Screenplay: Jean Cocteau

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 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 Robert Bresson

Cast Paul Bernard · María Casares · Elina Labourdette · Lucienne Bogaert

Plot A society lady engineers a marriage between her lover and a cabaret dancer who is essentially a prostitute.

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'.

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 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...

Direction Pedro Almodóvar

Cast Tilda Swinton · Agustín Almodóvar · Miguel Almodóvar · Pablo Almodóvar

Plot A woman watches time passing next to the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up, but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn’t understand...

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 Luis Saslavsky

Cast María Félix · Rossano Brazzi · Vittorio Gassman · José María Lado

Plot A woman who loses her memory after killing her husband who was about to divorce her because of her affair with Maurizio. The dazed murderess befriended by a young engineer...

Direction Luciano Emmer · Enrico Gras

Plot This is a documentary film on the romantic and decadent atmosphere of Venice at the end of the 18th century. A vigorous comment by Jean Cocteau tells us of the...

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Jeanne Allard · Angelo Bellini

Direction Ted Kotcheff

Cast Ingrid Bergman

Plot The Human Voice chronicles the drama which unfolds throughout the course of the protagonist's monologue. Performed by the iconic Ingrid Bergman, a middle-aged woman reeling from a recently ended love...

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Emmanuelle Riva · Jean Servais · Fabrice Rouleau · Sophie Darès

Plot In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princesse de Bormes, organises a convoy of cars to evacuate the wounded from...

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Monica Vitti · Franco Branciaroli · Paolo Bonacelli · Elisabetta Pozzi

Direction Adolfo Arrieta

Cast Francis Lorenzo · Clara Sanchís · Gonzalo Armero · Xavier Grandès

Plot Merlin, Arrieta's one feature shot on 35mm, is an adaptation of Cocteau's play "Knights of the Round Table."

Direction Paul Paviot

Cast Jean Cocteau · Marcel Marceau · Pierre Véry

Direction Edgardo Cozarinsky

Cast Jean Cocteau

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Jean Marais · Marina Vlady · Jean-François Poron · Annie Ducaux

Direction Edoardo Ponti

Cast Sophia Loren · Virginia Da Brescia · Enrico Lo Verso

Plot 'Human Voice' is based on Jean Cocteau's iconic one woman play of the same name. Set against the backdrop of Naples, Italy, in 1950, this romantic drama tells the story...