Jean-Pierre Léaud
Birthday: 1944-05-28
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Biography: 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.
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The 400 Blows
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by ...
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Stolen Kisses
The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story re...
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Antoine and Colette
Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a g...
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Bed and Board
Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have...
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Love on the Run
Now in his thirties, Antoine Doinel is a divorced proofreader in love with a record seller. Colette ...
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36 Fillette
Lili, a pouty and voluptuous 14-year-old, is caravan camping with her family in Biarritz. She's self...
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The Dreamers
When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens i...
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La Chinoise
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world an...
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Last Tango in Paris
A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman....
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Day for Night
A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises,...
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Pierrot le Fou
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a ...
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Vivement Truffaut
A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly nam...
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Masculin Féminin
Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interview...
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What Time Is It There?
A street vendor with a grim home-life forges a connection with a young woman on her way to Paris....
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I Hired a Contract Killer
After losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to voluntarily ...
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Weekend
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic ...
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Love at Twenty
Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspe...
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Irma Vep
Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung comes to France when a past-his-prime director casts her in a re...
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La Vie de Bohème
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no vis...
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Made in U.S.A
Paula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and deci...
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Two English Girls
In the early 20th-century, Frenchman Claude meets Englishwoman Ann in Paris. Ann invites him to her ...
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Pour Bonnie
For Bonnie. This story, dedicated to the daughter of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara, shows regret ...
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Testament of Orpheus
An 18th century poet travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he ...
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The Pornographer
A former porn director, who once elevated the genre with 1960s counter-culture ideals, returns to fi...
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Bunker Palace Hotel
In an imaginary dictature of a futuristic world, rebellion has broken out. The men in power scramble...
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Godard Cinema
Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established hi...
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Lola's Lolos
In a deliberately erratic and disjointed fashion, this film follows the adventures of Bernard (Jean-...
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Innocent
A French-Greek co-production, filmed in Paris, in which the forty-year-old Maxim is released from pr...
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Paul
Follows a young man who leaves his affluent life to join a wandering vegetarian cult. Led by a chari...
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Paris Awakens
Adrien is a nineteen year old who has not seen his father, Clément, for four years. Adrien returns h...
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The Color of the Wind
Louise, literary advisor to the Cercle Editions, receives a large manuscript from the United States....
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Pigsty
Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is conde...
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The Mother and the Whore
Aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover nam...
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Le Gai Savoir
Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage...
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Detective
Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the consid...
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Jane B. by Agnès V.
The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collabora...
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Face
Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that ...
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Le Havre
In the French harbor city of Le Havre, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa into the path of Ma...
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Boulevard
Boulevard focuses on Georges 'Jojo' Castagnier, an adolescent who lives in a poor room under the roo...
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A Matter of Taste
Nicolas, a handsome, young waiter, is befriended by Frédéric Delamont, a wealthy middle-aged busines...
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C'è tempo
After the death of his estranged father, professional rainbow-watcher Stefano finds out he has a 13-...
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Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes
Daniel needs some money to buy a duffle coat that is in fashion, so he agrees to work for a photogra...
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Out 1
While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian s...
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A Wonderful Spell
Set in the summer of 1942 during WWII, the film traces the trajectory of simple people thrown into e...
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Diary of a Seducer
Student Claire lives with her mother, Anne, and Sebastien — a young man Claire brought home out of p...
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The War in Paris
In Paris, in 1943, Jules, a 19-year-old Jew, lived without an ideal, tossed about by circumstances. ...
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Camille Rewinds
Camille was only sixteen and still in high school when she fell in love with Eric, another student. ...
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A Girl Is a Gun
The intense and twisted relationship between a man and a woman in a bizarre wilderness, as a seductr...
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The Departure
A young Belgian car nut and hairdresser's apprentice attempts to get a Porsche by all means for his ...
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The Lion Has Seven Heads
A white-robed preacher wanders and sermonizes across African lands; European communists and CIA spie...
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The Chalk Circle Man
For months a strange phrase has been found scrawled on Paris sidewalks next to chalk circles contain...
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Nobody Loves Me
Several lives intersect when a middle-aged woman is left by her husband, and she decides to trek him...
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Elizabeth
The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endle...
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Bad Company
Two short films by Jean Eustache (Robinson's Place and Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes) presented together...
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Dialogue 20-40-60
"Using the same, three times repeating dialogue – dramatic conversation between man and woman – Jerz...
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Boran - Zeit zum Zielen
An exconvict turned in a movie star search for revenge against a corrupt cop....
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I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed
January 1966. In a Paris apartment, police discovers the corpse of Georges Figon, the man who broke ...
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Hugs and Other Things
Jennifer, Tom and Maria like to have sex together and to rob banks when necessary. Action takes plac...
