Comments
Suggestions of similar film to Testament of Orpheus
There are 440 films with the same actors, 6 films with the same director, 66086 with the same cinematographic genres (including 29 with exactly the same 3 genres than
Testament of Orpheus), 939 films with the same themes (including 16 films with the same 2 themes than
Testament of Orpheus), to have finally
70 suggestions of similar films.
If you liked
Testament of Orpheus, you will probably like those similar films :
, 1h36
Directed by Jean CocteauOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Fantasy,
RomanceThemes Films based on mythology,
Films based on Greco-Roman mythology,
Films based on Greco-Roman mythologyActors Jean Marais,
François Périer,
Maria Casarès,
Marie Déa,
Juliette Gréco,
Henri CrémieuxRating78%
Set in contemporary Paris, the story of the film is a variation of the classic Greek myth of Orpheus. The picture begins with Orpheus (Marais), a famous poet, visiting the Café des Poètes. At the same time, a Princess (Casares) and Cègeste (Edouard Dermithe), a handsome, young poet that she supports arrive. The drunken Cègeste starts a brawl. When the police arrive and attempt to take Cègeste into custody, he breaks free and flees,only to be run down by two motorcycle riders. The Princess has the police place Cègeste into her car in order to "transport him to the hospital." She also orders Orpheus into the car in order to act as a witness. Once in the car, Orpheus discovers Cègeste is dead and that the Princess is not going to the hospital. Instead, they drive to a chateau (the landscape through the car windows is presented in negative) accompanied by the two motorcycle riders as abstract poetry plays on the radio. This takes the form of seemingly meaningless messages, like those broadcast to the French Resistance from London during the Occupation., 1h36
Directed by René Clément,
Jean CocteauOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Fantastic,
Fantasy,
RomanceThemes Films about magic and magicians,
Psychologie,
Children's filmsActors Jean Marais,
Josette Day,
Marcel André,
Mila Parély,
Michel Auclair,
Nane GermonRating78%
While scrubbing the floor at home, Belle (Josette Day) is interrupted by her brother's friend Avenant (Jean Marais) who tells her she deserves better and suggests they get married. Belle rejects Avenant, as she wishes to stay home and take care of her father, who has suffered much since his ships were lost at sea and the family fortune along with them. Belle's father (Marcel André) arrives home announcing he has come into a great fortune that he will pick up the next day, along with gifts for his daughters, Belle's shrewish sisters Adelaide and Felicie. Belle's roguish brother Ludovic (Michel Auclair) signs a contract from a moneylender (Raoul Marco) allowing him the ability to sue Ludovic's father if he can't pay., 1h37
Directed by Jean CocteauOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Films about anarchism,
Politique,
Théâtre,
Political films,
Films based on plays,
Films about royaltyActors Edwige Feuillère,
Jean Marais,
Jean Debucourt,
Silvia Monfort,
Jacques Varennes,
Yvonne de BrayRating65%
On the 10th anniversary of the assassination of the king, his reclusive widow, the Queen, arrives to spend the night at the castle of Krantz. Stanislas, a young anarchist poet who seeks to assassinate her, enters her room, wounded; he looks exactly like the dead king, and the Queen shelters him instead of handing him over to the police. She sees him as the welcome embodiment of her own death, calling him Azrael (the angel of death). An ambiguous love develops between them, uniting them in a bid to outwit the machinations of the court politicians, represented by the Comte de Foëhn, the chief of police, and Édith de Berg, the Queen's companion. In order to remain true to their ideals and to each other, the Queen and Stanislas have to play their parts in a bizarre private tragedy, which the world will never understand., 1h49
Directed by Jean CocteauOrigin FranceGenres DramaThemes Théâtre,
Films based on playsActors Jean Marais,
Yvonne de Bray,
Gabrielle Dorziat,
Marcel André,
Josette Day,
Jean CocteauRating68%
In a rambling apartment a middle-aged couple, Yvonne and Georges, live with their 22-year-old son Michel and Yvonne's spinster sister Léonie ("tante Léo"), who has also been in love with Georges. Yvonne is a reclusive semi-invalid, dependent on her insulin treatment, and intensely possessive of her son (who returns her immoderate affection and calls her "Sophie"); Georges distractedly pursues his eccentric inventions; it is left to Léo to preserve such order as she can in their life and their apartment, which she describes as a "gypsy caravan" ("la roulotte"). When Michel announces that he is in love with a girl, Madeleine, whom he wishes to introduce to them, his parents are immediately hostile and seek to forbid the relationship, reducing Michel to despair. Georges realises that Madeleine is the same woman who has been his own mistress in recent months, and he confesses all to Léo, who devises a plan to extricate father and son by forcing Madeleine into silent surrender of them both., 1h43
