Jean Cocteau Movies

In 1940s France, a man finds a wife for his uncle, but ends up falling in love with her himself when he drinks a love potion.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

A television adaptation of Jean Cocteau's surréalist take on the tragedy of Oedipus.

In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of...

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

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

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.

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...

A look at the life and art of Ms. Iran Darroudi, one of the most important contemporary Iranian painters, who has divided her time between Tehran and...

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

Impressed by Jean Cocteau’s rewrite of Antigone, Stravinsky asked the poet for an adaptation of Oedipus Rex. The resulting libretto brings...

In his prison cell, the composer Remi Bonvent composed an opera, The columns bed. The director of the prison, Porey Cave, succeeds made believe he is...

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