François Truffaut's The Films of My Life
The Films in My Life (Les Films de ma Vie) is Truffaut’s own selection of more than one hundred essays that range widely over the history of film and pay tribute to Truffaut’s particular heroes, among them Hitchcock, Welles, Chaplin, Renoir, Cocteau, Bergman, and Buñuel.
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A Man Escaped (1956)
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.
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Murderers and Thieves (1956)
A man becomes the lover of his former persecutor's wife.
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Street of Shame (1956)
Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
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Crazed Fruit (1956)
Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking.
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