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...

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

One of the first filmed portraits of a jazz musician.

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

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...

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...

Produced and conceived by French filmmakers Jean Cocteau and François Villiers, with a screenplay by Langston Hughes, Rhythm of Africa takes a...

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

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

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.

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...

French artist Jean Cocteau's multifaceted work across poetry, plays, paintings and film made him one of the leading creative figures of the Parisian...

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

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

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

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

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

Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any sensible fellow on earth would do: they have him...