Jean-Pierre Léaud Filmography

Born:: May 5, 1944 in Paris, France
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: The son of French writer/director Pierre Léaud and actress Jacqueline Pierreux, Jean-Pierre Léaud used none of his connections to win his first screen role. The 15-year-old Léaud answered an open call posted by François Truffaut, and as a result was cast as troubled adolescent Antoine Doinel in Truffaut...Read More

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Actors: Michael Lonsdale, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, Bulle Ogier

Synopsis: Jacques Rivette's epic-scale meditation on art, politics and relationships is an eight-part, 740 minute drama that begins as an examination of two Parisian theater companies. Lili (Michele Moretti) is a member of an experimental troupe preparing a radical new interpretation of Aeschylus's Seven Read More

2006
Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinematheque

Actors: Henri Alékan, Jo Amorin, Jean-Michel Arnold, Christian Auboire, Raphael Bassan

Synopsis: Henri Langlois was, in many respects, the ultimate film fan. In 1936, at the age of 22, Langlois became (along with Jean Mitry and Georges Franju) one of the founders of the Cinémathèque Française, a theater and museum devoted to preserving the history of the motion picture. Initially a tiny Read More

10/12/05
I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed

Actors: Charles Berling, Simon Abkarian, Josiane Balasko, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Fabienne Babe

Synopsis: The kidnapping and assassination of Moroccan political activist Mehdi Ben Barka, fictionalized in Yves Boisset's L'Attentat in 1972, gets a more historically accurate treatment in Serge Le Péron's noirish docudrama, the tabloid-headline-titled I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed. The film is narrated by Read More

2005
The Dreamers

Actors: Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Robin Renucci, Anna Chancellor

Synopsis: Veteran Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci directs the erotic drama The Dreamers, adapted from the novel The Holy Innocents: A Romance by Gilbert Adair. American student Matthew (Michael Pitt) is studying in Paris during the politically turbulent late '60s. The story begins in 1968 with the Read More

2/6/04
What Time is it There?

Actors: Lee Kang-Sheng, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Miao Tien, Cecilia Yip

Synopsis: Master Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang directs this look at three people looking for human connection. Hsiao-kang (Tsai regular Lee Kang-sheng) is a young man who sells watches from a briefcase in front of Taipei's train station. When his father (Mio Tien) suddenly dies at the beginning of the Read More

1/11/02
A Matter of Taste

Actors: Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Pierre Lorit, Florence Thomassin, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Artus de Penguern

Synopsis: A waiter discovers that good taste can be dangerous in this offbeat psychological drama from France. Nicolas (Jean-Pierre Lorit) is a young man living in bohemian poverty in Lyon, sharing a flat with his girlfriend Beatrice (Florence Thomassin) and three of their friends. Nicolas works part-time Read More

9/7/01
The Pornographer

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jérémie Renier, Dominique Blanc, Thibault de Montalembert, André Marcon

Synopsis: A man who traded in his artistic ambitions for commercial success now finds himself at a personal and professional impasse in this drama. Jacques (Jean-Pierre Leaud) is a filmmaker who in the 1970s directed a number of top-grossing porno movies; more than two decades later, Jacques's struggles to Read More

2001
L'Affaire Marcorelle

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Irène Jacob, Mathieu Amalric, Philippe Khorsand, Dominique Reymond

Synopsis: Former Cahiers du Cinema editor Serge Le Peron writes and directs this screwball crime comedy chock full of ironic film references. The film opens with student radical-turned-magistrate Francois Marcorelle (Jean-Pierre Leaud) stumbling into an art house movie theater mid-film. The rather comely Read More

2000
Pour Rire!

Actors: Ornella Muti, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Antoine Chappey, Tonie Marshall

Synopsis: 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 because Nicolas does not know of Alice's affair with handsome sports photographer Gaspard. This sly sex comedy, the sophomore effort of Belgian Read More

1/8/97
Irma Vep

Actors: Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard, Antoine Basler

Synopsis: Written and directed by Olivier Assayas, Irma Vep tells the story of has-been French filmmaker René Vidal (Jean-Pierre Léaud). In an attempt to reinvigorate his career, Vidal decides to remake Les Vampires, the classic silent serial featuring the adventures of jewel thief Irma Vep. Playing Read More

11/13/96
Le Journal D'Un Seducteur

Actors: Chiara Mastroianni, Melvil Poupaud, Hubert Saint-Macary, Serge Merlin, Mathieu Amalric

