Z (1969)
About a murder of a prominent leftist politician in Greece.
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Poll: Costa-Gavras' Political Films
Costa-Gavras celebrates his 90th birthday on February 12, 2023. He is known for films with political and social themes.
Which of these selected political films directed by him interests you the most?
Make Your Choice
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Missing (1982)
About an American journalist, Charles Horman who disappeared in the 1973 coup d'état in Chile. -
Amen. (2002)
Based in part on the highly controversial 1963 play, Der Stellvertreter. Ein christliches Trauerspiel (The Deputy, a Christian Tragedy), by Rolf Hochhuth. -
Music Box (1989)
About a respected Hungarian immigrant (Armin Mueller-Stahl) who is accused of having commanded an Anti-Semitic death squad during World War II. -
Betrayed (1988)
Roughly based upon the terrorist activities of American neo-Nazi and white supremacist Robert Mathews and his group The Order. -
Adults in the Room (2019)
Greece in 2015: the economy is in tatters and the country is on the verge of bankruptcy. -
State of Siege (1972)
It takes place in Uruguay under the civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay in the early 1970s. -
The Confession (1970)
It follows the path of Artur London, a Czechoslovakian communist minister falsely arrested and tried for treason and espionage in the Slánský 'show trial' in 1952. -
Special Section (1975)
In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered and the government tries to hide the facts. -
Hanna K. (1983)
About an Israeli lawyer is defending a Palestinian charged by The Military Court System in the Israeli-Occupied Territories. -
Shock Troops (1967)
About a French resistance group liberates some prisoners from the German.
