Jean Cocteau Movies

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

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

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

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...

Recreation of Picasso and Cocteau's 1917 play. Apart of the ballet program, 'Picasso and Dance.'

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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.

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

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...

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