Jean-Pierre Léaud
Jean-Pierre Léaud (born May 28, 1944) is a French actor, best known for playing Antoine Doinel in François Truffaut's series of films about that character, beginning with The 400 Blows (1959). He also worked with Aki Kaurismäki, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jacques Rivette, and Tsai Ming-liang. He is a significant figure of the French New Wave, having appeared in eight films by Jean-Luc Godard and seven by François Truffaut.
The Dreamers
as HimselfWhen Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship...
Movie pageLast Tango in Paris
as TomA recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.
Movie pageThe 400 Blows
as Antoine DoinelFor young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded...
Movie pagePierrot le Fou
as Le Jeune Homme au Cinéma (uncredited)Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with...
Movie pageElizabeth
as (uncredited)The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the...
Movie pageIrma Vep
as René VidalHong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung (playing herself) comes to France when a past-his-prime...
Movie pageLe Havre
as The WhistleblowerIn the French harbor city of Le Havre, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa into the path...
Movie pageMasculin Féminin
as PaulPaul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job...
Movie pageDay for Night
as AlphonseA committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises,...
Movie pageAlphaville
as Breakfast Waiter (uncredited)An American private-eye arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet which is...
Movie pageStolen Kisses
as Antoine DoinelThe third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the...
Movie pageLa Vie de Bohème
as BlancheronThree penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no...
Movie pageBed and Board
as Antoine DoinelParisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds...
Movie pageCamille Rewinds
as Monsieur Dupont - l'horlogerCamille was only sixteen and still in high school when she fell in love with Eric, another...
Movie pageWeekend
as Saint-Just / Le Jeune Minet du 16ème (uncredited)A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of...
Movie pageThe Pornographer
as Jacques LaurentJacques Laurent made pornographic films in the 1970s and '80s, but had put that aside for 20...
Movie pageTwo English Girls
as Claude RocAt the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman, befriends Ann,...
Movie pageLa Chinoise
as GuillaumeA small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the...
Movie pageTestament of Orpheus
as Dargelos, the schoolboyOutside time and reality, the experiences of a poet. The judgement of the young poet by...
Movie pageI Hired a Contract Killer
as Henri BoulangerAfter losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to...
Movie pagePigsty
as Julian KlotzTwo dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is...
Movie pageOne Hundred and One Nights
as The Second Jean-Pierre (uncredited)Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so...
Movie pageThe Mother and the Whore
as AlexandreAimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover...
Movie pageBunker Palace Hotel
as SolalIn an imaginary dictature of a futuristic world, rebellion has broken out. The men in power...
Movie pageDetective
as Inspector NeveuEmile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the...
Movie pageLove on the Run
as Antoine DoinelAntoine is now 30, working as a proofreader and getting divorced from his wife. It's the first...
Movie pageAntoine and Colette
as Antoine DoinelNow aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets...
Movie pageMy Man
as Un clientIn Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful...
Movie pageThe Death of Louis XIV
as Louis XIVAugust 1715. After going for a walk, Louis XIV feels a pain in his leg. The next days, the king...
Movie pageMade in U.S.A
as Donald SiegelPaula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and...
Movie pageOut 1
as ColinWhile two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the...
Movie pageThe Oldest Profession
as The Bellhop (segment "Anticipation") (uncredited)A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.
Movie pageLove at Twenty
as Antoine Doinel (segment "Antoine et Colette")Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different...
Movie pageMata Hari, Agent H21
as AbsalonOrdered to seduce French captain and steal from him classified papers, Mata Hari, an exotic...
Movie pageJane B. for Agnès V.
as The Angry LoverThe interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired...
Movie pageWhat Time Is It There?
as Jean-Pierre / Man at the CemeteryWhen a young street vendor with a grim home life meets a woman on her way to Paris, they forge...
Movie pageC'è tempo
as SelfAfter the death of his estranged father, professional rainbow-watcher Stefano finds out he has a...
Movie pageGodard Cinema
as Self (archive footage)Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he...
Movie pageParis Awakens
as ClémentAdrien is 19 years old. He has not met his father, Clément for 4 years. Adrien returns home and...
