Stars: Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Paul Amiot, François Périer, Jean-Pierre Melville, Marie Déa
"Orfa" is a poet who is interested in a prince (death). They fall in love with each other. His wife was killed by the prince's servants and he goes to the world of the dead after the prince. But they fight and the prince sends him to the world of the living to live with his wife and...
Stars: Claudine Auger, Jean-Claude Petit, Yul Brynner, Michael Goodliffe, Jean-Pierre Léaud
A poet looks at his personal and professional life and remembers his inspirations and obsessions...
Stars: Annabel Buffet, Hélène Rémy, Jean-Marie Robain, Nicole Stéphane, Jean Cocteau
"Elizabeth" (Stephan) and her brother, "Paul" (Dermy) live in an imaginary and closed world that they have made for themselves. After some time, their mother dies and "Elizabeth" marries a millionaire, who also dies very soon. They return to their former dream life.
Stars: Daniel Gélin, Marcel Achard, Jean Cocteau, Edouard Dermithe, Jean-Louis Barrault
In this experimental film, Isidore Issou, the leader of the Lettrist movement, attacks conventional cinema and presents a revolutionary form of filmmaking: through scratching and bleaching the film, through disharmony...
Stars: Capucine, Jacques Varennes, Gilles Quéant, Jean Marais, Jean Debucourt
Political intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. The queen is in seclusion, veiling her face for the ten years since her husbands assassination, longing to join him in death. ...
Stars: Emmanuelle Riva, Michel Vitold, Roger Fradet, Jean Servais, Jean Ozenne
In World War I, when Paris is about to fall to the Germans, the charming widow, Princesse de Bourmes, lines up many cars to transport the wounded from the front to her villa and...
Stars: Jean Cocteau, Edouard Dermithe, Francine Weisweiller
A documentary about Mr. Wiesweiler's luxurious villa on the island of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat in the southeastern corner of France called the Cote d'Azur, whose interior was designed by the great Jean Cocteau.
