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François Truffaut has 23 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1980s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by The 400 Blows.
Anand
1971
Drama
The 400 Blows
1959 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 2%Max · Included
Jules and Jim
1962 · Movie · Director
Top 12%Max · Included
Shoot the Piano Player
1960 · Movie · Director
Top 28%Max · Included
The Bride Wore Black
1968 · Movie · Director
Top 30%Prime Video · Included
The Man Who Loved Women
1977 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 33%MGM+ · Included
The Wild Child
1970 · Movie · Actor · Director · Writer
Top 35%MGM+ · Included
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.
Dir. François Truffaut · With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy
After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr
A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Dir. François Truffaut · With Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Dani
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger
In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.
Dir. François Truffaut · With Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre
The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.
Dir. François Truffaut · With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Delphine Seyrig
Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).
Dir. François Truffaut · With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Rosy Varte
Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever.
Dir. François Truffaut · With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Daniel Ceccaldi
The lives of a motherless young man, who's just starting to find interest in women, and his physically abused, poverty stricken friend, are mixed with more or less innocent childhood experiences and challenges most their age experience.
Dir. François Truffaut · With Jean-François Stévenin, Virginie Thévenet, Chantal Mercier
After he's implicated in several murders, a real estate agent goes on the lam while his intrepid secretary does some private investigating of her own to locate the killer.
Dir. François Truffaut · With Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Laudenbach
Now in his thirties, Antoine Doinel is a divorced proofreader in love with a record seller. Colette Tazzi, now a lawyer, buys his first published autobiography, leading them to a chance meeting.
Dir. François Truffaut · With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Claude Jade
In occupied Paris, an actress wed to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
Dir. François Truffaut · With Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret
Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for Charlie's help while on the run from gangsters they have scammed, he aids their escape. Soon Charlie and Lena, a waitress at the same bar, face trouble when the gangsters arrive, looking for his brothers.
Dir. François Truffaut · With Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger
In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation…
Dir. François Truffaut · With Julie Christie, Oskar Werner, Cyril Cusack
Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves home, with the intent to track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?
Dir. François Truffaut · With Jeanne Moreau, Michel Bouquet, Jean-Claude Brialy
Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married to Franca and father of Sabine. He starts a love affair with air hostess Nicole, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stay away from her.
Dir. François Truffaut · With Françoise Dorléac, Jean Desailly, Nelly Benedetti
At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel.
Dir. François Truffaut · With Charles Denner, Leslie Caron, Nelly Borgeaud
A group of young boys develops a crush on a girl, leading to jealousy toward her boyfriend. They scheme to disrupt their relationship, and when the boyfriend catches one of them spying, he punishes him harshly. In retaliation, the boys attempt to make the girl doubt her boyfriend's love.
Dir. François Truffaut · With Gérard Blain, Bernadette Lafont, Michel François
Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.
Dir. François Truffaut · With Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Henri Garcin
The true story of Victor of Aveyron. In a French forest circa 1798, an abandoned child — feral, filthy and mentally impaired — is found. Dr Jean Marc Gaspard Itard becomes interested in the case and patiently attempts to civilise the boy.
Dir. François Truffaut · With Jean-Pierre Cargol, François Truffaut, Françoise Seigner
In the early 20th-century, Frenchman Claude meets Englishwoman Ann in Paris. Ann invites him to her family home, intending him for her sister Muriel. Claude falls for Muriel, but families demand year-long separation before approving marriage.
Dir. François Truffaut · With Jean-Pierre Léaud, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter
In the 19th century a mysterious woman named Adele H. crosses the ocean, from Europe to North America, to relentlessly pursue a handsome officer that denies her satisfaction.
Dir. François Truffaut · With Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott
A tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean becomes engaged through correspondence to a French woman he does not know. The woman that arrives does not look like the picture he received, but he marries her anyway.
Dir. François Truffaut · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Bouquet
