Jean Cocteau Movies

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

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

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

Through a series of pantomimes, Marcel Marceau, the famous mime, evokes the three ages of life: youth, middle and old age.

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

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

On the death of the famous singer Maria Malibran, Countess Merlin retraces the main lines of the unusual destiny of this young woman entirely devoted...

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

La Voix Humaine is a concerto for soprano and orchestra, centering on the break-up of a relationship by telephone. It represents one side of a...

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...

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

On stage, the actress talks about her life in the 20th-century French theatre, the great authors she played and the famous stage directors of the...

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

An experimental movie based on a poem of the French writer and director Jean Cocteau about a servant who fantasises about killing the lady of the...

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...

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