Watch Order
0 / 13 watchedThirteen key features in release order. A starter pick, not the full forty film run.
About Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard directed more than forty features, so this guide picks thirteen key titles as a starting path. It opens with Breathless in 1960, A Woman Is a Woman in 1961 and Vivre sa vie in 1962, then moves through Contempt in 1963, Band of Outsiders and A Married Woman in 1964, Alphaville and Pierrot le Fou in 1965, Masculin Feminin in 1966 and Weekend in 1967. These New Wave years set his jump cut style and political turn.
The later run covers Every Man for Himself in 1980, First Name: Carmen in 1983 and Goodbye to Language in 2014, which won a jury prize at Cannes. Watch in release order. The films do not connect, and the sequence maps his move from playful crime stories to essay films and digital experiments.
Good to know
These are standalone films with no shared continuity, so there is no separate chronological order worth listing. New viewers can start with Breathless, Contempt or Pierrot le Fou before trying the later essay work. Godard died in 2022, so this run is complete. Once you know which period you like, explore the full forty film run beyond this starter pick.