Synopsis: This gentle French comedy, takes an intellectualized look at the nature of a crush as it tells the tale of 20-year-old Claire, a young woman seemingly suffering a terminal case of ennui. She glumly goes through the minimal motions of living until she falls in love with handsome Gregoire, a highly Read More

1995
Mon Homme

Actors: Anouk Grinberg, Gérard Lanvin, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Olivier Martinez, Sabine Azéma

Synopsis: A successful prostitute attempts to fashion a homeless man into her ideal pimp in this unconventional, darkly humorous French drama. Marie (Anouk Grinberg) has no real need for a pimp, being a self-reliant, unabashed woman so fond of her job as a hooker that she is able to convince strangers to Read More

1995
A Hundred and One Nights

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin, Julie Gayet

Synopsis: This homage to the cinema by venerated movie-maker Agnes Varda, often dubbed the "grandmother" of the French New Wave, features an all-star international cast. The story is based upon the memories and insights of the 100-year old Mr. Simon Cinema. He lives in a magnificent house filled with movie Read More

1995
L'Ile Au Trésor

Actors: Melvil Poupaud, Martin Landau, Vic Tayback, Lou Castel, Jeffrey Kime

Synopsis: Jonathan (Melvil Poupaud) is an imaginative young man. This film unveils what goes on in his mind as he mulls over his recent reading of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Treasure Island and the television adventure shows he is watching. This story device allows the highly regarded and very Read More

6/15/94
À Naissance De L'Amour

1994
Personne ne m'aime

Actors: Bernadette Lafont, Bulle Ogier, Lio, Michèle Laroque, Maaike Jansen

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy from France, Annie (Bernadette Lafont), a middle-aged single mother who hasn't seen her grown-up daughter Marie (Lio) in years, has just been shown the door by her boyfriend. Given her bad luck with men over the years, Annie ought to be used to this by now, but sadly that's Read More

1994
La Naissance de L'Amour

Actors: Lou Castel, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Johanna ter Steege, Dominique Reymond, Marie-Paul Laval

Synopsis: Middle-aged artistes provide the focus of this drama filmed in black and white. The story is set in Paris around the time of the Gulf War. Paul is an actor leading a drab directionless existence. He has an affair with Ulrika, a woman half his age. His wife, with whom he constantly argues, is Read More

1994
Missa On Musette?

Actors: Aki Kaurismäki, Matti Pellonpää, Kari Väänänen, André Wilms, Evelyne Didi

Synopsis: The makers of this laudatory documentary have caught filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki at work on his film La Vie de Boheme. Aki and his brother Mika have, between them, completely revitalized Finland's native film industry, and their wild, anarchic films have delighted audiences while smashing through old Read More

1992
La Vie De Bohème

Actors: Matti Pellonpää, Evelyne Didi, André Wilms, Kari Väänänen, Christine Murillo

Synopsis: This is a well-regarded contemporary dramatic retelling of the story most familiar to audiences from Puccini's great opera La Bohème and was made by the noted Finnish film director Aki Kaurismaki. Like the opera, it is based on the novel Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger. Despite their Read More

1992
Paris s'éveille

Actors: Judith Godrëche, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Thomas Langmann, Martin Lamotte

Synopsis: Louise (Judith Godrèche) is living with Clément (Jean-Pierre Léaud), an older man who copes with her bouts of drug addiction and is attempting to give her a hand in getting a television career going. When the man's son Adrien (Thomas Langmann), who is on the run from the police, comes to stay with Read More

11/27/91
C'est la Vie

1991
I Hired a Contract Killer

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Margi Clarke, Kenneth Colley, Serge Reggiani

Synopsis: In this Finnish comedy, which features all-English dialogue and nary a Scandanavian in it, Henri Boulanger (Jean-Pierre Leaud), is a colorless English civil servant, who was given a speedy retirement when his agency was "privatized," complete with a gold watch. His life is so barren that removing Read More

1990
Bunker Palace Hotel

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Carole Bouquet, Benoit Regent, Maria Schneider, Roger Dumas, Yann Collette

Synopsis: The French Bunker Palace Hotel is set in the Future. Rebels have taken over the totalitarian government, compelling the officials to flee for safety to the underground hotel of the title. Clara (Carole Bouquet), a spy for the rebels, infiltrates the hotel to observe the last moves of the crumbling Read More

