Palme d'Or Winners of the Cannes Film Festival
# Dumbo
Jahr: 1941 | Land: US
Regisseur: Ben Sharpsteen
Besetzung: Edward Brophy, Margaret Wright, Verna Felton, Sarah Selby, Noreen Gammill
Synopsis
Dumbo is a baby elephant born with over-sized ears and a supreme lack of confidence. But thanks to his even more diminutive buddy Timothy the Mouse, the pint-sized pachyderm learns to surmount all obstacles.
# The Third Man
Jahr: 1949 | Land: GB
Regisseur: Carol Reed
Besetzung: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, Orson Welles, Paul Hörbiger
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In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.
# The Wages of Fear
Jahr: 2024 | Land: BE
Regisseur: Julien Leclercq
Besetzung: Franck Gastambide, Alban Lenoir, Ana Girardot, Sofiane Zermani, Astrid Whettnall
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When an explosion at an oil well threatens hundreds of lives, a crack team is called upon to make a deadly desert crossing with nitroglycerine in tow.
# Viridiana
Jahr: 1961 | Land: Spain, Mexico
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Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana r
# The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Jahr: 1964 | Land: France, Germany
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This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financi
# Taxi Driver
Jahr: 1976 | Land: United States of America
Regisseur: Martin Scorsese
Besetzung: Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Jodie Foster, Peter Boyle
Synopsis
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for violent action.
# Apocalypse Now
Jahr: 1979 | Land: US
Regisseur: Francis Ford Coppola
Besetzung: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Albert Hall, Frederic Forrest, Laurence Fishburne
Synopsis
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
# Iron Man
Jahr: 2008 | Land: United States of America
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After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.
# Missing
Jahr: 2023 | Land: US
Regisseur: Will Merrick
Besetzung: Storm Reid, Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker, Daniel Henney
Synopsis
When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers... and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all.
# Paris, Texas
Jahr: 1984 | Land: GB
Regisseur: Wim Wenders
Besetzung: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Hunter Carson, Aurore Clément
Synopsis
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
# Pulp Fiction
Jahr: 1994 | Land: United States of America
Regisseur: Quentin Tarantino
Besetzung: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames
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A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that i
# Underground
Jahr: 1928 | Land: United Kingdom
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A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Two men – gentle Bill and brash Bert – meet and are attracted to the same woman on the same day at the same Underg
# The Pianist
Jahr: 2002 | Land: FR
Regisseur: Roman Polanski
Besetzung: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox
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The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
# The Tree of Life
Jahr: 2011 | Land: United States of America
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The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to
# Parasite
Jahr: 2019 | Land: South Korea
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All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
# Titane
Jahr: 2021 | Land: Belgium, France
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A woman with a metal plate in her head from a childhood car accident embarks on a bizarre journey, bringing her into contact with a firefighter who's reunited with his missing son after 10 years.
# Triangle of Sadness
Jahr: 2022 | Land: DK
Regisseur: Ruben Östlund
Besetzung: Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Dolly de Leon, Woody Harrelson, Zlatko Burić
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A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged, alcoholic captain. What first appears Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island in a struggle of hierarchy.
# Anatomy of a Fall
Jahr: 2023 | Land: FR
Regisseur: Justine Triet
Besetzung: Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado-Graner, Antoine Reinartz, Samuel Theis
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A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.
# Anora
Jahr: 2024 | Land: US
Regisseur: Sean Baker
Besetzung: Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Yura Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan
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A young sex worker from Brooklyn gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as his parents set out to get the marriage annulled.