
François Truffaut
François Roland Truffaut (February 6, 1932 – October 21, 1984) was an influential film critic and filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry. He was also a screenwriter, producer, and actor working on over twenty-five films. Along with Jean-Luc Godard, Truffaut was one of the most influential figures of the French New Wave, inspiring directors such as Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese and Wes Anderson.
27 directing credits · 82 acting credits
Directing · 27

The 400 Blows
1959

Fahrenheit 451
1966

The Story of Adèle H.
1975

The Last Metro
1980

Jules and Jim
1962

Stolen Kisses
1968

The Bride Wore Black
1968

The Soft Skin
1964

Day for Night
1973

Shoot the Piano Player
1960

Love on the Run
1979

Mississippi Mermaid
1969

Bed and Board
1970

The Wild Child
1970

Confidentially Yours
1983

Antoine and Colette
1962

The Green Room
1978

The Woman Next Door
1981

Small Change
1976

The Man Who Loved Women
1977

Two English Girls
1971

A Gorgeous Girl Like Me
1972

Love at Twenty
1962

Their First Films
2004

The Mischief Makers
1957

A Story of Water
1961
Los 4 Golpes
1962
Acting · 82

The Merv Griffin Show
1962

Omnibus
1967

Apostrophes
1975

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975

Spécial cinéma
1974

Le Grand Échiquier
1972

Cinépanorama
1956

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977

Reflets de Cannes
1954

The 400 Blows
1959

Un film et son époque
2003

The Story of Adèle H.
1975

The Soft Skin
1964

Day for Night
1973

John Travolta, le miraculé d'Hollywood
2017

Bed and Board
1970

The Wild Child
1970

The Green Room
1978

Small Change
1976

The Man Who Loved Women
1977

Morceaux de Cannes
2021

Heart of the Festival
2002

Two English Girls
1971

Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock
1999

A Gorgeous Girl Like Me
1972

Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years
2004

Jim Morrison: The End
2021

François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay
2024

Godard Cinema
2023

Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
2010
On the Trail of the New Wave
2009

Fool’s Mate
1956
Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo
1997

Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
2018

François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
1993

Françoise Dorléac, from The Man from Rio to The Young Girls of Rochefort
2021
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
1992

Deneuve, la reine Catherine
2022

The Army Game
1960

Les Musiciens de la pellicule
1974

Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera
2023

Godard by Godard
2023

François Truffaut l'insoumis
2014

Vadim Mister Cool
2016

La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
1964

Take It All
1963

François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death
1996

Two in the Wave
2010

I'm a Stranger Here Myself
1975

André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer
2019

Langlois
1970

The Secret of the Wild Child
1994

Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture
2016

Sous le soleil de Pialat
2021

Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
2009
The Birth of Children of Paradise
1967

The World of Jacques Demy
1995

When Hitchcock met O'Casey
2019

Passion Fanny Ardant
2023

Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
2006
Ain't Misbehavin
2013
Omnibus: François Truffaut
1973

Françoise Dorléac, une promesse
2018

Filmmakers of Our Time: François Truffaut or the Critical Spirit
1965

François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - The Wild Child
1996

Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
2000

The Kreutzer Sonata
1956
Looking for Truffaut
2009
To Be... A Classic
2012

Bernadette Lafont: And God Created the Free Woman
2016
Los 4 Golpes
1962

Postface à l’Atalante
2025

Catherine Deneuve by Chance, or, A Certain Blondeness
1978

Les cahiers du cinéma, la création d'une empreinte
2021

Les secrets de François Truffaut
2020

Introducing My Father, François Truffaut
2019

Carl Th. Dreyer
1966

François Truffaut
1977
Rossellini, un Prométhée franciscain
1996

Portrait of François Truffaut
1961

François Truffaut: Des films d'amour !
2020

Cinéastes de notre temps : François Truffaut : Dix ans, dix films
1970