François Truffaut Movies

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

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.

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...

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

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.

Manon Tacconi revisits François Truffaut's classic, "The Woman Next Door" in one animated minute.

Laura Truffaut shares her memories of her legendary filmmaker father.

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...

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

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

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

François Truffaut's Stolen Kisses revisited by director Gabrielle Selnet in a one-minute animated film.