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Z Costa-Gavras A landmark political thriller, Costa-Gavras' Academy Award-winning film follows the routine investigation of a seemingly accidental death of a Greek pacifist leader, which eventually uncovers a web of violence and terrorist tactics that implicates an entire government in its secret conspiracy to murder an honest man. "...one of the fastest, most exciting melodramas ever made...never loses emotional contact with the audience" (Pauline Kael, The New Yorker). Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin, Yves Montand and Irene Papas. The DVD is letterboxed, and includes director's commentary, excerpts from Costa-Gavras Talks with Marcel Ophuls: Political Films, photo gallery, trailer, and more; with optional German and Spanish subtitles. French with English subtitles. France/Algeria, 1969, 128 mins. Videocassette | $44.95 DVD | $44.95
Amen Costa-Gavras Filmmaker Costa-Gavras (Missing) tackles the Vatican's unwillingness to oppose the Holocaust in this intense drama. When Nazi officer Kurt Gerstein (Ulrich Tukur) learns that his invention, Zyclon B, is being used to exterminate Jews, he tries to inform Pope Pius XII (Marcel Iures) of the Nazi's atrocities. His pleas fall on deaf ears, but he finds a sympathetic supporter in Father Riccardo Fontana (Mathieu Kassovitz), a man who risks his life to convince the Vatican of the horrors of the Nazi regime. DVD is letterboxed, and includes a behind-the-scenes documentary, scene comparisons, the official pressbook, and more. English, French, Italian, and German dialogue. France, 2002, 132 mins. DVD | $37.95
Betrayed Costa-Gavras Greek director Costa-Gavras investigates white hate groups in America in this controversial drama. Debra Winger stars as a novice FBI undercover agent sent to locate and identify rural political unrest in the heartland. She finds there are two sides to the widower father played by Tom Berenger and both are heavily armed. With John Heard and John Mahoney. In English. USA, 1988, 127 mins. DVD | $37.95
Mad City Costa-Gavras Costa-Gavras, in his first movie after a six year hiatus, skewers TV news in this handsomely mounted anecdote starring Dustin Hoffman as a small-town California local TV reporter trying to make it back to a network. When he stumbles upon a recently fired museum security guard (John Travolta), a shotgun and a bag of dynamite, he blows the incident up into a TV event. In English. USA, 1997, 115 mins. DVD | $37.95
Missing Costa-Gavras Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek and John Shea star in Costa-Gavras' political thriller based on the true story of Charles Horman, an American writer who disappears and is killed during the overthrow of Allende's government in Chile. Lemmon is the concerned father whose attempts to learn the truth are stonewalled by bureaucracy and cover-up. English dialog. USA, 1983, 122 mins. DVD | $37.95
Music Box Costa-Gavras Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Costa-Gavras' political thriller stars Jessica Lange as a Chicago attorney defending her father, a Hungarian immigrant (Armin Mueller-Stahl) accused of heinous war crimes more than 50 years ago. Written by Joe Eszterhas (Basic Instinct). In English. USA, 1989, 126 mins. DVD | $37.95
