François Truffaut Movies

Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, in the apartment of his girlfriend Pamela Courson....

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

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

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.

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...

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.

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

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

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

A portray of French actress Françoise Dorléac

At the end of his life, gravely ill, François Truffaut took refuge with his ex-wife Madeleine Morgenstern. She tried to keep him occupied...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

A portrait of the famous French actress Fanny Ardant, who has worked with great figures of cinema such as Agnès Varda, Alain Resnais,...