Screenplay: Rithy Panh

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


The Missing Picture

2013 · Documentary · 90 min. · Cambodia

Direction Rithy Panh

Cast Randal Douc · Jean-Baptiste Phou

Plot For many years, I have been looking for the missing picture: a photograph taken between 1975 and 1979 by the Khmer Rouge when they ruled over Cambodia...On its own, of...

7.1

1K votes

7.1

1K votes

S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine

2003 · Documentary · 101 min. · Cambodia

Direction Rithy Panh

Plot In 1975-79, the Khmer Rouge waged a campaign of genocide on Cambodia's population. 1.7 million Cambodians lost their lives to famine and murder as the urban population was forced into...

7.1

492 votes

7.1

492 votes

The Rice People

1994 · Movie · 125 min. · Cambodia

Direction Rithy Panh

Cast Peng Phan · Pen Sopheary · Mom Soth · Chhim Naline

Plot In Cambodian refugee camps, when children are asked where rice comes from, they answer, "from UN lorries". They have never seen a rice field. One day, these children will have...

6.5

160 votes

6.5

160 votes

Paper Cannot Wrap Ember

2007 · Documentary · 90 min. · France

Direction Rithy Panh

Plot Paper Cannot Wrap Ember gives voice to the exploited underclass hidden in brothels across Cambodia. Focusing on the daily lives of seven young women living in Phnom Penh, Rithy Panh...

6.4

28 votes

6.4

28 votes

One Evening After the War

1998 · Movie · 108 min. · Cambodia

6.0

47 votes

6.0

47 votes

The Sea Wall

2008 · Movie · 115 min. · France

Direction Rithy Panh

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Gaspard Ulliel · Astrid Bergès-Frisbey · Randal Douc

Plot A troubled mother's spirit crumbles when her adult children strike out for independence. Feeling abandoned she contemplates taking drastic action.

5.8

67 votes

5.8

67 votes

Everything Will Be Ok

2022 · Documentary · 98 min. · Cambodia

Direction Rithy Panh

Cast Rebecca Marder

Plot Takes its title from the T-shirt slogan of a teenager who was killed in the Myanmar protests. The film will feature puppet figurines, and will see about totalitarianism, democracy, and...

4.4

38 votes

4.4

38 votes

Irradiated

2020 · Documentary · 88 min. · France

Direction Rithy Panh

Plot "Irradiés" is made by people who have survived physical and psychological irradiation as a result of war. Evil radiates and it hurts.

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The People of Angkor

2003 · Documentary · 90 min. · France

Direction Rithy Panh

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The Land of the Wandering Souls

2000 · Documentary · 100 min. · France

Direction Rithy Panh

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Site 2

1989 · Documentary · 92 min. · France

Direction Rithy Panh

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Bophana, A Cambodian Tragedy

1996 · Documentary · 60 min. · France

Direction Rithy Panh

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Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell

2011 · Documentary · 110 min. · Cambodia

Direction Rithy Panh

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The Burnt Theatre

2005 · Documentary · 82 min. · Cambodia

Direction Rithy Panh

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Graves Without a Name

2018 · Documentary · 115 min. · Cambodia

Direction Rithy Panh

Plot Latest exploration of the lasting effects of the Cambodian genocide, a 13-year-old boy who loses most of his family begins a search for their graves.

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