Jean-Luc Godard
Director, Actor
- A Bout de Souffle (Breathless) (1959)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger…
- Godard's landmark first film pulls out all the stops in the style department – with Jean–Paul Belmondo as the romantic fugitive,…
- Femme Est Une Femme, Une (A Woman is a Woman) (1961)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo…
- Godard flirts with the Hollywood musical, and any other idea that takes his fancy to tell his buoyant tale of a free–spirited stripper who…
- Vivre Sa Vie (My Life to Live) (1962)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Anna Karina
- While filtered through dir. Godard's preoccupations with genre, this series of twelve vignettes about a Parisian woman's marriage breakup and gradual…
- Le Mepris (Contempt) (1963)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Fritz Lang
- An insecure screen–writer struggles with vulgar producers as well as his movie–star wife on the set of Homer's Odyssey. Brigitte Bardot,…
- Little Soldier, The (Petit soldat, Le) (1963)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Anna Karina, Michel Subor
- Unheralded Godard sidebar has Michel Subor attempting to assassinate an Algerian sympathizer – if he can resist the charms of left–winger…
- RoGoPaG (Let's Wash our Brains) (1963)
- Dir. Roberto Rossellini, Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Orson Welles, Rosanna Schiaffino, Ugo Tognazzi…
- A curious anthology of four short films each written and directed by three Italian and one French film director; Jean–Luc Godard ("Il Nuovo…
- Bande a Part (Band of Outsiders) (1964)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey
- One of the dir.’s more accessible films follows the carefree criminal adventures of Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur and Sami Frey, while still…
- Une Femme Mariee (A Married Woman: Fragments of a Film Shot in 1964 in Black and White) (1964)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Bernard Noël, Macha Meril, Philippe Leroy
- Key work from the first phase of Godard's career which deconstructs the life of a married woman in a series of complex and humorous portraits. Over a…
- Alphaville (1965)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff…
- A private eye is sent to a futuristic city run by a computer to rescue a trapped scientist. Amalgam of film noir and science fiction illustrates the…
- Pierrot Le Fou (Crazy Pete) (1965)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina
- A striking example of the French New Wave. It's kiss, kiss, bang, bang all the way with Jean Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina as maverick intellectual…
- Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1965)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Joseph Gehrard, Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey
- The life of a Parisian prostitute, analysing the likes of women, language, western society as well as cinema itself. Godard's cinematic essay broke…
- Paris vu par (Six in Paris) (1965)
- Dir. Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol
- Passionate, parochial anthology of New Wave shorts from six of France's best: Godard, Chabrol and Rohmer headline a concoction of Parisian sketches…
- Masculin Feminin (1966)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Chantal Goya, Brigitte Bardot
- Godard steers toward the political with this bittersweet social comment about the Parisian youth culture of '65 through a series of oddly connected…
- Made in U.S.A (1966)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Marianne Faithful
- Further political horseplay from Godard in the skin of a Nouvelle Vague alternate reality: this time, Anna Karina plays a war journalist on the hunt…
- Weekend (1967)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne
- A poetic, stylised and savage vision as only Godard could dream up and/or get away with. Road chaos and carnage is his metaphor for the decline of…
- La Chinoise (1967)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Anne Wiazemsky, Juliet Berto…
- Five Parisian students dabble in the possibilities of enacting a Mao–ist revolution in the West, in one of dir. Godard's more overt flirtations…
- Ladies of the Night (Plus vieux métier du monde, Le) (1967)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, Philippe de Broca, Claude Autant-Lara
Feat. Anna Karina, Elsa Martinelli, Jeanne Moreau…
- A six–segment portmanteau comedy which traces the history of prostitution from its Stone Age version (being the 'oldest profession') through to…
- Far from Vietnam (1967)
- Dir. Agnes Varda, Joris Ivens, William Klein
Feat. Anne Bellec, Karen Blanguernon, Bernard Fresson…
- A documentary essay film with seven segments each directed by seven French New Wave directors, who express their opposition to the Vietnam War and…
- Le Gai Savoir (Joy Of Learning) (1969)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Leaud
- Challenging offering from dir. Godard puts two actors on a soundstage and allows them to dwell on ideologies, concepts and complex understandings of…
- One Plus One (Sympathy for the Devil) (1970)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- Controversial work from dir. Godard's 'Mao–ist' period intercuts a fascinating, disorganised recording session by the Rolling Stones…
- Tout Va Bien (Everything’s All Right) (1972)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin
Feat. Yves Montand, Jane Fonda, Anita Caprioli
- Radical political drama from Nouvelle Vague luminary Jean Luc–Godard and frequent collaborator Jean–Pierre Gorin, set during a wildcat…
- Passion (1982)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli
- 'Film within a film' from France's thorniest director, sowing narrative confusion in his story of director Michel Piccoli trying to make a arthouse…
- First Name: Carmen (Prenom Carmen) (1983)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffe
- Late Godard standout is a markedly nostalgic throwback to his New Wavy years, combining an ad hoc terrorist, ill–fated romance, a…
- Hail Mary (1985)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Myriem Roussel, Thierry Rode, Juliette Binoche
- Controversial and ultimately reverent update on the story of the immaculate conception, with Mary as a gas station attendant and Joseph as her cab…
- Detective, The (1985)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Claude Brasseur, Nathalie Baye, Johnny Hallyday…
- Late, vague genre piece mismatches big name French stars (Baye, Leaud, and a young Julie Delpy) and trench coat chic with Godard’s newfound…
- Histoire(s) Du Cinema (1988-1998)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- Grizzly bastion of art cinema and all things French, Jean–Luc Godard, delivers a personal visual essay on the state of the medium. His…
- Oh, Woe is Me (Helas Pour Moi) (1993)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Gerard Depardieu
- Gerard Depardieu is the most accessible thing on offer in Godard's latest enigma, a film that's controlling idea is perhaps 'the desire of a God to…
- Century of Cinema - France / Germany / Scandinavia (1997)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, Edgar Reitz, Stig Bjorkman
- French entry is a typically obtuse, subversive essay by iconoclast Jean–Luc Godard, questioning the validity of celebrating cinema. The Germans…
- In Praise of Love (Eloge de L'amour) (2001)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Bruno Putzulu, Cecile Camp, Jean Davy…
- Dir. Godard’s first major film in over a decade presents intellect and filmmaking in full–flight, while stubbornly refusing to provide a…
- Two in the Wave (2009)
- Dir. Emmanuel Laurent
Feat. Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Leaud
- Taking us back to the inception of the French New Wave and the emergence of its two heavyweights, Jean–Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut, this…