Cannes 2006
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1. Babel (I) (2006)
R | 143 min | Drama
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, which jump starts an interlocking story involving four different families.
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, Mohamed Akhzam
Votes: 317,075 | Gross: $34.30M
In Competition
2. Chronicle of an Escape (2006)
R | 103 min | Crime, Thriller
The goalkeeper of a little-known soccer team is kidnapped by a Argentinean government squad and sent to a detention center. After months of torture, he plots his escape with three other young men.
Director: Israel Adrián Caetano | Stars: Rodrigo de la Serna, Pablo Echarri, Nazareno Casero, Lautaro Delgado
Votes: 3,703 | Gross: $0.00M
In Competition
3. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
R | 118 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú
Votes: 702,722 | Gross: $37.63M
In Competition
4. Fast Food Nation (2006)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama
An examination of the health risks involved in the fast food industry as well as its environmental and social consequences.
Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Greg Kinnear, Bruce Willis, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Wilmer Valderrama
Votes: 25,142 | Gross: $1.00M
In Competition
5. Flanders (2006)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance, War
Bruno Dumont follows up the controversial Twentynine Palms with this tale of a group of young soldiers who go off to war and experience some life-changing events. Flandres won the Grand Prix Prize at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
Director: Bruno Dumont | Stars: Adélaïde Leroux, Samuel Boidin, Henri Cretel, Jean-Marie Bruweart
Votes: 3,269 | Gross: $0.02M
In Competition
6. Climates (2006)
Unrated | 98 min | Drama, Romance
Dowdy university instructor Isa is an inattentive husband to his younger, TV-business wife Bahar. Self-absorbed, Isa only communicates in the most rudimentary way, while she, similarly, detaches into crying jags and juvenile behavior.
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Stars: Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Nazan Kesal, Mehmet Eryilmaz
Votes: 14,278 | Gross: $0.12M
In Competition
7. The Caiman (2006)
112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A skewering of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Director: Nanni Moretti | Stars: Silvio Orlando, Margherita Buy, Jasmine Trinca, Michele Placido
Votes: 5,279
In Competition
8. Days of Glory (2006)
R | 120 min | Action, Drama, War
During World War II, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from German oppression, and to fight French discrimination.
Director: Rachid Bouchareb | Stars: Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Jamel Debbouze
Votes: 15,135 | Gross: $0.32M
In Competition
9. Colossal Youth (2006)
Not Rated | 156 min | Drama
With the destruction of Fontainhas nearly complete, the old man Ventura wanders around a bleak housing project and the ruins of the slums, meeting with his kids and old friends.
Director: Pedro Costa | Stars: Ventura, Vanda Duarte, Beatriz Duarte, Gustavo Sumpta
Votes: 1,743
In Competition
10. The Family Friend (2006)
102 min | Drama
Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with... See full summary »
Director: Paolo Sorrentino | Stars: Giacomo Rizzo, Laura Chiatti, Gigi Angelillo, Marco Giallini
Votes: 4,378
In Competition
11. The Right of the Weakest (2006)
116 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In Liège, a group of men gathers every day in a café situated near the steel factory which once reigned supreme. They play cards in a warm atmosphere but that hardly masks their quiet ... See full summary »
Director: Lucas Belvaux | Stars: Éric Caravaca, Lucas Belvaux, Claude Semal, Patrick Descamps
Votes: 714
In Competition
12. Lights in the Dusk (2006)
Not Rated | 78 min | Crime, Drama
In Helsinki, a lonely night watchman is caught up in a series of misadventures with a femme fatale and a crooked businessman.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Janne Hyytiäinen, Maria Järvenhelmi, Maria Heiskanen, Ilkka Koivula
Votes: 7,860 | Gross: $0.01M
In Competition
13. Marie Antoinette (2006)
PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, History
The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 14 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end of her reign as queen, and ultimately the fall of Versailles.
Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn, Steve Coogan
Votes: 121,823 | Gross: $15.96M
In Competition
14. Quand j'étais chanteur (2006)
112 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Alain Moreau sings for one of the few remaining dance-bands in Clermont-Ferrand. Though something of an idol amongst his female audience he has a melancholic awareness of the slow ... See full summary »
Director: Xavier Giannoli | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Cécile de France, Mathieu Amalric, Christine Citti
Votes: 2,326
In Competition
15. Red Road (2006)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Jackie works as a CCTV operator. Each day she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day a man appears on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again, a man she never wanted to see again. Now she has no choice, she is compelled to confront him.
Director: Andrea Arnold | Stars: Kate Dickie, Tony Curran, Martin Compston, Natalie Press
Votes: 13,628 | Gross: $0.15M
In Competition
16. Selon Charlie (2006)
140 min | Drama
The seemingly separate lives of a group of men intersect entwining the fates of each of them over the course of a week.
Director: Nicole Garcia | Stars: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Vincent Lindon, Benoît Magimel, Benoît Poelvoorde
Votes: 562
In Competition
17. Southland Tales (2006)
R | 145 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
During a three-day heat wave just before a huge 4th of July celebration, an action star stricken with amnesia meets up with a porn star who is developing her own reality TV project, and a policeman who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.
Director: Richard Kelly | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott, Carlos Amezcua
Votes: 40,621 | Gross: $0.28M
In Competition
18. Summer Palace (2006)
Unrated | 158 min | Drama, Romance
Yu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student. The student riots from 1989 then ensue and take a toll on their lives.
Director: Ye Lou | Stars: Lei Hao, Xiaodong Guo, Xueyun Bai, Lin Cui
Votes: 4,311 | Gross: $0.06M
In Competition
19. The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006)
Not Rated | 127 min | Drama, War
Against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, two brothers fight a guerrilla war against British forces.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald
Votes: 54,589 | Gross: $1.83M
In Competition
20. Volver (I) (2006)
R | 121 min | Comedy, Drama
After her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo
Votes: 107,450 | Gross: $12.90M
In Competition
21. 977 (2006)
86 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
977 is a code number associated with an attempt to "verify the algebra of harmony", to find mathematical regularities of emotional and spiritual human.
Director: Nikolay Khomeriki | Stars: Fyodor Lavrov, Klavdiya Korshunova, Yekaterina Golubeva, Pavel Lyubimtsev
Votes: 226
Un Certain Regard
22. A Scanner Darkly (2006)
R | 100 min | Animation, Comedy, Crime
An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr., Rory Cochrane
Votes: 117,092 | Gross: $5.50M
Un Certain Regard
23. Bihisht faqat baroi murdagon (2006)
92 min | Crime, Drama
Kamal, 20 years old, can't have sexual intercourse with women although he is married. He goes to the big city and notices beautiful Vera, whom he follows round town. Will his partnership ... See full summary »
Director: Jamshed Usmonov | Stars: Khurshed Golibekov, Dinara Drukarova, Maruf Pulodzoda, Djonibek Mourodov
Votes: 279
Un Certain Regard
24. Bled Number One (2006)
100 min | Drama
A peine sorti de prison, Kamel (Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche) est expulsé vers son pays d'origine, l'Algérie. Cet exil forcé le contraint à observer avec lucidité un pays en pleine effervescence, ... See full synopsis »
Director: Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche | Stars: Meriem Serbah, Abel Jafri, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Meriem Ameur-Zaïmeche
Votes: 194
Un Certain Regard
25. How I Celebrated the End of the World (2006)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama
In Communist-era Romania, people live with hope for a new life of freedom.
