François Truffaut Movies

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

18 years after his last film, (The Troubles We've Seen), Marcel Ophuls emerges from retirement as one of our last masters, the most corrosive, the...

Laura Truffaut shares her memories of her legendary filmmaker father.

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

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

Documentary about the life and works of Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini.

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.

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

An avant-garde exploration of the themes of high-art vs. low-art conflict. The film begins with the bleak slideshow of Almaty architecture with the...

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

Documentary about the work of Nouvelle Vague actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, with interview clips, film clips and contributions from directors and...

An interview with François Truffaut on the cinema of Jean Vigo.

A man inherits an old house in a very bad condition. With the help of a young mechanic, he begins to renovate this house.

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.

Film historian/professor at UCLA Janet Bergstrom and Positif journalist N.T. Bihn discuss To Be or Not to Be and Ernst Lubitsch's career and legacy....

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

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...

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