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The 400 Blows

(1959)

Drama

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 m...

Runtime:

99 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Georges Flamant, Patrick Auffay

8.1

98%

N/A

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Jules and Jim

(1962)

Drama, Romance

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim. Both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine, but it's Jules who wins her hand. After the war, Jim visits Jules, Catherine and their daughter in their Austrian home and discovers not only that ...

Runtime:

110 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Marie Dubois, Sabine Haudepin

7.8

93%

97

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Fahrenheit 451

(1966)

Drama, Science Fiction

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…

Runtime:

113 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack, Cyril Cusack

7.2

81%

N/A

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Day for Night

(1973)

Comedy, Drama

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

Runtime:

116 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Valentina Cortese, Dani

8.0

97%

N/A

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Shoot the Piano Player

(1960)

Crime, Drama, Thriller

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 gangster...

Runtime:

85 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier, Serge Davri

7.5

90%

N/A

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Stolen Kisses

(1968)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

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...

Runtime:

90 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Daniel Ceccaldi

7.6

96%

N/A

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The Last Metro

(1980)

Drama, Romance, War

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

Runtime:

131 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Andréa Ferréol, Paulette Dubost

7.4

86%

N/A

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Bed and Board

(1970)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

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 youn...

Runtime:

97 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Daniel Ceccaldi, Daniel Ceccaldi, Claire Duhamel

7.5

75%

N/A

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The Bride Wore Black

(1968)

Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

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?

Runtime:

107 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Charles Denner, Claude Rich, Michel Bouquet

7.3

82%

N/A

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The Wild Child

(1970)

Drama, History

In 1798, a feral boy is discovered outside the town of Aveyron, France. Diagnosed as mentally impaired, he is relegated to an asylum. A young doctor named Jean Itard becomes convinced that the boy has normal mental capacity, but that his development was hindered by lack of contact with society. He brings the boy home and begins an ardu...

Runtime:

83 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

Jean-Pierre Cargol, Jean-Pierre Cargol, François Truffaut, François Truffaut, Françoise Seigner

7.5

100%

94

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The Soft Skin

(1964)

Drama, Romance

Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hostess, Nicole. They start a love affair, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her.

Runtime:

119 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

Françoise Dorléac, Jean Desailly, Nelly Benedetti, Daniel Ceccaldi, Laurence Badie

7.5

89%

78

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The Story of Adele H.

(1975)

Drama, History

Adèle Hugo, daughter of renowned French writer Victor Hugo, falls in love with British soldier Albert Pinson while living in exile off the coast of England. Though he spurns her affections, she follows him to Nova Scotia and takes on the alias of Adèle Lewly. Albert continues to reject her, but she remains obsessive in her quest to win...

Runtime:

96 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott, Joseph Blatchley, Ruben Dorey

7.3

92%

N/A

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The Woman Next Door

(1981)

Drama, Romance

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 re...

Runtime:

106 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Henri Garcin, Michèle Baumgartner, Roger Van Hool

7.3

85%

N/A

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The Man Who Loved Women

(1977)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel.

Runtime:

119 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey, Nelly Borgeaud, Geneviève Fontanel, Leslie Caron

7.4

82%

N/A

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Small Change

(1976)

Comedy, Drama

Various experiences of childhood are seen in several sequences that take place in the small town of Thiers, France. Vignettes include a boy's awakening interest in girls, couples double-dating at the movies, brothers giving their friend a haircut, a boy dealing with an abusive home life, a baby and a cat sitting by an open window, a ch...

Runtime:

104 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

Jean-François Stévenin, Virginie Thévenet, Chantal Mercier, Marcel Berbert, Christine Pellé

7.7

90%

N/A

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Confidentially Yours

(1983)

Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller

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 ...

Runtime:

110 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Laudenbach, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

7.2

78%

N/A

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Love on the Run

(1979)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Antoine is now 30, working as a proofreader and getting divorced from his his wife. It being the first "no-fault" divorce in France, a media circus erupts, dredging up Antoine's past. Indecisive about his new love with a store clerk, he impulsively takes off with an old flame.

Runtime:

93 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Claude Jade, Dani, Dorothée

7.1

58%

N/A

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Mississippi Mermaid

(1969)

Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller

Adapted from a story by William Irish, it's a noirish tale of a man who orders a mail-order bride but receives instead a con woman.

