Movies by Jean-Luc Godard
As part of the cast:
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Two in the Wave (2010)
Cast: François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Léaud …
Directed by: Emmanuel Laurent
Emmanuel Laurent appeals directly to fellow film buffs with this absorbing portrait of French New Wave icons François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, capturing their relationship through…
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Notre Musique (2004)
Cast: Sarah Adler, Nade Dieu, Rony Kramer …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Journalist Olga Lerner, a French Jew who emigrated to Israel, attends a symposium in war-torn Sarajevo about the nature of conflict, at which a participant raises the notion that it may be…
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Henri Langlois: Phantom of the Cinémathèque (2004)
Cast: Jean-Luc Godard, Henri Alekan, Catherine Allégret …
Directed by: Jacques Richard
Acclaimed filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Claude Chabrol and others pay homage to the founder of the progressive Cinémathèque Française in this documentary that…
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Keep Your Right Up! (1987)
Cast: Michel Galabru, Eva Darlan, Jane Birkin …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard stars as a hapless cinematographer known as both the Prince and the Idiot in this quirky satire, which he also wrote and directed. Working frantically to finish his film and…
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Room 666 (1982)
Cast: Chantal Akerman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Maroun Bagdadi …
Directed by: Wim Wenders
During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, director Wim Wenders gets some of the world's greatest auteurs to talk about their craft on camera, giving them one reel (and 11 minutes) to answer…
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Le Gai Savoir (1969)
Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, Jean-Luc Godard …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
In a film that's often cited as an example of his attempt to "return to zero," acclaimed director Jean-Luc Godard steps away from the French new wave and presents a story that is…
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Band of Outsiders (1964)
Cast: Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Two friends, Arthur (Claude Brasseur) and Franz (Sami Frey), are searching for a way to make a big score. So it sounds like a lucky break when Franz meets the beautiful Odile (Anna Karina),…
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Une Femme Mariee (1964)
Cast: Philippe Leroy, Roger Leenhardt, Rita Maiden …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
While entangled in an adulterous affair, young Parisian Charlotte (Macha Meril) discovers that she is with child and is immediately faced with the decision to either stay with her husband,…
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Contempt (1963)
Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Director Jean-Luc Godard's cynical take on the world of filmmaking is a poignant commentary about the sacrificial price of art. Screenwriter Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli) must fight many…
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Le Petit Soldat (1963)
Cast: Michel Subor, Anna Karina, Henri-Jacques Huet …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Banned in France for three years because of its blunt portrayal of both sides' use of torture in the Algerian War, director Jean-Luc Godard's intricate film follows Bruno Forestier…
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Breathless (1960)
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
After shooting a cop, young thief Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) meets and shacks up with Patricia (Jean Seberg), an American who sells the International Herald Tribune on the streets of Paris.…
As a director:
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Film Socialisme (2010)
Cast: Catherine Tanvier, Christian Sinniger, Jean-Marc Stehlé …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Listen in on the musings of a war criminal, an American singer and other compelling characters as they travel aboard a Mediterranean cruise ship. Jean-Luc Godard introduces technical errors…
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Detective (2007)
Cast: Laurent Terzieff, Aurelle Doazan, Jean-Pierre Léaud …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
At the Hotel Concorde St. Lazare in Paris, penniless fight promoter Jim Fox Warner (Johnny Hallyday) tries to avoid the Mafia and everyone else he owes large sums of money to while his boxer…
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Oh, Woe Is Me (2007)
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Laurence Masliah, Bernard Verley …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
God takes over the body of Simon Donnadieu (Gérard Depardieu) in order to make love to his beautiful wife, Rachel (Laurence Masliah). When publisher Abraham Klimt (Bernard Verley)…
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Notre Musique (2004)
Cast: Sarah Adler, Nade Dieu, Rony Kramer …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Journalist Olga Lerner, a French Jew who emigrated to Israel, attends a symposium in war-torn Sarajevo about the nature of conflict, at which a participant raises the notion that it may be…
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In Praise of Love (2001)
Cast: Bruno Putzulu, Cecile Camp, Jean Davy …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
The closing film of the 39th Annual New York Film Festival won Jean-Luc Godard praise for a sporadic work that uses both 35mm black-and-white film and color digital equipment. Filmmaker Edgar…
