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1972 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerImagesSusannah YorkSchizophrenic housewife, engulfed by terrorizing apparitions, kills off each, unknowing if these demons are merely figments of her hallucinatory imagination or part of reality.Amazon

1973 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerThe Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon MarigoldsJoanne WoodwardFrom the Pullizer Prize winning play by Paul Zindel, this is the story of Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters, Ruth and Matilda. A middle-aged widowed eccentric, Beatrice is looking for ...Amazon

1974 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerLes violons du balMarie-José NatFor many years, filmmaker Michel Drach wanted to tell the story of his childhood during WWII and his family's escape from the occupying Nazis. The film explores his bittersweet memories, ...Amazon

1975 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerLennyValerie PerrineThe story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the Establishment as too obscene for the public.Amazon

1976 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerA löcsei fehér asszonyMari TöröcsikAmazonThe InheritanceDominique SandaQuinn plays a retired bakery tycoon, alienated from his two sons and jealously guarding his vast wealth... until a cunning young beauty (Sanda) enters the picture, marries one son, seduces ...Amazon

1977 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress Winner3 WomenShelley DuvallTwo roommates/physical therapists, one a vain woman and the other a mysterious teenager, share a bizarre relationship.AmazonJ.A. Martin photographeMonique MercureThe wife of photographer J.A. Martin decides to go with him in his tour of the hard Canadian countryside at the turn of the century. She hopes the intimacy will revive their marriage.Amazon

1978 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerAn Unmarried WomanJill ClayburghA wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of sixteen years leaves her for a younger woman.AmazonVioletteIsabelle HuppertIn an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequences.Amazon

1979 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerNorma RaeSally FieldA young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved.Amazon

1980 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerA Leap in the DarkAnouk AiméeMauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a boy, and is now affected by psychic problems and suicide fantasies. She seems to recover from ...Amazon

1981 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerQuartetIsabelle AdjaniMarya finds herself penniless after her art dealer husband, Stephan, is convicted of theft. Marya accepts the hospitality of a strange couple, H.J. and Lois Heidler, who lets her live in their house.Amazon