List of the best Costa-Gavras movies: State of Siege(1972), The Ax(2005), The Sleeping Car Murders(1965), Amen(2002), Eden Is West(2009), Capital(2012), Adults in the Room(2019), Z(1969) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
France|Italy|West Germany
1972
120 Minutes
Director
Yves Montand Renato Salvatori O.E. Hasse Jacques Weber Jean-Luc Bideau Evangeline Peterson Maurice Teynac Yvette Étiévant
government official guerrilla captive captor tense uneasy south america uruguay insurgency government repression captivity kidnapping interrogation underdog fall 1970s
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.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Comedy, Drama
Belgium|France|Spain
2005
122 Minutes
Director
José Garcia Karin Viard Olivier Gourmet Ulrich Tukur Yvon Back Thierry Hancisse Geordy Monfils Christa Théret Olga Grumberg Yolande Moreau Dieudonné Kabongo
unemployed person wife executive police detective son husband dark emotional amusing suspenseful suburb motel house europe unemployment murder capitalism desperation financial crisis marriage
A chemist (Garcia) loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.
Mystery & Thriller
France
1965
95 Minutes
Director
Yves Montand Simone Signoret Pierre Mondy Catherine Allégret Pascale Roberts Jacques Perrin Michel Piccoli Jean-Louis Trintignant Charles Denner Claude Mann Nadine Alari
Six people travel in a railroad sleeping car from Marseilles to Paris. Upon their arrival, a woman is found dead in one of the berths. The police investigate the other five passengers, ... See full summary »
Drama, History
France|Germany|Romania
2002
132 Minutes
Director
Ulrich Tukur Mathieu Kassovitz Ulrich Mühe Michel Duchaussoy Ion Caramitru Marcel Iures Friedrich von Thun Antje Schmidt Hanns Zischler
chemist pope pius xii priest nazi diplomat son incredible disheartening somber moving germany vatican concentration camp poland italy holocaust kurt gerstein guilt religion politics
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.
Drama
France|Greece|Italy
2009
110 Minutes
Director
Riccardo Scamarcio Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos Léa Wiazemsky Tess Spentzos Kristen Ross Stella-Melina Vasilaki Gil Alma Éric Caravaca Marissa Triandafyllidou Konstandinos Markoulakis Mona Achache
A drama centered around the illegal immigrants living in the EU.
Drama
France
2012
114 Minutes
Director
Gad Elmaleh Gabriel Byrne Natacha Régnier Céline Sallette Liya Kebede Hippolyte Girardot Daniel Mesguich Olga Grumberg Bernard Le Coq Philippe Duclos Yann Sundberg
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.
Biography, Drama
France|Greece
2019
Minutes
Director
Christos Loulis Ulrich Tukur Vincent Nemeth Daan Schuurmans Valeria Golino George Corraface Colin Stinton Christos Stergioglou Francesco Acquaroli Adrian Frieling Alexandros Bourdoumis
Greece 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.
Mystery & Thriller
1969
127 Minutes
Director
Yves Montand Irene Papas Jean-Louis Trintignant Jacques Perrin Charles Denner François Périer Pierre Dux Julien Guiomar Bernard Fresson Renato Salvatori Marcel Bozzuffi
political activist government official doctor murderer dark dense powerful greece city hospital police corruption political corruption city life accident cover-up rivalry sacrifice 1960s
A judge (Jean-Louis Trintignant) proves a leftist's (Yves Montand) hit-and-run death was a Fascist plot.