Jean Cocteau Movies

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...

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...

A man waits for his lover alone at home. When he finally arrives, the story of their relationship is told while the beautiful lover is indifferent to...

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

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

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

In 1959, Jean Cocteau looked back on his artistic journey for the Télé Monte-Carlo television show Tout la vérité, rien...

A film adaptation of the one-woman play by Jean Cocteau starring Shelby Satterthwaite as a woman who deals with the emotional turmoils of talking to...

A short film about a famous writer who loses control of his hand and begins to write letters and articles denouncing himself.

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...

La voix humaine (English: The Human Voice) is a forty-minute, one-act opera for soprano and orchestra composed by Francis Poulenc in 1958...

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

Impressed by Jean Cocteau’s rewrite of Antigone, Stravinsky asked the poet for an adaptation of Oedipus Rex. The resulting libretto brings...

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,...

Portrait of Charles Trenet. Twenty years after his death, this documentary offers a new look at the artist. When, in 1956, the singer appeared on...

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.

Through a series of pantomimes, Marcel Marceau, the famous mime, evokes the three ages of life: youth, middle and old age.

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

On the banks of the Seine and in the metro, Édith Stockhausen performs a poem by Jean Cocteau.