Z (1969)

A political thriller that moves like a heist movie and still makes your blood boil. Costa-Gavras fictionalizes the 1963 murder of the Greek politician and physician Grigoris Lambrakis, with Jean-Louis Trintignant as the quietly relentless magistrate who refuses to accept the official story of an accident. Shot as a French and Algerian co-production while Greece was under the junta it attacks, it was entered for Algeria, won the editing Oscar as well, and was only the second foreign-language film nominated for Best Picture. The rapid-fire cutting still feels modern, and the closing epilogue hits hard.