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Jean-Luc Godard

Highest Rated: 100% Number Two (1975)

Lowest Rated: 33% Soigne ta Droite (1987)

Birthday: Dec 3, 1930

Birthplace: Paris, France

Few filmmakers had so profound an effect on the development of cinema as Jean-Luc Godard, certainly one of the most important and influential directors worldwide to have emerged since the end of World War II. From his early days as a critic and thinker in the pages of Cahiers du cinema, through the great age of the French New Wave of the 1960s, Godard redefined the way we look at film. An essayist and poet of the cinema, he made the language of film a real part of his narratives. Godard emerged on the international filmmaking scene with his most famous and perhaps best film, "Breathless" (1960), a celebration of the American film noir that also served as the stylistic template for the rest of the 1960s, widely considered to be his most fertile creative period. During that turbulent decade, Godard made no less than two films a year and sometime more, creating such experimental and increasingly politically-minded films as "Vivre sa vie" (My Life to Live") (1962), "Contempt" (1963), Bande à Part" ("Band of Outsiders") (1964) and "Alphaville" (1965), many of which starred his first wife, Anna Karina. After making the critically panned "Weekend" (1967), a disgruntled Godard left the filmmaking business altogether in order to make political films. Once that interest waned in 1972, he entered into a transitional period of video and television projects that eventually segued into a second period of narrative filmmaking that was more experimental and inaccessible than his previous work, though some critics declared this time as being more creatively fruitful. Chief among the works was the controversial "Hail Mary" (1985), a contemporary retelling of the biblical Joseph and Mary story that was tagged by the Vatican as being blasphemous. Whether he was continuing his long love affair with film noir, as he did with "Detective" (1985), or trying new narrative techniques with the ambiguous "King Lear" (1987), Godard was not only a tireless experimenter with form and context, but also synonymous with the world of cinema itself.

