Orpheus (1950)
Orphée
ThumbScore
👍 90%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 97%
(RT: 97%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
María Casares as Death
Marie Déa as Eurydice
Henri Crémieux as Editor
Juliette Gréco as Aglaonice
Roger Blin as The Poet
Édouard Dermithe as Jacques Cégeste
Is Orpheus good?
Yes. 90% audience score, estimated from 311 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 97%.
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Overview
A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet becomes obsessed and follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead. Wikipedia ↗
