Jean Cocteau

Country: France
Total Credits at Criticker: 12 (Actor), 9 (Director), 24 (Writer)
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The Human Voice (2021) - Short Film
Tilda Swinton swallows up the screen as a woman traumatized by the end of a relationship in Pedro Almodóvar's new short film. An impeccably designed yet combustible adaptation of Jean Cocteau's 1930 play The Human Voice, it marks the Spanish director's English-language debut. (NYFF)
Voce umana (2014) - Short Film
'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 of Angela, (played by Sophia Loren), a woman in the twilight of her years who rides the emotional roller coaster of her last telephone conversation with the man she loves as he is leaving her for another woman. (imdb)
The thwarted loves of Jean Cocteau and Raymond Radiguet, in the early 1920s. The death of Radiguet who did Cocteau sink in opium. A story under the influence of drug. A narrative description in the mind of Cocteau. A musical. (imdb)
Merlin has been unsuccessful using magic until his mother shares a secret.
A woman's lover leaves her, and she tries to contact him to find out why he's left. She confronts his wife and son, who are as clueless as she (imdb)
A hunted man breaks into the castle at Oberwald to kill the Queen, but faints before doing so. He is Sebastian, the splitting image of the King who was assassinated on his wedding day. The Queen discovers that Sebastian once wrote a subversive poem that she liked, even though it was attacking her. The Queen dares Sebastian to kill her, otherwise she vows to kill him. (imdb)
The Human Voice (1966) - TV Movie
Renowned playwright Jean Cocteau's THE HUMAN VOICE is a riveting drama that unfolds through one woman's monologue. Played by the talented and beautiful Ingrid Bergman, the protagonist a middle-aged woman who is in the midst of a psychological breakdown as a result of a recently ended love affair. (imdb)
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 the front, and bring them back to her villa in Paris to recuperate. (imdb)
Jean Cocteau s'adresse... à l'an 2000 (1962) - Short Film
Jean Cocteau sends his message to the year 2000.
Princess of Cleves is married with a rich and old prince but she loves secretly a lord younger, more beautiful and also very popular. (imdb)
The Poet looks back over his life and work, recalling his inspirations and obsessions. (imdb)
Le bel indifférent (1957) - Short Film
A woman and a man sits in a room with all red walls. The woman, in a a black dress sitting on white sheets, talks while the man seems indifferent. Based on Jean Cocteau's play.
Orphée is a poet who becomes obsessed with Death (the Princess). They fall in love. Orphée'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 sends Orphée back out of the Underworld, to carry on his life with Eurydice. (imdb)
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... (imdb)
Two-part anthology film, each segment starring Anna Magnani as different women who confront heartache in an unconventional manner.
Political intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. The queen is in seclusion, veiling her face... (imdb)
When Michel, who's 22, tells his parents he is in love, his mother Yvonne is distraught, believing she... (imdb)
Exiled from the court of Spain, Don Salluste, the chief of police, wants to take revenge on the Queen. One day he meets Ruy Blas, a young student who happens to be a lookalike of Don Cesar, his nephew. Salluste disguises Ruy Blas and presents him as Don Cesar. It doesn't take long before Ruy Blas, intelligent, virtuous and generous as he is becomes popular and the Queen, who has fallen in love with him, appoints him Prime Minister.
"Once upon a time..." A half-ruined merchant lives in the country with his son Ludovic and his three daughters... (imdb)
Realizing that her lover (Jean) is losing interest in her, a society lady (Helene) gets revenge by tricking him into marrying a former prostitute (imdb)
The classic tale of Tristan and Isolde in 1940's France. (huluplus)
A countess goes to live at her uncle's manor with her two children. When they arrive, they're told the baron has disappeared.
A banker whose unusual generosity gets him put in a mental institution escapes and hides out in a boarding house.
A young artist draws a face at a canvas on his easel. Suddenly the mouth on the drawing comes into life and starts talking. The artist tries to wipe it away with his hand, but when he looks into the hand he finds the living mouth on his palm. He tries to wipe it off on the mouth of an unfinished statue of a young woman. The statue comes into life and tells him that the only way out of the studio is through the looking glass.