Sundance Grand Jury Prize winners
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1. Old Enough (1984)
PG | 92 min | Drama
Twelve-year-old Lonnie Sloan is a well-to-do New York rich kid and Karen Bruckner is the more ordinary, impoverished New York kid. They happen to meet one day on the street in their neighborhood and hit it off.
Director: Marisa Silver | Stars: Sarah Boyd, Rainbow Harvest, Neill Barry, Alyssa Milano
Votes: 914
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 1984
2. Style Wars (1983 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 69 min | Documentary, Music
A documentary that exposes the rich growing subculture of hip-hop that was developing in New York City in the late '70s and early '80s, specifically focusing on graffiti art and breakdancing.
Director: Tony Silver | Stars: Demon, Kase 2, Eric Haze, D. 5
Votes: 3,295
Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 1984
3. Blood Simple (1984)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies, and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, M. Emmet Walsh
Votes: 105,045 | Gross: $2.15M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 1985
4. Seventeen (1983)
Not Rated | 120 min | Documentary
In their final year at Muncie's Southside High School, a group of seniors hurtles toward maturity with a combination of joy, despair, and an aggravated sense of urgency. They are also ... See full summary »
Directors: Joel DeMott, Jeff Kreines
Votes: 220
Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 1985
5. Smooth Talk (1985)
PG-13 | 92 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A free-spirited 15-year-old girl flirts with a dangerous stranger in the Northern California suburbs and must prepare herself for the frightening and traumatic consequences.
Director: Joyce Chopra | Stars: Treat Williams, Laura Dern, Mary Kay Place, Margaret Welsh
Votes: 3,377 | Gross: $0.02M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 1986
6.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Arthur Miller: Private Conversations
(1985)
TV-14 | 82 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Playwright Arthur Miller, director Volker Schlöndorff and actor Dustin Hoffman are seen creating the Roxbury Productions and Punch Productions teleplay Death of a Salesman (1985).
Director: Christian Blackwood | Stars: Arthur Miller, Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Volker Schlöndorff
Votes: 134
Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 1986
7. Waiting for the Moon (1987)
PG | 88 min | Drama
Sundance prizewinner. Fictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples: Stein & Toklas. Summer 1930s France, Alice tends to ailing Gertrude; they visit Fernande Olivier, ... See full summary »
Director: Jill Godmilow | Stars: Linda Hunt, Linda Bassett, Jacques Boudet, Andrew McCarthy
Votes: 214 | Gross: $0.75M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic (tied) - 1987
8. The Trouble with Dick (1987)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Sci-Fi author is plagued by his publisher's demands to add more sex to his new novel, sexual advances of his girl's sexy best friend and her daughter and hallucinations in which the novel's hero faces desert parasites and alien vixens.
Director: Gary Walkow | Stars: Tom Villard, Susan Dey, Elaine Giftos, Elizabeth Gorcey
Votes: 147
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic (tied) - 1987
9. Sherman's March (1985)
Not Rated | 157 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy
Documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee sets out to make a movie about Union General Sherman's March to the Sea towards the end of the American Civil War, but keeps getting sidetracked by his own love life.
Director: Ross McElwee | Stars: Ross McElwee, Dede McElwee, Ross McElwee Jr., Patricia Rendleman
Votes: 2,706
Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 1987
10. Heat and Sunlight (1987)
R | 98 min | Drama
Over 16 hours, in February, 1987, a man confronts jealously and rage as a love affair falters. Photojournalist Mel Hurley returns home to San Francisco on the eve of his birthday, expecting... See full summary »
Director: Rob Nilsson | Stars: Rob Nilsson, Consuela Faust, Don Bajema, Ernie Fosselius
Votes: 165
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 1988
11. Beirut: The Last Home Movie (1987)
123 min | Documentary
Documentary about the Bustros Family
Director: Jennifer Fox
Votes: 51
Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 1988
12. True Love (I) (1989)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Romance
Donna and Michael are getting married. But first, they have to plan the reception, get the tux, buy the rings, and cope with their own uncertainty about the decision. Michael fears ... See full summary »
Director: Nancy Savoca | Stars: Annabella Sciorra, Ron Eldard, Aida Turturro, Roger Rignack
Votes: 818 | Gross: $1.35M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 1989
13. For All Mankind (1989)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary, History
An in-depth look at various NASA moon landing missions, starting with Apollo 8.
