Costa-Gavras

Career Overview

Costa-Gavras has 114 screen credits in a career dating back to 1958. Signature works include Womanlight, The Ax, Mad City. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For: Directing
Gender: male
Known Credits: 114
Birth Date: 1933-02-12
Birth Place: Loutra-Iraias, Greece

Known For

Frequent Collaborators

Karin Viard (2 collaborations)
Ulrich Tukur (2 collaborations)
Olga Grumberg (2 collaborations)
John Landis (2 collaborations)
Georges Corraface (2 collaborations)
Yves Montand (1 collaborations)
Romy Schneider (1 collaborations)
Romolo Valli (1 collaborations)
Lila Kedrova (1 collaborations)
Heinz Bennent (1 collaborations)

Credits

actors (54 credits)
- Carolco, un rêve hollywoodien
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2026
- La scripte
  Lui-même
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2026
- Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
  Self - filmmaker
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2026
- La Saga du Napoléon d'Abel Gance
  Self - President of the Cinémathèque Française
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2025
- The Legend of the Palme d’Or Continues
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2025
- Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2022
- Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2022
- Romy : 40 ans après, ultimes confidences
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2022
- A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2022
- Les Grands Créateurs de Cinéma : René Clément
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2022
- Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2021
- Morceaux de Cannes
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2021
- Resistencia Cultural
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2021
- The Méliès Mystery
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2021
- Citizen Rosi
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2019
- Searching for Mr. Rugoff
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2019
- Cannes 1968, révolution au palais
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2018
- A Sore Spot
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2017
- The Legend of the Ugly King
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2017
- Le Raconteur 2
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2017
- My Story Is Not Yet Written
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2017
- Le Raconteur
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2016
- Yves Montand, l'ombre au tableau
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2016
- Jean Gabin, une âme française
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2015
- Martin Scorsese Par Martin Scorsese
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2015
- Cinéma Jacques Perrin
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2014
- Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
  Self - Filmmaker
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2014
- Henri Langlois vu par...
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2014
- Looking for Athènes
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2013
- What Is Cinema?
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2013
- Ain't Misbehavin
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2013
- Affection to the People
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2013
- Jean-Louis Trintignant, pourquoi que je vis
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2012
- Il était une fois... « La Haine »
  Self - Producer
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2012
- The Extraordinary Voyage
  Self - Filmmaker
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2011
- Pierre Schoendoerffer, the Sentinel of Memory
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2011
- Burke & Hare
  French Family
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2010
- They Saw Inferno
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2010
- Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
  Self - Interviewee
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2009
- Critic
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2008
- Le Cercle
  
  - Costa-Gavras (2025) ... Self actor actors
  
  2005
- Chaplin Today: The Great Dictator
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2003
- Romy Schneider, étrange étrangère
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2002
- Entangling Shadows
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1998
- Vivement dimanche
  
  - Episode 18 (2005) ... Self actor actors
  
  1998
- The Stupids
  Gas Station Attendant
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1996
- The Last Bolshevik
  self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1994
- Rush - Voyage à Moscou
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1990
- Bette Davis at the Cinémathèque Française
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1986
- Spies Like Us
  Tadzhik Highway Patrolman
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1985
- Madame Rosa
  Le docteur Ramon
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1977
- Les Deux mémoires
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1974
- Spécial cinéma
  
  - Episode 29 (1983) ... Self actor actors
  
  - Episode 17 (1979) ... Self actor actors
  
  1974
- You Speak of Prague: The Second Trial of Artur London
  Self - Interviewee
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1971
crew (1 credits)
- No Other Choice
  thanks
  
  crew
  
  2025
directing (32 credits)
- Before What Comes After
  director
  
  directing
  
  2025
- Adults in the Room
  director
  
  directing
  
  2019
- Henri Langlois vu par...
  director
  
  directing
  
  2014
- Capital
  director
  
  directing
  
  2012
- Eden Is West
  director
  
  directing
  
  2009
- The Ax
  director
  
  directing
  
  2005
- Parthénon
  director
  
  directing
  
  2003
- Amen.
  director
  
  directing
  
  2002
- Mad City
  director
  
  directing
  
  1997
- Lumière & Company
  director
  
  directing
  
  1995
- Concerning Nice
  director
  
  directing
  
  1995
- Et avec la Lumière et la Mort sans cesse
  director
  
  directing
  
  1994
- The Little Apocalypse
  director
  
  directing
  
  1993
- Lest We Forget
  director
  
  directing
  
  1991
- Music Box
  director
  
  directing
  
  1989
- Family Business
  director
  
  directing
  
  1986
- Hanna K.
  director
  
  directing
  
  1983
- Missing
  director
  
  directing
  
  1982
- Womanlight
  director
  
  directing
  
  1979
- Special Section
  director
  
  directing
  
  1975
- State of Siege
  director
  
  directing
  
  1972
- The Confession
  director
  
  directing
  
  1970
- Z
  director
  
  directing
  
  1969
- Shock Troops
  director
  
  directing
  
  1967
- The Sleeping Car Murders
  director
  
  directing
  
  1965
- Backfire
  first assistant director
  
  directing
  
  1964
- Joy House
  assistant director
  
  directing
  
  1964
- The Day and the Hour
  assistant director
  
  directing
  
  1963
- Bay of Angels
  assistant director
  
  directing
  
  1963
- A Monkey in Winter
  assistant director
  
  directing
  
  1962
- Croesus
  assistant director
  
  directing
  
  1960
- Les Ratés
  director
  
  directing
  
  1958
editing (2 credits)
- Before What Comes After
  editor
  
  editing
  
  2025
- Adults in the Room
  editor
  
  editing
  
  2019
production (6 credits)
- Before What Comes After
  producer
  
  production
  
  2025
- I Still Hide to Smoke
  producer
  
  production
  
  2017
- Eden Is West
  producer
  
  production
  
  2009
- The Colonel
  producer
  
  production
  
  2006
- Tea in the Harem
  producer
  
  production
  
  1985
- Special Section
  producer
  
  production
  
  1975
writing (19 credits)
- Before What Comes After
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  2025
- Adults in the Room
  writer
  
  writing
  
  2019
- Capital
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  2012
- Eden Is West
  writer
  
  writing
  
  2009
- The Colonel
  story
  
  writing
  
  2006
- The Ax
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  2005
- Amen.
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  2002
- The Little Apocalypse
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1993
- Family Business
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  1986
- Hanna K.
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1983
- Missing
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  1982
- Womanlight
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1979
- Mr. Klein
  co-writer
  
  writing
  
  1976
- Special Section
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1975
- State of Siege
  scenario writer
  
  writing
  
  1972
- Z
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1969
- Shock Troops
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1967
- The Sleeping Car Murders
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1965
- Les Ratés
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  1958