Directed by François Truffaut
14 Episodes
A lifelong cinephile, François Truffaut first made his mark as a fiery, contentious critic for “Cahiers du cinéma” in the 1950s, denouncing the French film industry’s bloated “tradition of quality” and calling for the director to be redefined as the individual author of their films. It wasn’t long before he put his words into action, becoming a celebrated auteur in his own right with his first feature THE 400 BLOWS, which won him the Best Director award at Cannes and announced the arrival of the French New Wave. Throughout the 1960s, he continued to reinvigorate cinema with such bravura works as SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER and JULES AND JIM, films positively intoxicated with the stylistic possibilities of cinema. Across the seventies, he continued to follow the adventures of his 400 BLOWS protagonist (and alter ego) Antoine Doinel—embodied by Jean-Pierre Léaud—in films like STOLEN KISSES, BED AND BOARD and LOVE ON THE RUN, while directing such classics as DAY FOR NIGHT and THE LAST METRO, which displayed his undying love for cinema and life.
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18:26Episode 1Les mistons
Episode 1
Directed by François Truffaut • 1957 • France
The story takes place in provincial France, where a group of young boys ("mistons" roughly translates "brats") are infatuated with a beautiful young woman. Jealous of her passionate affair, they conspire to make mischief for the woman and her boyfriend.
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12:32Episode 2Une histoire d'eau
Episode 2
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut • 1958 • France
In this short film, a young woman tries to go to Paris, but her garden and the whole village is flooded with water.
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1:40:00Episode 3The 400 Blows
Episode 3
Directed by François Truffaut • 1959 • France
Starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert RémyFrançois Truffaut’s first feature is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut’s cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), THE 400 BLOWS sensitively re-creates t...
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1:21:45Episode 4Shoot the Piano Player
Episode 4
Directed by François Truffaut • 1960 • France
Starring Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole BergerFrançois Truffaut is drunk on the possibilities of cinema in this, his most playful film. Part thriller, part comedy, part tragedy, SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER relates the adventures of mild-mannered ...
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30:39Episode 5Antoine and Colette
Episode 5
Directed by François Truffaut • 1962 • France
This short film is the first segment of five in the multinational feature Love at Twenty (1962), all five segments on the theme of first adult love. After indulging in much delinquency in his youth, seventeen-year-old Antoine Doinel, having been prov...
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1:46:26Episode 6Jules and Jim
Episode 6
Directed by François Truffaut • 1962 • France
Starring Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri SerreHailed as one of the finest films ever made, JULES AND JIM charts, over twenty-five years, the relationship between two friends and the object of their mutual obsession. The legendary François Truffau...
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1:57:56Episode 7The Soft Skin
Episode 7
Directed by François Truffaut • 1964 • France
Starring Jean Desailly, Françoise Dorléac, Nelly BenedettiFrançois Truffaut followed up the international phenomenon JULES AND JIM with this tense tale of infidelity. The unassuming Jean Desailly is perfectly cast as a celebrated literary scholar, ...
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1:31:33Episode 8Stolen Kisses
Episode 8
Directed by François Truffaut • 1968 • France
Starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Delphine Seyrig, Michael LonsdaleJean-Pierre Léaud returns in the delightful STOLEN KISSES, the third installment in the Antoine Doinel series. It is now 1968, and the mischievous and perpetually love-struck Doinel has be...
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1:37:44Episode 9Bed and Board
Episode 9
Directed by François Truffaut • 1970 • France
Starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Madamoiselle HirokoThe fourth installment in François Truffaut’s chronicle of the ardent, anachronistic Antoine Doinel, BED AND BOARD plunges his hapless creation once again into crisis. Expecting his first c...
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2:10:11Episode 10Two English Girls
Episode 10
Directed by François Truffaut • 1971 • France
Two English Girls shows François Truffaut working in one of his favorite environments, the work of Henri-Pierre Roche (the author of Jules and Jim), with his longtime leading man/cinematic doppelganger Jean-Pierre Léaud, and telling a story so good o...
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1:35:34Episode 11Love on the Run
Episode 11
Directed by François Truffaut • 1979 • France
Starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Claude JadeAntoine Doinel strikes again! In the final chapter of François Truffaut’s saga, we find Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), now in his thirties, convivially concluding his marriage, enjoying modera...
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2:11:52Episode 12The Last Metro
Episode 12
Directed by François Truffaut • 1980 • France
Starring Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve, Jean PoiretGérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve star as members of a French theater company living under the German occupation during World War II in François Truffaut’s gripping, humanist character st...
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1:45:40Episode 13The Woman Next Door
Episode 13
Directed by François Truffaut • 1981 • France
A man and a woman living next door to each other become too neighborly, as an old flame reignites. Problem is they are now both married to other people. Past meets present and the heat becomes too much to handle.
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1:51:02Episode 14Confidentially Yours
Episode 14
Directed by François Truffaut • 1983 • France
Starring Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe LaudenbachThe final film directed by François Truffaut is an unsung gem: an alternately suspenseful and comic homage to classic film noir and the work of Alfred Hitchcock, complete with chic bl...