Director: Al Reinert | Stars: Jim Lovell, Ken Mattingly, Russell Schweickart, Eugene Cernan
Votes: 6,519 | Gross: $0.77M
Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 1989
14. Chameleon Street (1989)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama
Detroiter William Douglas Street poses as a Harvard doctor, Time reporter, African exchange student.
Director: Wendell B. Harris Jr. | Stars: Timothy Alvaro, Renauld Bailleux, William Ballenger, Lynn Barbee
Votes: 1,027 | Gross: $0.24M
Gran Jury Prize Dramatic - 1990
15. H-2 Worker (1990)
Not Rated | 70 min | Documentary
Expose on the exploitation of workers in the Florida sugar cane industry.
Director: Stephanie Black | Stars: Jervis Anderson, George Cesvette, Belinda Goffe, Homer Heron
Votes: 31
Grand Jury Prize Documentary (tied) - 1990
16. Water and Power (1989)
57 min | Documentary
A moving meditation on industrialization, focusing on the eerily desolate Owens Valley in California, made arid by the diversion of water from there to the city of Los Angeles.
Director: Pat O'Neill | Stars: Joel Lorimen, Beth Block, George Lockwood, Megan Williams
Votes: 296
Grand Jury Prize Documentary (tied) - 1990
17. Poison (1991)
R | 85 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A boy shoots his father and flies out the window. A man falls in love with a fellow inmate in prison. A doctor accidentally ingests his experimental sex serum, wreaking havoc on the community.
Director: Todd Haynes | Stars: Edith Meeks, Larry Maxwell, Susan Norman, Millie White
Votes: 5,030 | Gross: $0.61M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 1991
18. American Dream (1990)
PG-13 | 98 min | Documentary
Recounts the 1985-86 strike against the Hormel Foods Corporation in Minnesota after its employees' wages and benefits were cut.
Directors: Barbara Kopple, Cathy Caplan, Thomas Haneke, Lawrence Silk | Stars: Lewie Anderson, R.J. Bergstrom, Ron Bergstrom, Wayne Goodnature
Votes: 1,010 | Gross: $0.27M
Grand Jury Prize Documentary (tied) - 1991
19. Paris Is Burning (1990)
R | 78 min | Documentary
A chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.
Director: Jennie Livingston | Stars: Brooke Xtravaganza, André Christian, Dorian Corey, Paris Duprée
Votes: 17,572 | Gross: $3.78M
Grand Jury Prize Documentary (tied) - 1991
20. In the Soup (1992)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
New Yorker Adolpho Rollo is your classic head-movie auteur. In his mind, he's creating deathless classics of the screen. Back in the real world, he can't pay the rent on the downtown flophouse he calls home.
Director: Alexandre Rockwell | Stars: Steve Buscemi, Seymour Cassel, Jennifer Beals, Pat Moya
Votes: 4,366 | Gross: $0.26M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 1992
21. A Brief History of Time (1991)
G | 80 min | Documentary, Biography
A film about the life and work of the cosmologist, Stephen Hawking, who despite his near total paralysis, was one of the great minds of all time.
Director: Errol Morris | Stars: Stephen Hawking, Isobel Hawking, Janet Humphrey, Mary Hawking
Votes: 5,906 | Gross: $2.28M
Grand Jury Prize Documentary (tied) - 1992
22. Finding Christa (1991)
55 min | Documentary
A filmmaker reunites with the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty years later.
Directors: Camille Billops, James Hatch | Stars: Camille Billops, Christa Victoria
Votes: 63
Grand Jury Prize Documentary (tied) - 1992
23. Ruby in Paradise (1993)
R | 114 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman struggles for independence and identity in a small Florida tourist town.