Movie pageSodankylä Forever
as SelfThe Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the...
Movie pageM
as Le père de LilaLila and Mo meet at a bus stop. Lila has a paralyzing speech impediment. Mo is chatty and...
Movie pageDiary of a Seducer
as HugoStudent Claire lives with her mother, Anne, and Sebastien — a young man Claire brought home out...
Movie page36 Fillette
as Boris GolovineLili, a pouty and voluptuous 14-year-old, is caravan camping with her family in Biarritz. She's...
Movie pagePolycephaly in D
as (archive footage)Informed by an underlying sense of anxiety and anguish, Michael Robinson’s Polycephaly in D...
Movie pageAlien Crystal Palace
as uncreditedA scientist finds the secret that predispose to the formation of the ideal couple. With this new...
Movie pageFrançois Truffaut l'insoumis
as Self (archive footage)This portrait of the world-famous French director based on his personal correspondance reveals...
Movie pageThe Departure
as MarcA young Belgian car nut and hairdresser's apprentice attempts to get a Porsche by all means for...
Movie pageThe Chalk Circle Man
as Le NermordFor months a strange phrase has been found scrawled on Paris sidewalks next to chalk circles...
Movie pageLove at Sea
as The Boy at the Exit of the CinemaDuring her holiday in Brest, a young Parisian falls in love with a sailor. But autumn comes and...
Movie pageFace
as Antoine / King HerodeHsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film...
Movie pageJust for Laughs
as Nicolas GardinierMichel and Juliette have just broken up over Michel's affair with the much younger Romance....
Movie pageNobody Loves Me
as LucienSeveral lives intersect when a middle-aged woman is left by her husband, and she decides to trek...
Movie pageLady Cops
as Commissaire BouvreuilMireille Molyneux, police inspector, tracks down pimps. With the complicity of Yasmina, a...
Movie pageThe Color of the Wind
as DecourtLouise, literary advisor to the Cercle Editions, receives a large manuscript from the United...
Movie pageKing on Horseback
as PierrotHenri La Tour, a strolling player, is also a daring adventurer. So, when, after accomplishing a...
Movie pageOut 1 : Spectre
as ColinOut 1: Spectre begins as nothing more than scenes from Parisian life; only as time goes by do we...
Movie pageFrançois Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
as Self (archive footage)Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow...
Movie pageA Matter of Taste
as Le juge d'instructionNicolas, a handsome, young waiter, is befriended by Frédéric Delamont, a wealthy middle-aged...
Movie pageThe Lion Has Seven Heads
as PreacherA white-robed preacher wanders and sermonizes across African lands; European communists and CIA...
Movie pageThe War in Paris
as Haut PlacéIn Paris, in 1943, Jules, a 19-year-old Jew, lived without an ideal, tossed about by...
Movie pagePaul
as PaulPaul leaves his wealthy parents behind to go on a spiritual quest. He meets up with a pilgrim,...
Movie pageIn the Darkness of Time
as (archive footage) (uncredited)Conceived as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the millennium, "Dans le noir du...
Movie pageTreasure Island
as MidasJim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to...
Movie pageNadja in Paris
as SelfNadja is a guest student, who stays at Cité Universitaire and visits the Sorbonne, while...
Movie pageThe Birth of Love
as MarcusThe unhappy love lives of Paul and Marcus, two artists and friends who are neither particularly...
Movie pageI Saw Ben Barka Get Killed
as Georges FranjuJanuary 1966. In a Paris apartment, police discovers the corpse of Georges Figon, the man who...
Movie pageSanta Claus Has Blue Eyes
as DanielDaniel needs some money to buy a duffle coat that is in fashion, so he agrees to work for a...
Movie pageThe Joy of Learning
as Émile RousseauNight after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound...
Movie pageRise and Fall of a Small Film Company
as Gaspard BazinAn absurdly brutal and minimalist examination of the desperate search for financial backing by...
Movie pageA Girl Is a Gun
as Billy le KidThe intense and twisted relationship between a man and a woman in a bizarre wilderness, as a...
Movie pageJean Eustache's Wasted Breath
as SelfÁngel Díaz’s documentary The Lost Sorrows of Jean Eustache, concentrates on Eustache as...