1989
Paperback Woman

Synopsis: Originally Femme de Papier, Paperback Woman has also been released in English-speaking countries as Front Woman. Jean-Pierre Leaud stars as a publisher of steamy novels, while Helene Lapiower co-stars as Leaud's lover, a girl of limited talents who nonetheless is one of the publishing company's Read More

1989
Femme de Papier

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Hélène Lapiower, Caroline Loeb, Rufus, Thierry Fortineau

1989
La Couleur Du Vent

Actors: Elizabeth Bourgine, Philippe Léotard, Fabrice Luchini, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean-Pierre Bisson

Synopsis: Louise (Elizabeth Bourgine) is a young woman working at a publishing house who develops an unusual affection for submitted manuscript. She breaks up with Serge (Philippe Leotard), the printer who loves her. Louise tells the heartbroken Serge she has fallen in love with the author whom she has Read More

1988
Les Keufs

Actors: Josiane Balasko, Isaach de Bankolé, Ticky Holgado, Jean-Marie Marion, Patrick Olivier, Jean-Pierre Léaud

Synopsis: Mireille (Joisane Balasko) is a female cop who leads a crusade against the neighborhood pimp in this comedy drama. She falls for the black detective who is sent to investigate charges of corruption. Their relationship is adversarial before it becomes congenial. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
Ossegg - Oder Die Wahrheit Uber Hansel und Gretel

1988
Jane B. Par Agnes V.

Actors: Jane Birkin, Philippe Léotard, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Farid Chopel, Alain Souchon

Synopsis: Jane B. is London-born actress and recording star Jane Birkin. Agnes V. is Belgian filmmaker and "grandmother of the New Wave" Agnes Varda. Jane B. Par Agnes V is a cinematic recounting of Birkin's career, from her breakthrough appearance as one of the nude models in Blow-Up to her pinnacle as Read More

1988
36 Fillette

Actors: Delphine Zentout, Etienne Chicot, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Oliver Parniere, Jean-François Stévenin, Berta D. Dominguez

Synopsis: Titled after the name of a little girl's dress size, the coming-of-age drama 36 Fillette follows a couple days in the life of 14-year-old Lili (Delphine Zentout), whose physically mature features contrast with her immature adolescent angst. Away from her home in Paris, she is painfully bored Read More

1988
Boran - Zeit Zum Zielen

Actors: Renée Soutendijk, Julien Schoenaerts, Jean-Pierre Léaud

1987
Corps Et Biens

Actors: Dominique Sanda, Lambert Wilson, Danielle Darrieux, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Sabine Haudepin

Synopsis: In a standard tale of intrigue and foul play, Michel Sauvage (Lambert Wilson) has just gotten away with murder and is now marrying rich heiress Ariane (Ingrid Held) in hopes of taking all she's worth. Unfortunately for Michel, the murder victim's hard-fisted, tippling neighbor Madam Krantz (Danielle Darrieux Read More

1986
Grandeur et Décadence D'Un Petit Commerce De Cinema

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Marie Valera

Synopsis: Director Jean-Luc Godard pokes fun at the follies and injustices of small-time filmmaking in this drama-comedy about two apparent has-beens who are trying their best to get together the funds and the cast for a last, desperate bid for cinematic fame and fortune. The duo (Jean-Claude Mocky and Jean-Pierre Leaud Read More

1986
Csak Egy Mozi

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Deborah Javor, Tamas Major, Gisela May, Denisa Kucerova

Synopsis: Starting with a clear objective -- Peter, the director filming "Swan Lake" (Jean-Pierre Leaud) needs to replace an actor who is not working out -- this story then progresses erratically and ends in confusion. Peter stops work on his film and leaves to take a train with his wife when he sees an Read More

1985
Vivement Truffaut

Synopsis: A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly named after his last movie, Vivement Dimanche, released in 1983. Included in this overview of Truffaut's contribution to filmmaking are clips from 14 of his movies arranged according to the themes he Read More

1985
Rue Fontaine

Actors: Christine Boisson, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Philippe Garrel

1984
Paris Vu Par... 20 Ans Apres

Actors: Maria de Medeiros, Pascale Salkin, Julien Dubois, Daniel Mesguich

Synopsis: This anthology is comprised of six vignettes made by different Noveau Vague filmmakers. Each short film centers on a different aspect of Parisian life. The films and their directors include: J'ai Faim, J'ai Froid by Chantal Akerman; Place Clichy by Bernard Dubois; Rue Fontaine by Philippe Garrel Read More