Director: Victor Nunez | Stars: Ashley Judd, Todd Field, Bentley Mitchum, Allison Dean
Votes: 3,263 | Gross: $1.00M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic (tied) - 1993
24. Public Access (1993)
R | 90 min | Drama, Thriller
Brewster seems to be an almost too-perfect example of idyllic small-town America, with everyone living in peace and harmony. So when newcomer Whiley Pritcher starts up his own local cable ... See full summary »
Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Ron Marquette, Bert Williams, Leigh Hunt, John Renshaw
Votes: 982
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic (tied) - 1993
25. Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family (1993)
85 min | Documentary
In 1961, Robert Young and Michael Roemer shot a gritty documentary in Palermo's Cortile Cascino, a slum reserved for rag pickers and scavengers. Thirty years later, Young's son and ... See full summary »
Directors: Michael Roemer, Susan Todd, Andrew Young, Robert M. Young | Star: Angela Capra
Votes: 51
Grand Jury Prize Documentary (tied) - 1993
26. Silverlake Life: The View from Here (1993)
99 min | Documentary
A documentary about two gay men as they live through their last months of life with AIDS.
Directors: Peter Friedman, Tom Joslin | Stars: Liane Bonin, Tom Joslin, Mark Massi
Votes: 523
Grand Jury Prize Documentary (tied) - 1993
27. What Happened Was... (1994)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Jackie and Michael are coworkers at a large law firm, who decide to meet at Jackie's for dinner one night. As this 'first date' plays out, the audience is guided through a mental minefield of disappointment.
Director: Tom Noonan | Stars: Tom Noonan, Karen Sillas
Votes: 2,266 | Gross: $0.33M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 1994
28. Freedom on My Mind (1994)
105 min | Documentary
Chronicles the Mississippi voter registration drive from 1961- 64.
Directors: Connie Field, Marilyn Mulford | Stars: Chude Pamela Allen, Heather Booth, L.C. Dorsey, Len Edwards
Votes: 312 | Gross: $0.07M
Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 1994
29. The Young Poisoner's Handbook (1995)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
This film is based on a true story about a British teenager who allegedly poisoned family, friends, and co-workers. Graham is highly intelligent, but completely amoral. He becomes ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Ross | Stars: Hugh O'Conor, Antony Sher, Tobias Arnold, Ruth Sheen
Votes: 3,816 | Gross: $0.75M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic (tied) - 1995
30. The Brothers McMullen (1995)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Three Irish Catholic brothers from Long Island struggle to deal with love, marriage, and infidelity.
Director: Edward Burns | Stars: Jack Mulcahy, Michael McGlone, Edward Burns, Shari Albert
Votes: 8,185 | Gross: $10.25M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic (tied) - 1995
31. Crumb (1994)
R | 119 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy
An intimate portrait of controversial cartoonist Robert Crumb and his traumatized family.
Director: Terry Zwigoff | Stars: Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Charles Crumb, Maxon Crumb
Votes: 21,578 | Gross: $3.17M
Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 1995
32. Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
An awkward seventh-grader struggles to cope with inattentive parents, snobbish class-mates, a smart older brother, an attractive younger sister and her own insecurities in suburban New Jersey.
Director: Todd Solondz | Stars: Heather Matarazzo, Christina Brucato, Victoria Davis, Christina Vidal
Votes: 37,126 | Gross: $4.77M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 1996
33. Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern (1995)
Unrated | 88 min | Documentary
Troublesome Creek is the acclaimed story of the Jordan family's gamble to save their Iowa farm. From fighting the Crooked Creek Gang in 1867 to fighting off the bank today. An ... See full summary »
Directors: Steven Ascher, Jeanne Jordan | Stars: Bob Blankenship, Dean Eilts, Marge Harold, James Jordan Jr.
Votes: 88 | Gross: $0.14M
Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 1996
34. Sunday (1997)
Unrated | 91 min | Drama, Romance
This film concerns two mysterious characters who meet on a Sunday in Queens. Madeleine the most unsettling creature of that name since "Vertigo" is a middle-aged, moderately successful ... See full summary »
Director: Jonathan Nossiter | Stars: David Suchet, Lisa Harrow, Jared Harris, Larry Pine
Votes: 705 | Gross: $6.10M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 1997
35. Girls Like Us (1997)
60 min | Documentary
Documentary about four urban teenage girls, and their opinions about religion, music and sex.
