Cast: Philippe Léotard

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Philippe Léotard. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Mouth Agape

1974 · Movie · 82 min. · France

Direction Maurice Pialat

Cast Hubert Deschamps · Monique Mélinand · Philippe Léotard · Nathalie Baye

Synopsis When cancer strikes the mother of the family, everyone in the family expresses a previously invisible caring and tolerance of the others. The father has always been a bit of a drunk, and is forever chasing younger women. Despite that,...

7.5

230 votes

7.5

230 votes

The Day of the Jackal

1973 · Movie · 141 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Edward Fox · Michael Lonsdale · Derek Jacobi · Alan Badel

Synopsis Year 1963. President De Gaulle decides to grant independence to French Algeria, several of the soldiers, who fought in that campaign, feel that De Gaulle is belittling the lives of the men who died there. So they form a group...

7.5

9K votes

7.5

9K votes

Sur

1988 · Movie · 127 min. · Argentina

Direction Fernando E. Solanas

Cast Susú Pecoraro · Miguel Ángel Solá · Philippe Léotard · Lito Cruz

Synopsis After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from prison. Instead of returning to his wife, he wanders through the night of Buenos Aires. He meets some people from his past - most of...

7.1

281 votes

7.1

281 votes

Two English Girls

1971 · Movie · 132 min. · France

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Stecey Tenderer · Kika Markham · Sylvia Marriott

Synopsis In Paris of the early 1900s, a young French dandy, Claude Roc, strikes up a friendship with a young English woman, Anne Brown. The latter invites Claude to stay with her and her sister, Muriel, at their house in Wales....

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7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

The Track

1975 · Movie · 92 min. · France

Direction Serge Leroy

Cast Mimsy Farmer · Jean-Luc Bideau · Michael Lonsdale · Philippe Léotard

Synopsis On a visit in the Norman countryside at the week-end, a young English woman, Helen Wells, who is looking for a country place to rent, is offered assistance by a Frenchman, Philippe Mansart, who is joining a hunting party later....

7.0

24 votes

7.0

24 votes

The Abyss

1988 · Movie · 88 min. · Belgium

Direction André Delvaux

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Sami Frey · Jacques Lippe · Anna Karina

Synopsis In the sixteenth century, Spain occupies Flanders, an Inquisition enforces the faith. Aging writer and philosopher, Zénon Ligre, comes to Bruges using a false name and papers to serve as a physician to the poor, establishing a clinic and steam...

6.8

55 votes

6.8

55 votes

Les misérables

1995 · Movie · 170 min. · France

Direction Claude Lelouch

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Michel Boujenah · Alessandra Martines · Annie Girardot

Synopsis A variation on Victor Hugo's classic novel by means of the story of a man whose life is affected by and somewhat duplicated by the Hugo story of the beleaguered Jean Valjean.

6.8

310 votes

6.8

310 votes

Jane B. by Agnès V.

1988 · Documentary · 97 min. · France

Direction Agnès Varda

Cast Jane Birkin · Jean-Pierre Léaud · Philippe Léotard · Farid Chopel

Synopsis Jane B. is London-born actress and recording star Jane Birkin. Agnes V. is Belgian filmmaker and "grandmother of the New Wave" Agnes Varda. Jane B. Par Agnes V is a cinematic recounting of Birkin's career, from her breakthrough appearance as...

6.8

113 votes

6.8

113 votes

So Long, Stooge

1983 · Movie · 93 min. · France

Direction Claude Berri

Cast Coluche · Richard Anconina · Agnès Soral · Mahmoud Zemmouri

Synopsis Lambert, a burned-out case, works the night shift at a gas station, rarely speaking, living alone, drinking. Bensoussan, raised in foster homes, now a small-time pusher for a bar owner named Rashid, comes to the station needing a spark plug...

6.7

71 votes

6.7

71 votes

Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff

1977 · Movie · 112 min. · France

Direction Yves Boisset

Cast Patrick Dewaere · Aurore Clément · Philippe Léotard · Michel Auclair

Synopsis The young judge Fayard is not afraid of anybody as he does his work honestly.

6.5

35 votes

6.5

35 votes

A Week's Holiday

1980 · Movie · 102 min. · France

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Nathalie Baye · Michel Galabru · Philippe Noiret · Flore Fitzgerald

Synopsis Laurence, a young schoolteacher from Lyons, takes a week's leave. During the break, she reflects on her career and her personal life.

6.3

90 votes

6.3

90 votes

French Connection II

1975 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Gene Hackman · Fernando Rey · Bernard Fresson · Jean-Pierre Castaldi

Synopsis This sequel to the Oscar-winning "The French Connection" picks up almost exactly where the earlier film leaves off. Still on the trail of drug kingpin Frog One (Fernando Rey), narcotics officer "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) leaves his Manhattan stomping grounds...

6.2

2K votes

6.2

2K votes

A Gorgeous Girl Like Me

1972 · Movie · 98 min. · France

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Bernadette Lafont · Claude Brasseur · Charles Denner · Guy Marchand

Synopsis Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist, preparing a thesis on criminal women. He meets in prison Camille Bliss to interview her. Camille is accused to have murdered her lover Arthur and her husband Clovis. She tells Stanislas her life and...

6.0

1K votes

6.0

1K votes

The Nark

1982 · Movie · 103 min. · France

Direction Bob Swaim

Cast Nathalie Baye · Philippe Léotard · Richard Berry · Maurice Ronet

Synopsis When their main informer is gunned down, the vice squad policing a crime-riddled suburb of Paris are forced to recruit a pimp, Dédé, to help ensnare a gangland boss, Massini. When Dédé refuses to cooperate, the police squad, headed by...

5.8

111 votes

5.8

111 votes

5.7

29 votes

Elisa

1995 · Movie · 114 min. · France

Direction Jean Becker

Cast Vanessa Paradis · Gérard Depardieu · Clotilde Courau · Sekkou Sall

Synopsis Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel...

5.4

225 votes

5.4

225 votes

Contract in Blood

1982 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Robin Davis

Cast Alain Delon · Catherine Deneuve · Philippe Léotard · Etienne Chicot

Synopsis Martin Terrier (Alain Delon) has a problem. He wants to quit his job, but unlike everyone else, he cannot do it because he is a hired hitman and his employers would hate to see him turned out to pasture, he...

5.4

59 votes

5.4

59 votes

The Pirate

1984 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Jacques Doillon

Cast Jane Birkin · Maruschka Detmers · Andrew Birkin · Philippe Léotard

Synopsis Shortly after returning home one evening with her husband, Alma is visited by her one-time lesbian lover Carole. In the ensuing emotional torrent, Alma allows herself to be abducted by Carole and taken to a hotel, pursued by a young...

5.4

113 votes

5.4

113 votes