Jean Cocteau Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

Sitting at his desk, Guitry gives us a lecture on French history from Joan of Arc to the Occupation, with some focus on a number of its great writers...

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 Charles Trenet. Twenty years after his death, this documentary offers a new look at the artist. When, in 1956, the singer appeared on...

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...

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

An elegant young woman in her messy room answers the phone call from her lover. This one, who intends to leave her, tries to make her understand what...

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...

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...

"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." A 7 day vlog during the summer of 2023, a story of dreamers and drowners.

Film based on the lyrical tragedy of the same name by Jean Cocteau and Francis Poulenc, directed by Alain Françon at the Théâtre...

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...

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

In August 1963, just a couple of months before his death, Jean Cocteau made one last short film. The film comprises one still and highly sober shot...