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  • La Belle Et La Bete
  • La Belle Et La Bete review by Zamy from London, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars A gothic fairy tale 16 December 2004
    ...lack and white cinematography, special effects and the acting particularly from Jean Marais. This DVD also comes packed with extras, including a knowledgeable commenta...   Read customer review
  • Orphee
  • Orphee review by from London
    Rated - 5.0 stars Underworld Paris 6 April 2006
    ...n 40's Paris it retells the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.The poet Orphee (Jean Marais) falls in love with Death (played as a femme fatale by Maria Casarès)and his wi...   Read customer review
  • Donkey Skin
  • Donkey Skin review by A customer from Newcastle upon Tyne
    Rated - 3.0 stars Ludicrous but somehow compelling! 3 December 2005
    ...h production values and big name actors, and if it's through a search on either Jean Marais or Catherine Deneuve that you have arrived here be warned! - this is no highbro...   Read customer review

Jean Marais - filmography


  • Stealing Beauty on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Carlo Cecchi,  Jean Marais,  Jeremy Irons
    Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This beautiful if ponderous soufflé of a film from director Bernardo Bertolucci serves more as an Italian travelogue than a drama. Liv Tyler stars as Lucy Harmon, an American teenager arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to visit family friends residing there. Lucy visited four years earlier and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 3,637 members
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  • Donkey Skin on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Jean Marais,  Delphine Seyrig,  Catherine Deneuve
    Director: Jacques Demy
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    French fairytale drama, directed by Jacques Demy. The King (Jean Marais) is distraught at the death of his wife (Catherine Deneuve), and promises never to marry anyone less beautiful than her. But when he is compelled to marry his own daughter (also Deneuve), her fairy godmother manages to save her ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 335 members
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  • Le Bossu on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Jean Marais,  Jean Le Poulain,  Bourvil
    Director: Andre Hunebelle
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The ruthless Count Gonzague is in line to inherit a fortune from his dashing cousin the Duke of Nevers and won't let anyone stand in his way, hiring young swordsman Largardere to be the assassin. However, when Largardere switches his allegiance and becomes a loyal friend of Nevers, the Count leads ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 239 members
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  • Orphee on DVD (1950)
    Starring: Jean Marais,  Francois Perier,  Maria Casares
    Director: Jean Cocteau
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In Jean Cocteau's updating of the Orpheus myth, Orphee (Jean Marais) is a famous poet whose obsession with a mysterious princess - representing death - and a series of cryptic radio broadcasts causes him to neglect his wife. When she is killed, the guilty poet travels to the Underworld to win her ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 2,230 members
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  • Les Parents Terribles (1948)
    Starring: Jean Marais,  Josette Day,  Marcel Andre
    Director: Jean Cocteau
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When Michel tells his parents he is in love they both dispair for different reasons. While his mother is concerned she will lose her son to this other woman, his father is even more distressed when he learns that this woman is none other than his own mistress, Madeleine. Through a complicated ruse ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 6 members
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  • La Belle Et La Bete on DVD (1946)
    Starring: Jean Marais,  Mila Parely,  Josette Day
    Director: Jean Cocteau
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Jean Cocteau's classic fantasy re-casts the well-known fairy tale. When Beauty's father picks a rose at a deserted castle, a beast in Prince's clothing appears and tells him he must die. He sends the man home to say good-bye to his family, whereupon Beauty offers to take her father's place. She ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 3,162 members
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Jean Marais facts

5 most recent films

Stealing Beauty - 3.0 stars
Donkey Skin - 3.0 stars
Le Bossu - 3.0 stars
White Nights - 3.0 stars
Orphee - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

La Belle Et La Bete - 3.5 stars
Orphee - 3.5 stars
Donkey Skin - 3.0 stars
Stealing Beauty - 3.0 stars
Le Bossu - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Les Parents Terribles - 2.5 stars
White Nights - 3.0 stars
Le Bossu - 3.0 stars
Stealing Beauty - 3.0 stars
Donkey Skin - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Josette Day - 2 times - show films
Marcel Andre - 2 times - show films
Nane Germon - 1 times - show films
Sinead Cusack - 1 times - show films
Maria Schell - 1 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Jean Cocteau - 3 times - show films
Andre Hunebelle - 1 times - show films
Jacques Demy - 1 times - show films
Luchino Visconti - 1 times - show films
Bernardo Bertolucci - 1 times - show films