What is the best François Truffaut film?

Every feature he directed alone is here: the Doinel cycle, the Hitchcock-style thrillers, the literary adaptations and the late films. A career of 21 solo features, cut short in 1984.

1. 1
   The 400 Blows

   Truffaut's 1959 debut feature, the first of five films following Antoine Doinel, played by Jean-Pierre Léaud.
2. 2
   Shoot the Piano Player

   A 1960 crime film starring Charles Aznavour as a bar pianist drawn into his brothers' trouble with gangsters.
3. 3
   Jules and Jim

   A 1962 drama about two friends and the woman they both love, played by Jeanne Moreau.
4. 4
   The Soft Skin

   A 1964 drama about a married literary lecturer who begins an affair with a flight attendant.
5. 5
   Fahrenheit 451

   Truffaut's only English-language film, a 1966 adaptation of Ray Bradbury's novel starring Oskar Werner and Julie Christie.
6. 6
   The Bride Wore Black

   A 1968 thriller starring Jeanne Moreau as a widow who tracks down the five men behind her husband's death on their wedding day.
7. 7
   Stolen Kisses

   The 1968 third instalment of the Antoine Doinel cycle, with Doinel drifting between jobs after leaving the army.
8. 8
   Mississippi Mermaid

   A 1969 thriller starring Jean-Paul Belmondo as a tobacco planter and cigarette manufacturer on Réunion and Catherine Deneuve as his mail-order bride.
9. 9
   The Wild Child

   A 1970 drama based on the true case of Victor of Aveyron, with Truffaut himself playing the doctor who teaches him.
10. 10
    Bed and Board

    The 1970 fourth Antoine Doinel film, following his early married life with Christine.
11. 11
    Two English Girls

    A 1971 romantic drama adapted, like Jules and Jim, from a novel by Henri-Pierre Roché.
12. 12
    Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me

    A 1972 black comedy starring Bernadette Lafont as a woman held in prison on a murder charge, interviewed by a sociologist.
13. 13
    Day for Night

    A 1973 comedy-drama about the making of a film, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
14. 14
    The Story of Adele H.

    A 1975 drama starring Isabelle Adjani as Victor Hugo's daughter, who follows a British officer across the Atlantic.
15. 15
    Small Change

    A 1976 ensemble film about the children of the town of Thiers, in central France.
16. 16
    The Man Who Loved Women

    A 1977 comedy-drama starring Charles Denner as an engineer who writes a memoir of his love affairs.
17. 17
    The Green Room

    A 1978 drama in which Truffaut plays a widower devoted to the memory of the dead, based on stories by Henry James.
18. 18
    Love on the Run

    The 1979 final Antoine Doinel film, built partly from clips of the four earlier ones.
19. 19
    The Last Metro

    A 1980 drama set in a Paris theatre during the German occupation, starring Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu, winner of ten César Awards.
20. 20
    The Woman Next Door

    A 1981 drama starring Gérard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant as former lovers who become neighbours.
21. 21
    Confidentially Yours

    Truffaut's last film, a 1983 black-and-white mystery starring Fanny Ardant and Jean-Louis Trintignant.

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