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2000 Cannes Film Festival - Best Director WinnerYi yiEdward YangEach member of a middle class Taipei family seeks to reconcile past and present relationships within their daily lives.Amazon

2001 Cannes Film Festival - Best Director WinnerMulholland DriveDavid LynchAfter a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.AmazonThe Man Who Wasn't ThereJoel CoenA laconic, chain-smoking barber blackmails his wife's boss and lover for money to invest in dry cleaning, but his plan goes terribly wrong.Amazon

2002 Cannes Film Festival - Best Director WinnerPainted FireKwon-taek ImIn a time of political and social unrest in nineteenth-century Korea, an uncouth, self-taught painter explores his natural talent amidst the repressive world around him.AmazonPunch-Drunk LovePaul Thomas AndersonA psychologically troubled novelty supplier is nudged towards a romance with an English woman, all the while being extorted by a phone-sex line run by a crooked mattress salesman, and purchasing stunning amounts of pudding.Amazon

2003 Cannes Film Festival - Best Director WinnerElephantGus Van SantSeveral ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.Amazon

2004 Cannes Film Festival - Best Director WinnerExilesTony GatlifTwo French lovers, Zano and Naima, decided to travel to the land of their parents: Algeria. Their road trip gradually becomes a spiritual quest.Amazon

2005 Cannes Film Festival - Best Director WinnerCachéMichael HanekeA married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.Amazon

2006 Cannes Film Festival - Best Director WinnerBabelAlejandro G. IñárrituTragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.Amazon

2007 Cannes Film Festival - Best Director WinnerThe Diving Bell and the ButterflyJulian SchnabelThe true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed.Amazon

2008 Cannes Film Festival - Best Director WinnerThree MonkeysNuri Bilge CeylanA family suffers from a major communication breakdown during their struggle to get through their hardships.Amazon

2009 Cannes Film Festival - Best Director WinnerKinatayBrillante MendozaA young man tries to make some money so he can marry his girlfriend. He takes a job for $2,000 and then soon realizes that this job involves killing a woman.Amazon