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À bout de souffle (1960) More at IMDbPro »

Remade as

Numéro deux (1975)
 -  Godard says it is!
Breathless (1983)
Happiness Is No Fun. (2005)

Edited into

De l'origine du XXIe siècle (2000)

References

The Maltese Falcon (1941)
 -  The film is playing in the cinema Michel and Patricia are in. Michel bases his personality on Bogart and even rubs his lips as Bogart does in "The Maltese Falcon."
The Harder They Fall (1956)
 -  Michel sees a poster for the movie as well as some promotional photographs of Humphrey Bogart.
Bob le flambeur (1956)
 -  Mentioned in conversation "Bob the gambler wound cash it." "The poor sod's in jail"
Forty Guns (1957)
 -  the scene where patricia looks through the rolled afiche is a visual reference to Forty guns.
Westbound (1959)
 -  Belmondo and Seberg watch the film in a theater.
Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
 -  The title is displayed as one of the movies being shown at a cinema
Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)
 -  Movie poster is seen in street (12 minutes in)
À double tour (1959)
 -  "Laszlo Kovacs", Poiccard's alias in Breathless, is a reference to the character of the same name (also played by Jean-Paul Belmondo) in A double tour

Referenced in

Lola (1961)
 -  Roland mentions he had a friend named Poiccard, who turned bad and get killed - it's the character played by Jean-Paul Belmondo in this movie
Une femme est une femme (1961)
 -  It mentions "'Breathless' is on TV"
Die Versöhnung (1964)
Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965)
Pierrot le fou (1965)
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
"Cinéastes de notre temps: Le dinosaure et le bébé, dialogue en huit parties entre Fritz Lang et Jean-Luc Godard" (1967)
 -  mentionned once
Belle de jour (1967)
Two American Audiences: La Chinoise - A Film in the Making (1968)
 -  Godard talks about this movie
Godard in America (1970)
 -  The narrator mentions Breathless in the introduction.
L'héritier (1973)
 -  Jean-Paul Belmondo closes his eyes with his own hands, just as he did in "À bout de souffle".
À bout de sexe (1975)
 -  The title is an erotic transcript of the original movie's
Unmade Beds (1976)
Wie de Waarheid Zegt Moet Dood (1981)
 -  The title is mentioned.
Valehtelija (1981)
 -  Homage: The famous film final scene from ""Á bout de souffle" is taken or copied quite consciously to 1:1 here.
"Vradya epitheorisis: (#1.14)" (1984)
 -  Mentioned
Subway (1985)
Three Bewildered People in the Night (1987)
 -  A character says his name is "Jean-Luc" and mentions the film Breathless.
The Russia House (1990)
Laws of Gravity (1992)
Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède (1993) (TV)
 -  Documentary about this movie.
The Doom Generation (1995)
 -  The smile or I'll choke you game is directly lifted, not to mention the somewhat general theme of being a nihilistic road movie
New Wave (1997)
Where's Marlowe? (1998)
 -  A.J. and Wilt discuss this film's style
When Brendan Met Trudy (2000)
The Invisible Circus (2001)
Dali's Hairs (2001)
 -  referenced in credits
Vanilla Sky (2001)
"Dawson's Creek: In a Lonely Place (#5.16)" (2002)
 -  At the start of the episode, Dawson and Joey are watching this movie. Dawson also later references the Laszlo Kovacs alias in the film.
Hivernam (2002)
Claude Jutra, portrait sur film (2002)
 -  Mentioned in dialogue
The Emperor's Club (2002)
 -  A film poster can be seen
Cinema Sex Politics: Bertolucci Makes 'The Dreamers' (2003) (TV)
 -  mentioned once
Anything Else (2003)
 -  postcard size card on apartment wall
The Dreamers (2003)
Hu die (2004)
 -  The English poster of the movie can be seen.
The Squid and the Whale (2005)
 -  Near the end of the film Bernard mentions to his wife how they saw this film.
Film Geek (2005)
 -  Scotty mentions it
In the Strangest Places (2005)
 -  homage scene recreates the Champs Elssie 'walk and talk' scene
50 Films to See Before You Die (2006) (TV)
 -  Makes the countdown, is talked about.
O Cheiro do Ralo (2006)
 -  Poster on Lourenço's office.
Knocked Up (2007)
 -  Ben makes a joke about wanting to see this
Hollywood (2007)
 -  quoted
Blodigt jävla helvete (2008)
 -  Film poster can be seen on a wall in the police station
Patiently Wasting (2008)
 -  Mentioned
Instant Konkowsky (2009)
 -  Discussed as a clue to Konkowsky's whereabouts
One Minutes (2009)
 -  The section On The Run in One Minutes references À bout de souffle's theme, structure and style.

Features

Whirlpool (1949)
 -  Though we never see a shot of the screen, during Patricia's elusion of the police in the theatre we hear the soundtrack of a scene from Otto Preminger's Whirlpool (1949). The poster for the film is visible as Patricia and Michel walk in front of the theatre after her escape.

Featured in

Pierrot le fou (1965)
"Fejezetek a film történetéböl: A francia új hullám (#1.14)" (1990)
Au pays des Juliets (1992)
A Kiss to Die For (1993) (TV)
 -  Mimi and Tim watch this movie together
Citizen Langlois (1994)
 -  Contains footage of the film.
Le fils de Gascogne (1995)
 -  Talked about and clip used in the film
From the Journals of Jean Seberg (1995)
The Halfback of Notre Dame (1996) (TV)
 -  Shown in theater.
In the Shadow of Hollywood (2000)
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film (2002) (TV)
A Decade Under the Influence (2003)
The Dreamers (2003)
 -  Eva Green imitates Jean Seberg
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (2004)
 -  It's shown when they talk about quick cutting.
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005) (TV)
 -  clip
True Love (2006/II)
 -  Extract sequence
Wanderlust (2006) (TV)
 -  A clip from Breathless is shown.
50 Films to See Before You Die (2006) (TV)
 -  Clips shown.

Spoofed in

Une femme est une femme (1961)
Play Time (1967)
Le voyou (1970)
 -  In the musical (also called "Le Voyou") inside the film, the gangster died in a way mocking the death of the title character played by Jean-Paul Belmondo.

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