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Jean-Luc Godard Filmography

Name: Jean-Luc Godard Filmography
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Complete filmography of Jean-Luc Godard: 68 films in the TMDB catalog, sorted by year.

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Title↕	Year↕	Genres↕	TMDB Rating↕	Votes↕	Language↕	Overview↕
Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars	2,023	N/A	6.1	17	French	Rejecting the billions of alphabetic diktats to liberate the incessant metamorphoses and metaphors of a necessary and true language by re-turning to the locations of past film shoots, while keeping track of modern times.
The Image Book	2,018	Documentary, Drama	6.3	81	French	In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books, uses fragments of music. The driving force is poetic rhyme, the association or opposition of ideas, the aesthetic spark through editing, the keystone. The author performs the work of a sculptor. The hand, for this, is essential. He praises it at the start. “There are the five fingers. The five senses. The five parts of the world (…). The true condition of man is to think with his hands. Jean-Luc Godard composes a dazzling syncopation of sequences, the surge of which evokes the violence of the flows of our contemporary screens, taken to a level of incandescence rarely achieved. Crowned at Cannes, the last Godard is a shock film, with twilight beauty.
Goodbye to Language	2,014	Drama	6	191	French	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
Film Socialisme	2,010	Drama	6	56	French	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.
Tribute to Eric Rohmer	2,010	Documentary	4.5	10	French	Brief, fragmented memories of Rohmer spoken by Godard, while the screen shows various titles of articles Rohmer wrote for Cahiers du Cinema.
Notre Musique	2,004	Drama	6.7	38	French	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.
In the Darkness of Time	2,002	Drama	7.5	23	French	Conceived as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the millennium, "Dans le noir du temps" functions as a Pandora’s box which hides all the horrors of the world: the last moments of youth, fame, thoughts, memory, love, silence, history, fear, eternity and, of course, cinema.
In Praise of Love	2,001	Drama	6.7	43	French	Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, arguments/separation and making up. This project is to be told through three couples: young, adult and old. We do not know if the project is for a play, a film, a novel or an opera. The author of the project is always accompanied by a kind of servant. Meanwhile, two years earlier, an American civil servant meets with an elderly French couple who had fought in the Resistance during World War II, brokering a deal with a Hollywood director to buy the rights to tell their story. The members of the old couple's family discuss heatedly questions of nation, memory and history.
Origins of the 21st Century	2,000	Documentary, War	6.3	25	French	Commissioned by the heads of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival to make an opening-night short commemorating cinema as it enters its second full century, Godard instead offers up a 17-minute barrage of re-edited footage of wars and Nazi atrocities, interspersed with clips of Maurice Chevalier in "Gigi" and Godard's own "À bout de souffle."
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3b: A New Wave	1,998	Documentary	6.4	19	French	Part 6 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to the 20th century
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4a: The Control of the Universe	1,998	Documentary	6.4	18	French	Part 7 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to the 20th century.
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute	1,998	Documentary	6.4	17	French	Part 5 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to the 20th century.
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4b: The Signs Among Us	1,998	Documentary	6.2	16	French	Part 8 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to the 20th century.
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2a: Only Cinema	1,997	Documentary	6.5	20	French	A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music and sound, and diverse readings; a critical, beautiful and melancholic vision of cinematographic art.
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2b: Deadly Beauty	1,997	Documentary	6.5	19	French	A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music and sound, and diverse readings; a critical, beautiful and melancholic vision of cinematographic art.
For Ever Mozart	1,996	Drama, Comedy, War	5.8	20	French	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.
JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December	1,995	Documentary	6.4	41	French	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.
2 x 50 Years of French Cinema	1,995	Documentary, TV Movie	6.4	10	French	At a lakeside hotel, Michel Piccoli discusses the centennial of cinema with Jean-Luc Godard. Godard asks why should cinema's birthday be celebrated when the history of film is a forgotten subject. Through the remainder of his hotel stay, Piccoli tests Godard's hypothesis.
Hail, Sarajevo	1,993	War	6.8	61	French	A short two-minute rumination on the once volatile situation during the period of the Bosnian War presented in the form of a photo-montage with accompanying text.
Oh, Woe Is Me	1,993	Drama, Fantasy, Romance	6.3	40	French	This complex allegorical tale tells the story of man’s quest for spiritual meaning. When God enters the body of 1980s filmmaker Simon Donnadieu, his wife Rachel realizes that something has gone awry, but chooses to remain faithful to her erratically-behaving husband.
