

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 (58)

The 400 Blows
(voix) (non crédité)

Contempt
Lang's Assistant Director

Breathless
The Snitch

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

The Defector
Orlovsky's Friend (uncredited)

Band of Outsiders
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

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

First Name: Carmen
Uncle Jeannot (uncredited)

Sun in Your Eyes
1962

Scheherazade
Handwalker

Identidade
Jean-Luc Godard (Imagens de Arquivo)

The Image Book
Narrator (voice)

The Married Woman
The Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Morceaux de Cannes
2021

King Lear
Professor Pluggy

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

For Ever Mozart
Man pretending to play soccer (uncredited)

Paris Belongs to Us
Hans Lucas

Bardot, The Misunderstanding
2013

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

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

Sign of the Lion
Le Mélomane (uncredited)

Goodbye to Language
Narrator (voice)

Le Petit Soldat
Man at Railway Station (uncredited)

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

The Bardot mystery
2012

Here and Elsewhere
Narrator (voice)

Fool’s Mate
Party guest (uncredited)

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

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

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

Hail, Sarajevo
Narrator (voice)

Joy of Learning
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Fiancés on the Bridge
Man with the Black Glasses

Keep Your Right Up
Idiot / Prince

Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
Jules (voice) (uncredited)

How's It Going?
Union Member (voice)

Cinématon
N°106

Deuses de Mentira
(Archive Sound)

A Story of Water
The Young Man (voice)

Vladimir and Rosa
Vladimir Lenin (uncredited)

Operation Concrete
Narrator (voice)

We're All Still Here
The Actor

The Kreutzer Sonata
Ami Journaliste

Das ist nur der Anfang - der Kampf geht weiter
1968

After the Reconciliation
Robert

The Death of Jean-Luc Godard
2025

France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children
Robert Linard

The Darty Report
Nathanael, the 2000 Year-Old Robot

Ecce Homo
Narrator (voice)

Cinématon n°106 : Jean-Luc Godard
1981

Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak
Walter

What's Wrong with the World
Narrator (voice)

The Three Disasters
Narrator

The Children Play Russian
Prince Mishkin, the Idiot

G(ode)ard
JLG

The Bridge of Sighs
Narrator (voice)

To Alter the Image
The Idiot (uncredited)
TV Shows (2)
Self / Appearances (137)

Ciné regards
Self · 1 eps

Apostrophes
Self · 1 eps

Spécial cinéma
Self · 7 eps

Bambi
Self · 2 eps

Cinépanorama
Self · 2 eps

Dim Dam Dom
Self · 2 eps

Heart of the Festival
Self (archive footage)

Histoire(s) du cinéma
Self · 8 eps

Pour le plaisir
Self · 2 eps

Né
Self

Faces Places
Self

Godard Cinema
Self

Conversation with JLG
Self

Filmmakers in Action
Self (archive footage)

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

Room 666
Self

Reporters
Self

Marguerite as She Was
Self (archive footage)

Série noire
Self (uncredited) · 1 eps

Close Up
Self (archive footage)

Scénarios
Self

The Lovely Month of May
Self (uncredited)

Only Godard
Self

Duras/Godard
Self

ORG
Self (archive footage)

Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum
Self(archive footage)

Willing
Self (uncredited)

Brunes et Blondes
Self

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

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

JLG\PG
Self

Number Two
Self (uncredited)

Meetin' WA
Self

Le quadrille
Self

Death
Self (voice)

Godard Etkisi
Self (archive footage)

Belmondo, le magnifique
Self (archive footage)

Iter
Self

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

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

Far from Vietnam
Self (segment "Camera Eye")

Paparazzi
Self

Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
Self

Being Bo Widerberg
Self (archive footage)

Scénario du film Passion
Narrator / Self

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

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

Wind from the East
Self (uncredited)

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

Godard by Godard
Self (archive footage)

Notre Musique
Self

Freddy Buache, le cinéma
Self (archive footage)

Mireille Darc, la femme libre
Self (archive footage)

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

Film catastrophe
Self

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

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

Alianças Profanas
Self

Paradjanov, le dernier collage
Self

Routine Pleasures
Self (archive footage)