Director: Cãtãlin Mitulescu | Stars: Dorotheea Petre, Timotei Duma, Ioan Albu, Sergiu Anghel
Votes: 3,232
Un Certain Regard
26. The Violin (2005)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Music
In an unnamed Latin American country that closely resembles Mexico, the government fights a rural insurgency with torture, assault, rape, and murder. Soldiers descend on a town, cutting off... See full summary »
Director: Francisco Vargas | Stars: Ángel Tavira, Gerardo Taracena, Dagoberto Gama, Mario Garibaldi
Votes: 2,596 | Gross: $0.07M
Un Certain Regard
27. Re-cycle (2006)
R | 108 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A writer wants to get a glimpse of some genuine supernatural occurrences while doing research for a novel, but her experiences lead her down a dark path as she witnesses vivid hallucinations and begins to lose her grip on reality.
Directors: Danny Pang, Oxide Chun Pang | Stars: Angelica Lee, Soi Cheang, Lawrence Chou, Viraiwon Jauwseng
Votes: 5,201
Un Certain Regard
28. Paraguayan Hammock (2006)
78 min | Drama
Set in 1935, a couple of aged smallholders are waiting for their son, for rain, for better days.
Director: Paz Encina | Stars: Ramon Del Rio, Georgina Genes, Jorge López
Votes: 541
Un Certain Regard
29. The Wedding Director (2006)
97 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A film director falls in love with the daughter of a prince.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Donatella Finocchiaro, Sami Frey, Gianni Cavina
Votes: 850
Un Certain Regard
30. La Californie (2006)
105 min | Drama
Mirko and Stefan, Serbian refugees, move to the French Riviera. There they meet Maguy who lives in a luxurious mansion up the hill above Cannes with an odd group of friends.
Director: Jacques Fieschi | Stars: Nathalie Baye, Roschdy Zem, Ludivine Sagnier, Mylène Demongeot
Votes: 214
Un Certain Regard
31. The Page Turner (2006)
Unrated | 85 min | Drama, Music, Thriller
After failing the audition to a prestigious music school because of the rude behavior of one of the testers, a girl takes revenge by gaining the trust of the same woman some years later and becoming indispensable for her.
Director: Denis Dercourt | Stars: Catherine Frot, Déborah François, Pascal Greggory, Clotilde Mollet
Votes: 7,377 | Gross: $0.21M
Un Certain Regard
32. Luxury Car (2006)
Not Rated | 88 min | Action, Drama
A country schoolteacher reaching retirement comes to Wuhan in search of his only son. His dying wife has requested to see her boy one last time. He is met by his daughter Yanhong who works ... See full summary »
Director: Chao Wang | Stars: He Huang, Yiqing Li, Yuan Tian, Youcai Wu
Votes: 415
Un Certain Regard
33. Meurtrières (2006)
98 min | Crime, Drama
Nina and Lizzy meet at the mental institution they are committed to. Nina , who feels guilty for her father's death, has been depressed since the tragic event. As for Lizzy, a slightly ... See full summary »
Director: Patrick Grandperret | Stars: Hande Kodja, Céline Sallette, Gianni Giardinelli, Anaïs de Courson
Votes: 333
Un Certain Regard
34. Paris, I Love You (2006)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Through the neighborhoods of Paris, love is veiled, revealed, imitated, sucked dry, reinvented, and awakened.
Directors: Olivier Assayas, Frédéric Auburtin, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Doyle, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Alexander Payne, Bruno Podalydès, Walter Salles, Oliver Schmitz, Nobuhiro Suwa, Daniela Thomas, Tom Tykwer, Gus Van Sant | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Leonor Watling, Ludivine Sagnier, Fanny Ardant
Votes: 74,542 | Gross: $4.86M
Un Certain Regard
35. Salvador (2006)
134 min | Biography, Drama, History
A profile of anarchist and bank-robber Salvador Puig Antich, whose 1974 execution under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco ushered in a period of unrest that helped Spain transition to democracy.
Director: Manuel Huerga | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Tristán Ulloa, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Joel Joan
Votes: 3,450
Un Certain Regard
36. Serambi (2005)
75 min | Documentary
SERAMBI, a documentary film, telling a story about ordinary people in Aceh after the Tsunami. It is a portrait of human struggle facing into the future, despite the heavy memories of the past.