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Love at Sea
During her holiday in Brest, a young Parisian falls in love with a sailor. But autumn comes and the ...
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Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
Ángel Díaz’s documentary The Lost Sorrows of Jean Eustache, concentrates on Eustache as cinematic th...
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Parano
Having murdered her husband and daughter, Carol invents a new identity to start a new life. Unfortun...
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The Birth of Love
The unhappy love lives of Paul and Marcus, two artists and friends who are neither particularly youn...
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1968 - Without Losing Tenderness
The story of the University of Brasília, since it was only a project in Darcy Ribeiro's head until t...
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Treasure Island
Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the...
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Just for Laughs
Michel and Juliette have just broken up over Michel's affair with the much younger Romance. Alice an...
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La cassure
Four policemen have shot down Albert Thoulouse's daughter by accident but are acquitted of all charg...
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In the Darkness of Time
Conceived as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the millennium, "Dans le noir du temps...
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L'Herbe rouge
Based on the eponymous novel by Boris Vian. With the help of a time machine, a man explores his past...
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Alphaville
Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer...
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Concentration
La Concentration features an androgynous young man (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and woman (Zouzou), dressed o...
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Quando a Coisa Vira Outra
Vladimir Carvalho's Cinema of Inequality marked the documentary filmmaker's trajectory over decades ...
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The Oldest Profession
A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages....
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The Death of Louis XIV
August 1715. After going for a walk, Louis XIV feels a pain in his leg. The next days, the king keep...
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Out 1: Spectre
Out 1: Spectre begins as nothing more than scenes from Parisian life; only as time goes by do we rea...
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The Ministries of Art
Philippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustac...
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The Marcorelle Affair
François Marcorelle, an investigation magistrate in Chambéry, finds himself in the room of a young P...
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Françoise et Udo...
This is the story of a meeting between a man and a woman. In a train, an Austrian singer and a Frenc...
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Rebelote
Rémi Chauveau, ten years old, lives in a broken home. He first experiences an austere boarding schoo...
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M
Lila and Mo meet at a bus stop. Lila has a paralyzing speech impediment. Mo is chatty and exuberant....
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King on Horseback
Henri La Tour, a strolling player, is also a daring adventurer. So, when, after accomplishing a bril...
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The Lion Sleeps Tonight
An aging movie actor who is preparing to shoot a death scene finds himself visited by the spirit of ...
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Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
Director Gaspard Bazin is working on a new feature film. For now, he's still looking at the fundrais...
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Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’
The making of The Dreamers, its background and relation to the May 1968 student riots in Paris....
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Help Me Dream
In 1943, during the war, Francesca, widowed, moves with her three daughters to her country house, to...
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Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water
The title of the François Lunel film is the Buddhist proverb concluding by: "all is but illusion". H...
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Alien Crystal Palace
A scientist finds the secret that predispose to the formation of the ideal couple. With this new alc...
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The Heirs
An allegory about Brazil's history and the struggle for power since the 1930 Revolution until the ad...
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François Truffaut l'insoumis
This portrait of the world-famous French director based on his personal correspondance reveals the l...
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François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors an...
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André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer
Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plo...
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Lady Cops
Mireille Molyneux, police inspector, tracks down pimps. With the complicity of Yasmina, a prostitute...
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Just a Movie
Péter tries to make a film on "Swan-Lake". At the weekend, shooting stops and the staff goes home. P...
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Léaud l'unique
Documentary about the work of Nouvelle Vague actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, with interview clips, film cli...
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My Man
In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and e...
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One Hundred and One Nights
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he en...
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I shot Antoine Doinel
A film buff does his generational autobiography by relating the problems of maturity in contemporary...
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Nadja in Paris
Nadja is a guest student, who stays at Cité Universitaire and visits the Sorbonne, while preparing a...
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Le petit Pommier
Story of three "flights": a little boy, a girl, and a mother who escapes the real world and recreate...
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Sodankylä Forever
The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arc...
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Léaud de Hurle-dents
Jean-Pierre Léaud wanders among the graves of Montparnasse Cemetery in search of several ghosts of t...
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Mersonne ne m'aime
After a feminist is found murdered in her own home, a police detective investigates the crime with t...
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Paris Seen By... 20 Years After
Film comprised of six vignettes each illustrating one aspect of life in the French capital, each set...
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Mata Hari, Agent H21
Ordered to seduce French captain and steal from him classified papers, Mata Hari, an exotic dancer a...
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Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema
A portrait of the legendary actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, icon of the French New Wave and closely linked ...
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Front woman
Leaud portrays a Parisian publisher of romance novels who hits on the gimmick of having his live-in ...
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Anticipation, or Love in the Year 2000
Godard's segment from the omnibus film "The Oldest Profession"...
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Introducing My Father, François Truffaut
Laura Truffaut shares her memories of her legendary filmmaker father....
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