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.

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.

Paul is young, just demobbed from service in the French Army, and disillusioned with civilian life. While his girlfriend builds herself a career as a pop singer, Paul becomes more isolated from his peers—“the children of Marx and Coca Cola”, as the credits announce—and from their social politics.

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.

After his boss's Porsche becomes unavailable, a hairdresser's assistant, who is a car fanatic, and his girlfriend must find a car for his debut race.

In his first collaboration with Aki Kaurismäki, iconic French star Jean-Pierre Léaud proves a perfect fit for the director’s droll and deadpan, not-quite-comedy style. Absurd and existential, the London-set I Hired a Contract Killer is a rare and fascinating outsider’s view of late-80s Britain.

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.

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

Infatuated with cinema, revolution, and youth, The Dreamers smolders with the sense of possibility that suffused the city of love in 1968. Recently restored, this seductive homage to the French New Wave stars Louis Garrel and Eva Green as the smoking-hot instigators of a tempting ménage à trois.