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...
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...
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'.
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
Direction Jean Cocteau
Cast Jean Cocteau · Josette Day · Henri Filipacchi · Jean Marais
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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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