Screenplay: Jean-Luc Godard

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jean-Luc Godard. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Prières pour Refusniks (S)

2004 · Documentary · 10 min. · France

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

6.1

21 votes

6.1

21 votes

A Story of Water (S)

1961 · Movie · 18 min. · France

Direction Jean-Luc Godard · François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Claude Brialy · Caroline Dim

Plot A young woman is going to Paris by bus, but when she steps out of her house she discovers that her garden and the whole village is flooded with water...

6.1

328 votes

6.1

328 votes

Letter in Motion (S)

2014 · Documentary · 9 min. · France

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Plot Godard's filmed letter to Cannes Festival President Gilles Jacob.

6.0

66 votes

6.0

66 votes

Hail, Mary

1984 · Movie · 106 min. · France

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Myriem Roussel · Thierry Rode · Philippe Lacoste · Juliette Binoche

Plot Mary is a teenage basketball-playing gas-station attendant who receives the Annunciation by jetliner. Mary is a beautiful yet ordinary teenager who vows to maintain her chastity. Following a warning from...

6.0

1K votes

6.0

1K votes

Film Socialism

2010 · Movie · 102 min. · Switzerland

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Robert Maloubie · Patti Smith · Jean-Marc Stehlé · Catherine Tanvier

Plot A symphony in three movements: Things such as: A Mediterranean cruise. Numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday. Our Europe: At night,...

6.0

1K votes

6.0

1K votes

Love and Anger

1969 · Movie · 102 min. · Italy

Direction Marco Bellocchio · Bernardo Bertolucci · Jean-Luc Godard · Carlo Lizzani

Cast Tom Baker · Julian Beck · Jim Anderson · Judith Malina

Plot Amore e rabbia (Love and Anger) is a 1969 anthology film that includes five films directed by five Italian directors and one French director. It premiered at the 19th Berlin...

5.9

249 votes

5.9

249 votes

Sympathy For The Devil (One Plus One)

1968 · Documentary · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Mick Jagger · Keith Richards · Brian Jones · Bill Wyman

Plot Jean-Luc Godard's SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL is an exhilarating, provocative pastiche of a motion picture. While the focus of the film is on The Rolling Stones song after which the...

5.9

642 votes

5.9

642 votes

Detective

1985 · Movie · 95 min. · France

5.9

317 votes

5.9

317 votes

A Flirtatious Woman (S)

1955 · Movie · 9 min. · Switzerland

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Maria Lysandre · Roland Tolmatchoff

Plot Agnès, a bourgeois young woman from Genebra, writes a letter to a friend, telling how she ended up cheating on her husband. Fascinated by the attitudes and gestures adopted by...

5.8

208 votes

5.8

208 votes

Goodbye to Language

2014 · Movie · 70 min. · Switzerland

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Héloise Godet · Zoe Bruneau · Kamel Abdelli · Richard Chevalier

Plot The idea is simple: A married woman and a single man meet. They love, they argue, fists fly. A dog strays between town and country. The seasons pass. The man...

5.7

2K votes

5.7

2K votes

Aria

1987 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Altman · Bruce Beresford · Jean-Luc Godard · Derek Jarman

Cast Theresa Russell · Jacques Neuville · Buck Henry · Elizabeth Hurley

Plot Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (Vivaldi, Bach, Wagner),...

5.6

132 votes

5.6

132 votes

Montparnasse-Levallois (S)

1965 · Movie · 14 min. · France

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Joanna Shimkus · Philippe Hiquilly · Serge Davri

Plot A Canadian woman with two working class boyfriends writes letters to them, breaking off with one of them while professing her love for the other, but fears that she mixed...

5.5

53 votes

5.5

53 votes

The Beautiful Swindlers

1964 · Movie · 108 min. · France

Direction Claude Chabrol · Jean-Luc Godard · Ugo Gregoretti · Hiromichi Horikawa

Cast Mie Hama · Jan Teulings · Gabriella Giorgelli · Guido Guiseppone

Plot Four swindle stories, taking place successively in Tokyo - Japan (Les cinq bienfaiteurs de Fumiko), Amsterdam - The Netherlands (La riviere de diamants), Italie (La feuille de route), and Paris...

5.3

71 votes

5.3

71 votes

Breathless

1983 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Jim McBride

Cast Richard Gere · Valérie Kaprisky · Art Metrano · John P. Ryan

Plot A botched attempt to remake Jean-Luc Godard's classic nouvelle vague entry, Á Bout de souffle, Breathless follows Jesse (Richard Gere), a fugitive wanted for the murder of a police officer....

5.3

1K votes

5.3

1K votes

On s'est tous défilé (S)

1988 · Documentary · 13 min. · France

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Plot This clip was made for the stylists Marithe and François Girbaud. It projects and unites several types of art and performance media; flowing successively through painting, dance, Baudelaire's text and...

5.3

30 votes

5.3

30 votes

3x3D

2013 · Movie · 70 min. · Portugal

Direction Peter Greenaway · Jean-Luc Godard · Edgar Pêra

Cast Keith Davis · Leonor Keil · Ângela Marques · Nuno Melo

Plot In the 2000-year-old city of Guimarães, in Portugal, three renowned directors, Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway and Edgar Pêra, consider 3D and its evolution in the world of cinema. How does...

5.2

87 votes

5.2

87 votes

King Lear

1987 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

5.2

250 votes

5.2

250 votes

Tribute to Éric Rohmer (S)

2010 · Documentary · 3 min. · Switzerland

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

5.1

108 votes

5.1

108 votes

Prix Suisse / My Thanks / Dead or Alive (S)

2015 · Documentary · 5 min. · Switzerland

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Jean-Luc Godard

Plot Jean-Luc Godard was honored with a special achievement award at the Swiss Film Festival in 2015, which he couldn't attend due to some health problems. Instead of going and accepting...

5.0

114 votes

5.0

114 votes