Jean Cocteau Movies

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

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

Portrait of Panama Al Brown, a great boxer in the 30's, and its story with France, with a focus on its relationship with Jean Cocteau, surrealist,...

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

A look at the life and art of Ms. Iran Darroudi, one of the most important contemporary Iranian painters, who has divided her time between Tehran and...

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

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...

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

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

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

Based on Jean Cocteau's iconic one-woman play of the same name; set against the backdrop of 1950 Naples, Angela is a woman in her twilight years, who...

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

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

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

Film based on the lyrical tragedy of the same name by Jean Cocteau and Francis Poulenc, directed by Alain Françon at the Théâtre...

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...

"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.

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

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...

An experimental movie based on a poem of the French writer and director Jean Cocteau about a servant who fantasises about killing the lady of the...