Jean Cocteau Movies

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

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

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...

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

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...

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.

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

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...

One of the first filmed portraits of a jazz musician.

She's alone in her huge, empty house. Just a dog. His dog. And the remains of what once was. Her lover of five years has left her. Only few of his...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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