6 Best Cannes Palme d'Or Winners of the 1990s

By Vlad Zakh · June 17, 2026

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The Palme d’Or, Cannes’s highest honor, crowned a boundary-pushing decade of world cinema in the 1990s, from dreamlike surrealism to unflinching social realism.

Rosetta (1999) 01

Rosetta (1999)

IMDb ★ 7.2

A desperate teenage girl living in poverty fights fiercely to hold onto any job she can find.

Eternity and a Day (1998) 02

Eternity and a Day (1998)

IMDb ★ 7.6

A dying writer reflects on his life while caring for an orphaned refugee boy on his final day.

Secrets & Lies (1996) 03

Secrets & Lies (1996)

IMDb ★ 7.6

A Black optometrist searching for her birth mother discovers she is white, upending both of their lives.

Underground (1995) 04

Underground (1995)

IMDb ★ 8.0

Two friends profiteering from World War II find their lives entangled across decades of Yugoslav history.

The Best Intentions (1992) 05

The Best Intentions (1992)

IMDb ★ 7.5

A young Swedish couple's turbulent courtship and marriage reveals the deep class divisions of their society.

Wild at Heart (1990) 06

Wild at Heart (1990)

IMDb ★ 7.1

Two young lovers on the run from her deranged, controlling mother encounter a series of bizarre characters across the American South.

Vlad Zakh

Vlad Zakh

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