Week-end (1967)
Week-end storyline. It’s Saturday, and Roland and Corinne Durand are driving from the city to Oinville for the weekend to visit her dying father. They have been poisoning him over several years.
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Band of Outsiders (1964)
From the director of “Breathless” comes this French New Wave crime dramedy with offbeat overtones. Follow two Hollywood-obsessed crooks as they convince a young woman (Anna Karina) to help them rob her own home. Featured in the film is an improvisation-style dance sequence that took on a life of its own in pop culture.
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Masculin Feminin (1966)
Director Jean-Luc Godard turns his attention toward “the children of Marx and Coca-Cola” in this romantic dramedy. At its heart is the Parisian love affair between a wayward idealist (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and rising pop star (Chantal Goya). In addition to its unique sense of self-awareness, the film provides a candid snapshot of 1960s youth culture.
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Le Petit Soldad (1963)
Le Petit Soldad movie storyline. During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing terrorist group meet and fall in love. Complications ensue when the man is suspected by the members of his terrorist group of being a double agent.
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Le Mépris (1963)
Le Mépris is a 1963 French New Wave drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, based on the 1954 Italian novel Il disprezzo by Alberto Moravia.
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Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Pierrot le Fou movie storyline. Ferdinand Griffon (Jean-Paul Belmondo), married to a wealthy Italian wife, has recently been fired from the television station where he worked. His wife forces him to go to a party at the home of her influential father, who wants to introduce him to a potential employer. Her brother brings babysitter Marianne Renoir (Anna Karina) to take care of their children.
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Every Man for Himself (1980)
Every Man for Himself (Sauve Qui Peut (la Vie), a pessimistic but visually stunning film, marks Jean-Luc Godard’s return to cinema after having spent the 70s working in video.
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A Woman is a Woman (1961)
A Woman is a Woman centers on the relationship of exotic dancer Angéla (Karina) and her lover Émile (Brialy). Angéla wants to have a child, but Émile isn’t ready. Émile’s best friend Alfred (Belmondo) also says he loves Angéla, and keeps up a gentle pursuit.
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First Name: Carmen (1984)
First Name: Carmen movie storyline. Carmen, in a voice over paired with shots of the city and the sea, introduces herself as “the girl who should not be called Carmen.” Somewhere a string quartet is rehearsing the late string quartets of Beethoven.
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My Life to Live (1962)
My Life to Live movie storyline. Nana (Anna Karina), a beautiful Parisian in her early twenties, leaves her husband and infant son hoping to become an actress. Without money, beyond what she earns as a shopgirl, and unable to enter acting, she elects to earn better money as a prostitute.
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