Directors: Tina Di Feliciantonio, Jane C. Wagner
Votes: 46
Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 1997
36. Slam (1998)
R | 100 min | Drama
Grand Jury Prize, 1998 Sundance Film Festival. A talented youth (Saul Williams) copes with urban crime and despair by competing in poetry slams. Sonja Sohn of "The Wire" costars.
Director: Marc Levin | Stars: Saul Williams, Sonja Sohn, Bonz Malone, Lawrence Wilson
Votes: 2,448 | Gross: $0.98M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 1998
37. The Farm: Angola, USA (1998)
88 min | Documentary
Documentary depicting day to day life in Angola Prison mostly from an inmate's perspective. Interviews are with several inmates including one with a life sentence who is about to die.
Directors: Liz Garbus, Wilbert Rideau, Jonathan Stack | Stars: Bernard Addison, Burl Cain, George Crawford, Wilbert Rideau
Votes: 814
Grand Jury Prize Documentary (tied) - 1998
38. Frat House (1998)
60 min | Documentary
A documentary exploring what it happens when you pledge to a frat house.
Directors: Andrew Gurland, Todd Phillips
Votes: 480
Grand Jury Prize Documentary (tied) - 1998
39. Three Seasons (1999)
PG-13 | 104 min | Drama
Although the hearts and goals and desires are different for everyone in a culturally-shifting Ho Chi Minh City, the stories of four separate individuals paint a vivid picture of the past, present, and future of a city eking into a new era.
Director: Tony Bui | Stars: Ngoc Hiep Nguyen, Ngoc Minh, Phat Trieu Hoang, Diem Kieu
Votes: 3,297 | Gross: $2.02M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 1999
40. American Movie (1999)
R | 107 min | Documentary, Comedy
Documentary about an aspiring filmmaker's attempts to finance his dream project by finally completing the low-budget horror film he abandoned years before.
Director: Chris Smith | Stars: Mark Borchardt, Mike Schank, Tom Schimmels, Monica Borchardt
Votes: 19,308 | Gross: $1.16M
Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 1999
41. Girlfight (2000)
R | 110 min | Drama, Sport
Diana, without her father knowing it, trains as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for female boxers.
Director: Karyn Kusama | Stars: Michelle Rodriguez, Douglas Santiago, Jamie Tirelli, Paul Calderon
Votes: 11,379 | Gross: $1.52M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic (tied) - 2000
42. You Can Count on Me (2000)
R | 111 min | Drama
A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely seen younger brother returns to town.
Director: Kenneth Lonergan | Stars: Laura Linney, Matthew Broderick, Amy Ryan, Michael Countryman
Votes: 31,405 | Gross: $9.18M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic (tied) - 2000
43. Long Night's Journey Into Day (2000)
Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary
This documentary tells four stories of Apartheid in South Africa, as seen through the eyes of the Truth and Reconciliation commission. White soldiers who have killed ANC activists, black ... See full summary »
Directors: Deborah Hoffmann, Frances Reid | Stars: Mary Burton, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Mongezi Manqina, Thapelo Mbelo
Votes: 469 | Gross: $0.01M
Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 2000
44. The Believer (2001)
R | 98 min | Drama
A young Jewish man develops a fiercely anti-Semitic philosophy. Based on the factual story of a K.K.K. member in the 1960s who was revealed to be Jewish by a New York Times reporter.
Director: Henry Bean | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Summer Phoenix, Peter Meadows, Garret Dillahunt
Votes: 41,071 | Gross: $0.41M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 2001
45. Southern Comfort (2001)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
Southern Comfort documents the final year in the life of Robert Eads, a transgender man. Eads, diagnosed with ovarian cancer, was turned down for treatment by two dozen doctors out of fear ... See full summary »
Director: Kate Davis | Stars: Robert Eads, Lola Cola, Maxwell Scott Anderson, Cas Piotrowski
Votes: 988
Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 2001
46. Personal Velocity (2002)
R | 86 min | Drama, Romance
Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.
