Jean Cocteau

The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who ...

Political intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. The queen is in seclusion, veiling her face for the ten years since her husband’s ...

Outside time and reality, the experiences of a poet. The judgement of the young poet by Heurtebise and the Princess, the Gypsies, the palace of ...

8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements (1957) is an American experimental film directed by Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp, and Jean Cocteau released ...

Just a couple of months before his death, in August 1963, he made one last film: a 25-minute short entitled Jean Cocteau s’adresse à ...

At the Café des Poètes in Paris, a fight breaks out between the poet Orphée and a group of resentful upstarts. A rival poet, Cègeste, is killed, ...

A 35-minute color film by Cocteau entitled “La Villa Santo Sospir.” Shot in 1952, this is an “amateur film” done in 16mm, ...

Told in four episodes, an unnamed artist is transported through a mirror into another dimension, where he travels through various bizarre ...

Young Michel is in love with the attractive Madeleine, so he decides to tell his parents of his intention to marry her. He thinks his ...