Palme d'Or 1950-1959
Movies to watch awarded or nominated during the Cannes Film Festival in the '50s
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- DirectorAlf SjöbergStarsAnita BjörkUlf PalmeMärta DorffAn heiress begins to realize her attraction to one of her family's servants.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsEmma GramaticaFrancesco GolisanoPaolo StoppaAn open-hearted, unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best of his life on the streets of Milan.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesMicheál MacLiammóirRobert CooteThe Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensign named Iago.
- DirectorRenato CastellaniStarsMaria FioreVincenzo MusolinoFilomena RussoA love story between a poor fellow and a daughter of respected workshop owner set in an Italian post-war village.
- DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsYves MontandCharles VanelPeter van EyckIn a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.
- DirectorTeinosuke KinugasaStarsMachiko KyôKazuo HasegawaIsao YamagataA samurai pursues a married lady-in-waiting.
- DirectorJacques-Yves CousteauLouis MalleStarsFrédéric DumasAlbert FalcoJacques-Yves CousteauA documentary about the undersea explorers and how they penetrate into the underwater world.
- DirectorMarcel CamusStarsBreno MelloMarpessa DawnLourdes de OliveiraA retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsArthur KennedyPeggy DowJulie AdamsAfter he gets blinded by a German sniper's bullet in 1943, Sergeant Larry Nevins begins the long and painful road to recovery.
- DirectorAlberto CavalcantiAdolfo CeliTom PayneStarsEliane LageAbilio Pereira de AlmeidaCarlos VergueiroA beautiful woman with a tragic past marries the owner of a small shipyard in an island, and they set up residence in a poor village. Besides not being able to adapt to the place, the partner of her husband becomes hostile to her presence.
- DirectorTito DavisonStarsMaría FélixVíctor JuncoCrox AlvaradoAngela "Doña Diabla" is a beautiful and rude woman who after her divorce swore to hate men. He also forbids the romance of his daughter Angelica with a ruffian named Adrian.
- DirectorYuli RaizmanStarsSergey BondarchukAnatoli ChemodurovKira KanaevaA soldier returns from war to the picturesque Kuban farmland of the Caucasus and convinces the people in his collective to progress technically by digging a canal and building a power station.
- DirectorJacques BeckerStarsDaniel GélinAnne VernonElina LabourdetteEdouard is a pianist, married with Caroline. This evening, they are invited to Claude's. Claude is the snobbish uncle of Caroline, his son Alain (as snobbish as his father) is in love with Caroline. They spite Edouard a little because he's poor. At the party, Edouard must play the piano to make himself known by Claude's important acquaintances. But just before leaving, Edouard and Caroline quarrel about clothes, and Edouard goes alone...
- DirectorHarald BraunStarsWerner KraussDieter BorscheGisela UhlenA woman with a troubled past connects with two refugees while working at a homeless camp after World War II.
- DirectorCurzio MalaparteStarsRaf ValloneRina MorelliAlain CunyBack in his village, former war prisoner Bruno Baldi is dead set on avenging his brother who has been shot by a German firing squad after being given away by a villager. But nobody wants to give him the name of the culprit. At long last, Antonio, a joiner, reveals the informer but this comes at a cost.
- DirectorLuis EscobarStarsFrancisco RabalMayrata O'WisiedoRamón ElíasErnesto and Marta are a couple of newlyweds who have serious financial problems. One day they are visited by a neighbor asking them to keep a large sum of money at home until she goes to the bank the next day. But everything changes when, the next morning, they learn that the neighbor is dead and that the deceased's maid has been arrested suspected of having stolen the money. Ernesto and Marta then start to spend the money until a man appears who threatens to tell their secret if they do not give him a part of the money.
- DirectorLucas DemareStarsTita MerelloArturo García BuhrAlita RománLeandro and the Carancha are inhabitants of the islands of the Parana Delta and agree a pair. They are rough persons done to the hard fight for the life in these places. They have a son who takes to the house a girl; the presence of her provokes the jealousies of the Carancha and his attitude leads dramatists moments.
- DirectorMarcel CarnéStarsGérard PhilipeSuzanne CloutierJean-Roger CaussimonMichel has stolen from his employer, Mr Bellanger, for the love of Juliette. He is now in jail. One night, while sleeping in his cell, he wakes up all of a sudden, the gates open and he finds himself in a strange village where all the inhabitants have lost their memory. There, meets Juliette again who seems to agree to marry a powerful man, who might well be Bluebeard...
- DirectorMárton KeletiStarsGyula BenköMiklós GáborLajos RajczyCount János is tricked into marriage with a baron's daughter by her lover, the priest. When the Church and the Viennese court refuse to annual the marriage, János must find another way out.
- DirectorNikos TsiforosStarsSmaroula GiouliMiranta MyratVasilis DiamantopoulosAn ex-member of the Resistance pumps six bullets into a grizzled woman and spends the night at the police station, recounting the dangerous life of her heroic father during the Nazi Occupation of Greece. Is she capable of forgiveness?
- DirectorLeón KlimovskyStarsPedro López LagarFanny NavarroGolde FlamiPablo Urioste is a respected surgeon, but he is forced to experience a nightmarish world after his wife, a marijuana addict, dies at a nightclub. He tells his story to the police, and tells stories of how he is hooked, beaten, blackmailed, and includes some bad-trip flashbacks. Ms. Quiroga tries to help him, but there is little hope for Dr. Urioste after undergoing THE MARIHUANA STORY.
- DirectorGrigoriy RoshalStarsAleksandr BorisovNikolay CherkasovVladimir BalashovSaint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has become a fixture there. He tells about the first opera he plans to compose. Then he goes to the country where he discovers the lowly conditions of the peasants and the bloody conflicts with the rich land owners. He works on Gogol's 'The Marriage', trying to render into music the natural accents of the play's naturalistic dialogue. But his efforts do not pan out. On the other hand, he starts writing his opera on the story of Boris Godunov. The Marinsky Theatre refuses to stage the work. The Five, and Mussorgsky among them, are libeled and the group starts disintegrating. When 'Boris Godunov' is finally performed in 1874, it is a popular success
- DirectorSergey GerasimovEduard VolkStarsZedong MaoLeonid KhmaraEnlai ZhouThe first feature about the PRC shown in the US, showing workers in cooperatives, youth at school, mass athletic events, holiday parades, and leaders making speeches; the friendship with the USSR is stressed.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsAlfonso MejíaRoberto CoboEstela IndaA group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, as the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
- DirectorHervé BrombergerStarsOdette BarenceyLuc BarneyRobert BerriThere's a killer on the loose in the streets of Paris.