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Introducing My Father, François Truffaut
2019
as Self (Archive Footage)
François Truffaut
Also known as: Francois Truffaut
Directing
Nationality:France
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CommunityBiographyvia wikipedia
François Roland Truffaut (UK: TROO-foh, TRUU-, US: troo-FOH; French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʁɔlɑ̃ tʁyfo]; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. He came under the tutelage of film critic Andre Bazin as a young man and was hired to write for Bazin's Cahiers du Cinéma, where he became a proponent of the auteur theory, which posits that a film's director is its true author. The 400 Blows (1959), starring Jean-Pierre Léaud as Truffaut's alter ego Antoine Doinel, was a defining film of the New Wave. Truffaut contributed to another significant milestone of the movement with his work on Breathless (1960), a film directed by his colleague from Cahiers, Jean-Luc Godard. His other notable films include Shoot the Piano Player (1960), Jules and Jim (1962), The Soft Skin (1964), Two English Girls (1971) and The Last Metro (1980). Truffaut's Day for Night (1973) earned him the BAFTA Award for Best Film and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He played the doctor in The Wild Child (1970), the director of the film-within-the-film in Day For Night and the scientist in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). He starred in The Green Room (1978), based on Henry James's "The Altar of the Dead". He wrote Hitchcock/Truffaut (1966), a book-length interview with his hero Alfred Hitchcock which tied for second on Sight and Sound's list of the greatest books on film. Truffaut paid homage to Hitchcock in The Bride Wore Black (1968), Mississippi Mermaid (1969) and his last film, Confidentially Yours (1983). He was married from 1957 until 1964 to Madeleine Morgenstern, in 1968 became engaged to leading actress Claude Jade from three of his films, and lived together with Fanny Ardant, actress in his two last films, until his death.
Filmography (84 movies)
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The 400 Blows
1959
Producer
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The Secret of the Wild Child
1994
as Self
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Les cahiers du cinéma, la création d'une empreinte
2021
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8.0
Les secrets de François Truffaut
2020
as Self (archive footage)
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7.8
Godard by Godard
2023
as Self (archive footage)
7.8
7.8
Passion Fanny Ardant
2023
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
7.8
7.8
Day for Night
1973
Director
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7.7
François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - The Wild Child
1996
as Self (archive footage)
7.7
7.7
François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death
1996
as Self (archive footage)
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7.5
Jules and Jim
1962
Producer
7.5
7.5
Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture
2016
as Self (archive footage)
7.3
7.3
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
as Claude Lacombe
7.3
7.3
John Travolta, le miraculé d'Hollywood
2017
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
7.3
7.3
Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera
2023
as Self (archive footage)
7.3
7.3
Stolen Kisses
1968
Producer
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7.2
Antoine and Colette
1962
Writer
7.2
7.2
The Last Metro
1980
Screenplay
7.2
7.2
Naked Childhood
1969
Producer
7.2
7.2
Shoot the Piano Player
1960
Director
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The Soft Skin
1964
Director
7.1
7.1
Small Change
1976
Screenplay
7.1
7.1
The Man Who Loved Women
1977
Producer
7.1
7.1
The Bride Wore Black
1968
Director
7.1
7.1
Fahrenheit 451
1966
Screenplay
7.1
7.1
Bed and Board
1970
Screenplay
7.1
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Confidentially Yours
1983
Producer
7.1
7.1
The Woman Next Door
1981
Director
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7.0
The Wild Child
1970
Screenplay
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Love on the Run
1979
Screenplay
7.0
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Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
2018
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
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7.0
Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo
1997
as Self (archive footage)
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Looking for Truffaut
2009
as Self (archive footage)
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Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
2006
as Self (archive footage)
7.0
7.0
A Swelled Head
1962
Writer
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Two English Girls
1971
Director
6.9
6.9
The Story of Adele H.
1975
Director
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6.7
Carl Th. Dreyer
1966
as Self
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6.7
Love at Twenty
1962
Writer
6.7
6.7
The Mischief Makers
1957
Screenplay
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6.6
Mississippi Mermaid
1969
Producer
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6.6
The Green Room
1978
Screenplay
6.5
6.5
Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock
1999
as Self (archive footage)
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6.4
Fool’s Mate
1956
as Party guest (uncredited)
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6.4
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
1975
as Self
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6.4
A Story of Water
1961
Director
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François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay
2024
as Self (archive footage)
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6.3
Two in the Wave
2010
as Self (archive footage)
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6.2
Vadim Mister Cool
2016
as Self (archive footage)
6.2
6.2
A Gorgeous Girl Like Me
1972
Writer
6.1
6.1
The Kreutzer Sonata
1956
as Cameo (uncredited)
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6.0
Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years
2004
as Self (audio archival footage)
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6.0
Filmmakers of Our Time: François Truffaut or the Critical Spirit
1965
as Self
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Françoise Dorléac, une promesse
2018
as Self (archive footage)
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Sous le soleil de Pialat
2021
as Self (archive footage)
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6.0
André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer
2019
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
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6.0
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
1964
as Self
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6.0
François Truffaut: Des films d'amour !
2020
as Self
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5.8
The Overworked
1958
Writer
5.7
5.7
François Truffaut l'insoumis
2014
as Self (archive footage)
5.6
5.6
Mata Hari, Agent H21
1964
Screenplay
5.4
5.4
Los 4 Golpes
1962
Director
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5.3
À tout prendre
1963
as Self (uncredited)
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5.1
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
1993
as Self (archive footage)
5.1
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The Army Game
1960
Producer
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5.0
That Kid
1976
Producer
4.5
4.5
Langlois
1970
as Self
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3.3
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
1992
as Self (archive footage)
To Be... A Classic
2012
as Self (archive footage)
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
2009
as Self (archive footage)
Postface à l’Atalante
2025
as Self
Catherine Deneuve by Chance, or, A Certain Blondeness
1978
as Self
Portrait of François Truffaut
1961
as Self
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
2000
as Self
Omnibus: François Truffaut
1973
as Self
Rossellini, un Prométhée franciscain
1996
as Self (archive) - film critic, filmmaker
When Hitchcock met O'Casey
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Cinéastes de notre temps : François Truffaut : Dix ans, dix films
1970
as Self
On the Trail of the New Wave
2009
as Self (archive footage)
The Birth of Children of Paradise
1967
as Self
Le scarabée d'or
1961
Producer
A Visit
1955
Director
Their First Films
2004
Director
Anna the Maid
1958
Producer
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