nouvelle vague
35 movies and shows
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Wed, 10 Jun 1959
The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.
Last Year at Marienbad
Thu, 25 May 1961
In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.
Breathless
Wed, 16 Mar 1960
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.
Army of Shadows
Wed, 10 Sep 1969
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must continue a quiet, seemingly endless battle against the Nazis in an atmosphere of tension, paranoia and distrust.
Léon Morin, Priest
Fri, 22 Sep 1961
Barny, although a Marxist, is intrigued by the mysteries of religion. In confession, she teases a priest, Léon Morin, but he is a young and intelligent man and ready to discuss anything.
Band of Outsiders
Wed, 05 Aug 1964
Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or frolicsome romps through the Louvre. Eventually, their romantic view of outlaws pushes them to plan their own heist, but their inexperience may send them out in a blaze of glory -- which could be just what they want.
The Married Woman
Fri, 04 Dec 1964
A superficial woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.
Muriel, or the Time of Return
Tue, 01 Oct 1963
In the seaside town of Boulogne, no one seems to be able to cope with their past, least of all Hélène, an antique furniture saleswoman, her stepson Bernard, and her former lover Alphonse.
Jules and Jim
Tue, 23 Jan 1962
In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.
The Image Book
Thu, 11 Oct 2018
In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books, uses fragments of music. The driving force is poetic rhyme, the association or opposition of ideas, the aesthetic spark through editing, the keystone. The author performs the work of a sculptor. The hand, for this, is essential. He praises it at the start. “There are the five fingers. The five senses. The five parts of the world (…). The true condition of man is to think with his hands. Jean-Luc Godard composes a dazzling syncopation of sequences, the surge of which evokes the violence of the flows of our contemporary screens, taken to a level of incandescence rarely achieved. Crowned at Cannes, the last Godard is a shock film, with twilight beauty.
Vivre Sa Vie
Thu, 20 Sep 1962
Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
The Cousins
Wed, 11 Mar 1959
Young provincial Charles arrives in Paris to stay with his cousin Paul while studying law. Paul is a decadent, bohemian pleasure-seeker who shows the meek, diligent Charles the thrills of city life. When Charles falls for Florence, one of Paul's acquaintances, relationships begin to shift.
The Last Metro
Wed, 17 Sep 1980
In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
Handsome Serge
Fri, 06 Jun 1958
After long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcoholic.
História de amor (últimos capítulos)
Wed, 15 Sep 2021
Three people get together to read the play that one of them wrote; a play that recounts the love that these three experienced in the past. But perhaps not everything is as it is written there, perhaps not everything - or almost nothing - was like that.
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
Thu, 18 Jun 1992
An intimate window into one of the great movements in film history that brought about an evolution in the art of cinema. The documentary portrays the movement with insight on the lives and works of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and other principal players in the New Wave.
Zazie dans le Métro
Fri, 28 Oct 1960
A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle.
Paris at Dawn
Sat, 31 Aug 1957
Johan van der Keuken's first film is a uniquely beautiful portrait of Paris at dawn.
Here and Elsewhere
Wed, 15 Sep 1976
Here and Elsewhere takes its name from the contrasting footage it shows of the fedayeen and of a French family watching television at home. Originally shot by the Dziga Vertov Group as a film on Palestinian freedom fighters, Godard later reworked the material alongside Anne-Marie Miéville.
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
Fri, 25 Jan 2019
An account of the life and work of French filmmaker Claude Chabrol (1930-2010), a sybarite Buddha, a furtive anarchist, an insolent lover of life.