François Truffaut
Birthday: 1932-02-06
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Biography: 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.
Movies
Bed and Board
Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have...
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The Wild Child
In a French forest circa 1798, a child–who cannot walk, speak, read or write–is found. A doctor beco...
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Small Change
The lives of a motherless young man, who's just starting to find interest in women, and his physical...
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Day for Night
A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises,...
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in ...
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Catherine Deneuve by Chance, or, A Certain Blondeness
A documentary interview with the French actress while on the sets of films in production. Several of...
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Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
Documentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film "Notorious."...
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Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock
When Francois Truffaut approached Alfred Hitchcock in 1962 with the idea of having a long conversati...
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The Green Room
A widower maintains a memorial room filled with his late wife's belongings. When fire destroys it, h...
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Les cahiers du cinéma, la création d'une empreinte
1951. André Bazin and Jacques Doniol-Valcroze founded "Cahiers du cinéma". With contributions from s...
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Sous le soleil de Pialat
In just ten films, Maurice Pialat painfully rose to the top of the cinema, draining into his legend ...
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Two in the Wave
An in-depth analysis of the relationship between New Wave pioneers François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Go...
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Godard Cinema
Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established hi...
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Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
An intimate window into one of the great movements in film history that brought about an evolution i...
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The Story of Adèle H.
Halifax, 1863: Miss Lewly arrives in Halifax to search for Lt Pinson, with whom she is madly in love...
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Looking for Truffaut
Documentary about François Truffaut who is one of the most respected directors in the history of cin...
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself
A portrait of legendary filmmaker Nicholas Ray while he is working as a film professor at a college ...
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Godard by Godard
Godard by Godard is an archival self-portrait of Jean-Luc Godard. It retraces the unique and unheard...
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Carl Th. Dreyer
A documentary about the famous Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer, made a few years before he died...
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Passion Fanny Ardant
A portrait of the famous French actress Fanny Ardant, who has worked with great figures of cinema su...
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Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera
She worked with the world’s greatest actors and directors: Buñuel, Mastroianni, Lellouche, Depardieu...
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La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the succe...
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Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
Television documentary about the making of Roberto Rossellini's 1945 film "Rome, Open City"....
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The 400 Blows
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by ...
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Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture
An inquiry into two of the most influencial French filmakers friendship and feud....
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Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years
Written and directed by Hitchcock historian Noël Simsolo, this 2004 French television documentary ex...
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François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death
A fascinating glimpse into Truffaut’s creative process and how his life informed his art, told from ...
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François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - The Wild Child
A fascinating glimpse into Truffaut’s creative process and how his life informed his art, told from ...
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François Truffaut: Des films d'amour !
"I only film people who are always active. Even if their activity is strange, weird." The activity F...
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Langlois
Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française....
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The Man Who Loved Women
At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flas...
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Los 4 Golpes
In 1962 while presenting Jules et Jim at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, which earned...
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The Birth of Children of Paradise
Documentary about the making of Marcel Carne's 1945 film Children of Paradise (France), interviewing...
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Portrait of François Truffaut
The French director is interviewed in this documentary showing the newly celebrated filmmaker discus...
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Cinéastes de notre temps : François Truffaut : Dix ans, dix films
Episode of the French television series about the work of François Truffaut....
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To Be... A Classic
Film historian/professor at UCLA Janet Bergstrom and Positif journalist N.T. Bihn discuss To Be or N...
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The Army Game
Jean Lerat begins his military service at an army camp. Despite his aunt’s attempts to pull a few st...
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François Truffaut l'insoumis
This portrait of the world-famous French director based on his personal correspondance reveals the l...
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François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors an...
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André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer
Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plo...
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Take It All
A man struggles with his identity, his life choices, his interracial relationship, and his latent ho...
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The Soft Skin
Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married to Franca and father of Sabine. He s...
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Two English Girls
In the early 20th-century, Frenchman Claude meets Englishwoman Ann in Paris. Ann invites him to her ...
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Vadim Mister Cool
As a poster boy for hedonism, his whole life was one big party. A journalist, filmmaker, director, p...
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The Secret of the Wild Child
A documentary about Genie, who spent the first thirteen years of her life imprisoned in her bedroom ...
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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 ...
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The Kreutzer Sonata
Some time after marrying a sensual girl, Pozdnychev realizes the only link to his spouse is that of ...
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Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo
Documentary about the life and works of Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini....
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The World of Jacques Demy
Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacq...
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John Travolta, le miraculé d'Hollywood
The gripping story of legendary American actor John Travolta: his rise to stardom in the 1970s; his ...
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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...
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Fool’s Mate
Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean As the story opens, ...
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Jim Morrison: The End
Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, i...
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When Hitchcock met O'Casey
It was a collaboration between one of Ireland’s most noted playwrights and cinema’s greatest directo...
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François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay
At the end of his life, gravely ill, François Truffaut took refuge with his ex-wife Madeleine Morgen...
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Introducing My Father, François Truffaut
Laura Truffaut shares her memories of her legendary filmmaker father....
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