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The Cannes top prize winners of the 1950s

The top 3 according to 4 votes from people: Miss Julie · Miracle in Milan · The Wages of Fear. (Updated May 22, 2024.)

The films that won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival from 1951 to 1959, called the Palme d'Or from 1955. There was no festival in 1950.

مصطفى عبد الله · · 11 items · 4 votes · 5 comments

Automatically translated (original in العربية). See the original

Top 11

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    Miss Julie

    Alf Sjöberg, 1951 (shared). From Strindberg's play.

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    Miracle in Milan

    Vittorio De Sica, 1951 (shared). A fable about Milan's poor.

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    The Wages of Fear

    Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953. Two trucks loaded with nitroglycerine.

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    Gate of Hell

    Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1954. A Japanese samurai drama in colour.

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    Othello

    Orson Welles, 1952 (shared). Shot in Essaouira, it competed under the Moroccan flag.

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    Two Cents Worth of Hope

    Renato Castellani, 1952 (shared). A comedy from southern Italy.

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    Marty

    Delbert Mann, 1955. The first Palme d'Or; a lonely butcher in New York.

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    The Silent World

    Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle, 1956. A documentary of the deep sea.

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    Friendly Persuasion

    William Wyler, 1957. A Quaker family during the American Civil War.

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    The Cranes Are Flying

    Mikhail Kalatozov, 1958. A love torn apart by war in Moscow.

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    Black Orpheus

    Marcel Camus, 1959. The Orpheus myth at the Rio carnival.

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riyadhfitfam · العربية

أجر الخوف من أعظم أفلام التشويق في التاريخ.

matinee_fes · العربية

أورفيوس الأسود والموسيقى البرازيلية الرائعة.

vinylhead_big · العربية

عالم الصمت لجاك كوستو، فيلم وثائقي فاز بالجائزة الكبرى!

matinee_curious · العربية

مارتي فاز بالسعفة والأوسكار في نفس السنة.

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