Jean Cocteau Movies

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...

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

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...

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...

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

In 1930 Jean Cocteau premiered "La Voz Humana" in Paris. In 2013, actress Karina Gidi interprets "La Voz Humana" under the direction and adaptation...

This revealing documentary from director Philippe Kohly examines the storied life of renowned soprano Maria Callas, from her troubled childhood in...

A man, mirroring the assassinated King, infiltrates a castle to kill the Queen but hesitates, leading to a deadly dare and revelation of shared...

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...

At the end of the 1950s, French documentarian François Reichenbach spent eighteen months traveling the United States, documenting its diverse...

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

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

As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century at its halfway point. Utilizing the archives of...

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 retelling of Tristan and Isolde set in 1940s France.

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

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...

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...

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