Jean Cocteau Movies

  • 2020
    Cocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer

    Cocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer

    Cocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer

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    Portrait of Panama Al Brown, a great boxer in the 30's, and its story with France, with a focus on its relationship with Jean Cocteau, surrealist,...

    Cocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer
  • 2011
    Les Enfants Terribles du Cinéma

    Les Enfants Terribles du Cinéma

    Les Enfants Terribles du Cinéma

    102011HD

    The documentary "Les Enfants terribles du cinéma" (The Terrible Children of Cinema) tells the little-known story of one of the crossroads of...

    Les Enfants Terribles du Cinéma
  • 1949
    Daughter of the Sands

    Daughter of the Sands

    Daughter of the Sands

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    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...

    Daughter of the Sands
  • 1991
    Merlín

    Merlín

    Merlín

    61991HD

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

    Merlín
  • 1958
    Musée Grévin

    Musée Grévin

    Musée Grévin

    91958HD

    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.

    Musée Grévin
  • 1960
    America as Seen by a Frenchman

    America as Seen by a Frenchman

    America as Seen by a Frenchman

    6.91960HD

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

    America as Seen by a Frenchman
  • 1957
    It Happened on the 36 Candles

    It Happened on the 36 Candles

    It Happened on the 36 Candles

    5.51957HD

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

    It Happened on the 36 Candles
  • 1942
    The Four-Poster Bed

    The Four-Poster Bed

    The Four-Poster Bed

    7.31942HD

    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...

    The Four-Poster Bed
  • 1996
    Great Writers: Jean Cocteau

    Great Writers: Jean Cocteau

    Great Writers: Jean Cocteau

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

    Great Writers: Jean Cocteau
  • 2018
    Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle

    Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle

    Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle

    02018HD

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

    Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle
  • 1943
    The Phantom Baron

    The Phantom Baron

    The Phantom Baron

    6.21943HD

    Elfy, Countess of Saint-Hélié's daughter, was brought up with her foster sister Anne, in an old dilapidated castle whose landlord,...

    The Phantom Baron
  • 1951
    Black Crown

    Black Crown

    Black Crown

    5.41951HD

    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...

    Black Crown
  • 2024
    Daedalus

    Daedalus

    Daedalus

    102024HD

    "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.

    Daedalus
  • 1944
    From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain

    From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain

    From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain

    91944HD

    Sitting at his desk, Guitry gives us a lecture on French history from Joan of Arc to the Occupation, with some focus on a number of its great writers...

    From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
  • 2001
    Jean Cocteau, cinéaste

    Jean Cocteau, cinéaste

    Jean Cocteau, cinéaste

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    Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
  • 1963
    The Infernal Machine

    The Infernal Machine

    The Infernal Machine

    81963HD

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

    The Infernal Machine
  • 1964
    In This Atrocious Garden

    In This Atrocious Garden

    In This Atrocious Garden

    101964HD

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

    In This Atrocious Garden
  • 1958
    Le Bel Indifférent

    Le Bel Indifférent

    Le Bel Indifférent

    5.61958HD

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

    Le Bel Indifférent
  • 1989
    La Voix Humaine: Tragédie Lyrique en un Acte

    La Voix Humaine: Tragédie Lyrique en un Acte

    La Voix Humaine: Tragédie Lyrique en un Acte

    01989HD

    Film based on the lyrical tragedy of the same name by Jean Cocteau and Francis Poulenc, directed by Alain Françon at the Théâtre...

    La Voix Humaine: Tragédie Lyrique en un Acte
  • 1966
    The Human Voice

    The Human Voice

    The Human Voice

    6.81966HD

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

    The Human Voice