Direction: Jean Cocteau

Direction Jean Cocteau

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

Synopsis 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 the Underworld. Although they have become dangerously entangled, the Princess...

Direction Jean Cocteau

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

Synopsis 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 the third daughter, Belle, as a servant. One day, the...

Direction Jean Cocteau

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

Synopsis 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 mirrors of his loves and his works, re-creating his personal...

Direction Jean Cocteau

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

Synopsis 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'.

Direction Jean Cocteau

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

Synopsis 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 his father Georges is distressed because it is Georges' mistress,...

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville · Jean Cocteau

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

Synopsis 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 are inseparable, living in the same room, fighting, playing secret...

Direction Jean Cocteau

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

Synopsis 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, a poet whose pen name is Azrael, is a suicidal...

Direction Hans Richter · Jean Cocteau

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

Synopsis 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 Arp, Jean Cocteau, Yves Tanguy, and Richard Huelsenbeck. The title...

Direction Jean Cocteau

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

Direction Jean Cocteau

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

Direction Jean Cocteau

Cast Jean Cocteau