1985 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerTangos, the Exile of GardelFernando E. SolanasSome Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star.AmazonThe LightshipJerzy SkolimowskiA trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't reckon on the crew fighting back.Amazon

1986 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerA Tale of LoveFrancesco MaselliA young working girl moves in with her boyfriend while taking care of her brothers and father. Things get complicated when she falls in love with another young boy.AmazonWild PigeonSergey SolovevThe small town in the western Kazakhstan. Pigeons is the one of the brightest signs of the post-war happy childhood. Once the fine white a pigeon appearing over the city.AmazonXOddvar EinarsonPhotographer John Gabriel, in his mid-twenties, coincidentally meets 13 year old Flora, who's run off from home and has nowhere to sleep. They start a love affair due to her need for affection.Amazon

1987 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerHip Hip Hurrah!Kjell GredeThe life and times of the Scandinavian artists' colony who lived in Skagen on the Danish coast during the 1890s. Not so much a biographical account, rather a portrait of a way of life. The ...Amazon

1988 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerCamp de ThiaroyeOusmane SembeneIn this semi-autobiographical film, black soldiers help to defend France, but are detained in prison camp before being repatriated home.Amazon

1989 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerAnd Then There Was LightOtar IosselianiThe film depicts daily life in an Senegalian village. The people sleep, eat, make love, pray for rain, et cetera, while civilization, by way of timber trucks and tree fellers, is slowly ...Amazon

1990 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerAn Angel at My TableJane CampionIn 1920s and 1930s New Zealand, Janet Frame grows up in a poor family with lots of brothers and sisters. Already at an early age she is different from the other kids. She gets an education ...Amazon

1991 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerA Divina ComédiaManoel de OliveiraPatients in a mental institution see themselves as Adam and Eve, Sonia and Raskolnikov, a Philosopher and a Prophet, Alyosha and Ivan Karamazov, Jesus, Lazarus, Martha, Mary and St Teresa of Avila.Amazon

1992 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerDeath of a Neapolitan MathematicianMario MartoneNaples. Professor Renato Caccioppoli, professor of pure mathematics, is a tormented and disillusioned man living a difficult life. Back from the psychiatric hospital, abandoned by his wife,...Amazon

1993 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerBad Boy BubbyRolf de HeerBubby has spent thirty years trapped in the same small room, tricked by his mother. One day, he manages to escape, and, deranged and naive in equal measures, his adventure into the modern and nihilistic life begins.Amazon

1994 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerNatural Born KillersOliver StoneTwo victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.Amazon