Jean Cocteau Movies

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

The commentary recalls that Radio Brazzaville was, from June 18, 1943, the contact of the French settlements and the metropolis, bush stations...

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...

Cocteau, at his home, remembers his childhood, talks at length about theater, cinema, literature, and draws portraits of friends.

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

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

This short documentary film is conceived as a stroll through the valley of Thebes and the temple of Karnak.

A man waits for his lover alone at home. When he finally arrives, the story of their relationship is told while the beautiful lover is indifferent to...

A woman spends a surreal evening unraveling on the phone with her recently lost lover.

La voix humaine (English: The Human Voice) is a forty-minute, one-act opera for soprano and orchestra composed by Francis Poulenc in 1958...

A film adaptation of the one-woman play by Jean Cocteau starring Shelby Satterthwaite as a woman who deals with the emotional turmoils of talking to...

A short film about a famous writer who loses control of his hand and begins to write letters and articles denouncing himself.

This documentary is a portrait of Proust composed of recollections by those who knew him. Intercut with reading from his works.