Direction: Jean Cocteau

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Jean Cocteau. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Orpheus

1950 · Movie · 112 min. · France

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...

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7.5

2K votes

7.5

2K votes

Beauty and the Beast

1946 · Movie · 90 min. · France

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...

Max

7.5

4K votes

7.5

4K votes

Le Testament d'Orphée

1959 · Movie · 83 min. · France

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...

7.1

777 votes

7.1

777 votes

The Blood of a Poet

1932 · Movie · 55 min. · France

Direction Jean Cocteau

Cast Elisabeth Lee Miller · Pauline Carton · Enrique Rivero · Jean Desbordes

Plot Superb timeless film dealing with the poet's inner self, in four sketches: 'The Wounded Hand', 'Do The Walls Have Ears?', 'The Snowball Fight' and 'The Profanation Of The Host'.

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7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

The Storm Within

1948 · Movie · 105 min. · France

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...

6.9

300 votes

6.9

300 votes

The Strange Ones

1950 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville · Jean Cocteau

Cast Nicole Stephane · Edouard Dermithe · Renée Cosima · Jacques Bernard

Plot Elisabeth is very protective of her teenage brother Paul, who is injured in a snowball fight at school and has to rest in bed most of the time. The siblings...

6.7

590 votes

6.7

590 votes

The Eagle with Two Heads

1948 · Movie · 93 min. · France

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,...

6.5

81 votes

6.5

81 votes

8 X 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements

1957 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

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...

6.1

44 votes

6.1

44 votes

La Villa Santo-Sospir

1952 · Documentary · 36 min. · France

Direction Jean Cocteau

Plot Short about Mrs. Weisweiller's Villa in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferat, on Côte d'Azur, which was decorated by Jean Cocteau.

5.9

60 votes

5.9

60 votes

Coriolan (S)

1950 · Movie · min. · France

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Jean Cocteau s'adresse... à l'an 2000 (S)

1962 · Documentary · 25 min. · France

Direction Jean Cocteau

Cast Jean Cocteau

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Not rated