

Jean-Luc Godard
Directing
Born: December 3, 1930 · Paris, France
Died: September 13, 2022 (aged 91)
Highest Rated
Biography
Jean-Luc Godard (December 3, 1930 – September 13, 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the 1960s French New Wave film movement and was arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era.
Known for

The 400 Blows
1959

Breathless
1960

Contempt
1963

Pierrot le Fou
1965

Cléo from 5 to 7
1962

Vivre Sa Vie
1962

Alphaville
1965

Band of Outsiders
1964

Masculin Féminin
1966

Faces Places
2017

A Woman Is a Woman
1961

Weekend
1967
Photos (10)
Movies (59)

Breathless
The Snitch

The 400 Blows
(voix) (non crédité)

Vivre Sa Vie
The Lover Reading Poe (voice) (uncredited)

The Image Book
Narrator (voice)

Cléo from 5 to 7
The Man with Black Glasses / Actor in Silent Film

Contempt
Lang's Assistant Director

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Narrator (voice)

The Married Woman
The Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Paris Belongs to Us
Hans Lucas

King Lear
Professor Pluggy

Keep Your Right Up
Idiot / Prince

First Name: Carmen
Uncle Jeannot (uncredited)

Band of Outsiders
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Here and Elsewhere
Narrator (voice)

Scheherazade
Handwalker

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Cinématon
N°106

Le Petit Soldat
Man at Railway Station (uncredited)

Sign of the Lion
Le Mélomane (uncredited)

Joy of Learning
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Fool’s Mate
Party guest (uncredited)

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Man in Fez / Narrator (segment "Le Grand escroc") (uncredited)

Goodbye to Language
Narrator (voice)

In the Darkness of Time
(voice) (uncredited)

Fiancés on the Bridge
Man with the Black Glasses

Made in U.S.A
Richard Politzer (voice) (uncredited)

Identidade
Jean-Luc Godard (Imagens de Arquivo)

The Kreutzer Sonata
Ami Journaliste

Vladimir and Rosa
Vladimir Lenin (uncredited)

The Defector
Orlovsky's Friend (uncredited)

For Ever Mozart
Man Pretending to Play Soccer (uncredited)

Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak
Walter

Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
Jules (voice) (uncredited)

Bardot, The Misunderstanding
2013

Ecce Homo
Narrator (voice)

We're All Still Here
The Actor

Sun in Your Eyes
1962

The Glass Castle
Un voyageur qui sort de la Gare de l'Est (uncredited)

Morceaux de Cannes
2021

After the Reconciliation
Robert

Hail, Sarajevo
Narrator (voice)

The Bardot mystery
2012

The Children Play Russian
Prince Mishkin, the Idiot

A Flirtatious Woman
The Man Who Looks at the Balcony (uncredited)

Letter in Motion to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux
Narrator (voice)

A Story of Water
The Young Man (voice)

France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children
Robert Linard

Operation Concrete
Narrator (voice)

How's It Going?
Union Member (voice)

What's Wrong with the World
Narrator (voice)

The Death of Jean-Luc Godard
2025

The Bridge of Sighs
Narrator (voice)

The Darty Report
Nathanael, the 2000 Year-Old Robot

Cinématon n°106 : Jean-Luc Godard
1981

Deuses de Mentira
(Archive Sound)

G(ode)ard
JLG

To Alter the Image
The Idiot (uncredited)

Das ist nur der Anfang - der Kampf geht weiter
1968

The Three Disasters
Narrator
TV Shows (2)
Self / Appearances (138)

Apostrophes
Self · 1 eps

Spécial cinéma
Self · 7 eps

Bambi
Self · 2 eps

Cinépanorama
Self · 2 eps

Ciné regards
Self · 1 eps

Dim Dam Dom
Self · 2 eps

Faces Places
Self

Histoire(s) du cinéma
Self · 8 eps

Pour le plaisir
Self · 2 eps

From Darkness to Light
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Godard Cinema
Self (archive footage)

Room 666
Self

Heart of the Festival
Self (archive footage)

