Film Awards

2002 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury WinnerThe Man Without a PastAki KaurismäkiM arrives in Helsinki only to be viciously attacked by thugs and pronounced dead by medics. He revives but with no memory of his past or his identity. He rebuilds his life from scratch, but the past inevitably catches up with him.Amazon

2001 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury WinnerThe Piano TeacherMichael HanekeA young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.Amazon

2000 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury WinnerDevils on the DoorstepWen JiangDuring the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners until the next New Year, at which time...Amazon

1999 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury WinnerL'humanitéBruno DumontWhen 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 moAmazon

1998 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury WinnerLife Is BeautifulRoberto BenigniWhen an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor, and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.Amazon

1997 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury WinnerThe Sweet HereafterAtom EgoyanA bus crash in a small town brings a lawyer to the town to defend the families, but he discovers that everything is not what it seems.Amazon

1996 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury WinnerBreaking the WavesLars von TrierOilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.Amazon

1995 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury WinnerUlysses' GazeTheodoros AngelopoulosAn exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.Amazon

1994 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury WinnerBurnt by the SunNikita MikhalkovIn the Soviet Union in 1936, shadow of Stalin's repressions lie on a famous revolution hero. An accusations of being him a foreign spy are nonsense, and all known that, but a slow process of his life's downfall is already running.AmazonTo LiveYimou ZhangAfter Fugui and Jiazhen lose their personal fortunes, they raise a family and survive difficult cultural changes during 1940s to 1970s China.Amazon

1993 Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Jury WinnerFaraway, So Close!Wim WendersA group of angels in the German capital look longingly upon the life of humans.Amazon