Cast: Jean Marais

Direction Jean Cocteau

Cast Jean Marais · María Casares · François Périer · Marie Déa

Plot Orphee is a poet who becomes obsessed with Death (the Princess). They fall in love. Orphee's wife, Eurydice, is killed by the Princess' henchmen and Orphee goes after her into...

Direction Jean Cocteau

Cast Jean Marais · Josette Day · Marcel André · Mila Parély

Plot A half-ruined merchant lives in the country with his son Ludovic and his three daughters. Two of the daughters, Felicie and Adelaide, are real shrews, selfish, pretentious, evil. They exploit...

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Maria Schell · Marcello Mastroianni · Jean Marais · Marcella Rovena

Plot Luchino Visconti's utterly gorgeous 1957 picture, adapted from the Dostoyevsky story, is a rich, visually stunning masterpiece from the acclaimed filmmaker. "Le Notti Bianche" stars Marcello Mastroianni (in an early...

Direction Jean Cocteau

Cast Jean Cocteau · Claudine Auger · Charles Aznavour · Lucía Bosé

Plot Le Testament d'Orphee, the last film made by Cocteau, is a visual summing up of the poet's own life. In it Cocteau gazes, one after the other, into the multiple...

Direction Jean Cocteau

Cast Jean Marais · Josette Day · Yvonne de Bray · Marcel André

Plot When Michel, who's 22, tells his parents he is in love, his mother Yvonne is distraught, believing she will lose his love (which is the center of her life), and...

Direction Claude Lelouch

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Michel Boujenah · Alessandra Martines · Annie Girardot

Plot A variation on Victor Hugo's classic novel by means of the story of a man whose life is affected by and somewhat duplicated by the Hugo story of the beleaguered...

Direction Adolfo Arrieta

Cast Jean Marais · Michéle Moretti · Xavier Grandès · Florence Delay

Plot Surveillance, abductions, angels with a firearm. In a game that never ends, no one is really what it seems.

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Jean Marais · Mel Ferrer · Jean Richard

Plot Polish Princess Elena (Ingrid Bergman) believes she was born to be the guardian angel of great causes and great (undiscovered) men. It is only when men need her that she...

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Jean Marais · Jacques Perrin · Micheline Presle

Plot The education of a princess wrapped in a love story. A king and queen live happily until her sudden death. The king decides to marry his lovely daughter. She's willing,...

Direction Jean Cocteau

Cast Edwige Feuillère · Silvia Monfort · Jean Marais · Jean Debucourt

Plot Political intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. The queen is in seclusion, veiling her face for the ten years since her husband's assassination, longing to join him in death. Stanislas,...

Direction Sacha Guitry

Cast Jean Marais · Georges Marchal · Jean-Pierre Aumont · Brigitte Bardot

Plot Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed...

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Jean Marais · Dominique Blanchar · Jean Debucourt · Claude Farell

Direction André Hunebelle

Cast Jean Marais · Dany Robin · Jill Haworth · Raymond Pellegrin

Plot The Marquis Rodolphe de Sombrueil accidentally runs over a working man with his carriage and helps his widow -- unjustly accused of robbery -- to find her missing daughter.

Direction Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast Liv Tyler · Jeremy Irons · Sinead Cusack · Carlo Cecchi

Plot Liv Tyler stars as a 19-year-old American who goes to visit an artist's villa in Italy -the Toscana- where, perhaps, she will find out who her father was, and lose...

Direction André Hunebelle

Cast Jean Marais · Bourvil · Sabine Sesselmann · Jean Le Poulain

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Claudia Cardinale · Jack Palance · Orson Welles · Rossano Brazzi

Plot Thirty-three years after his epic "Napoleon," director Abel Gance returned to the life of the Little Corporal with this look at the decisive 1805 conflict between French forces and the...

Direction André Hunebelle

Cast Jean Marais · Rosanna Schiaffino · Roger Hanin · Jean-Louis Barrault

Direction André Hunebelle

Cast Jean Marais · Louis de Funès · Mylène Demongeot · Jacques Dynam

Direction André Hunebelle

Cast Jean Marais · Louis de Funès · Mylène Demongeot · Jacques Dynam

Plot In the second episode of the trilogy Fantômas kidnaps distinguished scientist professor Marchand with the aim to develop a super weapon that will enable him to menace the world. Fantômas...

Direction Sacha Guitry

Cast Raymond Pellegrin · Daniel Gélin · Orson Welles · Jean Gabin