Jane B. for Agnes V. / Jane B. par Agnès V. (1988)
Biography | Fantasy
Anges Varda paints a portrait of a woman, this time in a marvelously Expressionistic way. Jane B. abandons the biopic format, favoring instead a freewheeling mix of gorgeous fantasy sequences.
Starring: Jane Birkin, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Philippe Léotard, Farid Chopel, Alain Souchon, Serge Gainsbourg
Director: Agnès Varda
La Chinoise / La chinoise (1967)
Comedy | Drama
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.
Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Anne Wiazemsky, Juliet Berto, Blandine Jeanson, Eliane Giovagnoli, Michel Semeniako
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Day for Night / La nuit américaine (1973)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Starring: Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Léaud, François Truffaut, Nathalie Baye
Director: François Truffaut
Irma Vep (1996)
Comedy | Drama
A Chinese movie actress, in France to star in a remake of "Les Vampires", finds petty intrigues and clashing egos on the set.
Starring: Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard, Bulle Ogier, Lou Castel, Arsinée Khanjian
Director: Olivier Assayas
Les deux Anglaises et le continent / Two English Girls / Anne and Muriel (1971)
Drama | Romance
At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman meets in Paris Ann Brown, a young Englishwoman. They become friends and Ann invites him to spend holidays at the house where she lives with her mother and her sister Muriel, for whom she intends Claude. During these holidays, Claude, Ann and Muriel become very close and he gradually falls in love with Muriel. But both families lay down a one-year-long separation without any contact before agreeing to the marriage. So Claude goes back to Paris when he has many love affairs before sending Muriel a break-off letter…
Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter, Sylvia Marriott, Marie Mansart
Director: François Truffaut
Domicile conjugal / Bed & Board (1970)
Comedy | Drama
Antoine Doinel and Christine Darbon are married and Antoine works dying flowers, and Christine is pregnant and gives private classes of violin. When Christine is near to have a baby, Antoine decides to find a new job, and he succeeds due to a misunderstanding of his employer. In a business meeting, he meets the Japanese Kyoko (Mademoiselle Hiroko) and they have an affair. When Christine accidentally discovers that Antoine has a lover, they separate. But later they miss each other and realize that they do love each other.
Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade
Director: François Truffaut
Baisers volés / Stolen Kisses (1968)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Antoine Doinel joined the army but has just been discharged. The film tells his reunion with Christine Darbon, the girl he was in love with before the beginning of the film, and his adventures in his jobs : first as a night watchman, then as a private investigator, especially during one investigation within Mr Tabard's shoes-shop… Mme Tabard is so fascinating…
Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Delphine Seyrig, Claude Jade, Michael Lonsdale, Harry-Max, André Falcon
Director: François Truffaut
La vie de bohème / The Bohemian Life (1992)
Comedy | Drama
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.
Starring: Matti Pellonpää, Evelyne Didi, André Wilmss, Kari Väänänen, Christine Murillo, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Laika
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)
Comedy | Drama
After fifteen years' service, Henri Boulanger is made redundant from his job. Shocked, he attempts suicide, but can't go through with it, so he hires a contract killer in a seedy bar to murder him at some unspecified time in the future. But almost immediately he meets and falls in love with Margaret…
Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Margi Clarke, Kenneth Colley, Nicky Tesco, Joe Strummer, Serge Reggiani
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
The 400 Blows / Les quatre cents coups (1959)
Crime | Drama
François Truffaut first feature, The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups), is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut life-long cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), The 400 Blows sensitively re-creates the trials of Truffaut own difficult childhood, unsentimentally portraying aloof parents, oppressive teachers, petty crime, and a friendship that would last a lifetime. The film marks Truffaut passage from leading critic of the French New Wave to his emergence as one of Europe most brilliant auteurs.
Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Robert Beauvais, Claire Maurier, Albert Remy, Guy Decomble
Director: François Truffaut
