Cannes 1970 - Compétition
Jury présidé par Miguel Ángel Asturias
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- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsDonald SutherlandElliott GouldTom SkerrittThe staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.Grand Prix International du Festival
- DirectorJohn BoormanStarsMarcello MastroianniBillie WhitelawCalvin LockhartA social satire about the last heir of a dethroned family of European monarchs whose plans to return to power through revolution become secondary after he becomes fascinated by the life of a poor London black girl and her boyfriend.Prix de la mise en scène
- DirectorMauro BologniniStarsMassimo RanieriOttavia PiccoloFrank WolffStruggling with life in 18th-century Italy, young Metello Salani is determined to change his situation for the better - but love, marriage and politics complicate things considerably...Prix d'interprétation féminine pour Ottavia Piccolo
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsMarcello MastroianniMonica VittiGiancarlo GianniniA three-way love affair in the Rome of the early seventies.Prix d'interprétation masculine pour Marcello Mastroianni
- DirectorIstván GaálStarsIvan AndonovGyörgy BánffyJudit MeszléryThe daily routine of a falconry shows the newcomer how order through dictatorship can and cannot work.Prix du Jury Ex-aequo
- DirectorStuart HagmannStarsBruce DavisonKim DarbyBud CortAn apolitical college student joins a group of campus protesters to meet girls but gets swept up in their cause and involved in a violent confrontation with police.Prix du Jury Ex-aequo
- DirectorElio PetriStarsGian Maria VolontèFlorinda BolkanGianni SantuccioA chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.Prix de la Critique Internationale - F.I.P.R.E.S.C.I.
Grand Prix Spécial du Jury - DirectorRaoul CoutardStarsPhi LanHuynh CazenasXuan HaA small Vietnamese boy grows up during the horrors and hardships of The Vietnam War era.Prix de la première oeuvre
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsMahmoud Al MelejiNagwa IbrahimEzzat El AlailiA small peasant village's struggles against the careless inroads of the large local landowner. The Land shows why political oppression does not necessarily lead to a sense of solidarity among the disinherited.
- DirectorRobert Ellis MillerStarsHywel BennettLeigh Taylor-YoungJane AsherBorn to twin sisters on the same day in London, France and Margaret are more like brother and sister than cousins. Two decades later, they fight their unrequited love, each taking lovers who eventually fall for each other.
- DirectorManuel AntinStarsAdolfo GüiraldesJuan CarvalledoLuis Manuel de la CuestaThe story takes place in San Antonio de Areco, in the Argentina pampas. Fabio Cáceres remembers his childhood as an orphan and his youth working in the field, next to his godfather, Don Segundo Sombra, a solitary gaucho.
- DirectorFranco BrusatiStarsCarole AndréFrank GrimesGianni GarkoA young woman becomes emotionally and romantically dependent on the man who foils her suicide attempt.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsDaniel OlbrychskiStanislawa CelinskaAleksander BardiniThe film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury the tormentors they find alive. They are then herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise means to control the situation. A young poet, who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong young Jewish girl who wants him to run off with her to the West. He cannot cope with her growing demands for affection, and still feels hatred for the Germans and disdain for his fellow men, who quickly revert to petty enmities.
- DirectorÉdouard LuntzStarsMaurice RonetMichel BouquetCathy Rosier
- DirectorClaude SautetStarsMichel PiccoliRomy SchneiderGérard LartigauA highway engineer is involved in a car crash, after which, near death, he remembers his life leading up to the accident.
- DirectorPeter LilienthalStarsEddie ConstantineChristine NoonanVladimír PucholtThe Italian anarchist Errico Malatesta lives in exile in London 1910 . Because of revolutionary activities in Ancona he was initially relegated to the island of Lampedusa. In London he creates a new cell of anarchists.
- DirectorNelson Pereira dos SantosStarsNildo ParenteIsabel RibeiroArduíno ColassantiA new priest comes to a Brazilian coastal town and builds an insane asylum. Eventually the whole population ends up in the asylum.
- DirectorWalter Hugo KhouriStarsGeneviève GradLuc MerendaRossana GhessaBárbara, a French girl living in São Paulo, and two friends decide to transform a little apartment into a luxury bordello, "The Palace of Angels", securing money and success, but some problems as well.
- DirectorVera ChytilováStarsJitka NovákováKarel NovakJan SchmidAn experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of loss of innocence.
- DirectorOtto PremingerStarsLiza MinnelliKen HowardRobert MooreThe story of three wildly neurotic characters: A facially disfigured girl, a homosexual paraplegic and an introvert epileptic who, after leaving the hospital, set up housekeeping together in a cottage where they support each other.
- DirectorAbdellatif Ben AmmarStarsJuliet BertoFouad ZaouchAmor KhalfaA documentary filmmaker goes to work on a project about Tunisians who have worked abroad. Many have married French women, and the couples try to adjust to France after many years in Tunisia. The man decides to forego the film in order to address the personal and social concerns of the people.
- DirectorLuis García BerlangaStarsJosé Luis López VázquezLaly SoldevilaJosé María PradaLeo travels with his mother to a touristic Mediterranean spot in order to marry his girlfriend Loli. However, the funny and open minded girls from Northern Europe make Leo reconsider his plans.