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?
Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino's 1994 non-linear crime anthology following hitmen, a boxer, and gangsters in Los Angeles.
Taxi Driver
Martin Scorsese's 1976 psychological thriller about a Vietnam veteran turned insomniac cabbie in a decaying New York City.
Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War epic following a soldier sent deep into Cambodia to kill a rogue colonel.
Parasite
Bong Joon-ho's 2019 Oscar-winning dark comedy thriller about a poor family infiltrating a wealthy household in Seoul.
The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick's 2011 lyrical meditation on grace and nature, set against a 1950s Texas family's memories.
Farewell My Concubine
Chen Kaige's 1993 epic about two Peking Opera performers whose decades-long friendship is tested by history and desire.
The Piano
Jane Campion's 1993 Victorian-era drama about a mute Scottish woman sent to New Zealand who expresses herself through music.
The Pianist
Roman Polanski's 2002 survival drama based on the memoir of Polish-Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman during the Holocaust.
Amour
Michael Haneke's 2012 devastating French drama about an elderly Parisian couple facing the slow decline of one partner's health.
The White Ribbon
Michael Haneke's 2009 black-and-white mystery set in a repressive German village on the eve of World War I.
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Cristian Mungiu's 2007 Romanian drama set in the Communist era, following two women navigating a dangerous illegal procedure.
Shoplifters
Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2018 Japanese family drama about a group of social outcasts who survive on petty theft and love.
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Abdellatif Kechiche's 2013 French coming-of-age romance following a young woman's passionate relationship with an older art student.
Dancer in the Dark
Lars von Trier's 2000 musical tragedy starring Björk as a Czech immigrant slowly going blind while clinging to her love of musicals.
Wild at Heart
David Lynch's 1990 darkly comedic road movie about two lovers fleeing hired killers through the American South.
La Dolce Vita
Federico Fellini's 1960 Italian masterpiece following a journalist navigating glamour and spiritual emptiness in Rome.
Paris, Texas
Wim Wenders' 1984 road film about a man who reappears from the desert after years of absence to reconnect with his son.
Rosetta
The Dardenne Brothers' 1999 Belgian social realist film about a young woman's desperate struggle to find and keep a job.
Winter Sleep
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's 2014 Turkish drama about a retired actor running a hotel in Anatolia whose comfortable life is upended.
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 2010 Thai film about a dying man visited by the spirits of his dead relatives in the jungle.
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