Jean Cocteau Movies

On stage, the actress talks about her life in the 20th-century French theatre, the great authors she played and the famous stage directors of the...

An elegant young woman in her messy room answers the phone call from her lover. This one, who intends to leave her, tries to make her understand what...

Recreation of Picasso and Cocteau's 1917 play. Apart of the ballet program, 'Picasso and Dance.'

In August 1963, just a couple of months before his death, Jean Cocteau made one last short film. The film comprises one still and highly sober shot...

A look at the life and art of Ms. Iran Darroudi, one of the most important contemporary Iranian painters, who has divided her time between Tehran and...

An experimental movie based on a poem of the French writer and director Jean Cocteau about a servant who fantasises about killing the lady of the...

Merlin, shot on 35mm, is an adaptation of Cocteau's play "Knights of the Round Table."

We film buffs grew up worshiping Jean Cocteau—particularly his BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, ORPHEUS and BLOOD OF A POET—but in recent years he...

A woman’s last phone conversation with her lover, who now loves someone else.

A man dreams he is in a wax museum after it is closed for the night.The statues come to life and behave in mysterious ways.

TV movie adaptation of Jean Cocteau’s one-act play of a woman lecturing her indifferent lover, starring Alain Delon and Annie Cordy.

After “five years of happiness,” a love affair is ending. The woman uses the telephone as the last remaining connection with the man, who...

This documentary consists mainly of archive interviews of Jean Cocteau, and it features interesting contributions by Jean Marais and especially...

This Moroccan romance is a kind of Arab Tristan and Isolde: the heroine kills herself when she is convinced no one cares for her, the young nobleman...

In 1930 Jean Cocteau premiered "La Voz Humana" in Paris. In 2013, actress Karina Gidi interprets "La Voz Humana" under the direction and adaptation...

Jean Cocteau reminisces about the people he has known throughout his long life.

This short documentary film is conceived as a stroll through the valley of Thebes and the temple of Karnak.

Cocteau, at his home, remembers his childhood, talks at length about theater, cinema, literature, and draws portraits of friends.