Jean-Pierre Léaud
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 8.507 |
| Birthday | 1944-05-28 |
| Place of Birth | Paris, France |
| Also Known As | Jean Pierre Leaud, |
1959
The 400 Blows
8/2133
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful par...
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The 400 Blows
1968
Stolen Kisses
7.3/420
The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military...
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Stolen Kisses
1970
Bed and Board
7.2/267
Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers an...
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Bed and Board
1962
Antoine and Colette
7.2/253
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 h...
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Antoine and Colette
1979
Love on the Run
7.1/195
Antoine is now 30, working as a proofreader and getting divorced from his wife. It's the first "no-fault" divorce in France and a media circus erupts,...
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Love on the Run
1988
36 Fillette
5.063/32
Lili, a pouty and voluptuous 14-year-old, is caravan camping with her family in Biarritz. She's self-aware and holds her own in a café conversation wi...
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36 Fillette
2003
The Dreamers
7.2/2834
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 wh...
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The Dreamers
1967
La Chinoise
6.9/209
Paris, 1967. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Veronique (Anne Wi...
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La Chinoise
1972
Last Tango in Paris
7/1203
A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.
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Last Tango in Paris
1973
Day for Night
7.8/585
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
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Day for Night
1965
Pierrot le Fou
7.4/847
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an...
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Pierrot le Fou
1985
Vivement Truffaut
6/1
A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly named after his last movie, Vivement Dimanche!, relea...
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Vivement Truffaut
1966
Masculin Féminin
7.3/374
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...
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Masculin Féminin
2001
What Time Is It There?
7/103
A street vendor with a grim home-life forges a connection with a young woman on her way to Paris.
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What Time Is It There?
1990
I Hired a Contract Killer
6.9/190
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...
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I Hired a Contract Killer
1967
Weekend
6.982/274
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French...
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Weekend
1962
Love at Twenty
6.7/48
Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. Th...
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Love at Twenty
1996
Irma Vep
6.7/201
Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung (playing herself) comes to France when a past-his-prime director casts her in a remake of the silent classic Les V...
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Irma Vep
1992
La Vie de Bohème
7.5/133
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with n...
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La Vie de Bohème
1967
Made in U.S.A
6.1/97
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, s...
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Made in U.S.A
1971
Two English Girls
6.9/145
At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman, befriends Ann, an Englishwoman. While spending time in England with...
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Two English Girls
1982
Pour Bonnie
0/0
For Bonnie. This story, dedicated to the daughter of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara, shows regret for lost paradises. While the sentimental arranges...
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Pour Bonnie
1960
Testament of Orpheus
7.7/107
Outside time and reality, the experiences of a poet. The judgement of the young poet by Heurtebise and the Princess, the Gypsies, the palace of Pallas...
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Testament of Orpheus
2001
The Pornographer
4.8/67
A former porn director, who once elevated the genre with 1960s counter-culture ideals, returns to filmmaking after 20 years, clashing with his produce...
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The Pornographer
1989
Bunker Palace Hotel
6.3/40
In an imaginary dictature of a futuristic world, rebellion has broken out. The men in power scramble to the Bunker Palace Hotel, a bunker built long a...
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Bunker Palace Hotel
1986
With All Hands
5.7/3
The romantic and cruel escapades of a gigolo and a mysterious woman.
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With All Hands
2023
Godard Cinema
6.4/8
Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol fo...
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Godard Cinema
1976
Lola's Lolos
5/5
In a deliberately erratic and disjointed fashion, this film follows the adventures of Bernard (Jean-Pierre Leaud). A young man from the provinces, he...
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Lola's Lolos
1999
Innocent
0/0
A French-Greek co-production, filmed in Paris, in which the forty-year-old Maxim is released from prison after five years in prison. As he tries to ad...
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Innocent
1969
Paul
5.6/4
Paul leaves his wealthy parents behind to go on a spiritual quest. He meets up with a pilgrim, leader of a vegetarian cult whose members survive by be...
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Paul
1991
Paris Awakens
6/12
Adrien is a nineteen year old who has not seen his father, Clément, for four years. Adrien returns home and the two try to repair their relationship....
