Jean Cocteau Movies

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

A documentary view of the galas of Paris’s Palais Garnier in the 1950s and ’60s.

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

An experimental movie based on a poem of the French writer and director Jean Cocteau about a servant who fantasises about killing the lady of the...

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

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.

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

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...

8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements is an American experimental film directed by Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp, and Jean Cocteau. Described by...

L'Amore ('Love') is a 1948 Italian drama anthology film that consists of two parts, The Human Voice (Una voce umana), based on Jean Cocteau's 1929...

Piaf’s life is a legend, a tale, a story so powerful that one might end up asking oneself if it really existed. Beyond the icon, there is the...

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

Short based on the Jean Cocteau play following a final telephone conversation between a couple.

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

A woman’s last phone conversation with her lover, who now loves someone else.

Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any sensible fellow on earth would do: they have him...

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