Screenplay: Ivan Passer

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Ivan Passer. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Loves of a Blonde

1965 · Movie · 82 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Milos Forman

Cast Hana Brejchová · Vladimir Pucholt · Vladimir Mensik · Jirí Hruby

Plot A factory manager in rural Czechoslovakia bargains with the army to send men to the area, to boost the morale of his young female workers, deprived of male company since...

7.0

923 votes

7.0

923 votes

Intimate Lighting

1965 · Movie · 71 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Ivan Passer

Cast Zdenek Bezusek · Karel Blazek · Miroslav Cvrk · Vera Kresadlová

Plot A young Prague cellist (Zdnek Bazusek) and his sophisticated girlfriend (Vera Kresadlova) visit some friends in a bucolic village. The cellist has also been engaged to solo with the town's...

6.6

165 votes

6.6

165 votes

The Firemen's Ball

1967 · Movie · 71 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Milos Forman

Cast Jan Vostrcil · Josef Kolb · Frantisek Debelka · Josef Sebanek

Plot Acclaimed director Milos Forman directs this story of a birthday party for an elderly fireman.

6.6

683 votes

6.6

683 votes

Audition / Talent Competition

1964 · Documentary · 78 min. · Czechoslovakia

6.0

107 votes

6.0

107 votes

Born to Win

1971 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Ivan Passer

Cast George Segal · Karen Black · Paula Prentiss · Jay Fletcher

Plot A smart-mouthed junkie/loser known as J.J. (George Segal) spends his days looking for just "one more fix".

4.7

138 votes

4.7

138 votes

Law and Disorder

1974 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Ivan Passer

Cast Carroll O'Connor · Ernest Borgnine · Ann Wedgeworth · Anita Dangler

Plot In the crime-ridden 70's New York, two cops have had enough. They, along with few other disgruntled people decide to take the things into their own hands.

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Ace Up My Sleeve

1976 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ivan Passer

Cast Omar Sharif · Karen Black · Joseph Bottoms · Bernhard Wicki

Plot Financier persuades his mistress to marry a rich industrialist for his money, then discovers that he and the new wife are to be murdered by her new husband.

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A Boring Afternoon (S)

1964 · Movie · 14 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Ivan Passer

Cast Kamila Turková · Leopold Smolík · Josef Vanista · Jan Tozicka

Plot The film A Boring Afternoon is a comic yet melancholic sketch describing the atmosphere of a Sunday afternoon in a pub on the outskirts of Prague. A few old regulars...

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If It Weren't for Music

1964 · Documentary · 33 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Milos Forman

Cast Jan Vostrcil · Frantisek Zeman · Vladimir Pucholt · Vaclav Blumenfeld

Plot This short work about Czech provincial life and amateur music-making foreshadows such great films as Milos Forman's Loves of a Blonde and Fireman's Ball and Ivan Passer's Intimate Lighting, that...

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