Cast: Jean Cocteau

Direction Isidore Isou

Cast Marcel Achard · Isidore Isou · Jean-Louis Barrault · Blanchette Brunoy

Plot In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of movie-making: through scratching and bleaching the film,...

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 Philippe Kohly

Cast Maria Callas · Philippe Faure · Jean Cocteau · Giuseppe Di Stefano

Plot A documentary that commemorates the 30th anniversary of famed soprano Maria Callas's death.

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Orson Welles · Elaine Dundy · Kenneth Tynan · Art Buchwald

Plot In 1955, Orson Welles directed and hosted a mini series for British television. He leads us through a few famous places of Europe with his inimitable touch. In Paris he...

Direction Sergei Loznitsa

Cast Maria Callas · Brigitte Bardot · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Jean Cocteau

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

Direction Hans Richter · Jean Cocteau

Cast Jean Arp · Paul Bowles · Ceal Bryson · Alexander Calder

Plot Like his earlier Dreams that Money Can Buy, Richter’s 8 x 8 engaged the talents of an array of artists with whom he had associated over the years, including Jean...

Direction Paul Paviot

Cast Jean Cocteau · Marcel Marceau · Pierre Véry

Direction Edgardo Cozarinsky

Cast Jean Cocteau

Direction Henri Diamant-Berger

Cast Jane Souza · Guy Bertil · Brigitte Barbier · Jacques Riberolles

Direction Gérard Herzog

Cast Paul Morand · Jean Cocteau · Céleste Albarret · Emmanuel Berl

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

Direction Jean Cocteau

Cast Jean Cocteau · Josette Day · Henri Filipacchi · Jean Marais

Direction Serge de Poligny

Cast André Lefaur · Odette Joyeux · Jany Holt · Alain Cuny

Plot 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, disappeared mysteriously some day. The two girls...

Direction Gilles Carle · Camille Coudari

Cast Chloé Sainte-Marie · Fernando Arrabal · Pascal Aubier · Salvador Dalí

Plot A look at the life and works of Picasso.

Direction Jean Cocteau

Cast Jean Cocteau