Jean Cocteau Movies

This documentary consists mainly of archive interviews of Jean Cocteau, and it features interesting contributions by Jean Marais and especially...

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

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...

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...

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

A documentary view of the galas of Paris’s Palais Garnier in the 1950s and ’60s.

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...

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

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

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

8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements is an American experimental film directed by Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp, and Jean Cocteau. Described by...

On the banks of the Seine and in the metro, Édith Stockhausen performs 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.

In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of...

Elisabeth and her brother Paul live isolated from much of the world after Paul is injured in a snowball fight. As a coping mechanism, the two conjure...

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

Young Michel is in love with the attractive Madeleine, so he decides to tell his parents of his intention to marry her. He thinks his announcement is...