Search results for "Costa-Gavras"
Z (1969)

Z (1969)

Z (1969)
IMDb: 8.2
127 min

Repression is the rule of the day in this film that skewers Greek governance of the 1960s. Z, a leftist rabble rouser, is killed in what appears to be a…

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Amen.

Amen.

Amen.
IMDb: 7.2
132 min

Kurt Gerstein, a sanitation engineer from his family, is appointed by the SS as the head of the Institute for Hygiene in World War II to clean the water for…

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Genre: Drama, History
Missing (1982)

Missing (1982)

Missing (1982)
IMDb: 7.7
122 min

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…

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Adults in the Room

Adults in the Room

Adults in the Room
IMDb: 6.0
124 min

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…

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Genre: Drama
Mad City

Mad City

Mad City
IMDb: 6.3
115 min

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.

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Betrayed (1988)

Betrayed (1988)

Betrayed (1988)
IMDb: 6.3
127 min

An FBI agent (Debra Winger) falls in love with a white supremacist (Tom Berenger) whose group she infiltrates.

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State of Siege

State of Siege

State of Siege
IMDb: 7.8
120 min

In Uruguay in the early 1970s, an official of the US Agency for International Development (a group used as a front for training foreign police in counterinsurgency methods) is kidnapped…

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Genre: Drama, Thriller
The Confession

The Confession

The Confession
IMDb: 7.9
139 min

Anton Ludvik, aka Gerard, is vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia. He realizes he is watched and followed. One day, he is arrested and jailed in solitary confinement, and tortured…

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Genre: Drama
Music Box

Music Box

Music Box
IMDb: 7.4
124 min

Hungarian immigrant Mike Laszlo has done well for himself since arriving in the USA over 40 years ago after WWII's end. He is particularly proud of his daughter, Ann, a…

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Ax

The Ax

The Ax
IMDb: 7.4
117 min

Bruno Davert, a chemist working for a paper company, is fired. After three years he's still unemployed, too much competition for the few job position he could fit in his…

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Capital

Capital

Capital
IMDb: 6.5
114 min

When the CEO of France's Phenix Bank collapses on the golf course, Machiavellian young executive Marc Tourneuil is crowned as his replacement. A whirlwind of ruthless ambition, power struggles, greed…

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Genre: Drama
Shock Troops

Shock Troops

Shock Troops
IMDb: 7.0
110 min

A French resistance group liberates some prisoners from the German. Could one of the prisoners be a spy?

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Genre: History, Thriller, War
Eden Is West

Eden Is West

Eden Is West
IMDb: 6.8
110 min

Elias is an immigrant in his twenties who tries to get to Europe by a boat along with other illegal immigrants. When the boat is near the Greek shores and…

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Genre: Drama