Cast: Irene Papas

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Yves Montand · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Irene Papas · Jacques Perrin

Synopsis In a country ruled by a fragile democracy where the police and the military are set on erradicating all threats from the political left, a member of the parliamentary opposition is murdered in the street right after leading a pacifist...

Direction Francesco Rosi

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Paolo Bonacelli · Alain Cuny · Lea Massari

Synopsis The story follows a real life anti-fascist intellectual, Carlo Levi, into his forced exile in small, isolated village in a remote region of Southern Italy. The village is populated by inhabitants who barely survive on the meager harvest of the...

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast Gregory Peck · David Niven · Richard Harris · Anthony Quinn

Synopsis During WWII, British Intelligence in the Middle East sends six men to the Aegean island of Navarone to destroy guns manned by the Germans. Consistently interesting war epic based on the Alistair MacLean novel, with a vivid cast.

Direction Mihalis Kakogiannis

Cast Anthony Quinn · Alan Bates · Irene Papas · Lila Kedrova

Synopsis Basil, a young English writer of Greek ancestry, meets an older, free-spirited Greek peasant named Zorba (Anthony Quinn) on the island of Crete. While Zorba pursues a relationship with Madame Hortense, an aging French courtesan, the inhibited Basil summons up...

Direction Mihalis Kakogiannis

Cast Irene Papas · Tatiana Papamoschou · Kostas Kazakos · Costas Carras

Synopsis The Greek army is becalmed in Aulis and unable to sail to Troy. King Agamemnon has to face food shortage, the soldiers' mutiny but also soothsayer Calhas' intrigues, who saw the King killing his sacred cows, during a demonstration of...

Direction Mario Monicelli · Steno

Cast Gina Lollobrigida · May Britt · Pierre Cressoy · Tina Lattanzi

Synopsis An industrialist has his wife tailed because he secretly hopes she is betraying him so that he can ask for a divorce and marry the model he's fallen in love with. This leads to a series of thefts, blackmail and...

Direction Charles Jarrott

Cast Richard Burton · Geneviève Bujold · Irene Papas · Michael Hordern

Synopsis Henry VIII of England discards one wife Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of a young and beautiful woman, Anne Boleyn, whose one-thousand-day reign as Queen of England ends with the loss of...

Direction Franco Rossi · Mario Bava · Piero Schivazappa

Cast Bekim Fehmiu · Irene Papas · Renaud Verley · Barbara Bach

Direction Moustapha Akkad

Cast Anthony Quinn · Oliver Reed · Irene Papas · Rod Steiger

Synopsis This movie is about Omar Mukhtar, a Muslim and Arabian rebellion who fought against the Italian conquering of Libya in WWII. The movie put a spot of light on this little known replion for the West, and uncover the savage...

Direction Mihalis Kakogiannis

Cast Irene Papas · Giannis Fertis · Aleka Katselli · Manos Katrakis

Synopsis A powerful rendering of the tragedy of Elektra by Euripides. The film begins with a summary treatment without dialogue of the action of the preceding play in the trilogy, The Agamemnon, in which the wicked Queen Clytemnestra and her lover...

Direction Yorgos Javellas

Cast Irene Papas · Manos Katrakis · Maro Kodou · Nikos Kazis

Synopsis In Thebes in ancient Greece, King Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother Jocasta, having two sons - Eteocles and Polyneices - and two daughters - Ismene and Antigone. King Oedipus dies a beggar in the exile after gouging...

Direction Lucio Fulci

Cast Barbara Bouchet · Tomas Milian · Marc Porel · Florinda Bolkan

Synopsis In Sicily, Italy, a psycho killer is going around hacking up young boys. There are several suspects, including a gypsy witch, a local prostatute, and a priest. Early slasher film from director Lucio Fulci.

Direction Elio Petri

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Irene Papas · Gabriele Ferzetti · Salvo Randone

Synopsis A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to learn it.

Direction Robert Wise

Cast James Cagney · Irene Papas · Vic Morrow · Don Dubbins

Synopsis Easterner Steve Miller (Don Dubbins), making his way west, comes to work for rich, ruthless landowner and horse breeder Jeremy Rodock (Cagney), who doesn’t hesitate to hang cattle rustlers and, with Miller’s help, run dangerous horse thieves from his land....

Direction Moustapha Akkad

Cast Anthony Quinn · Irene Papas · Habib Ageli · Michael Ansara

Synopsis Handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the prophet Mohammed -- who, in accordance with the tenants of Islam, is never seen or heard (as this is offensive to certain islamic schools of...

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Luis Miguel Cintra · José Pinto · Irene Papas · Leonor Silveira

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Leonor Silveira · Catherine Deneuve · Irene Papas · Filipa de Almeida

Synopsis Rosa Maria, a young History professor, sets out with her daughter Maria Joana on a cruise that will travel through the Mediterranean to Bombay , India, where they will meet her husband. This pleasure cruise also serves for Rosa Maria,...

Direction Andrei Konchalovsky

Cast Armand Assante · Greta Scacchi · Isabella Rossellini · Bernadette Peters

Synopsis The movie follows the ancient Greek names, thus it is irrelevant to use the Roman name Ulysses. Generally, it was poorly written. Homer's classic epic poem about the hero, Odysseus, and his travels home after the infamous ten year battle...

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Irene Papas · Michel Piccoli · Rogério Samora · Leonor Silveira

Synopsis The battle of the sexes? The forces of despair and seduction? On S. Miguel in the Azores, Rogério, a young man with old money, and his enigmatic wife Leonor host a garden party at their villa. The intriguing guests are...

Direction Alexander Ramati

Cast Ben Cross · James Mason · Irene Papas · Maximilian Schell

Synopsis This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943.