Léaud l'unique
Self - filmmaker

The Story of "Scénario"
Self (archive footage)

Isabella Rossellini - Aus dem Leben eines Schmetterlings
Self

The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin
Self

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

Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
Self

Carl Th. Dreyer
Self (uncredited)

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

A German Youth
Self (archive footage)

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

The Dinosaur and the Baby
Self

One Hero, The People
Self (archive footage)

Godard in America
Self

A Weekend at the Beach
Self

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

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

Noises From The Agora
Self

Determination
Self (archival footage)

Two in the Wave
Self (archive footage)

The Old Place
Self / Narrator (voice)

Once Upon a Time… Contempt
Self

Four Short Films
Self - Narrator

Printtemps
Self (archive footage)

Notre musique / Séquence 23
Self

2 x 50 Years of French Cinema
Self (uncredited)

1 P.M.
Self

Say God Bye
Self (JLG)

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

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

Mag Bodard, un destin
Self (archive footage)

Notes on Hail Mary
Self

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

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

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

Quod Erat Demonstrandum
Self

Bardot et Godard
Self

86 printemps, Jean-Luc Godard
Self

The Staircase Wall
Self (voice, archive footage)

Memória Cubana
Self (archive footage)

Exposé du film annonce du film "Scénario"
Self

See You Friday, Robinson
Self

Petit Jour
Self

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Letter to Freddy Buache
Self (uncredited)

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

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

Soft and Hard
Self

Voices
Self

Un metteur en ordre: Robert Bresson
Self

Fragments of Conversations with Jean-Luc Godard
Self

Leçons de cinéma de Godard à Montréal, classe 10
Self

One to One: Jean-Luc Godard Speaks
Self

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

Godard Is Here
Self

Godard / Sollers : L’entretien
Self

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

La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
Self

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

Leçons de cinéma de Godard à Montréal, classe 1
Self

Vrai faux passeport
Self - Narrator (voice)

Tribute to Eric Rohmer
Self (uncredited)

Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
Self

Godard 1980
Self

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

Full Metal Kuleshov Effect
Self

Zoom: Jean-Luc Godard, 1966
Self

Leçons de cinéma de Godard à Montréal, classe 11
Self

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

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

Entretien entre Serge Daney et Jean-Luc Godard
Self

September September
Self (archive footage)

Accomplice
Self (archive footage)
Upcoming (2)
Directing (136)

Contempt
Director

Breathless
Director

Band of Outsiders
Director

Pierrot le Fou
Director

Vivre Sa Vie
Director

Alphaville
Director

First Name: Carmen
Director

Histoire(s) du cinéma
Director

Masculin Féminin
Director

La Chinoise
Director

A Woman Is a Woman
Director

Detective
Director

The Seven Deadly Sins
Director

Hail Mary
Director

Weekend
Director

Aria
Director

Film Socialisme
Director

The Image Book
Director

The Married Woman
Director

Germany Year 90 Nine Zero
Director

The King of Ads
Director

France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children
Director

The Oldest Profession
Director

King Lear
Director

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Director

The French as Seen by…
Director

Série noire
Director

For Ever Mozart
Director

Sympathy for the Devil
Director

Every Man for Himself
Director

Scénarios
Director

Nouvelle Vague
Director

Ro.Go.Pa.G.
Director

Oh, Woe Is Me
Director

Love and Anger
Director

Armide
Director

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Director

The Carabineers
Director

British Sounds
Director

Made in U.S.A
Director

Tout Va Bien
Director

Six in Paris
Director

La Paresse
Director

Goodbye to Language
Director

Lest We Forget
Director

Love and Anger: Love
Director

Le Petit Soldat
Director

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Director

Number Two
Director

Meetin' WA
Director

Godard's Passion
Director

Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition)
Director

Sang titre
Director

Here and Elsewhere
Director

Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
Director

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

20 Little Films
Director

Prayers for Refuseniks
Director

Far from Vietnam
Director

Pravda
Director

Letter in Motion to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux
Director

