Ranking All Of Director Olivier Assayas’s Movies
“What are Olivier Assayas Best Movies?” We looked at all of Assayas’s directed filmography and ranked them against one another to answer that very question!
We took all of the movies directed by Olivier Assayas and looked at his 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 Olivier Assayas 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.
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The Top Film’s Of Olivier Assayas
20 ) Boarding Gate
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 13
- Metacritc Critic Score: 10
- Metacritic User Score: 7
- IMDB User Review Score: 20
- Letterboxd User Score: 17
A sordid and complex series of events unfolds when an ex-prostitute becomes involved with a couple in Hong Kong.
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19 ) Winter’s Child
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 14
- Metacritc Critic Score: 11
- Metacritic User Score: 9
- IMDB User Review Score: 17
- Letterboxd User Score: 11
It’s the story of a love quadrangle, a child, a theater troupe, and a long winter. Nathalie is pregnant, but the baby’s father, Stefane, leaves her for Sabine, a set designer for the theater. Sabine has just left Bruno, an actor in the same troupe. Nathalie tries to kill herself and is saved by her friend Leni, as Stefane then follows Sabine on her theatrical tour…
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17 ) A New Life
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 14
- Metacritc Critic Score: 11
- Metacritic User Score: 9
- IMDB User Review Score: 8
- Letterboxd User Score: 18
Tina is a young warehousewoman in a supermarket. She is in love with Fred but still lives at her mother Nadine’s. When Nadine dies, Tina looks for meeting her father Ludovic, who she never knew. But she first meets her half-sister Lise, and Constantin, the unusual Ludovic’s lawyer.
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17 ) Eldorado
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 14
- Metacritc Critic Score: 11
- Metacritic User Score: 9
- IMDB User Review Score: 8
- Letterboxd User Score: 18
Olivier Assayas’ Eldorado is a riveting documentary chronicling the efforts of Ballet Preljocaj to choreograph an otherworldly icon of 21st century music: Karlheinz Stockhausen’s ethereal Sonntags-Abschied.
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15 ) Paris Awakens
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 14
- Metacritc Critic Score: 11
- Metacritic User Score: 9
- IMDB User Review Score: 13
- Letterboxd User Score: 11
Adrien is 19 years old. He has not met his father, Clément for 4 years. Adrien returns home and the two try to better understand each other. Clément lives together with Louis, a twenty-something girl who wants to be an actress. The boy starts a flirt with Louise which pushes the father-son relationship back to a crisis…
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15 ) Noise
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 14
- Metacritc Critic Score: 11
- Metacritic User Score: 9
- IMDB User Review Score: 6
- Letterboxd User Score: 18
Footage from 2005’s Festival Art Rock in Saint-Brieuc, France, featuring Metric, Sonic Youth, Jeanne Balibar, and other acts.
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14 ) Disorder
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 14
- Metacritc Critic Score: 11
- Metacritic User Score: 9
- IMDB User Review Score: 11
- Letterboxd User Score: 11
Three young friends steal some music equipment for their struggling post-punk band and, in a panic, kill the shop’s owner. Assayas’ debut feature examines, with characteristic restraint and acuity, the psychological fallout as the band unravels—and each of its members grapple with their own feelings of guilt, paranoia, and despair.
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13 ) Demonlover
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 11
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 11
- Metacritc Critic Score: 9
- Metacritic User Score: 7
- IMDB User Review Score: 19
- Letterboxd User Score: 11
Two corporations compete for illicit 3D manga pornography, sending spies to infiltrate each other’s operations.
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12 ) Les Destinées sentimentales
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 10
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 11
- Metacritc Critic Score: 7
- Metacritic User Score: 9
- IMDB User Review Score: 13
- Letterboxd User Score: 11
In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife…
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11 ) Something in the Air
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 10
- Metacritc Critic Score: 5
- Metacritic User Score: 9
- IMDB User Review Score: 16
- Letterboxd User Score: 11
During the 1970s a student named Gilles gets entangled in contemporary political turmoils although he would rather just be a creative artist. While torn between his solidarity to his friends and his personal ambitions he falls in love with Christine.
