Movies by Costa-Gavras
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Short: International Release #3 (2001)
Cast: Michael Apted, Crispin Letts, Frank O'Gehry …
Directed by: Peter Capaldi
This unique video combines award-winning short films from around the world with informative interviews, featuring acclaimed filmmakers and exciting performances by international musicians…
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Lumière and Company (1995)
Cast: Bigas Luna, Theo Angelopoulos, Vicente Aranda …
Directed by: Merzak Allouache, John Boorman, David Lynch …
To honor the 100th anniversary of motion pictures, 40 international directors create their own mini-movies in this French documentary. The weapon of choice for each is a replica of the camera…
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Madame Rosa (1977)
Cast: Simone Signoret, Samy Ben Youb, Michal Bat-Adam …
Directed by: Moshe Mizrahi
Simone Signoret shines as a retired lady of the night and Auschwitz survivor who earns a living looking after other prostitutes' children in this affectionate French drama, directed by…
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Eden Is West (2009)
Cast: Riccardo Scamarcio, Juliane Köhler, Juliane Kohler …
Directed by: Costa-Gavras
Riccardo Scamarcio stars as Elias, a migrant worker trying to get from Greece to the city of dreams: Paris. But his journey turns out to be an obstacle course in this epic drama from…
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Le Couperet (2005)
Cast: José Garcia, Karin Viard, Geordy Monfils …
Directed by: Costa-Gavras
In this darkly comic thriller, years of fruitless job interviews drive downsized executive Bruno Davert (José Garcia) to desperation as he devises a new job-hunting strategy:…
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Amen. (2002)
Cast: Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe …
Directed by: Costa-Gavras
This film based on the play "The Representative" examines how the Nazi Party concocted its "Final Solution," what other countries really knew about the burgeoning disaster and the role the…
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Mad City (1997)
Cast: John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Alda …
Directed by: Costa-Gavras
Sam Baily (John Travolta) is an out-of-work museum security guard about to make a rash move. Max Brackett (Dustin Hoffman) is a television reporter stuck in a rut of boring, routine stories.…
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Music Box (1989)
Cast: Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Frederic Forrest …
Directed by: Costa-Gavras
When an elderly Hungarian man is accused of war crimes that took place many decades ago, his lawyer daughter decides to defend him in court. But there's another reason she's…
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Betrayed (1988)
Cast: Debra Winger, Tom Berenger, John Heard …
Directed by: Costa-Gavras
After a brusque, left-wing radio personality gets viciously gunned down in Chicago, the FBI moves in to suss out the perpetrators, who belong to a white supremacist organization in the Corn…
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Missing (1982)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron …
Directed by: Costa-Gavras
Constantin Costa-Gavras helmed this thriller based on a true story. John Shea plays Charles Horman, an American expatriate living with his wife, Beth (Sissy Spacek), in a South American…
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Special Section (1975)
Cast: Louis Seigner, Roland Bertin, Michael Lonsdale …
Directed by: Costa-Gavras
Wartime Paris is the setting in which a young German naval officer is killed during Nazi occupation. Eager to appeal to the war-torn country's desperation for justice, the Régime de…
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State of Siege (1972)
Cast: Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse …
Directed by: Costa-Gavras
Costa-Gavras's films are inspired by true events of political injustice, and State of Siege is no exception. Influenced by the rise to power of Uruguay's 1970s dictatorship and the…
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The Confession (1970)
Cast: Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti …
Directed by: Costa-Gavras
High-ranking Czechoslovakian civil servant Gerard (Yves Montand) is a convinced that he's being followed -- and his paranoia is validated when he's inexplicably arrested and…
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Z (1969)
Cast: Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant …
Directed by: Costa-Gavras
Based on true events, director Costa-Gavras's Oscar-winning film closely parallels the real-life assassination of a Greek doctor and humanist whose 1963 murder led to public scandal and…