List of the best François Truffaut movies: The 400 Blows(1959), Day for Night(1973), Jules and Jim(1962), Stolen Kisses(1968), The Soft Skin(1964), The Wild Child(1970), The Man Who Loved Women(1977), The Last Metro(1980), The Woman Next Door(1981), The Story of Adele H(1975), Confidentially Yours(1983), Fahrenheit 451(1966) ... ...
Crime, Drama
France
1959
93 Minutes
Director
Jean-Pierre Léaud Claire Maurier Albert Remy Guy Decomble Patrick Auffray Georges Flamant Yvonne Claudie Robert Beauvais
son mother father friend teacher bleak disheartening france paris apartment school childhood child custody troubled youth rebellion growing up underdog 1950s
A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.
Romance, Comedy, Drama
France|Italy
1973
120 Minutes
Director
Jacqueline Bisset François Truffaut Jean-Pierre Aumont Jean-Pierre Léaud Valentina Cortesa Alexandra Stewart Jean Champion Nathalie Baye Bernard Menez Jean-François Stévenin
actor actress director crew member fiancée doctor witty playful melodramatic sad stage france backstage movie making affair fame celebrity acting quest love
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Drama
France
1962
110 Minutes
Director
Jeanne Moreau Oskar Werner Henri Serre Marie Dubois Vanna Urbino Sabine Haudepin Bassiak Kate Noelle
author friend wife daughter emotional endearing paris austria love triangle friendship infidelity world war i forbidden love rivalry 1920s
Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.
Comedy, Drama
France
1968
90 Minutes
Director
Jean-Pierre Léaud Delphine Seyrig Michael Lonsdale Claude Jade Daniel Ceccaldi Claire Duhamel Catherine Lutz André Falcon
anti-hero girlfriend boss sexy woman charming quirky tender paris shop apartment park affair rebellion romance love triangle discovery growing up love 1960s
After being discharged from the army, Antoine Doinel centers a screwball comedy where he applies for different jobs and tries to make sense of his relationships with women.
Romance
France
1964
110 Minutes
Director
Jean Desailly Françoise Dorléac Nelly Benedetti Daniel Ceccaldi Laurence Badie Jean Lanier Paule Emanuele Maurice Garrel
magazine editor stewardess husband wife mistress writer melodramatic sultry suspenseful paris lisbon, portugal airport family home infidelity jealousy crimes of passion love triangle obsession marriage forbidden love
Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hostess, Nicole. They start a love affair, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her.
Drama
France
1970
86 Minutes
Jean-Pierre Cargol François Truffaut Jean Dasté Françoise Seigner Annie Miller Claude Miller Paul Ville Nathan Miller
doctor hunter boy deaf person confident fascinating forest paris school education isolation unusual behavior behavioral disorder discovery transformation 1790s
In a French forest in 1798, a child is found who cannot walk, speak, read or write. A doctor becomes interested in the child and patiently attempts to civilize him.
Comedy, Romance, Drama
France
1977
120 Minutes
Director
Charles Denner Brigitte Fossey Nelly Borgeaud Leslie Caron Geneviève Fontanel Nathalie Baye Sabine Glaser Valerie Bonnier Martine Chassing Roselyne Puyo
lover beautiful woman wife editor womanizer sultry amusing cool france montpellier romance sex infidelity affair love 1970s
Bertrand Morane's burial is attended by all the women the forty-year-old engineer loved. We then flash back to Bertrand's life and love affairs, told by himself while writing an ... See full summary »
Drama
France
1980
130 Minutes
Director
Catherine Deneuve Gérard Depardieu Jean Poiret Heinz Bennent Andréa Ferréol Paulette Dubost Sabine Haudepin Jean-Louis Richard Maurice Risch
theater owner director actress actor designer critic uneasy emotional engaging paris theater montmartre world war ii german occupation love triangle theater production secret performance discovery temptation
In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
Romance
France
1981
105 Minutes
Director
Gérard Depardieu Fanny Ardant Henri Garcin Michèle Baumgartner Roger Van Hool Veronique Silver Philippe Morier-Genoud Olivier Becquaert
married man married woman neighbor lover old flame wife somber disturbing emotional melodramatic french countryside french alps family home affair obsessive love infidelity nervous breakdown heartbreak jealousy love
Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.
Drama
France
1975
97 Minutes
Director
Isabelle Adjani Bruce Robinson Sylvia Marriott Reuben Dorey Joseph Blatchley Carl Hathwell Ivry Gitlis Louise Bourdet
beautiful woman soldier father servant daughter intense melodramatic west indies guernsey nova scotia obsessive love mental illness self-destruction delusion forbidden love pursuit fall 1910s
Adèle Hugo's unrequited love for a lieutenant.
Comedy, Western
France
1983
90 Minutes
Director
Fanny Ardant Jean-Louis Trintignant Philippe Laudenbach Caroline Sihol Philippe Morier-Genoud Xavier Saint-Macary Jean-Louis Richard Roland Thenot
wife secretary boss lover real estate broker police officer amusing witty suspenseful tender france office small town hideout unrequited love secret life frame-ups wrongfully accused murder investigation infidelity
Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place as Julien Vercel, an estate agent who knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discovers ... See full summary »
Sci-Fi
UK
1966
112 Minutes
Director
Oskar Werner Julie Christie Cyril Cusack Anton Diffring Jeremy Spenser Bee Duffell Alex Scott Gillian Lewis Ann Bell Caroline Hunt Anna Palk
fireman neighbor wife old woman professor gripping suburbia family home censorship totalitarianism friendship quest transformation future
In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.
