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...

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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...

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7.6

21K votes

7.6

21K 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

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...

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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

7.1

133 votes

7.1

133 votes