Far from Vietnam
Self (segment "Camera Eye")

Série noire
Self (uncredited) · 1 eps

Reporters
Self

JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December
Self (uncredited)

Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Close Up
Self (archive footage)

Belmondo, le magnifique
Self (archive footage)

La rouge et la noire
Self (archive footage) (voice) (uncredited)

Notre Musique
Self

Isabella Rossellini - Aus dem Leben eines Schmetterlings
Self

Scénarios
Self

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2a: Only Cinema
Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)

Godard by Godard
Self (archive footage)

Wind from the East
Self (uncredited)

A German Youth
Self (archive footage)

Né
Self

Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
Self (archive footage)

Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
Self (uncredited)

Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture
Self (archive footage)

Jean-Luc Godard, Disorder Exposed
Self (archive footage)

Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Self (archive footage)

I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth
Self (archive footage)

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
Self (uncredited)

Being Bo Widerberg
Self (archive footage)

Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum
Self(archive footage)

The Lovely Month of May
Self (uncredited)

Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
Self

Meetin' WA
Self

Mireille Darc, la femme libre
Self (archive footage)

Godard Etkisi
Self (archive footage)

Anna Karina, Remember
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

One Hero, The People
Self (archive footage)

Fragments of Conversations with Jean-Luc Godard
Self

Full Metal Kuleshov Effect
Self

Paradjanov, le dernier collage
Self

Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma
Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)

Paparazzi
Self

ORG
Self (archive footage)

Zoom: Jean-Luc Godard, 1966
Self

The Dinosaur and the Baby
Self

86 printemps, Jean-Luc Godard
Self

Mag Bodard, un destin
Self (archive footage)

Marguerite as She Was
Self (archive footage)

Say God Bye
Self (JLG)

Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède
Self (voice) (archive footage)

Iter
Self

A Weekend at the Beach
Self

Death
Self (voice)

The Story of "Scénario"
Self (archive footage)

Number Two
Self (uncredited)

Le quadrille
Self

Godard Is Here
Self

Only Godard
Self

Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!
Self

Un metteur en ordre: Robert Bresson
Self

Voyage à travers un film (Sauve qui peut (la vie))
Self

Exposé du film annonce du film "Scénario"
Self

Godard 1980
Self

Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville on Google StreetView
Self

Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars
Self/Narrator

La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
Self

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories
Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2b: Deadly Beauty
Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)

Bardot et Godard
Self

Carl Th. Dreyer
Self (uncredited)

Freddy Buache, le cinéma
Self (archive footage)

Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
Self

Les cahiers du cinéma, la création d'une empreinte
Self (archive footage)

Once Upon a Time… Contempt
Self

Filmmakers in Action
Self (archive footage)

JLG\PG
Self

Willing
Self (uncredited)

Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
Self (archive footage)

Memória Cubana
Self (archive footage)

Notes on Hail Mary
Self

A Letter to Freddy Buache
Self (uncredited)

2 x 50 Years of French Cinema
Self (uncredited)

Two in the Wave
Self (archive footage)

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story
Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)

Brunes et Blondes
Self

Godard in America
Self

Françoise et Udo...
Self

Notre musique / Séquence 23
Self

One to One: Jean-Luc Godard Speaks
Self

Scénario du film Passion
Narrator / Self

Marcel Ophuls and Jean-Luc Godard: The Meeting in St-Gervais
Self

Conversation with JLG
Self

Godard / Sollers : L’entretien
Self

Passion, le travail et l'amour: Introduction à un scénario
Self

September September
Self (archive footage)

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4b: The Signs Among Us
Self (uncredited)

Mai en décembre: Godard en Abitibi
Self (archive footage)

Alianças Profanas
Self

Film catastrophe
Self

1 P.M.
Self

Duras/Godard
Self

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3b: A New Wave
Self (uncredited)

The Old Place
Self / Narrator (voice)

Entretien entre Serge Daney et Jean-Luc Godard
Self

Tribute to Eric Rohmer
Self (uncredited)

