La Chinoise(La chinoise)

Contempt
(Le Mépris)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• 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.

The Man Who Loved Women
(L'Homme qui aimait les femmes)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1977
• Director François Truffaut
• Cast Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey, Nelly Borgeaud, Geneviève Fontanel, Leslie Caron, Valérie Bonnier
• Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Available on Hoopla

Mississippi Mermaid
(La sirène du Mississipi)

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Italy • 1969
• Director François Truffaut
• Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Bouquet, Nelly Borgeaud, Martine Ferrière, Marcel Berbert
• Genre Crime, Drama, Romance
• Available on Amazon Video, Amazon Prime Video

A tobacco farmer arranges for a mail-order bride and gets more than he bargained for.

Small Change
(L'Argent de poche)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1976
• Director François Truffaut
• Cast Jean-François Stévenin, Virginie Thévenet, Chantal Mercier, Marcel Berbert, Christine Pellé, Eva Truffaut
• Genre Comedy, Drama
• Available on Hoopla, Amazon Prime Video, Paramount+ Amazon Channel, EPIX Amazon Channel, Epix Roku Premium Channel, Paramount Plus

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?

The Bride Wore Black
(La mariée était en noir)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Italy • 1968
• Director François Truffaut
• Cast Jeanne Moreau, Michel Bouquet, Jean-Claude Brialy, Charles Denner, Claude Rich, Michael Lonsdale
• Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Available on Hoopla, Kanopy

She was a bride when the violence happened... Now she's a widow and it's going to happen again

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.

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)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• 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.

La Bête Humaine
(La Bête humaine)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France • 1938
• Director Jean Renoir
• Cast Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux, Blanchette Brunoy, Gérard Landry, Jenny Hélia
• Genre Drama, Crime
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel

A tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.

The Caiman
(Il caimano)

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Italy • 2006
• Director Nanni Moretti
• Cast Silvio Orlando, Margherita Buy, Jasmine Trinca, Michele Placido, Antonello Grimaldi, Elio De Capitani
• Genre Drama, Comedy
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Eyes Without a Face
(Les Yeux sans visage)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Italy • 1960
• Director Georges Franju
• Cast Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, Alexandre Rignault, Béatrice Altariba, Charles Blavette
• Genre Drama, Horror, Thriller
• Available on No streaming locations found.

A plastic surgeon goes to extreme lengths to give his disfigured daughter a new face.

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.

Clean

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Canada, United Kingdom • 2004
• Director Olivier Assayas
• Cast Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte, Béatrice Dalle, Jeanne Balibar, Don McKellar, Martha Henry
• Genre Drama
• Available on No streaming locations found.

After losing her boyfriend to an overdose, a woman struggles with addiction while trying to win custody of her son.

Hold-up

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Canada • 1985
• Director Alexandre Arcady
• Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo, Guy Marchand, Kim Cattrall, Jacques Villeret, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean-Claude de Goros
• Genre Comedy, Crime
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
(子連れ狼 子を貸し腕貸しつかまつる)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1972
• Director Kenji Misumi
• Cast Tomisaburō Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Fumio Watanabe, Tomoko Mayama, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Asao Uchida
• Genre Drama, Action
• Available on Apple iTunes, Criterion Channel, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Classix, HBO Max, YouTube

Godard Mon Amour
(Le Redoutable)

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• France, Myanmar • 2017
• Director Michel Hazanavicius
• Cast Louis Garrel, Stacy Martin, Bérénice Bejo, Micha Lescot, Grégory Gadebois, Félix Kysyl
• Genre Drama, Romance, Comedy
• Available on Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, Kino Now, Kanopy, Tubi TV, YouTube

A pivotal episode in the life of Jean-Luc Godard, as seen through the eyes of his wife, actress and writer Anne Wiazemsky.