Director: Rebecca Miller | Stars: Kyra Sedgwick, Parker Posey, Fairuza Balk, John Ventimiglia
Votes: 3,934 | Gross: $0.77M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 2002
47. Daughter from Danang (2002)
PG | 83 min | Documentary, War
Separated at the end of the Vietnam war, an "Americanized" woman and her Vietnamese mother are reunited after 22 years.
Directors: Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco | Stars: Mai Thi Kim, Heidi Neville-Bub, Gerald Ford, Tom Miller
Votes: 622
Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 2002
48. American Splendor (2003)
R | 101 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.
Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Shari Springer Berman, Harvey Pekar, Chris Ambrose
Votes: 52,311 | Gross: $6.00M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 2003
49. Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
Not Rated | 107 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Documentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes.
Director: Andrew Jarecki | Stars: Arnold Friedman, Jesse Friedman, David Friedman, Elaine Friedman
Votes: 27,073 | Gross: $3.12M
Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 2003
50. Primer (2004)
PG-13 | 77 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Four friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.
Director: Shane Carruth | Stars: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden, Anand Upadhyaya
Votes: 114,040 | Gross: $0.42M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 2004
51. Dig! (2004)
R | 107 min | Documentary, Music
A documentary on the once-promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols, and the friendship/rivalry between their respective founders, Anton Newcombe and Courtney Taylor.
Director: Ondi Timoner | Stars: Anton Newcombe, Courtney Taylor-Taylor, Joel Gion, Matt Hollywood
Votes: 6,686 | Gross: $0.13M
Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 2004
52. Forty Shades of Blue (2005)
R | 108 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-'n'-roll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husband's estranged son comes to visit.
Director: Ira Sachs | Stars: Dina Korzun, Rip Torn, Andrew Lawrence Henderson, Elizabeth Morton
Votes: 1,554
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 2005
53. Why We Fight (2005)
PG-13 | 98 min | Documentary, History, War
Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions.
Director: Eugene Jarecki | Stars: Gore Vidal, John McCain, Ken Adelman, John Ashcroft
Votes: 10,227 | Gross: $1.44M
Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 2005
54. O Herói (2004)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, War
A 20-year veteran of the Angolan civil war returns to the capital city of Luanda where he faces the challenges of assimilation and survival.
Director: Zézé Gamboa | Stars: Makena Diop, Milton 'Santo' Coelho, Maria Ceiça, Patrícia Bull
Votes: 165
World Cinema Dramatic - 2005
55. Stand van de maan (2004)
92 min | Documentary
Three generations of one family weather the challenges of living in modern-day Indonesia, the largest Muslim community on the globe.
Director: Leonard Retel Helmrich
Votes: 226
World Cinema Documentary - 2005
56. Quinceañera (2006)
R | 90 min | Drama
As Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin.
Directors: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland | Stars: Emily Rios, Jesse Garcia, Chalo González, Jesus Castanos
Votes: 4,296 | Gross: $1.69M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 2006
57. God Grew Tired of Us (2006)
PG | 89 min | Documentary
Three young men from Sudan embark on a journey to America after years of wandering Sub-Saharan Africa in search of safety.
Directors: Christopher Dillon Quinn, Tommy Walker | Stars: Panther Bior, John Bul Dau, Nicole Kidman, Daniel Abol Pach
Votes: 2,904 | Gross: $0.28M
Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 2006
58. 13 Tzameti (2005)
Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A man takes over a dead man's task without realizing the horror it entails.
Director: Géla Babluani | Stars: George Babluani, Aurélien Recoing, Pascal Bongard, Fred Ulysse
Votes: 18,023 | Gross: $0.12M
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 2006
59. En el hoyo (I) (2006)
Unrated | 84 min | Documentary
A portrait of the construction workers involved in building the second deck of Mexico City's Periferico freeway.
