Screenplay: Romain Gary

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


Madame Rosa

1977 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Moshé Mizrahi

Cast Simone Signoret · Claude Dauphin · Samy Ben-Youb · Mohammed Zineth

Plot Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she's a retired prostitute, Jewish and an Auschwitz survivor, a foster mom to children of other prostitutes. Momo is the...

6.5

148 votes

6.5

148 votes

Womanlight

1979 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Yves Montand · Romy Schneider · Romolo Valli · Lila Kedrova

Plot Noted political filmmaker Costa-Gavras turned his attention to personal issues in this drama. Michel (Yves Montand) has had to deal with the death of his wife, while Lydia (Romy Schneider)...

6.3

143 votes

6.3

143 votes

Promise at Dawn

2017 · Movie · 130 min. · France

Direction Eric Barbier

Cast Charlotte Gainsbourg · Pierre Niney · Didier Bourdon · Jean-Pierre Darroussin

Plot Based on Romain Gary's memoir, it presents how he overcame poverty in Poland, sensual education in the south of France and WWII aviation derring-do in Africa and Europe. It also...

6.2

491 votes

6.2

491 votes

The Life Ahead

2020 · Movie · 94 min. · Italy

Direction Edoardo Ponti

Cast Sophia Loren · Ibrahima Gueye · Renato Carpentieri · Abril Zamora

Plot In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business (Sophia Loren) takes in 12-year-old Momo, a Senegalese Muslim street kid.

6.1

3K votes

6.1

3K votes

The Roots of Heaven

1958 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Errol Flynn · Juliette Greco · Trevor Howard · Eddie Albert

Plot Set in French Equatorial Africa, the film tells the story of Morel (Trevor Howard), a crusading environmentalist who sets out to preserve the elephants from extinction as a lasting symbol...

5.6

333 votes

5.6

333 votes

Lady L

1965 · Movie · 117 min. · United Kingdom

5.2

249 votes

5.2

249 votes

Promise at Dawn

1970 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

5.0

25 votes

5.0

25 votes

The Ski Bum

1971 · Movie · 136 min. · United States

Direction Bruce D. Clark

Cast Zalman King · Charlotte Rampling · Joseph Mell · Dimitra Arliss

Plot A ski instructor tries to teach a bunch of insanely eccentric people how to ski while dealing with everyone wanting his attention.

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Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!

1971 · Movie · 113 min. · Spain

Direction Romain Gary

Cast Stephen Boyd · Jean Seberg · James Mason · Curd Jürgens

Plot Interpol investigates the freelance killings of drug and porn peddlers.

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Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid

1981 · Movie · 92 min. · Canada

Direction George Kaczender

Cast Richard Harris · Jennifer Dale · George Peppard · Jeanne Moreau

Plot An influential businessmen is stressed out by work. This leads to him being unable to perform in bed. He gets paranoid that his wife will start cheating on him. This...

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The Man Who Understood Women

1959 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

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Birds in Peru

1968 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Romain Gary

Cast Jean Seberg · Maurice Ronet · Pierre Brasseur · Danielle Darrieux

Plot On a beach, a group of sailors have sex with a depressed young woman. Madam of a nearby brothel takes her in but she leaves with an artist who lives...

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Gros câlin

1979 · Movie · 95 min. · France

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Les cerfs-volants (TV)

2007 · Movie · 108 min. · France

Direction Jérôme Cornuau

Cast Tchéky Karyo · Marc-André Grondin · Gaëlle Bona · Claude Perron

Plot Normandy, 1934. Ludo, raised by his uncle Ambroise, a kite maker, befriends little Lila. For five years he loses sight of her, but when they meet again, a love affair...

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