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.

For Ever Mozart

1996

French

6.1

♡ 3

45%

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Harry Cleven as Harry, le grand écrivain

Frédéric Pierrot as Jérôme

Michel Francini as Le baron Félix

Jean-Luc Godard as Man pretending to play soccer

Episodic film that follows a theater troupe from France attempting to put on a play in Sarajevo. Along their journey they are captured and held in a POW camp, and they call for help from their friends and relations in France.

Detective

1985

French

5.7

♡ 4

92%

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Erich von Stroheim as Arthur von Furst

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Inspector Neveu

Emmanuelle Seigner as Princess of the Bahamas

Julie Delpy as Wise young girl

Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both the police and the mob circling the situation. In the same hotel, Inspector Neveu looks into a murder that took place years before, and his storyline overlaps with the arc of the Chenals.

The Chinese

1967

French

6.9

♡ 6

95%

73%

Action

based on novel or book

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Guillaume

Michel Semeniako as Henri

Eliane Giovagnoli as Son ami

Anne Wiazemsky as Veronique

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.

Made in U.S.A

1966

French

6.2

♡ 9

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Donald Siegel

Jean-Claude Bouillon as Inspector Aldrich

Anna Karina as Paula Nelson

Jean-Luc Godard as Richard Politzer

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.

Pierrot le fou

1965

French

7.4

♡ 38

88%

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Jean-Paul Belmondo as Ferdinand Griffon, 'Pierrot'

Anna Karina as Marianne Renoir

Samuel Fuller as Self

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Young Man in Movie Theatre

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.

Vivre sa vie

1962

French

7.8

♡ 37

91%

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Peter Kassovitz as Jeune homme

Marcel Charton as L'agent de police

Odile Geoffroy as La serveuse de café

Anna Karina as Nana Kleinfrankenheim

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

Masculine Feminine

1966

French

7.4

♡ 19

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Brigitte Bardot as Brigitte Bardot

Catherine-Isabelle Duport as Catherine-Isabelle

Chantal Goya as Madeleine Zimmer - une petite chanteuse

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Paul - un jeune homme instable

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.

Hail Mary

1985

French

6.3

♡ 6

75%

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Thierry Rode as Joseph

Juliette Binoche as Juliette

Johan Leysen as Le professeur

Gisele Musy as Maman salle d'attente

A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.

Contempt

1963

French

7.4

♡ 27

92%

85%

Action

based on novel or book

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Brigitte Bardot as Camille Javal

Jack Palance as Jeremy Prokosch

Jean-Luc Godard as Lang's Assistant Director

Michel Piccoli as Paul Javal

A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a screenwriter to energize the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.

King Lear

1987

English

5.5

♡ 6

67%

post-apocalyptic future

postmodernism

Sci-Fi

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Molly Ringwald as Cordelia

Woody Allen as Mr. Alien

Jean-Luc Godard as Professor Pluggy

Julie Delpy as Virginia

A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.

One + One

1968

English

6.2

♡ 12

social & cultural documentary

social documentary

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Joanna David as

Clifton Jones as Black power militant

Anne Wiazemsky as Eve Democracy

James Fox as Self

While The Rolling Stones rehearse "Sympathy for the Devil" in the studio, an alternating narrative reflects on 1968 society, politics and culture through five different vignettes.

A Woman Is a Woman

1961

French

7.3

♡ 15

83%

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Jean-Paul Belmondo as Alfred Lubitsch

Marie Dubois as Angela's friend

Jean-Claude Brialy as Émile Récamier

Jeanne Moreau as Woman in Bar

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

Breathless

1960

French

7.7

♡ 47

95%

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Raymond Huntley as A Journalist

Jean-Paul Belmondo as Michel Poiccard / Laszlo Kovacs

Jean Seberg as Patricia Franchini

Jean-Luc Godard as The Snitch

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.

Far from Vietnam

1967

French

7.3

♡ 8

64%

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Bernard Fresson as Claude Ridder

Agnès Varda as Narrator

Michèle Ray-Gavras as Narrator

Jean-Luc Godard as Self

In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War.

Band of Outsiders

1964

French

7.6

♡ 18

94%

woman between two men

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Chantal Darget as Arthur's Aunt

Sami Frey as Franz

Jean-Luc Godard as Narrator

Anna Karina as Odile

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.

Alphaville

1965

French

7.0

♡ 23

92%

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Breakfast Waiter

László Szabó as Chief Engineer

Anna Karina as Natacha von Braun

Jean-Louis Comolli as Prof. Jeckell

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.”

Our Music

2004

French

6.8

♡ 1

68%

72%

bosnian war (1992-95)

Drama

movie business

palestinian-israeli conflict

poetry

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Sanja Buric as

Jean-Christophe Bouvet as C. Maillard

Jean-Luc Godard as Jean-Luc Godard

Sarah Adler as Judith Lerner

A three-chapter (Hell, Purgatory and Paradise) meditation on the city of Sarajevo in the wake of the Bosnian war, on Palestine and Israel, and on war itself.

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

1967

French

6.5

♡ 5

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Helena Bielicic as Girl in Bath

Marina Vlady as Juliette Jeanson

Jean-Luc Godard as Narrator

Roger Montsoret as Robert Jeanson

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.

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