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10 ) HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 14
- Metacritc Critic Score: 11
- Metacritic User Score: 9
- IMDB User Review Score: 2
- Letterboxd User Score: 5
Entry on Taiwanese new-wave filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien for French television’s “Cinéma, de notre temps” series, directed by Olivier Assayas.
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9 ) Personal Shopper
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 8
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 9
- Metacritc Critic Score: 4
- Metacritic User Score: 6
- IMDB User Review Score: 18
- Letterboxd User Score: 8
A personal shopper in Paris refuses to leave the city until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there. Her life becomes more complicated when a mysterious person contacts her via text message.
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7 ) Cold Water
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 3
- Metacritc Critic Score: 11
- Metacritic User Score: 9
- IMDB User Review Score: 4
- Letterboxd User Score: 4
An outer suburb of Paris, 1972. Gilles and Christine, both sixteen, are classmates and lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their families and the general monotony of their lives. When the pair are caught shoplifting, Christine’s father ships her off to a home for emotionally disturbed children, temporarily putting space between her and Gilles. Luckily for them, though, she escapes and the couple contemplate running away together.
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7 ) Clean
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 9
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
- Metacritc Critic Score: 6
- Metacritic User Score: 2
- IMDB User Review Score: 11
- Letterboxd User Score: 9
After losing her husband to a heroin overdose, Emily Wang fights to overcome her own addictions and to be reconciled with her estranged son.
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6 ) Late August, Early September
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 4
- Metacritc Critic Score: 11
- Metacritic User Score: 9
- IMDB User Review Score: 6
- Letterboxd User Score: 5
A story about the transition from late youth to early maturity, the film follows several friends and lovers as they come to make decisions on how to live their lives–getting a job more in harmony with ones ideals, committing to a lover, giving up a lover that no longer loves you: a film about grown-ups growing up.
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5 ) Clouds of Sils Maria
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 4
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 8
- Metacritc Critic Score: 3
- Metacritic User Score: 3
- IMDB User Review Score: 15
- Letterboxd User Score: 5
A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier.
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4 ) Irma Vep
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 3
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 5
- Metacritc Critic Score: 11
- Metacritic User Score: 9
- IMDB User Review Score: 8
- Letterboxd User Score: 1
A Chinese movie actress, in France to star in a remake of “Les Vampires”, finds petty intrigues and clashing egos on the set.
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3 ) Paris, je t’aime
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 5
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 2
- Metacritc Critic Score: 8
- Metacritic User Score: 3
- IMDB User Review Score: 3
- Letterboxd User Score: 9
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
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2 ) Summer Hours
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 2
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 6
- Metacritc Critic Score: 2
- Metacritic User Score: 3
- IMDB User Review Score: 4
- Letterboxd User Score: 1
Two brothers and a sister witness the disappearance of their childhood memories when they must relinquish the family belongings to ensure their deceased mother’s succession.
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1 ) Carlos
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 1
- Metacritc Critic Score: 1
- Metacritic User Score: 1
- IMDB User Review Score: 1
- Letterboxd User Score: 1
The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.
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Olivier Assayas’s Best Movies
Olivier Assayas Review Website Filmography Rankings
| Film | RT Critic | RT User | MC Critic | MC User | IMDB | Letterboxd | Overal Rank |
| Carlos | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Summer Hours | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| Paris, je t’aime | 5 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 3 |
| Irma Vep | 3 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 4 |
| Clouds of Sils Maria | 4 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 5 | 5 |
| Late August, Early September | 7 | 4 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 6 |
| Cold Water | 13 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 7 |
| Clean | 9 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 7 |
| Personal Shopper | 8 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 8 | 9 |
| HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien | 13 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| Something in the Air | 6 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 11 | 11 |
| Les Destinées sentimentales | 10 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 13 | 11 | 12 |
| Demonlover | 11 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 19 | 11 | 13 |
| Disorder | 13 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 14 |
| Paris Awakens | 13 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 13 | 11 | 15 |
| Noise | 13 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 18 | 15 |
| A New Life | 13 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 18 | 17 |
| Eldorado | 13 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 18 | 17 |
| Winter’s Child | 13 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 17 | 11 | 19 |
| Boarding Gate | 12 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 20 | 17 | 20 |