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero	1,993	Drama	6.8	28	French	The supremely world-weary Lemmy Caution, last seen in Godard's "Alphaville" (France/1965), has several strange encounters while trying to make his way from the former East Germany to "the west."
Nouvelle Vague	1,990	Drama	6.2	32	French	Composed entirely of literary quotations from many different sources and from several historical periods, the loose narrative concerns a drifter found by a rich woman who soon falls in love with him. A drowning accident takes place and the drifter dies, but some time later he reappears in the woman’s life looking for a job. Or could it be the man’s twin brother?
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories	1,989	Documentary	6.2	31	French	A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music and sound, and diverse readings; a critical, beautiful and melancholic vision of cinematographic art.
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story	1,989	Documentary	6.5	25	French	A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music and sound, and diverse readings; a critical, beautiful and melancholic vision of cinematographic art.
King Lear	1,988	Comedy, Drama	6.4	35	English	A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.
The Power of Speech	1,988	Drama, Romance	5.6	13	French	Godard blends elements of literature, cinema and other artistic medias from different historical periods in order to make a stance on how words can be subverted and manipulated to many different contexts, sometimes bearing a similar significance to the original material or even creating an alternate context.
Keep Your Right Up	1,987	Comedy, Drama, Fantasy	6	22	French	This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles to a background of rock music. The lead character, played by Godard himself, is an annoyingly perfectionist film-maker determined to wring every last drop of the finest performance possible from his stars.
Meetin' WA	1,986	Documentary	6.2	50	French	Revolutionary French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard conducts a twenty-five minute interview with influential and acclaimed American director Woody Allen on the cultural radiation, the ubiquity and significance of Television, and how Television compares with cinema as a medium and form of expression.
Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company	1,986	TV Movie, Drama	6.2	21	French	Director Gaspard Bazin is working on a new feature film. For now, he's still looking at the fundraising and casting stage of the process. He calls upon Jean Almereyda, a once-fashionable producer who is now going through a bad patch, finding it increasingly difficult to raise the capital he needs for his ventures. His wife Eurydice dreams of being a movie star. A perverse game between the two men ensues, with Almereyda wanting to please his wife, but reluctant to demand a role for Eurydice because of Bazin's reputation as an incorrigible seducer.
Hail Mary	1,985	Drama	6.3	85	French	A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.
Detective	1,985	Comedy, Crime, Drama	5.2	66	French	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.
First Name: Carmen	1,983	Crime, Drama, Comedy, Romance	6	109	French	A woman involved with a terrorist group becomes dangerously close to the police officer guarding the bank they plan to rob.
Godard's Passion	1,982	Drama, Comedy	5.7	62	French	While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did not like her union activities.
Every Man for Himself	1,980	Drama	6.1	76	French	A look at the sexual and professional lives of three people — a television director, his ex-girlfriend, and a sex worker.
How's It Going?	1,978	Drama	6	14	French	During the making of a video film about a communist printing press, a union member and a leftist activist discuss how to present their information, especially how to caption two specific images: one of a protest in Portugal, the other of a strike in France. One of them decides to write to his son, a manual worker living outside of Paris with his girlfriend, telling the young man about his troubles.
Here and Elsewhere	1,976	Documentary	6.5	25	French	Here and Elsewhere takes its name from the contrasting footage it shows of the fedayeen and of a French family watching television at home. Originally shot by the Dziga Vertov Group as a film on Palestinian freedom fighters, Godard later reworked the material alongside Anne-Marie Miéville.
Number Two	1,975	Drama	6.1	28	French	Jean-Luc Godard mixes video and film in his Grenoble studio, discussing how he secured funding for the film. The action unfolds on two monitors, as a young working-class couple lives in a claustrophobic, high-rise apartment complex and marital discord is set off by the wife’s infidelity.
Tout Va Bien	1,972	Drama	6.6	69	French	A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his reporter wife.
Struggle in Italy	1,971	Drama	7.1	21	Italian	The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology.
Vladimir and Rosa	1,971	Drama	6.6	15	French	Jean-Luc Godard's and Jean-Pierre Gorin's interpretation of the Chicago Eight / Chicago Seven trial, which followed the 1968 Democratic National Convention protest activities. Judge Hoffman becomes the character Judge Himmler (played by Ernest Menzer) and the defendants become a microcosms of the French Revolution.
