Alphaville, A Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution 1965   N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Foreign / Sci-Fi / Drama / Romance / Thriller
aka: Alphaville
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Howard Vernon, Laszlo Szabo, Jean-Louis Comolli, Michel Delahaye, Jean-Andre Fieschi, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Christa Lang
The New Wave French film director Jean-Luc Godard pays homage to comic books in this tale of secret agent Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) visiting a futuristic society on a distant planet where science and technology have taken over, and love is forbidden.
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Band of Outsiders 1964  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Bande a Part
The Outsiders
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey, Louisa Colpeyn, Daniele Girard, Ernest Menzer, Chantal Darget, Georges Staquet, Jean-Claude Remoleux, Michel Delahaye, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Makovski, Michele Seghers, Monsieur Jojot
Based on Dolores Hitchens' novel, "Fool's Gold," this story involves a robbery attempt by a band of outsiders–Arthur (Claude Brasseur), Frantz (Sami Frey), and Odile (Anna Karina). Odile resists joining them, but Arthur and Franz pressure her to join in the heist. They are ready to pull off the robbery, but problems ensue with dire consequences.
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 Breathless 1960  N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Daniel Boulanger, Henri-Jacques Huet, Jean-Pierre Melville, Liliane Robin, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Louis Richard, Philippe de Broca, Van Doude
In director Jean-Luc Godard's first feature film, the story involves Michel Poiccard's (Jean-Paul Belmondo) run from the police after he kills a policeman and steals a car. His girlfriend is an American student Patricia (Jean Seberg) who joins him on the race against time as Michel tries to collect on a debt that will enable them to escape to Italy. This exciting film introduced the French New Wave to theaters.
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Detective 1985  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Nathalie Baye, Claude Brasseur, Johnny Hallyday, Stephane Ferrara, Laurent Terzieff, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Alain Cuny, Eugene Berthier, Cyril Autin, Julie Delpy
New Wave filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard sets this story in the elegant Hotel Concorde at St. Lazare, France, where a variety of characters seek love, money owed them, or even the solution to a murder mystery. The plot is confusing, but the feel is pure Godard.
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For Ever Mozart 1996 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Madeleine Assas, Frederic Pierrot, Ghalia Lacroix, Berangere Allaux, Vicky Messica, Harry Cleven, Michel Francini, Sabine Bail, Max Andre, Sylvie Herbert
Told in four separate segments, this story is set during Bosnia's civil war when the director of a film crew tries to cast and film a movie about what is going on in the area.
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In Praise of Love 2001  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Bruno Putzulu, Cecile Camp, Jean Davy, Francoise Verny, Audrey Klebaner, Jeremie Lippmann, Claude Baignieres, Remo Forlani, Mark Hunter, Jean Lacouture
French director Jean-Luc Godard examines different stages in the lives of three couples and dissects their love into four categories: meeting, passion, separation, reconciliation.
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Keep Your Right Up! 1987 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Jean-Luc Godard, Jane Birkin, Dominique Lavanant, Jacques Villeret, Isabelle Sadoyan, Francois Perier, Michel Galabru, Pauline Lafont, Jean-Pierre Delamour, Carina Barone
This lesser-known film by Jean-Luc Godard consists of three stories, the main one concerning a director (Godard) who is to deliver a film in 24 hours. The other minor plots involve a pop band rehearsing and an overweight man in a series of comedy scenes.
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 Le Mepris 1963 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Contempt
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Giorgia Moll, Jean-Luc Godard, Fritz Lang, Linda Veras, Raoul Coutard
Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli) is busy rewriting the screenplay "The Odyssey" for producer Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance). Meanwhile, Paul's wife, Camille (Brigitte Bardot), is not happy in their marriage. As she expresses her unhappiness, Paul is unable to confront the real world, just does not understand the problems, and their marriage falls apart. This film was restored and re-released in 1997.
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Les Carabiniers 1963 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Soldiers
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Marino Mase, Albert Juross, Catherine Ribeiro, Genevieve Galea, Gerard Poirot, Jean Brassat, Alvaro Gheri, Barbet Schroeder, Catherine Durante, Jean Gruault
Director Jean-Luc Godard goes to great lengths to portray the inhumanity and ugliness of war as we follow two soldiers (Marino Mase and Albert Juross) signing up and going to war for the king. Their letters home talk of their exploits, and the pictures they bring home show their conquests–including the Grand Canyon, Empire State Building, Eiffel Tower, and the Pyramids. Unusual, and shot as if it were an old newsreel.
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Masculine-Feminine 1966 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Chantal Goya, Marlene Jobert, Michel Debord, Catherine Duport, Eva-Britt Strandberg, Birger Malmsten, Francoise Hardy, Chantal Darget, Brigitte Bardot
The theme of this film is "Children of the Sixties"–described by Godard as, "the children of Marx and Coca Cola." The story centers on Paul (Jean-Pierre Leaud) whose struggles to understand social and political realities result in his isolation not only from his girlfriend Madeleine (Chantal Goya) but other friends and cohorts as well.
