Collection of five films directed by franois truffaut and starring jean pierre laud as antoine doinel the 400 blows 1959 follows antoine an unruly young parisian whose unhappiness leads him into trouble frequently running away from school and home antoine spends much of his time playing with his friends on the steets of the city but events take a more serious turn when an accusation of plagiarism leads him to quit school and the theft of a typewriter lands him in trouble with the poli