Jean-Pierre Léaud

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The 400 Blows

(1959)

Drama

For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even m...

Runtime:

99 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Georges Flamant, Patrick Auffay

8.1

98%

N/A

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The Dreamers

(2003)

Drama, Romance

A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister.

Runtime:

112 min

Director:

Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast:

Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Anna Chancellor, Robin Renucci

7.2

60%

62

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Pierrot le Fou

(1965)

Drama, Thriller

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.

Runtime:

110 min

Director:

Jean-Luc Godard

Cast:

Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani

7.6

87%

N/A

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Last Tango in Paris

(1972)

Drama, Romance

A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.

Runtime:

129 min

Director:

Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast:

Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Catherine Breillat, Gitt Magrini

7.0

83%

77

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Day for Night

(1973)

Comedy, Drama

A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

Runtime:

116 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Valentina Cortese, Dani

8.0

97%

N/A

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Alphaville

(1965)

Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

An American private-eye arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet which is ruled by an evil scientist named Von Braun, who has outlawed love and self-expression.

Runtime:

100 min

Director:

Jean-Luc Godard

Cast:

Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Howard Vernon

7.1

91%

N/A

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Le Havre

(2011)

Comedy, Drama

Marcel Marx, a former bohemian and struggling author, has given up his literary ambitions and relocated to the port city Le Havre. He leads a simple life based around his wife Arletty, his favourite bar and his not too profitable profession as a shoeshiner. As Arletty suddenly becomes seriously ill, Marcel's path crosses with an undera...

Runtime:

94 min

Director:

Aki Kaurismäki

Cast:

André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Blondin Miguel, Elina Salo, Evelyne Didi

7.2

99%

82

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Masculin Féminin

(1966)

Drama, Romance

Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism in society, while Madeleine just wants to be successful. The story is told in a series...

Runtime:

105 min

Director:

Jean-Luc Godard

Cast:

Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Chantal Goya, Marlène Jobert, Marlène Jobert

7.5

N/A

93

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Stolen Kisses

(1968)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his...

Runtime:

90 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Daniel Ceccaldi

7.6

96%

N/A

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Weekend

(1967)

Adventure, Comedy, Drama

A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.

Runtime:

104 min

Director:

Jean-Luc Godard

Cast:

Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Valérie Lagrange

7.1

93%

N/A

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Bed and Board

(1970)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a youn...

Runtime:

97 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Daniel Ceccaldi, Daniel Ceccaldi, Claire Duhamel

7.5

75%

N/A

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La Chinoise

(1967)

Comedy, Drama

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.

Runtime:

96 min

Director:

Jean-Luc Godard

Cast:

Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, Michel Semeniako, Lex De Bruijn

7.1

95%

N/A

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Love on the Run

(1979)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Antoine is now 30, working as a proofreader and getting divorced from his his wife. It being the first "no-fault" divorce in France, a media circus erupts, dredging up Antoine's past. Indecisive about his new love with a store clerk, he impulsively takes off with an old flame.

Runtime:

93 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Claude Jade, Dani, Dorothée

7.1

58%

N/A

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Irma Vep

(1996)

Comedy, Drama

A Chinese actress, in France to star in a remake of "Les Vampires", finds petty intrigues and clashing egos on the set.

Runtime:

99 min

Director:

Olivier Assayas

Cast:

Maggie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard, Antoine Basler

7.1

93%

80

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I Hired a Contract Killer

(1990)

Comedy, Drama

After losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to voluntarily end his life. Lacking courage, he hires a contract killer to do the job. Then, while awaiting his demise, he meets a woman and promptly falls in love.

Runtime:

80 min

Director:

Aki Kaurismäki

Cast:

Jean-Pierre Léaud, Margi Clarke, Kenneth Colley, Kenneth Colley, T.R. Bowen

7.2

N/A

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Antoine and Colette

(1962)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (19...

Runtime:

32 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Rosy Varte, Rosy Varte, François Darbon

7.6

N/A

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The Mother and the Whore

(1973)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. Marie becomes increasingly jealous of Alexandre's fling with Veronika and as the trio continues their unsustainable affair, the emotional stakes get higher, leading to conflict and unhappiness.

Runtime:

217 min

Director:

Jean Eustache

Cast:

Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Françoise Lebrun, Isabelle Weingarten

8.2

96%

N/A

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What Time Is It There?

(2001)

Drama, Romance

A watch salesman meets a young woman soon leaving for Paris, they forge an instant connection. He changes all the clocks in Taipei to French time.

Runtime:

116 min

Director:

Tsai Ming-liang

Cast:

Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Lu Yi-Ching, Tien Miao, Miao Tien

7.3

85%

79

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La Vie de Bohème

(1992)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Three penniless 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.

