François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay / 2024

At the end of his life, gravely ill, François Truffaut took refuge with his ex-wife Madeleine Morgenstern. She tried to keep him occupied during his long agony. The filmmaker confided in his friend Claude de Givray, with the intention of writing his autobiography. Too weakened, he abandoned the project. The film reveals part of this final story.

Portrait of François Truffaut / 1961

The French director is interviewed in this documentary showing the newly celebrated filmmaker discussing his influences and beginnings along with "Les Mistons" and "The 400 Blows".

François Truffaut / 1974

François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits / 1993

Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors and writers, a neighbor, and boyhood friends - talk about François Truffaut. They discuss his attitudes toward wealth, his early writings about cinema, the undercurrent of violence in his films and his personality, the way he used and altered events in his life when making films, his search for a father (both artistic and biological), his relationship with his mother, the scenes in his films that cause a squirm of embarrassment, and his ultimate mysticism. Clips from a dozen of his films are included.

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

François Truffaut l'insoumis / 2014

This portrait of the world-famous French director based on his personal correspondance reveals the little known insurgent side of his personnality. Featuring interviews with close collaborators, friends and family, this definitive documentary tells his intimate story, from the streets of Paris to the filmmaking accolades and high profile marriages at the height of his career.

Omnibus: François Truffaut / 1973

Short cuts : François Truffaut's « The Woman Next Door » / 2023

Manon Tacconi revisits François Truffaut's classic, "The Woman Next Door" in one animated minute.

François Truffaut, une autobiographie / 2004

A documentary tracing the career of filmmaker François Truffaut through the testimony of collaborators and admirers.

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François Truffaut - Des films d'amour ! / 2020

"I only film people who are always active. Even if their activity is strange, weird." The activity François Truffaut talks about here is love. Romantic or filial love. Love as an educational, political and social action. The love imagined by a filmmaker who wanted to show that love is within everyone's reach ! To gather Truffaut's formulas in a documentary rekindles how Truffaut communicates the essential.

Introducing My Father, François Truffaut / 2019

Laura Truffaut shares her memories of her legendary filmmaker father.

François Truffaut: 25 Years, 25 Films / 1993

François Truffaut (1932-1984), once the most influential critic of the French New Wave, became a brilliant, prolific, and uncompromising director, creating 25 films in 25 years. Internationally honored and beloved for his poignant, often irresistibly wry view of the human condition, Truffaut embodied the auteur's intimate grasp of the film medium. This documentary package -- a special supplement to Truffaut's films in The Criterion Collection -- is a multi-feature tribute that includes Truffaut's rare 1957 film, Les Mistons -- which foreshadowed The 400 Blows.

Les secrets de François Truffaut / 2020

François Truffaut, dix ans dix films / 1970

Episode of the French television series about the work of François Truffaut.

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

A fascinating glimpse into Truffaut’s creative process and how his life informed his art, told from the perspectives of those who knew him best.

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

A fascinating glimpse into Truffaut’s creative process and how his life informed his art, told from the perspectives of those who knew him best.

Working with François Truffaut: Nestor Almendros, Director of Photography / 2009

An interview with cinematographer Nestor Almendros about his work with French film director François Truffaut. Footage taken from the 1986 German documentary Arbeiten mit François Truffaut