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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Une visite (S)
1955 · Movie · 8 min. · France
Direction François Truffaut
Cast Francis Cognany · Florence Doniol-Valcroze · Laura Mauri · Jean-José Richer
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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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