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

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

Parasite - ranking option ranked #1

Parasite

Bong Joon-ho's 2019 darkly comedic class-warfare thriller — the first non-English film to win Best Picture at the Oscars.

1/15
Pulp Fiction - ranking option ranked #2

Pulp Fiction

Quentin Tarantino's 1994 genre-defining crime anthology that rewrote the rules of Hollywood storytelling.

2/15
Apocalypse Now - ranking option ranked #3

Apocalypse Now

Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam epic, a hallucinatory journey into the heart of darkness.

3/15
Amour - ranking option ranked #4

Amour

Michael Haneke's 2012 devastating portrait of an elderly Parisian couple facing illness and loss.

4/15
Blue Is the Warmest Colour - ranking option ranked #5

Blue Is the Warmest Colour

Abdellatif Kechiche's 2013 sweeping French coming-of-age love story spanning several years.

5/15
The Tree of Life - ranking option ranked #6

The Tree of Life

Terrence Malick's 2011 lyrical meditation on existence, childhood, and the cosmos.

6/15
Shoplifters - ranking option ranked #7

Shoplifters

Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2018 warm and heartbreaking portrait of a chosen family on the margins of Japanese society.

7/15
Anatomy of a Fall - ranking option ranked #8

Anatomy of a Fall

Justine Triet's 2023 gripping French legal thriller centered on a woman accused of murdering her husband.

8/15
Anora - ranking option ranked #9

Anora

Sean Baker's 2024 vibrant American indie fairy tale about a New York sex worker who marries a Russian oligarch's son.

9/15
Triangle of Sadness - ranking option ranked #10

Triangle of Sadness

Ruben Östlund's 2022 savage social satire set aboard a luxury yacht with a darkly comic twist.

10/15
Titane - ranking option ranked #11

Titane

Julia Ducournau's 2021 audacious body-horror provocation that became one of Cannes' most controversial Palme winners.

11/15
Paris, Texas - ranking option ranked #12

Paris, Texas

Wim Wenders' 1984 achingly beautiful road movie about a man piecing his fractured life back together.

12/15
The White Ribbon - ranking option ranked #13

The White Ribbon

Michael Haneke's 2009 chilling black-and-white fable about the origins of evil in a pre-WWI German village.

13/15
The Pianist - ranking option ranked #14

The Pianist

Roman Polanski's 2002 harrowing survival story of a Jewish pianist in Nazi-occupied Warsaw.

14/15
Wild at Heart - ranking option ranked #15

Wild at Heart

David Lynch's 1990 deliriously surreal road romance that divided critics and captivated cinephiles.

15/15

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