of a heinous family crime and in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, finds strength and purpose when she enrolls in a poetry class.Amazon

2011 Cannes Film Festival - Best Screenplay WinnerFootnoteJoseph CedarEliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are father and son as well as rival professors in Talmudic Studies. When both men learn that Eliezer will be lauded for his work, their complicated relationship reaches a new peak.Amazon

2012 Cannes Film Festival - Best Screenplay WinnerBeyond the HillsCristian MungiuThe friendship between two young women who grew up in the same orphanage; one has found refuge at a convent in Romania and refuses to leave with her friend, who now lives in Germany.Amazon

2013 Cannes Film Festival - Best Screenplay WinnerA Touch of SinZhangke JiaFour independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.Amazon

2014 Cannes Film Festival - Best Screenplay WinnerLeviathanAndrey ZvyagintsevIn a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.Amazon

2015 Cannes Film Festival - Best Screenplay WinnerChronicMichel FrancoA home care nurse works with terminally ill patients.Amazon

2016 Cannes Film Festival - Best Screenplay WinnerThe SalesmanAsghar FarhadiWhile both participating in a production of "Death of a Salesman," a teacher's wife is assaulted in her new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife's traumatized objections.Amazon

2017 Cannes Film Festival - Best Screenplay WinnerThe Killing of a Sacred DeerYorgos LanthimosSteven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.AmazonYou Were Never Really HereLynne RamsayA traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.Amazon