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Histoire(s) du cinéma (2000)
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
A decade in the making, this lyrical work from heavyweight director Jean-Luc Godard uses selections from hundreds of films to examine the history, scope and existential implications of…
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For Ever Mozart (1996)
Cast: Madeleine Assas, Ghalia Lacroix, Berangere Allaux …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
From acclaimed new wave filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard comes this episodic meditation on war and art -- etched with the French director's distinctive vision -- that reflects on reality and…
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Aria (1987)
Cast: Theresa Russell, Beverly D'Angelo, Bridget Fonda …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford …
Ten groundbreaking directors were given a free hand in this omnibus film. Their only requirement: Each short film had to be based on an operatic aria. By turns dreamlike, funny, moving and…
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Keep Your Right Up! (1987)
Cast: Michel Galabru, Eva Darlan, Jane Birkin …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard stars as a hapless cinematographer known as both the Prince and the Idiot in this quirky satire, which he also wrote and directed. Working frantically to finish his film and…
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Soigne ta droite (1987)
Cast: Jane Birkin, Dominique Lavanant, Pauline Lafont …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Acclaimed auteur Jean-Luc Godard also stars in this comedy as a hack film director who has only one day to get his newest movie to his producers. He catches a plane to Paris, but his journey…
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Hail Mary (1985)
Cast: Myriem Roussel, Thierry Rode, Philippe Lacoste …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
In a daring cinematic venture that incited widespread controversy, Jean-Luc Godard's contemporary retelling of the birth of Christ was banned in several countries and unequivocally…
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Passion / First Name: Carmen (1982)
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
A double bill from Jean-Luc Godard exploring the nature of filmmaking showcases the influential French director's prodigious talents. In Passion, a Polish director (Jerzy Radziwilowicz)…
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Comment Ça Va? (1978)
Cast: Michel Marot, Anne-Marie Miéville
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville
In this philosophical feature from Jean-Luc Godard, the film's co-writer and co-director, Anne-Marie Miéville, stars as one of a pair of communist journalists who set out to make an…
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Ici et ailleurs (1976)
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin
This collaboration among acclaimed auteurs Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin and Anne-Marie Miéville blends video and film into a provocative mélange that juxtaposes a middle-class Parisian…
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Numéro deux (1975)
Cast: Sandrine Battistella, Pierre Oudrey, Alexandre Rignault …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
As it charts the splintering relationships among a multigenerational family living in a cramped apartment, director Jean-Luc Godard's provocative drama uses experimental camerawork to…
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Tout Va Bien (1972)
Cast: Yves Montand, Jane Fonda, Vittorio Caprioli …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin
This controversial French-language film presented by the Criterion Collection tells the story of a labor strike at a meat factory as seen through the eyes of an American journalist (Jane…
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Love and Anger (1969)
Cast: Tom Baker, Julian Beck, Carlo Lizzani …
Directed by: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean-Luc Godard …
Bernardo Bertolucci, Marco Bellocchio, Carlo Lizzani, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Jean-Luc Godard pool their talents for these vignettes, set against the social and political backdrop of the…
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Le Gai Savoir (1969)
Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, Jean-Luc Godard …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
In a film that's often cited as an example of his attempt to "return to zero," acclaimed director Jean-Luc Godard steps away from the French new wave and presents a story that is…
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The Rolling Stones: Sympathy for the Devil (1968)
Cast: Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
With a cast made up of some of rock's sexiest musicians, director Jean-Luc Goddard's film is chaos and brilliance all at once, merging footage of the Rolling Stones practicing and…
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Weekend (1967)
Cast: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
A venal Parisian couple (Mireille Darc and Jean Yanne) sets off on a sojourn to the country only to find themselves caught in a traffic jam from hell. But things go from bad to worse as…
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La Chinoise (1967)
Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, Anne Wiazemsky …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
After digesting the communist teachings of Mao Tse-tung, a passionate group of French students is so determined to change the world that they'll resort to anything -- including violent…
