François Truffaut is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Associate Producer, Co-Director and In Memory Of French born on 6 february 1932 at Paris (France)
François Truffaut
François Truffaut participated to
49 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
13 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Actor
, 2h9
Directed by Steven SpielbergOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
AdventureThemes Space adventure films,
Films about extraterrestrial life,
Space opera,
Films about extraterrestrial lifeActors Richard Dreyfuss,
François Truffaut,
Melinda Dillon,
Teri Garr,
Bob Balaban,
Cary GuffeyRoles Claude Lacombe
Rating75%
In the Sonoran Desert, French scientist Claude Lacombe (François Truffaut) and his American interpreter, mapmaker David Laughlin, along with other government scientific researchers, discover Flight 19, a squadron of Grumman TBM Avengers that went missing more than 30 years earlier. The planes are intact and operational, but there is no sign of the pilots. An old man who witnessed the event claimed "the sun came out at night, and sang to him." They also find a lost cargo ship in the Gobi Desert named SS Cotopaxi. At an air traffic control center in Indianapolis, a controller listens as two airline flights narrowly avoid a mid-air collision with an apparent unidentified flying object (UFO), which neither pilot chooses to report, even when invited to do so. In Muncie, Indiana, 3-year-old Barry Guiler is awakened in the night when his toys start operating on their own. Fascinated, he gets out of bed and discovers something or someone (off-screen) in the kitchen. He runs outside, forcing his mother, Jillian, to chase after him.Director
, 2h11
Directed by François TruffautOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
War,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
Théâtre,
Political films,
Histoire de France,
L'Occupation allemande en FranceActors Catherine Deneuve,
Gérard Depardieu,
Jean Poiret,
Heinz Bennent,
Andréa Ferréol,
Paulette DubostRating72%
Set during the German occupation of Paris during the Second World War, it tells the story of Lucas Steiner, a Jewish theatre director and his Gentile wife, Marion Steiner, who struggles to keep him concealed from the Nazis in their theatre cellar while she performs both his former job as the director and hers as an actress., 2h3
Directed by François TruffautOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Films set in Africa,
Seafaring films,
Transport films,
L'usurpation d'identité,
EscroquerieActors Catherine Deneuve,
Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Michel Bouquet,
Nelly Borgeaud,
Martine Ferrière,
Alexandra StewartRating68%
Louis Mahé (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a wealthy tobacco plantation owner on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean, is awaiting the arrival of his bride to be, Julie Roussel (Catherine Deneuve), whom he's never met. They became acquainted through the personals column of a French newspaper and have been corresponding by mail. At the Hotel Mascarin he meets his partner Jardine who accompanies him to pick up the ring. Louis drives to the dock to greet Julie who is arriving on the steamer Mississipi (spelled with one p according to the French spelling of the river at the time)from Nouméa, the capital of New Caledonia. When they meet he is surprised by her beauty and does not recognize her; she is not the woman in the photo she'd sent him. She explains that she sent the photo of a neighbor to assure the sincerity of his intentions. He confesses that he too has not told the complete truth, having hidden the fact that he was wealthy.Team
, 2h8
Directed by Wim WendersOrigin GermanGenres Drama,
Fantastic,
Fantasy,
RomanceThemes Circus films,
Films about religion,
Films about angels,
Political films,
Films about Jews and JudaismActors Bruno Ganz,
Solveig Dommartin,
Otto Sander,
Curt Bois,
Peter Falk,
Nick CaveRoles In Memory Of
Rating78%
Set in contemporary West Berlin (at the time still enclosed by the Berlin Wall), Wings of Desire follows two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, as they roam the city, unseen and unheard by its human inhabitants, observing and listening to the diverse thoughts of Berliners: a pregnant woman in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, a painter struggling to find inspiration, a broken man who thinks his girlfriend no longer loves him. Their raison d'être is, as Cassiel says, to "assemble, testify, preserve" reality. In addition to the story of two angels, the film is also a meditation on Berlin's past, present, and future. Damiel and Cassiel have always existed as angels; they existed in Berlin before it was a city, and before there were even any humans.Scriptwriter