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Highest rated movies

100% 79% Number Two
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96% 86% Masculine-Feminine
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95% 90% Breathless
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95% 73% The Chinese Girl
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94% 91% Band of Outsiders
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94% 72% Two or Three Things I Know About Her
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93% 78% Weekend
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92% 81% Alphaville
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92% 54% Detective
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92% 85% Contempt Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Godard by Godard Self - 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars Director,
Screenwriter
- 2023
50% 60% Godard Cinema Self $22.8K 2022
90% 53% The Image Book Narrator,
Director,
Writer,
Film Editor
$92.8K 2018
89% 47% Goodbye to Language Director,
Screenwriter
- 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Bridges of Sarajevo Director - 2014
No Score Yet 67% 3x3D Director,
Screenwriter
- 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Marcel Ophuls et Jean-Luc Godard, La rencontre de St-Gervais Self - 2011
58% 40% Socialism Director,
Screenwriter
$31.2K 2010
No Score Yet No Score Yet Accomplice Self - 2010
66% 51% Two in the Wave Self $28.8K 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet Reportage Amateur Maquette Expo Director - 2006
69% 72% Our Music Director,
Film Editing
$139.9K 2004
71% 71% Alas for Me (Helas pour moi) Director - 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ten Minutes Older: The Cello Director - 2002
53% 63% In Praise of Love Director,
Writer
$251.7K 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet After the Reconciliation Robert (Character) - 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Old Place Narrator,
Director,
Screenwriter,
Film Editing
- 2000
No Score Yet 50% Origins of the 21st Century Director,
Screenwriter,
Film Editing
- 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Histoire(s) du Cinéma: Control of the Universe Director,
Screenwriter,
Film Editing
- 1998
No Score Yet 65% 3A: La Monnaie De L'Absolu; 4A: Le controle De L'Univers Director - 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet We're All Still Here L'homme comédien (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Inside/Out Producer - 1997
45% 56% For Ever Mozart Director,
Writer,
Film Editing
- 1996
No Score Yet 100% 2 x 50 Years of French Cinema Director,
Film Editing
- 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet JLG: Self Portrait in December Unknown (Character),
Director,
Writer,
Producer,
Film Editing
- 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Children Play Russian The Idiot: Prince Mishkin (Character),
Director,
Screenwriter,
Film Editing
- 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Against Oblivion Director - 1992
No Score Yet 42% Oh, Woe Is Me Director,
Screenwriter,
Film Editing
- 1992
No Score Yet 79% Germany Year 90 Nine Zero Director,
Writer
- 1991
67% 69% Nouvelle Vague Director,
Screenwriter
- 1990
33% 19% Soigne ta Droite L'idiot et le prince (Character),
Director,
Writer
- 1987
57% 47% Aria Director - 1987
55% 57% King Lear Professor Pluggy (uncredited) (Character),
Director,
Film Editing
$8.8K 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company Director,
Screenwriter
- 1986
73% 63% Hail Mary Director,
Writer
- 1985
92% 54% Detective Director - 1985
88% 61% First Name: Carmen Oncle Jeannot (Character),
Director,
Writer
- 1983
63% 49% Breathless Screenwriter - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Petites notes à propos du film 'Je vous salue, Marie' Director - 1983
No Score Yet 73% Letter to Freddy Buache Director,
Screenwriter
- 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Scénario du film 'Passion' Narrator,
Director
- 1982
63% 62% Passion Director - 1982
90% 68% Every Man for Himself Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer,
Film Editing
$56.0K 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet Scénario de Sauve qui peut (la vie) Director - 1979
No Score Yet 38% Comment ça va? Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
- 1978
No Score Yet 78% Ici et ailleurs Narrator,
Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
- 1976
100% 79% Number Two Writer,
Screenwriter
- 1975
50% 62% All's Well Director - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still Narrator,
Director
- 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Struggle in Italy Director,
Screenwriter,
Film Editing
- 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Vladimir and Rosa Vladimir Lenin (Character),
Director,
Screenwriter,
Cinematographer,
Film Editing
- 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet British Sounds Unknown (Character),
Director,
Writer
- 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wind From the East Director,
Screenwriter
- 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Pravda Director - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Joy of Learning Narrator,
Director,
Screenwriter
$1.1K 1969
No Score Yet 54% Love and Anger Director - 1969
No Score Yet 46% Le Gai Savoir (Joy of Learning) (Joyful Wisdom) Unknown (Character),
Director
- 1969
No Score Yet 38% A Film Like Any Other Director,
Writer
- 1968
44% 57% Sympathy for the Devil Director,
Writer
- 1968
No Score Yet 67% The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers Director - 1967
94% 72% Two or Three Things I Know About Her Director,
Writer
$101.9K 1967
No Score Yet 62% The Oldest Profession Director - 1967
64% 91% Far From Vietnam Director - 1967
93% 78% Weekend Director - 1967
95% 73% The Chinese Girl Director,
Screenwriter
$5.6K 1967
85% 60% Made in U.S.A. Director,
Writer
- 1966
96% 86% Masculine-Feminine Director,
Writer,
Producer
$199.9K 1966
76% 70% Six in Paris Director $13.9K 1965
88% 87% Pierrot le Fou Director,
Screenwriter
$22.7K 1965
86% 84% A Married Woman Director,
Screenwriter
- 1965
92% 81% Alphaville Director,
Screenwriter
$46.6K 1965
94% 91% Band of Outsiders Le narrateur (Character),
Director,
Writer
$37.7K 1964
92% 85% Contempt Director,
Writer
$247.8K 1963
80% 73% The Little Soldier Director,
Screenwriter
$24.3K 1963
80% 67% Les carabiniers Director,
Screenwriter,
Screenwriter
- 1963
91% 91% My Life to Live Director,
Writer,
Film Editing
- 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet The New World Director - 1962
No Score Yet 79% Rogopag Director - 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Seven Cardinal Sins Director,
Writer
- 1962
92% 89% Cleo From 5 to 7 L'homme aux lunettes noires/Actor in silent film (uncredited) (Character) - 1961
No Score Yet 65% A Story of Water Narrator,
Director,
Screenwriter
- 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sloth Director - 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet Les fiancés du pont Mac Donald Unknown (Character) - 1961
No Score Yet 69% A Woman Is a Woman Director,
Screenwriter
$99.7K 1960
No Score Yet 53% Charlotte and Her Boyfriend Unknown (Voice),
Director,
Screenwriter
- 1960
No Score Yet 38% Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak Walter (Character) - 1960
95% 90% Breathless An Informer (Character),
Director,
Writer
$47.1K 1959
No Score Yet 79% All the Boys Are Called Patrick Director - 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet Operation Concrete Narrator,
Director,
Screenwriter,
Film Editing
- 1958
No Score Yet 56% Fool's Mate Un invité à la fête (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Kreutzer Sonata Ami journaliste (Character),
Producer
- 1956
No Score Yet 0% A Flirtatious Woman Director,
Screenwriter,
Cinematographer,
Film Editing
- 1955