Jean-Luc Godard — Director (58)
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Six in Paris (1965)
Paris vu par…
Jean-Luc Godard / Claude Chabrol … actor: Barbara Wilkin / Jean-François Chappey …
other title: Parigi di notte / Paris vu par… …
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.
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Made in U.S.A (1967)
Made in U.S.A
Jean-Luc Godard actor: Anna Karina / László Szabó …
other title: Una storia americana / Made in USA …
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.
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The Little Soldier (1963)
Le Petit Soldat
Jean-Luc Godard actor: Michel Subor / Anna Karina …
other title: Le petit soldat / Le Petit Soldat …
During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing terrorist group meet and fall in love. Complications ensue when the man is suspected by the members of his terrorist group of being a double agent.
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Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002)
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
Bernardo Bertolucci / Mike Figgis … actor: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi / Amit Arroz …
other title: Dieci minuti più vecchio: il violinista / Dez Minutos de Vida - O Violoncelo …
Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short involving plot-less images of old people with television sets for heads, a beautiful woman having sex, and overall confusion; and an old man reminiscing over his youth.
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Alphaville (1965)
Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution
★ 7.6 5 ratings
Jean-Luc Godard actor: Eddie Constantine / 安娜·卡里娜 …
other title: Agente Lemmy Caution, missione Alphaville / Lemmys mærkelige eventyr …
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.”
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Weekend (1967)
Week End
Jean-Luc Godard actor: Mireille Darc / Jean Yanne …
other title: Week-end, un uomo e una donna dal sabato alla domenica / Udflugt i det røde …
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.
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Masculin Féminin (1966)
Masculin féminin
Jean-Luc Godard actor: Jean-Pierre Léaud / Chantal Goya …
other title: Il maschio e la femmina / Masculin féminin …
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.
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Contempt (1963)
Le Mépris
★ 7.4 8 ratings
Jean-Luc Godard actor: Brigitte Bardot / Michel Piccoli …
other title: Il disprezzo / O Desprezo …
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.
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Goodbye to Language (2014)
Adieu au langage
★ 6.3 6 ratings
Jean-Luc Godard actor: Jessica Erickson / Héloïse Godet …
other title: Adieu au langage - Addio al linguaggio / Adeus à Linguagem …
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
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The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (1964)
Les Plus Belles Escroqueries du monde
Romek / Ugo Gregoretti … actor: Mie Hama / 三津田健 …
other title: Le più belle truffe del mondo / Die Frauen sind an allem schuld …
Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Netherlands ("A River of Diamonds" by Roman Polanski); Naples, Italy ("The Road Map" by Ugo Gregoretti); Paris, France ("The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower" by Claude Chabrol); and Marrakesh, Morocco ("The Confidence Man" by Jean-Luc Godard). Godard's segment was not included in the original French cinema release, and Polanski's segment was not included on the 2016 home disc release.