Jean Cocteau Movies

In his prison cell, the composer Remi Bonvent composed an opera, The columns bed. The director of the prison, Porey Cave, succeeds made believe he is...

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

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...

Variations on the cultural and intellectual explosion in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district in 1946.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

In August 1963, just a couple of months before his death, Jean Cocteau made one last short film. The film comprises one still and highly sober shot...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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