Documentary about the making of Marcel Carne's 1945 film Children of Paradise (France), interviewing the director, the actors and production designer, as well as other French directors.

1962 short film by François Truffaut

At the end of his life, gravely ill, François Truffaut took refuge with his ex-wife Madeleine Morgenstern. She tried to keep him occupied during his long agony. The filmmaker confided in his friend Claude de Givray, with the intention of writing his autobiography. Too weakened, he abandoned the project. The film reveals part of this final story.

In 1959, an unforgettable boy did "the four hundred tricks" in front of the camera of a beginner named François Truffaut and splashed with his success, popular and Cannes, the filmography of a nascent band of intrepid. Claude Chabrol's "Le Beau Serge", Jean-Luc Godard's "A bout de souffle", Jacques Rivette's "Paris nous appartient", Eric Rohmer's "Le Signe du lion", Jacques Rozier's "Adieu Philippine", Agnès Varda's "Cléo de 5 à 7"...: This wave, quickly named "New Wave" - an expression invented by Françoise Giroud in an article dedicated to youth - is the work of apprentice directors who, for many, have swallowed kilometers of film at Henri Langlois' Cinémathèque française and sharpened their judgment in the columns of Cahiers du cinéma.

罗伯托·罗西里尼，意大利导演。父亲和祖父都是著名的建筑家。高中毕业时，他突然对电影感兴趣，于是放弃升大学，进入电影界。1934年写了一篇灵感来自德彪西音乐《牧神午后》的电影故事，然后把它拍成电影。1945年的《罗马不设防》成为新写实主义的第一炮。1948年的《德意志零年》也是一部重要的新现实主义杰作。1959年的《罗维雷将军》获得威尼斯电影节金狮奖。曾与英格丽·褒曼有过一段婚姻（1950－1958），褒曼为他放弃了好莱坞的事业。60年代后期开始侧重电视工作，为电视台拍摄了不少历史人物的传记片。

通过三部分组成的纪录片，透过帷幕观察戛纳电影节的内幕以及它的秘密。

Chaque documentaire traite d'un cinéaste, voire d'une école cinématographique (la Nouvelle Vague...), ou d'une question particulière liée au cinéma (Critique et cinéma...). Le choix des réalisateurs, comme les questions abordées sont très empreintes de la vision des Cahiers du cinéma dont André S. Labarthe est l'un des anciens rédacteurs, Janine Bazin étant par ailleurs l'épouse d'André Bazin, fondateur de la revue.
Sur le plan du traitement audiovisuel, les documentaires sont assez hétérogènes et tentent d'ailleurs de s'accorder au style du réalisateur concerné : une caméra portée en plan séquence pour John Cassavetes, une conversation en voiture pour Abbas Kiarostami... D'une manière générale, les documentaires se gardent de comporter une voix-off et cherchent à donner la parole aux réalisateurs, pénétrer son univers, sans forcément recourir à l'interview.
La série démarre en 1964 sur l'ORTF et se poursuit aujourd'hui sur Arte. En 1989, à l'occasion de sa reprise par Arte, la collection est rebaptisée Cinéma, de notre temps.

1956 film by Éric Rohmer

An in-depth analysis of the relationship between New Wave pioneers François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, as seen through rare archival footage, interviews, and film excerpts — written and narrated by former Cahiers du Cinéma editor Antoine de Baecque.

1978 film by François Truffaut

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 arduous attempt at education over several years.

Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.

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

After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.