What is the best Palme d'Or-winning movie of all time?
From controversial art-house provocations to beloved crowd-pleasers, Cannes has crowned some of cinema's most debated masterpieces. Which Palme d'Or do you defend?
1Pulp FictionQuentin Tarantino's 1994 non-linear crime anthology following hitmen, a boxer, and gangsters in Los Angeles.
2Taxi DriverMartin Scorsese's 1976 psychological thriller about a Vietnam veteran turned insomniac cabbie in a decaying New York City.
3Apocalypse NowFrancis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War epic following a soldier sent deep into Cambodia to kill a rogue colonel.
4ParasiteBong Joon-ho's 2019 Oscar-winning dark comedy thriller about a poor family infiltrating a wealthy household in Seoul.
5The Tree of LifeTerrence Malick's 2011 lyrical meditation on grace and nature, set against a 1950s Texas family's memories.
6Farewell My ConcubineChen Kaige's 1993 epic about two Peking Opera performers whose decades-long friendship is tested by history and desire.
7The PianoJane Campion's 1993 Victorian-era drama about a mute Scottish woman sent to New Zealand who expresses herself through music.
8The PianistRoman Polanski's 2002 survival drama based on the memoir of Polish-Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman during the Holocaust.
9AmourMichael Haneke's 2012 devastating French drama about an elderly Parisian couple facing the slow decline of one partner's health.
10The White RibbonMichael Haneke's 2009 black-and-white mystery set in a repressive German village on the eve of World War I.
114 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 DaysCristian Mungiu's 2007 Romanian drama set in the Communist era, following two women navigating a dangerous illegal procedure.
12ShopliftersHirokazu Kore-eda's 2018 Japanese family drama about a group of social outcasts who survive on petty theft and love.
13Blue Is the Warmest ColourAbdellatif Kechiche's 2013 French coming-of-age romance following a young woman's passionate relationship with an older art student.
14Dancer in the DarkLars von Trier's 2000 musical tragedy starring Björk as a Czech immigrant slowly going blind while clinging to her love of musicals.
15Wild at HeartDavid Lynch's 1990 darkly comedic road movie about two lovers fleeing hired killers through the American South.
16La Dolce VitaFederico Fellini's 1960 Italian masterpiece following a journalist navigating glamour and spiritual emptiness in Rome.
17Paris, TexasWim Wenders' 1984 road film about a man who reappears from the desert after years of absence to reconnect with his son.
18RosettaThe Dardenne Brothers' 1999 Belgian social realist film about a young woman's desperate struggle to find and keep a job.
19Winter SleepNuri Bilge Ceylan's 2014 Turkish drama about a retired actor running a hotel in Anatolia whose comfortable life is upended.
20Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past LivesApichatpong Weerasethakul's 2010 Thai film about a dying man visited by the spirits of his dead relatives in the jungle.
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