Jean-Luc Godard

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

Dir. Jean-Luc Godard · With Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André S. Labarthe

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.

Dir. Jean-Luc Godard · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger

Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or frolicsome romps through the Louvre. Eventually, their romantic view of outlaws pushes them to plan their own heist, but their inexperience may send them out in a blaze of glory -- which could be just what they want.

Dir. Jean-Luc Godard · With Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey

Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.

Dir. Jean-Luc Godard · With Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo

Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.

Dir. Agnès Varda, JR · With Agnès Varda, JR, Patricia Mercier

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.

Dir. Jean-Luc Godard · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani

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

Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ugo Gregoretti, Roberto Rossellini · With Rosanna Schiaffino, Bruce Balaban, Maria Pia Schiaffino

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.

Dir. Jean-Luc Godard · With Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism in society, while Madeleine just wants to be successful. The story is told in a series of 15 unrelated vignettes.

Dir. Jean-Luc Godard · With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Marlène Jobert

Art film producer Jeremy Prokosch, unhappy with the work of his director, hires Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of The Odyssey, but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb, he brings in a screenwriter to energise the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.

Dir. Jean-Luc Godard · With Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance

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.

Dir. Jean-Luc Godard · With Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto

Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by the scientist’s daughter Natasha, Lemmy must unravel the mysteries of the strictly logical Alpha 60 and teach Natasha the meaning of the word “love.”

Dir. Jean-Luc Godard · With Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff

Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier is roped into a paramilitary group waging a shadow war in Geneva against the Algerian independence movement.

Dir. Jean-Luc Godard · With Michel Subor, Anna Karina, Henri-Jacques Huet

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

Dir. Jean-Luc Godard · With Macha Méril, Bernard Noël, Philippe Leroy

As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children takes to prostitution to help pay the bills.

Dir. Jean-Luc Godard · With Marina Vlady, Jean-Luc Godard, Anny Duperey

Paula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel room, she meets Typhus, whom she ends up knocking out. His corpse is later found in the apartment of David Goodis, a writer. Paula is arrested and interrogated. From then on, she encounters many gangsters.

Dir. Jean-Luc Godard · With Anna Karina, László Szabó, Jean-Pierre Léaud

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

Dir. Jean-Luc Godard · With Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffé, Myriem Roussel

"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 and woman meet again / The dog finds itself between them / The other is in one, / the one is in the other / and they are three / The former husband shatters everything / A second film begins: / the same as the first, / and yet not / From the human race we pass to metaphor / This ends in barking / and a baby's cries / In the meantime, we will have seen people talking of the demise of the dollar, of truth in mathematics and of the death of a robin." -JLG

Dir. Jean-Luc Godard · With Jessica Erickson, Héloïse Godet, Zoé Bruneau