
Place of Birth:
Paris, France
Date of Birth:
2/6/1932
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.

Bed and Board

The Wild Child

Small Change

Day for Night

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Catherine Deneuve by Chance, or, A Certain Blondeness

Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'

Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock
Omnibus: François Truffaut

The Green Room

Les cahiers du cinéma, la création d'une empreinte

Sous le soleil de Pialat

Two in the Wave

Godard Cinema
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave

The Story of Adèle H.
Looking for Truffaut

I'm a Stranger Here Myself

Godard by Godard

Carl Th. Dreyer

Passion Fanny Ardant

Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera

La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même

Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'

The 400 Blows

Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture

Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years

Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas

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

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

François Truffaut: Des films d'amour !

Langlois

The Man Who Loved Women
Los 4 Golpes
The Birth of Children of Paradise

Filmmakers of Our Time: François Truffaut or the Critical Spirit

Portrait of François Truffaut

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

Postface à l’Atalante
To Be... A Classic

The Army Game

François Truffaut l'insoumis

François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits

André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer

À tout prendre

The Soft Skin

Two English Girls

Vadim Mister Cool

Les secrets de François Truffaut

The Secret of the Wild Child

Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
On the Trail of the New Wave

The Kreutzer Sonata
Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo

The World of Jacques Demy

John Travolta, le miraculé d'Hollywood

Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là

Fool’s Mate

Françoise Dorléac, une promesse

Jim Morrison: The End

When Hitchcock met O'Casey

François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay
Rossellini, un Prométhée franciscain

Introducing My Father, François Truffaut