Screenplay: François Truffaut

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Claire Maurier · Albert Rémy · Guy Decomble

Plot 14-year-old Antoine Doinel has troubles at home and at school. Ignored and neglected by his parents, his relationship with his mother is further strained when he discovers that she has...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Jacqueline Bisset · Nathalie Baye · Alexandra Stewart

Plot A film company at work. Actors arrive and depart; liaisons develop. Julie, the beautiful but possibly unstable lead, is recovering from a breakdown, aided by an older physician, her new...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Jean Seberg · Daniel Boulanger · Henri-Jacques Huet

Plot 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...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean Desailly · Françoise Dorléac · Nelly Benedetti · Daniel Ceccaldi

Plot Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hostess, Nicole. They start a love affair, which Pierre...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Oskar Werner · Henri Serre · Marie Dubois

Plot From the time of their meeting in 1912, two men, Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre), share a close friendship. Shortly before the First World War, Jules marries Catherine...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Cargol · François Truffaut · Françoise Seigner · Jean Dasté

Plot A movingly austere recreation of the true story of a young boy returned to 19th-Century society after growing up in the wild.

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Georges Desmouceaux · Jean-François Stévenin · Philippe Goldmann · Chantal Mercier

Plot 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...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Julie Christie · Oskar Werner · Cyril Cusack · Anton Diffring

Plot In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Claude Jade · Delphine Seyrig · Michael Lonsdale

Plot Jean-Pierre Léaud returns in the delightful Stolen Kisses, the third installment in the Antoine Doinel series. It is now 1968, and the mischievous and perpetually love-struck Doinel has been dishonorably...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Charles Denner · Brigitte Fossey · Nelly Borgeaud · Geneviève Fontanel

Plot Scientist Bertrand Morane, "never in the company of men after 5," seduces women by evening and writes about the experiences in the early morning. Though 40ish and somewhat square, no...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Fanny Ardant · Henri Garcin · Michèle Baumgartner

Plot Bernard Coudray (Gérard Depardieu) lives with his wife and young son in a remote country house near to Grenoble. One day, a married couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard (Fanny Ardant),...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Claude Jade · Hiroko Berghauer · Daniel Ceccaldi

Plot The fourth film in François Truffaut's quasi-autobiographical Antoine Doinel cycle finds the idealistic child-man (played by Truffaut's alter ego and French new wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud) married to his sweetheart...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Catherine Deneuve · Jean Poiret · Andrea Ferréol

Plot Paris, 1942. Lucas Steiner is a Jew and was compelled to leave the country. His wife Marion, an actress, directs the theater for him. She tries to keep the theater...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Marie-France Pisier · Jean-François Adam · Patrick Auffay

Plot After indulging in much delinquency in his youth, seventeen year old Antoine Doinel, having been provided opportunity to get out of that delinquent life, is now an upstanding member of...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Stecey Tenderer · Kika Markham · Sylvia Marriott

Plot In Paris of the early 1900s, a young French dandy, Claude Roc, strikes up a friendship with a young English woman, Anne Brown. The latter invites Claude to stay with...

Direction François Truffaut · Renzo Rossellini · Shintaro Ishihara · Marcel Ophüls

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Marie-France Pisier · Rosy Varte · Cristina Gaioni

Plot 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...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Claude Rich · Jean-Claude Brialy · Michel Bouquet

Plot Julie Kohler, whose husband is inexplicably shot dead on the church steps after their wedding, is prevented from suicide by his mother. She leaves the town. She will track down,...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Isabelle Adjani · Bruce Robinson · Sylvia Marriott · Joseph Blatchley

Plot The Story of Adele H. is a haunting film based on a true story about desire, devotion... and madness. Oscar-nominated Isabelle Adjani stars in this lush portrait of a woman...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Fanny Ardant · Philippe Laudenbach · Caroline Silhol

Plot Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place than Julien Vercel, an estate agent that knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police...

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Charles Aznavour · Marie Dubois · Nicole Berger · Albert Rémy

Plot Charlie Kohler, formerly a great concert pianist, now works as a piano player in a popular town bar. He has managed to keep his past a secret, until, unexpectedly, one...