François Truffaut

Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers...

In 1798, a feral boy is discovered outside the town of Aveyron, France. Diagnosed as mentally impaired, he is relegated to an asylum. A young doctor...

Various experiences of childhood are seen in several sequences that take place in the small town of Thiers, France. Vignettes include a boy's...

A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is...

A documentary interview with the French actress while on the sets of films in production. Several of the directors for whom she has made films are...

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

When Francois Truffaut approached Alfred Hitchcock in 1962 with the idea of having a long conversation with him about his work and publishing this in...

A WWI veteran decides to build a memorial to all of the people who have mattered to him but are now dead.

1951. André Bazin and Jacques Doniol-Valcroze founded "Cahiers du cinéma". With contributions from self-taught filmmakers (Jean-Luc...

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...

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

Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol...

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...

Adèle Hugo, daughter of renowned French writer Victor Hugo, falls in love with British soldier Albert Pinson while living in exile off the...

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

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

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 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...

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

She worked with the world’s greatest actors and directors: Buñuel, Mastroianni, Lellouche, Depardieu... The film guides us throughout...

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

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

For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful...

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

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

Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”),...

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 fascinating glimpse into Truffaut’s creative process and how his life informed his art, told from the perspectives of those who knew him best.

"I only film people who are always active. Even if their activity is strange, weird." The activity François Truffaut talks about here is love....

Director François Truffaut discusses the reception of his first feature film, The 400 Blows, which had just been named best foreign film by...

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

At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told...

In 1962, François Truffaut visited the Mar del Plata Film Festival to present his competition in the brand-new Jules and Jim. At that stage of...

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

The French director is interviewed in this documentary showing the newly celebrated filmmaker discussing his influences and beginnings along with...

Episode of the French television series about the work of François Truffaut.

An interview with François Truffaut on the cinema of Jean Vigo.

Film historian/professor at UCLA Janet Bergstrom and Positif journalist N.T. Bihn discuss To Be or Not to Be and Ernst Lubitsch's career and legacy....

Jean Lerat begins his military service at an army camp. Despite his aunt’s attempts to pull a few strings to his advantage, the unfortunate...

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

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

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

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

Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He starts a love affair with air hostess...

At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman, befriends Ann, an Englishwoman. While spending time in England with...

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

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.

An account of the life of actress Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), a true icon of the New Wave and one of the most idolized French movie stars.

Some time after marrying a sensual girl, Pozdnychev realizes the only link to his spouse is that of physical love. When a violinist with whom his...

Documentary about the life and works of Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini.

Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.

The gripping story of legendary American actor John Travolta: his rise to stardom in the 1970s; his agonizing fall in disgrace in the 1980s; and his...

Catherine Deneuve couldn’t care less about being a celebrity, but fame made her an icon long ago and she occupies a special place in our...

Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean As the story opens, she leaves her husband playing baroque music at...

A portray of French actress Françoise Dorléac

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....

It was a collaboration between one of Ireland’s most noted playwrights and cinema’s greatest directors, yet the 1930 release of Juno and...

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