Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard

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.

Known For

43 titles
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Breathless

Breathless

1960 · 1h 30m · Movie

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.

7.6
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Faces Places

Faces Places

2017 · 1h 34m · Movie

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

8.2
3
Pierrot le fou

Pierrot le fou

1965 · 1h 50m · Movie

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.

7.4
4
Contempt

Contempt

1963 · 1h 42m · Movie

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.

7.4
5
Vivre sa vie

Vivre sa vie

1962 · 1h 25m · Movie

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

7.8
6
Cléo from 5 to 7

Cléo from 5 to 7

1962 · 1h 30m · Movie

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

7.8
7
Alphaville

Alphaville

1965 · 1h 39m · Movie

An agent wrecks the main computer on another planet.

7.0
8
Band of Outsiders

Band of Outsiders

1964 · 1h 35m · Movie

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

7.6
9
A Woman Is a Woman

A Woman Is a Woman

1961 · 1h 24m · Movie

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

7.3
10
Masculine Feminine

Masculine Feminine

1966 · 1h 43m · Movie

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

7.4
11
Weekend

Weekend

1967 · 1h 45m · Movie

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.

6.9
12
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

1967 · 1h 27m · Movie

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

6.5
13
The Chinese

The Chinese

1967 · 1h 35m · Movie

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.

6.9
14
The Little Soldier

The Little Soldier

1963 · 1h 28m · Movie

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

7.1
15
Goodbye to Language

Goodbye to Language

2014 · 1h 10m · Movie

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

5.8
16
Made in U.S.A

Made in U.S.A

1967 · 1h 30m · Movie

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...

6.2
17
First Name: Carmen

First Name: Carmen

1983 · 1h 25m · Movie

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

6.3
18
A Married Woman

A Married Woman

1964 · 1h 34m · Movie

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

7.1
19
Every Man for Himself

Every Man for Himself

1980 · 1h 27m · Movie

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

6.5
20
Tout va bien

Tout va bien

1972 · 1h 35m · Movie

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

6.5
21
The Carabineers

The Carabineers

1963 · 1h 20m · Movie

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.

6.7
22
Hail Mary

Hail Mary

1985 · 1h 12m · Movie

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

6.4
23
Our Music

Our Music

2004 · 1h 20m · Movie

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

6.8
24
The Image Book

The Image Book

2018 · 1h 28m · Movie

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

6.2
25
In Praise of Love

In Praise of Love

2001 · 1h 37m · Movie

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

6.2
26
Film socialisme

Film socialisme

2010 · 1h 42m · Movie

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

5.6
27
Passion

Passion

1982 · 1h 28m · Movie

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

6.2
28
All Boys Are Called Patrick

All Boys Are Called Patrick

1959 · 21m · Movie

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

7.0
29
Detective

Detective

1985 · 1h 35m · Movie

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.

5.7
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Ro.Go.Pa.G.

Ro.Go.Pa.G.

1963 · 2h 2m · Movie

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

6.9
31
Chambre 666

Chambre 666

1985 · 45m · Movie

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...

6.6
32
King Lear

King Lear

1988 · 1h 30m · Movie

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

5.4
33
For Ever Mozart

For Ever Mozart

1996 · 1h 24m · Movie

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...

6.1
34
Le gai savoir

Le gai savoir

1969 · 1h 35m · Movie

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...

6.0
35
Far from Vietnam

Far from Vietnam

1967 · 2h 0m · Movie

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.

7.3
36
Wind from the East

Wind from the East

1970 · 1h 35m · Movie

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.

5.8