Léaud l'unique
Self - filmmaker

The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin
Self

Soft and Hard
Self

Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
Self

See You Friday, Robinson
Self

Four Short Films
Self - Narrator

Two American Audiences: La Chinoise - A Film in the Making
Self

Printtemps
Self (archive footage)

Determination
Self (archival footage)

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4a: The Control of the Universe
Self (uncredited)

Leçons de cinéma de Godard à Montréal, classe 10
Self

Voices
Self

Amateur Report (Exhibition Model)
Self (voice) (uncredited)

Message of Greetings: Prix suisse / My Thanks / Dead or Alive
Self

Brève rencontre avec Jean-Luc Godard ou le cinéma comme métaphore
Self

Routine Pleasures
Self (archive footage)

The Staircase Wall
Self (voice, archive footage)

Quod Erat Demonstrandum
Self

Leçons de cinéma de Godard à Montréal, classe 11
Self

Noises From The Agora
Self

Leçons de cinéma de Godard à Montréal, classe 1
Self

Qu’est-ce que la mise en scène - Jean-Luc Godard
Self

Vrai faux passeport
Self - Narrator (voice)

Petit Jour
Self

Accomplice
Self (archive footage)
Upcoming (2)
Directing (137)

Breathless
Director

Vivre Sa Vie
Director

The Image Book
Director

Detective
Director

Every Man for Himself
Director

Pierrot le Fou
Director

Contempt
Director

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Director

Oh, Woe Is Me
Director

The Married Woman
Director

Histoire(s) du cinéma
Director

Masculin Féminin
Director

King Lear
Director

Keep Your Right Up
Director

Alphaville
Director

Struggle in Italy
Director

First Name: Carmen
Director

Ro.Go.Pa.G.
Director

Nouvelle Vague
Director

The Seven Deadly Sins
Director

The Oldest Profession
Director

A Woman Is a Woman
Director

La Chinoise
Director

Band of Outsiders
Director

Here and Elsewhere
Director

Weekend
Director

Far from Vietnam
Director

Série noire
Director

Sympathy for the Devil
Director

Hail Mary
Director

JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December
Director

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Director

Le Petit Soldat
Director

Notre Musique
Director

The King of Ads
Director

In Praise of Love
Director

Joy of Learning
Director

Scénarios
Director

France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children
Director

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2a: Only Cinema
Director

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Director

Goodbye to Language
Director

In the Darkness of Time
Director

3x3D
Director

Six in Paris
Director

Love and Anger: Love
Director

Made in U.S.A
Director

Wind from the East
Director

Film Socialisme
Director

Aria
Director

Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition)
Director

Vladimir and Rosa
Director

Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
Director

Tout Va Bien
Director

Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
Director

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
Director

The Carabineers
Director

How Are The Kids?
Director

Godard's Passion
Director

Lest We Forget
Director

The Power of Speech
Director

Meetin' WA
Director

For Ever Mozart
Director

British Sounds
Director

Love and Anger
Director

The French as Seen by…
Director

Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
Director

Ecce Homo
Director

All the Boys Are Called Patrick
Director

Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma
Director

Germany Year 90 Nine Zero
Director

On s'est tous défilé
Director

The Story of "Scénario"
Director

La Paresse
Director

Number Two
Director

20 Little Films
Director

Voyage à travers un film (Sauve qui peut (la vie))
Director

Exposé du film annonce du film "Scénario"
Director

Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars
Director

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories
Director

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2b: Deadly Beauty
Director

The Bridges of Sarajevo
Director

An All Round Maid
Director

Sauve la vie (qui peut)
Director

Hail, Sarajevo
Director

The Childhood of Art
Director

The Last Word
Director

Sang titre
Director

Pravda
Director

Their First Films
Director

The Children Play Russian
Director

Notes on Hail Mary
Director

A Letter to Freddy Buache
Director

Armide
Director

2 x 50 Years of French Cinema
Director

A Flirtatious Woman
Director

Anticipation, or Love in the Year 2000
Director

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story
Director

Cinétracts
Director

Letter in Motion to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux
Director

