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Costa-Gavras
Writer 93 years old

Costa-Gavras

Loutra-Iraias, Greece

Konstantinos "Kostas" Gavras (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος "Κώστας" Γαβράς; born 12 February 1933), known professionally as Costa-Gavras, is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France. He is known for political films, such as the political... Read full bio →

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

15 titles
Adults in the Room

Adults in the Room

Costa-Gavras 2019 2h 4m 5.0

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.

Le capital

Le capital

Costa-Gavras 2012 1h 54m

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

Eden à l'Ouest

Eden à l'Ouest

Costa-Gavras 2009 1h 50m

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.

Mon colonel

Mon colonel

Laurent Herbiet 2006 1h 50m

'Reformed Colonel' Raoul Duplan is found dead in Paris, a couple of decades after Algeria's struggle for independence was won from France. Assigned to investigate, Lieutenant Galois receives the diary of Lieutenent Guy Rossi, who served under Duplan in Algeria in 1956, and has been reported as MIA since 1957.

Le couperet

Le couperet

Costa-Gavras 2005 1h 58m 6.8

A chemist loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.

Amen.

Amen.

Costa-Gavras 2002 2h 12m 6.9

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.

La petite apocalypse

La petite apocalypse

Costa-Gavras 1993 1h 50m 4.0

An unknown Polish writer can't publish his novels, so his ex-wife decides to help him and get some of the profit for herself. She finally finds a publisher, but there's a strange single condition that could cost the writer his life.

Conseil de famille

Conseil de famille

Costa-Gavras 1986 2h 4m 6.0

French rocker Johnny Halliday stars as a professional thief just released from jail. He returns to stealing to support his family. After several successful thefts, he decides to include his under-aged kid into the "family business".

Hanna K.

Hanna K.

Costa-Gavras 1983 1h 40m 7.0

A female American Israeli lawyer is defending a Palestinian charged by an Israeli court. It's a tough case because of strong political background. Meanwhile she finds out she's pregnant and thinks about abortion.

Missing

Missing

Costa-Gavras 1982 2h 3m 7.4

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.

Clair de femme

Clair de femme

Costa-Gavras 1979 1h 38m 8.0

Having both suffered extreme losses, two disparate souls try to form a relationship for consolation rather than romance.

Section spéciale

Section spéciale

Costa-Gavras 1975 1h 50m 8.0

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.

Z

Z

Costa-Gavras 1969 2h 2m 7.6

The 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.

1 homme de trop

1 homme de trop

Costa-Gavras 1967 1h 51m 8.0

A French resistance group liberates some German prisoners. Turns out one of them is a spy.

Compartiment tueurs

Compartiment tueurs

Costa-Gavras 1965 1h 29m 7.7

The witnesses of a train murder must take the investigation into their own hands if they want to survive.

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