Movie pageA Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
as Self (archive footage)Born in Berlin in 1896, Lotte Eisner became famous for her passionate involvement in the world...
Movie pageThe Marcorelle Affair
as François MarcorelleFrançois Marcorelle, an investigation magistrate in Chambéry, finds himself in the room of a...
Movie pageCinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’
as Self (uncredited)The making of The Dreamers, its background and relation to the May 1968 student riots in Paris.
Movie pageLola's Lolos
as Bernard DuboisIn a deliberately erratic and disjointed fashion, this film follows the adventures of Bernard...
Movie pageA Wonderful Spell
as FernandSet in the summer of 1942 during WWII, the film traces the trajectory of simple people thrown...
Movie pageRebelote
as Rémi ChauveauRémi Chauveau, ten years old, lives in a broken home. He first experiences an austere boarding...
Movie pageThe Heirs
as DantonAn allegory about Brazil's history and the struggle for power since the 1930 Revolution until...
Movie page1968 - Without Losing Tenderness
as SelfThe story of the University of Brasília, since it was only a project in Darcy Ribeiro's head...
Movie pageLe petit Pommier
as Le vendeur de La Belle AubaineStory of three "flights": a little boy, a girl, and a mother who escapes the real world and...
Movie pageThe Lion Sleeps Tonight
as JeanAn aging movie actor who is preparing to shoot a death scene finds himself visited by the spirit...
Movie pageHelp Me Dream
as MarioIn 1943, during the war, Francesca, widowed, moves with her three daughters to her country...
Movie pageBad Company
as Daniel (archive footage)Two short films by Jean Eustache (Robinson's Place and Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes) presented...
Movie pageParis Seen By... 20 Years After
as René (segment 3)Film comprised of six vignettes each illustrating one aspect of life in the French capital, each...
Movie pageL'Herbe rouge
as LazuliTelefilm directed by Pierre Kast broadcast in 1985, based on the eponymous novel by Boris Vian.
Movie pageBoran - Zeit zum Zielen
as uncreditedAn exconvict turned in a movie star search for revenge against a corrupt cop.
Movie pageInnocent
as Le poèteA French-Greek co-production, filmed in Paris, in which the forty-year-old Maxim is released...
Movie pageBoulevard
as Georges Castagnier, dit "Jojo"Boulevard focuses on Georges 'Jojo' Castagnier, an adolescent who lives in a poor room under the...
Movie pageThe Ministries of Art
as SelfPhilippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean...
Movie pageConcentration
as uncreditedLa Concentration features an androgynous young man (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and woman (Zouzou),...
Movie pageQuando a Coisa Vira Outra
as Self (archive footage)Vladimir Carvalho's Cinema of Inequality marked the documentary filmmaker's trajectory over...
Movie pageAndré Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer
as Self - Actor (archive footage)Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A...
Movie pageHugs and Other Things
as TomJennifer, Tom and Maria like to have sex together and to rob banks when necessary. Action takes...
Movie pageJust a Movie
as Péter - a rendezõPéter tries to make a film on "Swan-Lake". At the weekend, shooting stops and the staff goes...
Movie pageMersonne ne m'aime
as Daniel Flipo-RisqAfter a feminist is found murdered in her own home, a police detective investigates the crime...
Movie pageFilmmakers of Our Time: François Truffaut or the Critical Spirit
as SelfLéaud l'unique
as uncreditedDocumentary about the work of Nouvelle Vague actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, with interview clips, film...
Movie pageLa cassure
as Police Commissioner RauffastFour policemen have shot down Albert Thoulouse's daughter by accident but are acquitted of all...
Movie pageI shot Antoine Doinel
as SelfA film buff does his generational autobiography by relating the problems of maturity in...
Movie pageOut 1
as ColinFollowing the May 1968 civil unrest in France, a deaf-mute and a con artist simultaneously...
TV Show pageL'Éducation sentimentale
as Frédéric MoreauMiniseries adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's novel.
TV Show pageSérie noire
as Gaspard BazinSérie noire is a French crime television series created by Pierre Grimblat in 1984. The series...
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