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

The 400 Blows
(Les Quatre Cents Coups)

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• 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

Contempt
(Le Mépris)

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• France, Italy • 1963
• Director Jean-Luc Godard
• Cast Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Giorgia Moll, Fritz Lang, Raoul Coutard
• Genre Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube

A vivid display of conflict between passion and art.

Breathless
(À bout de souffle)

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• 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...

Persona

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• Sweden • 1966
• Director Ingmar Bergman
• Cast Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand, Jörgen Lindström
• Genre Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, Amazon Video, HBO Max

Two separate people. Will they combine into one?

Jules and Jim
(Jules et Jim)

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• 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)

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• 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.

Pierrot le Fou
(Pierrot le fou)

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• 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)

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• 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

Hiroshima Mon Amour
(Hiroshima mon amour)

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• France, Japan • 1959
• Director Alain Resnais
• Cast Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson
• Genre Drama, History, Romance
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, YouTube

The story of a young French actress and her affair with a Japanese man while on assignment in Hiroshima.

Alphaville
(Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution)

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• 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)

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• 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.

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
(2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle)

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• France • 1967
• Director Jean-Luc Godard
• Cast Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey, Joseph Gehrard, Roger Montsoret, Raoul Lévy, Jean Narboni
• Genre Comedy, Drama
• Available on DIRECTV, TCM, Criterion Channel, HBO Max

A house wife turns to prostitution in difficult times.

Weekend
(Week End)

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• 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.

L'Eclisse
(L'eclisse)

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• Italy, France • 1962
• Director Michelangelo Antonioni
• Cast Alain Delon, Monica Vitti, Francisco Rabal, Lilla Brignone, Rossana Rory, Louis Seigner
• Genre Romance, Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, Amazon Video

… the ache and ecstasy of love…

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

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• 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)

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• 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.

Hail Mary
(Je vous salue, Marie)

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• France, Switzerland, United Kingdom • 1985
• Director Jean-Luc Godard
• Cast Myriem Roussel, Thierry Rode, Philippe Lacoste, Manon Andersen, Malachi Jara Kohan, Juliette Binoche
• Genre Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Kino Now, Kanopy, YouTube

The Married Woman
(Une Femme Mariée)

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• France • 1964
• Director Jean-Luc Godard
• Cast Macha Méril, Bernard Noël, Philippe Leroy, Christophe Bourseiller, Roger Leenhardt, Margareth Clémenti
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Apple iTunes, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Kino Now, Kanopy, YouTube

Can one love more than one soul?

La Notte
(La notte)

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• Italy, France • 1961
• Director Michelangelo Antonioni
• Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki, Rosy Mazzacurati, Maria Pia Luzi
• Genre Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, Amazon Video, Kanopy, HBO Max

A married couple attend a bourgeois party and wade through the stifling strain that long-term marriage has imposed upon them.

Le Petit Soldat
(Le petit soldat)

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• 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.

Every Man for Himself
(Sauve qui peut (la vie))

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• France, Switzerland, West Germany • 1980
• Director Jean-Luc Godard
• Cast Jacques Dutronc, Isabelle Huppert, Nathalie Baye, Cécile Tanner, Anna Baldaccini
• Genre Drama
• Available on Apple iTunes, DIRECTV, TCM, Criterion Channel, Amazon Video

The lives of a man and a woman and a prostitute intersect.