Jean-Luc Godard Filmography
March 4, 2025
Richly dense, in text and subtext, Godard’s films require close attention and repeat viewing as they reveal themselves through a dialectical process as we watch, challenge and question them.
Godard involved viewers more thoroughly and more politically in a film like Band Apart (“bande a Part”) than in any of his previous ideological and didactic work.
James Monaco has suggested that with Godard it’s the synthesis of experience, not analysis of it, that makes him a powerful artist.
Total output: 38 films
Career span: 1960-2018; 58 years; last film just before his death (assisted suicide)
1960s (18)
Breathless (1960)
A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
Vivre sa vie (1962)
Le petit soldat (1963)
The Carabineers (1963)
Contempt (1963)
Bande à part (1964)
A Married Woman (1964)
Alphaville (1965)
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Masculin Féminin (1966)
Made in U.S.A. (1966)
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)
La Chinoise (1967)
Week-end (1967)
One Plus One (Sympathy for the Devil) (1968)
Joy of Learning (1969)
British Sounds (1969)
1970s (2)
Tout Va Bien (1972)
Number Two (1975)
1980s (7)
Every Man for Himself (1980)
Passion (1982)
First Name: Carmen (1983)
Hail Mary (1985)
Détective (1985)
King Lear (1987)
Keep Your Right Up (1987)
1990s (6)
Nouvelle Vague (1990)
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991)
Hélas pour moi (1993)
Les Enfants jouent à la Russie (1993)
JLG/JLG – Self-Portrait in December (1995)
For Ever Mozart (1996)
2000 (5)
In Praise of Love (2001)
Notre musique (2004)
Goodbye to Language (2014)
The Image Book (2018)
