Jean Genet

Jean Genet

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.

  • Title: Jean Genet
  • Popularity: 3.742
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1910-12-19
  • Place of Birth: Paris, France
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Jean Genet Movies

  • 1970
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    Mayday

    Mayday

    1 1970 HD

    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...

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  • 2023
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    Little Girl Blue

    Little Girl Blue

    6.153 2023 HD

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

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  • 1970
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    Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy

    Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy

    7 1970 HD

    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...

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  • 1972
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    Song of Love

    Song of Love

    7 1972 HD

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

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  • 2019
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    André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer

    André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer

    5 2019 HD

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

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  • 1950
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    Disorder

    Disorder

    5 1950 HD

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

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  • 1982
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    Jean Genet: Entretien avec Bertrand Poirot-Delpech

    Jean Genet: Entretien avec Bertrand Poirot-Delpech

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1968
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    Chicago

    Chicago

    1 1968 HD

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

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  • 1966
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    Mademoiselle

    Mademoiselle

    7.2 1966 HD

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

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  • 1991
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    Poison

    Poison

    6.1 1991 HD

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

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  • 2003
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    Serva e Padrona

    Serva e Padrona

    1 2003 HD

    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...

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  • 1972
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    Song of Love

    Song of Love

    7 1972 HD

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

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  • 1975
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    Jean Genet: Saint, martyr et poète

    Jean Genet: Saint, martyr et poète

    1 1975 HD

    Poetic stroll in the work of Jean Genet.

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  • 1966
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    Deathwatch

    Deathwatch

    4.5 1966 HD

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

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  • 1975
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    The Maids

    The Maids

    5.3 1975 HD

    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...

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  • 1963
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    The Balcony

    The Balcony

    5.3 1963 HD

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

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  • 1999
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    Genet à Chatila

    Genet à Chatila

    5 1999 HD

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

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  • 1972
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    Song of Love

    Song of Love

    7 1972 HD

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

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  • 1993
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    Un boxeur endormi

    Un boxeur endormi

    1 1993 HD

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

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  • 1993
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    Un boxeur endormi

    Un boxeur endormi

    1 1993 HD

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

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  • 1981
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    Black Mirror

    Black Mirror

    1 1981 HD

    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...

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  • 1981
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    Black Mirror

    Black Mirror

    1 1981 HD

    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...

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  • 1986
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    Le sphinx

    Le sphinx

    1 1986 HD

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

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  • 1972
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    Song of Love

    Song of Love

    7 1972 HD

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

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  • 1972
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    Song of Love

    Song of Love

    7 1972 HD

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

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  • 1967
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    Condemned and Possessed

    Condemned and Possessed

    1 1967 HD

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

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  • 1975
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    Poor Pretty Eddie

    Poor Pretty Eddie

    4.981 1975 HD

    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...

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  • 1982
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    Querelle

    Querelle

    6.5 1982 HD

    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...

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  • 1975
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    8.5 1975 HD

    Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years...

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