Jean Cocteau Movies

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

Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayable, and the expression of despair in...

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

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

"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." A 7 day vlog during the summer of 2023, a story of dreamers and drowners.

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

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

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...

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

"In Search of Marcel Proust" is a 1962 literary documentary directed by the Italian poet Attilio Bertolucci. It serves as a biographical and critical...

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

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.

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

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...

This Moroccan romance is a kind of Arab Tristan and Isolde: the heroine kills herself when she is convinced no one cares for her, the young nobleman...

Elfy, Countess of Saint-Hélié's daughter, was brought up with her foster sister Anne, in an old dilapidated castle whose landlord,...

As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century at its halfway point. Utilizing the archives of...