Jean-Luc Godard
Paris, France

Jean-Luc Godard 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.

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Roles

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Lovers (2024)
Self (archive footage)
Godard Cinema (2023)
Self
Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma (2023)
Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
Godard Etkisi (2021)
Archive Footage (Himself)
Printtemps (2020)
Self (archival footage)
Anna and the Jellyfish (2020)
Self (archive footage)
Anna and the Jellyfish (2020)
Self (archive footage)
Iter (2020)
Self
A Letter to Freddy Buache (2019)
Himself
Belmondo, le magnifique (2017)
Self (archive footage)
Conversation entre Jean-Luc Godard et Jacques Rivette (2017)
Faces Places (2017)
Self
Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture (2016)
Self (archive footage)
Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Message of Greetings: Prix suisse / My Thanks / Dead or Alive (2015)
Himself
A German Youth (2015)
(archive material)
Goodbye to Language (2014)
Narrator (voice)
Letter in Motion to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux (2014)
Himself
The Three Disasters (2013)
Narrator
Quod Erat Demonstrandum (2012)
Close Up (2012)
Self (archive footage)
Jean-Luc Godard, Disorder Exposed (2012)
Self (archive footage)
La rouge et la noire (2011)
Self (archive footage) (voice) (uncredited)
Marcel Ophuls et Jean-Luc Godard, La rencontre de St-Gervais (2010)
Self
Memória Cubana (2010)
Self (archive footage)
Two in the Wave (2010)
Self (archive footage)
Accomplice (2010)
Himself
Isabella Rossellini - Aus dem Leben eines Schmetterlings (2010)
Himself
Tribute to Eric Rohmer (2010)
Back to Room 666 (2008)
Self (archive footage)
Vrai faux passeport (2006)
Four Short Films (2006)
Narrator
I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth (2005)
Brève rencontre avec Jean-Luc Godard ou le cinéma comme métaphore (2005)
Himself
Our Music (2004)
Self
The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin (2004)
Self
Marguerite as She Was (2003)
Blind Love – Talk with Jean-Luc Godard (2001)
Self
After the Reconciliation (2000)
Robert
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas (2000)
Self
Godard on TV: 1960-2000 (1999)
Self (archive footage)
Adieu au TNS (1998)
Self
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4b: The Signs Among Us (1998)
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4a: The Control of the Universe (1998)
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3b: A New Wave (1998)
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute (1998)
Self
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2a: Only Cinema (1997)
Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2b: Deadly Beauty (1997)
Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
We're All Still Here (1997)
The Actor
What's Wrong With The World (1996)
(voice)
2 x 50 Years of French Cinema (1995)
Himself
JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December (1995)
Self
The Children Play Russian (1993)
The idiot: Prince Mishkin
Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède (1993)
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Hail, Sarajevo (1993)
Narrator
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories (1989)
Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story (1989)
Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
The Darty Report (1989)
Nathanael, the 2000 year-old robot
Keep Your Right Up (1987)
Idiot / Prince
King Lear (1987)
Professor Pluggy
Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company (1986)
Self (uncredited)
Routine Pleasures (1986)
Himself (Archive photos)
Meetin' WA (1986)
Self
September September (1986)
(archive footage)
Soft and Hard (1985)
Self
Jean-Luc Godard à la Cinémathèque française (1985)
First Name: Carmen (1983)
Uncle Jeannot
Petites notes à propos du film 'Je vous salue, Marie' (1983)
Self
Room 666 (1982)
Self
Scénario du film Passion (1982)
Narrator / Self
Reporters (1981)
Self
Cinématon XI (1981)
N°106
Cinématon n°106 : Jean-Luc Godard (1981)
Godard 1980 (1980)
As Himself
ORG (1979)
Self (archive footage)
France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children (1979)
Robert Linard
Cinématon (1978)
N°106
Little Godard (1978)
The Guest
How's It Going? (1978)
Union Member (voice)
Here and Elsewhere (1976)
Narrator (voice)
Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication (1976)
Self
Né (1975)
Number Two (1975)
Self (uncredited)
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (1974)
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Vladimir and Rosa (1971)
Vladimir Lenin (uncredited)
Wind from the East (1970)
Self (uncredited)
Godard in America (1970)
Himself
Le Gai Savoir (1969)
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Willing (1969)
Self (uncredited)
Voices (1969)
Self
Qu’est-ce que la mise en scène - Jean-Luc Godard (1969)
One to One: Jean-Luc Godard Speaks (1968)
Himself
Françoise et Udo... (1968)
Two American Audiences: La Chinoise - A Film in the Making (1968)
Himself
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)
Narrator (voice)
The Dinosaur and the Baby (1967)
Self
Made in U.S.A (1967)
Richard Politzer (voice) (uncredited)
The Defector (1966)
Orlovsky's Friend (uncredited)
Un metteur en ordre: Robert Bresson (1966)
Self
Cinema According to Jean-Luc (1965)
The Married Woman (1964)
The Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Paparazzi (1964)
Himself
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (1964)
Man in Fez / Narrator (segment "Le Grand escroc") (uncredited)
Band of Outsiders (1964)
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même (1964)
Self
Bardot et Godard (1964)
Himself
Contempt (1963)
Lang's Assistant Director
Scheherazade (1963)
Handwalker
The Lovely Month of May (1963)
Self (uncredited)
Le Petit Soldat (1963)
Man at Railway Station (uncredited)
Vivre Sa Vie (1962)
The Lover Reading Poe (voice) (uncredited)
Sun in Your Eyes (1962)
Sign of the Lion (1962)
Le Mélomane (uncredited)
Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
The Man with Black Glasses / Actor in Silent Film
Paris Belongs to Us (1961)
Hans Lucas
Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak (1961)
Walter
A Story of Water (1961)
Narrator
The Fiancés of Macdonald Bridge (1961)
Man with the Black Glasses
Breathless (1960)
The Snitch
The 400 Blows (1959)
(voice)(uncredited)
Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (1958)
Jules (voice) (uncredited)
Operation Concrete (1958)
Narrator (voice)
Fool's Mate (1956)
Party guest (uncredited)
The Kreutzer Sonata (1956)
Ami Journaliste
A Flirtatious Woman (1955)
The Man Who Looks at the Balcony (uncredited)
The Glass Castle (1950)
Un voyageur qui sort de la Gare de l'Est (uncredited)
The Quadrille (1950)
Self

