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,...

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

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...

The frustrated loves of Jean Cocteau and Raymond Radiguet at the beginning of the 1920s. The death of Radiguet that sank Cocteau into opium. A story...

"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." Daedalus weaves a tale of ambition and caution through an ancient myth, set in a...

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...

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...

An adaptation of Jean Cocteau's play of a woman lecturing her indifferent lover.

A woman suffers from amnesia after killing her husband, who was just about to demand a divorce for having found her engaging in an affair with a...

Exiled from the court of Spain, Don Salluste, the chief of police, wants to take revenge on the Queen. One day he meets Ruy Blas, a young student who...

Merlin, shot on 35mm, is an adaptation of Cocteau's play "Knights of the Round Table."

The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House presents a new production of Poulenc's short opera La Voix Humaine, featuring soprano Danielle de Niese and...

One of the first filmed portraits of a jazz musician.

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

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

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...

In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princesse de Bormes, organises a convoy of cars to...

Yvonne is seething when her devoted son, Michael, declares his intention to marry Madeleine, despite the latter's admitting to having an affair with...

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

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