Directors: Lianto Luseno, Garin Nugroho, Tonny Trimarsanto, Viva Westi
Un Certain Regard
37. Suburban Mayhem (2006)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
The neighbors are scared of her. The police can't keep up with her. Nobody can control her, but everybody's trying.
Director: Paul Goldman | Stars: Emily Barclay, Steve Bastoni, Laurence Breuls, Michael Dorman
Votes: 1,543
Un Certain Regard
38. Taxidermia (2006)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Three generations of men, including a pervert that constantly seeks for new kinds of satisfaction, an obese speed eater and a passionate embalmer.
Director: György Pálfi | Stars: Csaba Czene, István Gyuricza, Gina Moreno, Éva Kuli
Votes: 18,627 | Gross: $0.01M
Un Certain Regard
39. Ten Canoes (2006)
Unrated | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
In Australia's Northern Territory, a man tells us a story of his people and his land. It's about an older man, Minygululu, who has three wives and realizes that his younger brother Dayindi may try to steal away the youngest wife.
Directors: Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr | Stars: Crusoe Kurddal, Jamie Gulpilil, Richard Birrinbirrin, Peter Minygululu
Votes: 5,106 | Gross: $0.28M
Un Certain Regard
40. The Unforgiven (2005)
121 min | Drama
He just wanted to be a good man..
Director: Yoon Jong-bin | Stars: Sung-chun Han, Lim Hyun-sung, Yoon Jong-bin, Hyun-woo Joo
Votes: 390
Un Certain Regard
41. 2:37 (2006)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama
At 2:37, someone commits suicide in the school lavatory. The day is told up to that point from the viewpoint of six different students.
Director: Murali K. Thalluri | Stars: Teresa Palmer, Frank Sweet, Sam Harris, Charles Baird
Votes: 7,360
Un Certain Regard
42. Uro (2006)
R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Turning his back on a delinquent past and joining the police force, HP is determined to start doing the right thing. Soon he finds himself trapped in a web of lies, stretching out from both sides of the law. HP soon realizes that his present mission is closely connected to his own past, and that everything he worked so hard to escape from, is coming back to haunt him.
Director: Stefan Faldbakken | Stars: Nicolai Cleve Broch, Ane Dahl Torp, Ahmed Zeyan, Bjørn Floberg
Votes: 1,812
Un Certain Regard
43. As esi tu (2006)
90 min | Adventure, Romance
A man trying to get away from it all finds both love and conflict in the woods in this offbeat drama from Lithuania.
Director: Kristijonas Vildziunas | Stars: Andrius Bialobzeskis, Jurga Jutaite, Mykolas Vildziunas, Daiva Jovaisiene
Votes: 598
Un Certain Regard
44. Z odzysku (2006)
103 min | Drama
19 year old Wojtek lives in a poverty stricken Polish town. He is in love with an older woman, an illegal emigrant from Ukraine. He boxes in illegal matches to get money and is spotted by a... See full summary »
Director: Slawomir Fabicki | Stars: Antoni Pawlicki, Nataliya Vdovina, Jacek Braciak, Dimitri Melnichuk
Votes: 390
Un Certain Regard
45. An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
PG | 96 min | Documentary
Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim follows Al Gore on the lecture circuit, as the former presidential candidate campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects on the environment.
Director: Davis Guggenheim | Stars: Al Gore, Billy West, George Bush, George W. Bush
Votes: 85,196 | Gross: $23.81M
Out of Competition
46. Avida (2006)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy
The kidnapping of a plump billionaire's dog by a deaf-mute and 2 ketamine addicts goes wrong. The wealthy woman takes advantage of the situation to make them fullfil her last wishes.
