Cast: Irene Papas
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Irene Papas. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
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1969 · Movie · 127 min. · Algeria
Direction Costa-Gavras
Cast Yves Montand · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Irene Papas · Jacques Perrin
Plot 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...
7.8
6K votes
7.8
6K votes
Christ Stopped at Eboli
1979 · Movie · 150 min. · Italy
Direction Francesco Rosi
Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Paolo Bonacelli · Alain Cuny · Lea Massari
Plot 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...
7.5
520 votes
7.5
520 votes
The Guns of Navarone
1961 · Movie · 158 min. · United Kingdom
Direction J. Lee Thompson
Cast Gregory Peck · David Niven · Richard Harris · Anthony Quinn
Plot 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...
7.4
25K votes
7.4
25K votes
Zorba the Greek
1964 · Movie · 136 min. · United States
Direction Mihalis Kakogiannis
Cast Anthony Quinn · Alan Bates · Irene Papas · Lila Kedrova
Plot 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...
7.4
4K votes
7.4
4K votes
Iphigenia (Iphigenie)
1977 · Movie · 130 min. · Greece
Direction Mihalis Kakogiannis
Cast Irene Papas · Tatiana Papamoschou · Kostas Kazakos · Costas Carras
Plot 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...
7.0
296 votes
7.0
296 votes
The Unfaithfuls
1953 · Movie · 99 min. · Italy
Direction Mario Monicelli · Steno
Cast Gina Lollobrigida · May Britt · Pierre Cressoy · Tina Lattanzi
Plot 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...
7.0
72 votes
7.0
72 votes
Anne of the Thousand Days
1969 · Movie · 145 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Charles Jarrott
Cast Richard Burton · Geneviève Bujold · Irene Papas · Michael Hordern
Plot 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...
6.9
802 votes
6.9
802 votes
The Adventures of Ulysses (TV) (TV Miniseries)
1968 · Series · 109 min. · Italy
Direction Franco Rossi · Mario Bava · Piero Schivazappa
Cast Bekim Fehmiu · Irene Papas · Renaud Verley · Barbara Bach
6.9
21 votes
6.9
21 votes
Lion of the Desert
1980 · Movie · 173 min. · United States
Direction Moustapha Akkad
Cast Anthony Quinn · Oliver Reed · Irene Papas · Rod Steiger
Plot 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...
6.7
1K votes
6.7
1K votes
Electra
1962 · Movie · 110 min. · Greece
Direction Mihalis Kakogiannis
Cast Irene Papas · Giannis Fertis · Aleka Katselli · Manos Katrakis
Plot 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...
6.6
215 votes
6.6
215 votes
Antigone
1961 · Movie · 93 min. · Greece
Direction Yorgos Javellas
Cast Irene Papas · Manos Katrakis · Maro Kodou · Nikos Kazis
Plot 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....
6.5
76 votes
6.5
76 votes
Don't Torture Donald Duck
1972 · Movie · 102 min. · Italy
Direction Lucio Fulci
Cast Barbara Bouchet · Tomas Milian · Marc Porel · Florinda Bolkan
Plot 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...
6.4
773 votes
6.4
773 votes
We Still Kill the Old Way
1967 · Movie · 99 min. · Italy
Direction Elio Petri
Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Irene Papas · Gabriele Ferzetti · Salvo Randone
Plot 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.
6.4
193 votes
6.4
193 votes
Tribute to a Bad Man
1956 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Robert Wise
Cast James Cagney · Irene Papas · Vic Morrow · Don Dubbins
Plot 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,...
6.4
651 votes
6.4
651 votes
The Message
1977 · Movie · 177 min. · Libya
Direction Moustapha Akkad
Cast Anthony Quinn · Irene Papas · Habib Ageli · Michael Ansara
Plot 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...
6.2
736 votes
6.2
736 votes
Anxiety
1997 · Movie · 110 min. · Portugal
Direction Manoel de Oliveira
Cast Luis Miguel Cintra · José Pinto · Irene Papas · Leonor Silveira
6.2
198 votes
6.2
198 votes
A Talking Picture
2003 · Movie · 96 min. · Portugal
Direction Manoel de Oliveira
Cast Leonor Silveira · Catherine Deneuve · Irene Papas · Filipa de Almeida
Plot 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...
6.2
1K votes
6.2
1K votes
The Odyssey (TV Miniseries)
1997 · Series · 173 min. · United States
Direction Andrei Konchalovsky
Cast Armand Assante · Greta Scacchi · Isabella Rossellini · Bernadette Peters
Plot 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,...
6.1
3K votes
6.1
3K votes
Party
1996 · Movie · 89 min. · Portugal
Direction Manoel de Oliveira
Cast Irene Papas · Michel Piccoli · Rogério Samora · Leonor Silveira
Plot 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...
6.1
126 votes
6.1
126 votes
The Assisi Underground
1985 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction Alexander Ramati
Cast Ben Cross · James Mason · Irene Papas · Maximilian Schell
Plot 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.
6.0
94 votes
6.0
94 votes