# The best British films of the 1980s

Full Metal Jacket, The Shining, Paris, Texas, The Mission, Gandhi, Pink Floyd – The Wall and Brazil: the 1980s films with British production or co-production rated highest by AlloCiné viewers.

- 450 votes · 15 items
- May 13, 2022 · Harsh Iyer
- https://even.best/en/l/4757/the-best-british-films-of-the-1980s

## Top 15

1. **Full Metal Jacket (1987)** (48 · ▲50 ▼2) — Stanley Kubrick.
2. **The Shining (1980)** (41 · ▲45 ▼4) — Stanley Kubrick.
3. **Platoon (1986)** (34 · ▲36 ▼2) — Oliver Stone.
4. **Gandhi (1982)** (29 · ▲29 ▼0) — Richard Attenborough.
5. **All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)** (25 · ▲28 ▼3) — Don Bluth.
6. **La Révolution française (1989)** (24 · ▲27 ▼3) — Robert Enrico and Richard T. Heffron.
7. **Paris, Texas (1984)** (21 · ▲24 ▼3) — Wim Wenders.
8. **The Mission (1986)** (18 · ▲22 ▼4) — Roland Joffé.
9. **Salaam Bombay! (1988)** (16 · ▲19 ▼3) — Mira Nair.
10. **The Plague Dogs (1982)** (15 · ▲22 ▼7) — Martin Rosen.
11. **Brazil (1985)** (15 · ▲21 ▼6) — Terry Gilliam.
12. **The Fly (1986)** (15 · ▲17 ▼2) — David Cronenberg.
13. **Pink Floyd – The Wall (1982)** (13 · ▲17 ▼4) — Alan Parker.
14. **Dangerous Liaisons (1988)** (12 · ▲18 ▼6) — Stephen Frears.
15. **The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)** (10 · ▲18 ▼8) — Peter Greenaway.

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