Jean Cocteau Movies

Short based on the Jean Cocteau play following a final telephone conversation between a couple.

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

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...

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

Portrait of Panama Al Brown, a great boxer in the 30's, and its story with France, with a focus on its relationship with Jean Cocteau, surrealist,...

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

Produced and conceived by French filmmakers Jean Cocteau and François Villiers, with a screenplay by Langston Hughes, Rhythm of Africa takes a...

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...

La Voix Humaine is a concerto for soprano and orchestra, centering on the break-up of a relationship by telephone. It represents one side of a...

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...

Travelogue exploring the coastline, towns and surrounding mountains of the French Riviera.

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

One of the first filmed portraits of a jazz musician.

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...

20 minute music documentary shot in two days of November 1984 in, and around the outskirts of, Tokyo, Japan. A large part of the music was completed...

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...