Jean Cocteau Movies
- 1946
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast7.4981946HD
The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests...
- 1960
Testament of Orpheus
Testament of Orpheus7.71960HD
Outside time and reality, the experiences of a poet. The judgement of the young poet by Heurtebise and the Princess, the Gypsies, the palace of Pallas...
- 1950
Les Enfants Terribles
Les Enfants Terribles6.6811950HD
Elisabeth and her brother Paul live isolated from much of the world after Paul is injured in a snowball fight. As a coping mechanism, the two conjure...
- 1951
Venom and Eternity
Venom and Eternity6.71951HD
In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of mov...
- 1944
La Malibran
La Malibran5.71944HD
On the death of the famous singer Maria Malibran, Countess Merlin retraces the main lines of the unusual destiny of this young woman entirely devoted...
- 1957
8 X 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
8 X 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements5.91957HD
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 Richter...
- 1984
Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown6.51984HD
Jean Cocteau reminisces about the people he has known throughout his long life.
- 1962
Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 20006.41962HD
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 of...
- 1985
Steel Cathedrals
Steel Cathedrals01985HD
20 minute music documentary shot in two days of November 1984 in, and around the outskirts of, Tokyo, Japan. A large part of the music was completed d...
- 2007
Callas Assoluta
Callas Assoluta6.52007HD
This revealing documentary from director Philippe Kohly examines the storied life of renowned soprano Maria Callas, from her troubled childhood in New...
- 1950
The Century Is Fifty
The Century Is Fifty01950HD
As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century at its halfway point. Utilizing the archives of severa...
- 1997
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths01997HD
This documentary consists mainly of archive interviews of Jean Cocteau, and it features interesting contributions by Jean Marais and especially Jean-L...
- 1946
L'Amitié noire
L'Amitié noire01946HD
"Black Friendship" - The commentary recalls that Radio Brazzaville was, from June 18, 1943, the contact of the French settlements and the metropolis,...
- 1952
La Villa Santo-Sospir
La Villa Santo-Sospir7.11952HD
Cocteau takes the viewer on a tour of a friend's villa on the French coast (a major location used in Testament of Orpheus). The house itself is heavil...
- 1955
Eine Melodie - vier Maler
Eine Melodie - vier Maler51955HD
Each portrayed painter produced an experimental animated short film to be featured in this film. A short film by Herbert Seggelke.
- 2018
Art of Style: Jean Cocteau
Art of Style: Jean Cocteau7.22018HD
French artist Jean Cocteau's multifaceted work across poetry, plays, paintings and film made him one of the leading creative figures of the Parisian a...
- 1932
The Blood of a Poet
The Blood of a Poet7.21932HD
Told in four episodes, an unnamed artist is transported through a mirror into another dimension, where he travels through various bizarre scenarios. T...
- 1958
Musée Grévin
Musée Grévin01958HD
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.
- 1943
The Phantom Baron
The Phantom Baron6.11943HD
Elfy, Countess of Saint-Hélié's daughter, was brought up with her foster sister Anne, in an old dilapidated castle whose landlord, Baron Julius Carol,...
- 1948
The Storm Within
The Storm Within6.31948HD
Young Michel is in love with the attractive Madeleine, so he decides to tell his parents of his intention to marry her. He thinks his announcement is...