1984
La Cassure

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Christian Alers

1984
Détective

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Nathalie Baye, Johnny Hallyday, Laurent Terzieff, Stephane Ferrara, Jean-Pierre Léaud

Synopsis: After several years of making films to please only himself, French director Jean-Luc Godard once more invites the audience to the party with The Detective. Not that there's anything so blase as a linear plot or appealing characters, but at least some of Godard's isolated vignettes are accessible Read More

1984
Rebelote

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Christophe Bazzini, Olga Georges-Picot, Jacques Robiolles, Tina Aumont

Synopsis: Director Jacques Richard tried to emulate a silent movie in all its aspects when he filmed Rebelote. Originally screened with a live string orchestra, the silent black-and-white film has inter-titles and tongue-in-cheek, melodramatic acting and a "soap opera" type plot. Unfortunately, the tale of Read More

1983
Help Me Dream

Actors: Mariangela Melato, Anthony Franciosa, Paola Pitagora, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Alexandra Stewart

Synopsis: The time is WW II in the Emilia-Romagna countryside in Italy, and an American pilot's plane has just broken down near the farmhouse of a middle-aged widow, Francesca (Mariangela Melato) and her three young daughters. The widow has recently come back to her family's land and is picking up where she Read More

3/26/81
Love on the Run

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Claude Jade, Dorothée, Daniel Mesguich

Synopsis: L'Amour en Fuite (Love on the Run) is presented in flashbacks from the previous four movies as Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) meets up with people from his past. As the fifth and final film in the series, Antoine is over 30 years old and meets with his wife, Christine (Claude Jade), to sign Read More

1979
Les Lolos de Lola

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claudine Vannier, Zouzou, Yan Dedet, Julien Dubois

Synopsis: In a deliberately erratic and disjointed fashion, this film follows the adventures of Bernard (Jean-Pierre Leaud). A young man from the provinces, he makes his pilgrimage to Paris and seeks adventure while living on a barge. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
Out One Spectre

Actors: Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bernadette Lafont

Synopsis: This experimental French film was originally made in a 12-hour-long version. The release version is only four-and-a-half hours long. It concerns a young man who pretends to be deaf and dumb in order to beg for money and begins to get letters which make him think that a conspiracy, hitherto known Read More

1974
Day for Night

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, François Truffaut, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Dani

Synopsis: Known to English-speaking audiences as Day for Night, La nuit américaine was director François Truffaut's loving and humorous tribute to the communal insanity of making a movie. The film details the making of a family drama called "Meet Pamela" about the tragedy that follows when a young French Read More

9/7/73
The Mother and the Whore

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Francoise Lebrun, Bernadette Lafont, Isabelle Weingarten

Synopsis: One of the most important French films of the 1970s, Jean Eustache's marathon drama focuses on three twentysomething Parisians in a bizarre love triangle: Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is a seemingly unemployed narcissist involved with both a live-in girlfriend (Bernadette Lafont) and a Polish Read More

1973
Last Tango in Paris

Actors: Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Massimo Girotti

Synopsis: In Bernardo Bertolucci's art-house classic, Marlon Brando delivers one of his characteristically idiosyncratic performances as Paul, a middle-aged American in "emotional exile" who comes to Paris when his estranged wife commits suicide. Chancing to meet young Frenchwoman Jeanne (Maria Schneider) Read More

12/15/72
Der Leone Have Sept Cabecas

Actors: Rada Rassimov, Hugo Carvana, Giulio Brogi, Gabriele Tinti, Jean-Pierre Léaud

Synopsis: This disturbing story of religious and political confusion in Latin America finds the CIA trying to infiltrate rebels loyal to a puppet government. A local guerilla fighter is tortured by a priest and his cronies who take sadistic pleasure in the torment of their victims. A blonde woman loyal to a Read More

3/18/71
Two English Girls

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter, Sylvia Marriott, Philippe Léotard

Synopsis: Among the great François Truffaut films, Two English Girls is likely the least known. Its story of a romantic triangle inevitably invites comparison to Truffaut's Jules and Jim, and not surprisingly, as both are based on novels by Henri-Pierre Roche (the only two novels Roche authored). Truffaut Read More

