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François Truffaut
François Roland Truffaut (February 6, 1932 – October 21, 1984) was an influential film critic and filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry. He was also a screenwriter, producer, and actor working on over twenty-five films. Along with Jean-Luc Godard, Truffaut was one of the most influential figures of the French New Wave, inspiring directors such as Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese and Wes Anderson.
Filmography
Browse movies and TV shows featuring François Truffaut
Omnibus
Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. Th...
Apostrophes
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bern...
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
Spécial cinéma
Marcello Mastroianni, Isabelle Adjani, Alain Delon, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen... the biggest stars in cinema...
Le Grand Échiquier
Le Grand Échiquier is a French variety television program created and presented by Jacques Chancel. It aired at...
Cinépanorama
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wildern...
Reflets de Cannes
The 400 Blows
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsidera...
Un film et son époque
The Soft Skin
Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married to Franca and father of Sabine. He starts a lov...
The Story of Adèle H.
In the 19th century a mysterious woman named Adele H. crosses the ocean, from Europe to North America, to relen...
Day for Night
A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal a...
John Travolta, le miraculé d'Hollywood
The gripping story of legendary American actor John Travolta: his rise to stardom in the 1970s; his agonizing f...
The Wild Child
In a French forest circa 1798, a child–who cannot walk, speak, read or write–is found. A doctor becomes interes...
Bed and Board
Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a c...
The Man Who Loved Women
At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertr...
The Green Room
A widower maintains a memorial room filled with his late wife's belongings. When fire destroys it, he transform...
Small Change
The lives of a motherless young man, who's just starting to find interest in women, and his physically abused,...
François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay
At the end of his life, gravely ill, François Truffaut took refuge with his ex-wife Madeleine Morgenstern. She...
Heart of the Festival
A short film containing some of the highlights of the Cannes Film Festival's storied history.
A Gorgeous Girl Like Me
Young sociologist Stanislas Previne is writing a thesis on criminal women, so he visits Camille Bliss in prison...
Morceaux de Cannes
We thought we'd seen, read, and heard everything there was to see about the Cannes Film Festival, from the glit...
Godard Cinema
Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overn...
Two English Girls
In the early 20th-century, Frenchman Claude meets Englishwoman Ann in Paris. Ann invites him to her family home...
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
Catherine Deneuve couldn’t care less about being a celebrity, but fame made her an icon long ago and she occupi...
The World of Jacques Demy
Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nante...
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
An account of the life of actress Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), a true icon of the New Wave and one of the most id...
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
An intimate window into one of the great movements in film history that brought about an evolution in the art o...
Two in the Wave
An in-depth analysis of the relationship between New Wave pioneers François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, as se...
Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock
When Francois Truffaut approached Alfred Hitchcock in 1962 with the idea of having a long conversation with him...
Françoise Dorléac, from The Man from Rio to The Young Girls of Rochefort
Born into a family of actors, Françoise Dorléac, Catherine Deneuve's older sister, began her career at the age...
Sous le soleil de Pialat
In just ten films, Maurice Pialat painfully rose to the top of the cinema, draining into his legend a mad deman...
Jim Morrison: The End
Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, in the apart...
Fool’s Mate
Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean. Claire meets her lover, Claude...