Jean-Luc Godard — Playwright (22)
Goodbye to Language (2014) [Movie] IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban TMDB
Adieu au langage
director: 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
Contempt (1963) [Movie] WikiData NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB
Le Mépris
8.2 (6 ratings) director: 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.
Masculin Féminin (1966) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban
Masculin féminin
director: 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.
Weekend (1967) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB NeoDB WikiData
Week End
director: 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.
Alphaville (1965) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb
Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution
director: Jean-Luc Godard actor: Eddie Constantine / Anna Karina
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.”
Six in Paris (1965) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Paris vu par…
director: 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.
Notre Musique (2004) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Notre musique
director: Jean-Luc Godard actor: Sarah Adler / Nade Dieu
other title: A Nossa Música / Notre musique
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.
Lettre à Jane (1974) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
director: Jean-Luc Godard / Jean-Pierre Gorin actor: Jane Fonda / Jean-Luc Godard
other title: Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
The film's subject is a photograph of Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War. It asks what the position of the intellectual should be in the class struggle and points out the irony of Jane Fonda's participation in the photo shoot, which was staged.
Letter in Motion to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux (2014) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData
Khan Khanne, sélection naturelle
director: Jean-Luc Godard actor: Jean-Luc Godard
other title: Khan Khanne, sélection naturelle
Rather than writing a simple letter to explain his absence from the press conference for his latest Cannes entry, "Goodbye to Language," at the Cannes Film Festival, instead, legendary filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard created a video "Letter in motion to (Cannes president) Gilles Jacob and (artistic director) Thierry Fremaux." The video intercuts from Godard speaking cryptically about his "path" to key scenes from Godard classics such as "Alphaville" and "King Lear" with Burgess Meredith and Molly Ringwald, and quotes poet Jacques Prevert and philosopher Hannah Arendt.
Hail Mary (1985) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban
Je vous salue, Marie
director: Jean-Luc Godard actor: Myriem Roussel / Thierry Rode
other title: Eu vos Saúdo, Maria / Maria und Joseph
A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.
Band of Outsiders (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData
Bande à part
director: Jean-Luc Godard actor: Anna Karina / Claude Brasseur
other title: Bando à Parte / Die Außenseiterbande
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.
Love and Anger (1969) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban TMDB
Amore e rabbia
director: Marco Bellocchio / Bernardo Bertolucci actor: Tom Baker / Julian Beck
other title: Amore e rabbia / Amor e Raiva
Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.
Film Socialisme (2010) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Film Socialisme
director: Jean-Luc Godard actor: Catherine Tanvier / Christian Sinniger
other title: Filme Socialismo
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.
Tout Va Bien (1972) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData Douban
Tout va bien
director: Jean-Luc Godard / Jean-Pierre Gorin actor: Yves Montand / Jane Fonda
other title: Crepa padrone, tutto va bene / Tudo Vai Bem
A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his reporter wife.
The Married Woman (1964) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData
Une femme mariée: Suite de fragments d'un film tourné en 1964
director: Jean-Luc Godard actor: Macha Méril / Bernard Noël
other title: Una donna sposata / En gift kvinde
A superficial woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.