Jean-Pierre Léaud

François Truffaut's "The 400 Blows" features the first appearance of the legendary character Antoine Doinel, albeit in a more serious drama than in later comedic outings. Antoine's unhappy home life leads him into petty crime and juvenile detention.

François Truffaut was commissioned to make this short film for the Parisian section of the 1962 omnibus of films about love, Love At Twenty. Jean-Pierre Léaud returns to the semi-autobiographical role of Antoine Doinel from The 400 Blows. And what do we find? A mischievous, tormented adolescent.

A young writer carries on love affairs with two sisters.

Separated from Christine and uncertain about his latest relationship, Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) has finally written a novel inspired by his own experiences in this final chapter of François Truffaut’s series.

Naively idealistic and largely inept both in his dealings with women and in any job, Antoine clumsily courts Christine while working for a private detective agency.

Jean-Luc Godard's portrait of culture, politics and sex in 1960s Paris follows a young writer's romance with an aspiring singer.

Now married to Christine and working as a ‘floral artist’ (though he dreams of becoming a novelist), Antoine Doinel becomes a father... But is he mature enough for parenthood, or even marriage? Comedy combines with character critique in Truffaut’s typically ambivalent, compassionate account of the (belated) onset of Doinel’s adulthood.

August 1715. After going for a walk, Louis XIV feels a pain in his leg. Over the next few days, the king keeps fulfilling his duties, but his sleep is troubled and he has a serious fever. This is the start of the slow agony of the greatest king of France, surrounded by his relatives and doctors.

Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of students form a small Maoist cell and plan to change the world by any means necessary. After studying the growth of communism in China, the students decide they must use terrorism and violence to ignite their own revolution. Director Jean-Luc Godard, an advocate of Maoism, infuriated many traditionalist critics with this swiftly paced satire.

Starring alongside Jean-Pierre Léaud, Maggie Cheung is the mysterious, latex-clad femme fatale at the center of haute auteur Olivier Assayas’s spiky and dizzyingly hip 1990s satire of the French film industry. Irma Vep both pays tribute to 100 years of French cinema and adds plenty of its own!

In this classic film from Jean-Luc Godard, two militants have a discourse on language while alone in an abandoned television studio. Referring to spoken word as "the enemy"--the weapon used by the establishment to confuse liberation movements--the two deconstruct the meanings of sounds and images in an attempt to "return to zero" and truly experience the joy of learning.

At a Paris hotel, a hotel detective fired after a murder there, is still investigating helped by his inspector nephew and girlfriend. A boxing manager, owing money to a couple and the mafia, rides on a match next day.

Three struggling artists try to make passable livings in Paris despite knock backs and tragedies.