Jean Cocteau Movies

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

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

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

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

The commentary recalls that Radio Brazzaville was, from June 18, 1943, the contact of the French settlements and the metropolis, bush stations...

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

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 film adaptation of the one-woman play by Jean Cocteau starring Shelby Satterthwaite as a woman who deals with the emotional turmoils of talking to...

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

Jean-Paul Fargier's documentary is a montage of animated images, numerous drawings and interviews with Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), interspersed with...

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

Short film by Harry Kümel based upon a poem by Jean Cocteau.

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

Travelogue exploring the coastline, towns and surrounding mountains of the French Riviera.

In 1959, Jean Cocteau looked back on his artistic journey for the Télé Monte-Carlo television show Tout la vérité, rien...

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

Yvonne is seething when her devoted son, Michael, declares his intention to marry Madeleine, despite the latter's admitting to having an affair with...

La Voix Humaine is a concerto for soprano and orchestra, centering on the break-up of a relationship by telephone. It represents one side of a...

In conversation, in her Paris apartment, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, mime, dancer, novelist, wonders whether she should give the green light to a...

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