Jean Cocteau Movies

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

In August 1963, just a couple of months before his death, Jean Cocteau made one last short film. The film comprises one still and highly sober shot...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...