Françoise Hardy made her film debut in 1963, after having been chosen by director Roger Vadim to take the role of Ophélie in his movie "Nutty, Naughty Chateau" (, drawn from Françoise Sagan's piece for theatre of that name). She then did three to four performances as a singer in some musicarelli in Italy, for example, "Questo pazzo, pazzo mondo della canzone" in 1965. This same year, Hardy played a minor role as the Mayor's assistant in Clive Donner’s film "What's New Pussycat?" and then had a supporting role in "A Bullet Through the Heart" (), directed by Jean-Daniel Pollet. In 1966, she made a cameo appearance in a scene from Jean-Luc Godard's film "Masculin, féminin", then participated in "Grand Prix", a US blockbuster focusing on Formula 1 racing and the lives of the drivers, directed by John Frankenheimer, in which she plays Lisa, the girlfriend of Nino Barlini, a fictional Italian driver. Following this role, Françoise Hardy did not want to make films anymore, but in 1972 she had a cameo role as a hippie in the film ("The Doves") by the Québécois filmmaker Jean-Claude Lord. This was her final appearance on the screen apart from in Claude Lelouch’s 1976 film "If I Had to Do It All Over Again" (), where she appears as a singer performing a song.