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Our Music 2004 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Sarah Adler, Nade Dieu, Rony Kramer, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, George Aguilar, Leticia Gutierrez, Ferlyn Brass, Simon Eine, Elma Dzanic, Jean-Luc Godard
Divided into three parts–"Kingdom 1: Hell," "Kingdom 2: Purgatory," and "Kingdom 3: Heaven," Jean-Luc Godard considers society's wars and conflicts through a symposium of journalists, artists, and philosophers.
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Paris Belongs to Us 1962 N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Foreign / Mystery / Thriller
aka: Paris Is Ours
Director: Jacques Rivette
Cast: Betty Schneider, Giani Esposito, Francoise Prevost, Daniel Crohem, Francois Maistre, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Marie Robain, Brigitte Juslin, Paul Bisciglia, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Demy, Jean Martin, Henri Poirier
As a literature student in Paris during the 1950s, Anne Goupil (Betty Schneider) takes part in Shakespeare's play "Pericles" and tries to help theater director Gerard Lenz (Giani Esposito) after he confides to Anne that their Spanish activist friend Juan was murdered by an organization plotting a totalitarian takeover and that he is now on their death list.
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Passion 1982 R, 88 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Laszlo Szabo, Jean-Francois Stevenin, Patrick Bonnel, Sophie Lucachevski, Barbara Tissier, Magali Campos, Myriem Roussel, Serge Desarnanos, Agnes Banfalvy
Polish director Jerzy (Jerzy Radziwilowicz) is working on a film that is a study in light and image and is using paintings by Goya, Velasquez, and other masters for the scenery. There are problems: the actors do not understand the story, and filming is behind schedule because Jerzy cannot get the lighting right. Now the backers are complaining that the film lacks a story. Meanwhile, Jerzy is ending his affair with Hanna (Hanna Schygulla) whose husband just happens to own the hotel where Jerzy's cast and crew are staying. And then there is his other affair with a factory worker Isabelle (Isabelle Huppert) who is trying to unionize her fellow workers. And Jerzy still wonders why there must be a story.
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Pierrot le fou 1965 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Dirk Sanders, Graziella Galvani, Raymond Devos, Roger Dutoit, Samuel Fuller, Hans Meyer, Pascal Aubier, Laszlo Szabo, Henri Attal, Pierre Hanin, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Dominique Zardi
Ferdinand Griffon (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and Marianne (Anna Karina), who insists on calling Ferdinand "Pierrot," try to escape past lives by heading for the Riviera in search of Marianne's rum-running brother Fred (Dirk Sanders). But, plans go awry because Marianne's gangster past of smuggling weapons ensures that an idyllic life is not to be when Marianne is pursued by mobsters.
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Tout Va Bien 1972 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Just Great
Director: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin
Cast: Yves Montand, Jane Fonda, Vittorio Caprioli, Jean Pignol, Pierre Oudrey, Elizabeth Chauvin, Eric Chartier, Yves Gabrielli, Castel Casti, Louis Bugette, Anne Wiazemsky
A journalist (Jane Fonda) and her former filmmaker husband (Yves Montand) get involved in a factory strike in this film about revolutions and relationships amidst global imperialism.
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Weekend 1967 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Valerie Lagrange, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Yves Beneyton, Paul Gegauff, Daniel Pommereulle, Yves Afonso, Blandine Jeanson
A Parisian couple head off on a weekend trip that turns into a nightmare traffic jam during which society begins its collapse. Jean-Luc Godard's attack on bourgeois values provides classic viewing.
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A Woman Is a Woman 1961 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Nicole Paquin, Marie Dubois, Marion Sarraut, Jeanne Moreau, Catherine Demongeot, Ernest Menzer, Karyn Balm
Striptease artist Angela (Anna Karina) wants to have a baby, but boyfriend Emile (Jean-Claude Brialy) says, "No!" Not ready to give up, Angela turns her attentions on Emile's friend, Alfred (Jean-Paul Belmondo). Will her ploy work to make Emile jealous and grant her wish?
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| 1. Alphaville, A Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution (1965)
aka: Alphaville
2. Band of Outsiders (1964)
aka: Bande a Part
aka: The Outsiders
3. Breathless (1960)
4. Detective (1985)
5. For Ever Mozart (1996)
6. In Praise of Love (2001)
7. Keep Your Right Up! (1987)
8. Le Mepris (1963)
aka: Contempt
9. Le Petit Soldat (1963)
aka: The Little Soldier
10. Les Carabiniers (1963)
aka: The Soldiers
11. Masculine-Feminine (1966)
12. Our Music (2004)
13. Paris Belongs to Us (1962)
aka: Paris Is Ours
14. Passion (1982)
15. Pierrot le fou (1965)
16. Tout Va Bien (1972)
aka: Just Great
17. Weekend (1967)
18. A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
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