François Truffaut
Department: Directing
Biography
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.
Known For
Bed and Board
1970
The Wild Child
1970
Small Change
1976
Day for Night
1973
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
Catherine Deneuve by Chance, or, A Certain Blondeness
1978
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
2009
Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock
1999
Omnibus: François Truffaut
1973
The Green Room
1978
Les cahiers du cinéma, la création d'une empreinte
2021
Sous le soleil de Pialat
2021
Two in the Wave
2010
Godard Cinema
2023
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
1992
The Story of Adèle H.
1975
Looking for Truffaut
2009
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
1975
Godard by Godard
2023
Carl Th. Dreyer
1966
Passion Fanny Ardant
2023
Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera
2023
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
1964
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
2006
The 400 Blows
1959
Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture
2016
Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years
2004
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
2000
François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death
1996
François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - The Wild Child
1996
François Truffaut: Des films d'amour !
2020
Langlois
1970
The Man Who Loved Women
1977
Los 4 Golpes
1962
The Birth of Children of Paradise
1967
Filmmakers of Our Time: François Truffaut or the Critical Spirit
1965
Portrait of François Truffaut
1961
Cinéastes de notre temps : François Truffaut : Dix ans, dix films
1970
Postface à l’Atalante
2025
To Be... A Classic
2012
The Army Game
1960
François Truffaut l'insoumis
2014
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
1993
André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer
2019
Take It All
1963
The Soft Skin
1964
Two English Girls
1971
Vadim Mister Cool
2016
Les secrets de François Truffaut
2020
The Secret of the Wild Child
1994
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
2018
On the Trail of the New Wave
2009
The Kreutzer Sonata
1956
Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo
1997
The World of Jacques Demy
1995
John Travolta, le miraculé d'Hollywood
2017
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
2010
Fool’s Mate
1956
Françoise Dorléac, une promesse
2018
Jim Morrison: The End
2021
When Hitchcock met O'Casey
2019
François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay
2024
Rossellini, un Prométhée franciscain
1996
Introducing My Father, François Truffaut
2019
A Gorgeous Girl Like Me
1972
Bernadette Lafont: And God Created the Free Woman
2016
Deneuve, la reine Catherine
2022
Heart of the Festival
2002
Ain't Misbehavin
2013
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Un film et son époque
2003
Spécial cinéma
1974
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
Apostrophes
1975
Cinépanorama
1956
Reflets de Cannes
1954
Omnibus
1967
Les Musiciens de la pellicule
1974