# The best French films of the 1980s

The Last Metro, Garde à vue, Le Père Noël est une ordure, So Long, Stooge, Jean de Florette and Au revoir les enfants: the French productions of the 1980s rated highest by AlloCiné viewers.

- 11 votes · 11 items
- Nov 10, 2023 · celine_episode
- https://even.best/en/l/4610/the-best-french-films-of-the-1980s

## Top 11

1. **Jean de Florette (1986)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Claude Berri. A hidden spring in Provence, after Marcel Pagnol.
2. **Garde à vue (1981)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Claude Miller. Michel Serrault questioned by Lino Ventura on New Year's Eve.
3. **The King and the Mockingbird (1980)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Paul Grimault. A tyrant, a shepherdess, a chimney sweep and a bird, with words by Prévert.
4. **Santa Claus Is a Stinker (1982)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Jean-Marie Poiré. The Splendid troupe at a helpline on Christmas Eve.
5. **So Long, Stooge (1983)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Claude Berri. Coluche as a disillusioned petrol-station attendant. Five Césars.
6. **A Thousand Billion Dollars (1982)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Henri Verneuil. Patrick Dewaere as a journalist taking on a multinational.
7. **The Last Metro (1980)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — François Truffaut. A Paris theatre under the Occupation, with Deneuve and Depardieu. Ten Césars.
8. **After the War (1989)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Jean-Loup Hubert. Two brothers on the roads of France in 1944.
9. **Life and Nothing But (1989)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Bertrand Tavernier. Philippe Noiret counts the missing of the Great War.
10. **Au revoir les enfants (1987)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Louis Malle. A Catholic boarding school hides Jewish boys in 1944. Golden Lion.
11. **The French Revolution (1989)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Robert Enrico and Richard T. Heffron. The bicentenary film, in two parts.

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