Cast & creator
Costa-Gavras
Best known for Vivement dimanche, Spécial cinéma, Clique
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 thriller Z (1969), which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Missing (1982), for which he won the Palme d'Or and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Most of his films have been made in French, but six have been in English, including Hanna K.. Description above from the Wikipedia article Costa-Gavras, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as: Costa Gavras, Κώστας Γαβράς, Constantin Costa-Gavras, Konstantínos Gavrás, 科斯塔·加夫拉斯
113
film credits
12
television credits
63
1958–2027 · acting roles
6.4
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (125)
Showing 125 of 125 credits
Vivement dimanche
Self
1998
Spécial cinéma
Self
1974
Clique
Self - Guest
2013
Discorama
Self
1959
Nulle part ailleurs
Self
1987
Beau geste
Self
2023
Ciné regards
Self
1978
No Other Choice
Thanks
2025
Cérémonie des César
Self - Presenter
1976
Leçon de Cinéma
Self
2004Leçon de Cinéma
Self - Host
2004
Le Cercle
Self
2005
Spies Like Us
Tadzhik Highway Patrolman
1985
Burke & Hare
French Family
2010
Z
Director
1969Z
Writer
1969
Mr. Klein
Co-Writer
1976
A Monkey in Winter
Assistant Director
1962
Mad City
Director
1997
The Ax
Director
2005The Ax
Screenplay
2005
Adults in the Room
Director
2019Adults in the Room
Writer
2019Adults in the Room
Editor
2019
Joy House
Assistant Director
1964
The Stupids
Gas Station Attendant
1996
Missing
Director
1982Missing
Screenplay
1982
Betrayed
Director
1988
Music Box
Director
1989
Womanlight
Director
1979Womanlight
Writer
1979
Bay of Angels
Assistant Director
1963
Amen.
Screenplay
2002Amen.
Director
2002
Resistencia Cultural
Self
2021
State of Siege
Director
1972State of Siege
Scenario Writer
1972
The Extraordinary Voyage
Self - Filmmaker
2011
Madame Rosa
Le docteur Ramon
1977
Lumière & Company
Director
1995
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Self
2022
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
Self - Interviewee
2009
Carolco, un rêve hollywoodien
2026
Capital
Director
2012Capital
Screenplay
2012
The Confession
Director
1970
Family Business
Director
1986Family Business
Screenplay
1986
I Still Hide to Smoke
Producer
2017
Eden Is West
Director
2009Eden Is West
Writer
2009Eden Is West
Producer
2009
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Self - Filmmaker
2014
The Day and the Hour
Assistant Director
1963
The Legend of the Ugly King
Self
2017
Shock Troops
Writer
1967Shock Troops
Director
1967
The Sleeping Car Murders
Director
1965The Sleeping Car Murders
Writer
1965
Ain't Misbehavin
Self
2013
Martin Scorsese Par Martin Scorsese
Self
2015
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
La scripte
Lui-même
2026
Before What Comes After
Director
2025Before What Comes After
Screenplay
2025Before What Comes After
Editor
2025Before What Comes After
Producer
2025
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
Self
2022
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
Self - filmmaker
2026
Croesus
Assistant Director
1960Le siècle de Costa-Gavras
Self - subject, filmmaker
2027
The Last Bolshevik
self
1994
Henri Langlois vu par...
Self
2014Henri Langlois vu par...
Director
2014
Hanna K.
Director
1983Hanna K.
Writer
1983Le Raconteur
Self
2016
The Legend of the Palme d’Or Continues
Self
2025
Special Section
Director
1975Special Section
Producer
1975Special Section
Writer
1975
Backfire
First Assistant Director
1964
A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé
Self
2022
You Speak of Prague: The Second Trial of Artur London
Self - Interviewee
1971
Concerning Nice
Director
1995
Romy : 40 ans après, ultimes confidences
Self
2022
Les Grands Créateurs de Cinéma : René Clément
Self
2022
Romy Schneider, étrange étrangère
Self
2002
Cannes 1968, révolution au palais
Self
2018
Looking for Athènes
Self
2013
Les Deux mémoires
Self
1974
Critic
Self
2008
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood
Self
2021Jean-Louis Trintignant, pourquoi que je vis
Self
2012
Rush - Voyage à Moscou
Self
1990
Il était une fois... « La Haine »
Self - Producer
2012
The Colonel
Story
2006The Colonel
Producer
2006
Tea in the Harem
Producer
1985
What Is Cinema?
Self
2013
Pierre Schoendoerffer, the Sentinel of Memory
Self
2011
Jean Gabin, une âme française
Self
2015
Chaplin Today: The Great Dictator
Self
2003
The Méliès Mystery
Self
2021
They Saw Inferno
Self
2010
Lest We Forget
Director
1991
The Little Apocalypse
Director
1993The Little Apocalypse
Writer
1993
Yves Montand, l'ombre au tableau
Self
2016
My Story Is Not Yet Written
Self
2017
La Saga du Napoléon d'Abel Gance
Self - President of the Cinémathèque Française
2025
Bette Davis at the Cinémathèque Française
Self
1986Le Raconteur 2
Self
2017Cinéma Jacques Perrin
Self
2014
Citizen Rosi
Self
2019
Entangling Shadows
Self
1998Et avec la Lumière et la Mort sans cesse
Director
1994
Affection to the People
Self
2013
A Sore Spot
Self
2017
Les Ratés
Screenplay
1958Les Ratés
Director
1958Les Ratés
Writer
1958
Searching for Mr. Rugoff
Self
2019Parthénon
Director
2003