What is the best Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or winning film of all time?

By YPB Team
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Auteurs and genre-definers, European provocateurs and global breakouts — every film here carries the Palme d'Or. Which deserves the crown of crowns?

Apocalypse Now - ranking option ranked #1

Apocalypse Now

Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War epic following a soldier's nightmarish journey upriver to assassinate a rogue colonel.

1/12
Pulp Fiction - ranking option ranked #2

Pulp Fiction

Quentin Tarantino's 1994 non-linear crime anthology that revolutionized independent cinema and popular storytelling.

2/12
Parasite - ranking option ranked #3

Parasite

Bong Joon-ho's 2019 genre-bending Korean thriller about class inequality, which also became the first non-English film to win Best Picture at the Oscars.

3/12
Taxi Driver - ranking option ranked #4

Taxi Driver

Martin Scorsese's 1976 dark portrait of a New York cabbie's descent into obsession and violence, with a career-defining Robert De Niro performance.

4/12
The Tree of Life - ranking option ranked #5

The Tree of Life

Terrence Malick's 2011 lyrical meditation on family, memory, and the origins of the universe, starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn.

5/12
Shoplifters - ranking option ranked #6

Shoplifters

Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2018 Japanese drama about a family of petty criminals who adopt a neglected child, tenderly exploring what makes a family.

6/12
Anatomy of a Fall - ranking option ranked #7

Anatomy of a Fall

Justine Triet's 2023 gripping French courtroom thriller in which a woman is accused of murdering her husband.

7/12
All About My Mother - ranking option ranked #8

All About My Mother

Pedro Almodovar's 1999 heartfelt drama following a grieving mother seeking the father of her late son, a landmark of Spanish cinema.

8/12
Dancer in the Dark - ranking option ranked #9

Dancer in the Dark

Lars von Trier's 2000 musical tragedy starring Bjork as a Czech immigrant going blind, whose Bjork-penned score is unforgettable.

9/12
The White Ribbon - ranking option ranked #10

The White Ribbon

Michael Haneke's 2009 stark black-and-white mystery set in a German village before World War I, probing the origins of evil.

10/12
4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days - ranking option ranked #11

4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days

Cristian Mungiu's 2007 harrowing Romanian drama set during the Ceausescu regime, following two students attempting an illegal abortion.

11/12
The Child - ranking option ranked #12

The Child

The Dardenne brothers' 2005 Belgian drama about a young man who sells his newborn child and the devastating fallout.

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