Jean Genet Movies

In the 1930s, within a prison cell somewhere in Europe, young inmate P. spends his days reading about murderers in newspapers while eagerly awaiting...

It's a staging of The Maids, which, set in the 1930s, tells the story of two sisters working in the house of an abusive woman. Genet's film begins...

In the spring of 1970, thousands of protesters descended on New Haven to demonstrate against the trial of Black Panther members for the murder of...

Non-professional players try to create the poetic world of Jean Genet in filmic terms.