# The César Award winners for Best Film of the 1980s

The films that won the César for Best Film at the ceremonies from 1980 to 1989, with the 1984 tie.

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- Jun 9, 2018 · Héloïse Robin
- https://even.best/en/l/1000/the-cesar-award-winners-for-best-film-of-the-1980s

## Top 11

1. **The Last Metro** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — François Truffaut (1981 César). A Paris theatre under the Occupation; ten Césars.
2. **Quest for Fire** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Jean-Jacques Annaud (1982 César). Prehistory and the quest for fire.
3. **La Balance** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Bob Swaim (1983 César). An informer in Paris's underworld.
4. **À nos amours** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Maurice Pialat (1984 César, tie). Sandrine Bonnaire as a rebellious teenager.
5. **Le Bal** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Ettore Scola (1984 César, tie). Fifty years of history in a ballroom, without a word.
6. **My New Partner** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Claude Zidi (1985 César). Philippe Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte as corrupt cops.
7. **Three Men and a Cradle** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Coline Serreau (1986 César). Three bachelors and a baby.
8. **Thérèse** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Alain Cavalier (1987 César). The life of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux.
9. **Au revoir les enfants** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Louis Malle (1988 César). A boarding school that hid Jewish children.
10. **Camille Claudel** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Bruno Nuytten (1989 César). Isabelle Adjani as the sculptor.
11. **Tess** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Roman Polanski (1980 César). Nastassja Kinski in Thomas Hardy's novel.

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