Jules Dassin Movies

An indictment of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. The film tries to give a reconstruction of the events during the students' uprising in...

A journey to places, where the overlooked Hollywood screenwriter Albert Isaac "Buzz" Bezzerides lived and worked, revealing the operation of...

Greece, in the 1920s, is occupied by the Turks. The country is in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. The site of the movie is a Greek village...

A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then France, and is over-ambitious about him but...

In this classic Edgar Allan Poe story, a man commits a murder, but afterward the victim's beating heart torments the murderer's mind.

A female traveling companion seduces a married man and his alcoholic wife.

A documentary about a relationships between USSR and France.

Filled with humor and defining experiences in both his own life and in the lives of some of his closest friends, William Faulkner and Robert Aldrich,...

Theo Angelopoulos: A Lifework in Film

Theo Angelopoulos recalls the defining moment in 1964 that led to him to live his entire life in Greece, and explores the concept of borders in his...

In 1968, filmmaker Jules Dassin collaborated with Ruby Dee and civil rights activist Julian Mayfield on Uptight, a "politically radical" film noir...

This film documentary uses the 1967 Six-Day War and its immediate aftermath as its basis. The material primarily presents Israeli sources and...