Hail Mary (Je vous salue Marie)
(1985) [R]

Condemed by the Pope and banned across Europe and the US, Jean-Luc Godard's notorious retelling of the birth of Christ is the great French director's most daring cinematic work. In Godard's contemporary twist on the story of the Virgin, the Virgin Mary is a Swiss gas station employee, and...  More

Band Of Outsiders (Bande a part)
(1964) [PG]

Two small-time, self-conscious toughs Franz (Frey) and Arthur (Brasseur) begin a dalliance with local girl Odile (Karina) whose Aunt (Colpeyn) just happens to have a large pile of banknotes lying in a cupboard at home. Gently coerced into taking part in the robbery - largely because she has...  More

La Chinoise
(1967) [M]

Godard's brilliant dialectical farce, distinctly disquieting as well as gratingly funny, in which five Parisian students, members of a Maoist cell, discuss the implications of the Chinese cultural revolution and the chances of using terrorism to effect a similar upheaval in the West. Dazzlingly...  More

Vivre Sa Vie (My Life to Live)
(1962)

Vivre Sa Vie presents 12 episodes in the life of a young woman who turns to prostitution to pay her rent. Each episode features a theatrical scene preceded by a title that lists the characters in the episode, its location, and a brief summary of the action. As he would throughout his career,...  More

Detective
(1985) [M]

In a Paris hotel, two detectives investigate the death of a mysterious character. Meanwhile, Jim Fox Warner, a boxing trainer, is hoping his boy will win, so he can pay back the mafia…  More

Made in U.S.A
(1966) [M]

Set in Atlantic City, France, the tale centers on Paula Nelson's search for her old flame Richard Politzer. With comic-book bright colors and playful sound effects, Jean-Luc Godard pays tribute to American filmmakers Nicholas Ray and Sam Fuller with Made in USA, his take on the American gangster...  More

First Name Carmen
(1983) [R]

First Name: Carmen is a 1983 film by Jean-Luc Godard. It is very loosely based on Bizet's opera Carmen. The protagonist is Carmen X (Maruschka Detmers), a female member of a terrorist gang. She asks her uncle Jean, a washed-up film director (played by Jean-Luc Godard himself) if she can borrow...  More

Le Petit Soldat (The Little Soldier)
(1963) [M]

Godard, who once said, " All you need for a movie is fun and a girl," is one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th Century, and introduced many techniques that have improvised dialogue. Asked by a fellow filmmaker if he would at least admit that a film should have a beginning, middle and...  More

Alphaville (Alphaville, une etrange aventure de Lemmy Caution)
(1965) [M]

Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine), a hero Godard borrowed from a series of French adventure films, comes to Alphaville, the capital of a totalitarian state, in order to destroy its leader, an almost-human computer called Alpha 60. While on his mission, Lemmy meets and falls in love with Natacha...  More

Contempt (Le Mepris) (2 disc set)
(1963) [PG]

Jean-Luc Godard's subversive foray into commercial filmmaking is a star-studded Cinemascope epic. Contempt (Le M pris) stars Michel Piccoli as a screenwriter torn between the demands of a proud European director (played by legendary director Fritz Lang), a crude and arrogant American producer...  More