Jean Cocteau Movies

An elegant young woman in her messy room answers the phone call from her lover. This one, who intends to leave her, tries to make her understand what...

TV movie adaptation of Jean Cocteau’s one-act play of a woman lecturing her indifferent lover, starring Alain Delon and Annie Cordy.

After “five years of happiness,” a love affair is ending. The woman uses the telephone as the last remaining connection with the man, who...

An adaptation of Jean Cocteau's play of a woman lecturing her indifferent lover.

Based on Jean Cocteau's iconic one-woman play of the same name; set against the backdrop of 1950 Naples, Angela is a woman in her twilight years, who...

A woman spends a surreal evening unraveling on the phone with her recently lost lover.

A man waits for his lover alone at home. When he finally arrives, the story of their relationship is told while the beautiful lover is indifferent to...

A short film about a famous writer who loses control of his hand and begins to write letters and articles denouncing himself.

A monologue of a woman talking on the phone with her longterm lover who is about to marry another girl.

As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century at its halfway point. Utilizing the archives of...

La voix humaine (English: The Human Voice) is a forty-minute, one-act opera for soprano and orchestra composed by Francis Poulenc in 1958...

A film adaptation of the one-woman play by Jean Cocteau starring Shelby Satterthwaite as a woman who deals with the emotional turmoils of talking to...

This Moroccan romance is a kind of Arab Tristan and Isolde: the heroine kills herself when she is convinced no one cares for her, the young nobleman...

The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House presents a new production of Poulenc's short opera La Voix Humaine, featuring soprano Danielle de Niese and...

"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." A 7 day vlog during the summer of 2023, a story of dreamers and drowners.

She's alone in her huge, empty house. Just a dog. His dog. And the remains of what once was. Her lover of five years has left her. Only few of his...

Swedish soprano Elisabeth Söderström takes on Jean Cocteau's The Human Voice.

In 1959, Jean Cocteau looked back on his artistic journey for the Télé Monte-Carlo television show Tout la vérité, rien...