Jean Cocteau Movies

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

This documentary consists mainly of archive interviews of Jean Cocteau, and it features interesting contributions by Jean Marais and especially...

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

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...

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

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...

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

On stage, the actress talks about her life in the 20th-century French theatre, the great authors she played and the famous stage directors of the...

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

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...

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,...

The Human Voice is a contemporary adaptation of the 1928 stage play by Jean Cocteau, and "La Voix Humaine," the 1958 chamber opera by Francis...

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

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...

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

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

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

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