What is the best Palme d'Or-winning film of all time?

By YPB Team

The Palme d'Or is the highest honour in cinema — which of these legendary Cannes winners is the greatest film ever made?

Parasite — ranked #11
Parasite
Bong Joon-ho's 2019 darkly comedic class-warfare thriller — the first non-English film to win Best Picture at the Oscars.
Pulp Fiction — ranked #22
Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino's 1994 genre-defining crime anthology that rewrote the rules of Hollywood storytelling.
Apocalypse Now — ranked #33
Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam epic, a hallucinatory journey into the heart of darkness.
Amour — ranked #44
Amour
Michael Haneke's 2012 devastating portrait of an elderly Parisian couple facing illness and loss.
Blue Is the Warmest Colour — ranked #55
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Abdellatif Kechiche's 2013 sweeping French coming-of-age love story spanning several years.
The Tree of Life — ranked #66
The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick's 2011 lyrical meditation on existence, childhood, and the cosmos.
Shoplifters — ranked #77
Shoplifters
Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2018 warm and heartbreaking portrait of a chosen family on the margins of Japanese society.
Anatomy of a Fall — ranked #88
Anatomy of a Fall
Justine Triet's 2023 gripping French legal thriller centered on a woman accused of murdering her husband.
Anora — ranked #99
Anora
Sean Baker's 2024 vibrant American indie fairy tale about a New York sex worker who marries a Russian oligarch's son.
Triangle of Sadness — ranked #1010
Triangle of Sadness
Ruben Östlund's 2022 savage social satire set aboard a luxury yacht with a darkly comic twist.
Titane — ranked #1111
Titane
Julia Ducournau's 2021 audacious body-horror provocation that became one of Cannes' most controversial Palme winners.
Paris, Texas — ranked #1212
Paris, Texas
Wim Wenders' 1984 achingly beautiful road movie about a man piecing his fractured life back together.
The White Ribbon — ranked #1313
The White Ribbon
Michael Haneke's 2009 chilling black-and-white fable about the origins of evil in a pre-WWI German village.
The Pianist — ranked #1414
The Pianist
Roman Polanski's 2002 harrowing survival story of a Jewish pianist in Nazi-occupied Warsaw.
Wild at Heart — ranked #1515
Wild at Heart
David Lynch's 1990 deliriously surreal road romance that divided critics and captivated cinephiles.

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