The title of what classic 1959 French film that details the life of a troubled adolescent named Antoine Doinel refers to an expression 'faire les quatre cents coups' which means 'to raise hell'?
"Jean-Pierre Léaud Jean-Pierre Léaud, ComM (; born 28 May 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"" (""Les Quatre Cents Coups"", 1959). He also worked several times with Jean-Luc Godard, and is a significant figure of the French New Wave. Born in Paris, Léaud made his major debut as an actor at the age of 14 as Antoine Doinel, a semi-autobiographical character based on the life events of French film director François Truffaut, in ""The 400 Blows"". To cast the two adolescents, Truffaut"
"it was ranked 39th. Antoine Doinel is a young boy growing up in Paris during the 1950s. Misunderstood by his parents for playing truant from school and stealing, and tormented in school for discipline problems by his teacher, (Antoine falsely explains his absence was due to his mother's death), Antoine frequently runs away from both places. He finally quits school after his teacher catches him plagiarizing Balzac. He steals a typewriter from his stepfather's workplace to finance his plans to leave home, but is apprehended while trying to return it. The stepfather turns Antoine over to the police and Antoine"
"Elevator to the Gallows Elevator to the Gallows (; previously known as ""Frantic"" in the US), also known as Lift to the Scaffold (UK), is a 1958 French crime film directed by Louis Malle, starring Jeanne Moreau and Maurice Ronet as criminal lovers whose perfect crime begins to unravel when Ronet is trapped in an elevator. The scenario was adapted from a 1956 novel of the same name by Noël Calef. Associated by some critics with the film noir style, and introducing new narrative and editing techniques, the film is considered an important work in establishing the Nouvelle Vague and"
"back, silhouetted in the open window, waiting for the shots he knows are coming, while he smokes his last Gauloise. Martin Roumagnac Martin Roumagnac (also known as The Room Upstairs) is a 1946 French crime film directed by Georges Lacombe. It tells the story of a builder in a small town who falls for a glamorous but treacherous femme fatale, with tragic results for both. It is notable as the only occasion in which the two major stars Jean Gabin and Marlene Dietrich, lovers in real life, appeared together on screen. In a little country town, Martin Roumagnac is a"
"Finally, Germaine blackmails her to obtain an income. Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause ! Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause ! is a French comedy film directed by Michel Audiard released in 1970. Germaine, a housewife, has three customers: a substitute bank cashier, a television personality, and a child educator, and learns some of their secrets. Revealing these secrets with ability, she influences that the cashier blackmails the television personality, who blackmails the educator, who blackmails the cashier. Finally, the cashier murders the educator who blackmailed him,"
"vengeance. Constance aux enfers Constance aux enfers (US title: Web of Fear) is a 1963 French language motion picture crime thriller directed by François Villiers. It was based on novel ""Constance aux enfers"" by Jean-Pierre Ferrière, who co-wrote screenplay with Jacques Sigurd. The film stars Michèle Morgan, Dany Saval. A young woman is killed by one of her companions. He escaped in a neighbor widow's apartment room, and becomes her lover. Another man gets much money from her by his blackmail revealing their love affair, but she finds the victim is actually alive and part of the blackmail plan, and"
"skips school, eventually turning to street life and petty crime in response to neglect at home by his parents. Towards the end of the film, he is sent to a reform school, from which he escapes for places unknown. The next appearance of Doinel was in the film short ""Antoine and Colette"", which was part of the 1962 omnibus film ""L'amour à vingt ans"". Doinel is now age 17 and becomes obsessed with Colette, a music student, but she only wants to be friends. In the third installment, ""Stolen Kisses"" (1968), a more mature Doinel attempts to return to civilian"
"both French and English language films. His most famous films include the crime film ""Ascenseur pour l'échafaud"" (1958), the World War II drama ""Lacombe, Lucien"" (1974), the romantic crime film ""Atlantic City"" (1980), the comedy-drama ""My Dinner with Andre"" (1981), and the autobiographical film ""Au revoir les enfants"" (1987). Malle was born into a wealthy industrialist family in Thumeries, Nord, France, the son of Francoise (Béghin) and Pierre Malle. During World War II, Malle attended a Roman Catholic boarding school near Fontainebleau. As an 11-year-old he witnessed a Gestapo raid on the school, in which three Jewish students, including his"
"Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause ! Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause ! is a French comedy film directed by Michel Audiard released in 1970. Germaine, a housewife, has three customers: a substitute bank cashier, a television personality, and a child educator, and learns some of their secrets. Revealing these secrets with ability, she influences that the cashier blackmails the television personality, who blackmails the educator, who blackmails the cashier. Finally, the cashier murders the educator who blackmailed him, who is then murdered by the television personality."