Directed by Jean-Luc GodardOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Films about films,
Films about writers,
Mise en scène d'un scénaristeActors Brigitte Bardot,
Michel Piccoli,
Jack Palance,
Fritz Lang,
Giorgia Moll,
Raoul CoutardRating73%
American film producer Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance) hires respected Austrian director Fritz Lang (playing himself) to direct a film adaptation of Homer's Odyssey. Dissatisfied with Lang's treatment of the material as an art film, Prokosch hires Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli), a novelist and playwright, to rework the script. The conflict between artistic expression and commercial opportunity parallels Paul's sudden estrangement from his wife Camille Javal (Brigitte Bardot), who becomes aloof with Paul after he leaves her alone with Prokosch, a millionaire playboy., 2h5
Directed by Francis GirodOrigin FranceGenres DramaThemes Films about writers,
Prison films,
Films about capital punishmentActors Daniel Auteuil,
Jean Poiret,
Jacques Weber,
François Périer,
Geneviève Casile,
Jean DavyRating60%
Dans une cellule, Pierre François Lacenaire vit ses derniers jours en attendant la guillotine. Il reçoit divers visiteurs : son ami intime et complice, Avril, deux phrénologues venus étudier le crâne d'un grand criminel, sa maîtresse Ida, l'écrivain et journaliste Arago, le chef de la Sûreté Allard, avec lesquels il évoque son étrange destinée. Enfant, il a souffert du manque d'amour d'une mère qui préférait son frère. Il découvre peu à peu le chemin du mal. Parti de petits larcins, c'est à l'armée qu'il franchit le pas du meurtre en se vengeant d'un tricheur, il est incarcéré pour escroqueries et en profite pour y recruter des hommes de main, dont Avril et le jeune et naïf Baton. Avec ceux-ci, il monte des coups de plus grande envergure., 2h10
Directed by Nelo Risi,
Marco RisiOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Biography,
HistoricalThemes Films about writers,
Poésie,
Films about sexuality,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Terence Stamp,
Jean-Claude Brialy,
Florinda Bolkan,
Nike Arrighi,
Pier Paolo Capponi,
Jean LeuvraisRating67%
Arthur Rimbaud, gravement malade et aux derniers jours de sa vie, revoit les faits marquants de son existence. Son enfance dans les Ardennes, puis Paris où il devient la tête de proue des poètes symbolistes, sa rencontre avec Paul Verlaine avec lequel il entretient une relation amoureuse. Après avoir vagabondé ensemble, entre France, Angleterre et Belgique, la blessure infligée à Arthur par le coup de revolver de Verlaine met fin à leur relation et amène Arthur à renoncer à la poésie, doutant qu'elle puisse avoir un effet sur le monde comme il l'avait espéré. Ayant traîné ses semelles aux quatre vents durant une demi-décennie, il va ensuite arpenter pendant dix ans les déserts africains entre Arabie et Abyssinie, devenant agent commercial d'une importante compagnie française. Il se livre notamment au trafic d'armes avec le ras Ménélik et entretient une liaison amoureuse avec Gennet, une Éthiopienne qui restera à ses côtés jusqu'à ce que, atteint d'une tumeur maligne au genou droit, il doive quitter l'Afrique pour aller se faire soigner en France. C'est durant ses derniers mois qu'Arthur exprimera des sentiments insoupçonnés : son amour pour la vie et ses inclinaisons pour le surnaturel., 1h45
Directed by Agnieszka HollandOrigin BelgiqueGenres Drama,
Biography,
RomanceThemes Films about writers,
Poésie,
Films about sexuality,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Leonardo DiCaprio,
David Thewlis,
Romane Bohringer,
Dominique Blanc,
James Thiérrée,
Andrzej SewerynRating64%
The older Paul Verlaine meets Arthur Rimbaud's sister, Isabelle, in a café in Paris. Isabelle and her mother want Verlaine to hand over any copies he may still have of Rimbaud's poems so that they can burn them; they fear the lewdness of his writings. Verlaine reflects on the wild relationship he had had with Rimbaud, beginning when the teenaged Rimbaud had sent his poetry to Verlaine from his home in the provinces in 1871. Verlaine, instantly fascinated, impulsively invites him to his rich father-in-law's home in Paris, where he lives with his young, pregnant wife. The wild, eccentric Rimbaud displays no sense of manners or decency whatsoever, scandalising Verlaine's pretentious, bourgeois in-laws., 2h
Directed by Paul SchraderOrigin USAGenres Drama,
BiographyThemes Films about writers,
Seafaring films,
Poésie,
Films about sexuality,
Films about suicide,
Transport films,
Erotic films,
LGBT-related films,
Children's films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Ken Ogata,
Kenji Sawada,
Roy Scheider,
Hiroshi Mikami,
Jun Negami,
Haruko KatōRating78%
The film sets in on November 25 1970, the last day in Mishima's life. He is shown finishing a manuscript. Then, he puts on a uniform he designed for himself and meets with four of his most loyal followers from his private army.