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2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)
Cast: Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey, Joseph Gerhardt …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
French auteur Jean-Luc Godard directs this meditative work that follows French suburban housewife Juliette Janson (Marina Vlady), who occasionally abandons her family to work as a prostitute…
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Masculin Feminin (1966)
Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Marlene Jobert …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Would-be writer and revolutionary Paul (Jean-Pierre Léaud) romances breezy pop singer Madeleine (Chantal Goya), but the pair's fundamental differences breed confusion. Can their…
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Made in U.S.A. (1966)
Cast: Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Léaud, László Szabó …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
In this self-referential political thriller from French New Wave auteur Jean-Luc Godard, journalist Paula (Anna Karina) muses about love, movies and capitalism while uncovering dead bodies…
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Alphaville (1965)
Cast: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Directed by cinematic legend Jean-Luc Godard, this mesmerizing sci-fi noir centers on secret agent Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) and his mission to destroy Alpha 60, the sentient computer…
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Pierrot Le Fou (1965)
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Director Jean-Luc Godard's popular 1965 drama captures '60s French cool as only Godard could depict it. After attending a mindless party full of shallow chatter, Ferdinand…
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Six in Paris (1965)
Cast: Stéphane Audran, Claude Chabrol, Jean-François Chappey …
Directed by: Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard, Nadine Ballot …
French new wave pioneers Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol and Jean-Luc Godard headline this 1960s-era short film anthology, featuring six vignettes centered on metropolitan life in the City of…
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Band of Outsiders (1964)
Cast: Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Two friends, Arthur (Claude Brasseur) and Franz (Sami Frey), are searching for a way to make a big score. So it sounds like a lucky break when Franz meets the beautiful Odile (Anna Karina),…
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Une Femme Mariee (1964)
Cast: Philippe Leroy, Roger Leenhardt, Rita Maiden …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
While entangled in an adulterous affair, young Parisian Charlotte (Macha Meril) discovers that she is with child and is immediately faced with the decision to either stay with her husband,…
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Les plus belles escroqueries du monde (1964)
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Michele Marcier, Anna Karina …
Directed by: Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Roman Polanski …
Four short caper stories set in Tokyo, Amsterdam, Paris and Naples -- including entries from Jean-Luc Godard and Roman Polanski -- depict a gallery of female temptresses working their charms…
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Contempt (1963)
Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Director Jean-Luc Godard's cynical take on the world of filmmaking is a poignant commentary about the sacrificial price of art. Screenwriter Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli) must fight many…
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Les Carabiniers (1963)
Cast: Albert Juross, Marino Masé, Catherine Ribeiro …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Director Jean-Luc Godard's surreal, anti-imperialist film follows two moronic peasants (Marino Masé and Albert Juross) who join the king's army as mercenaries. During their…
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Le Petit Soldat (1963)
Cast: Michel Subor, Anna Karina, Henri-Jacques Huet …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Banned in France for three years because of its blunt portrayal of both sides' use of torture in the Algerian War, director Jean-Luc Godard's intricate film follows Bruno Forestier…
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Vivre Sa Vie (1962)
Cast: Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André S. Labarthe …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
From master director Jean-Luc Godard comes an exquisitely photographed meditation on one woman's life and her struggle for survival. After separating from her husband, Nana (Anna Karina)…
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A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Striptease artist Angela (Anna Karina) is desperate to have a child, but her boyfriend, Emile (Jean-Claude Brialy), isn't as anxious. Although he cares for Angela and wants to keep their…
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Breathless (1960)
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
After shooting a cop, young thief Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) meets and shacks up with Patricia (Jean Seberg), an American who sells the International Herald Tribune on the streets of Paris.…
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Breathless (1960)
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger …
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
After shooting a cop, young thief Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) meets and shacks up with Patricia (Jean Seberg), an American who sells the International Herald Tribune on the streets of Paris.…