Costa-Gavras

A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth, but a tenacious magistrate is determined to not to let them get away with it.

Dir. Costa-Gavras · With Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Assigned to South America, US official Philip Michael Santore is employed by a counterinsurgency agency. His position makes him a target for a local band of guerrillas, and, before long, Santore is kidnapped. As a prisoner, he undergoes interrogation, shedding light on the violent situation in the country. Once the insurgents are done with their questioning, they must decide whether Santore lives or dies.

Dir. Costa-Gavras · With Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse

In 1950s communist Czechoslovakia, a government minister, a war veteran long a loyal party man, leads a relatively comfortable life with his wife. However, he soon finds himself under surveillance, then under arrest. Unclear what his offense is, agents for the totalitarian regime interrogate and torture him, aiming to use their unending power to gain a false confession for these supposed crimes against the state.

Dir. Costa-Gavras · With Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti

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.

Dir. Costa-Gavras · With Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron

Bruno loved his job as a middle manager at a paper company, but optimistically views being laid off as an opportunity. After two years of searching for a comparable position, optimism turns to desperation. His wife works two jobs, and their marriage slowly deteriorates as their hold on the middle class slips away. Bruno concocts a grimly audacious plan to identify and kill his fellow job applicants so that he is the only qualified person left.

Dir. Costa-Gavras · With José Garcia, Karin Viard, Ulrich Tukur

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

Dir. Costa-Gavras · With Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Donald Moffat

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.

Dir. Costa-Gavras · With Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe

A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.

Dir. Costa-Gavras · With John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman, Mia Kirshner

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

Dir. Costa-Gavras · With Debra Winger, Tom Berenger, John Heard

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.

Dir. Costa-Gavras · With Christos Loulis, Alexandros Bourdoumis, Ulrich Tukur

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

Dir. Costa-Gavras · With Gad Elmaleh, Natacha Régnier, Gabriel Byrne