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Jean Seberg (1938-1979) was an American actress. Seberg’s performance in 1960’s Breathless immortalized her as an icon of French New Wave cinema. Seberg appeared in 34 films in Hollywood and in Europe, including Saint Joan, Bonjour Tristesse, Lilith, The Mouse That Roared, Moment to Moment, A Fine Madness, Paint Your Wagon, and Airport. Her IMDb page shows 35 acting credits from 1957 to 1976 . This page will rank Jean Seberg movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences, and get some award recognition. Seven of her movies that were not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings.
Jean Seberg Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
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| 1970 | Airport (1970) AA Best Picture Nom |
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| 1969 | Paint Your Wagon (1969) |  |
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| 1959 | The Mouse That Roared (1959) | |
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| 1960 | Breathless (1960) |  |
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| 1958 | Bonjour Tristesse (1958) | |
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| 1966 | Moment to Moment (1966) |  |
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| 1964 | Lilith (1964) | |
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| 1960 | Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) | |
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| 1966 | Line of Demarcation (1966) | |
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| 1969 | Pendulum (1969) |  |
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| 1963 | In The French Style (1963) | |
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| 1972 | The Assassination (1972) | |
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| 1976 | The Wild Duck (1976) | |
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| 1966 | A Fine Madness (1966) |  |
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| 1961 | Time Out For Love (1961) | |
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| 1970 | Dead Of Summer (1970) | |
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| 1971 | Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! (1971) |  |
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| 1964 | Backfire (1964) | |
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| 1973 | The Corruption of Chris Miller (1973) | |
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| 1961 | Five Day Lover (1961) | |
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| 1957 | Saint Joan (1957) | |
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| 1970 | Macho Callahan (1970) |  |
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| 1961 | Love Play (1961) |  |
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| 1968 | Birds In Peru (1968) | |
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| 1967 | Who's Got the Black Box? (1967) | |
Jean Seberg Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies any way you want.
- Sort Jean Seberg movies by her co-stars
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- Sort Jean Seberg movies by how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Jean Seberg movie received.
- Sort Jean Seberg movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
| CreditRank | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Review % | Oscar Nom / Win | S | UMR Score | ||||
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| CreditRank | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review % | Oscar Nom / Win | S | UMR Score |
| 1 | Airport (1970) AA Best Picture Nom |
Burt Lancaster & Dean Martin |
102.40 | 776.0 | 776.0 | 2 | 63 | 10 / 01 | 96.9 | |
| 2 | Paint Your Wagon (1969) | Lee Marvin & Clint Eastwood |
40.00 | 331.0 | 331.0 | 8 | 50 | 01 / 00 | 88.3 | |
| 3 | The Mouse That Roared (1959) | Peter Sellers | 5.70 | 111.9 | 111.9 | 43 | 74 | 00 / 00 | 86.5 | |
| 4 | Breathless (1960) | Jean Seberg | 1.70 | 29.2 | 128.7 | 109 | 85 | 00 / 00 | 79.4 | |
| 5 | Bonjour Tristesse (1958) | David Niven | 2.40 | 46.2 | 46.2 | 94 | 73 | 00 / 00 | 74.0 | |
| 6 | Moment to Moment (1966) | Honor Blackmon | 3.50 | 37.4 | 37.4 | 71 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 63.3 | |
| 7 | Lilith (1964) | Warren Beatty & Peter Fonda |
2.30 | 28.6 | 28.6 | 100 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 60.7 | |
| 8 | Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) | Ricardo Montalban & Shelley Winters |
1.10 | 18.2 | 18.2 | 125 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 55.4 | |
| 9 | Line of Demarcation (1966) | Maurice Ronet | 0.40 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 144 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 52.6 | |
| 10 | Pendulum (1969) | George Peppard | 1.50 | 12.3 | 12.3 | 121 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 46.1 | |