A Story of Water
Director

Scénario du film Passion
Director

Liberty and Homeland
Director

France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children
Director

Passion, le travail et l'amour: Introduction à un scénario
Director

Film-Tract n° 1968
Director

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4b: The Signs Among Us
Director

Espoir/Microcosmos
Director

Operation Concrete
Director

1 P.M.
Director

Prayers for Refuseniks
Director

How's It Going?
Director

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3b: A New Wave
Director

What's Wrong with the World
Director

A Film Like Any Other
Director

Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
Director

The Old Place
Director

Entretien entre Serge Daney et Jean-Luc Godard
Director

Tribute to Eric Rohmer
Director

Soft and Hard
Director

Four Short Films
Director

The Bridge of Sighs
Director

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4a: The Control of the Universe
Director

The New World
Director

The Darty Report
Director

Origins of the 21st Century
Director

Montparnasse et Levallois
Director

Amateur Report (Exhibition Model)
Director

Message of Greetings: Prix suisse / My Thanks / Dead or Alive
Director

The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
Director

Dream On
Director

To Alter the Image
Director

For Thomas Wainggai
Director

The Three Disasters
Director

Vrai faux passeport
Director

Le Grand Escroc
Director

Journal des réalisateurs
Director
Writing (108)

Breathless
Screenplay

Vivre Sa Vie
Writer

The Image Book
Writer

Detective
Screenplay

Pierrot le Fou
Writer

Contempt
Screenplay

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Writer

Oh, Woe Is Me
Writer

The Married Woman
Writer

Histoire(s) du cinéma
Writer

Masculin Féminin
Writer

King Lear
Screenplay

Keep Your Right Up
Screenplay

Alphaville
Writer

Struggle in Italy
Writer

Ro.Go.Pa.G.
Screenplay

Nouvelle Vague
Writer

The Seven Deadly Sins
Screenplay

The Oldest Profession
Writer

A Woman Is a Woman
Writer

La Chinoise
Writer

Band of Outsiders
Screenplay

Here and Elsewhere
Writer

Weekend
Writer

Far from Vietnam
Writer

Série noire
Screenplay

Sympathy for the Devil
Writer

Hail Mary
Writer

JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December
Writer

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Writer

Le Petit Soldat
Writer

Notre Musique
Writer

In Praise of Love
Writer

Joy of Learning
Writer

Scénarios
Writer

France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children
Writer

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2a: Only Cinema
Writer

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Writer

Goodbye to Language
Writer

3x3D
Writer

Six in Paris
Writer

Made in U.S.A
Writer

Wind from the East
Writer

Film Socialisme
Screenplay

Vladimir and Rosa
Writer

Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
Writer

Tout Va Bien
Writer

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
Writer

The Carabineers
Writer

Godard's Passion
Writer

The Power of Speech
Writer

For Ever Mozart
Writer

British Sounds
Writer

Love and Anger
Writer

Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
Writer

Ecce Homo
Writer

The Chasers
Writer

Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma
Writer

Germany Year 90 Nine Zero
Writer

On s'est tous défilé
Writer

Number Two
Writer

Voyage à travers un film (Sauve qui peut (la vie))
Writer

Exposé du film annonce du film "Scénario"
Writer

Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars
Writer

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories
Writer

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2b: Deadly Beauty
Writer

An All Round Maid
Screenplay

Sauve la vie (qui peut)
Writer

Hail, Sarajevo
Writer

The Childhood of Art
Writer

Sang titre
Writer

Pravda
Writer

The Children Play Russian
Writer

Notes on Hail Mary
Writer

A Letter to Freddy Buache
Writer

A Flirtatious Woman
Writer

Anticipation, or Love in the Year 2000
Writer

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story
Writer

Letter in Motion to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux
Writer

A Story of Water
Writer

Scénario du film Passion
Writer

Liberty and Homeland
Writer

France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children
Writer

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4b: The Signs Among Us
Writer

