Lotte in Italia / Struggle in Italy (1971)
Drama
The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology.
Starring: Cristiana Tullio-Altan, Paolo Pozzesi, Jerome Hinstin, Anne Wiazemsky
Director: Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin
Pravda (1970)
Documentary
Co-directed by Godard with the Dziga Vertov group in 1969, 'Pravda' is a direct attack to revisionism and socialist imperialism. With his usual heterogeneous collage of images taken from real life, the film is structured in a sort of letter that a man writes to a woman called Rosa from Bulgaria and later from Czechoslovakia.
Starring: Vera Chytilová, Jean-Luc Godard
Director: Groupe Dziga Vertov, Paul Burron, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Henri Roger
La Chinoise / La chinoise (1967)
Comedy | Drama
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.
Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Anne Wiazemsky, Juliet Berto, Blandine Jeanson, Eliane Giovagnoli, Michel Semeniako
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Faces Places / Visages villages (2017)
Documentary
Director Agnes Varda and photographer/muralist J.R. journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
Starring: Agnès Varda, JR
Director: Agnès Varda, JR, Jean-Luc Godard
Passion / Godard's Passion (1982)
Comedy | Drama
On a movie set, in a factory, and at a hotel, Godard explores the nature of work, love and film making. While Solidarity takes on the Polish government, a Polish film director, Jerzy, is stuck in France making a film for TV. He's over budget and uninspired; the film, called "Passion," seems static and bloodless. Hanna owns the hotel where the film crew stays. She lives with Michel, who runs a factory where he's fired Isabelle, a floor worker. Hanna and Isabelle are drawn to Jerzy, hotel maids quit to be movie extras, people ask Jerzy where the story is in his film, women disrobe, extras grope each other off camera, and Jerzy wonders why there must always be a story.
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli, Jerzy Radziwilowicz
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Hail Mary / Je vous salue, Marie (1985)
Drama
In this modern retelling of the Virgin birth, Mary is a student who plays basketball and works at her father's petrol station; Joseph is an earnest dropout who drives a cab. The angel Gabriel must school Joseph to accept Mary's pregnancy, while Mary comes to terms with God's plan through meditations that are sometimes angry and usually punctuated by elemental images of the sun, moon, clouds, flowers, and water. Godard intercuts a brief parallel story of Eva and her nameless lover; their adulterous affair, rife with philosophical discussions, leads nowhere.
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Myriem Roussel, Thierry Rode, Philippe Lacoste
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Every Man for Himself / Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1980)
Drama
An examination of sexual relationships, in which three protagonists interact in different combinations.
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie Baye, Roland Amstutz, Cécile Tanner, Anna Baldaccini
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Far from Vietnam / Loin du Vietnam (1967)
Documentary | Drama | War
In seven different parts, Godard, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamees army during the Vietnam-war.
Starring: Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais
Director: Joris Ivens, William Klein, Agnès Varda, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais
À bout de souffle / Breathless (1960)
Crime | Drama | Romance
A petty criminal, wanted for the murder of a police officer, returns to Paris where he meets an American girl who hawks newspapers. They become lovers, but eventually the police pressure her into betraying him and revealing his whereabouts.
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Henri-Jacques Huet, Roger Hanin, Jean-Pierre Melville
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Band of Outsiders / Bande à part (1964)
Crime | Drama
Three young people, Odile, Arthur and Frantz meet up at an English language class and become instant friends. They share an interest in literature and crime fiction. When Odile reveals that the house she is staying is loaded with loot, the three friends decide to stage a robbery. Of course, it all goes horribly wrong…
Starring: Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Danièle Girard, Sami Frey
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Une femme mariée / A Married Woman (1964)
Drama
A young, married Parisian woman has an ongoing affair and is strongly influenced by advertising and fashion magazines.
Starring: Macha Méril, Bernard Noël, Philippe Leroy
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
For Ever Mozart (1996)
Comedy | Drama | War
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 stage a play in war-torn Sarajevo and an elderly director's efforts to complete his film.
Starring: Frédéric Pierrot
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Une femme est une femme / A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
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 goes after Emile's friend Alfred.
Starring: Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Weekend / Week End (1967)
Comedy | Drama
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
Starring: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Prénom Carmen / First Name: Carmen (1983)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Music | Romance
Carmen is a member of a terrorist gang who falls in love with a young police officer guarding a bank that she and her cohorts try to rob. She leads him on while dragging the two of them closer to their ultimate doom. Jean-Luc Godard intercuts the film with shots of a string quartet practicing Beethoven, and his main protagonist, Carmen, is played by Maruschka Detmers creating a stunning effect in many scenes of extended nudity.
Starring: Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffé, Myriem Roussel, Christophe Odent, Pierre-Alain Chapuis
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Film Socialisme / Film Socialism (2010)
Drama
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, a sister and her younger brother have summoned their parents to appear before the court of their childhood. The children demand serious explanations of the themes of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Our humanities. Visits to six sites of true or false myths: Egypt, Palestine, Odessa, Hellas, Naples and Barcelona.
Starring: Jean-Marc Stehlé, Agatha Couture, Mathias Domahidy
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Vivre Sa Vie / Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux / My Life to Live (1962)
Drama
Vivre sa vie was a turning point for Jean-Luc Godard and remains one of his most dynamic films, combining brilliant visual design with a tragic character study. The lovely Anna Karina, Godard'ss greatest muse, plays Nana, a young Parisian who aspires to be an actress but instead ends up a prostitute, her downward spiral depicted in a series of discrete tableaux of daydreams and dances. Featuring some of Karina and Godard'ss most iconic moments—from her movie theater vigil with The Passion of Joan of Arc to her seductive pool-hall strut—Vivre sa vie is a landmark of the French New Wave that still surprises at every turn.
Starring: Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André S. Labarthe, Guylaine Schlumberger, Gérard Hoffman, Monique Messine
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Pierrot le fou (1965)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
After abandoning his wife and infant daughter for the new babysitter, a woman he'd loved and lost several years earlier, an errant husband embarks on a haphazard road to tragedy.
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Dirk Sanders, Raymond Devos, Graziella Galvani
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
