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The 400 Blows
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life.
Defining films
The 400 Blows
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
A Prophet
Cléo from 5 to 7
Beau travail
Léon: The Professional
Amélie
Chinatown
Ben-Hur
La Haine
Roman Holiday
Three Colors: Red
Persepolis
The Best Years of Our Lives
Le Salaire de la peur
Diabolique
A Trip to the Moon
Le Samouraï
Irreversible
À Bout de souffle
La Jetée
Nuit et brouillard
La Grande Illusion
Le Trou
Directors
Films by decade
Petite Maman
The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France
CODA
The Substance
Anatomy of a Fall
Wolfwalkers
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Robot Dreams
The Beasts
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Mars Express
Black Box
Happening
Oxygen
The Summit of the Gods
Dogman
Nouvelle Vague
Souleymane's Story
The Vault
The Stronghold
Bird
Left-Handed Girl
Full Time
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Holy Motors
No Home Movie
Mommy
The Intouchables
Wind River
127 Hours
Paddington 2
Still Alice
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Secret World of Arrietty
Snowden
Paddington
Non-Stop
Pride
Miss Sloane
Legend
The Little Prince
Masaan
Carnage
The Past
Rust and Bone
Enter the Void
Jodorowsky's Dune
A Prophet
Amélie
Persepolis
Irreversible
The Gleaners and I
Trouble Every Day
The Pianist
Taken
Hot Fuzz
Pride & Prejudice
Love Actually
Atonement
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Lord of War
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Billy Elliot
Frost/Nixon
United 93
Chicken Run
The Chorus
A Very Long Engagement
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Home
No Man's Land
Beau travail
Léon: The Professional
La Haine
Three Colors: Red
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
La Belle noiseuse
Caro diario
Van Gogh
Nouvelle Vague
East Wind
The Fifth Element
Leaving Las Vegas
Black Cat, White Cat
Three Colors: White
Delicatessen
Chaplin
The City of Lost Children
The Dinner Game
Nikita
Taxi
Arizona Dream
Cliffhanger
Cyrano de Bergerac
Lolita
Possession
Vagabond
Sans soleil
Le Rayon vert
L’Argent
La Femme d’à côté
Godard's Passion
Too Early / Too Late
Shoah
All Night Long
The Name of the Rose
Jean de Florette
The Big Blue
Manon of the Spring
The Bear
Salaam Bombay!
The Professional
Le Dernier métro
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
La Chèvre
Pauline à la plage
My American Uncle
The King and the Mockingbird
Monsieur Hire
Chinatown
Le Cercle rouge
Day for Night
The Tenant
The Tin Drum
Le Genou de Claire
The Mother and the Whore
L’Enfant sauvage
Céline and Julie Go Boating
Two English Girls
Song of Love
Providence
The Devil, Probably
Lancelot of the Lake
Out One: Noli me Tangere
My Little Loves
Soleil O
India Song
West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty
The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
My Name Is Nobody
Michael the Brave
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
L’Amour l’après-midi
Cléo from 5 to 7
Le Samouraï
À Bout de souffle
La Jetée
Le Trou
Z
L’Armée des ombres
Jules and Jim
Vivre Sa Vie
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Eyes Without a Face
Playtime
Pierrot le Fou
Contempt
Band of Outsiders
Au Hasard Balthazar
My Night at Maud's
Shoot the Piano Player
Mouchette
Masculin Feminin
The Young Girls of Rochefort
Alphaville
Happiness
Le Boucher
The 400 Blows
Ben-Hur
Roman Holiday
Le Salaire de la peur
Diabolique
Nuit et brouillard
A Man Escaped
Elevator to the Gallows
Mon Oncle
Pickpocket
Forbidden Games
Orpheus
Diary of a Country Priest
Les Vacances de M. Hulot
Casque d’or
The River
Le Plaisir
Lola Montès
French Cancan
The Golden Coach
Night and Fog
Rififi
The Big Country
Bob le flambeur
The Best Years of Our Lives
Children of Paradise
La Belle et la Bête
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne
The Heiress
Mrs. Miniver
The Little Foxes
Orphée
Le Corbeau
The Letter
Quai des Orfèvres
Le Silence de la mer
Jour de fête
The Westerner
Panic
This Land is Mine
L’Assassin habite au 21
The Southerner
Tales of Manhattan
