Jean Genet Movies
- 2023
Little Girl Blue
Little Girl Blue6.22023HD
In 2016, French writer and photographer Carole Achache took her own life. After Carole's death, her daughter Mona Achache, a film director, discovers...
- 1982
Querelle
Querelle6.61982HD
A handsome Belgian sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest, who is also a drug-smuggler and murderer, embarks upon a voyage of highly charged and...
- 1975
Poor Pretty Eddie
Poor Pretty Eddie4.9811975HD
A wrong turn on a jazz singer's road trip results in her car breaking down near an isolated lodge run by a faded starlet and a cocksure, volatile...
- 1972
Song of Love
Song of Love71972HD
Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of...
- 1966
Mademoiselle
Mademoiselle7.21966HD
A sexually repressed school teacher releases her pent up passions in a series of shocking crimes.
- 1963
The Balcony
The Balcony5.21963HD
The Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation. Preserved by the Academy Film...
- 1967
Condemned and Possessed
Condemned and Possessed11967HD
Non-professional players try to create the poetic world of Jean Genet in filmic terms.
- 1981
Black Mirror
Black Mirror01981HD
A downbeat story of life inside a women's prison. There is more crime inside than out. When the inmates see that a woman is soon to be admitted for...
- 1975
The Maids
The Maids5.41975HD
A film version of Genet's play. Two maids, Solange and Claire, hate their employers and, while they are out, take turns at dressing up as Madame and...
- 2019
André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer
André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer62019HD
Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plot twist. Politician. General De Gaulle's shadow....
- 1966
Deathwatch
Deathwatch4.51966HD
Based on a play by Jean Genet, a small-time thief battles with his gay cellmate over a third illiterate, muscular convict.
- 1950
Disorder
Disorder51950HD
Variations on the cultural and intellectual explosion in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district in 1946.
- 1999
Genet à Chatila
Genet à Chatila51999HD
A documentary about the French writer Jean Genet and his relations with the Palestinian revolution. One day after the September 1982 massacre at the...
- 1975
Jean Genet: Saint, martyr et poète
Jean Genet: Saint, martyr et poète01975HD
Poetic stroll in the work of Jean Genet.
- 1970
Mayday
Mayday01970HD
In the spring of 1970, thousands of protesters descended on New Haven to demonstrate against the trial of Black Panther members for the murder of...
- 1982
Jean Genet: Entretien avec Bertrand Poirot-Delpech
Jean Genet: Entretien avec Bertrand Poirot-Delpech01982HD
- 1968
Chicago
Chicago01968HD
UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A striking documentary shot cinema verite style of the 1968 Democratic National...
- 1993
Un boxeur endormi
Un boxeur endormi01993HD
A sleeping boxer on a train dreams of a victorious fight. Inspired by a lost poem by Jean Genet.
- 1986
Le sphinx
Le sphinx01986HD
Fragments of a text by Jean Genet – “Four Hours in Chatila” – are illustrated by summer images of a park in Brussels. The...
- 2003
Serva e Padrona
Serva e Padrona02003HD
Three young women at home, the eye of the camera doesn't leave them for a moment and shows them first in a narrow kitchen, then in a small bathroom...