Direction: Jean-Luc Godard
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Histoire[s] du cinéma
1988 · Documentary · 268 min. · France
Direction Jean-Luc Godard
Cast Jean-Luc Godard · Jean-Pierre Gos · Alain Cuny · Juliette Binoche
Plot TV Series (1988-1998). Cinematic visionary and provocateur Jean-Luc Godard offers a typically challenging look at his favorite creative medium in the wake of the 20th Century in this ambitious blend...
7.8
924 votes
7.8
924 votes
France/tour/détour/deux/enfants (TV Miniseries)
1977 · Documentary · 315 min. · France
Direction Jean-Luc Godard · Anne-Marie Miéville
Cast Betty Berr · Albert Dray · Evane Hanska · Arnaud Martin
Plot This complex, intimately scaled study of the effect of television on the French family is constructed around Godard's interviews with a school girl and school boy, Camille and Arnaud. Godard's...
7.8
23 votes
7.8
23 votes
Vivre Sa Vie (My Life to Live)
1962 · Movie · 83 min. · France
Direction Jean-Luc Godard
Cast Anna Karina · Sady Rebbot · André S. Labarthe · Guylaine Schlumberger
Plot Nana (Anna Karina) is a beautiful Parisian in her early twenties who deliberately leaves her husband and her infant son hoping to become an actress. Without money, beyond what she...
7.7
7K votes
7.7
7K votes
Breathless
1960 · Movie · 89 min. · France
Direction Jean-Luc Godard
Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Jean Seberg · Daniel Boulanger · Henri-Jacques Huet
Plot The first feature film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and one of the seminal films of the French New Wave, Breathless is story of the love between Michel Poiccard, a small-time...
7.6
21K votes
7.6
21K votes
Here and Elsewhere
1976 · Documentary · 53 min. · France
Direction Jean-Luc Godard · Jean-Pierre Gorin · Anne-Marie Miéville · Groupe Dziga Vertov
7.6
233 votes
7.6
233 votes
Contempt
1963 · Movie · 102 min. · France
Direction Jean-Luc Godard
Cast Brigitte Bardot · Michel Piccoli · Jack Palance · Georgia Moll
Plot French playwright Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli) is hired by the arrogant American producer Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance) to rewrite the screenplay of a commercial version of Ulysses and his Odyssey,...
7.4
6K votes
7.4
6K votes
Vrai faux passeport
2006 · Documentary · 55 min. · France
Direction Jean-Luc Godard
Cast Jean-Luc Godard
Plot Vrai faux passeport was produced by Godard as part of the Pompidou Center retrospective and the Voyages en Utopie exhibition held in Paris in 2006. The film opened the film...
7.4
22 votes
7.4
22 votes
Far from Vietnam
1967 · Documentary · 120 min. · France
Direction Claude Lelouch · Agnès Varda · Jean-Luc Godard · Chris Marker
Cast Anne Bellec · Karen Blanguernon · Bernard Fresson · Maurice Garrel
Plot Seven directors combine efforts for this documentary, a searing anti-American indictment of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, William Klein, Joris Ivens, Agnes Varda, Claude Lelouch, and Jean-Luc...
7.4
312 votes
7.4
312 votes
A Woman Is a Woman
1961 · Movie · 85 min. · France
Direction Jean-Luc Godard
Cast Anna Karina · Jean-Paul Belmondo · Jean-Claude Brialy · Henri Attal
Plot Angela, a striptease artist, wants to have a baby and tries to persuade her boyfriend Emile to go along with the idea. Emile will have none of it so she...
7.4
2K votes
7.4
2K votes
Pierrot Goes Wild
1965 · Movie · 110 min. · France
Direction Jean-Luc Godard
Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Anna Karina · Dirk Sanders · Jean-Pierre Léaud
Plot Ferdinand Griffon, AKA 'Pierrot' (Jean-Paul Belmondo) escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne (Anna Karina), a babysitter hired by his wife (Graziella Galvani)...
7.4
6K votes
7.4
6K votes
The Old Place
2000 · Documentary · 49 min. · Switzerland
Direction Jean-Luc Godard · Anne-Marie Miéville
Plot Commissioned by New York City's Museum of Modern Art to create an essay on the role of the fine arts at the end of the 20th Century, French co-writer-directors Jean-Luc...
7.4
64 votes
7.4
64 votes
Scénario du film Passion
1982 · Documentary · 54 min. · France
Direction Jean-Luc Godard
Cast Jean-Luc Godard
7.3
101 votes
7.3
101 votes
Band of Outsiders (The Outsiders)
1964 · Movie · 95 min. · France
Direction Jean-Luc Godard
Cast Anna Karina · Claude Brasseur · Sami Frey · Louisa Colpeyn
Plot Three young people, Odile, Arthur and Franz meet up at an English language class and become instant friends. They share an interest in literature and crime fiction. When Odile reveals...
7.3
7K votes
7.3
7K votes
JLG/JLG - Self-Portrait in December
1995 · Documentary · 62 min. · France
Direction Jean-Luc Godard
Cast Jean-Luc Godard · Geneviève Pasquier · Denis Jadót · Brigitte Bastien
Plot Director Jean-Luc Godard reflects in this movie about his place in film history, the interaction of film industry and film as art, as well as the act of creating art.
7.3
246 votes
7.3
246 votes
A Married Woman
1964 · Movie · 95 min. · France
Direction Jean-Luc Godard
Cast Macha Méril · Bernard Noël · Philippe Leroy · Roger Leenhardt
Plot Director Jean-Luc Godard narrates this study of a married woman who begins an affair with another man. After becoming pregnant, she is unable to figure out which man is the...
7.2
983 votes
7.2
983 votes
Masculine-Feminine
1966 · Movie · 103 min. · France
Direction Jean-Luc Godard
Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Chantal Goya · Marlène Jobert · Michel Debord
Plot Paul is young, just demobbed from national service in the French Army, and dishillusioned with civilian life. As his girlfriend builds herself a career as a pop singer, Paul becomes...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero
1991 · Movie · 62 min. · France
Direction Jean-Luc Godard
Cast Eddie Constantine · Hanns Zischler · Claudia Michelsen · Nathalie Kadem
Plot Characterized by deconstructivism and philosophical references and by briefly exposing the good, bad, and ugly periods of the country's history, this post-modern film portrays the abstract need for guidance of...
7.1
133 votes
7.1
133 votes
La Chinoise
1967 · Movie · 96 min. · France
Direction Jean-Luc Godard
Cast Anne Wiazemsky · Jean-Pierre Léaud · Juliet Berto · Michel Semeniako
Plot 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.
7.1
3K votes
7.1
3K votes
The Little Soldier
1963 · Movie · 88 min. · France
Direction Jean-Luc Godard
Cast Michel Subor · Anna Karina · Henri-Jacques Huet · Paul Beauvais
Plot During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing...
7.1
1K votes
7.1
1K votes
Origins of the 21st Century (S)
2000 · Documentary · 15 min. · France
Direction Jean-Luc Godard
Cast Pierre Guyotat · Ronald Chammah
7.1
133 votes
7.1
133 votes