Director: Juan Carlos Rulfo | Stars: Salvador Enriquez Castillo, Sofia García López, José Guadalupe Calzada, Isabel Dolores Hernández
Votes: 431 | Gross: $0.01M
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 2006
60. Blood of My Blood (2007)
TV-MA | 110 min | Drama, Thriller
A Mexican boy smuggles himself to Brooklyn to meet his long-lost father - only to have his identity stolen upon arrival by an impostor who seeks to steal the fathers' fortune.
Director: Christopher Zalla | Stars: Jesús Ochoa, Armando Hernández, Jorge Adrián Espíndola, Paola Mendoza
Votes: 1,196 | Gross: $0.05M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 2007
61. Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) (2007)
Unrated | 85 min | Documentary
An examination of corruption and class warfare in Brazil as told through the stories of a wealthy businessman, a plastic surgeon who assists kidnapping victims and a politician whose income relies on a frog farm.
Director: Jason Kohn
Votes: 1,202 | Gross: $0.11M
Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 2007
62. Sweet Mud (2006)
90 min | Drama
Set in mid-70's, 12-year old Dvir Avni navigates between the equality values of his home-born Kibbutz and the relationship with his undermined mother, whom the Kibbutz members will to denounce.
Director: Dror Shaul | Stars: Tomer Steinhof, Ronit Yudkevitz, Shai Avivi, Pini Tavger
Votes: 765
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 2007
63. Vores lykkes fjender (2006)
58 min | Documentary
The first Afghan woman ever to enter parliament, Malalai Joya is followed during her campaign to introduce democracy to a country long ruled by warlords and Taliban.
Director: Eva Mulvad | Star: Malalai Joya
Votes: 124
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 2007
64. Frozen River (2008)
R | 97 min | Crime, Drama
A mom looks for another source of income, when her husband leaves with the money meant for the new mobile home. A nearby Indian territory stretches across the border to Canada with a drivable frozen river between. Smuggling?
Director: Courtney Hunt | Stars: Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott, Michael O'Keefe
Votes: 26,454 | Gross: $2.51M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 2008
65. Trouble the Water (2008)
Unrated | 93 min | Documentary
A redemptive tale of an aspiring rap artist surviving failed levees and her own troubled past and seizing a chance for a new beginning.
Directors: Carl Deal, Tia Lessin | Stars: Michael Brown, George W. Bush, Julie Chen Moonves, Ray Nagin
Votes: 2,071 | Gross: $0.52M
Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 2008
66. Ping-pongkingen (2008)
107 min | Drama
Rille, an ostracized and bullied teenager, who only excels in the ping pong room, descends into a life-and-death struggle with his younger, more popular brother when the truth about their father surfaces during their spring break.
Director: Jens Jonsson | Stars: Jerry Johansson, Hampus Johansson, Georgi Staykov, Ann-Sofie Nurmi
Votes: 1,239
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 2008
67. Man on Wire (2008)
PG-13 | 94 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century".
Director: James Marsh | Stars: Philippe Petit, Jean François Heckel, Jean-Louis Blondeau, Annie Allix
Votes: 58,651 | Gross: $2.96M
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 2008
68. Precious (II) (2009)
R | 110 min | Drama
In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that she can re-route her life in a better direction.
Director: Lee Daniels | Stars: Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey
Votes: 116,172 | Gross: $47.57M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 2009
69. We Live in Public (2009)
Unrated | 91 min | Documentary
A documentary focusing on the life of dot-com entrepreneur Josh Harris, and his exploits over the last decade.
Director: Ondi Timoner | Stars: Josh Harris, Tom Harris, Carlos Alvarez, David Amron
Votes: 1,983 | Gross: $0.04M
Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 2009
70. The Maid (2009)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
A drama centered on a maid trying to hold on to her position after having served a family for 23 years.
Director: Sebastián Silva | Stars: Catalina Saavedra, Claudia Celedón, Mariana Loyola, Andrea García-Huidobro
Votes: 6,458 | Gross: $0.55M
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 2009
71. Rough Aunties (2008)
Not Rated | 103 min | Documentary
Fearless, feisty and resolute, the "Rough Aunties" are a remarkable group of women unwavering in their stand to protect and care for the abused, neglected and forgotten children of Durban, ... See full summary »
Director: Kim Longinotto | Stars: Jackie Branfield, Eureka, Ladyfair, Mildrid
Votes: 148
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 2009
72. Winter's Bone (2010)
R | 100 min | Drama, Mystery
An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.
