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.

Eden Is West

2009

French

6.8

♡ 2

88%

64%

Action

Drama

Costa-Gavras Director

Antoine Monot Jr. as Karl, le second routier

Jean-Christophe Folly as Le chanteur / musicien

Tasos Kostis as Le chauffeur voleur

Ulrich Tukur as Nick Nickleby

Desperate to break free from the poverty of his homeland, Elias boards a ramshackle people-smuggling trawler to France. But when the boat is raided by police, Elias leaps into the ocean, eventually finding himself washed up on a Mediterranean beach resort called Eden. So begins Elias odyssesy across Western Europe to Paris, where wondrous promise, helpful new friends and perilous dangers await him every step of the way.

Betrayed

1988

English

♡ 15

36%

Costa-Gavras Director

Robert Minkoff as Bit

Stephen E. Miller as Buster

Robert Swan as Dean

Richard Libertini as Sam Kraus

An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist.

Shock Troops

1967

French

7.1

♡ 3

Costa-Gavras Director

Bruno Cremer as Cazal

Michel Piccoli as The Extra Man

Philippe Forquet as Topart

Guy Mairesse as Tricard

A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is suspected of being an enemy spy.

Z

1969

French

8.1

♡ 52

94%

92%

Action

assassination

central intelligence agency (cia)

Costa-Gavras Director

Georges Rouquier as

Guy Mairesse as Dumas dit le Russe

Charles Denner as Manuel

Bernard Fresson as Matt

Amid a tense political climate, the opposition leader is killed in an apparent accident. When a prosecutor smells a cover-up, witnesses get targeted. A thinly veiled dramatization of the assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis and its aftermath, “Z” captures the outrage at the US-backed junta that ruled Greece at the time of its release.

The Sleeping Car Murder

1965

French

7.2

♡ 4

79%

Costa-Gavras Director

Charles Denner as Bob Vaski - l'amant de Georgette

Simone Signoret as Eliane Darrès - une comédienne - 4e victime

Bernadette Lafont as La soeur de Georgette

Michel Piccoli as René Cabourg - un représentant - 2e victime

Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.

Missing

1982

English

7.7

♡ 27

94%

85%

Action

based on novel or book

Costa-Gavras Director

John Shea as Charles Horman

Gary Richardson as Operator U.S. Embassy

Melanie Mayron as Terry Simon

Richard Venture as U.S. Ambassador

Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the dictatorship.

Adults in the Room

2019

French

6.0

♡ 18

50%

Costa-Gavras Director

Olga Damani as Classy Bar Guest

Valeria Golino as Dea

Colin Stinton as Steve

Ulrich Tukur as Wolfgang

A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dictatorship of austerity, where humanity and compassion are utterly disregarded. A claustrophobic trap with no way out, exerting pressures on the protagonists which finally divide them.

Special Section

1975

French

7.6

♡ 5

81%

based on novel or book

Costa-Gavras Director

Guy Mairesse as Léon Redondeau

Henri Serre as Le préfet Ingrand, délégué du ministère de l'Intérieur en zone occupée

Jacques Mathou as M. Montillot, l'avocat d'Octave Lamand

Costa-Gavras as Un milicien

In occupied France during the WWII, 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.

Capital

2012

French

6.5

♡ 4

56%

46%

Action

Drama

Costa-Gavras Director

Gabriel Byrne as Dittmar Rigule

John Landis as man exiting The Sherry-Netherland

Gad Elmaleh as Marc Tourneuil

Céline Carrère as Sylvie

The head of a giant European investment bank desperately clings to power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy them out.

The Confession

1970

French

♡ 12

100%

85%

based on memoir or autobiography

based on novel or book

Costa-Gavras Director

Yves Montand as Gérard

Guy Mairesse as Le médecin

Simone Signoret as Lise

László Szabó as Secret policeman

The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement.

Hanna K.

1983

French

6.6

♡ 6

69%

Action

Drama

Costa-Gavras Director

Gideon Amir as Court lawyer

William Berger as German journalist

Gabriel Byrne as Joshua Herzog

Ronald Guttman as Prison director

Israeli attorney Hanna Kaufman has her beliefs challenged when she is appointed to the defense of Selim Bakri. Kaufman, who was born in the United States to survivors of the Holocaust, has always accepted Israel's right to exist. But she bears witness to some of the costs of its sovereignty when she meets Bakri, a dispossessed Palestinian man facing serious criminal charges who wants the same thing as his supposed enemies: to reclaim his family home.

Music Box

1989

English

7.4

♡ 13

75%

Costa-Gavras Director

Jessica Lange as Ann Talbot

Frederic Forrest as Jack Burke

Michael Rooker as Karchy Laszlo

Lukas Haas as Mikey Talbot

A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.

Amen.

2002

French

7.2

♡ 34

ss (nazi schutzstaffel)

vatican

vatican (holy see)

War

Costa-Gavras Director

Richard Durden as Ambassador Taylor

Justus von Dohnányi as Baron Von Otter

Ulrich Mühe as Doctor

Ulrich Tukur as Kurt Gerstein

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to kill Jews. Driven by his conscience to alert the rest of the world, Gerstein teams up with a young Jesuit priest, Riccardo Fontana, but their protestations fall on deaf ears in the Vatican.