#97. Taste of Cherry (1997)

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– Director: Abbas Kiarostami

– Stacker score: 85.8

– Metascore: 80

– IMDb user rating: 7.7

– Runtime: 95 minutes

This quiet meditation on life and death won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1997. Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami presents the story of Mr. Badii, a man who drives through the hilly landscape outside of Tehran in search of someone to bury him after he commits suicide. In 2009, Time magazine ranked it as one of the top 10 Cannes Festival films.