Director: Debra Granik | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Garret Dillahunt, Isaiah Stone
Votes: 150,461 | Gross: $6.53M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 2010
73. Restrepo (2010)
R | 93 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A year with one platoon in the deadliest valley in Afghanistan.
Directors: Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger | Stars: The Men of Battle Company 2nd of the 503rd Infantry Regiment 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, Juan 'Doc Restrepo, Dan Kearney, LaMonta Caldwell
Votes: 24,418 | Gross: $1.33M
Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 2010
74. Animal Kingdom (2010)
R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A seventeen-year-old navigates his survival amongst an explosive criminal family and the detective who thinks he can save him.
Director: David Michôd | Stars: James Frecheville, Guy Pearce, Joel Edgerton, Bryce Lindemann
Votes: 60,459 | Gross: $1.04M
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 2010
75. The Red Chapel (2009)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Comedy
Two Danish comedians join the director on a trip to North Korea, where they have been allowed access under the pretext of wanting to perform a vaudeville act.
Director: Mads Brügger | Stars: Mads Brügger, Simon Jul Jørgensen, Tommy Kenter, Jacob Nossell
Votes: 2,157 | Gross: $0.01M
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 2010
76. Like Crazy (2011)
PG-13 | 86 min | Drama, Romance
A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.
Director: Drake Doremus | Stars: Felicity Jones, Anton Yelchin, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlie Bewley
Votes: 63,275 | Gross: $3.41M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 2011
77. How to Die in Oregon (2011)
Not Rated | 107 min | Documentary, Drama, Family
In 1994 Oregon became the first state to legalize a terminally ill person's request to end his or her life with medication. At the time, only Belgium, Switzerland, and the Netherlands had ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Richardson | Stars: Harry Bruton, Ray Carnay, Cody Curtis, Paul Darley
Votes: 2,018
Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 2011
78. Happy, Happy (2010)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Drama
Family is the most important thing in the world to Kaja. She is an eternal optimist in spite of living with a man who would rather go hunting with the boys, and who refuses to have sex with... See full summary »
Director: Anne Sewitsky | Stars: Agnes Kittelsen, Joachim Rafaelsen, Maibritt Saerens, Henrik Rafaelsen
Votes: 3,253 | Gross: $0.04M
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 2011
79. Hell and Back Again (2011)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Action, History
What does it mean to lead men in war? What does it mean to come home? Hell and Back Again is a cinematically revolutionary film that asks and answers these questions with a power and ... See full summary »
Director: Danfung Dennis | Stars: Nathan Harris, Ashley Harris, The Marines of Echo Company, Christian Cabaniss
Votes: 2,347 | Gross: $0.04M
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 2011
80. Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
PG-13 | 93 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Faced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.
Director: Benh Zeitlin | Stars: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly, Lowell Landes
Votes: 85,045 | Gross: $12.80M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 2012
81. The House I Live In (2012)
Not Rated | 108 min | Documentary
From the dealer to the narcotics officer, the inmate to the federal judge, a penetrating look inside America's criminal justice system, revealing the profound human rights implications of U.S. drug policy.
Director: Eugene Jarecki | Stars: Eugene Jarecki, David Simon, Shanequa Benitez, William Julius Wilson
Votes: 5,395 | Gross: $0.21M
Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 2012
82. Violeta Went to Heaven (2011)
Not Rated | 110 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra, filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves, and her hopes.
Director: Andrés Wood | Stars: Francisco Acuña, Juan Alfaro, Orlando Alfaro, Almendra Andrade
Votes: 2,412 | Gross: $0.02M
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 2012
83. The Law in These Parts (2011)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, History
Can justice truly be served in the occupied territories given the current system of law administered by Israel for Palestinians?
Director: Ra'anan Alexandrowicz
Votes: 400
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 2012
84. Fruitvale Station (2013)
R | 85 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.
