Jean Cocteau
Known for: Directing
Born: July 5, 1889
Died: October 11, 1963
Place of birth: Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ kɔkto]; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Along with other avant-garde artists of his generation (Jean Anouilh and René Char for example) Cocteau grappled with the algebra of verbal codes old and new, mise en scène language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde.[citation needed] His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María Félix, Édith Piaf (whom he cast in one of his one-act plays entitled Le Bel Indifferent in 1940), and Raymond Radiguet. His work was played out in the theatrical world of the Grands Theatres, the Boulevards and beyond during the Parisian epoque he both lived through and helped define and create. His versatile, unconventional approach and enormous output brought him international acclaim. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Cocteau, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
104 movies · 8 TV shows, newest first
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Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
2026
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Jean Cocteau
2024
10.0
Daedalus
2024
7.0
Les parents terribles
2022
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The Human Voice
2022
8.0
Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur
2022
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The Human Voice
2021
2.0
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
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The Human Voice
2021
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The Human Voice: A Story for Our Times
2020
6.1
A Night at the Opera
2020
6.7
The Human Voice
2020
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Cocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer
2020
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The Human Voice
2019
7.2
Art of Style: Jean Cocteau
2018
6.3
The Image Book
2018
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Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle
2018
6.0
The Human Voice
2018
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The Human Voice
2018
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The Human Voice
2018
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The Eagle with Two Heads
2016
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The Human Voice
2016
7.1
Human Voice
2014
4.0
Opium
2013
10.0
Les Enfants Terribles du Cinéma
2011
4.0
Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
2009NR
Blues
2009
6.5
Callas Assoluta
2007
6.4
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
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The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf
2006
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Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or
2006
6.0
Cocteau and Company
2003
3.3
Beautiful
2002
7.5
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
2001
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La Voix Humaine
1999
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Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
1997
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Great Writers: Jean Cocteau
1996
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Oedipus Rex
1993
7.0
Edwige Feuillère en scène
19926.0
Merlín
1991
9.0
The Human Voice
1990
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La Voix Humaine: Tragédie Lyrique en un Acte
1989NR
Oidipus Rex
1988
10.0
The Human Voice
1985NR
Steel Cathedrals
1985
6.8
Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
1984
5.8
The Mystery of Oberwald
1981
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The Human Voice
1979NR
La Dame de Monte-Carlo
19799.0
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978
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La Voce Umana
1978
6.0
Le Bel Indifférent
197810.0
L'aigle à deux têtes
1975
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The Human Voice
19717.0
Disorder Is 20 Years Old
1967
6.8
The Human Voice
1966
6.5
Thomas the Impostor
1965NR
Ľudský hlas
1965
10.0
In This Atrocious Garden
1964
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Pour le plaisir
1964
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Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau
1964
8.0
The Infernal Machine
1963
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Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir
1962
6.5
Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
1962
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In Search of Marcel Proust
1962
5.8
Princess of Cleves
1961
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Beyond the Riviera
1960
6.9
America as Seen by a Frenchman
1960
7.6
Testament of Orpheus
1960
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Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau
1959
8.0
Discorama
1959
5.6
Le Bel Indifférent
1958
9.0
Musée Grévin
1958
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Anna the Maid
1958
7.0
Anna the Maid
1958
5.5
It Happened on the 36 Candles
1957
6.2
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
1957
6.5
Django Reinhardt
1957
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En direct de...
1956
8.7
Cinépanorama
1956
7.1
Around the World with Orson Welles
19555.5
Eine Melodie - vier Maler
1955
5.0
Reflets de Cannes
19547.0
Pantomimes
1954
4.6
Intimate Relations
1953
7.2
La Villa Santo-Sospir
1952
6.9
Venom and Eternity
1952
5.4
Black Crown
1951
6.5
Colette
1951
5.7
Disorder
1950
7.6
Orpheus
1950
6.6
The Strange Ones
1950
7.0
The Century Is Fifty
1950
10.0
Daughter of the Sands
1949
6.6
The Storm Within
1948
6.7
L'Amore
1948
6.7
The Eagle with Two Heads
1948
6.8
The Queen's Lover
1948NR
Rhythm of Africa
1947
7.5
Beauty and the Beast
1946NR
Black Friendship
1946
6.9
Les Dames du bois de Boulogne
1945
9.0
From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
1944
6.3
La Malibran
1944
6.4
The Eternal Return
1943
6.3
The Phantom Baron
1943
7.3
The Four-Poster Bed
1942
7.0
Comedy of Happiness
1940
7.0
The Blood of a Poet
1932
9.0
Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema
1925
6.0
Parade
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La macchina da scrivere
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