 Beauty and the Beast 1946  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Fantasy / Romance
Director: Jean Cocteau
Cast: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Marcel Andre, Nane Germon, Mila Parely, Michel Auclair, Raoul Marco, Jean Cocteau, Christian Marquand, Gilles Watteaux, Noel Blin
As the third daughter, young Belle (Josette Day) is exploited by her family and works as their servant. One day, a Beast (Jean Marais) appears and threatens Belle's father (Marcel Andre) with death unless he gives up one of his daughters. Belle sacrifices herself and goes to the castle with the Beast. After much wooing, Belle falls in love with the bewitching Beast who gives her a key and tells her that if she fails to return it to him he will die of grief.
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Les Enfants Terribles 1950  N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Strange Ones
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Cast: Nicole Stephane, Edouard Dermithe, Jacques Bernard, Renee Cosima, Melvyn Martin, Maria Cyliakus, Jean Cocteau, Jean-Marie Robain, Maurice Revel, Adeline Auroc
In this film adaptation of Jean Cocteau's novel, orphaned sister and brother–Elizabeth (Nicole Stephane) and Paul (Edouard Dermithe)–cling to each other and reject attempts of others to love them.
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 The Testament of Orpheus 1960  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Le Testament d'Orphee
Director: Jean Cocteau
Cast: Jean Cocteau, Edouard Dermithe, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Jean Marais, Francoise Christophe, Maria Casares, Francois Perier, Yul Brynner, Daniel Gelin, Brigitte Bardot
This is filmmaker, poet, painter, and sculptor Jean Cocteau's farewell, as he brings back memories of his films, stars, and friends. Cocteau plays a dying poet (Cocteau was actually dying) who is after immortality. Beautifully photographed and full of Cocteau's inventive scenes.
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| 1. Beauty and the Beast (1946)
2. Les Enfants Terribles (1950)
aka: The Strange Ones
3. The Testament of Orpheus (1960)
aka: Le Testament d'Orphee
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