The list of Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) grand prize winning movies of 2000s:
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-Dancer in the Dark, 2000 musical drama film written and directed by Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier. It stars Björk as a factory worker who suffers from a degenerative eye condition. Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Cara Seymour, Peter Stormare, Siobhan Fallon Hogan and Joel Grey also star.
-The Son's Room (La stanza del figlio), 2001 Italian film directed, written and produced by Nanni Moretti. It depicts the psychological effects on a family and their life after the death of their son.
-The Pianist, 2002 biographical war drama movie directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody. It is based on the autobiographical book The Pianist (1946), a Holocaust memoir by the Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman, a Holocaust survivor.
-Elephant, 2003 American psychological drama film written and directed by Gus Van Sant. It chronicles the events surrounding a school shooting, based in part on the 1999 Columbine High School massacre.
-Fahrenheit 9/11, 2004 American documentary film directed by Michael Moore. The film takes a critical look at the presidency of George W. Bush, the war in Iraq, and its coverage in the media.
-L'Enfant (The Child), 2005 Belgian film directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, starring Jérémie Renier and Déborah François. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival and the film was named the fourteenth "Best Film of the 21st Century So Far" by The New York Times.
-The Wind That Shakes the Barley, 2006 war drama film directed by Ken Loach, set during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War, starring Cillian Murphy and Pádraic Delaney.
-4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile), 2007 Romanian drama and thriller film, directed by Cristian Mungiu and starring Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, and Vlad Ivanov. The film is set in Communist Romania in the final years of the Nicolae Ceaușescu era. It tells the story of two students, roommates in a university dormitory, who try to procure an illegal abortion.
-The Class Entre les murs), 2008 French drama film directed by Laurent Cantet, based on the 2006 novel of the same name by François Bégaudeau.
-The White Ribbon (Das weiße Band), 2009 German-language drama film, written and directed by Michael Haneke, released in black-and-white. The film darkly depicts society and family in a northern German village just before World War I.
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