Director: Ryan Coogler | Stars: Michael B. Jordan, Melonie Diaz, Octavia Spencer, Kevin Durand
Votes: 85,831 | Gross: $16.10M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 2013 (Originally titled Fruitvale)
85. Blood Brother (2013)
Not Rated | 92 min | Documentary
Documentarian visits best friend in India to see the mutual unconditional love that keeps his buddy bonded to a village hostel housing AIDS-afflicted children.
Director: Steve Hoover | Stars: Rocky Braat, Steve Hoover, Anitha, Devi
Votes: 1,664 | Gross: $0.12M
Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 2013
86. Jiseul (2012)
108 min | Drama, History, War
In 1950's, a populace of a South Korean island rebels against police brutality. The protesters are labeled as communists and the army is dispatched. One small village will be hit especially hard that day. Based on historical events.
Director: Meul O | Stars: Min-chul Sung, Jung-won Yang, Young-soon Oh, Suk-bum Moon
Votes: 302
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 2013
87. A River Changes Course (2013)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary, Drama
"We've worked so hard on this land," says Sav Samourn. "And now they've come to destroy it all. Sooner or later it will all be gone." In her directorial debut, award-winning filmmaker ... See full summary »
Director: Kalyanee Mam
Votes: 151
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 2013
88. Whiplash (2014)
R | 106 min | Drama, Music
A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.
Director: Damien Chazelle | Stars: Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Melissa Benoist, Paul Reiser
Votes: 987,020 | Gross: $13.09M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 2014
89. Rich Hill (2014)
Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Rich Hill intimately chronicles the turbulent lives of three boys living in an impoverished Midwestern town and the fragile family bonds that sustain them.
Directors: Andrew Droz Palermo, Tracy Droz Tragos | Stars: Alyssa Jewell, Andrew Jewell, Elizabeth Jewell, Willie Jewell
Votes: 2,508
Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 2014
90. To Kill a Man (2014)
TV-14 | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A working class man who, tired of being the victim of criminals, decides to take justice in his own hands.
Director: Alejandro Fernández Almendras | Stars: Daniel Candia, Alejandra Yañez, Daniel Antivilo, Ariel Mateluna
Votes: 1,643
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 2014
91. The Return to Homs (2013)
Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A look behind the barricades of the besieged city of Homs, where for nineteen-year-old Basset and his ragtag group of comrades, the audacious hope of revolution is crumbling like the buildings around them.
Director: Talal Derki | Star: Abdul Basset Saroot
Votes: 1,070
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 2014
92. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)
PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
High schooler Greg, who spends most of his time making parodies of classic movies with his co-worker Earl, finds his outlook forever altered after befriending a classmate who has just been diagnosed with cancer.
Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon | Stars: Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler, Olivia Cooke, Nick Offerman
Votes: 138,190 | Gross: $6.74M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 2015
93. The Wolfpack (2015)
R | 90 min | Documentary, Biography
Confined in an apartment from a New York housing project, the six Angulo brothers learned everything they know about the world through watching films and spend their time reenacting their favorite movies with intricate homemade costumes.
Director: Crystal Moselle | Stars: Mukunda Angulo, Narayana Angulo, Susanne Angulo, Bhagavan Angulo
Votes: 13,509 | Gross: $1.30M
Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 2015
94. Slow West (2015)
R | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A young Scottish man travels across America in pursuit of the woman he loves, attracting the attention of an outlaw who is willing to serve as a guide.
Director: John Maclean | Stars: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Caren Pistorius, Aorere Paki, Jeffrey Thomas
Votes: 47,935 | Gross: $0.23M
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - 2015
95. The Russian Woodpecker (2015)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary, War
A gripping, award-winning documentary about an irradiated Ukrainian artist's search for the truth about Chernobyl and his prescient and powerful warnings about Putin's plans for a coming Russian invasion.
Director: Chad Gracia | Stars: Andrei Alexandrovich, Fedor Alexandrovich, Igor Alexandrovich, Natalia Barabovskaya
Votes: 1,487
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize Documentary - 2015
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