François Truffaut Movies

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...

A WWI veteran decides to build a memorial to all of the people who have mattered to him but are now dead.

Documentary about François Truffaut who is one of the most respected directors in the history of cinema.

A young woman tries to go to Paris, but her garden and the whole village is flooded with water.

As a poster boy for hedonism, his whole life was one big party. A journalist, filmmaker, director, producer, actor, novelist, ladies' man and...

A documentary about Genie, who spent the first thirteen years of her life imprisoned in her bedroom by her father, with her arms and legs immobilized.

It was a collaboration between one of Ireland’s most noted playwrights and cinema’s greatest directors, yet the 1930 release of Juno and...

A timid young man searches for a room through newspaper ads and encounters a young woman caring for a baby. When a confident man arrives, the two...

At the end of his life, gravely ill, François Truffaut took refuge with his ex-wife Madeleine Morgenstern. She tried to keep him occupied...

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

The French director is interviewed in this documentary showing the newly celebrated filmmaker discussing his influences and beginnings along with...

In 1962 while presenting Jules et Jim at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, which earned him the Best Director Award, François...

Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the success and crisis of the wave. Featuring...

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

Television documentary about the making of Roberto Rossellini's 1945 film "Rome, Open City".

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.

Originally commissioned by Truffaut as part of a series of short films based on Edgar Allen Poe's Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, it would be a...

A documentary interview with the French actress while on the sets of films in production. Several of the directors for whom she has made films are...

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