Directors: Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern | Stars: Anselme, Fernando Arrabal, Anne Benett, Beu
Votes: 665
Out of Competition
47. Bamako (The Court) (2006)
115 min | Drama
Bamako. Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work and the couple is on the verge of breaking up... In the courtyard of the house they share with other families, a trial court ... See full summary »
Director: Abderrahmane Sissako | Stars: Aïssa Maïga, Tiécoura Traoré, Maimouna Hélène Diarra, Habib Dembélé
Votes: 1,493 | Gross: $0.11M
Out of Competition
48. Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006)
75 min | Documentary
Hollywoods biggest talents explore what is the recipe for blockbuster, flops, and how absolute happenstance and controlled luck can make movie magic.
Director: Bill Couturié | Stars: Peter Bogdanovich, Pierce Brosnan, David Brown, Charles Chaplin
Votes: 428
Out of Competition
49. Chambre 666 (1982 TV Movie)
45 min | Documentary
During the '35th Cannes International Film Festival' (14th-26th May 1982), German director Wim Wenders asked a sample of 15 other international film directors to get, each one at a time, ... See full summary »
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Wim Wenders, Michelangelo Antonioni, Maroun Bagdadi, Ana Carolina
Votes: 1,488
Out of Competition
50. Chlopiec na galopujacym koniu (2006)
75 min | Drama
Writer Jerzy lives with his wife and small son far away from the city. Financial and artistic problems set the spouses apart. The turning point in their relationship is their son's operation.
Director: Adam Guzinski | Stars: Piotr Bajor, Aleksandra Justa, Krzysztof Lis, Krzysztof Radkowski
Votes: 42
Out of Competition
51. Clerks II (2006)
R | 97 min | Comedy
A calamity at Dante and Randal's shops sends them looking for new horizons - but they ultimately settle at the fast food empire Mooby's.
Director: Kevin Smith | Stars: Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Rosario Dawson, Jason Mewes
Votes: 140,622 | Gross: $24.15M
Out of Competition
52. El-banate dol (2006)
68 min | Documentary
The story of several young women living on the streets of Cairo.
Director: Tahani Rached
Votes: 131
Out of Competition
53. Election 2 (2006)
Unrated | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
As election time nears, current Triad chairman Lok (Yam) faces competition from his godsons. At the same time, Jimmy (Koo) looks to increase his business relations with mainland China.
Director: Johnnie To | Stars: Louis Koo, Simon Yam, Nick Cheung, Ka-Tung Lam
Votes: 6,895 | Gross: $0.05M
Out of Competition
54. Silk (2006)
Not Rated | 108 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
In Taipei, the crippled scientist Hashimoto uses his invention of "Menger Sponge" to capture the energy of the spirit of a child in an old building. He invites the specialist in reading ... See full summary »
Director: Chao-Bin Su | Stars: Chang Chen, Yôsuke Eguchi, Karena Kar-Yan Lam, Barbie Hsu
Votes: 3,497
Out of Competition
55. Ici Najac, à vous la terre (2006)
97 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Some natives of a small French village - Najac, in the Aveyron department in southern France - resist with citizen common sense, humor and poetry, to the globalization runaway steamroller.
Director: Jean-Henri Meunier | Stars: Arnaud Barre, Hubert Bouyssière, Serge Itkine, Henri Sauzeau
Votes: 43
Out of Competition
56. The Signs (2006)
31 min | Short
A woman lives alone with her two children in a village in the French Basque country. Her husband, a fisherman, mysteriously disappeared and she is waiting for five years. One day her son ... See full summary »
Director: Eugène Green | Stars: Christelle Prot, Mathieu Amalric, Achille Trocellier, Marin Charvet
Votes: 109
Out of Competition
57. Oh La La! (2006)
87 min | Comedy
A forgotten actress, a part-time director, a fashionable actress, a young man of disturbing beauty try, together, to realize their dream.
Director: Anne Fontaine | Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Arielle Dombasle, Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc, Andy Gillet
Votes: 165
Out of Competition
58. Over the Hedge (2006)
PG | 83 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban sprawl that popped up while they were hibernating...and learns a lesson about family himself.
