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.

Filmography

• 2024Flowers and Beasts — Novel
• 2003Serva e Padrona — Novel
• 1999Genet à Chatila — Writer
• 1993Un boxeur endormi — Poem, Original Story
• 1986Le sphinx — Other
• 1985Les Bonnes — Writer
• 1982Querelle — Novel
• 1981Black Mirror — Story, Screenplay
• The South Bank Show
• 1975Jean Genet: Saint, martyr et poète — Writer
• 1975Poor Pretty Eddie — Novel
• 1975Ritual — Original Story
• 1975The Maids — Theatre Play
• 1972Song of Love — Prisoner in Duo Fantasy (uncredited), Director, Writer, Production Design, Editor
• 1970Shiraz 70
• 1967Condemned and Possessed — Poem
• 1966Deathwatch — Writer
• 1966Mademoiselle — Story
• 1963The Balcony — Theatre Play

Appearances as themselves (10)

• 2026May Day x 4 — Self
• 2023Little Girl Blue — Self (archive footage)
• 2019André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer — Self - Writer (archive footage)
• 2010Jean Genet, le contre exemplaire — Self
• 1982Jean Genet: Entretien avec Bertrand Poirot-Delpech — Self
• Apostrophes — Self (archive footage)
• 1970Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy — Self
• 1970Mayday — Self
• 1968Chicago — Self
• 1950Disorder — Self