Cannes Classics
The Festival uses Cannes Classics to place the spotlight on rediscovered or restored masterworks from the past, or ones that have been re-released in theatres or on DVD.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Red Shoes (1948) | The Red Shoes | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | United Kingdom |
| A Brighter Summer Day (1991) | Gu ling jie shao nian sha ren shi jian | Edward Yang | Taiwan |
| The Night of Counting the Years (1969) | Al-Momia | Shadi Abdel Salam | Egypt |
| The Wave (1936) | Redes | Emilio Gómez Muriel and Fred Zinnemann | Mexico |
| Images from the Playground (2009) | Bilder från lekstugan | Stig Björkman | Sweden |
| Accident (1967) | Accident | Joseph Losey | United Kingdom |
| Two of the New Wave (2009) | Deux de la Vague | Emmanuel Laurent | France |
| Pietro Germi - The Good, the Beautiful and the Brave (2009) | Pietro Germi - Il bravo, il bello, il cattivo | Claudio Bondi | Italy |
| Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno (2009) | L'enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot | Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea | France |
| God Does Not Believe in Us Any More (1982) | An uns glaubt Gott nicht mehr | Axel Corti | Austria Germany |
| A Fistful of Dynamite (1971) | Giù la testa | Sergio Leone | Italy |
| The Adventure (1960) | L'avventura | Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy France |
| The Housemaid (1960) | 하녀 | Kim Ki-young | South Korea |
| The 400 Blows (1959) | Les quatre cents coups | François Truffaut | France |
| Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) | Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot | Jacques Tati | France |
| Eyes Without a Face (1960) | Les yeux sans visage | Georges Franju | France |
| Far from Vietnam (1967) | Loin du Vietnam | Chris Marker, Joris Ivens, Claude Lelouch, Jean-Luc Godard, William Klein, Agnès Varda and Alain Resnais | France |
| Pierrot le fou (1965) | Pierrot le fou | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966) | Signore & signori | Pietro Germi | Italy |
| The Molly Maguires (1970) | The Molly Maguires | Martin Ritt | United States |
| Victim (1961) | Victim | Basil Dearden | United Kingdom |
| Wake in Fright (1971) | Wake in Fright | Ted Kotcheff | Australia |
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