(FR) COSTA-GAVRAS
by nicolaschiama | created - 01 Aug 2017 | updated - 01 Nov 2021 | PublicFILMOGRAPHIE
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1. The Sleeping Car Murder (1965)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The witnesses of a train murder must take the investigation into their own hands if they want to survive.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Catherine Allégret, Jacques Perrin, Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli
Votes: 2,240
2. Shock Troops (1967)
Approved | 110 min | Action, Drama, History
A French resistance group liberates some prisoners from the German. Could one of the prisoners be a spy?
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Charles Vanel, Bruno Cremer, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Piccoli
Votes: 817
3. Z (1969)
M/PG | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, François Périer
Votes: 31,343 | Gross: $0.08M
4. The Confession (1970)
GP | 139 min | Drama, Thriller
A high-ranking official is forced to confess to high treason.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti, Michel Vitold
Votes: 4,811 | Gross: $0.33M
5. State of Siege (1972)
Not Rated | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
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.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse, Jacques Weber
Votes: 6,059 | Gross: $1.13M
6. Special Section (1975)
PG | 110 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In occupied France during World War II a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Louis Seigner, Roland Bertin, Michael Lonsdale, Ivo Garrani
Votes: 1,591
7. Womanlight (1979)
98 min | Drama
Two strangers help each other survive a night of great loss.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Yves Montand, Romy Schneider, Romolo Valli, Lila Kedrova
Votes: 922
8. Missing (1982)
PG | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History
When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea
Votes: 23,357 | Gross: $14.00M
9. Hanna K. (1983)
R | 111 min | Drama
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.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Jill Clayburgh, Jean Yanne, Gabriel Byrne, Mohammad Bakri
Votes: 949 | Gross: $0.11M
10. Family Council (1986)
98 min | Comedy
French rocker Johnny Hallyday stars as a professional thief just released from jail. He returns to stealing to support his family. After several successful thefts, he decides to include his under-aged kid into the "family business".
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Johnny Hallyday, Fanny Ardant, Guy Marchand, Laurent Romor
Votes: 572
11. Betrayed (1988)
R | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Debra Winger, Tom Berenger, John Heard, Betsy Blair
Votes: 7,011 | Gross: $25.82M
12. Music Box (1989)
PG-13 | 124 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Frederic Forrest, Donald Moffat
Votes: 8,660 | Gross: $6.26M
13. The Little Apocalypse (1993)
110 min | Comedy
An unknown Polish writer can't publish his novels, so his ex-wife decides to help him and get some of the profit for herself. She finally finds a publisher, but there's a strange single condition that could cost the writer his life.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: André Dussollier, Pierre Arditi, Jirí Menzel, Anna Romantowska
Votes: 387
14. À propos de Nice, la suite (1995)
100 min | Documentary
Anthology of short films from various directors about the French city of Nice.
Directors: Catherine Breillat, Costa-Gavras, Claire Denis, Raymond Depardon, Abbas Kiarostami, Parviz Kimiavi, Pavel Lungin, Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Bernard Benassayag, Thierry Saïd Bouibil, Jérôme Chabreyrie, Grégoire Colin
Votes: 153
15. Mad City (1997)
PG-13 | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A distraught man inadvertently takes a group of children hostage in a museum while a hungry, seasoned reporter tries to resurrect his career covering the story.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Alda, Mia Kirshner
Votes: 21,102 | Gross: $10.56M
16. Amen. (2002)
Not Rated | 132 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to extermination camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana helps him in the difficult mission to inform the world.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Michel Duchaussoy
Votes: 14,973 | Gross: $0.27M
17. The Ax (2005)
Not Rated | 117 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A chemist (Garcia) loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: José Garcia, Karin Viard, Geordy Couturiau, Ulrich Tukur
Votes: 8,415
18. Eden Is West (2009)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
Desperate to escape the poverty of his homeland, Elias boards a smuggler ship to France. This is the beginning of his odyssey across Western Europe to Paris, where miraculous promises, new friends, and dangers await him at every turn.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Riccardo Scamarcio, Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos, Léa Wiazemsky, Tess Spentzos
Votes: 2,700
19. Capital (2012)
R | 114 min | Drama
The newly appointed CEO of a giant European investment bank works to hold on to his power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy out his company.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Gad Elmaleh, Gabriel Byrne, Liya Kebede, Natacha Régnier
Votes: 5,581 | Gross: $0.10M
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