The Devil's Envoys
L’École des facteurs
The Tale of the Fox
The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress
Les Anges du péché
La Grande Illusion
La Règle du jeu
L’Atalante
Port of Shadows
La Bête humaine
Zero de Conduite
La Chienne
Boudu sauvé des eaux
Le Crime de Monsieur Lange
L'Atalante
Wuthering Heights
Jezebel
Dodsworth
Daybreak
Pépé le Moko
Dead End
A Propos de Nice
Les Bas-fonds
Marius
Hôtel du Nord
The Story of a Cheat
These Three
Fanny
The Baker's Wife
Napoleon
The Silent Partner
The Fall of the House of Usher
La Roue
Cœur fidèle
La Petite marchande d’allumettes
Finis Terræ
Nana
La Fille de l’eau
Carrot Top
Charleston
The Shakedown
The Love Trap
Tire au flanc
The Mystery of the Eiffel Tower
Nogent, Eldorado du dimanche
Mother Hummingbird
Le Bled
Shooting Straight
The Divine Voyage
Le Tournoi
La P’tite Lili
The Maelstrom of Paris
The Stolen Ranch
The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris
A la Conquête du pôle
Les Illusions fantaisistes
Cendrillon ou la Pantoufle merveilleuse
Le Chevalier des neiges
Haceldama, or The Price of Blood
J'Accuse
Judex
The Man with Wax Faces
Max as a Chiropodist
The Curse of Greed
The Agony of Byzantium
The Child of Paris
Tragic Error
Onesime, Clockmaker
The Trust, or The Battles for Money
Max's First Job
The Nativity
Barrabas
Le Bercail
L'Engrenage
Rose-France
Vendémiaire
The Tenth Symphony
A Trip to the Moon
Le Voyage à travers l’impossible
L’Homme à la tête en caoutchouc
Le Locataire diabolique
L’Homme orchestre
Le Royaume des fées
Le Diable noir
Barbe-bleue
Le Mélomane
Le Chaudron infernal
Les Quat’ cents Farces du diable
Les Cartes vivantes
Nouvelles luttes extravagantes
Jeanne d’Arc
Éclipse du soleil en pleine lune
Le Monstre
Le Voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les géants
La Sirène
Le Roi du maquillage
Les Affiches en goguette
Le Cake-walk infernal
La Fée Carabosse ou le Poignard fatal
Le Tunnel sous la manche, ou Le cauchemar franco-anglais
Le Bourreau turc
Un Homme de têtes
La Lune à un mètre
Le Manoir du Diable
Cendrillon
Le Diable au convent
L’Auberge ensorcelée
L’Impressionniste fin de siècle
Une Nuit terrible
La Tentation de Saint-Antoine
Illusions fantasmagoriques
Le Chevalier mystère
Aventures de Guillaume Tell
Après le bal
Le Portrait mystérieux
L’Affaire Dreyfus
Visite sous-marine du Maine
Panorama pris d’un train en marche
Entre Calais et Douvres
Combat naval en Grèce
Salle à manger fantastique
L’Ours et la sentinelle
Escamotage d’une dame au théâtre Robert Houdin
Assistant Directors: André Cerf, Claude Heymann
At the real-life beach where the movie was made, there stands a bronze statue of Monsieur Hulot, overlooking the beach with his hands on his hips. (see photo above
Available on DVD and laserdisc from the Criterion Collection. Widely available on videotape. There is, according to Bellos, a rare English-language version called My Uncle , which is unavailable on video.
Available on DVD from the Criterion Collection. Widely available on videotape. Commonly shown in 16mm. or 35mm. Opportunities to see the 70mm. print should be seized, with haste.
Available on the Jour de fête laserdisc through the Criterion Collection, also on the Mon Oncle DVD through the Criterion Collection, and on the Jour de fête DVD through Les Films De Ma Vie.
Available on videotape. There is also a DVD in the works from GCTHV (Gaumont/Columbia/Tristar Home Video).
Distribution: Aubert-Pierre Braunberger
Distribution: Maurice Rouhier, later Pierre Braunberger
Distribution: Néo-Film (Pierre Braunberger
Intertitles: Denise Leblond-Zola, Jean Renoir
Photography: Edmund Corwin, Jean Bachelet
Photography: Jean Bachelet, Alphonse Gibory
Producer: Jean Renoir
Production Company: Films Jean Renoir
Production Company: Films Jean Renoir/Maurice Touzé/Studio Films
Production Design: Claude Autant-Lara
Screenplay: Pierre Lestringuez and Jean Renoir
Screenplay: Pierre Lestringuez from the novel by Emile Zola
The film is about a football match between a team from Holland and (possibly) an Italian team, which is disturbed when the rain makes the field too muddy for play. A 2-minute trailer is available here