Directors: Tim Johnson, Karey Kirkpatrick | Stars: Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carell, Wanda Sykes
Votes: 189,367 | Gross: $155.02M
Out of Competition
59. Requiem for Billy the Kid (2006)
90 min | Documentary, Biography, Western
Requiem for Billy the Kid recounts the life of Billy the Kid. The premise of the film is an investigation into the often-challenged circumstances that led to the death of the 21-year old ... See full summary »
Director: Anne Feinsilber | Stars: Arthur H., Kris Kristofferson
Votes: 102
Out of Competition
60. Shortbus (2006)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A group of New Yorkers caught up in their romantic-sexual milieu converge at an underground salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics, and carnality.
Director: John Cameron Mitchell | Stars: Sook-Yin Lee, Peter Stickles, PJ DeBoy, Paul Dawson
Votes: 35,397 | Gross: $1.99M
Out of Competition
61. SIDA (2006)
17 min | Short, Drama
In a hospital in Burkina Faso, a man infected by HIV.
Director: Gaspar Noé | Star: Dieudonne Ilboudo
Votes: 288
Out of Competition
62.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Sketches of Frank Gehry
(2005)
PG-13 | 83 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A look at the life and work of the renown architect.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Frank Gehry, Sydney Pollack, Julian Schnabel, Charles Arnoldi
Votes: 1,617 | Gross: $0.44M
Out of Competition
63. Stanley's Girlfriend (2006)
28 min | Short, Mystery
Set in 1950's Hollywood, two filmmakers become unlikely friends: Leo, who writes violent B-movies, and Stanley, a promising director. Nothing can come between them, until the day Stanley shows up with a mysterious girlfriend, Nina.
Director: Monte Hellman | Stars: John Saxon, Tahmoh Penikett, Amelia Cooke, Tygh Runyan
Votes: 66
Out of Competition
64. The Da Vinci Code (2006)
PG-13 | 149 min | Mystery, Thriller
A murder inside the Louvre, and clues in Da Vinci paintings, lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years, which could shake the foundations of Christianity.
Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno, Ian McKellen
Votes: 458,649 | Gross: $217.54M
Out of Competition
65. The House Is Burning (2006)
97 min | Drama
One day. One night. A group of teenagers struggles to find their way in a world that offers them few choices. In 24 hours, Mike will leave for the army, following in his father's footsteps.... See full summary »
Director: Holger Ernst | Stars: John Diehl, Melissa Leo, Julianne Michelle, Robin Lord Taylor
Votes: 250
Out of Competition
66. The Water Diary (2006)
18 min | Short, Drama
A story through a child's eyes about living through a drought.
Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Alice Englert, Tintin Marova Kelly, Isidore Tillers, Harry Greenwood
Votes: 385
Out of Competition
67. Transylvania (2006)
103 min | Drama
Zingarina, who is two-months pregnant, travels from France to Transylvania with her friend Marie to seek out her lover Milan Agustin that was deported from France. They hire the guide and ... See full summary »
Director: Tony Gatlif | Stars: Asia Argento, Amira Casar, Birol Ünel, Alexandra Beaujard
Votes: 2,671
Out of Competition
68. A Curtain Raiser (2006)
TV-PG | 30 min | Short, Drama, Romance
A young Frenchman is determined to dump his girlfriend due to her invariable excessive tardiness.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Louis Garrel, Vahina Giocante, Mathieu Amalric
Votes: 859
Out of Competition
69. United 93 (2006)
R | 111 min | Action, Drama, History
A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on September 11th, 2001 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
Director: Paul Greengrass | Stars: David Alan Basche, Olivia Thirlby, Liza Colón-Zayas, J.J. Johnson
Votes: 110,923 | Gross: $31.57M
Out of Competition
70. Volevo solo vivere (2006)
75 min | Documentary
9 Italian Auschwitz survivors tell their moving stories of deportation, separation, suffering, survival and final liberation...
