Quatre cents coups, Les (1959)

Four Hundred Blows. After Spiderman III, this was a welcome relief to movie making. Of course, no one in their right mind would compare Sam Raimi and François Truffaut.

The story is autobiographical, reflecting many of the events of Truffaut's own life. One of the defining films of the French New Wave, it displays many of the characteristic traits of the movement. The story revolves around Antoine Doinel, an ordinary adolescent in Paris, who is thought by his parents and teachers to be a trouble maker.