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.

The Soft Skin

1964

French

♡ 10

90%

François Truffaut Director

Catherine-Isabelle Duport as Jeune fille Reims

François Truffaut as Le pompiste

Françoise Dorléac as Nicole

Jean Desailly as Pierre Lachenay

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 Last Metro

1980

French

♡ 12

86%

François Truffaut Director

Gérard Depardieu as Bernard Granger

Richard Bohringer as Gestapo Officer

László Szabó as Lieutenant Bergen

Catherine Deneuve as Marion Steiner

In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.

Fahrenheit 451

1966

English

♡ 30

82%

72%

Action

based on novel or book

book burning

co-worker relationship

Drama

dystopia

husband wife relationship

Sci-Fi

totalitarian regime

François Truffaut Director

Denis Gilmore as Book Person: 'The Martian Chronicles'

Tom Watson as Instructor Sergeant

Donald Pickering as TV Announcer

Aileen Lewis as Woman on Train

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…

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.

The Woman Next Door

1981

French

♡ 12

85%

François Truffaut Director

Muriel Combe as

Gérard Depardieu as Bernard Coudray

Fanny Ardant as Mathilde Bauchard

Catherine Crassac as Woman in the Hotel's Staircase

Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day, a couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard, moves into the next house. This is the accidental reunion of Bernard and Mathilde, who had a passionate love affair years ago. The relationship revives... A somber study of human feelings.

Antoine and Colette

1962

French

♡ 8

88%

parent child relationship

paris, france

Romance

François Truffaut Director

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel

Marie-France Pisier as Colette

Rosy Varte as Colette's Mother

Patrick Auffay as René - best friend

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).

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.

Confidentially Yours

1983

French

♡ 5

78%

François Truffaut Director

Fanny Ardant as Barbara Becker

Thi-Loan Nguyen as Chinese woman

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Julien Vercel

Jean-Pierre Kalfon as Massoulier

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 discover that Marie-Christine Vercel, Julien's wife, was Massoulier's mistress, Julien is the prime suspect. But his secretary, Barbara Becker, while not quite convinced he is innocent, defends him and leads her private investigations.

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.

Mississippi Mermaid

1969

French

♡ 5

83%

François Truffaut Director

Michel Bouquet as Comolli

Catherine Deneuve as Julie Roussel / Marion Vergano

Martine Ferrière as Landlady

Jean-Paul Belmondo as Louis Mahé

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.

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.

Love on the Run

1979

French

♡ 7

62%

François Truffaut Director

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel

Marie-France Pisier as Colette Tazzi

Christian Lentretien as Le dragueur du train

Roland Thénot as L'homme en colère au téléphone

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.

Shoot the Piano Player

1960

French

♡ 5

90%

88%

based on novel or book

jazz singer or musician

organized crime

Thriller

François Truffaut Director

Charles Aznavour as Charlie Koller / Edouard Saroyan

Michèle Mercier as Clarisse

Marie Dubois as Léna

Catherine Lutz as Mammy

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.

Stolen Kisses

1968

French

♡ 13

97%

François Truffaut Director

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel

Catherine Lutz as Catherine

Marie-France Pisier as Colette Tazzi

Pascale Dauman as La Parisienne suivie dans la rue

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.

The Bride Wore Black

1968

French

♡ 18

85%

François Truffaut Director

Michel Bouquet as Coral

Charles Denner as Fergus

Alexandra Stewart as Mlle Becker

Michael Lonsdale as Rene Morane

Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?

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The Soft Skin

Two English Girls

The Last Metro

Fahrenheit 451

The Wild Child

The Woman Next Door

Antoine and Colette

Day for Night

The 400 Blows

The Green Room

A Gorgeous Girl Like Me

Confidentially Yours

Bed & Board

Mississippi Mermaid

The Story of Adele H

Love on the Run

Shoot the Piano Player

Stolen Kisses

The Bride Wore Black