Contempt(Le Mépris)

The 400 Blows
(Les Quatre Cents Coups)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1959
• Director François Truffaut
• Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Georges Flamant, Patrick Auffay, Robert Beauvais
• Genre Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Kanopy, HBO Max, YouTube

The story of a misunderstood adolescent boy growing up in Paris

Breathless
(À bout de souffle)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1960
• Director Jean-Luc Godard
• Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville, Henri-Jacques Huet, Van Doude
• Genre Crime, Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Kanopy, HBO Max, YouTube

When you discover the dirty truth about the person you love...

Vivre Sa Vie
(Vivre sa vie: film en douze tableaux)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1962
• Director Jean-Luc Godard
• Cast Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André S. Labarthe, Guylaine Schlumberger, Gérard Hoffman, Monique Messine
• Genre Drama
• Available on Criterion Channel, Kanopy, HBO Max

A young Parisian woman’s existential crisis — and eventual turn to sex work.

Jules and Jim
(Jules et Jim)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1962
• Director François Truffaut
• Cast Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Marie Dubois, Sabine Haudepin, Vanna Urbino
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, Amazon Video, Kanopy, HBO Max

Close friends Jules and Jim both fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.

La Chinoise
(La chinoise)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1967
• Director Jean-Luc Godard
• Cast Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, Michel Semeniako, Lex De Bruijn, Omar Diop
• Genre Comedy, Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Kino Now, Kanopy, YouTube

In this dark political comedy, a group of French university students are studying Mao and decide to start a revolution.

Journey to Italy
(Viaggio in Italia)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Italy, France • 1954
• Director Roberto Rossellini
• Cast Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Jackie Frost, Maria Mauban, Anna Proclemer, Leslie Daniels
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, FilmBox+, Amazon Video, Kanopy, HBO Max, Freevee Amazon Channel

A bored English couple must face the cracks in their marriage on a trip to Italy.

Pierrot le Fou
(Pierrot le fou)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Italy • 1965
• Director Jean-Luc Godard
• Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani, Dirk Sanders, Jimmy Karoubi, Roger Dutoit
• Genre Drama, Thriller
• Available on Apple iTunes, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, YouTube

How is life going to look like if one is always on the run?

Masculin Féminin
(Masculin féminin)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Sweden • 1966
• Director Jean-Luc Godard
• Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Marlène Jobert, Michel Debord, Catherine-Isabelle Duport, Evabritt Strandberg
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Criterion Channel, HBO Max

Jean-Luc Godard's swinging look at youth and love in Paris

Alphaville
(Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Italy • 1965
• Director Jean-Luc Godard
• Cast Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Howard Vernon, Christa Lang, Valérie Boisgel
• Genre Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery
• Available on Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Kino Now, Kanopy, YouTube

A spy journeys to a tyrannical space city to complete three secret missions.

Band of Outsiders
(Bande à part)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1964
• Director Jean-Luc Godard
• Cast Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey, Danièle Girard, Louisa Colpeyn, Chantal Darget
• Genre Crime, Drama, Romance
• Available on No streaming locations found.

A misfit trio in love with anti-heroes plan their own heist in one of Godard's most underrated films.

Weekend
(Week End)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Italy • 1967
• Director Jean-Luc Godard
• Cast Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Valérie Lagrange, Juliet Berto
• Genre Drama, Comedy, Adventure
• Available on Criterion Channel, HBO Max

A bourgeois couple's weekend getaway to the French countryside goes bizarrely awry.

Made in U.S.A

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1967
• Director Jean-Luc Godard
• Cast Anna Karina, László Szabó, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marianne Faithfull, Yves Afonso, Ernest Menzer
• Genre Comedy, Crime, Mystery
• Available on No streaming locations found.

A Woman Is a Woman
(Une femme est une femme)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Italy • 1961
• Director Jean-Luc Godard
• Cast Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie Dubois, Jeanne Moreau, Dominique Zardi
• Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Available on Apple iTunes, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, YouTube

Sometimes women can't escape what nature makes them desire.

Godard's Passion
(Passion)

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Switzerland • 1982
• Director Jean-Luc Godard
• Cast Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli, László Szabó, Jerzy Radziwiłowicz, Myriem Roussel
• Genre Comedy, Drama
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Godard mixes up politics, love and the workers plight, with the struggles of filmmaking, in his cheeky brand of art.

Lourdes

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Austria, France, Germany • 2009
• Director Jessica Hausner
• Cast Sylvie Testud, Léa Seydoux, Elina Löwensohn, Bruno Todeschini, Gilette Barbier, Gerhard Liebmann
• Genre Drama
• Available on Kanopy, Tubi TV

Wheelchair-bound Christine joins a group for a pilgrimage to Lourdes, with miraculous results.

Blood Relatives
(Les liens de sang)

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• Canada, France • 1978
• Director Claude Chabrol
• Cast Donald Sutherland, Aude Landry, Lisa Langlois, Laurent Malet, Walter Massey, Micheline Lanctôt
• Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Le Petit Soldat
(Le petit soldat)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1963
• Director Jean-Luc Godard
• Cast Michel Subor, Anna Karina, Henri-Jacques Huet, Paul Beauvais, László Szabó, Georges de Beauregard
• Genre Drama, War
• Available on Criterion Channel

Split between love and his country, a French deserter during the Algerian war is forced to prove his loyalty.

In All Innocence
(En plein cœur)

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1998
• Director Pierre Jolivet
• Cast Gérard Lanvin, Carole Bouquet, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet
• Genre Drama
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Moon Hotel Kabul

• ✭
• Romania, France • 2018
• Director Anca Damian
• Cast Florin Piersic Jr., Ofelia Popii, Rodica Negrea, Alexandru Nagy, Iulian Postelnicu
• Genre Drama
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Wet Sand

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Georgia, Switzerland • 2021
• Director Elene Naveriani
• Cast Bebe Sesitashvili, Gia Agumava, Megi Kobaladze, Giorgi Tsereteli, Eka Chavleishvili
• Genre Drama
• Available on Mubi, Mubi Amazon Channel