Jean Genet Movies

  • 1982
    Querelle

    Querelle

    Querelle

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    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...

    Querelle
  • 2023
    Little Girl Blue

    Little Girl Blue

    Little Girl Blue

    6.1672023HD

    In 2016, French writer and photographer Carole Achache took her own life. After Carole's death, her daughter Mona Achache, a film director, discovers...

    Little Girl Blue
  • 1972
    Song of Love

    Song of Love

    Song of Love

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    Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of...

    Song of Love
  • 1975
    The Maids

    The Maids

    The Maids

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    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...

    The Maids
  • 1966
    Mademoiselle

    Mademoiselle

    Mademoiselle

    7.21966HD

    A sexually repressed school teacher releases her pent up passions in a series of shocking crimes.

    Mademoiselle
  • 1991
    Poison

    Poison

    Poison

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    A trio of interweaved transgressive tales, telling a bizarre stories of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice, a mad sex experiment...

    Poison
  • 1963
    The Balcony

    The Balcony

    The Balcony

    5.21963HD

    The Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation. Preserved by the Academy Film...

    The Balcony
  • 1975
    Poor Pretty Eddie

    Poor Pretty Eddie

    Poor Pretty Eddie

    4.9811975HD

    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...

    Poor Pretty Eddie
  • 1967
    Condemned and Possessed

    Condemned and Possessed

    Condemned and Possessed

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    Non-professional players try to create the poetic world of Jean Genet in filmic terms.

    Condemned and Possessed
  • 1966
    Deathwatch

    Deathwatch

    Deathwatch

    4.51966HD

    Based on a play by Jean Genet, a small-time thief battles with his gay cellmate over a third illiterate, muscular convict.

    Deathwatch
  • 2019
    André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer

    André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer

    André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer

    52019HD

    Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plot twist. Politician. General De Gaulle's shadow....

    André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer
  • 1968
    Chicago

    Chicago

    Chicago

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    UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A striking documentary shot cinema verite style of the 1968 Democratic National...

    Chicago
  • 1981
    Black Mirror

    Black Mirror

    Black Mirror

    01981HD

    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...

    Black Mirror
  • 1986
    Le sphinx

    Le sphinx

    Le sphinx

    01986HD

    Fragments of a text by Jean Genet – “Four Hours in Chatila” – are illustrated by summer images of a park in Brussels. The...

    Le sphinx
  • 1982
    Jean Genet: Entretien avec Bertrand Poirot-Delpech

    Jean Genet: Entretien avec Bertrand Poirot-Delpech

    Jean Genet: Entretien avec Bertrand Poirot-Delpech

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    Jean Genet: Entretien avec Bertrand Poirot-Delpech
  • 1950
    Disorder

    Disorder

    Disorder

    51950HD

    Variations on the cultural and intellectual explosion in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district in 1946.

    Disorder
  • 1970
    Mayday

    Mayday

    Mayday

    01970HD

    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...

    Mayday
  • 1999
    Genet à Chatila

    Genet à Chatila

    Genet à Chatila

    51999HD

    A documentary about the French writer Jean Genet and his relations with the Palestinian revolution. One day after the September 1982 massacre at the...

    Genet à Chatila
  • 2003
    Serva e Padrona

    Serva e Padrona

    Serva e Padrona

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    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...

    Serva e Padrona
  • 1993
    Un boxeur endormi

    Un boxeur endormi

    Un boxeur endormi

    01993HD

    A sleeping boxer on a train dreams of a victorious fight. Inspired by a lost poem by Jean Genet.

    Un boxeur endormi