Jean Cocteau Movies

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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 woman spends a surreal evening unraveling on the phone with her recently lost lover.

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.

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

A television adaptation of Jean Cocteau's surréalist take on the tragedy of Oedipus.

Each portrayed painter produced an experimental animated short film to be featured in this film. A short film by Herbert Seggelke.

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

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...