Espoir/Microcosmos
Writer

Operation Concrete
Writer

1 P.M.
Writer

Prayers for Refuseniks
Writer

How's It Going?
Writer

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3b: A New Wave
Writer

What's Wrong with the World
Writer

A Film Like Any Other
Writer

Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
Writer

The Old Place
Writer

Soft and Hard
Writer

Four Short Films
Writer

The Bridge of Sighs
Writer

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4a: The Control of the Universe
Writer

The Darty Report
Writer

Origins of the 21st Century
Writer

Amateur Report (Exhibition Model)
Writer

The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
Writer

To Alter the Image
Writer

Quod Erat Demonstrandum
Screenplay

The Three Disasters
Writer

Vrai faux passeport
Screenplay

Le Grand Escroc
Writer

Journal des réalisateurs
Writer
Producing (20)

Every Man for Himself
Producer

Masculin Féminin
Producer

Keep Your Right Up
Producer

Here and Elsewhere
Producer

JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December
Producer

Joy of Learning
Producer

France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children
Producer

The Kreutzer Sonata
Producer

Vladimir and Rosa
Producer

Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
Producer

Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma
Producer

Le quadrille
Producer

Actua 1
Producer

Notes on Hail Mary
Producer

Inside/Out
Producer

France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children
Producer

Film-Tract n° 1968
Producer

Espoir/Microcosmos
Producer

How's It Going?
Producer

What's Wrong with the World
Producer
Other Crew (77)

Vivre Sa Vie
Editor

The Image Book
Editor

Every Man for Himself
Editor

Oh, Woe Is Me
Editor

Histoire(s) du cinéma
Editor

Histoire(s) du cinéma
Creator

King Lear
Editor

Keep Your Right Up
Editor

Struggle in Italy
Editor

Nouvelle Vague
Editor

A Woman Is a Woman
Title Designer

JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December
Editor

Notre Musique
Editor

France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children
Editor

France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children
Creator

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2a: Only Cinema
Editor

Goodbye to Language
Editor

Goodbye to Language
Sound

Wind from the East
Editor

Film Socialisme
Editor

Vladimir and Rosa
Editor

Vladimir and Rosa
Director of Photography

Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
Editor

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
Editor

Godard's Passion
Editor

Meetin' WA
Editor

For Ever Mozart
Editor

Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
Editor

Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma
Editor

Germany Year 90 Nine Zero
Editor

On s'est tous défilé
Editor

Voyage à travers un film (Sauve qui peut (la vie))
Editor

Exposé du film annonce du film "Scénario"
Editor

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories
Editor

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2b: Deadly Beauty
Editor

An All Round Maid
Editor

Hail, Sarajevo
Editor

The Childhood of Art
Editor

Sang titre
Editor

Pravda
Editor

The Children Play Russian
Editor

Notes on Hail Mary
Director of Photography

A Letter to Freddy Buache
Editor

2 x 50 Years of French Cinema
Editor

A Flirtatious Woman
Director of Photography

A Flirtatious Woman
Editor

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story
Editor

A Story of Water
Editor

Conversation with JLG
Thanks

Liberty and Homeland
Editor

France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children
Editor

Film-Tract n° 1968
Director of Photography

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4b: The Signs Among Us
Editor

Espoir/Microcosmos
Editor

Antigone
Thanks

Operation Concrete
Editor

1 P.M.
Director of Photography

Prayers for Refuseniks
Editor

How's It Going?
Editor

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3b: A New Wave
Editor

What's Wrong with the World
Editor

A Film Like Any Other
Director of Photography

A Film Like Any Other
Editor

The Old Place
Editor

Soft and Hard
Editor

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4a: The Control of the Universe
Editor

The Darty Report
Editor

Origins of the 21st Century
Editor

Amateur Report (Exhibition Model)
Director of Photography

Amateur Report (Exhibition Model)
Editor

Message of Greetings: Prix suisse / My Thanks / Dead or Alive
Editor

Mondo Weirdo
Thanks

La última gira
Thanks

Dream On
Director of Photography

Dream On
Editor

To Alter the Image
Editor

Quod Erat Demonstrandum
Editor




