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.

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

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

"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.

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...

Based on Jean Cocteau's iconic one-woman play of the same name; set against the backdrop of 1950 Naples, Angela is a woman in her twilight years, who...

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

Swedish soprano Elisabeth Söderström takes on Jean Cocteau's The Human Voice.

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

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

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

20 minute music documentary shot in two days of November 1984 in, and around the outskirts of, Tokyo, Japan. A large part of the music was completed...

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

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

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

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...