Runtime:

103 min

Director:

Aki Kaurismäki

Cast:

Matti Pellonpää, André Wilms, Kari Väänänen, Evelyne Didi, Christine Murillo

7.7

N/A

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Two English Girls

(1971)

Drama, History, Romance

At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman meets in Paris Ann Brown, a young Englishwoman. They become friends and Ann invites him to spend holidays at the house where she lives with her mother and her sister Muriel, for whom she intends Claude. During these holidays, Claude, Ann and Muriel become ...

Runtime:

130 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

Jean-Pierre Léaud, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter, Philippe Léotard, Georges Delerue

7.5

86%

N/A

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Love at Twenty

(1962)

Drama, Romance

Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Runtime:

110 min

Director:

François Truffaut, Andrzej Wajda, Renzo Rossellini, Marcel Ophüls, Shintarō Ishihara

Cast:

Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick Auffay, Rosy Varte, François Darbon

7.2

N/A

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Testament of Orpheus

(1960)

Drama, Fantasy

Outside time and reality, the experiences of a poet. The judgement of the young poet by Heurtebise and the Princess, the Gypsies, the palace of Pallas Athena, the spear of the Goddess which pierces the poet's heart, the temptation of the Sphinx, the flight of Oedipus and the final Assumption. This film is the third part of Cocteau's Or...

Runtime:

80 min

Director:

Jean Cocteau

Cast:

Jean Cocteau, Françoise Arnoul, Claudine Auger, Charles Aznavour, Brigitte Bardot

7.4

83%

N/A

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Made in USA

(1966)

Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Paula Nelson (Anna Karina), a female version of Humphrey Bogart's hard boiled detectives, goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, at an unknown point in the future (maybe 1969). Once there, she learns that Richard is dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel room, she meets Typhus, whom she ends up knoc...

Runtime:

85 min

Director:

Jean-Luc Godard

Cast:

Anna Karina, László Szabó, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marianne Faithfull, Yves Afonso

6.5

89%

N/A

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Pigsty

(1969)

Drama

Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In the second story, Julian, the young son of a post-war German industrialist, is on the way to lie down with his farm's pigs, because he doesn't like human relationships.

Runtime:

99 min

Director:

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast:

Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Alberto Lionello, Ugo Tognazzi, Anne Wiazemsky

6.9

57%

N/A

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Camille Rewinds

(2012)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Camille was only sixteen and still in high school when she fell in love with Eric, another student. They later married and a child and were happy for a while. But now twenty-five years have passed and Eric leaves her for a younger woman. Bitter and desperate Camille drinks so much liquor at a New Year Eve's party that she falls into an...

Runtime:

115 min

Director:

Noémie Lvovsky

Cast:

Noémie Lvovsky, Samir Guesmi, Mathieu Amalric, Judith Chemla, India Hair

6.3

67%

N/A

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A Matter of Taste

(2000)

Drama

Nicolas, a handsome, young waiter, is befriended by Frédéric Delamont, a wealthy middle-aged businessman. Delamont, a man of power, influence and strictly refined tastes, is immediately smitten by Nicolas' charm. Lonely and phobic, Delamont offers Nicolas a lucrative job as his personal food taster. In spite of their differences, a clo...

Runtime:

90 min

7.0

N/A

74

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Out 1

(1971)

Drama, Mystery

While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash.

Runtime:

743 min

Director:

Jacques Rivette, Suzanne Schiffman

Cast:

Michael Lonsdale, Michèle Moretti, Hermine Karagheuz, Pierre Baillot, Marcel Bozonnet

8.2

100%

87

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Detective

(1985)

Comedy, Crime, Drama

Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both the police and the mob circling the situation. In the same hotel, Inspector Neveu looks into a murder that took place years before, and his storyline overlaps with the arc of the Chenals.

Runtime:

95 min

Director:

Jean-Luc Godard

Cast:

Laurent Terzieff, Aurelle Doazan, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Brasseur, Johnny Hallyday

6.2

100%

N/A

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The Pornographer

(2001)

Drama

Jacques Laurent made pornographic films in the 1970s and '80s, but had put that aside for 20 years. His artistic ideas, born of the '60s counter-culture, had elevated the entire genre. Older and paunchier, he is now directing a porno again. Jacques's artistry clashes with his financially-troubled producer's ideas about shooting hard-co...

