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

Three Colors: Blue
(Trois couleurs : Bleu)

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• France, Poland, Switzerland • 1993
• Director Krzysztof Kieślowski
• Cast Juliette Binoche, Benoît Régent, Florence Pernel, Charlotte Véry, Hélène Vincent, Philippe Volter
• Genre Drama
• Available on HBO Max, Apple iTunes, Amazon Video

Julie distances herself from everywhere and everyone after her husband and daughter are killed in a car accident.

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 Criterion Channel, HBO Max, Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy

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 Mubi, Mubi Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, Apple iTunes, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, 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 Criterion Channel, HBO Max, Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy

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

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 Criterion Channel, HBO Max, Apple iTunes, Amazon Video, Kanopy

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, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now, Kanopy

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 Mubi, Mubi Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, Apple iTunes, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, 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 Criterion Channel, Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, 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 Mubi, Mubi Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now, Kanopy

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 Criterion Channel

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)

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1967
• Director Jean-Luc Godard
• Cast Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey, Joseph Gehrard, Roger Montsoret, Raoul Lévy, Jean Narboni
• Genre Comedy, Drama
• Available on 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 Criterion Channel, Apple iTunes, 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 Mubi, Mubi Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, 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, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Kino Now, Kanopy

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, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now, Kanopy

Can one love more than one soul?

Murmur of the Heart
(Le souffle au cœur)

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• France, Italy, West Germany • 1971
• Director Louis Malle
• Cast Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux, Daniel Gélin, Michael Lonsdale, Ave Ninchi, Gila von Weitershausen
• Genre Comedy, Drama
• Available on Criterion Channel

A souffle of a movie!

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.