Love on the Run
(1979) [M]

In Truffaut's fifth and final film of his semi-autobiographical "Antoine Doinel" series, we see Doinel in his 30's and newly divorced. Still ambivalent about relationships, the wrath of Doinel's mother forces him to confront his insecurities and rekindle some past relationships. Clips and...  More

Bed and Board
(1970) [M]

The fourth in Truffaut's Antoine Doinel series finds Doinel married to the beautiful Christine (Claude Jade) and still plugging away at odd jobs. After Christine informs him he will be a father, Doinel falls in with a seductive Japanese mistress (Hiroku Berghauer), but soon reunites with his...  More

The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups) - Les Mistons (short feature)
(1959) [PG]

Praised by film-makers (Akira Kurosawa called it "One of the most beautiful films that I have ever seen.") and critics the world over, Truffaut's 400 Blows launched the Nouvelle Vague and paved the way for some of cinema's most important and influential directors. Twelve-year-old Antoine Doinel...  More

Les Mistons / Antoine and Colette (2 short films by Francois Truffaut)
(1959) [PG]

Les Mistons:
Truffaut's acclaimed first film, is the touching story of the sexual awakening of a group of adolescent boys who idolise and become the tormentors of an older girl (Bernadette Lafont), and her boyfriend (Gerard Blain).

'Les Quatre Cents Coups', Truffaut's first feature,...  More

Jules Et Jim (Jules and Jim)
(1962) [M]

Hailed by critics as one of the greatest films of all time, Francois Truffaut's internationally award-winning film Jules And Jim is set pre and post The First World War, and tells the tale of two young students, Jules (Oskar Werner), an Austrian, and Jim (Henri Serre), a Frenchman, in love with...  More

Shoot the Piano Player
(1959) [PG]

Francois Truffaut's second feature is the tender but tragic story of a man embroiled in past betrayals. Charlie, a once-renowned concert pianist, is unable to forgive or forget his former wife’s infidelity and now plays background music in a run-down bar. Having rejected the love of a waitress,...  More

Day For Night
(1973) [PG]

An affectionate look at the making of a film, and the off-screen relationships of all the actors involved. Francois Truffaut's admiration for movies was legendary but nowhere is this obsession more evident than in this movie. He was at the peak of his skill here. Day For Night is one of his two...  More

The Last Metro
(1981) [PG]

Winning an incredible ten French Academy Awards in 1981, The Last Metro is one of Truffaut's most highly acclaimed and popular films. Starring Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu in magnetic performances, the story is set in Paris, 1942, during the Nazi occupation of France. When Lucas Steiner...  More

Fahrenheit 451
(1966) [PG]

Ray Bradbury's best-selling science fiction masterpiece about a future without books takes on a chillingly realistic dimension in this film classic directed by one of the most important innovators of all time, the late Francois Truffaut. Montag (Oskar Werner), a regimented fireman in charge of...  More

Stolen Kisses / Antoine Et Collete
(1968) [M]

Eight years after the wry romantic sketch Antoine and Colette, François Truffaut and Jean-Pierre Léaud reunited to catch up with Truffaut's cinematic alter ego, Antoine Doinel, the troubled adolescent of The 400 Blows. Stolen Kisses opens with the now-grown Doinel sprung from military prison...  More