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Paris Awakens
1988
The Color of the Wind
5.5/10
Louise, literary advisor to the Cercle Editions, receives a large manuscript from the United States. Upset by the reading of this book, she begins an...
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The Color of the Wind
1969
Pigsty
7.1/149
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...
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Pigsty
1973
The Mother and the Whore
7.415/164
Aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. Marie becomes increasingly jealous of...
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The Mother and the Whore
1969
Le Gai Savoir
6.1/22
Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to r...
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Le Gai Savoir
1985
Detective
5.3/58
Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both t...
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Detective
1988
Jane B. for Agnès V.
6.7/53
The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend t...
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Jane B. for Agnès V.
2009
Face
5.7/24
Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth.
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Face
2011
Le Havre
7.016/419
In the French harbor city of Le Havre, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa into the path of Marcel Marx, a well-spoken bohemian who works as a s...
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Le Havre
1960
Boulevard
5.8/12
Boulevard focuses on Georges 'Jojo' Castagnier, an adolescent who lives in a poor room under the roof of a block of apartments in the Pigalle section...
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Boulevard
2000
A Matter of Taste
6.4/33
Nicolas, a handsome, young waiter, is befriended by Frédéric Delamont, a wealthy middle-aged businessman. Delamont, a man of power, influence and stri...
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A Matter of Taste
2019
C'è tempo
6.2/102
After the death of his estranged father, professional rainbow-watcher Stefano finds out he has a 13-year-old half-brother, and that he must become his...
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C'è tempo
1966
Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes
7.4/22
Daniel needs some money to buy a duffle coat that is in fashion, so he agrees to work for a photographer by dressing up as Santa Claus. He discovers t...
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Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes
1971
Out 1
7.3/53
While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash.
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Out 1
2004
A Wonderful Spell
5.6/4
Set in the summer of 1942 during WWII, the film traces the trajectory of simple people thrown into extraordinary lives, revealing the heart-warming fl...
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A Wonderful Spell
1996
Diary of a Seducer
5.2/6
Student Claire lives with her mother, Anne, and Sebastien — a young man Claire brought home out of pity who is now trying to seduce them both. At scho...
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Diary of a Seducer
2002
The War in Paris
6.5/1
In Paris, in 1943, Jules, a 19-year-old Jew, lived without an ideal, tossed about by circumstances. He becomes in turn a traitor then a hero. Thomas,...
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The War in Paris
2012
Camille Rewinds
6.2/221
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...
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Camille Rewinds
1971
A Girl Is a Gun
4.6/7
The intense and twisted relationship between a man and a woman in a bizarre wilderness, as a seductress accompanies a gunslinger fleeing from a posse.
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A Girl Is a Gun
1967
The Departure
6.5/36
A young Belgian car nut and hairdresser's apprentice attempts to get a Porsche by all means for his nearing debut race and meets a girl in the same ti...
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The Departure
1971
The Lion Has Seven Heads
6/26
A white-robed preacher wanders and sermonizes across African lands; European communists and CIA spies conspire out of mutual self-interest to engineer...
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The Lion Has Seven Heads
2009
The Chalk Circle Man
7.091/11
For months a strange phrase has been found scrawled on Paris sidewalks next to chalk circles containing odd objects. Policeman Adamsberg gets involved...
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The Chalk Circle Man
1994
Nobody Loves Me
4.1/6
Several lives intersect when a middle-aged woman is left by her husband, and she decides to trek him down with the help of her equally troubled sister...
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Nobody Loves Me
1998
Elizabeth
7.2/1367
The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the C...
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Elizabeth
1969
Bad Company
6.2/15
Two short films by Jean Eustache (Robinson's Place and Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes) presented together. US limited theatrical release in 1969.
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Bad Company
1968
Dialogue 20-40-60
5.3/3
"Using the same, three times repeating dialogue – dramatic conversation between man and woman – Jerzy Skolimowski from Poland, Slovak director Peter S...
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Dialogue 20-40-60
1987
Boran - Zeit zum Zielen
0/0
An exconvict turned in a movie star search for revenge against a corrupt cop.
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Boran - Zeit zum Zielen
2005
I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed
5.3/10
January 1966. In a Paris apartment, police discovers the corpse of Georges Figon, the man who broke the scandal of the Ben Barka affair and undermined...
