Palme d'Or 1970-1979
Movies to watch awarded or nominated during the Cannes Film Festival in the '70s
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- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsJulie ChristieAlan BatesDominic GuardA tale of torrid and forbidden love between a couple in the English countryside.
- DirectorFrancesco RosiStarsGian Maria VolontèLuigi SquarzinaPeter BaldwinAn Italian industrialist died in a plane crash. An accident or an assassination?
- DirectorAlan BridgesStarsRobert ShawSarah MilesPeter EganA young British woman suffering from depression over the loss of her husband develops an unusual relationship with her chauffeur.
- DirectorJerry SchatzbergStarsGene HackmanAl PacinoDorothy TristanAn ex-con drifter with a penchant for brawling is amused by a homeless ex-sailor, so they partner up as they head east together.
- DirectorMohammed Lakhdar-HaminaStarsYorgo VoyagisMohammed Lakhdar-HaminaLeila ShennaA meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian liberation national movement. The film demonstrates that the Algerian War was a slow process of revolts and suffering, uninterrupted, from the start of colonization of Algeria in 1830
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroJodie FosterCybill ShepherdA mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsDavid BennentMario AdorfAngela WinklerIn 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
- DirectorNelson Pereira dos SantosStarsNildo ParenteIsabel RibeiroArduíno ColassantiA new priest comes to a Brazilian coastal town and builds an insane asylum. Eventually the whole population ends up in the asylum.
- DirectorRobert Ellis MillerStarsHywel BennettLeigh Taylor-YoungJane AsherBorn to twin sisters on the same day in London, France and Margaret are more like brother and sister than cousins. Two decades later, they fight their unrequited love, each taking lovers who eventually fall for each other.
- DirectorManuel AntinStarsAdolfo GüiraldesJuan CarvalledoLuis Manuel de la CuestaThe story takes place in San Antonio de Areco, in the Argentina pampas. Fabio Cáceres remembers his childhood as an orphan and his youth working in the field, next to his godfather, Don Segundo Sombra, a solitary gaucho.
- DirectorDan WolmanStarsTuvia TaviLiora RivlinBerta LitwinaThe love story of a young man who is attached to an older woman until the appearance of a younger girl interrupts him. He has an affair with the younger girl but his love for the older woman makes him return to the nursing home.
- DirectorMichel DrachStarsMarie-José NatMohamed ChouikhBernadette LafontIn 1957, Elise Le Tellier, a young woman from Bordeaux, decides to join her brother Lucien, a revolutionary who has decided to become a worker instead of a notable. Lucien has secured a position for her and Elise in turn works on the assembly line of a car factory. There she meets and falls in love with Arezki, a young Algerian immigrant. The conflict between France and Algeria makes their life together very difficult, despite the deep love that binds them.
- DirectorIstván GaálStarsIvan AndonovGyörgy BánffyJudit MeszléryThe daily routine of a falconry shows the newcomer how order through dictatorship can and cannot work.
- DirectorÉdouard LuntzStarsMaurice RonetMichel BouquetCathy Rosier
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsDaniel OlbrychskiStanislawa CelinskaAleksander BardiniThe film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury the tormentors they find alive. They are then herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise means to control the situation. A young poet, who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong young Jewish girl who wants him to run off with her to the West. He cannot cope with her growing demands for affection, and still feels hatred for the Germans and disdain for his fellow men, who quickly revert to petty enmities.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsMahmoud Al MelejiNagwa IbrahimEzzat El AlailiA small peasant village's struggles against the careless inroads of the large local landowner. The Land shows why political oppression does not necessarily lead to a sense of solidarity among the disinherited.
- DirectorRaoul CoutardStarsPhi LanHuynh CazenasXuan HaA small Vietnamese boy grows up during the horrors and hardships of The Vietnam War era.
- DirectorKjell GredeStarsJan NielsenCarl-Gustaf LindstedtGun JönssonHarry Munter, a sensitive, kind, appealing man in his twenties, lives with his parents. He's an inventor, a bit of a mystic, maybe a genius, and a good son and grandson. He's offered work in the U.S. But a friend has cancer and the world is changing in ways that provoke profound sadness.
- DirectorVera ChytilováStarsJitka NovákováKarel NovakJan SchmidAn experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of loss of innocence.
- DirectorJohn BoormanStarsMarcello MastroianniBillie WhitelawCalvin LockhartA social satire about the last heir of a dethroned family of European monarchs whose plans to return to power through revolution become secondary after he becomes fascinated by the life of a poor London black girl and her boyfriend.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsMarcello MastroianniMonica VittiGiancarlo GianniniA three-way love affair in the Rome of the early seventies.
- DirectorClaude SautetStarsMichel PiccoliRomy SchneiderGérard LartigauA highway engineer is involved in a car crash, after which, near death, he remembers his life leading up to the accident.
- DirectorAbdellatif Ben AmmarStarsJuliet BertoFouad ZaouchAmor KhalfaA documentary filmmaker goes to work on a project about Tunisians who have worked abroad. Many have married French women, and the couples try to adjust to France after many years in Tunisia. The man decides to forego the film in order to address the personal and social concerns of the people.
- DirectorWalter Hugo KhouriStarsGeneviève GradLuc MerendaRossana GhessaBárbara, a French girl living in São Paulo, and two friends decide to transform a little apartment into a luxury bordello, "The Palace of Angels", securing money and success, but some problems as well.
- DirectorLuis García BerlangaStarsJosé Luis López VázquezLaly SoldevilaJosé María PradaLeo travels with his mother to a touristic Mediterranean spot in order to marry his girlfriend Loli. However, the funny and open minded girls from Northern Europe make Leo reconsider his plans.