Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud

Direction François Truffaut

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

Synopsis The 400 Blows (1959) follows Antoine Doinel, a misunderstood adolescent in Paris, as he navigates the challenges of school, family, and societal expectations. Feeling neglected by his parents and stifled by a rigid education system, Antoine begins to rebel, skipping...

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...

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...

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...

Direction François Truffaut

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

Synopsis In Day for Night (1973), François Truffaut crafts a playful yet poignant ode to filmmaking. The story follows a director and his crew as they navigate the chaos of shooting a melodrama in a French studio. Between technical challenges, tangled...

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...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

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

Synopsis Pierrot Goes Wild (1965) follows Ferdinand, a disillusioned man who escapes his bourgeois life with Marianne, his former lover. They embark on a spontaneous, chaotic journey across France, seeking freedom and passion. Their adventure spirals into a whirlwind of crime,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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.

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....

Direction Bernardo Bertolucci

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

Synopsis The Dreamers (2003) follows an American exchange student, Matthew, who befriends a pair of enigmatic French twins, Isabelle and Theo, in 1968 Paris. Bonding over their shared love of cinema, the trio immerses themselves in a world of film, intellectual...

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...

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...

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

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

Synopsis In Le Havre (2011), a humble shoeshiner named Marcel Marx befriends Idrissa, a young African refugee who arrives illegally in the French port city of Le Havre. When authorities threaten to deport Idrissa, Marcel rallies his eclectic community to protect...