François Truffaut Movies

A documentary about the famous Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer, made a few years before he died. In this film Dreyer tells about the style in...

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

Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plot twist. Politician. General De Gaulle's shadow....

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.

Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors and writers, a neighbor, and boyhood friends - talk...

In just ten films, Maurice Pialat painfully rose to the top of the cinema, draining into his legend a mad demand for truth as much as memorable fury...

Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française.

Godard by Godard is an archival self-portrait of Jean-Luc Godard. It retraces the unique and unheard-of path, made up of sudden detours and dramatic...

A group of educators led by Fernand Deligny are working to create contact with autistic children in a hamlet of the Cevennes.

This portrait of the world-famous French director based on his personal correspondance reveals the little known insurgent side of his personnality....

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.

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

An inquiry into two of the most influencial French filmakers friendship and feud.

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

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

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

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

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...