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The Orphic Trilogy is a series of three French films written and directed by Jean Cocteau:

The Blood of a Poet, or Le sang d'un poète, 1930
Orpheus, or Orphée (also the title used in the UK), 1950
Testament of Orpheus, or Le testament d'Orphée, 1960

The Criterion Collection has released the trilogy as a DVD boxed set (which has since gone out-of-print).^[1]

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Drama	Le Gendarme incompris (1921) Orpheus (1926) The Human Voice (1930) The Infernal Machine (1934) L'École des veuves (1936) Les Chevaliers de la Table ronde (1937) Les Parents terribles (1938) Les Monstres sacrés (1940) La Machine à écrire (1941) Renaud et Armide (1943) L'Aigle à deux têtes (1946) Bacchus (1951)
Prose	The White Paper (1928) Les Enfants terribles (1929) Opium: Diary of a Cure (1930)
Films written and directed	The Blood of a Poet (1932) Beauty and the Beast (1946) The Eagle with Two Heads (1948) Les Parents terribles (1948) Orpheus (1950) La Villa Santo-Sospir (1952) Testament of Orpheus (1960)
Films written	The Phantom Baron (1943) L'Éternel retour (1943) Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945) Ruy Blas (1948) Les Enfants terribles (1950) The Black Crown (1951) La Princesse de Clèves (1961) Thomas the Impostor (1965)
Ballet libretti	Le Dieu bleu (1912) Parade (1917) Le Bœuf sur le toit (1920) Les mariés de la tour Eiffel (1921) Le Train Bleu (1924) Le jeune homme et la mort (1946)
Opera libretti	Antigone (1927) Oedipus rex (1927) Le pauvre matelot (1927)
Related	Bastion Museum Jean Cocteau House Jean Cocteau Museum Jean Marais Notre-Dame-de-Jérusalem, Fréjus The Orphic Trilogy

v t e Orpheus and Eurydice
Characters	Eurydice Orpheus
Orphean operas	Euridice (1600, Peri) Euridice (1602, Caccini) L'Orfeo (1607, Monteverdi) Orfeo dolente (1616, Belli) La morte d'Orfeo (1619, Landi)f Orfeo (1647, Rossi) Orfeo (1672, Sartorio) La descente d'Orphée aux enfers (c. 1686, Charpentier) Orpheus (1726, Telemann) Orfeo ed Euridice (1762, Gluck) discography L'anima del filosofo (1791, Haydn) Orpheus in the Underworld (1858, Offenbach) Orpheus und Eurydike (1921, Krenek) L'Orfeide (1925, Malipiero) Orpheus and Eurydice (1975, Zhurbin, rock opera) The Mask of Orpheus (1986, Birtwistle) The Second Mrs Kong (1994, Birtwistle) The Corridor (2009, Birtwistle) Eurydice (2020, Aucoin)
Musicals	Hadestown Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Plays	Eurydice/Point of Departure (1941, Anouilh) Orfeu da Conceição (1956, de Moraes) Orpheus Descending (1957, Williams) Eurydice (2003, Ruhl)
Films	The Orphic Trilogy The Blood of a Poet (1930) Orphée (1950) Testament of Orpheus (1960) Black Orpheus (1959) Euridice BA 2037 (1975) Parking (1985) Shredder Orpheus (1989) Orfeu (1999) You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet! (2012) Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Poetry	Sir Orfeo (c. late thirteenth century) The Tale of Orpheus and Erudices his Quene (c. 1480) Sonnets to Orpheus (1922) "Eurydice" (1999)
Novels	The Einstein Intersection (1967) Gravity's Rainbow (1973) The Medusa Frequency (1987) The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) Veniss Underground (2003) "L'Esprit de L'Escalier" (2021)
Art	Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice Poem Strip
Albums	Reflections (1970) Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus (2004) Metamorpheus (2005) Hadestown (2010) Orfeas (2010) Reflektor (2013) Wasteland, Baby! (2019)
Ballet	Orpheus (1948) Chaconne (1976) Orpheus Alive (2019)
Video games	Hades (2020) The Battle of Olympus Don't Look Back
Related	The Gaze of Orpheus Orpheus Monument Orpheus no Mado Orphism

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