"A Cage of Nightingales A Cage of Nightingales (French: La Cage aux rossignols) is a 1945 French film directed by Jean Dréville. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story, and served as an inspiration for the film ""The Chorus"" (2004). Clement Mathieu seeks to publish his novel without success. With the help of a friend who is a journalist, his story about the 'Cage of Nightingales' is slipped surreptitiously into a newspaper... In France, in the 1930s, a supervisor at a rehabilitation house awakens difficult teens' inner musical tendencies by forming a choir, despite the director's skepticism."
"Les Cousins (film) Les Cousins is a 1959 French New Wave drama film directed by Claude Chabrol. It tells the story of two cousins, the decadent Paul and the naive Charles. Charles falls in love with Florence, one of Paul's friends. It won the Golden Bear at the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. Paul, a dissolute, profligate and jaded Parisian, takes in his naive, innocent and idealistic cousin Charles from the provinces who is something of a mama's boy while they both attend law school. Paul takes Charles to a club at which he meets the beautiful Florence, who has"
"Coup de tête Coup de tête () is a 1979 French comedy-drama film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and scripted by Francis Veber. It stars Patrick Dewaere and Jean Bouise, who won the César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance. François Perrin is a belligerent factory worker who plays football for a local amateur team, in a club owned by a rich businessman who also owns the factory where Perrin, as well as most of the population of Trincamp, works. His attitude doesn't endear him to anyone, and the situation is not helped when, at a"
"the knowledge of who did what and who made false reports to the police to plot a subtle but effective revenge on those who have wronged him. Coup de tête Coup de tête () is a 1979 French comedy-drama film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and scripted by Francis Veber. It stars Patrick Dewaere and Jean Bouise, who won the César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance. François Perrin is a belligerent factory worker who plays football for a local amateur team, in a club owned by a rich businessman who also owns the factory where"
"and the bishop are eating. The Devil and the Ten Commandments Le Diable et les Dix Commandements (), is a French comedy-drama film from 1963, directed by Julien Duvivier, written by David Alexander and Michel Audiard, starring Michel Simon and Louis de Funès (uncredited). The cast list includes several famous French actors: Simon, de Funès, Fernandel, Danielle Darrieux, Lino Ventura, Jean-Claude Brialy, Charles Aznavour and a very young Alain Delon. According to Bosley Crowther only one from seven episodes tickled him, in which play Louis de Funes and Jean-Claude Brialy. The film offers a perspective on sin and salvation. A"
"his alter-ego Doinel in Stolen Kisses (1968), ""Bed and Board"" (Domicile Conjugal, 1970) and ""Love on the Run"" (1979), as Christine puts up with Antoine's foibles and affairs. The Guardian notes ""Memorable scenes pass through the mind like a montage: her teaching Antoine the best way to butter toast in the morning, their writing each other little notes, his calling her ""my little mother, my little sister, my little daughter"" in a taxi, and she replying she would rather be his wife; her attempts to guess Antoine's latest job, amusingly suggesting cab driver or water taster, her reaction when Antoine"
"Antoine and Colette Antoine and Colette () is the second film — a short — in François Truffaut's series about Antoine Doinel, the character he follows from boyhood to adulthood through five films. The third is the feature film ""Stolen Kisses"". ""Antoine and Colette"" was made for the 1962 anthology collection, ""Love at Twenty"", which featured shorts from the renowned directors Shintarô Ishihara, Marcel Ophüls, Renzo Rossellini and Andrzej Wajda, as well as Truffaut. Antoine Doinel — and Jean-Pierre Léaud, the actor who played him throughout all five films — had made his screen debut in 1959 with Truffaut's first"
"Constance aux enfers Constance aux enfers (US title: Web of Fear) is a 1963 French language motion picture crime thriller directed by François Villiers. It was based on novel ""Constance aux enfers"" by Jean-Pierre Ferrière, who co-wrote screenplay with Jacques Sigurd. The film stars Michèle Morgan, Dany Saval. A young woman is killed by one of her companions. He escaped in a neighbor widow's apartment room, and becomes her lover. Another man gets much money from her by his blackmail revealing their love affair, but she finds the victim is actually alive and part of the blackmail plan, and does"