Crew

Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma (2023)
Director | Editor | Writer
A Letter to Freddy Buache (2019)
Writer | Director | Editor
Message of Greetings: Prix suisse / My Thanks / Dead or Alive (2015)
Director | Editor
Goodbye to Language (2014)
Director | Writer
Letter in Motion to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux (2014)
Director | Writer
The Three Disasters (2013)
Director | Writer
3x3D (2013)
Director | Writer
Quod Erat Demonstrandum (2012)
Screenplay | Editor
20 Little Films (2012)
Director
Film Socialisme (2010)
Director | Screenplay | Editor
Tribute to Eric Rohmer (2010)
Director
Journal des réalisateurs (2008)
Director
Une catastrophe (2008)
Director
Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition) (2006)
Director
Vrai faux passeport (2006)
Director | Screenplay
Amateur Report (Exhibition Model) (2006)
Director
Four Short Films (2006)
Director | Writer
Ecce Homo (2006)
Director | Screenplay
An All Round Maid (2005)
Director | Screenplay | Editor
Our Music (2004)
Director | Writer | Editor
Their First Films (2004)
Director
Prayers for Refuseniks (2004)
Director | Writer | Editor
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002)
Director
In the Darkness of Time (2002)
Director
Liberty and Homeland (2002)
Director | Writer | Editor
In Praise of Love (2001)
Director | Writer
The Old Place (2000)
Director | Writer | Editor
Origins of the 21st Century (2000)
Director | Writer | Editor
Adieu au TNS (1998)
Director | Writer | Producer | Director of Photography | Editor
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4b: The Signs Among Us (1998)
Director | Writer | Editor
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4a: The Control of the Universe (1998)
Director | Writer | Editor
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3b: A New Wave (1998)
Director | Writer | Editor
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute (1998)
Director | Writer | Editor
Inside/Out (1997)
Producer
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2a: Only Cinema (1997)
Director | Writer | Editor
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2b: Deadly Beauty (1997)
Director | Editor | Writer
For Ever Mozart (1996)
Writer | Director | Editor
Plus oh ! (1996)
Director | Screenplay | Editor | Producer
Hope/Microcosmos (1996)
Director
What's Wrong With The World (1996)
Director | Screenplay | Producer | Editor
2 x 50 Years of French Cinema (1995)
Director | Editor
JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December (1995)
Writer | Director | Producer | Editor
Oh, Woe Is Me (1993)
Writer | Director | Editor
The Children Play Russian (1993)
Director | Writer | Editor
Hail, Sarajevo (1993)
Director | Editor | Writer
Antigone (1992)
Thanks
L'Enfance de l'art (1992)
Director
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991)
Director | Writer | Editor
180 (1991)
Director
For Thomas Wainggai (1991)
Director
Nouvelle Vague (1990)
Director | Writer | Editor
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story (1989)
Director | Editor | Writer
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories (1989)
Director | Editor | Writer
The Darty Report (1989)
Director
The Power of Speech (1988)
Director | Writer
The French as Seen by… (1988)
Director
On s'est tous défilé (1988)
Director | Writer
Le Dernier Mot (1988)
Director
Closed (1988)
Director
Keep Your Right Up (1987)
Director | Screenplay | Producer | Editor
King Lear (1987)
Writer | Director | Editor
Aria (1987)
Director
