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Jean-Pierre Léaud has 19 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 2010s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by The 400 Blows.
1967
Drama · Romance
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 more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.
Dir. François Truffaut · With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy
A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Dir. François Truffaut · With Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Dani
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.
Dir. Aki Kaurismäki · With Matti Pellonpää, Evelyne Didi, André Wilms
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 employers' seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.
Dir. François Truffaut · With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Delphine Seyrig
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” (1962).
Dir. François Truffaut · With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Rosy Varte
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 young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever.
Dir. François Truffaut · With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Daniel Ceccaldi
When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and everything is possible.
Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci · With Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel
Now in his thirties, Antoine Doinel is a divorced proofreader in love with a record seller. Colette Tazzi, now a lawyer, buys his first published autobiography, leading them to a chance meeting.
Dir. François Truffaut · With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Claude Jade
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.
Dir. Jean Eustache · With Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Françoise Lebrun
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 of 15 unrelated vignettes.
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard · With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Marlène Jobert
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.
Dir. Aki Kaurismäki · With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Margi Clarke, Kenneth Colley
A has-been French filmmaker wants a Hong Kong actress to be the heroine in a rendering of Les Vampires.
Dir. Olivier Assayas · With Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard
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.
Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini · With Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Alberto Lionello
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.
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard · With Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto
In the early 20th-century, Frenchman Claude meets Englishwoman Ann in Paris. Ann invites him to her family home, intending him for her sister Muriel. Claude falls for Muriel, but families demand year-long separation before approving marriage.
Dir. François Truffaut · With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter
A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.
Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci · With Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi
Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by the scientist’s daughter Natasha, Lemmy must unravel the mysteries of the strictly logical Alpha 60 and teach Natasha the meaning of the word “love.”
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard · With Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff
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 ethylic coma and she finds herself... propelled into her own past! Camille is sixteen again when she wakes up this morning, her parents are not dead anymore and she must go to school, where she will meet her schoolmates and, of course, Eric. Is she going to fall for him again and... be miserable twenty-five years later? Or will she avoid him with the result never having her beloved daughter? Who ever said that time traveling was fun?
Dir. Noémie Lvovsky · With Noémie Lvovsky, Samir Guesmi, Judith Chemla
Paula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel room, she meets Typhus, whom she ends up knocking out. His corpse is later found in the apartment of David Goodis, a writer. Paula is arrested and interrogated. From then on, she encounters many gangsters.
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard · With Anna Karina, László Szabó, Jean-Pierre Léaud
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