"shock value, and influenced many films to come."" He further argued that Louis and Veronique were an important precursor to the controversial young couple of Jean-Luc Godard's better-known ""Breathless"" (1960). Calef's novel has been filmed twice since Malle's version: one by Japanese filmmaker Akira Ogata in 2010 as well as a Russian adaptation by Stanislav Govorukhin titled ""Weekend"" in 2013. Elevator to the Gallows Elevator to the Gallows (; previously known as ""Frantic"" in the US), also known as Lift to the Scaffold (UK), is a 1958 French crime film directed by Louis Malle, starring Jeanne Moreau and Maurice Ronet"
"Martin Roumagnac Martin Roumagnac (also known as The Room Upstairs) is a 1946 French crime film directed by Georges Lacombe. It tells the story of a builder in a small town who falls for a glamorous but treacherous femme fatale, with tragic results for both. It is notable as the only occasion in which the two major stars Jean Gabin and Marlene Dietrich, lovers in real life, appeared together on screen. In a little country town, Martin Roumagnac is a building contractor who is liked by the ordinary people. He lives in a shack with his sister while he builds"
"was the source of inspiration for the Antoine Doinel character and ""I created some scenes just because I knew he would be funny in them—at least I laughed during the writing as I thought of him."" He also collaborated with Truffaut on non-Antoine Doinel films like ""Two English Girls"" (""Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent"", 1971) and ""Day for Night"" (""La Nuit américaine"", 1973) and became the actor most commonly affiliated with him. Although Antoine Doinel is his most familiar character, he often found his performances in other films to be compared to his Doinel character whether there were legitimate"
"L'Âge ingrat L'Âge ingrat, called in English That Tender Age, is a 1964 French drama film directed by Gilles Grangier that unites two major stars in Jean Gabin and Fernandel. It recounts how two families are drawn together by an engagement between two of their children, are then torn apart when the young couple fall out, and are finally reconciled. Before parting for the summer vacation, the students Antoine Lartigue and Marie Malhouin decide to get engaged. Marie's father Émile is guarded, but Antoine's father Adolphe is ecstatic and insists that all the Malhouin family must come and stay with"
"The Devil and the Ten Commandments Le Diable et les Dix Commandements (), is a French comedy-drama film from 1963, directed by Julien Duvivier, written by David Alexander and Michel Audiard, starring Michel Simon and Louis de Funès (uncredited). The cast list includes several famous French actors: Simon, de Funès, Fernandel, Danielle Darrieux, Lino Ventura, Jean-Claude Brialy, Charles Aznavour and a very young Alain Delon. According to Bosley Crowther only one from seven episodes tickled him, in which play Louis de Funes and Jean-Claude Brialy. The film offers a perspective on sin and salvation. A snake proclaims – voice of"
"bit old-fashioned. ... It is worth seeking out, not only because ""Classe Tous Risques"" represents a missing piece of film history - a link between the great postwar policiers and the brooding 1960's gangster dramas of Jean-Pierre Melville - but because it is a tough and touching exploration of honor and friendship among thieves."" Classe Tous Risques Classe Tous Risques (""Consider All Risks"") is a 1960 French-Italian gangster film directed by Claude Sautet and starring Lino Ventura, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Sandra Milo. It was first released in the United States as The Big Risk. It tells the story of Abel"
"Le Crime ne paie pas Le Crime ne paie pas (US title: Crime Does Not Pay, UK title: Gentle Art of Murder) is a 1962 French drama film directed and partly written by Gérard Oury. It consists of four separate episodes, each with its own cast and writers but sharing common themes of beautiful women, jealousy, revenge and death. From these dark tales centred on leading actresses, Oury switched to buddy comedies which remain among the most-loved and successful films in the history of French cinema. Louis de Funès, here playing a barman whose English is incomprehensible, starred in them,"
"Love at Twenty Love at Twenty (, , , , ) is a 1962 French-produced omnibus project of Pierre Roustang, consisting of five segments directed by five directors from five different countries. It was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival. The first segment, titled ""Antoine and Colette"" is by François Truffaut (France) and returns actor Jean-Pierre Léaud to the role of Antoine Doinel, a role he played three years earlier in ""The 400 Blows"" and would return to again in 1968 (Stolen Kisses), 1970 (Bed and Board) and 1979 (Love on the Run). It concerns the frustrations of"
"Ne quittez pas ! Ne quittez pas ! is a French comedy film directed by Arthur Joffé, released in 2004. Internationally renowned astrophysicist, Félix Mandel, 40, is very attached to the past, to the great despair of his wife, Lucie, who does not know that he is still in contact with the love of his youth, Wendy Lawrence, and does not want him to keep filling his office with souvenirs. One day, fed up with it, she decides on a spring clean, during which she finds an old coat that had belonged to his father, Lucien, dead for two years."