| 11 | In The French Style (1963) | Stanley Baker | 0.70 | 9.8 | 9.8 | 122 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 42.6 | |
| 11 | The Assassination (1972) | Roy Scheider | 0.20 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 170 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 42.0 | |
| 13 | The Wild Duck (1976) | Bruno Ganz | 0.20 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 169 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 41.0 | |
| 16 | A Fine Madness (1966) | Sean Connery & Joanne Woodward |
4.90 | 52.8 | 100.8 | 58 | 48 | 00 / 00 | 40.0 | |
| 14 | Time Out For Love (1961) | Maurice Ronet | 0.10 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 150 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 36.3 | |
| 15 | Dead Of Summer (1970) | Luigi Pistilli | 0.20 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 181 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 34.0 | |
| 18 | Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! (1971) | James Mason | 2.00 | 14.2 | 14.2 | 120 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 27.6 | |
| 17 | Backfire (1964) | Jean-Paul Belmondo | 0.40 | 5.4 | 34.0 | 147 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 27.3 | |
| 19 | The Corruption of Chris Miller (1973) | Marisol | 0.20 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 180 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 24.4 | |
| 20 | Five Day Lover (1961) | Jean-Pierre Cassel | 0.10 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 151 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 22.2 | |
| 21 | Saint Joan (1957) | Richard Widmark & John Gielgud |
1.10 | 24.0 | 24.0 | 146 | 48 | 00 / 00 | 20.2 | |
| 22 | Macho Callahan (1970) | Lee J. Cobb | 0.50 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 166 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 15.6 | |
| 23 | Love Play (1961) | Christian Marquand | 0.10 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 156 | 46 | 00 / 00 | 8.9 | |
| 24 | Birds In Peru (1968) | Danielle Darrieux | 0.10 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 185 | 44 | 00 / 00 | 7.0 | |
| 25 | Who's Got the Black Box? (1967) | Maurice Ronet | 0.10 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 181 | 41 | 00 / 00 | 4.6 |
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To movie historians and art-house film lovers Jean will [as is suggested in WH’s lead-in above] always be remembered for the European continental “new wave” classic Breathless. It’s adjusted US gross of $22 million [see Bruce’s tables] was small change when compared with the takings of some of today’s blockbusters but that figure was good for a French film released in the US in the 1960s.
Although ORIGINALLY released in the USA itself in 1960 it was banned for 4 years elsewhere; but on the Continent was dubbed “The French Film The French Talk About – The Most”. WH gives us above a nice little miniature of a breezy Jean with the young Belmondo.
By the way the latter was a great Bogart idolater and in a TV documentary about Belmondo Jean Paul was pictured standing in front of a cinema showing The Maltese Falcon and he -gazing up at the marquee – could be heard saying over and over to himself “Bogie! Bogie! Bogie!”
Jean Seberg, very pretty, very troubled and a tragic ending.
Kristen Stewart played Seberg recently in a film.
I’ve seen just 3 Jean Seberg films – Airport, Paint Your Wagon and The Mouse That Roared. Airport is my favorite of the three.
Nice work Bruce. Vote Up!
When Yvette’s name was flagged up the only movies of hers that I could immediately think of were Diamond Head and Skyjacked as they were both with my idol Chuck Heston. Not being a sci-fi fan like Steve The Time Machine never attracted my attention.
Indeed looking over her filmography in detail I find that in only 3 [very minor] of her movies did she ever receive top billing and there were no other major stars in those; and as often as not she was well down the cast list in her remaining flicks.
So it struck me that she was a “poor woman’s Myrna Loy” though in fairness to The Thin Woman in her early days she was billed above a couple of great stars such as Al Leach and Tyrone Power; though it must be said that Ty and Archie had not then quite morphed into the mega legends that they have now historically established themselves as.
Alec is No 2 AFI all-time Legend and Ty was in the first “trial” draft of AFI’s list of 50 Legendary names but just missed the final cut; and in the two later films they made together [Bachelor Knight and Mr Blandings] Thins had to accept 2nd billing to Archie.
I have seen 8 Jean Seberg movies.
The HIGHEST rated movie I have seen is Airport.
The highest rated movie I have NOT seen is Moment to Moment.
The LOWEST rated movie I have seen is Saint Joan.
Favourite Jean Seberg Movies:
Airport
Breathless
The Mouse That Roared
Paint Your Wagon
Other Jean Seberg Movies I Have seen:
Bonjour Tristesse
Lilith
A Fine Madness
Saint Joan
Great UMR star page