Screenplay: François Truffaut

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by François Truffaut. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Mississippi Mermaid

1969 · Movie · 123 min. · France

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Catherine Deneuve · Michel Bouquet · Nelly Borgeaud

Plot Adapted from the 1947 novel Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich, the film is about a tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean who becomes engaged through correspondence...

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

Love on the Run

1979 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Marie-France Pisier · Claude Jade · Dorithée

Plot Truffaut's hero, Antoine Doinel (Leaud) is now more than thirty. He divorces from Christine. He is a proofreader, and is in love with Sabine, a record seller. Colette, his teenager...

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

The Green Room

1978 · Movie · 94 min. · France

Direction François Truffaut

Cast François Truffaut · Nathalie Baye · Jean Dasté · Jean-Pierre Moulin

Plot Adapted from two Heny James short stories. A French little town, at the end of the twenties. Julien Davenne (Truffaut) is a journalist whose wife Julie died a decade ago....

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

The Mischief Makers (The Brats) (S)

1957 · Movie · 18 min. · France

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Gérard Blain · Bernadette Lafont · Michel François

Plot During the hot summer, 5 kids, "Les Mistons", spy on two lovers. They follow Gérard and Bernadette everywhere.

6.7

764 votes

6.7

764 votes

The Little Thief

1988 · Movie · 109 min. · France

Direction Claude Miller

Cast Charlotte Gainsbourg · Didier Bezace · Simon de La Brosse · Raoul Billerey

Plot Year 1950. In a small French town 16-year old Janine Castang (Charlotte Gainsbourg) lives with her aunt and uncle after having been abandoned by her mother. Bored with her dull...

6.3

148 votes

6.3

148 votes

A Story of Water (S)

1961 · Movie · 18 min. · France

Direction Jean-Luc Godard · François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Claude Brialy · Caroline Dim

Plot A young woman is going to Paris by bus, but when she steps out of her house she discovers that her garden and the whole village is flooded with water...

6.1

328 votes

6.1

328 votes

Mata Hari Agent H-21

1964 · Movie · 98 min. · France

Direction Jean-Louis Richard

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Claude Rich · Franck Villard

Plot 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...

6.1

70 votes

6.1

70 votes

A Gorgeous Girl Like Me

1972 · Movie · 98 min. · France

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Bernadette Lafont · Claude Brasseur · Charles Denner · Guy Marchand

Plot Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist, preparing a thesis on criminal women. He meets in prison Camille Bliss to interview her. Camille is accused to have murdered her lover Arthur...

6.0

1K votes

6.0

1K votes

Breathless

1983 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Jim McBride

Cast Richard Gere · Valérie Kaprisky · Art Metrano · John P. Ryan

Plot A botched attempt to remake Jean-Luc Godard's classic nouvelle vague entry, Á Bout de souffle, Breathless follows Jesse (Richard Gere), a fugitive wanted for the murder of a police officer....

5.3

1K votes

5.3

1K votes

The Army Game

1960 · Movie · 87 min. · France

Direction Claude de Givray · François Truffaut

Cast Christian de Tillière · Ricet Barrier · Jacques Balutin · Pierre Maguelon

Plot Jean Lerat de la Grignotière is as full of himself as his name is long. Heeding (somewhat reluctantly to be true) the call of the Motherland he goes to the...

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Les surmenés (S)

1958 · Movie · 20 min. · France

Direction Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

Cast Jean-Claude Brialy · Yane Barry · Jean-Pierre Cassel · Jean Juillard

Plot A young woman moves to Paris.

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A Fat Head

1962 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Claude de Givray

Cast Eddie Constantine · Alexandra Stewart · Georges Poujouly · Geneviève Galéa

Plot A man inherits an old house in a very bad condition. With the help of a young mechanic, he begins to renovate this house.

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