François Truffaut Movies

A fascinating glimpse into Truffaut’s creative process and how his life informed his art, told from the perspectives of those who knew him best.

In 1962, François Truffaut visited the Mar del Plata Film Festival to present his competition in the brand-new Jules and Jim. At that stage of...

Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française.

Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors and writers, a neighbor, and boyhood friends - talk...

A group of educators led by Fernand Deligny are working to create contact with autistic children in a hamlet of the Cevennes.

This portrait of the world-famous French director based on his personal correspondance reveals the little known insurgent side of his personnality....

A man struggles with his identity, his life choices, his interracial relationship, and his latent homosexuality. A portrait of some young...

An inquiry into two of the most influencial French filmakers friendship and feud.

A young woman wins a typing contest and sets off to work in Paris.

A fascinating glimpse into Truffaut’s creative process and how his life informed his art, told from the perspectives of those who knew him best.

Documentary about the making of Marcel Carne's 1945 film Children of Paradise (France), interviewing the director, the actors and production...

An intimate window into one of the great movements in film history that brought about an evolution in the art of cinema. The documentary portrays the...

Godard by Godard is an archival self-portrait of Jean-Luc Godard. It retraces the unique and unheard-of path, made up of sudden detours and dramatic...

Written and directed by Hitchcock historian Noël Simsolo, this 2004 French television documentary explores the earliest years of Alfred...

An experimental movie based on a poem of the French writer and director Jean Cocteau about a servant who fantasises about killing the lady of the...

"I only film people who are always active. Even if their activity is strange, weird." The activity François Truffaut talks about here is love....

A portrait of the famous French actress Fanny Ardant, who has worked with great figures of cinema such as Agnès Varda, Alain Resnais,...

In just ten films, Maurice Pialat painfully rose to the top of the cinema, draining into his legend a mad demand for truth as much as memorable fury...