Director: Mimmo Calopresti
Votes: 61
Out of Competition
71. X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The human government develops a cure for mutations, and Jean Grey becomes a darker uncontrollable persona called the Phoenix who allies with Magneto, causing escalation into an all-out battle for the X-Men.
Director: Brett Ratner | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen
Votes: 540,471 | Gross: $234.36M
Out of Competition
72. Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle (2006)
90 min | Documentary, Biography, Sport
Football match Real Madrid vs. Villareal, April 23, 2005, from the perspective of soccer superstar Zinedine Zidane.
Directors: Douglas Gordon, Philippe Parreno | Stars: David Beckham, Zinédine Zidane
Votes: 3,099
Out of Competition
73. A Chairy Tale (1957)
Not Rated | 12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
An ordinary-looking chair refuses to be sat upon.
Directors: Claude Jutra, Norman McLaren | Star: Claude Jutra
Votes: 1,189
Cannes Classics
74. A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn. Undaunted by his rough surroundings, Joe sets about to prove that wishes come true.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff, Joe Robinson
Votes: 1,150
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75. Begone Dull Care (1950)
Not Rated | 8 min | Animation, Short, Music
Abstract images drawn directly onto the film are accompanied by three pieces of jazz performed by the Oscar Peterson trio.
Directors: Evelyn Lambart, Norman McLaren
Votes: 1,732
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76. Bezhin lug (1937)
31 min | Short, Drama
A Soviet farmer's son, who is working at a Kolchos is killed by his father, who wants to burn the fields of the Kolchos to damage the Soviet Society.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Viktor Kartashov, Nikolay Khmelyov, Boris Zakhava, Yelizaveta Teleshyova
Votes: 680
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77. Blinkity Blank (1955)
5 min | Animation, Short
The surreal story of a bird and its cage with both their conflict and union.
Director: Norman McLaren
Votes: 1,103
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78. El Topo (1970)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Western
A mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky | Stars: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, José Legarreta, Alfonso Arau
Votes: 31,375 | Gross: $0.04M
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79. Hen Hop (1942)
4 min | Animation, Short
In a drawn-on-film animation, a hen gradually breaks apart into an abstract movement of lines as it dances to a barn dance.
Director: Norman McLaren
Votes: 288
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80. India Song (1975)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Anne-Marie Stretter, wife of a French diplomat, lives in 1930s India. She takes many lovers as systems of oppression decay around her.
Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Mathieu Carrière, Claude Mann
Votes: 2,579
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81. La poulette grise (1947)
6 min | Animation, Short, Musical
An experimental short film of images and music made by Norman McLaren.
Director: Norman McLaren
Votes: 353
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82. The Blackbird (1958)
Not Rated | 4 min | Animation, Short
Cut out animation set to the French-Canadian nonsense song 'Le merle' (The Blackbird)
Director: Norman McLaren
Votes: 538
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83. Lines: Horizontal (1962)
6 min | Animation, Short
Lines: Horizontal is a movie made by etching lines directly onto film, like its sister Lines: Vertical. The entire movie consists of horizontal lines dancing in various mathematical patterns to beautiful music.
Directors: Evelyn Lambart, Norman McLaren
Votes: 463
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84. Mail Early (1941)
2 min | Short, Animation
A brief animated film reminding Canadians to post their Christmas mail early, teasing the pressure on the postal system's capacity as a "great flood" coming in December.
Director: Norman McLaren
Votes: 132
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85. Neighbours (1952)
Not Rated | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A surreal story of two neighbours' destructive feud over a flower.
Director: Norman McLaren | Stars: Grant Munro, Jean Paul Ladouceur
Votes: 3,881
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86. Opening Speech (1960)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Norman McLaren attempts to give the opening speech for the first Montreal International Film Festival, but his microphone won't cooperate.
