Amen. 2002  N/R, 130 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Costa-Gavras
Cast: Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Muhe, Michel Duchaussoy, Ion Caramitru, Marcel Iures, Friedrich von Thun, Antje Schmidt, Hanns Zischler, Sebastian Koch
World War II, S.S. officer Kurt Gerstein (Ulrich Tukur) learns that the Nazis are exterminating Jews at a Polish death camp and tells a Jesuit priest (Mathieu Kassovitz) who, in turn, promises to inform Pope Pius XII.
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Betrayed 1988   R, 128 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Costa-Gavras
Cast: Debra Winger, Tom Berenger, John Heard, John Mahoney, Betsy Blair, Ted Levine, Jeffrey DeMunn, Albert Hall, David Clennon, Richard Libertini
An FBI agent (Debra Winger), posing as an itinerant farm worker to expose a right-wing organization's involvement in the killing of a television personality, falls in love with a farmer and discovers that he's a racist murderer.
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Hanna K. 1983 R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Costa-Gavras
Cast: Jill Clayburgh, Jean Yanne, Gabriel Byrne, Mohammed Bakri, David Clennon, Shimon Finkel, Oded Kotler, Michal Bat-Adam
A Jewish-American lawyer, Hanna Kaufman (Jill Clayburgh), lives in Tel Aviv where she opts for a relationship with a Zionist, Joshua Herzog (Gabriel Byrne), instead of Palestinian activist Selim Bakri (Mohammad Bakri) in this controversial pro-Palestinian film.
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 Mad City 1997  PG-13, 114 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Costa-Gavras
Cast: John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman, Mia Kirshner, Alan Alda, Robert Prosky, Blythe Danner, William Atherton, Ted Levine, Tammy Lauren, Raymond J. Barry
A museum security guard, Sam Baily, has lost his job and, out of frustration, takes museum visitors hostage. Reporter Max Brackett (Dustin Hoffman) just happens to be on the scene and seizes the moment to advance his own career.
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Madame Rosa 1977 PG, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Moshe Mizrahi
Cast: Simone Signoret, Samy Ben Youb, Claude Dauphin, Michal Bat-Adam, Gabriel Jabbour, Costa-Gavras, Bernard La Jarrige, Mohamed Zinet, Genevieve Fontanel, Elio Bencoil
A retired prostitute and Nazi concentration camp survivor, Rosa (Simone Signoret), tends the children of prostitutes. The somewhat plodding film received the Best Foreign Film Academy Award.
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 Missing 1982  PG, 122 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Mystery
Director: Costa-Gavras
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, Janice Rule, Charles Cioffi, Jerry Hardin, David Clennon, Richard Venture, Richard Bradford, Joe Regalbuto, Keith Szarabajka, John Doolittle, Ward Costello, Hansford Rowe
This fine drama concerns a family's frantic search for journalist Charles Horman (John Shea) who disappeared during a coup in Chile. Jack Lemmon plays the father who teams up with his daughter-in-law (Sissy Spacek) in an attempt to uncover the truth in a very tense situation. The film received an Oscar for Best Screenplay and was nominated for three others: Best Picture, Actor, and Actress.
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Music Box 1989 PG-13, 123 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Costa-Gavras
Cast: Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Frederic Forrest, Donald Moffat, Lukas Haas, Michael Rooker, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Albert Hall, Mari Torocsik, J.S. Block, Sol Frieder, Elzbieta Czyzewska, Magda Szekely Marburg, Felix Shuman, Michael Shillo
Following her father Michael Laszlo's (Armin Mueller-Stahl) arrest for being a Nazi sympathizer, Ann Talbot (Jessica Lange) agrees to defend her father. Laszlo was a Hungarian immigrant who came to the United States during World War II, claiming to be a farmer. It is now 50 years later, and he faces deportation because he has lied about his occupation. A trial awaits him in Hungary for wartime atrocities. Ann is convinced that her father is innocent, but as the trial progresses, she struggles emotionally as her father's guilt becomes more and more evident. Lange received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress.
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Special Section 1975 PG, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Costa-Gavras
Cast: Louis Seigner, Michael Lonsdale, Jacques Perrin, Bruno Cremer, Pierre Dux, Henri Serre, Roland Bertin, Ivo Garrani, Francois Maistre, Jacques Spiesser
Based on a true story involving Marxists killing a German officer in a Paris subway, this film explores forces behind the Vichy government's appeasement of Nazis even when judges and cabinet members were in no immediate danger themselves.
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Spies Like Us 1985 PG, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Landis
Cast: Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Donna Dixon, Steve Forrest, Bruce Davison, Bernie Casey, William Prince, Frank Oz, Terry Gilliam, Charles McKeown, Tom Hatten, James Daughton, Jim Staahl, Costa-Gavras, Ray Harryhausen
Inept government workers Emmett Fitz-Hume and Austin Milbarge (Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd) yearn for the exciting lives of espionage agents. They cheat on their Foreign Service Board exams for the CIA and get promoted. What they do not know is that the CIA considers them to be disposable and uses them as decoys for the real spies. They are dropped off in Pakistan where they fight Pakistani rebels and become involved in trying to stop Gen. Sline's (Steve Forrest) plan to start World War III.
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 Z 1969  PG, 125 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Costa-Gavras
Cast: Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner, Francois Perier, Pierre Dux, Bernard Fresson, Renato Salvatori, Marcel Bozzuffi, Gorges Geret, Julien Guiomar, Magali Noel, Clotilde Joano, Habib Reda
On his way to giving a speech opposing the use of the atomic bomb, Greek pacifist Z (Yves Montand) is attacked by right-wing political extremists. The police have done little to protect Z, and, later, when Z is killed after being clubbed on the head, the police also had not protected him. The Examining Magistrate (Jean-Luis Trintignant) is appointed to look into the matter and finds that there was, indeed, a cover-up involving the police. The film is based on the 1963 killing of Gregorios Lambrakis and employs flashbacks as a tool for intrigue. "Z" won Academy Awards for Best Foreign Picture and Editing and was nominated for Best Picture and Director.
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| 1. Amen. (2002)
2. Betrayed (1988)
3. Hanna K. (1983)
4. Mad City (1997)
5. Madame Rosa (1977)
6. Missing (1982)
7. Music Box (1989)
8. Special Section (1975)
9. Spies Like Us (1985)
10. Z (1969)
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