IMDb | 2014 Cannes Film Festival | Mini-Guide

1.

Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

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A self-assured business man murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events. (91 mins.)

Director: Louis Malle

Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin

2.

By Sidney Lumet (2015 Documentary)

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In BY SIDNEY LUMET, film legend Sidney Lumet (1924-2011) tells his own story in a never-before-seen... (103 mins.)

Director: Nancy Buirski

3.

Citizen Kane (1941)

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Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance. (119 mins.)

Director: Orson Welles

Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead

4.

Grandeur nature (1974)

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Michel is a middle aged man with a troubled marriage. He feels lonely, has been unfaithful to his wife Isabelle in various occasions... (101 mins.)

Director: Luis Berlanga

Stars: Michel Piccoli, Valentine Tessier, Rada Rassimov, Lucienne Hamon

5.

Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964)

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A satirical comedy about the excessive restrictions that children face during their vacation in a Young Pioneer camp. (74 mins.)

Director: Elem Klimov

Stars: Evgeniy Evstigneev, Arina Aleynikova, Ilya Rutberg, Lidiya Smirnova

6.

Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015 Documentary)

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Filmmakers discuss how Francois Truffaut's 1966 book "Cinema According to Hitchcock" influenced their work. (80 mins.)

Director: Kent Jones

Stars: Wes Anderson, Olivier Assayas, Peter Bogdanovich, Arnaud Desplechin

7.

Insiang (1976)

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The first Filipino film to show at the Cannes Film Festival is set in the slums of Manila. A beautiful girl gets raped by her mother's lover, and then learns how to exact revenge. (95 mins.)

Director: Lino Brocka

Stars: Hilda Koronel, Mona Lisa, Ruel Vernal, Rez Cortez

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8.

Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words (2015 Documentary)

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A captivating look behind the scenes of the remarkable life of a young Swedish girl who became one of the most celebrated actresses of American and World cinema. (114 mins.)

Director: Stig Björkman

Stars: Jeanine Basinger, Ingrid Bergman, Melinda Kinnaman, Pia Lindström

9.

Proxy War (1973)

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(119 mins.)

Director: Kinji Fukasaku

Stars: Bunta Sugawara, Akira Kobayashi, Tsunehiko Watase, Shingo Yamashiro

10.

The Official Story (1985)

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After the end of the Dirty War, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is. (112 mins.)

Director: Luis Puenzo

Stars: Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Chunchuna Villafañe, Hugo Arana

11.

Black Girl (1966)

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A black girl from Senegal becomes a servant in France. (65 mins.)

Director: Ousmane Sembene

Stars: Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Robert Fontaine, Momar Nar Sene

12.

Orderers (1974)

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A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec. (109 mins.)

Director: Michel Brault

Stars: Hélène Loiselle, Jean Lapointe, Guy Provost, Claude Gauthier

13.

Marius (1931)

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César runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23 year old son, Marius. Colorful characters abound: M... (130 mins.)

Director: Alexandre Korda

Stars: Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Fernand Charpin, Alida Rouffe

14.

More (1969)

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In the late 60's, after graduating in Mathematics, the German Stefan Brückner hitchhikes from Lübeck to Paris to see the world without money... (112 mins.)

Director: Barbet Schroeder

Stars: Mimsy Farmer, Klaus Grünberg, Heinz Engelmann, Michel Chanderli

15.

Orson Welles: Shadows & Light (2015 Documentary)

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(56 mins.)

Director: Elisabeth Kapnist

Stars: Francis Ford Coppola, Charlton Heston, Henry Jaglom, Sharon Mann

16.

Panic (1946)

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In the suburbs of Paris, an old maid has just been murdered. Every body talks about that, except the misanthrope Mr Hire... (91 mins.)

Director: Julien Duvivier

Stars: Viviane Romance, Michel Simon, Max Dalban, Émile Drain

17.

Sembene! (2015 Documentary)

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Meet Ousmane Sembene, the African freedom fighter who used stories as his weapon. (82 mins.)

Director: Samba Gadjigo, Jason Silverman

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18.

Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans (2015 Documentary)

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STEVE MCQUEEN: THE MAN and LE MANS is the story of obsession, betrayal and ultimate vindication. It is the story of how one of the most volatile... (102 mins.)

Director: Gabriel Clarke, John McKenna

Stars: Steve McQueen, Chad McQueen, John Sturges, Neile Adams