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I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed
1976
Hugs and Other Things
3/2
Jennifer, Tom and Maria like to have sex together and to rob banks when necessary. Action takes place in typical Bavaria.
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Hugs and Other Things
1966
Love at Sea
7.1/44
During her holiday in Brest, a young Parisian falls in love with a sailor. But autumn comes and the two lovers have to part. They write to each other....
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Love at Sea
1997
Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
0/0
Ángel Díaz’s documentary The Lost Sorrows of Jean Eustache, concentrates on Eustache as cinematic thinker and archivist of his own life. Actors read t...
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Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
1981
Parano
3.5/4
Having murdered her husband and daughter, Carol invents a new identity to start a new life. Unfortunately, her tendency to express their unhappiness o...
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Parano
1993
The Birth of Love
6.2/16
The unhappy love lives of Paul and Marcus, two artists and friends who are neither particularly young nor successful anymore.
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The Birth of Love
2001
1968 - Without Losing Tenderness
6/1
The story of the University of Brasília, since it was only a project in Darcy Ribeiro's head until the fateful events in August 1968 when its campus w...
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1968 - Without Losing Tenderness
1986
Treasure Island
6.2/10
Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and t...
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Treasure Island
1997
Just for Laughs
6.3/13
Michel and Juliette have just broken up over Michel's affair with the much younger Romance. Alice and Nicolas are still together, but maybe this is be...
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Just for Laughs
1984
La cassure
5/1
Four policemen have shot down Albert Thoulouse's daughter by accident but are acquitted of all charges. Such injustice infuriates the unfortunate fath...
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La cassure
2002
In the Darkness of Time
7.3/21
Conceived as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the millennium, "Dans le noir du temps" functions as a Pandora’s box which hides all the...
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In the Darkness of Time
1985
L'Herbe rouge
0/0
Telefilm directed by Pierre Kast broadcast in 1985, based on the eponymous novel by Boris Vian.
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L'Herbe rouge
1965
Alphaville
7/536
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...
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Alphaville
1968
Concentration
10/1
La Concentration features an androgynous young man (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and woman (Zouzou), dressed only in their underwear, locked in a room with a be...
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Concentration
2022
Quando a Coisa Vira Outra
0/0
Vladimir Carvalho's Cinema of Inequality marked the documentary filmmaker's trajectory over decades of activity. Considered one of the most important...
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Quando a Coisa Vira Outra
1967
The Oldest Profession
5.1/27
A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.
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The Oldest Profession
2016
The Death of Louis XIV
6.46/88
August 1715. After going for a walk, Louis XIV feels a pain in his leg. The next days, the king keeps fulfilling his duties and obligations, but his s...
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The Death of Louis XIV
2020
Les secrets de François Truffaut
8/2
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Les secrets de François Truffaut
1972
Out 1: Spectre
6.6/13
Out 1: Spectre begins as nothing more than scenes from Parisian life; only as time goes by do we realize that there is a plot—perhaps playful, perhaps...
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Out 1: Spectre
1989
The Ministries of Art
6.3/3
Philippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André Téchiné, Leos Carax, Ja...
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The Ministries of Art
2000
The Marcorelle Affair
4.9/5
François Marcorelle, an investigation magistrate in Chambéry, finds himself in the room of a young Polish girl that he met in a restaurant
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The Marcorelle Affair
1968
Françoise et Udo...
0/0
This is the story of a meeting between a man and a woman. In a train, an Austrian singer and a French teacher exchange on their past, their character,...
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Françoise et Udo...
1984
Rebelote
5.5/4
Rémi Chauveau, ten years old, lives in a broken home. He first experiences an austere boarding school and then an authoritarian and abusive nanny. Tee...
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Rebelote
2017
M
6.6/67
Lila and Mo meet at a bus stop. Lila has a paralyzing speech impediment. Mo is chatty and exuberant. Lila is preparing for her exams. Mo illegally rac...
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El Brujo
0/0
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El Brujo
1965
Filmmakers of Our Time: François Truffaut or the Critical Spirit
6/1
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Filmmakers of Our Time: François Truffaut or the Critical Spirit
1958
King on Horseback
6.1/18
Henri La Tour, a strolling player, is also a daring adventurer. So, when, after accomplishing a brilliant feat, he is awarded a title by King Louis XV...
