
December 3, 1930 · 95 years old
Jean-Luc Godard (December 3, 1930 – September 13, 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the 1960s French New Wave film movement and was arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era.

A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder of a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.

Director Agnes Varda and photographer/muralist J.R. journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.

A French writer's marriage deteriorates while working on Fritz Lang's version of "The Odyssey", as his wife accuses him of using her to court favor with the film's brash American producer.

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.

Two crooks with a fondness for old Hollywood B-movies convince a languages student to help them commit a robbery.

A stripper who's desperate to become a mother accepts her reluctant boyfriend's suggestion that she be impregnated by his best friend.

A romance between young Parisians, shown through a series of vignettes.

A surreal tale of a married couple going on a road trip to visit the wife's parents with the intention of killing them for the inheritance.

A day in the life of a Parisian housewife/prostitute, interspersed with musings on the Vietnam War and other contemporary issues.

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.

During the Algerian War, a man and woman from opposing sides fall in love with one another.

A silent, surreal parallel between a couple and a dog.

In the near future, leftist writer Paula goes from Paris to the French town of Atlantic-Cité when she learns of the death of a former colleague and lover, Richard P. Is she there to investigate? On the surface, faces are beautiful...

A woman involved with a terrorist group becomes dangerously close to the police officer guarding the bank they plan to rob.

A superifical woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.

An examination of sexual relationships, in which three protagonists interact in different combinations.

Godard examines the structure of movies, relationships and revolutions through the life of a couple in Paris.

During a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life. Two of these farmers write to their wives of their exploits.

A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.

An indictment of modern times divided into three "kingdoms": "Enfer" ("Hell"), "Purgatoire" ("Purgatory") and "Paradis" ("Paradise").

Nothing but silence. Nothing but a revolutionary song. A story in five chapters like the five fingers of a hand.

An author works on a project on the subject of love, and, in the process, crosses paths with a former love in his life.

The passengers on a Mediterranean cruise enjoy their luxuries as a small family struggles with overbearing media attention.

A film director has an inspirational crisis while working on the production, Passion, and struggles with the nature of work and art.

Two French college girls each meet a boy named Patrick and quickly realize that it is less a coincidence then they think.

At a Paris hotel, a hotel detective fired after a murder took place there continues to investigate, helped by his inspector nephew and girlfriend. A boxing manager, owing money to a couple and the mafia, rides on a match next day.

Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.

During the '35th Cannes International Film Festival' (14th-26th May 1982), German director Wim Wenders asked a sample of 15 other international film directors to get, each one at a time, into the same hotel room to answer in solit...

A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.

Jean-Luc Godard's densely packed rumination on the need to create order and beauty in a world ruled by chaos is divided into four distinct but tangentially related stories, including the attempts by a young group of idealists to s...

How do we learn? What do we know? Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris's student revolt, t...

In seven different segments, Godard, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy and support for the North Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War.

A filmic essay on class struggle which draws on images from westerns but has no plot and is both an experiment in making a revolutionary film and an interrogation of how successfully such a film can be revolutionary.