Runtime:

123 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Bouquet, Michel Bouquet, Nelly Borgeaud

7.0

82%

N/A

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Antoine and Colette

(1962)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

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” (19...

Runtime:

32 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Rosy Varte, Rosy Varte, François Darbon

7.6

N/A

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Breathless

(1983)

Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller

Jesse has to get out of Las Vegas quickly, and steals a car to drive to L.A. On the way he shoots a police man. When he makes it to L.A. he stays with Monica, a girl he has only known for a few days. As the film progresses, the police get closer to him, and the crimes escalate.

Runtime:

100 min

Director:

Jim McBride

Cast:

Richard Gere, Valérie Kaprisky, Art Metrano, John P. Ryan, John P. Ryan

5.9

60%

52

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Two English Girls

(1971)

Drama, History, Romance

At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman meets in Paris Ann Brown, a young Englishwoman. They become friends and Ann invites him to spend holidays at the house where she lives with her mother and her sister Muriel, for whom she intends Claude. During these holidays, Claude, Ann and Muriel become ...

Runtime:

130 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

Jean-Pierre Léaud, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter, Philippe Léotard, Georges Delerue

7.5

86%

N/A

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The Green Room

(1978)

Drama, History

Inspired by three Henry James short stories, this is the story of a World War I veteran who works as an obituary writer at the newspaper. Worshipping his deceased wife, he is obsessed with the dead people in his life and soon intends to build a memorial to all of them.

Runtime:

94 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

François Truffaut, Jean Dasté, Patrick Maléon, Nathalie Baye, Jeanne Lobre

7.0

40%

N/A

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Love at Twenty

(1962)

Drama, Romance

Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Runtime:

110 min

Director:

François Truffaut, Andrzej Wajda, Renzo Rossellini, Marcel Ophüls, Shintarō Ishihara

Cast:

Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick Auffay, Rosy Varte, François Darbon

7.2

N/A

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The Little Thief

(1988)

Crime, Drama, Romance

In a small town in post-World-War-II France, an unhappy sixteen-year-old (Janine Castang) tries to escape her dreary situation by any means at her disposal. Three successive friends (Michel Davenne, a married lover; Raoul, a fellow thief; Mauricette Dargelos, a photographer and fellow prisoner) help her learn from her mistakes.

Runtime:

110 min

Director:

Claude Miller

Cast:

Charlotte Gainsbourg, Didier Bezace, Simon de La Brosse, Clotilde de Bayser, Raoul Billerey

6.9

67%

N/A

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A Gorgeous Girl Like Me

(1972)

Comedy, Crime, Drama

Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist, preparing a thesis on criminal women. He chooses Camille Bliss as his subject of study and begins to visit her in prison for interviews. Camille became acquainted with trouble at a young age and justifies her actions by "fate-bets." She is currently in prison for allegedly murdering one of her...

Runtime:

98 min

Director:

François Truffaut

Cast:

Bernadette Lafont, André Dussollier, Anne Kreis, Charles Denner, Claude Brasseur

6.5

N/A

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A Story of Water

(1961)

Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Godard narrates the loosely constructed story of a young woman attempting to make her way from her home in the country to Paris, amid a massive flood.

Runtime:

12 min

Director:

François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard

Cast:

Jean-Claude Brialy, Caroline Dim, Jean-Luc Godard

6.9

N/A

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The Man Who Loved Women

(1983)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

A womanizing sculptor seeks help from a psychiatrist to cure him of his obsession with women.

Runtime:

110 min

Director:

Blake Edwards

Cast:

Burt Reynolds, Julie Andrews, Kim Basinger, Marilu Henner, Cynthia Sikes

5.1

36%

N/A

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Mata Hari, Agent H21

(1964)

Drama, History, Romance, War

This French version of the notorious spy's life centers less on her romantic escapades, and more on those that reveal the person she actually was during WW I when her German superiors ordered her to seduce the French captain Trintignant so she can steal classified papers from him. Instead she falls in love with him, blows the cover, an...

Runtime:

98 min

Director:

Jean-Louis Richard

Cast:

Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claude Rich, Henri Garcin, Georges Riquier

6.5

N/A

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The Army Game

(1960)

Comedy

Jean Lerat begins his military service at an army camp. Despite his aunt’s attempts to pull a few strings to his advantage, the unfortunate Lerat manages to get on the wrong side of his bullying colonel…

Runtime:

87 min

5.3

N/A

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