François Truffaut Movies

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

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

Born into a family of actors, Françoise Dorléac, Catherine Deneuve's older sister, began her career at the age of 15. She shone a few...

Catherine Deneuve couldn’t care less about being a celebrity, but fame made her an icon long ago and she occupies a special place in our...

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

Episode of the French television series about the work of François Truffaut.

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...

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...

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

1951. André Bazin and Jacques Doniol-Valcroze founded "Cahiers du cinéma". With contributions from self-taught filmmakers (Jean-Luc...

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.

Laura Truffaut shares her memories of her legendary filmmaker father.

A portrait of legendary filmmaker Nicholas Ray while he is working as a film professor at a college in upstate New York.

Adaptation of Honoré de Balzac's "The Skin of Sorrow" or "The Wild Ass's Skin" (1831), said to be the last novel read by Sigmund Freud before...

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....

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