Director: Norman McLaren | Star: Norman McLaren
Votes: 209
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87. Odd Man Out (1947)
Approved | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, F.J. McCormick
Votes: 11,413
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88. Pas de deux (1968)
G | 13 min | Animation, Short, Musical
Two ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal multi and after-image effect visuals.
Director: Norman McLaren | Stars: Margaret Mercier, Vincent Warren
Votes: 1,764
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89. Stars and Stripes (1939)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Animation
A John Phillip Sousa march plays as pen-and-ink images, drawn directly on film, appear. Against a blue background, white fireworks explode. Parts of a flag (red and white stripes and white ... See full summary »
Director: Norman McLaren
Votes: 175
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90. Synchromy (1971)
7 min | Animation, Short
The film's soundtrack is an original musical composition produced with synthetic sound - through photographing unusual geometric shapes and running them through an optical sound head. The ... See full summary »
Director: Norman McLaren
Votes: 565
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91. The Fallen Idol (1948)
Approved | 95 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
A butler working in a foreign embassy in London falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being an impressionable young boy.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel, Bobby Henrey
Votes: 9,665 | Gross: $0.34M
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92. The Holy Mountain (1973)
16+ | 114 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
In a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a messianic character and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky | Stars: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Horacio Salinas, Zamira Saunders, Juan Ferrara
Votes: 47,995 | Gross: $0.06M
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93. The Way Ahead (1944)
Approved | 91 min | Drama, War
World War II drama that follows a group of British draftees, starting with their rigorous basic training, and ending with their deployment in North Africa.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: David Niven, Stanley Holloway, James Donald, John Laurie
Votes: 2,223
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94.
Il était une fois... (2003– )
Episode:
Rome, ville ouverte
(2006)
52 min | Documentary
Explores the life and work of Roberto Rossellini.
Director: Marie Genin | Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Vittorio Taviani, Roberto Rossellini, Federico Fellini
Votes: 21
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95.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend
(2006)
TV-14 | 97 min | Documentary, Biography, History
John Ford and John Wayne - a friendship and professional collaboration that spanned 50 years, changed each others' lives, changed the movies, and in the process, changed the way America saw itself.
Director: Sam Pollard | Stars: Peter Bogdanovich, Harry Carey Jr., Harry Carey, William H. Clothier
Votes: 180
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96. Marcello, una vita dolce (2006)
98 min | Documentary
A documentary on the life and works of the great Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni. It features archival interviews with the actor and also reminiscences from his family, friends and colleagues.
Directors: Mario Canale, Annarosa Morri | Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Anouk Aimée, Ursula Andress, Francesca Archibugi
Votes: 104
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97. Blast of Silence (1961)
Approved | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York, but a special girl from his past and a gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.
Director: Allen Baron | Stars: Allen Baron, Molly McCarthy, Larry Tucker, Peter Clune
Votes: 5,665
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98. Cabiria (1914)
Not Rated | 148 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Cabiria is a Roman child when her home is destroyed by a volcano. Sold in Carthage to be sacrificed in a temple, she is saved by Fulvio, a Roman spy. But danger lurks, and hatred between Rome and Carthage can only lead to war.
Director: Giovanni Pastrone | Stars: Italia Almirante-Manzini, Lidia Quaranta, Bartolomeo Pagano, Carolina Catena
Votes: 3,955
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99. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
PG | 117 min | Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Warrior and pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Sumi Shimamoto, Mahito Tsujimura, Hisako Kyôda, Gorô Naya
Votes: 182,421 | Gross: $0.50M
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100. Violent Summer (1959)
98 min | Drama, Romance, War
Summer 1943: The war is in full swing in southern Italy. Together with friends, Carlo enjoys a carefree summer in youthful naïveté. He falls in love with Roberta, whose husband was killed in the war.
Director: Valerio Zurlini | Stars: Eleonora Rossi Drago, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Lilla Brignone, Raf Mattioli
Votes: 1,877
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