

Breathless
Wild! Violent! Outspoken and Honest!
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.
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7.5/10
2,107 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $80K
- Box office
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- Language
- French
- hotel room
- dying and death
- newspaper
- journalist
- friendship
- paris, france
- fight
- loss of loved one
- gun
- car thief
- marseille, france
- journalism
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR7 Feb 1961
- TheatricalNRRe-release21 Apr 2000
- Theatrical (limited)NRHarvard Film Archive30 Jan 2006
- PremiereTCM Classic Film Festival (Restored Version)23 Apr 2010
- Theatrical (limited)NRRestored Version28 May 2010
- PremiereMilwaukee Film Festival25 Sept 2010
- Digital / OTTLetterboxd Video Store22 Dec 2025
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical12A8 Jul 1961
- PhysicalPG13 May 1993
- Theatrical (limited)PGRestored Version25 Jun 2010
AustraliaAU
- Digital / OTTLetterboxd Video Store22 Dec 2025
CanadaCA
- Digital / OTTLetterboxd Video Store22 Dec 2025
BrazilBR
- Theatrical147 Mar 1961
- Theatrical (limited)CINUSP (Mostra Amor Bandido)27 Jun 2024
CzechiaCZ
- Digital / OTT15+12 Jan 2006
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical717 Oct 1960
- Theatrical7Re-release11 Apr 1966
EstoniaEE
- PremieretARTuff Tartu Love Film Festival7 Aug 2025
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1611 Sept 1964
- TheatricalK-12Re-release12 Jul 1996
FranceFR
- TheatricalTP16 Mar 1960
- PremiereTPCannes Film Festival9 May 1960
- TVTF117 Jan 1977
- TheatricalTPRestored Version23 Jun 2010
- Digital / OTTTPNetflix1 Sept 2020
- PremiereTPLumière Film Festival (Restored Version)11 Oct 2020
- TheatricalTPRe-release19 May 2021
GermanyDE
- Theatrical16West Germany5 Jul 1960
- Theatrical16Re-release5 Jul 2001
IndonesiaID
- PremiereFestival Sinema Prancis 22 Nov 2025
Frequently asked questions
Breathless was released on 16 March 1960.
Audience reviews
3- C8/10
CRCulver
9/2/2018
A key film of the late Fifties/early Sixties French New Wave, <i>À bout de souffle</i> (Breathless) opens with suave lowlife Michel Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo) stealing a car. When he's caught speeding on the way to Paris and pursued by the police, Michel kills the officer. Desperate to collect some money owed and make his escape to Italy, he hides out with Patricia (Jean Seberg), an American girl he had slept with…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
3/14/2024
Jean-Paul Belmondo spends much of this film in just his boxers after his "Poiccard/Kovacs" character pinches a car, kills the pursuing police officer and the ends up taking refuge with his new journalism student friend "Patricia" (Jean Seberg). She's not quite aware of the extent of the trouble her new beau is in when he sets about trying to convince her that he has some cash coming and that they should go and live i…
- B10/10
badelf
7/9/2026
Summary: 10/10: a landmark film that invented the grammar contemporary cinema still speaks, and a sharper cultural critique than it's often given credit for. Taken out of its historical moment, Jean-Luc Godard's first feature isn't necessarily thrilling. But for 1960, it was groundbreaking, a film that shattered conventions so thoroughly that its innovations are now invisible, absorbed completely into the language…
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