Armide (1987)
Director
Closed Jeans (1987)
Director
Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company (1986)
Director | Writer | Editor | Producer
Meetin' WA (1986)
Director | Editor
Detective (1985)
Director | Screenplay
Soft and Hard (1985)
Director | Writer | Editor
Hail Mary (1985)
Director | Writer
The Book of Mary (1985)
Executive Producer
First Name: Carmen (1983)
Director
Petites notes à propos du film 'Je vous salue, Marie' (1983)
Director
Godard's Passion (1982)
Director | Writer | Editor
Passion, le travail et l'amour : Introduction à un scénario (1982)
Director
To Alter the Image (1982)
Director
Scénario du film Passion (1982)
Director
Sauve la vie (qui peut) (1981)
Director
Every Man for Himself (1980)
Director | Producer | Editor
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie' (1979)
Director
France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children (1979)
Director | Editor | Writer | Producer
How's It Going? (1978)
Director | Writer | Producer | Editor
Dream On (1977)
Director | Director of Photography | Editor
Here and Elsewhere (1976)
Director | Producer | Writer
Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication (1976)
Director
Number Two (1975)
Director | Writer
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (1974)
Director | Writer
Tout Va Bien (1972)
Director | Writer
Struggle in Italy (1971)
Director | Writer | Editor
Vladimir and Rosa (1971)
Director | Writer | Editor | Director of Photography | Producer
Wind from the East (1970)
Director | Writer | Editor
British Sounds (1970)
Director | Writer
Pravda (1970)
Director | Writer | Editor
Le Gai Savoir (1969)
Writer | Director | Producer
Love and Anger (1969)
Director | Writer
Love and Anger: Love (1969)
Director
Sympathy for the Devil (1968)
Director | Writer
A Film Like Any Other (1968)
Director | Writer | Director of Photography | Editor
Film-Tract n° 1968 (1968)
Director | Producer | Director of Photography
Cinétracts (1968)
Director
Weekend (1967)
Director | Writer
La Chinoise (1967)
Director | Writer
The Oldest Profession (1967)
Director | Writer
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)
Director | Writer
Made in U.S.A (1967)
Writer | Director
Masculin Féminin (1966)
Writer | Director | Producer
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Director | Writer
Six in Paris (1965)
Director | Writer
Alphaville (1965)
Director | Writer
Montparnasse et Levallois (1965)
Director
The Married Woman (1964)
Director | Writer
Le Grand Escroc (1964)
Director | Writer
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (1964)
Director | Writer
Band of Outsiders (1964)
Screenplay | Director
Contempt (1963)
Screenplay | Director
The Carabineers (1963)
Writer | Director
Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963)
Director | Screenplay
The New World (1963)
Director
Le Petit Soldat (1963)
Director | Writer
Vivre Sa Vie (1962)
Editor | Director | Writer
The Seven Deadly Sins (1962)
Director | Screenplay
La Paresse (1962)
Director
A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
Director | Writer | Title Designer
A Story of Water (1961)
Director | Editor | Writer
Breathless (1960)
Screenplay | Director
All the Boys Are Called Patrick (1959)
Director
The Chasers (1959)
Writer
Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (1958)
Director | Writer | Editor
Operation Concrete (1958)
Director | Writer | Editor
The Kreutzer Sonata (1956)
Producer
A Flirtatious Woman (1955)
Director | Writer | Editor | Director of Photography