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?
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Which of these selected political films directed by him interests you the most?
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- DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsYves MontandIrene PapasJean-Louis TrintignantThe 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.About a murder of a prominent leftist politician in Greece.
- DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsJack LemmonSissy SpacekMelanie MayronWhen an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.About an American journalist, Charles Horman who disappeared in the 1973 coup d'état in Chile.
- DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsUlrich TukurMathieu KassovitzUlrich MüheDuring 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.Based in part on the highly controversial 1963 play, Der Stellvertreter. Ein christliches Trauerspiel (The Deputy, a Christian Tragedy), by Rolf Hochhuth.
- DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsJessica LangeArmin Mueller-StahlFrederic ForrestA lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.About a respected Hungarian immigrant (Armin Mueller-Stahl) who is accused of having commanded an Anti-Semitic death squad during World War II.
- DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsDebra WingerTom BerengerJohn HeardAn FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist.Roughly based upon the terrorist activities of American neo-Nazi and white supremacist Robert Mathews and his group The Order.
- DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsChristos LoulisAlexandros BourdoumisUlrich TukurGreece in 2015: the economy is in tatters and the country is on the verge of bankruptcy. A new government rebels against the EU's iron-fisted rule and inspires millions of Europeans. Based on the political memoirs of Yanis Varoufakis.Greece in 2015: the economy is in tatters and the country is on the verge of bankruptcy.
- DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsYves MontandRenato SalvatoriO.E. HasseUsing 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.It takes place in Uruguay under the civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay in the early 1970s.
- DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsYves MontandSimone SignoretGabriele FerzettiA high-ranking official is forced to confess to high treason.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.
- DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsLouis SeignerRoland BertinMichael LonsdaleIn 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.In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered and the government tries to hide the facts.
- DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsJill ClayburghJean YanneGabriel ByrneAn 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.About an Israeli lawyer is defending a Palestinian charged by The Military Court System in the Israeli-Occupied Territories.
- DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsCharles VanelBruno CremerJean-Claude BrialyA French resistance group liberates some prisoners from the German. Could one of the prisoners be a spy?About a French resistance group liberates some prisoners from the German.