Jean Cocteau
4 titles
Filmography
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Testament of Orpheus
(1960)Cocteau takes a filmic journey through his life's work reprising characters and scenes from his writings and his previous films.
La Villa Santo-Sospir
(1952)
The Strange Ones
(1950)Jean-Pierre Melville’s film of Jean Cocteau's controversial novel about a teenage brother and sister and their intense, closeted relationship.
The Storm Within
(1948)In this heartbreaking drama based on Cocteau's highly successful stage play, a mother (Josette Day) smothers her grown son with boyish love. When the son (played by Cocteau regular Jean Marais) meets a girl and leaves the family circle, the mother flies into a rage. But when the boy tells his father it sets off another drama - she is none other than the girl the father has been secretly seeing. Tragedy strikes in this time-honoured tale of fledglings leaving the family nest.