Screenplay: Jean Cosmos

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


Life and Nothing But

1989 · Movie · 130 min. · France

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Philippe Noiret · Sabine Azéma · Pascale Vignal · Maurice Barrier

Synopsis January, 1920. 350,000 French soldiers remain missing in action. Major Dellaplane tirelessly matches the dead and the wounded with families' descriptions. Honor and ethics drive him; he hates the idea of "the unknown soldier." Into his sector, looking for her...

7.1

1K votes

7.1

1K votes

Conversations with My Gardener

2007 · Movie · 104 min. · France

Direction Jean Becker

Cast Daniel Auteuil · Jean-Pierre Darroussin · Fanny Cottençon · Alexia Barlier

Synopsis Conversations with My Gardener (2007) follows a successful Parisian painter who returns to his rural hometown after decades away. There, he reconnects with an old school friend, now working as his gardener. As they tend to the garden, their conversations...

7.0

5K votes

7.0

5K votes

Captain Conan

1996 · Movie · 129 min. · France

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Philippe Torreton · Samuel Le Bihan · Bernard Le Coq · Catherine Rich

Synopsis Philippe Torreton stars as a dedicated career soldier who eagerly serves the band of fifty "irregulars" under his command, with an often open disregard for the methods of his superiors. A fearless combat leader and warrior, Conan lays down his...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Strange Gardens

2003 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Jean Becker

Cast Jacques Villeret · André Dussollier · Thierry Lhermitte · Benoît Magimel

Synopsis Lucien, a young boy, loves his father, Jacques, but despises his childish eccentricities, which include an extravagant clown act. Jacques’ best friend, André, decides it his time for Lucien to discover the reason for his father’s behaviour. During World War...

7.0

242 votes

7.0

242 votes

Safe Conduct

2002 · Movie · 170 min. · France

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Jacques Gamblin · Denis Podalydès · Marie Gillain · Charlotte Kady

Synopsis In occupied France, German-run Continental Films calls the shots in the movie business. Assistant director and Resistance activist Jean Devaivre works for Continental, where he can get "in between the wolf's teeth and avoid being chewed up". Fast-living screenwriter Jean...

6.3

423 votes

6.3

423 votes

On Guard

1997 · Movie · 115 min. · France

Direction Philippe de Broca

Cast Marie Gillain · Daniel Auteuil · Vincent Pérez · Philippe Noiret

Synopsis Swashbuckling action based on a 19th Century novel and set in the court of King Louis XIII in the 17th century. When the Duke of Nevers is assassinated by the Count Gonzague, Lagardere, a fencing master, swears vengeance. French dialogue.

6.2

407 votes

6.2

407 votes

Colonel Chabert

1994 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction Yves Angelo

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Fanny Ardant · Fabrice Luchini · André Dussollier

Synopsis Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory, he goes back to Paris, where his "widow", Anne has...

6.0

103 votes

6.0

103 votes

The Princess of Montpensier

2010 · Movie · 139 min. · France

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Christine Brücher · Nathalie Krebs · Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet · Olivier Loustau

Synopsis France, 1562. The wars of religion between Catholics and Protestants rage against a backdrop of intrigue and shifting alliances. Marie de Mézières, a beautiful young aristocrat, and Henri de Guise, one of the kingdom's most intrepid heroes, are in love,...

5.7

339 votes

5.7

339 votes

D'Artagnan's Daughter

1994 · Movie · 130 min. · France

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Sophie Marceau · Philippe Noiret · Claude Rich · Sami Frey

Synopsis The story begins on the autumn of 1654 in South France. Eloise lives in a cloister. Her famous father left her there. The young lady is enthusiastic about honour, faithfulness, affection to the poor people, and life of course. She...

4.7

1K votes

4.7

1K votes

Agents secrets (Secret Agents)

2004 · Movie · 109 min. · France

Direction Frédéric Schoendoerffer

Cast Vincent Cassel · Monica Bellucci · André Dussollier · Charles Berling

Synopsis France’s intelligence services send a group of four secret agents – Captain Georges Brisseau, teammate Lisa and their colleagues Raymond and Loïc – to carry out a sabotage mission in Morocco. The supposed aim of the mission: to blow up...

4.4

1K votes

4.4

1K votes

An Air So Pure

1997 · Movie · 106 min. · France

Direction Yves Angelo

Cast Fabrice Luchini · André Dussollier · Marie Gillain · Redjep Mitrovitsa

Synopsis Set in Europe during WWI, a doctor and lawyer have converted a musty old mansion into a ritzy hotel and health spa. The chateau is inhabited by an eccentric collection of characters from whom the proprietors go to great lengths...

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Le grand Meaulnes

2006 · Movie · 97 min. · France

Direction Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe

Cast Nicolas Duvauchelle · Jean-Baptiste Maunier · Clémence Poésy · Jean-Pierre Marielle

Synopsis A coming-of-age story set in France in the years leading up to World War I. Two teenage boys experience love, loss, anguish and betrayal in a rural setting of great beauty.

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La lumière des justes (TV Miniseries)

1979 · Series · 52 min. · France

Direction Yannick Andréi

Cast Chantal Nobel · Michel Robe · Nicole Jamet · Georges Wilson

Synopsis The life and loves of a young Frenchwoman and a Russian officer in the nineteenth century. Sophie distributes the money she has to the poor in the neighboring village. She wants to make the moujiks understand progress. Since her daughter-in-law...

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Un gosse de la butte

1964 · Movie · 87 min. · France

Direction Maurice Delbez

Cast Madeleine Robinson · René Lefèvre · Serge Nubret · Lucienne Bogaert

Synopsis A young brat lives in a popular part of Paris with his mother whose companion is a kind athletic black man.

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The Maiden and the Wolves

2008 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction Gilles Legrand

Cast Laetitia Casta · Jean-Paul Rouve · Stefano Accorsi · Michel Galabru

Synopsis At the end of World War I, 20 year-old Angèle is determined to become the first woman veterinarian. Her life is an adventurous one and she becomes the object of ruthless rivalry between the man she is supposed to marry,...

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Direction Laurent Heynemann · Gérard Jourd'hui · Denis Malleval · Jacques Santamaria

Cast Marie-Anne Chazel · Thomas Chabrol · Nicolas Marié · Bruno Lochet

Synopsis TV Series (2007-2011). 3 seasons. 24 episodes.

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Un cave

1972 · Movie · 95 min. · France

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