Jean Cocteau Movies

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

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

Over the course of one day, a woman carries on a vacillating conversation with her lover over several phone calls. She is at times conciliatory,...

Jean Cocteau reminisces about the people he has known throughout his long life.

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

French artist Jean Cocteau's multifaceted work across poetry, plays, paintings and film made him one of the leading creative figures of the Parisian...

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

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...

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...

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

Rejecting the union of her daughter Brigitte with a modest worker, Madame Magnin invents an adultery for the lover, then introduces Brigitte to a...

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 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 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...

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

One of the first filmed portraits of a jazz musician.

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.

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...