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1961 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerTwo WomenSophia LorenIn the Italy of WWII, a widow and her lonely daughter seek for distance between them and the horrors of war.Amazon

1962 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerA Taste of HoneyRita TushinghamA pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.AmazonLong Day's Journey Into NightKatharine HepburnOver the course of one day in August 1912, the family of retired actor James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of his wife Mary, the illness of their youngest son Edmund and the ...Amazon

1963 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerThe Conjugal BedMarina VladyA 40 year old man, Alfonso, finally succeeds to marry a virginal, educated, beautiful and very Catholic woman. But soon she, Regina, starts stressing him because she wants to be pregnant. ...Amazon

1964 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerOne Potato, Two PotatoBarbara BarrieStudy of interracial marriage in the 1960's. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed...AmazonThe Pumpkin EaterAnne BancroftFilm screenwriter Jake Armitage and his wife Jo Armitage live in London with six of Jo's eight children, with the two eldest boys at boarding school. The children are spread over Jo's three...Amazon

1965 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerThe CollectorSamantha EggarA man kidnaps a woman and holds her hostage just for the pleasure of having her there.Amazon

1966 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerMorgan!Vanessa RedgraveAfter his wife leaves him for his former best friend, a failed London artist begins his descent into madness in trying to win her back.Amazon

1967 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerElvira MadiganPia DegermarkThe Danish tightrope dancer Elvira Madigan meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre, a Swedish officer who is married and has two children. They both decide to run away.Amazon

1969 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerIsadoraVanessa RedgraveA biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free ...Amazon

1970 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerMetelloOttavia PiccoloMetello struggles to escape from the poverty that led to the premature death of his parents, and that is the lot of the working class in northern Italy during the second half of the 19th ...Amazon

1971 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerThe Panic in Needle ParkKitty WinnFollows the lives of heroin addicts who frequent "Needle Park" in New York City.Amazon