Ranking All Of Directors Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne’s Movies
“What are Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne’s Best Movies?” We looked at all of Dardenne’s directed filmography and ranked them against one another to answer that very question!
We took all of the movies directed by Luc & Jean-Pierre and looked at their Rotten Tomato Critic, Rotten Tomato User, Metacritic, Metacritic User, IMDB, and Letterboxd scores, ranking them against one another to see which movies came out on top. The movies are ranked in our list below based on which movies have the highest overall score between all 6 review sites in comparison with all of the other movies by the same director. The process is all very scientific with no flaws at all.
The full ranking chart is also included below the countdown on the bottom of the page. We will update the article if/when a new movie by Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne is released. Although it probably won’t be immediate so the scores on each site have time to settle and aren’t overly influenced by the early, usually much more opinionated, users.
Happy Viewing!
The Top Film’s Of Jean-Pierre Dardenne’s
14 ) Regarde Jonathan, Jean Louvet, son œuvre (1983)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 9
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 9
- Metacritc Critic Score: 9
- Metacritic User Score: 9
- IMDB User Review Score: 14
- Letterboxd User Score: 9
13 ) Pour que la guerre s’achève, les murs devraient s’écrouler (1980)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 9
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 9
- Metacritc Critic Score: 9
- Metacritic User Score: 9
- IMDB User Review Score: 13
- Letterboxd User Score: 9
After a failed strike, workers start editing a newspaper.
12 ) R… ne répond plus (1981)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 9
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 9
- Metacritc Critic Score: 9
- Metacritic User Score: 9
- IMDB User Review Score: 12
- Letterboxd User Score: 9
Documentary about radio stations.
11 ) Falsch (1987)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 9
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 9
- Metacritc Critic Score: 9
- Metacritic User Score: 9
- IMDB User Review Score: 11
- Letterboxd User Score: 9
In an apparently empty airport, a Jewish family has gathered to greet one of its members who has come there to be with them. However, the airport is actually the ante-room of Death, and the family member is a recently deceased American survivor of the Holocaust. Although the party begins by greeting the man with warmth and affection, the gathering soon degenerates into a squabble about why most of those assembled failed to heed the warnings about the Holocaust and flee Germany.
10 ) Je pense à vous (1992)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 9
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 9
- Metacritc Critic Score: 9
- Metacritic User Score: 9
- IMDB User Review Score: 10
- Letterboxd User Score: 9
Belgium, 1980. On the banks of the Meuse river, against the background of a steel-producing city, factories close down one after another and lay off workers. One of those made redundant is Fabrice, who, at thirty-five, is proud of his trade, rendered mythical by fire and steel, but feels he has become useless. His wife, Céline, tries to renew his interest in life. Despite a few moments of rediscovered happiness, Fabrice remains trapped in his confusion and one day disappears. Céline, her intense love leading the way, goes looking for him and eventually finds him. Once again, she tries to save him from himself. Can love resuscitate a languishing man? That is Céline’s wager.
9 ) Leçons d’une université volante (1982)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 9
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 9
- Metacritc Critic Score: 9
- Metacritic User Score: 9
- IMDB User Review Score: 4
- Letterboxd User Score: 9
Documentary about polish dissidents living in Belgium.
8 ) The Unknown Girl (2016)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 8
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 8
- Metacritc Critic Score: 8
- Metacritic User Score: 7
- IMDB User Review Score: 9
- Letterboxd User Score: 8
Jenny, a young doctor who feels guilty after a young woman she refused to see winds up dead a few days later, decides to find out who the girl was, after the police can’t identify the young woman.
7 ) Lorna’s Silence (2008)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
- Metacritc Critic Score: 6
- Metacritic User Score: 8
- IMDB User Review Score: 8
- Letterboxd User Score: 7
In order to become the owner of a snack bar with her boyfriend, Lorna, a young Albanian woman living in Belgium, becomes an accomplice to a diabolical plan devised by mobster Fabio.
6 ) The Kid with a Bike (2011)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 2
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 4
- Metacritc Critic Score: 2
- Metacritic User Score: 6
- IMDB User Review Score: 6
- Letterboxd User Score: 4
Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in the hands of an unqualified childcare provider.
5 ) L’Enfant (2005)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 6
- Metacritc Critic Score: 2
- Metacritic User Score: 1
- IMDB User Review Score: 4
- Letterboxd User Score: 4
Bruno and Sonia, a young couple living off her benefit and the thefts committed by his gang, have a new source of money: their newborn son.
4 ) Rosetta (1999)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 4
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 3
- Metacritc Critic Score: 7
- Metacritic User Score: 4
- IMDB User Review Score: 3
- Letterboxd User Score: 1
Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.
3 ) The Son (2002)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 5
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 2
- Metacritc Critic Score: 4
- Metacritic User Score: 5
- IMDB User Review Score: 2
- Letterboxd User Score: 1
A joinery instructor at a rehab center refuses to take a new teen as his apprentice, but then begins to follow the boy through the hallways and streets.
2 ) Two Days, One Night (2014)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 4
- Metacritc Critic Score: 1
- Metacritic User Score: 2
- IMDB User Review Score: 6
- Letterboxd User Score: 4
Sandra is a young woman who has only one weekend to convince her colleagues they must give up their bonuses in order for her to keep her job — not an easy task in this economy.
1 ) La Promesse (1996)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 3
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 1
- Metacritc Critic Score: 5
- Metacritic User Score: 2
- IMDB User Review Score: 1
- Letterboxd User Score: 1
In this acclaimed and gripping social portrait of immoral lives in need of rescue, Igor (Jérémie Renier), aged 15, and his father Roger (Olivier Gourmet) deal in housing and peddling illicit labor in the outlying districts of Liege, Belgium. Scams, lies and swindling rule their lives. When one of his father’s illegal workers gets injured on the job and asks Igor to promise to take care of his wife and baby, Igor finds himself at a crossroad. He wants to keep the promise, but the price would be to betray his father.
Luc Dardenne’s Best Movies
Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne Review Website Filmography Rankings
| Film | RT Critic | RT User | MC Critic | MC User | IMDB | Letterboxd | Overal Rank |
| La Promesse | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Two Days, One Night | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| The Son | 5 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Rosetta | 4 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| L’Enfant | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
| The Kid with a Bike | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 6 |
| Lorna’s Silence | 6 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 |
| The Unknown Girl | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 8 |
| Leçons d’une université volante | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 9 |
| Je pense à vous | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 10 |
| Falsch | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 11 |
| R… ne répond plus | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 12 |
| Pour que la guerre s’achève, les murs devraient s’écrouler | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 13 |
| Regarde Jonathan, Jean Louvet, son œuvre | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 14 | 9 | 14 |
