François TruffautFilmography

Born:: February 6, 1932 in Paris, France
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Movie historian Leslie Halliwell has quoted French filmmaker François Truffaut as observing "I make films that I would like to have seen when I was a young man." It is difficult to believe that there exists a film that Truffaut didn't see as a youth. The product of an unhappy, loveless home...Read More

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Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinematheque

Actors: Henri Alékan, Jo Amorin, Jean-Michel Arnold, Christian Auboire, Raphael Bassan

Synopsis: Henri Langlois was, in many respects, the ultimate film fan. In 1936, at the age of 22, Langlois became (along with Jean Mitry and Georges Franju) one of the founders of the Cinémathèque Française, a theater and museum devoted to preserving the history of the motion picture. Initially a tiny Read More

10/12/05
Confidentially Yours

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Laudenbach, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Caroline Sihol, Philippe Morier-Genoud

Synopsis: In this light, sometimes tongue-in-cheek mystery based on a Charles Williams thriller -- with snippets of Hitchcock, Kubrick, and even Victor Hugo -- director François Truffaut showcases one of his favorite actresses, Fanny Ardant, as an enterprising secretary in love with her boss but up against Read More

1983
The Woman Next Door

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Henri Garcin, Michele Baumgartner, Véronique Silver

Synopsis: François Truffaut's The Woman Next Door continues his fascination with obsessive love. It was also his first collaboration with Fanny Ardant, who would become his favored leading lady for the last phase of his career and offscreen love for the last years of his life. Bernard Coudray (Gerard Read More

1981
The Last Metro

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Heinz Bennent, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: The Last Metro is set virtually in its entirety in a crumbling French theatre. During the Nazi occupation, Jewish director Lucas Steiner (Heinz Bennent) hides in the basement of the theatre, while his wife Marion (Catherine Deneuve) stars in its latest production. Marion is enamored of leading man Read More

1980
Love on the Run

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Claude Jade, Dorothée, Daniel Mesguich

Synopsis: L'Amour en Fuite (Love on the Run) is presented in flashbacks from the previous four movies as Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) meets up with people from his past. As the fifth and final film in the series, Antoine is over 30 years old and meets with his wife, Christine (Claude Jade), to sign Read More

1979
The Green Room

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Jean Dasté, François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Moulin, Jane Lobre

Synopsis: The Green Room (La Chambre Verte) is perhaps the least well-known of Francois Truffaut's 1970s films. Truffaut himself stars as Julien Davenne, a WW I-era journalist obsessed with death. As his friends drop like flies on the battlefield, Davenne's obsessions overwhelm him. At war's end, he devotes Read More

1978
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Cary Guffey, Bob Balaban

Synopsis: Steven Spielberg followed Jaws (1975), his first major box-office success, with this epic science fiction adventure about a disparate group of people who attempt to contact alien intelligence. Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) is an electrical lineman who, while sent out on emergency repairs, witnesses Read More

1977
The Man Who Loved Women

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey, Nelly Borgeaud, Geneviève Fontanel, Nathalie Baye

Synopsis: When he suddenly dies and is buried, the late Bertrand Morane (Charles Denner), an aeronautical engineer from Montpelier, receives funeral visitation from hundreds of women. Little wonder: in life, Morane simply couldn't keep his mind off of women -- one glance at a well-turned ankle and he was Read More

1977
Small Change

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Geary Desmouceaux, Jean-François Stévenin, Philippe Goldman, Sylvie Grezel, Pascale Bruchon

Synopsis: L'Argent de Poche (Small Change) is an episodic comedy drama composed of several sequences that explore childhood in director François Truffaut's signature humanistic style. Filmed in Thiers in South Central France, each vignette is seen from the point of view of a kid from two weeks to 14 years Read More

1976
The Story of Adele H.

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott, Reuben Dorey, Joseph Blatchley

Synopsis: Based on the real-life diaries of Adèle Hugo, The Story of Adele H. is a psychological drama opening in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the 1860s. The daughter of famous French writer Victor Hugo, Adèle (Isabelle Adjani) has left her father's home to seek out her fiancé, the English soldier Lt. Albert Read More