Scénario du film Passion
Director

In Praise of Love
Director

In the Darkness of Time
Director

A Flirtatious Woman
Director

Hail, Sarajevo
Director

Joy of Learning
Director

Wind from the East
Director

How Are The Kids?
Director

Notre Musique
Director

Keep Your Right Up
Director

Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
Director

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

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

How's It Going?
Director

The Childhood of Art
Director

The Story of "Scénario"
Director

An All Round Maid
Director

Liberty and Homeland
Director

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

The Bridges of Sarajevo
Director

JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December
Director

Espoir/Microcosmos
Director

A Story of Water
Director

Vladimir and Rosa
Director

The Power of Speech
Director

Operation Concrete
Director

Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
Director

All the Boys Are Called Patrick
Director

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

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

The Old Place
Director

Four Short Films
Director

2 x 50 Years of French Cinema
Director

1 P.M.
Director

Anticipation, or Love in the Year 2000
Director

Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
Director

Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma
Director

The New World
Director

Notes on Hail Mary
Director

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

France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children
Director

Their First Films
Director

The Darty Report
Director

Ecce Homo
Director

Cinétracts
Director

Exposé du film annonce du film "Scénario"
Director

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

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

A Letter to Freddy Buache
Director

Soft and Hard
Director

For Thomas Wainggai
Director

Origins of the 21st Century
Director

Film-Tract n° 1968
Director

The Last Word
Director

What's Wrong with the World
Director

The Three Disasters
Director

Montparnasse et Levallois
Director

Amateur Report (Exhibition Model)
Director

Dream On
Director

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

3x3D
Director

A Film Like Any Other
Director

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

Le Grand Escroc
Director

Vrai faux passeport
Director

On s'est tous défilé
Director

Tribute to Eric Rohmer
Director

The Children Play Russian
Director

Struggle in Italy
Director

Journal des réalisateurs
Director

The Bridge of Sighs
Director

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

Entretien entre Serge Daney et Jean-Luc Godard
Director

To Alter the Image
Director

The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
Director
Writing (109)

Contempt
Screenplay

Breathless
Screenplay

Band of Outsiders
Screenplay

Pierrot le Fou
Writer

Vivre Sa Vie
Writer

Alphaville
Writer

Histoire(s) du cinéma
Writer

Masculin Féminin
Writer

La Chinoise
Writer

A Woman Is a Woman
Writer

Detective
Screenplay

The Seven Deadly Sins
Screenplay

Hail Mary
Writer

Weekend
Writer

Film Socialisme
Screenplay

The Image Book
Writer

The Married Woman
Writer

Germany Year 90 Nine Zero
Writer

France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children
Writer

The Oldest Profession
Writer

King Lear
Writer

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Writer

Série noire
Screenplay

For Ever Mozart
Writer

Sympathy for the Devil
Writer

Scénarios
Writer

Nouvelle Vague
Writer

Ro.Go.Pa.G.
Screenplay

Oh, Woe Is Me
Writer

Love and Anger
Writer

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Writer

The Carabineers
Writer

British Sounds
Writer

Made in U.S.A
Writer

Tout Va Bien
Writer

Six in Paris
Writer

Goodbye to Language
Writer

Le Petit Soldat
Writer

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Writer

Number Two
Writer

Godard's Passion
Writer

Sang titre
Writer

Here and Elsewhere
Writer

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

Prayers for Refuseniks
Writer

Far from Vietnam
Writer

The Chasers
Writer

Pravda
Writer

Letter in Motion to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux
Writer

