Jean Marais

A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet becomes obsessed and follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead.

Dir. Jean Cocteau · With Jean Marais, François Périer, María Casares

An 18th century poet travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he has a series of enigmatic encounters with symbolic phantoms with whom he muses about the nature of art and his own career. Ultimately, the poet strives to achieve his rebirth as a celestial being.

Dir. Jean Cocteau · With Jean Cocteau, Édouard Dermithe, Henri Crémieux

The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a key, telling her that if she doesn't return it to him by a specific time, he will die of grief. She is unable to return the key on time, but it is revealed that the Beast is the genuinely handsome one. A simple tale of tragic love that turns into a surreal vision of death, desire, and beauty.

Dir. Jean Cocteau · With Jean Marais, Josette Day, Marcel André

A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father.

Dir. Jacques Demy · With Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Perrin, Jean Marais

A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.

Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais

Fantômas is a man of many disguises. He uses maquillage as a weapon. He can impersonate anyone using an array of masks and can create endless confusion by constantly changing his appearance.

Dir. André Hunebelle · With Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot

In the second episode of the trilogy Fantômas kidnaps distinguished scientist professor Marchand with the aim to develop a super weapon that will enable him to menace the world. Fantômas is also planning to abduct a second scientist, professor Lefebvre.

Dir. André Hunebelle · With Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot

In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening to kill those who do not comply.

Dir. André Hunebelle · With Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot

Duke Philippe de Nevers is an influential and popular man who is married to a beautiful wife called Aurore. His rival Philippe de Gonzague hates him enough to organise an attempt on him. The Duke is accompagnied by Henri de Lagardère when de Gonzague's henchmen altogether attack him. Lagardère cannot save his friend because the both of them are hopelessly outnumbered. He has to escape in order to save the Duke's daughter and swears revenge. Together with his old buddy Passepoil he raises the little girl in Spain. At the same time he returns frequently to France where he detects confronts his friend's murderers and puts them to the sword one by one until only their former leader is left. Finally he discovers that Philippe de Gonzague is the man for whom he is looking.

Dir. André Hunebelle · With Jean Marais, Bourvil, Sabine Sesselmann

Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.

Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci · With Liv Tyler, Sinéad Cusack, Jeremy Irons