Screenplay: Jean Cosmos
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jean Cosmos. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 20
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
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
Fanfan la Tulipe
2003 · Movie · 95 min. · France
Direction Gérard Krawczyk
Cast Vincent Pérez · Penélope Cruz · Didier Bourdon · Hélène de Fougerolles
4.2
2K votes
4.2
2K 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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Ça n'arrive qu'aux vivants
1959 · Movie · 100 min. · France
Direction Tony Saytor
Cast Raymond Pellegrin · Giselle Pascal · Magali Noël · Emile Prud'homme
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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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Chez Maupassant (TV Series)
2007 · Series · France
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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The Last Five Minutes (TV Series)
1958 · Series · 90 min. · France
Direction Claude Loursais · Guy Lessertisseur · Maurice Frydland · Jean-Pierre Marchand
Cast Raymond Souplex · Marc Eyraud · Jacques Debary · Charles Lavialle
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Direction Gilles Grangier
Cast Claude Brasseur · Marthe Keller · André Weber · Paul Le Person
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