François Truffaut Movies

The legendary French filmmaker François Truffaut was 52 years old when he died, and, a few months earlier, he had begun sharing the story of...

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

Written and directed by Hitchcock historian Noël Simsolo, this 2004 French television documentary explores the earliest years of Alfred...

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...

Laura Truffaut shares her memories of her legendary filmmaker father.

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

Documentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film "Notorious."

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

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...

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.

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

Television documentary about the making of Roberto Rossellini's 1945 film "Rome, Open City".

An in-depth analysis of the relationship between New Wave pioneers François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, as seen through rare archival...

A documentary portrait of Carl Th. Dreyer, filmed shortly after the Paris premiere of "Gertrud." Through Dreyer’s own reflections on his films,...

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

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.