1971
Une Aventure de Billy the Kid

Synopsis: Billy the Kid (Jean-Pierre Leaud), is both ruthless and bumbling in this impressionistic French-made western. Ruthless, in that he tracks down a witness to a robbery and kills him in cold blood. Bumbling, in that he literally stumbles over things throughout the film. He is also lucky, one might Read More

1971
Bed and Board

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Hiroko Berghauer, Barbara Laage, Claire Duhamel, Danièle Gérard

Synopsis: In the fourth installment of François Truffaut's Antoine Doniel series, this romantic comedy shows how Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) went from being a mischievous boy to an adorably charming young man of 26. Domicile Conjugal begins with Antoine settling down with Christine (Claude Jade), his Read More

1/1/70
Porcile

Actors: Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Alberto Lionello, Ugo Tognazzi, Anne Wiazemsky

Synopsis: Julian (Jean-Pierre Leaud) is the son of German industrialist Klotz (Alberto Lionello) who seeks to go into business with the former Nazi Herdhitze (Ugo Tognazzi). Herdhitze had spent most of World War II collecting human skulls for experiments with brain matter. As a protest, Julian refuses to Read More

8/29/69
Paul

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Synopsis: Paul (Jean-Pierre Leaud) leaves his wealthy parents behind to go on a spiritual quest. He meets up with Yvan (Jean-Pierre Kalfon), leader of a vegetarian cult whose members survive by begging for food in uncomfortable robes. The religious fanatics draw the ire of local peasants when they are Read More

1969
Os Herdeiros

Actors: Odette Lara, Paulo Porto, Isabel Ribeiro

Synopsis: A journalist is tortured by police in the wake of political and social chaos, and the information he reveals leads to the death of a popular rebel leader. The journalist recovers and is sent to interview a plantation owner who is fighting to save his land from being nationalized. Men are helpless Read More

1969
La Concentration

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Zouzou

Synopsis: This plodding and confusing feature finds two disenchanted young lovers cavorting around in tee shirts and rubber pants. Hints of youthful discontent and symbolism are presented in this pretentious film about a couple who live an embryonic existence cut off from the rest of the world. The most Read More

1969
Le Gai Savoir

Actors: Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Léaud

Synopsis: This experimental minimalist drama by Jean-Luc Godard is a totally plotless exploration of film language. The setting is a darkened soundstage with only a single light to illuminate two actors who discuss philosophy. The philosophy reflects the director's most radical thoughts about making films. Read More

1968
Stolen Kisses

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Delphine Seyrig, Claude Jade, Michel Lonsdale, Daniel Ceccaldi

Synopsis: The episodic romantic comedy Stolen Kisses is the third installment in François Truffaut's Antoine Doinel series, which started with The 400 Blows in 1959. In 1968, Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is discharged from the military and comes home to Paris, getting an apartment in Montmartre with an Read More

1968
Weekend

Actors: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Valerie Lagrange, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean Eustache, Paul Gégauff

Synopsis: French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's Le Weekend remains his most consistently relentless attack on the bourgeois values of his own country and the perceived imperialism of the United States. Mireille Darc plays the central character, an "average" woman who is systematically radicalized during a Read More

12/29/67
The Oldest Profession

Actors: Michele Mercier, Elsa Martinelli, Enrico Maria Salerno, Jeanne Moreau, Gabriele Tinti, Raquel Welch, Gastone Moschin

Synopsis: In this anthology, six French filmmakers each contributed a vignette, offering their take on the history of prostitution. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

4/21/67
La Chinoise

Actors: Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Anne Wiazemsky

Synopsis: Director Jean-Luc Godard, whose advocacy of Maoism bordered on intoxication, infuriated many traditionalist critics with his swiftly paced satire La Chinoise. Godard's then-wife Anne Wiazemsky plays a philosophy student who commiserates with the four members of her campus Maoist group. They are so Read More

1967
Le Départ

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Catherine Duport

Synopsis: Marc Jean-Pierre Leaud is a young man who works at a local beauty shop and dreams of cars. When he "borrows" his boss's car for the evening, he is seduced by a wealthy woman before finding love with a younger woman nearer to his own age. Marc also dreams of being part of the affluent society he Read More

1967
Made in USA

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Laszlo Szabo, Kyoko Kosaka

Synopsis: With comic-book bright colors and playful sound effects, Jean-Luc Godard pays tribute to American filmmakers Nicholas Ray and Sam Fuller with Made in USA, his take on the American gangster movie. Set in Atlantic City, France, the tale centers on Paula Nelson's search for her old flame Richard Read More

1966