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King on Horseback
2018
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
7/18
An aging movie actor who is preparing to shoot a death scene finds himself visited by the spirit of a dead, long-ago lover.
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The Lion Sleeps Tonight
1986
Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
6.2/21
Director Gaspard Bazin is working on a new feature film. For now, he's still looking at the fundraising and casting stage of the process. He calls upo...
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Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
2004
Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’
7/2
The making of The Dreamers, its background and relation to the May 1968 student riots in Paris.
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Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’
1987
Ossegg oder Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel
0/0
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Ossegg oder Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel
1981
Help Me Dream
7.5/3
In 1943, during the war, Francesca, widowed, moves with her three daughters to her country house, to get away from the bombing of Bologna. In the vill...
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Help Me Dream
2009
Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water
0/0
The title of the François Lunel film is the Buddhist proverb concluding by: "all is but illusion". His movie draws the Tsai Ming-Liang's face during t...
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Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water
1982
Véra
0/0
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Véra
2018
Alien Crystal Palace
2.8/12
A scientist finds the secret that predispose to the formation of the ideal couple. With this new alchemy, he achieves a pioneering experience: the cre...
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Alien Crystal Palace
1970
The Heirs
5.8/6
An allegory about Brazil's history and the struggle for power since the 1930 Revolution until the advent of the TV.
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The Heirs
2014
François Truffaut l'insoumis
5.7/3
This portrait of the world-famous French director based on his personal correspondance reveals the little known insurgent side of his personnality. Fe...
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François Truffaut l'insoumis
1993
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
5.1/7
Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors and writers, a neighbor, and boyhood friends - talk...
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François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
2019
André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer
5/2
Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plot twist. Politician. General De Gaulle's shadow. O...
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André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer
1991
C'est la avie
0/0
1991 drama film.
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C'est la avie
1987
Lady Cops
4.8/17
Mireille Molyneux, police inspector, tracks down pimps. With the complicity of Yasmina, a prostitute, she arrested Charlie, her pimp. To take revenge...
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Lady Cops
1985
Just a Movie
0/0
Péter tries to make a film on "Swan-Lake". At the weekend, shooting stops and the staff goes home. Péter leaves for home with his wife, Judit, but as...
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Just a Movie
2001
Léaud l'unique
0/0
Documentary about the work of Nouvelle Vague actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, with interview clips, film clips and contributions from directors and actors he...
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Léaud l'unique
1996
My Man
5.7/35
In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or fla...
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My Man
2009
On the Trail of the New Wave
0/0
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On the Trail of the New Wave
1995
One Hundred and One Nights
6.2/48
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all...
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One Hundred and One Nights
2019
I shot Antoine Doinel
0/0
A film buff does his generational autobiography by relating the problems of maturity in contemporary cinema to the character of Antoine Doinel. When h...
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I shot Antoine Doinel
1964
Nadja in Paris
6.3/33
Nadja is a guest student, who stays at Cité Universitaire and visits the Sorbonne, while preparing a thesis on Proust; she also likes to stroll about...
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Nadja in Paris
1981
Le petit Pommier
1/1
Story of three "flights": a little boy, a girl, and a mother who escapes the real world and recreates the world through dreams and photographs.
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Le petit Pommier
2010
Sodankylä Forever
0/0
The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by...
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Sodankylä Forever
2004
Léaud de Hurle-dents
0/0
Jean-Pierre Léaud wanders among the graves of Montparnasse Cemetery in search of several ghosts of the cinema...
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Léaud de Hurle-dents
1982
Mersonne ne m'aime
0/0
After a feminist is found murdered in her own home, a police detective investigates the crime with the help of several determined women.
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Mersonne ne m'aime
1984
Paris Seen By... 20 Years After
4.6/8
Film comprised of six vignettes each illustrating one aspect of life in the French capital, each set in a different area of the city.
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Paris Seen By... 20 Years After
1964
Mata Hari, Agent H21
5.56/25
Ordered to seduce French captain and steal from him classified papers, Mata Hari, an exotic dancer and a spy, instead falls in love with him and blows...
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Mata Hari, Agent H21
2024
Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema
7.7/3
A portrait of the legendary actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, icon of the French New Wave and closely linked to the work of François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godd...
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