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1959 Cannes Film Festival - Best Director WinnerThe 400 BlowsFrançois TruffautA young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.Amazon

1961 Cannes Film Festival - Best Director WinnerThe Story of the Flaming YearsYuliya SolntsevaIn early Summer 1941, German troops penetrate into Russia, wreaking human and material destruction. Ivan Orlyukov, a young Russian, takes up arms and rises up against the invader. He is not...Amazon

1965 Cannes Film Festival - Best Director WinnerForest of the HangedLiviu CiuleiIn 1916 as an officer in the Habsburg Army ethnic Romanian Apostol Bologa is torn between remaining loyal to the Habsburgs or deserting to the Romanian Army across enemy lines.Amazon

1966 Cannes Film Festival - Best Director WinnerLenin v PolsheSergei YutkevichAmazon

1967 Cannes Film Festival - Best Director WinnerTízezer napFerenc KósaEgy fiu probal megkuzdeni szuleinek, es osztalyanak hagyomanyaival, eletuk 30 evevel a kerettortenetben. Megsem rola szol ez leginkabb, hanem az apjarol. Harminc ev, az 1930-as evektol ...Amazon

1969 Cannes Film Festival - Best Director WinnerAll My CompatriotsVojtech JasnýVarious scenes in the life of a tight-knit community in Czechoslovakia exploring the human spirit in the backdrop of the political changes that they experience.AmazonAntonio das MortesGlauber RochaPeriod piece about a Brazil that is no more. This movie is the sequel to "God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun" (Deus e o diabo na terra do sol), and takes place 29 years after Antonio ...Amazon

1970 Cannes Film Festival - Best Director WinnerLeo the LastJohn BoormanA social satire about the last heir of a dethroned family of European monarchs whose plans to return to power through revolution become secondary after he becomes fascinated by the life of a poor London black girl and her boyfriend.Amazon

1972 Cannes Film Festival - Best Director WinnerRed PsalmMiklós JancsóSet in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in-which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence.Amazon

1975 Cannes Film Festival - Best Director WinnerOrderersMichel BraultA fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.AmazonSpecial SectionCosta-GavrasIn occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.Amazon

1976 Cannes Film Festival - Best Director WinnerUgly, Dirty and BadEttore ScolaFour generations of a family live in a shantytown in the outskirts of Rome. The household engages in various forms of sexual idiosyncrasies, land swindles, incest, drugs and adultery.Amazon