, 1h49
Directed by Claude MillerOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Crime,
RomanceActors Charlotte Gainsbourg,
Didier Bezace,
Clotilde de Bayser,
Chantal Banlier,
Nathalie Cardone,
Catherine ArditiRoles Story
Rating67%
In 1950, the 16-year-old Janine lives with her uncle and aunt somewhere in France. She steals everything that she can find, with a preference for fine lingerie and American cigarettes. She leaves school and goes to work as a maid for a middle-class family. She has an affair with an older married man as well as with a boy of her age, who is also a thief.Director
, 1h52
Directed by François TruffautOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-dramaThemes Films about filmsActors Jacqueline Bisset,
Valentina Cortese,
Dani,
Alexandra Stewart,
Jean-Pierre Aumont,
Jean ChampionRating79%
Day for Night chronicles the production of Je Vous Présente Paméla (Meet Pamela, also referred to as I want you to meet Pamela), a clichéd melodrama starring aging screen icon, Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Aumont), former diva Séverine (Valentina Cortese), young heart-throb Alphonse (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and a British actress, Julie Baker (Jacqueline Bisset) who is recovering from both a nervous breakdown and the controversy leading to her marriage with her much older doctor.Scriptwriter
, 1h29
Directed by Jean-Luc GodardOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
CrimeThemes Films about films,
La provenceActors Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Jean Seberg,
Daniel Boulanger,
Jean-Pierre Melville,
Henri-Jacques Huet,
Van DoudeRoles Original Story
Rating76%
Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a youthful criminal who is intrigued with the film persona of Humphrey Bogart. After stealing a car in Marseille, Michel shoots and kills a policeman who has followed him onto a country road. Penniless and on the run from the police, he turns to an American love interest Patricia (Jean Seberg), a student and aspiring journalist, who sells the New York Herald Tribune on the streets of Paris. The ambivalent Patricia unwittingly hides him in her apartment as he simultaneously tries to seduce her and call in a loan to fund their escape to Italy. At one point, Patricia says she is pregnant with Michel's child. She learns that Michel is on the run when questioned by the police. Eventually she betrays him, but before the police arrive she tells Michel what she has done. He is somewhat resigned to a life in prison, and does not try to escape at first. The police shoot him in the street and, after a prolonged death run, he dies “à bout de souffle” (out of breath).Director
, 1h39
Directed by François Truffaut,
Robert Bober,
Philippe de BrocaOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Comedy-dramaThemes Films about education,
Films about children,
L'enfance marginaliséeActors Jean-Pierre Léaud,
Claire Maurier,
Albert Rémy,
Georges Flamant,
Pierre Repp,
Luc AndrieuxRating80%
Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is a young boy growing up in Paris during the early 1950s. Misunderstood at home by his parents and tormented in school by his insensitive teacher (Guy Decomble), Antoine frequently runs away from both places. The boy finally quits school after being caught plagiarizing Balzac by his teacher. He steals a typewriter from his stepfather's (Albert Remy) work place to finance his plans to leave home, but is apprehended while trying to return it., 1h42
Directed by François Truffaut,
Robert BoberOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
Films about suicide,
Buddy filmsActors Jeanne Moreau,
Oskar Werner,
Henri Serre,
Marie Dubois,
Sabine Haudepin,
Jean-Louis RichardRating76%
The film is set before, during and after the Great War in several different parts of France, Austria, and Germany. Jules (Oskar Werner) is a shy writer from Austria who forges a friendship with the more extroverted Frenchman Jim (Henri Serre). They share an interest in the world of the arts and the Bohemian lifestyle. At a slide show, they become entranced with a bust of a goddess and her serene smile, and travel to see the ancient statue on an island in the Adriatic Sea., 1h46
