The thing about Cannes is that it’s not necessarily the films that take the top prize that you remember.

or every Pulp Fiction there’s a film like The Hireling (look it up – it only just missed the list), for every Taxi Driver and sex, lies and videotape there’s a Rosetta or Man Of Iron. Selected here are the seven Palme D’or winners that you may not have seen, but that you really, really should.

La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)

Better known than some of the others, but not seen as much as it deserves to be because it’s subtitled and black and white and people are lazy (you heard).

Not only is it brilliant to watch – a dazzling twilight crawl through the louche streets of Rome – but it encapsulates the Cannes spirit perfectly, with film stars and journos rubbing up against the over-privileged in an elitist orgy of egos (the character Papperazzo even gave his name to parasitic snappers everywhere).