1975
I'm a Stranger Here Myself

Actors: Natalie Wood, Nicholas Ray, François Truffaut

Synopsis: Young filmmaker Halpern does homage in this documentary to a directorial veteran, Nicholas Ray, whose films included Johnny Guitar and Rebel Without A Cause. Ray, who initially studied architecture at Taliesen under Frank Lloyd Wright, was a highly regarded auteur director. At the time the Read More

1974
Day for Night

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, François Truffaut, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Dani

Synopsis: Known to English-speaking audiences as Day for Night, La nuit américaine was director François Truffaut's loving and humorous tribute to the communal insanity of making a movie. The film details the making of a family drama called "Meet Pamela" about the tragedy that follows when a young French Read More

9/7/73
Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bernadette Lafont, Charles Denner, Claude Brasseur, Guy Marchand

Synopsis: Bernadette Lafont is as alluring as all get out in Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me (original title: Une Belle Fille Comme Moi). She plays a crafty murderess who uses her not inconsiderable charms to disarm her victims and trap unwitting males into helping her. Claude Brasseur plays the ingenuous Read More

1972
Two English Girls

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter, Sylvia Marriott, Philippe Léotard

Synopsis: Among the great François Truffaut films, Two English Girls is likely the least known. Its story of a romantic triangle inevitably invites comparison to Truffaut's Jules and Jim, and not surprisingly, as both are based on novels by Henri-Pierre Roche (the only two novels Roche authored). Truffaut Read More

1971
Bed and Board

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Hiroko Berghauer, Barbara Laage, Claire Duhamel, Danièle Gérard

Synopsis: In the fourth installment of François Truffaut's Antoine Doniel series, this romantic comedy shows how Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) went from being a mischievous boy to an adorably charming young man of 26. Domicile Conjugal begins with Antoine settling down with Christine (Claude Jade), his Read More

1/1/70
Langlois

Actors: Lillian Gish, Ingrid Bergman, Jeanne Moreau, Simone Signoret, Catherine Deneuve

Synopsis: This documentary follows noted film archivist Henri Langlois as he returns to Paris. Over 60,000 prints exist in his Paris museum, with 15,000 in the United States and 6,000 in Russia. Ingrid Bergman, Lillian Gish, Jeanne Moreau, Simone Signoret, Catherine Denueve, Francois Truffaut, and Viva all Read More

1970
The Wild Child

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cargol, François Truffaut, Jean Dasté, Françoise Seigner, Paul Ville

Synopsis: Based on a real-life case study, recorded in Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard's 1806 volume Memoire et Rapport sur Victor de L'Aveyron, The Wild Child is spiritually in line with François Truffaut's other films about the pains of adolescence. Truffaut himself plays Dr. Jean Itard, a doctor working at Read More

1970
Mississippi Mermaid

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Bouquet, Nelly Borgeaud

Synopsis: A rare mid-career flop for director François Truffaut when it was released, Mississippi Mermaid has become a cult favorite, thanks in part to the availability of the original French version, which added 13 minutes to the U.S. release running time. Adapted from a story by William Irish, it's a Read More

7/18/69
The Bride Wore Black

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Claude Rich, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet, Michel Lonsdale

Synopsis: This Francois Truffaut thriller is based ona novel by William Irish (aka Cornell Woolrich), whose books had been adapted by Alfred Hitchcock on many previous occasions. Jeanne Moreau stars as a woman whose fiancé is nastily murdered by five men. Utilizing a series of disguises, the cool-customer Read More

4/17/68
Stolen Kisses

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Delphine Seyrig, Claude Jade, Michel Lonsdale, Daniel Ceccaldi

Synopsis: The episodic romantic comedy Stolen Kisses is the third installment in François Truffaut's Antoine Doinel series, which started with The 400 Blows in 1959. In 1968, Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is discharged from the military and comes home to Paris, getting an apartment in Montmartre with an Read More

1968
L'Enfance Nue

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michel Tarrazon, Linda Gutemberg, Raoul Billerey, Marie-Louise Thierry

Synopsis: A 10-year-old boy feels unwanted when his mother places him in a home for wayward children. He goes to a foster home where a family of workers finds him to be too much for them. When the unruly child discovers the family plans to give up on him, he drowns their daughter's cat in retaliation. He is Read More