British Sounds	1,970	Documentary	5.1	27	English	Jean-Luc Godard brings his firebrand political cinema to the UK, exploring the revolutionary signals in late '60s British society. Constructed as a montage of various disconnected political acts (in line with Godard's then appropriation of Soviet director Dziga Vertov's agitprop techniques), it combines a diverse range of footage, from students discussing The Beatles to the production line at the MG factory in Oxfordshire, burnished with onscreen political sloganeering.
Wind from the East	1,970	Drama, Western	6.8	26	French	A politically oriented film in which images suggestive of a mock western are accompanied by an attack on all cinematic conventions to date and a debate on the nature and possibility of revolutionary cinema.
Pravda	1,970	Documentary	5.6	12	French	Filmed clandestinely in Czechoslovakia on 16mm. It's one of the films Godard made with the Groupe Dziga Vertov - a Marxist film about the political situation after the '68 revolution.
Le Gai Savoir	1,969	Drama	6	26	French	Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris's student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late 1960s, along with posters, photographs, and cartoons, are backdrops to their words. Words themselves are often Patricia and Emile's subject, as are images, sounds, and juxtapositions.
Sympathy for the Devil	1,968	Documentary, Music	6.3	61	English	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 Film Like Any Other	1,968	Documentary	6.7	17	French	An analysis of the social upheaval of May 1968, made in the immediate wake of the workers’ and students’ protests. The picture consists of two parts, each with with identical image tracks, and differing narration.
Weekend	1,967	Comedy	6.9	309	French	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.
La Chinoise	1,967	Drama, Comedy	6.9	234	French	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.
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her	1,967	Comedy, Drama	6.2	210	French	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.
Made in U.S.A	1,967	Crime, Mystery, Comedy	6.1	103	French	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.
Masculin Féminin	1,966	Drama, Romance	7.2	414	French	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.
Pierrot le Fou	1,965	Drama, Romance, Crime	7.3	922	French	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.
Alphaville	1,965	Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery	6.9	597	French	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.”
Six in Paris	1,965	Comedy, Drama	6.5	31	French	Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile (Rohmer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; and La Muette (Chabrol), a bourgeois family and earplugs.
Band of Outsiders	1,964	Crime, Drama, Comedy	7.5	597	French	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.
The Married Woman	1,964	Drama, Romance	6.9	130	French	A superficial woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.
Contempt	1,963	Drama, Romance	7	934	French	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.
Le Petit Soldat	1,963	Drama, Romance	6.9	183	French	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.
Les Carabiniers	1,963	War, Drama, Comedy	6.5	91	French	During a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life. Two of these farmers write to their wives of their exploits.
Vivre Sa Vie	1,962	Drama	7.7	686	French	Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
The Seven Deadly Sins	1,962	Comedy	5.7	18	French	Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can't be bothered to accept a starlet's sexual favors. In "Gluttony," a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In "Greed," a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet's lottery ticket. In "Pride," an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.
A Woman Is a Woman	1,961	Comedy, Drama, Romance	7.3	396	French	Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.
A Story of Water	1,961	Comedy, Romance	6.5	58	French	A young woman tries to go to Paris, but her garden and the whole village is flooded with water.
Breathless	1,960	Drama, Crime	7.5	1,975	French	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.
All the Boys Are Called Patrick	1,959	Comedy, Romance	6.7	65	French	A pickup artist/womanizer named Patrick inadvertently pursues two young women who happen to be roommates.
Charlotte and Her Boyfriend	1,958	Comedy	6.5	54	French	This short features a man who is visited by his ex-lover. The moment she arrives, the man starts his constant barrage of speech; the woman doesn't say much. She just mocks the man and pretends she isn't listening. She pulls faces at him and larks about; while the man is trying his best to get her back in his life, then in the next sentence he says he hates her.
Operation Concrete	1,958	Documentary	5.2	13	French	Godard returned to Paris briefly before getting a job as a construction worker on a dam project in Switzerland. With the money from the job, he made a short film about the building of the dam called Opération béton (Operation Concrete).
A Flirtatious Woman	1,955	Comedy, Romance	5.5	34	French	Agnès, a bourgeois young woman from Geneva, writes a letter to a friend, telling how she ended up cheating on her husband. Fascinated by the attitudes and gestures adopted by a prostitute to attract clients, Agnès decides to imitate her and seduces the first man she sees, sitting on a garden bench.

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