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An 8 part documentary chronicling the history of cinema, examining the history of the concept of cinema and how both relates to the 20th century

At a Paris hotel, a hotel detective fired after a murder there, is still investigating helped by his inspector nephew and girlfriend A boxing manager, owing money to a couple and the mafia, rides on a match next day

A film director has an inspirational crisis while working on the production, Passion, and struggles with the nature of work and art

Four swindle stories, taking place successively in Tokyo Japan Les cinq bienfaiteurs de Fumiko, Amsterdam The Netherlands La riviere de diamants, Italie La feuille de route, and Paris France Lhomme qui vendit la tour Ei

Screenwriter Paul Javals marriage to his wife Camille disintegrates during movie production as she spends time with the producer Layered conflicts between art and business ensue

An examination of the daily routine at a British auto factory assembly line, set against class conflict and The Communist Manifesto

Two crooks with a fondness for old Hollywood B movies convince a languages student to help them commit a robbery

A surreal tale of a married couple going on a road trip to visit the wifes parents with the intention of killing them for the inheritance

Five short stories with contemporary settings In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a womans assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash A man, stripped of

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit men from Algeria They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run

Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life

A U S secret agent is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler

During the Algerian War, a man and woman from opposing sides fall in love with one another

A romance between young Parisians, shown through a series of vignettes

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution

During a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life Two of these farmers write to their wives of their exploits

In the near future, leftist writer Paula goes from Paris to the French town of Atlantic Cite when she learns of the death of a former colleague and lover, Richard P Is she there to investigate On the surface, faces are beautiful, c

A day in the life of a Parisian housewifeprostitute, interspersed with musings on the Vietnam War and other contemporary issues

A filmic essay on class struggle which draws on images from westerns but has no plot and is both an experiment in making a revolutionary film and an interrogation of how successfully such a film can be revolutionary

An analysis of the power relations in an ordinary family

A film with idiotic prince and Rita Mitsouko who records a new album

Nothing but silence Nothing but a revolutionary song A story in five chapters like the five fingers of a hand

A woman involved with a terrorist group becomes dangerously close to the police officer guarding the bank they plan to rob

How do we learn What do we know Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution Scenes of Pariss student revolt, the

A film about politics and the media, in which two workers in a newspaper plant attempt to make a film

Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors St Germain des Pres Douchet, Gare du Nord Rouch, Rue St Denis Pollet, and Montparnasse et Levallois Godard are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution

A small time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman Wanted by the authorities, he reunites with a hip American journalism student and attempts to persuade her to run away with him to Italy

An examination of sexual relationships, in which three protagonists interact in different combinations

While The Rolling Stones rehearse Sympathy for the Devil in the studio, Godard reflects on 1968 society, politics and culture through five different vignettes

A superifical woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism

The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology

Jean Luc Godard and Anne Marie Mieville talk about their films, while doing everyday tasks around their house

Godard examines the structure of movies, relationships and revolutions through the life of a couple in Paris

Godard, Mieville and Gorin aka the Dziga Vertov Group examine the parallel lives of two families one French, one Palestinian using an exploratory combination of film and video

A silent, surreal parallel between a couple and a dog