Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Jean-Pierre Léaud. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The 400 Blows

1959 · Movie · 94 min. · France

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Claire Maurier · Albert Rémy · Guy Decomble

Synopsis 14-year-old Antoine Doinel has troubles at home and at school. Ignored and neglected by his parents, his relationship with his mother is further strained when he discovers that she has taken a secret lover. Added to this, his school teachers...

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8.1

31K votes

8.1

31K votes

The Mother and the Whore

1973 · Movie · 215 min. · France

Direction Jean Eustache

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Françoise Lebrun · Bernadette Lafont · Jean Douchet

Synopsis It focuses on three twentysomething Parisians in a bizarre love triangle: Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is a seemingly unemployed narcissist involved with both a live-in girlfriend (Bernadette Lafont) and a Polish nurse (Françoise Lebrun) whom he picked up at a café...

8.0

2K votes

8.0

2K votes

Out 1

1971 · Movie · 773 min. · France

Direction Jacques Rivette · Suzanne Schiffman

Cast Michéle Moretti · Hermine Karagheuz · Karen Puig · Pierre Baillot

Synopsis Lili (Michele Moretti) is a member of an experimental troupe preparing a radical new interpretation of Aeschylus's 'Seven Against Thebes', while Thomas (Michel Lonsdale) is in charge of a state-funded group who are rehearsing another work by the same ancient...

7.9

134 votes

7.9

134 votes

Out 1: Spectre

1974 · Movie · 225 min. · France

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Françoise Fabian · Bernadette Lafont · Michael Lonsdale · Jean-Pierre Léaud

Synopsis A story about two Parisian theater groups preparing Aeschylus plays and two eccentric loners, a middle-class deaf-mute (Jean-Pierre Laud) and a working-class flirt (Juliet Berto), who stumble upon evidence of a secret group that hopes to control Paris. (The coded...

7.7

26 votes

7.7

26 votes

Day for Night

1973 · Movie · 115 min. · France

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Jacqueline Bisset · Nathalie Baye · Alexandra Stewart

Synopsis A film company at work. Actors arrive and depart; liaisons develop. Julie, the beautiful but possibly unstable lead, is recovering from a breakdown, aided by an older physician, her new husband. Alphonse is insecure, he babbles. When his fiance exits...

7.7

10K votes

7.7

10K votes

The Bohemian Life

1992 · Movie · 100 min. · Finland

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Matti Pellonpää · Evelyne Didi · André Wilms · Kari Väänänen

Synopsis Three artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise. Rodolfo falls in love with Mimi, a barmaid. The...

7.6

3K votes

7.6

3K votes

Pierrot Goes Wild

1965 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Anna Karina · Dirk Sanders · Jean-Pierre Léaud

Synopsis Ferdinand Griffon, AKA 'Pierrot' (Jean-Paul Belmondo) escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne (Anna Karina), a babysitter hired by his wife (Graziella Galvani) and who is chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead...

7.4

6K votes

7.4

6K votes

Stolen Kisses

1968 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Claude Jade · Delphine Seyrig · Michael Lonsdale

Synopsis Jean-Pierre Léaud returns in the delightful Stolen Kisses, the third installment in the Antoine Doinel series. It is now 1968, and the mischievous and perpetually love-struck Doinel has been dishonorably discharged from the army and released onto the streets of...

7.3

6K votes

7.3

6K votes

I Hired a Contract Killer

1990 · Movie · 79 min. · Finland

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Margi Clarke · Charlesa Cork · Serge Reggiani

Synopsis After losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to voluntarily end his life rather than allow himself to sink into further despair. Lacking courage, he hires a contract killer to do the...

7.2

4K votes

7.2

4K votes

The Birth of Love

1993 · Movie · 94 min. · France

Direction Philippe Garrel

Cast Lou Castel · Jean-Pierre Léaud · Johanna ter Steege · Dominique Reymond

Synopsis Paul and Marcus are buddies. Paul has kids, Marcus doesn't. Marcus loves Hélène, his girlfriend. Paul loves Ulrika, but she doesn't love him, so he stays with Fanchon out of love for the children. Paul is an actor. Marcus is...

7.2

429 votes

7.2

429 votes

Masculine-Feminine

1966 · Movie · 103 min. · France

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Chantal Goya · Marlène Jobert · Michel Debord

Synopsis Paul is young, just demobbed from national service in the French Army, and dishillusioned with civilian life. As his girlfriend builds herself a career as a pop singer, Paul becomes more isolated from his friends and peers ('the children of...

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7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Bed and Board

1970 · Movie · 97 min. · France

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Claude Jade · Hiroko Berghauer · Daniel Ceccaldi

Synopsis The fourth film in François Truffaut's quasi-autobiographical Antoine Doinel cycle finds the idealistic child-man (played by Truffaut's alter ego and French new wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud) married to his sweetheart Christine (Claude Jade) and still plugging away at odd jobs....

7.2

3K votes

7.2

3K votes

Antoine and Colette

1962 · Movie · 32 min. · France

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Marie-France Pisier · Jean-François Adam · Patrick Auffay

Synopsis After indulging in much delinquency in his youth, seventeen year old Antoine Doinel, having been provided opportunity to get out of that delinquent life, is now an upstanding member of society working for Philips Records, which allows him to indulge...

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

Le Testament d'Orphée

1959 · Movie · 83 min. · France

Direction Jean Cocteau

Cast Jean Cocteau · Claudine Auger · Charles Aznavour · Lucía Bosé

Synopsis Le Testament d'Orphee, the last film made by Cocteau, is a visual summing up of the poet's own life. In it Cocteau gazes, one after the other, into the multiple mirrors of his loves and his works, re-creating his personal...

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7.1

777 votes

7.1

777 votes

La Chinoise

1967 · Movie · 96 min. · France

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Anne Wiazemsky · Jean-Pierre Léaud · Juliet Berto · Michel Semeniako

Synopsis A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.

7.1

3K votes

7.1

3K 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 Dreamers

2003 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast Michael Pitt · Louis Garrel · Eva Green · Robin Renucci

Synopsis Set against the turbulent political backdrop of France in the spring of 1968 when the voice of youth was reverberating around Europe, The Dreamers is a story of self-discovery as three students test each other to see just how far...

7.1

31K votes

7.1

31K votes

Irma Vep

1996 · Movie · 97 min. · France

Direction Olivier Assayas

Cast Maggie Cheung · Antoine Basler · Jean-Pierre Léaud · Nathalie Richard

Synopsis Maggie Cheung, acting out her own role as one of the greatest stars of Asian cinema, comes to Paris to portray Irma Vep (the character created by Musidora) in a remake of the famous series "Vampires" directed by Louis Feuillade...

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7.0

910 votes

7.0

910 votes

Love at Twenty

1962 · Movie · 120 min. · France

Direction François Truffaut · Renzo Rossellini · Shintaro Ishihara · Marcel Ophüls

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Marie-France Pisier · Rosy Varte · Cristina Gaioni

Synopsis Several internationally known directors contributed to this generally adept and compelling series of five brief vignettes on love and its many ramifications. François Truffaut starts things off with a story of innocent love (Antoine et Colette) between a young man...

7.0

395 votes

7.0

395 votes

Le Havre

2011 · Movie · 93 min. · Finland

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast André Wilms · Kati Outinen · Jean-Pierre Darroussin · Blondin Miguel

Synopsis Marcel Marx, a former author and a well-known Bohemian, has retreated into a voluntary exile in the port city of Le Havre, where he feels he has reached a closer rapport with the people serving them in the occupation of...

6.9

10K votes

6.9

10K votes