Runtime:

108 min

Director:

Bertrand Bonello

Cast:

Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jérémie Renier, Dominique Blanc, Alice Houri

5.2

33%

N/A

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36 Fillette

(1988)

Drama, Romance

Lili, a pouty and voluptuous 14-year-old, is caravan camping with her family in Biarritz. She's self-aware and holds her own in a café conversation with a concert pianist she meets, but she has a wild streak and she's testing her powers over men, finding that she doesn't always control her moods or actions, and she's impatient with bei...

Runtime:

88 min

Director:

Catherine Breillat

Cast:

Delphine Zentout, Olivier Parnière, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Berta Domínguez D., Jean-François Stévenin

6.0

86%

N/A

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Bunker Palace Hotel

(1989)

Science Fiction

In an imaginary dictature of a futuristic world, rebellion has broken out. The men in power scramble to the Bunker Palace Hotel, a bunker built long ago for just this kind of contingency. But a rebel spy sneaks in, and although her nature is very quickly suspected, she is left to observe the raving of the decadent power class, who keep...

Runtime:

95 min

Director:

Enki Bilal

Cast:

Jean-Louis Trintignant, Carole Bouquet, Maria Schneider, Roger Dumas, Yann Collette

6.6

N/A

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The Departure

(1967)

Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance

A young Belgian car nut and hairdresser's apprentice attempts to get a Porsche by all means for his nearing debut race and meets a girl in the same time.

Runtime:

85 min

Director:

Jerzy Skolimowski

Cast:

Jean-Pierre Léaud, Catherine-Isabelle Duport, Jacqueline Bir, Paul Roland, Paul Frère

6.9

N/A

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The Joy of Learning

(1969)

Drama

Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris's student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late 1960s, along with posters, photographs, and cartoons, are backdrops to their words. Words themse...

Runtime:

95 min

Director:

Jean-Luc Godard

Cast:

Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean-Luc Godard

6.4

N/A

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Face

(2009)

Comedy, Drama

Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth.

Runtime:

138 min

Director:

Tsai Ming-liang

Cast:

Lee Kang-sheng, Lu Yi-ching, Fanny Ardant, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Laetitia Casta

6.0

60%

N/A

Diary of a Seducer

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Diary of a Seducer

(1996)

Comedy, Romance

A few stories are mixed, but all starts with Claire who one day brings back to Gregoire one of his books found at the university. Gregoire is the tenebrous romantic king, and Claire falls in love with him. But there is also Gregoire's circle, his disturbing neighbour, his maybe crazy grandmother Diane, his former teacher Hugo. And this...

Runtime:

95 min

Director:

Danièle Dubroux

Cast:

Chiara Mastroianni, Melvil Poupaud, Mathieu Amalric, Karin Viard, Jean-Pierre Léaud

7.0

43%

N/A

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Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes

(1966)

Drama

Daniel needs some money to buy a duffle coat that is in fashion, so he agrees to work for a photographer by dressing up as Santa Claus. He discovers that it is much easier to meet girls when he is in his costume.

Runtime:

47 min

7.3

N/A

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Jane B. by Agnès V.

(1988)

Documentary, Fantasy

The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of a year and motivated by Birkin’s fortieth birthday—a milestone she admits to some anxiety over—Jane B. by Agnès V. contrasts the private, ref...

Runtime:

97 min

Director:

Agnès Varda

Cast:

Jane Birkin, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Philippe Léotard, Farid Chopel

7.1

N/A

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Paris Awakens

(1991)

Drama

Adrien is 19 years old. He has not met his father, Clément for 4 years. Adrien returns home and the two try to better understand each other. Clément lives together with Louis, a twenty-something girl who wants to be an actress. The boy starts a flirt with Louise which pushes the father-son relationship back to a crisis...

Runtime:

95 min

Director:

Olivier Assayas

Cast:

Judith Godrèche, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Thomas Langmann, Antoine Basler

6.8

N/A

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Just for Laughs

(1996)

Comedy

Michel and Juliette have just broken up over Michel's affair with the much younger Romance. Alice and Nicolas are still together, but maybe this is because Nicolas does not know of Alice's affair with handsome sports photographer Gaspard. This sly sex comedy, the sophomore effort of Belgian filmmaker Lucas Belvaux, follows the covert s...

Director:

Lucas Belvaux

Cast:

Ornella Muti, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Antoine Chappey, Tonie Marshall, Philippe Fretun

6.7

N/A

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I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed

(2005)

Action, History, Thriller

January 1966. In a Paris apartment, police discovered the corpse of Georges Figon, the man who broke the scandal of the Ben Barka affair and undermined Gaullist power. A year earlier, Figon, tired of dubious deals and petty scams, is looking for a juicy blow. Close to the "middle" since his years in prison, he was given a large missio...

Runtime:

101 min

6.0

N/A

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