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.

Two English Girls

1971

French

♡ 6

89%

François Truffaut Director

Sophie Baker as Amie au café

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Claude Roc

Georges Delerue as Claude's Business Agent

François Truffaut as Récitant / Narrator

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.

The Wild Child

1970

French

♡ 10

100%

François Truffaut Director

Guillaume Schiffman as Boy at farm

Eric Dolbert as Boy at farm

Laura Truffaut as Girl at farm

François Truffaut as Le Dr Jean Itard

In a French forest circa 1798, a child–who cannot walk, speak, read or write–is found. A doctor becomes interested in the case and patiently attempts to civilise the boy.

Fool's Mate

1956

French

7.0

♡ 3

56%

Jacques Rivette Director

Jean-Claude Brialy as Claude, l'amant

François Truffaut as Un invité à la fête

Jean-Luc Godard as Un invité à la fête

Claude Chabrol as Un invité de la surprise-partie

Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean As the story opens, she leaves her husband playing baroque music at the piano, telling him she is off to see her sister, Solange. In reality she meets her lover, Claude at his apartment; After some idle chatter and love-making he tells her a story of the shriveled heads that the Jivaro Indians used to give their lovers as tokens of affection but, as she shivers in disgust, he gives her a mink instead. How will they hide it from her husband?

Take It All

1963

French

7.1

Drama

interracial relationship

male homosexuality

Claude Jutra Director

Tania Fédor as La mère de Claude

Monique Joly as Monique

Patrick Straram as Patrick

François Truffaut as Self

A man struggles with his identity, his life choices, his interracial relationship, and his latent homosexuality. A portrait of some young intellectuals in early sixties Montreal.

Godard Cinema

2022

French

7.0

♡ 4

50%

Cyril Leuthy Director

Macha Méril as

François Truffaut as Self

Michel Piccoli as Self

Mireille Darc as Self

Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol for the era's progressive and anti-war youth. Sixty-two years and 140 films later, Godard is among the most renowned artists of all time, taught in every film school yet still shrouded in mystery. One of the founders of the French New Wave, political agitator, revolutionary misanthrope, film theorist and critic, the list of his descriptors goes on and on. Godard Cinema offers an opportunity for film lovers to look back at his career and the subjects and themes that obsessed him, while paying tribute to the ineffable essence of the most revered French director of all time.

Day for Night

1973

French

8.0

♡ 16

98%

François Truffaut Director

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Alphonse

François Truffaut as Ferrand, le réalisateur

Georges Delerue as Georges, le compositeur

Jacqueline Bisset as Julie Baker

A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

The 400 Blows

1959

French

♡ 55

99%

François Truffaut Director

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel

François Truffaut as Man in Funfair

Jean-Luc Godard as Overheard Man

Jeanne Moreau as Woman with Dog

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.

The Green Room

1978

French

♡ 4

40%

François Truffaut Director

Thi-Loan Nguyen as Apprentice

Jean Dasté as Bernard Humbert

Nathalie Baye as Cecilia Mandel

François Truffaut as Julien Davenne

A WWI veteran decides to build a memorial to all of the people who have mattered to him but are now dead.

A Gorgeous Girl Like Me

♡ 3

François Truffaut Director

Charles Denner as Arthur

Bernadette Lafont as Camille Bliss

Annick Fougery as Teacher

François Truffaut as Un journaliste

Young sociologist Stanislas Previne is writing a thesis on criminal women, so he visits Camille Bliss in prison for an interview. Accused of murdering her husband and her lover, Camille recounts her life and love affairs.

Bed & Board

1970

French

♡ 18

75%

François Truffaut Director

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel

Claude Jade as Christine Darbon Doinel

François Truffaut as Le marchand de journaux

Barbara Laage as Monique, la secrétaire

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.

Hitchcock/Truffaut

2015

English

7.3

♡ 11

96%

Kent Jones Director

Vera Miles as Herself

François Truffaut as Himself

Paul Schrader as Himself

David Fincher as Himself

Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.

The Story of Adele H

1975

French

♡ 11

93%

80%

Action

based on novel or book

women's sexual identity

François Truffaut Director

Isabelle Adjani as Adèle Hugo

Bruce Robinson as Lt Albert Pinson

Joseph Blatchley as Mr. Whistler

François Truffaut as Officer

Halifax, 1863: Miss Lewly arrives in Halifax to search for Lt Pinson, with whom she is madly in love. Actually, she is Adèle Hugo, second daughter of the great French author of Les Misèrables and statesman. However, her feelings for Pinson are unrequited, but she is so delusional that his attempts to dissuade her are unsuccessful.

The Kreutzer Sonata

1956

French

6.1

♡ 3

Crime

Drama

Éric Rohmer Director

François Truffaut as

Jean-Luc Godard as Ami journaliste

Éric Rohmer as Poznyecev

Jean-Claude Brialy as Trukhacevskij

Some time after marrying a sensual girl, Pozdnychev realizes the only link to his spouse is that of physical love. When a violinist with whom his wife plays regularly the “Sonata to Kreutzer” appears, the young woman blooms in a new passion. From then on, her husband is eaten away by jealousy.

The Dreamers

2003

English

7.1

♡ 190

59%

Bernardo Bertolucci Director

François Truffaut as Himself

Eva Green as Isabelle

Michael Pitt as Matthew

Georges Pompidou as Self

When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and everything is possible.

Alain Resnais, l'audacieux

2022

French

6.8

♡ 1

Pierre-Henri Gibert Director

François Truffaut as Self

David Warner as Self

Ellen Burstyn as Self

Léonie Simaga as Self - Commentaire

A genius inventor of forms, Alain Resnais is one of the fathers of cinematic modernity. This portrait, rich in archives, looks back on the career of a discreet non-conformist, in perpetual search of renewal to fight against anxiety.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1977

English

7.6

♡ 112

91%

extraterrestrial technology

Steven Spielberg Director

François Truffaut as Claude Lacombe

Gene Dynarski as Ike

Dale Dye as Special Forces

Warren J. Kemmerling as Wild Bill

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.

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Take It All

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Day for Night

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The Green Room

A Gorgeous Girl Like Me

Bed & Board

Hitchcock/Truffaut

The Story of Adele H

The Kreutzer Sonata

The Dreamers

Alain Resnais, l'audacieux

Close Encounters of the Third Kind