Jean Cocteau Movies

This Moroccan romance is a kind of Arab Tristan and Isolde: the heroine kills herself when she is convinced no one cares for her, the young nobleman...

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 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...

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...

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

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

A queen lives secluded in her chambers, mourning the loss of her husband on their wedding day ten years from then. Stanislas, a suicidal poet and...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Over the course of one day, a woman carries on a vacillating conversation with her lover over several phone calls. She is at times conciliatory,...

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...