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The Palme d'Or winners of the 1980s

The top 3 according to 42 votes from people: All That Jazz · Man of Iron · Yol. (Updated Mar 21, 2023.)

The films that won Cannes' top prize between 1980 and 1989, including the shared Palmes of 1980 and 1982.

riff_old · · 12 items · 42 votes · 11 comments

Automatically translated (original in Nederlands). See the original

Top 12

  1. 1

    All That Jazz

    Bob Fosse, 1980 (shared). Fosse's autobiographical musical.

    ▲ 7 ▼ 0

    7
  2. 2

    Man of Iron

    Andrzej Wajda, 1981. Solidarity and the Gdańsk strikes.

    ▲ 4 ▼ 0

    4
  3. 3

    Yol

    Şerif Gören and Yılmaz Güney, 1982 (shared). Five Turkish prisoners on leave.

    ▲ 4 ▼ 0

    4
  4. 4

    Missing

    Costa-Gavras, 1982 (shared). An American disappears after the coup in Chile.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 0

    3
  5. 5

    Under the Sun of Satan

    Maurice Pialat, 1987. Gérard Depardieu as a tormented priest.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 1

    2
  6. 6

    When Father Was Away on Business

    Emir Kusturica, 1985. A boy in 1950s Yugoslavia.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  7. 7

    The Mission

    Roland Joffé, 1986. Jesuits in South America, with music by Ennio Morricone.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  8. 8

    Pelle the Conqueror

    Bille August, 1988. A Swedish boy and his father on a Danish farm; also an Oscar.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 1

    1
  9. 9

    Kagemusha

    Akira Kurosawa, 1980 (shared). A thief as a warlord's double.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 3

    0
  10. 10

    The Ballad of Narayama

    Shōhei Imamura, 1983. Elderly people carried up the mountain to die.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 2

    0
  11. 11

    Paris, Texas

    Wim Wenders, 1984. Harry Dean Stanton across the desert.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 1

    0
  12. 12

    Sex, Lies, and Videotape

    Steven Soderbergh, 1989. The debut that launched American independent cinema.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 1

    -1

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Lieke Meijer · Nederlands

Pelle de veroveraar, Max von Sydow is geweldig.

Sem de Boer · Nederlands

De ballade van Narayama is heftig maar onvergetelijk.

gg.slow · Nederlands

Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Soderbergh was pas 26.

Ruben Smit · Nederlands

Pelle de veroveraar, Deense klassieker.

Jeroen Vos · Nederlands

Kagemusha op groot scherm gezien in Eye, prachtig.

Eva Bakker · Nederlands

The Mission, die muziek van Morricone…

anouk_birder · Nederlands

Paris, Texas is een van mijn favoriete films ooit.

bookmarker · Nederlands

Goede lijst, mooi overzicht.

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