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1992 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerThe Best IntentionsPernilla AugustThe story of Ingmar Bergman's parents. In 1909, poor, idealistic theology student Henrik Bergman falls in love with Anna Åkerbloom, the intelligent, educated daughter of a rich family in ...Amazon

1993 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerThe PianoHolly HunterIn the mid-19th century, a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.Amazon

1994 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerQueen MargotVirna LisiYoung Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between Catholics and Protestants. She hopes to escape with a new lover, but finds herself imprisoned by her powerful and ruthless family.Amazon

1995 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerThe Madness of King GeorgeHelen MirrenWhen King George III (Sir Nigel Hawthorne) goes mad, his Lieutenants try to adjust the rules to run the country without his participation.Amazon

1996 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerSecrets & LiesBrenda BlethynA successful black woman discovers that her birth mother is an underprivileged white woman, but the woman denies it. As emotions run high, everyone's secrets are exposed.Amazon

1997 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerNil by MouthKathy BurkeA rough, short-tempered patriarch of a working class family has his life and the relationships around him slowly unravel.Amazon

1998 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerThe Dreamlife of AngelsÉlodie BouchezIn Lille, two penniless young women with few prospects become friends. Isa moves in with Marie, who's flat-sitting for a mother and child in hospital in comas following a car crash. Isa is ...Amazon

1999 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerL'humanitéSéverine CaneeleWhen an 11-year-old girl is brutally raped and murdered in a quiet French village, a police detective who has forgotten how to feel emotions--because of the death of his own family in some kind of accident--investigates the crime, which turns out to ask moAmazonRosettaÉmilie DequenneYoung and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.Amazon

2000 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerDancer in the DarkBjörkAn east European girl goes to America with her young son, expecting it to be like a Hollywood film.Amazon

2001 Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress WinnerThe Piano TeacherIsabelle HuppertA young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.Amazon