Screenplay: Costa-Gavras

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Jack Lemmon · Sissy Spacek · Melanie Mayron · John Shea

Synopsis This political thriller winner (ex aequo) of the Golden Palm in Cannes Film Festival has its origins in an actual event – the disappearance of a young American writer and...

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Yves Montand · Renato Salvatori · Jacques Weber · O.E. Hasse

Synopsis Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Louis Seigner · Roland Bertin · Michael Lonsdale · Ivo Garrani

Synopsis In occupied France during WWII, a German naval officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to...

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Ulrich Tukur · Mathieu Kassovitz · Ulrich Mühe · Marcel Iures

Synopsis Kurt Gerstein, a brilliant German scientist, is recruited into the SS during the opening years of the Second World War. Assigned as a sanitation engineer, Gerstein is sent to the...

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast José García · Karin Viard · Geordy Monfils · Christa Theret

Synopsis A chemist (Garcia) loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.

Direction Laurent Herbiet

Cast Cécile De France · Eric Caravaca · Charles Aznavour · Olivier Gourmet

Synopsis A "Reformed Colonel" is found dead in Paris, a couple of decades after Algeria's struggle for independence was won from France. Lieutenant Galois is assigned the investigation of this murder....

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Charles Vanel · Bruno Cremer · Jean-Claude Brialy · Michel Piccoli

Direction Joseph Losey

Cast Alain Delon · Jeanne Moreau · Francine Bergé · Juliet Berto

Synopsis Paris, 1942. Robert Klein is a successful art dealer, profiteering from the French government’s treatment of its Jewish citizens. To escape deportation to Germany, Jews are forced to sell their...

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Denis Podalydès · Kad Merad · Marilyne Canto · Charlotte Rampling

Synopsis In a sort of philosophical dialogue, Dr. Augustin Masset and the famous writer Fabrice Toussaint debate about life and death... A whirlwind of encounters in which the doctor is the...

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Jill Clayburgh · Jean Yanne · Gabriel Byrne · Mohammed Bakri

Synopsis An Israeli lawyer is defending a Palestinian charged by The Military Court System in the Israeli-Occupied Territories. It's a tough case because of a strong political background.

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Catherine Allegret · Jacques Perrin · Simone Signoret · Michel Piccoli

Synopsis On the night-train from Marseilles to Paris, a young woman is murdered in her sleeping compartment. Inspector Grazzi takes charge of the investigation, aided by his young assistant Jean-Lou. They...

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Yves Montand · Romy Schneider · Romolo Valli · Lila Kedrova

Synopsis 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)...

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Riccardo Scamarcio · Ulrich Tukur · Juliane Köhler · Eric Caravaca

Synopsis A drama centered around the illegal immigrants living in the EU. As in the Iliad, the adventures of our legendless hero begin in the Aegean Sea. After many brief adventures,...

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Christos Loulis · Alexandros Bourdoumis · Ulrich Tukur · Josiane Pinson

Synopsis Provides an extraordinary account of low cunning at the heart of Greece's 2015 financial bailout. The more defiant the left-wing Syriza government became, the more it was met with intimidation...

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Gad Elmaleh · Gabriel Byrne · Liya Kebede · Jordana DePaula

Synopsis This is the story of the unstoppable ascent of Marc Tourneuil, an expendable servant of the Capital who became its undisputed master. In the director’s words: “We are slaves to...

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast André Dussollier · Pierre Arditi · Jiří Menzel · Anna Romantowska

Synopsis Old friends and coleagues of Barbara and Enrique organized a party in the couple's house. Among them is Stan, Barbara's ex-housband. To avoid embarrassing and violent situations, Stan locked himself...

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Johnny Hallyday · Fanny Ardant · Guy Marchand · Laurent Romor

Synopsis Renowned director Constantin Costa-Gavras (whose 1969's feature Z won multiple international awards and was a box office success) tries his hand at an unusual mix of comedy and crime in...