Jean Cocteau Movies

  • 1945
    Les Dames du bois de Boulogne

    Les Dames du bois de Boulogne

    Les Dames du bois de Boulogne

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    A love story that follows the maneuverings of a society lady as she connives to initiate a scandalous affair between her aristocratic ex-lover and a...

    Les Dames du bois de Boulogne
  • 1946
    Black Friendship

    Black Friendship

    Black Friendship

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    The commentary recalls that Radio Brazzaville was, from June 18, 1943, the contact of the French settlements and the metropolis, bush stations...

    Black Friendship
  • 2003
    Cocteau and Company

    Cocteau and Company

    Cocteau and Company

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    Jean-Paul Fargier's documentary is a montage of animated images, numerous drawings and interviews with Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), interspersed with...

    Cocteau and Company
  • 1957
    Django Reinhardt

    Django Reinhardt

    Django Reinhardt

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    One of the first filmed portraits of a jazz musician.

    Django Reinhardt
  • 1985
    The Human Voice

    The Human Voice

    The Human Voice

    01985HD

    Swedish soprano Elisabeth Söderström takes on Jean Cocteau's The Human Voice.

    The Human Voice
  • 1952
    La Villa Santo-Sospir

    La Villa Santo-Sospir

    La Villa Santo-Sospir

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    Cocteau takes the viewer on a tour of a friend's villa on the French coast (a major location used in Testament of Orpheus). The house itself is...

    La Villa Santo-Sospir
  • 1958
    Le Bel Indifférent

    Le Bel Indifférent

    Le Bel Indifférent

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    An adaptation of Jean Cocteau's play of a woman lecturing her indifferent lover.

    Le Bel Indifférent
  • 2020
    The Human Voice: A Story for Our Times

    The Human Voice: A Story for Our Times

    The Human Voice: A Story for Our Times

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    The Human Voice is a contemporary adaptation of the 1928 stage play by Jean Cocteau, and "La Voix Humaine," the 1958 chamber opera by Francis...

    The Human Voice: A Story for Our Times
  • 2006
    The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf

    The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf

    The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf

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    Piaf’s life is a legend, a tale, a story so powerful that one might end up asking oneself if it really existed. Beyond the icon, there is the...

    The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf
  • 1978
    La Voce Umana

    La Voce Umana

    La Voce Umana

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    Over the course of one day, a woman carries on a vacillating conversation with her lover over several phone calls. She is at times conciliatory,...

    La Voce Umana
  • 2018
    The Human Voice

    The Human Voice

    The Human Voice

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    On a foggy afternoon, a woman who is lost in the middle of the countryside, finally reaches him on the phone. She calls him “darling” but...

    The Human Voice
  • 1978
    Le Bel Indifférent

    Le Bel Indifférent

    Le Bel Indifférent

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

    Le Bel Indifférent
  • 1971
    The Human Voice

    The Human Voice

    The Human Voice

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    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...

    The Human Voice
  • 1984
    Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown

    Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown

    Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown

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

    Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
  • 1979
    The Human Voice

    The Human Voice

    The Human Voice

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

    The Human Voice
  • 1964
    In This Atrocious Garden

    In This Atrocious Garden

    In This Atrocious Garden

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

    In This Atrocious Garden
  • 1981
    The Mystery of Oberwald

    The Mystery of Oberwald

    The Mystery of Oberwald

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    A man, mirroring the assassinated King, infiltrates a castle to kill the Queen but hesitates, leading to a deadly dare and revelation of shared...

    The Mystery of Oberwald
  • 1996
    Great Writers: Jean Cocteau

    Great Writers: Jean Cocteau

    Great Writers: Jean Cocteau

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    Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, and filmmaker, whose versatility, unconventionality, and enormous output...

    Great Writers: Jean Cocteau
  • 1966
    The Human Voice

    The Human Voice

    The Human Voice

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    A monologue of a woman talking on the phone with her longterm lover who is about to marry another girl.

    The Human Voice
  • 1944
    La Malibran

    La Malibran

    La Malibran

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    On the death of the famous singer Maria Malibran, Countess Merlin retraces the main lines of the unusual destiny of this young woman entirely devoted...

    La Malibran