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François Truffaut

Actor · 85 credits · 34 in highly-rated films

Best known for The 400 Blows (1959)

Frequent collaborators: Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Agnès Varda

Best François Truffaut movies by genre

Movies (58 total, ranked by score)

  1. Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    1977 · ★ 7.4 (4,811 votes)

    Science Fiction, Drama

    1

  2. Day for Night

    1973 · ★ 7.8 (670 votes)

    Comedy, Drama

    2

  3. The Wild Child

    1970 · ★ 7.1 (309 votes)

    Drama, History

    3

  4. The Secret of the Wild Child

    1994 · ★ 8.0 (18 votes)

    Documentary, TV Movie

    4

  5. Godard by Godard

    2023 · ★ 7.8 (4 votes)

    Documentary

    5

  6. John Travolta, le miraculé d'Hollywood

    2017 · ★ 7.3 (6 votes)

    Documentary, TV Movie

    6

  7. The Green Room

    1978 · ★ 6.6 (88 votes)

    Drama

    7

  8. I'm a Stranger Here Myself

    1975 · ★ 6.4 (5 votes)

    Documentary

    8

  9. François Truffaut: Des films d'amour !

    2020 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary, TV Movie

    9

  10. Passion Fanny Ardant

    2023 · ★ 7.8 (5 votes)

    Documentary, History, TV Movie

    10

  11. Vadim Mister Cool

    2016 · ★ 6.2 (5 votes)

    Documentary

    11

  12. Françoise Dorléac, une promesse

    2018 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    12

  13. Deneuve, la reine Catherine

    2022 · ★ 7.6 (5 votes)

    Documentary

    13

  14. Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock

    1999 · ★ 6.5 (4 votes)

    Documentary

    14

  15. Langlois

    1970 · ★ 5.3 (3 votes)

    Documentary

    15

  16. François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits

    1993 · ★ 5.1 (7 votes)

    Documentary

    16

  17. Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera

    2023 · ★ 7.2 (6 votes)

    Documentary

    17

  18. Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture

    2016 · ★ 8.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    18

  19. Take It All

    1963 · ★ 5.3 (9 votes)

    Drama, Romance

    19

  20. Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'

    2009

    Documentary

    20

  21. François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - The Wild Child

    1996 · ★ 7.7 (3 votes)

    Documentary

    21

  22. François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death

    1996 · ★ 7.7 (3 votes)

    Documentary

    22

  23. On the Trail of the New Wave

    2009

    Documentary

    23

  24. To Be... A Classic

    2012

    Documentary

    24

  25. Fool’s Mate

    1956 · ★ 6.4 (30 votes)

    Comedy, Drama

    25

  26. Filmmakers of Our Time: François Truffaut or the Critical Spirit

    1965 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    26

  27. The Kreutzer Sonata

    1956 · ★ 6.1 (21 votes)

    Drama

    27

  28. François Truffaut l'insoumis

    2014 · ★ 5.7 (3 votes)

    Documentary

    28

  29. Les secrets de François Truffaut

    2020 · ★ 8.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    29

  30. Two in the Wave

    2010 · ★ 6.3 (19 votes)

    Documentary

    30

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 28, 2026.