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Jean Genet was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later took to writing. His major works include the novels The Thief's Journal and Our Lady of the Flowers, and the plays The Balcony, The Maids and The Screens.
Total trailers found: 26
01 January 1993
A sleeping boxer on a train dreams of a victorious fight. Inspired by a lost poem by Jean Genet.
08 September 1982
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 violent homosexual self-discovery that will change him forever from the man he once was.
01 January 1981
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 killing a young boy, they begin to plan her murder.
11 December 1972
Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication.
01 June 1966
A sexually repressed school teacher releases her pent up passions in a series of shocking crimes.
01 June 1975
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 country singer.
26 December 1967
Non-professional players try to create the poetic world of Jean Genet in filmic terms.
01 January 1986
Fragments of a text by Jean Genet – “Four Hours in Chatila” – are illustrated by summer images of a park in Brussels.
01 January 1968
UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A striking documentary shot cinema verite style of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, with contrasting film and audio inside the convention center and the protests outside.
31 December 1970
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 suspected FBI informant Alex Rackley.
02 October 2019
Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plot twist.
01 November 2023
In 2016, French writer and photographer Carole Achache took her own life. After Carole's death, her daughter Mona Achache, a film director, discovers thousands of photos, letters and recordings that Carole left behind, but these buried secrets make her disappearance even more of an enigma.
24 November 1999
A documentary about the French writer Jean Genet and his relations with the Palestinian revolution. One day after the September 1982 massacre at the refugee camp of Shatila in Beirut, Genet visits the camp.
07 July 1975
Poetic stroll in the work of Jean Genet.
02 March 1966
Based on a play by Jean Genet, a small-time thief battles with his gay cellmate over a third illiterate, muscular convict.
21 March 1963
The Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation.
02 December 1950
Variations on the cultural and intellectual explosion in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district in 1946.
21 April 1975
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 insulting her.
01 December 1970
A short documentary about the 4th Shiraz Arts Festival and its series of performances that took place in September 1970.
25 October 2024
In the 1930s, within a prison cell somewhere in Europe, young inmate P. spends his days reading about murderers in newspapers while eagerly awaiting the night.
03 October 2003
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 in front of a mirror, then in a bare living room where they spend part of the evening.
13 December 2010
Rome, Paris, Marrakesh, Saint-Brieuc and New York, familiar decors of hotel rooms and prison cells...
27 March 1970
In the aftermath of the arrest of Angela Davis, Jean Genet reads a text denouncing racist US policy, supporting the Black Panthers party and Angela Davis for a television show that will be completely censored.
23 November 1975
It's a staging of The Maids, which, set in the 1930s, tells the story of two sisters working in the house of an abusive woman.
