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
Direction Peter Ustinov
Cast Sophia Loren · Paul Newman · David Niven · Michel Piccoli
5.2
249 votes
5.2
249 votes
Promise at Dawn
1970 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Jules Dassin
Cast Melina Mercouri · Assi Dayan · Didier Haudepin · François Raffoul
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
Direction Nunnally Johnson
Cast Leslie Caron · Henry Fonda · Cesare Danova · Myron McCormick
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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
Direction Jean-Pierre Rawson
Cast Jean Carmet · Marthe Villalonga · Francis Perrin · Alvaro Vitali
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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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