Jean Cocteau Movies

Rejecting the union of her daughter Brigitte with a modest worker, Madame Magnin invents an adultery for the lover, then introduces Brigitte to a...

Film based on the lyrical tragedy of the same name by Jean Cocteau and Francis Poulenc, directed by Alain Françon at the Théâtre...

Political intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. The queen is in seclusion, veiling her face for the ten years since her husband's...

She's alone in her huge, empty house. Just a dog. His dog. And the remains of what once was. Her lover of five years has left her. Only few of his...

Sitting at his desk, Guitry gives us a lecture on French history from Joan of Arc to the Occupation, with some focus on a number of its great writers...

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...

When a young teen marries the Prince of Cleves, more than twice her age, she automatically becomes an official Princess and takes her new position to...

In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princesse de Bormes, organises a convoy of cars to...

A queen lives secluded in her chambers, mourning the loss of her husband on their wedding day ten years from then. Stanislas, a suicidal poet and...

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...

This documentary is a portrait of Proust composed of recollections by those who knew him. Intercut with reading from his works.

A documentary view of the galas of Paris’s Palais Garnier in the 1950s and ’60s.

French artist Jean Cocteau's multifaceted work across poetry, plays, paintings and film made him one of the leading creative figures of the Parisian...

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

At the end of the 1950s, French documentarian François Reichenbach spent eighteen months traveling the United States, documenting its diverse...

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

Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any sensible fellow on earth would do: they have him...