Directed by François TruffautOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Films about sexualityActors Fanny Ardant,
Gérard Depardieu,
Henri Garcin,
Michèle Baumgartner,
Philippe Morier-Genoud,
Roger Van HoolRating71%
Bernard Coudray lives with his wife and young son in a remote country house near to Grenoble. One day, a married couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard, move into the house next door. Mathilde and Bernard were lovers, many years before, and are equally surprised at the unexpected reunion. Initially, Bernard avoids Mathilde, but a chance meeting in a supermarket reawakens a long-buried passion and they are soon having an affair. Unfortunately, neither of them seems capable of controlling the emotional whirlwind which this unleashes., 1h50
Directed by François Truffaut,
Pascal DeuxOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Comedy,
Comedy thriller,
CrimeActors Fanny Ardant,
Jean-Louis Trintignant,
Jean-Pierre Kalfon,
Philippe Laudenbach,
Philippe Morier-Genoud,
Xavier Saint-MacaryRating71%
Jacques Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place as Julien Vercel (Jean-Louis Trintignant), an estate agent who knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discover that Marie-Christine Vercel (Caroline Sihol), Julien's wife, was Massoulier's mistress, Julien is the prime suspect. But his secretary, Barbara Becker (Fanny Ardant), while not quite convinced he is innocent, defends him and leads her private investigations., 1h45
Directed by François TruffautOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
ComedyThemes Films about education,
Films about children,
Films about families,
Le thème des vacancesActors Jean-François Stévenin,
Virginie Thévenet,
Georges Desmouceaux,
Éva Truffaut,
François Truffaut,
Tania TorensRating75%
Small Change is a comedy with a serious message, based around the daily lives of young children in Thiers, France. Scenes include a baby and a cat perilously playing on an open windowsill, a girl causing confusion with a bullhorn, a double date at the movie theater, a kid telling a dirty joke, a botched haircut, as well as many scenes about school life. Yet throughout this the difficulties and responsibilities faced by children appear, including the ongoing story of a boy's experience of an abusive home. Truffaut gives a message of resilience in the face of injustice, vocalized through one of the teachers. The story ends with a message of hope, the school closing for the summer vacation, and one of the key characters finding his first love at a summer camp.Scriptwriter
, 1h41
Directed by Euzhan PalcyOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
ComedyThemes Films about children,
Seafaring films,
Transport filmsActors Darling Légitimus,
Douta SeckRating72%
José, the protagonist, is a young boy living in a rural part of Martinique in the 1930s. Many of the people around him, including his grandmother, M'man-Tine, work in the sugar cane fields where they are often mistreated by the white boss. José, an orphan, has a father figure in an elderly man named Medouze who likes to tell him stories about Africa. José attends school at the insistence of his grandmother, who doesn't want him to end up like the other children, working in the fields. Medouze goes missing, and José finds him dead at the bottom of a valley. At school, José befriends a mulatto boy named Léopald whose father doesn't want him to associate with the field workers. While José and Léopald are playing, the father tries to come get him and gets kicked in the stomach by a horse, leading to his death. José wins a partial scholarship to attend high school in Fort-de-France, the capital. His grandmother accompanies him there, working as a laundrywoman for the rich white ruling class to pay for costs. They are able to find a small trailer to use as a home thanks to José's friend who works as a boat driver. José deals with pressure around him, especially from one of his teachers. When he writes an essay on the lives of poor blacks he is accused of plagiarism, so he runs away from school, back to his small shack in the city. The professor goes to his house and tells José that he was wrongly accused, offering an apology and a full scholarship to the school. Later José returns to Black Shack Alley after his grandmother has a heart attack while returning home from a trip to a local clothesmaker to make José a fresh suit. José sees Léopald being punished for stealing the bosses ledger to prove that he was ripping everybody off. As his grandmother dies, José is launched into a future he cannot control.