François Truffaut

An Indiana electric lineman finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.

A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.

In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.

Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.

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

A pianist helps his brother escape from two gangsters, who retaliate by abducting their kid brother.

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

After being discharged from the army, Antoine Doinel centers a screwball comedy where he applies for different jobs and tries to make sense of his relationships with women.

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?

In a French forest in 1798, a child is found who cannot walk, speak, read or write. A doctor becomes interested in the child and patiently attempts to civilize him.

The story of Adèle Hugo's unrequited love for a lieutenant.

Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.

A well-known publisher and lecturer starts an affair with an air hostess.

Bertrand Morane, a 40-year-old engineer, dies. At his funeral, his past lovers gather, revealing his life and affairs as he narrates while writing his autobiography.

After he's implicated in several murders, a real estate agent hides out from the cops while his intrepid secretary does some private investigating of her own to locate the killer.

Antoine Doinel is 17, lives in a hotel and works in a factory making records; he loves music. He falls in love with a woman he meets at a concert. She sees him as a friend, but her parents love him.

Antoine Doinel is now more than thirty. He divorces from Christine. He is a proofreader, and is in love with Sabine, a record seller. Colette, his teenager love, is now a lawyer. She buys Antoine's first published autobiographical...

A wealthy plantation owner is captivated by a mysterious woman with a shady past.

The lives of a motherless boy, who is just starting to get interested in women, and his physically abused friend, who lives in poverty, are mixed with more or less innocent childhood experiences and challenges of a number of child...

Young 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.

A group of five boys, the brats of the title, are all in love with an unbearably beautiful woman and so they spend their summer jealously harassing her and her boyfriend.

A French little town, at the end of the twenties. Julien Davenne is a journalist whose wife Julie died a decade ago. He gathered in the green room all Julie's objects. When a fire destroys the room, he renovates a little chapel an...

An anguished foster child takes to mischief and lies as his foster parents do their best to love and care for him. But it might be too little, too late in this emotionally devastating portrayal of the orphaned child.

In this adaptation of Tolstoy's argument for sexual abstinence, a man recounts the events that led to the killing of his wife.

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.