What is the best Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or winning film of all time?
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
Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War epic following a soldier's nightmarish journey upriver to assassinate a rogue colonel.
Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino's 1994 non-linear crime anthology that revolutionized independent cinema and popular storytelling.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Anatomy of a Fall
Justine Triet's 2023 gripping French courtroom thriller in which a woman is accused of murdering her husband.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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