Romance
France
1979
93 Minutes
Director
Jean-Pierre Léaud Marie-France Pisier Claude Jade Rosy Varte Marie Henriau Daniel Mesguich Julien Bertheau Dorothée
proofreader ex-lover ex-wife salesgirl emotional unrestrained amusing paris train record store romantic dilemma growing up divorce media circus love 1970s
Antoine Doinel 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 love, is now a lawyer. She buys ... See full summary »
Drama
France
1978
94 Minutes
Director
François Truffaut Nathalie Baye Jean Dasté Jean-Pierre Moulin Antoine Vitez Jane Lobre Monique Dury Laurence Ragon Marcel Berbert Patrick Maleon Jean-Pierre Ducos
journalist love interest neighbor housekeeper priest widower brooding somber france small town household death mortality memory obsession loss world war i fall wretched excess 1920s
A French little town, at the end of the twenties. Julien Davenne is a journalist whose wife Julie died a decade ago. He gathered in the green room all Julie's objects. When a fire destroys ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
France|Italy
1969
110 Minutes
Director
Jean-Paul Belmondo Catherine Deneuve Nelly Borgeaud Martine Ferrière Marcel Berbert Yves Drouhet Michel Bouquet Roland Thenot
mail-order bride wealthy man planter con artist private investigator wife winsome tense emotional island south of france household reunion aix-en-provence, france scam robbery on the run assumed identity husband/wife relationship betrayal
A wealthy plantation owner is captivated by a mysterious woman with a shady past.
Drama
France
1962
113 Minutes
Director
Shintarô Ishihara Marcel Ophüls Eleonora Rossi Drago Koji Furuhata Barbara Lass Jean-Pierre Léaud Marie-France Pisier François Darbon Rosy Varte
single mother lover mistress father teen boy girlfriend passionate engaging emotional touching melodramatic japan france warsaw, poland germany rome unrequited love unconditional love affair generational divide
A young American girl at a French boarding school develops a crush on an egotistical sculptor living next door. One night, driving in a drunken stupor, he runs over and kills a man, and she witnesses it.
Comedy, Drama
1960
85 Minutes
Director
Charles Aznavour Marie Dubois Nicole Berger Michèle Mercier Albert Remy Jean-Jacques Aslanian Richard Kanayan Claude Mansard Daniel Boulanger Alex Joffé Catherine Lutz
pianist waitress brother gangster offbeat intricate cool crafty paris bar crime duty family failing career suicide escape sacrifice 1950s
Gangsters stand in the way of a former concert pianist whose girlfriend has convinced him to make a comeback.
Comedy
1972
98 Minutes
Director
Bernadette Lafont André Dussollier Charles Denner Philippe Léotard Guy Marchand Gilberte Geniat Claude Brasseur Michel Delahaye
femme fatale student husband lover cheeky tense spirited france prison household murder deception crime feminine sexuality infidelity temptation fall 1970s
In prison for murder, a French beauty (Bernadette Lafont) relates her steamy past to a criminology student.
Comedy, Drama
1970
97 Minutes
Director
Jean-Pierre Léaud Claude Jade Mademoiselle Hiroko Barbara Laage Danièle Girard Daniel Ceccaldi Claire Duhamel Daniel Boulanger
husband wife lover son brooding uneasy quirky apartment paris street marriage infidelity family love forbidden love 1970s
Francois Truffaut's tales of Antoine Doinel continue, as now-married Antoine has an affair with a Japanese woman.
Romance, Comedy, Drama
France|Italy
1973
120 Minutes
Director
Jacqueline Bisset François Truffaut Jean-Pierre Aumont Jean-Pierre Léaud Valentina Cortesa Alexandra Stewart Jean Champion Nathalie Baye Bernard Menez Jean-François Stévenin
actor actress director crew member fiancée doctor witty playful melodramatic sad stage france backstage movie making affair fame celebrity acting quest love
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Sci-Fi
USA|UK
1977
135 Minutes
Richard Dreyfuss François Truffaut Teri Garr Melinda Dillon Cary Guffey Bob Balaban J. Patrick McNamara Warren Kemmerling Roberts Blossom Philip Dodds Shawn Bishop
alien researcher worker mother dark tense suspenseful motel india forest small town aliens military media collaboration conspiracy expedition quest pursuit discovery
Roy Neary, an electric lineman, watches how his quiet and ordinary daily life turns upside down after a close encounter with a UFO.
Drama
France
1970
86 Minutes
Jean-Pierre Cargol François Truffaut Jean Dasté Françoise Seigner Annie Miller Claude Miller Paul Ville Nathan Miller
doctor hunter boy deaf person confident fascinating forest paris school education isolation unusual behavior behavioral disorder discovery transformation 1790s
In a French forest in 1798, a child is found who cannot walk, speak, read or write. A doctor becomes interested in the child and patiently attempts to civilize him.