Scénario du film Passion
Writer

In Praise of Love
Writer

A Flirtatious Woman
Writer

Hail, Sarajevo
Writer

Joy of Learning
Writer

Wind from the East
Writer

Notre Musique
Writer

Keep Your Right Up
Screenplay

Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
Writer

Sauve la vie (qui peut)
Writer

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

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

How's It Going?
Writer

The Childhood of Art
Writer

An All Round Maid
Screenplay

Liberty and Homeland
Writer

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

JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December
Writer

Espoir/Microcosmos
Writer

A Story of Water
Writer

Vladimir and Rosa
Writer

The Power of Speech
Writer

Operation Concrete
Writer

Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
Writer

The Wild Palms
Writer

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

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

The Old Place
Writer

Four Short Films
Writer

1 P.M.
Writer

Anticipation, or Love in the Year 2000
Writer

Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
Writer

Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma
Writer

Notes on Hail Mary
Writer

France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children
Writer

Quod Erat Demonstrandum
Screenplay

The Darty Report
Writer

Ecce Homo
Writer

Exposé du film annonce du film "Scénario"
Writer

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

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

A Letter to Freddy Buache
Writer

Soft and Hard
Writer

Origins of the 21st Century
Writer

What's Wrong with the World
Writer

The Three Disasters
Writer

Amateur Report (Exhibition Model)
Writer

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

3x3D
Writer

A Film Like Any Other
Writer

Le Grand Escroc
Writer

Vrai faux passeport
Screenplay

On s'est tous défilé
Writer

The Children Play Russian
Writer

Struggle in Italy
Writer

Journal des réalisateurs
Writer

The Bridge of Sighs
Writer

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

To Alter the Image
Writer

The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
Writer
Producing (21)

Masculin Féminin
Producer

France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children
Producer

King Lear
Executive Producer

Every Man for Himself
Producer

Le quadrille
Producer

Here and Elsewhere
Producer

Joy of Learning
Producer

Actua 1
Producer

Keep Your Right Up
Producer

How's It Going?
Producer

JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December
Producer

Espoir/Microcosmos
Producer

Vladimir and Rosa
Producer

The Kreutzer Sonata
Producer

Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
Producer

Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma
Producer

Inside/Out
Producer

Notes on Hail Mary
Producer

France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children
Producer

Film-Tract n° 1968
Producer

What's Wrong with the World
Producer
Other Crew (76)

Vivre Sa Vie
Editor

Histoire(s) du cinéma
Editor

A Woman Is a Woman
Title Designer

Conversation with JLG
Thanks

Film Socialisme
Editor

The Image Book
Editor

Germany Year 90 Nine Zero
Editor

France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children
Editor

France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children
Creator

King Lear
Editor

For Ever Mozart
Editor

Every Man for Himself
Editor

Nouvelle Vague
Editor

Oh, Woe Is Me
Editor

Goodbye to Language
Editor

Goodbye to Language
Sound

Meetin' WA
Editor

Godard's Passion
Editor

Sang titre
Editor

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

Prayers for Refuseniks
Editor

Pravda
Editor

Mondo Weirdo
Thanks

A Flirtatious Woman
Director of Photography

A Flirtatious Woman
Editor

Hail, Sarajevo
Editor

Wind from the East
Editor

Notre Musique
Editor

Keep Your Right Up
Editor

Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
Editor

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

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

How's It Going?
Editor

The Childhood of Art
Editor

An All Round Maid
Editor

Liberty and Homeland
Editor

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

Antigone
Thanks

JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December
Editor

Espoir/Microcosmos
Editor

A Story of Water
Editor

Vladimir and Rosa
Editor

Vladimir and Rosa
Director of Photography

Operation Concrete
Editor

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

La última gira
Thanks

The Old Place
Editor

2 x 50 Years of French Cinema
Editor

1 P.M.
Director of Photography

Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
Editor

Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma
Editor

Notes on Hail Mary
Director of Photography

France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children
Editor

Quod Erat Demonstrandum
Editor

The Darty Report
Editor

Exposé du film annonce du film "Scénario"
Editor

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

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

A Letter to Freddy Buache
Editor

Soft and Hard
Editor

Origins of the 21st Century
Editor

Film-Tract n° 1968
Director of Photography

What's Wrong with the World
Editor

Amateur Report (Exhibition Model)
Director of Photography

Amateur Report (Exhibition Model)
Editor

Dream On
Director of Photography

Dream On
Editor

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

A Film Like Any Other
Editor

A Film Like Any Other
Director of Photography

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

On s'est tous défilé
Editor

The Children Play Russian
Editor

Struggle in Italy
Editor

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

To Alter the Image
Editor