"police roadblock and shot dead. The truck crashes into the garage's gas pump and bursts into flame. Chair de poule Chair de poule (French for ""goosebumps"") is a 1963 French crime film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Robert Hossein, Catherine Rouvel, Jean Sorel and Georges Wilson. The screenplay is based on the novel ""Come Easy, Go Easy"" by James Hadley Chase, which took several plot elements from ""The Postman Always Rings Twice"" by James M Cain. The film was released in the United States as Highway Pickup. In Paris, Daniel and Paul work installing safes by day and robbing"
"The Seven Deadly Sins (1962 film) Les Sept péchés capitaux is a 1962 French film composed of seven different segments, one for each of the seven deadly sins, each being by different directors and featuring different casts. At the time it served as a showcase for rising directors and stars, many of whom achieved later fame. Directed by Sylvain Dhomme and Max Douy from a script by Eugène Ionesco. Anger seizes a man who finds a fly in his Sunday soup. It spreads through his neighborhood, his city, his country and soon the whole world. Directed by Édouard Molinaro. Envious"
"Retour de manivelle Retour de manivelle (English title: There's Always a Price Tag) is a 1957 French-language motion picture crime drama directed by Denys de La Patellière who co-wrote screenplay with Michel Audiard, based on the novel ""There's Always a Price Tag"" by James Hadley Chase. The film stars Michèle Morgan, Daniel Gélin and Michèle Mercier Penniless painter Robert Mabillon rescues rich man Eric Freminger one evening, when he is trying to throw himself under the wheels of a car. After having gotten quite drunk, Mabillon proposes to renew his luxurious villa in Saint-Jean-Cap on the French Riviera. Nevertheless, Freminger"
"Don't Let It Kill You Don't Let It Kill You () is a 1967 French-Canadian feature from Jean Pierre Lefebvre. First in the ‘Abel trilogy’. The story concerns a day in the life of Abel (), the Québécois Everyman who reappears in Jean Pierre Lefebvre’s 1977 ""Le Vieux pays où Rimbaud est mort"". Self-absorbed to the point of existential withdrawal, the gentle and mildly eccentric Abel confers upon all events a kind of mystical grandeur and perplexity. (The film opens with a slogan on a blackboard: ""I want to change the course of things – but it is things which"
"Au revoir les enfants Au revoir les enfants (, meaning ""Goodbye, Children"") is an autobiographical 1987 film written, produced and directed by Louis Malle. The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. During the winter of 1943–44, Julien Quentin, a student at a Carmelite boarding school in occupied France, is returning to school from vacation. He acts tough to the students at the school, but he is actually a pampered boy who misses his mother deeply. Saddened to be returning to the tedium of boarding school, Julien's classes seem uneventful until Père Jean, the headmaster, introduces three"
"Don't Deliver Us from Evil Don't Deliver Us from Evil () is a 1971 French film directed by Joël Séria. It is loosely based on the Parker–Hulme murder case of 1954. Anne de Boissy and Lore Fournier are two adolescent Angevin girls who stay at a Catholic boarding school. Both have affluent and conservative families living in the countryside. Anne and Lore quickly become friends. They spend most of their time reading poems about the beauty of death, mocking their classmates and teachers, and engaging in vicious pranks and petty theft, believing that not only is church downright fatuous, but"
"the problem by boiling them and drying again. Cent briques et des tuiles Cent briques et des tuiles is a 1965 French film directed by Pierre Grimblat. Marcel, a small-time gangster, has lost all his gang's proceeds, 20 million francs, while gambling. His accomplices, the Shultz brothers, throw him out of his apartment and give him a week to come up with the money. Marcel goes to Champs Elysées, there crossing paths with his old friend Étienne, who proposes a robbery of the Galeries Lafayette store, telling Marcel it should net them 100 million francs. Étienne and Marcel (possibly a"