Jean Cocteau Movies

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

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

Short film by Harry Kümel based upon a poem by Jean Cocteau.

This documentary is a portrait of Proust composed of recollections by those who knew him. Intercut with reading from his works.

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

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

On a foggy afternoon, a woman who is lost in the middle of the countryside, finally reaches him on the phone. She calls him “darling” but...

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.

We film buffs grew up worshiping Jean Cocteau—particularly his BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, ORPHEUS and BLOOD OF A POET—but in recent years he...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

An elegant young woman in her messy room answers the phone call from her lover. This one, who intends to leave her, tries to make her understand what...

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