Jules Dassin Movies

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

Maya is a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea. Searching for inspiration and clues as to how a...

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

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

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,...

Featuring previously unseen footage from an early-1980s Los Angeles party honouring the blacklistees. (Note: this is an expanded version of footage...

A widowed lecturer's two grown children try to break up what they believe is her inappropriate romance with a staid college professor.

During World War II, Evie O'Connor, a secretary at Trojan Shirt Company, yearns for a tall, strong man to love her. When she slides an anonymous note...

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...

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

Theo Angelopoulos: A Lifework in Film

A documentary about a relationships between USSR and France.

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...

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