1967
Fahrenheit 451

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring, Jeremy Spenser

Synopsis: In the future, an oppressive government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers known as "firemen" to perform the necessary book burnings. This is the premise of Ray Bradbury's acclaimed science-fiction novel Fahrenheit 451, which became the Read More

1966
François Truffaut, ou, l'esprit critique

Actors: François Truffaut

1965
Mata Hari Agent H 21

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frank Villard, Claude Rich, Marie Dubois

Synopsis: This French version of the notorious spy's life centers less on her romantic escapades, and more on those that reveal the person she actually was during WW I when her German superiors ordered her to seduce the French captain Trintignant so she can steal classified papers from him. Instead she Read More

12/31/64
The Soft Skin

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Desailly, Françoise Dorléac, Nelly Benedetti, Daniel Ceccaldi, Jean Lanier

Synopsis: Francois Truffaut directed this simple tale of revenge and adultery which features an exceptional musical score by Georges Delerue. The story concerns a love affair between successful literary magazine editor Pierre Lachenay (Jean Desailly) and alluring airline stewardess, Nicole Chomette (Francoise Dorleac Read More

1964
The Army Game

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This farcical French fantasy has great fun at the military's expense as it chronicles the Army training of a lively group of young men. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1963
L'Amour à Vingt Ans

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Cristina Gajoni, Rosy Varte, François Darbon, Eleonora Rossi-Drago

Synopsis: Several internationally known directors contributed to this generally adept and compelling series of five brief vignettes on love and its many ramifications. François Truffaut starts things off with a story of innocent love between a young man in his mid-teens and a slightly older woman. Renzo Rossellini Read More

6/22/62
Jules and Jim

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Marie Dubois, Vanna Urbino

Synopsis: Acclaimed French director François Truffaut's third and, for many viewers, best film is an adaptation of a semi-autobiographical novel by Henri-Pierre Roché. Set between 1912 and 1933, it stars Oskar Werner as the German Jules and Henri Serre as the Frenchman Jim, kindred spirits who, while on Read More

1962
Antoine et Colette

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier

Synopsis: Antoine et Colette, which was originally made as an episode in the series L'Amour à vingt ans, was a sequel to Truffaut's The 400 Blows. In the film, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) works at the Philips record store and courts the elusive Colette (Marie-France Pisier). The story of Antoine Read More

1962
Breathless

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville, Liliane David, Henri-Jacques Huet

Synopsis: The first feature film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and one of the seminal films of the French New Wave, Breathless is story of the love between Michel Poiccard, a small-time hood wanted for killing a cop, and Patricia Franchini, an American who sells the International Herald Tribune along the Read More

3/16/60
Shoot the Piano Player

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Charles Aznavour, Nicole Berger, Marie Dubois, Michele Mercier, Albert Remy

Synopsis: Francois Truffaut's loving homage to Hollywood gangster films is less a plot-filled film noir than a free-associative meditation on the genre. Charles Aznavour stars as a one-time concert pianist who gained fame as Edouard Saroyan but has since changed his name to Charlie Kohler and plays Read More

1960
The 400 Blows

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Robert Beauvais, Claire Maurier, Albert Remy, Guy Decomble, Patrick Auffay

Synopsis: For his feature-film debut, critic-turned-director François Truffaut drew inspiration from his own troubled childhood. The 400 Blows stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel, Truffaut's preteen alter ego. Misunderstood at home by his parents and tormented in school by his insensitive teacher (Guy Decomble Read More

1959
Une Histoire D'Eau

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Une histoire d'eau , also known as A Story of Water , was one of five shorts Jean-Luc Godard made in collaboration with his Cahiers du Cinema cohorts in the late '50s and early '60s, prior to embarking on feature films. François Truffaut originally wrote and directed this short, about a girl Read More

1958
Les Mistons

Crew: Director

Actors: Gérard Blain, Bernadette Lafont

Synopsis: Les Mistons (aka The Mischief Makers) was the second short-subject film directed by Francois Truffault. Exploring subject matter that he'd later expand upon in his work (though less conventionally), Truffault takes us into the world of pre-teen boys. The protagonists are a group of scruffy Read More

1957