Cast: Katina Paxinou

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Alain Delon · Renato Salvatori · Annie Girardot · Katina Paxinou

Synopsis It is the story of a poor family torn apart by lust and greed. Rocco (Alain Delon), a soft-spoken, idealistic young man who must deal with turmoil and competition when he and his three brothers set out to Milan in...

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Robert Arden · Orson Welles · Paola Mori · Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis Orson Welles’s "Mr. Arkadin" tells the story of an elusive billionaire who hires an American smuggler to investigate his past. Welles missed the editing deadline, so the producer handed over the editing to others. Following two Spanish-dubbed versions, released in...

Direction Henry King

Cast Tyrone Power · Wanda Hendrix · Everett Sloane · Orson Welles

Synopsis Andrea Zoppo, a well-educated commoner, masquerades as a member of the noble Orsini family and wins favor with the ambitious and Machiavellian Cesare Borgia, who, with his equally corrupt sister Lucrezia, hopes to become the most powerful force in Renaissance...

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Gary Cooper · Ingrid Bergman · Akim Tamiroff · Arturo de Córdova

Synopsis This respectful adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel of the Spanish Civil War was one of the most sensational and popular films to come out of wartime Hollywood. Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman were Hemingway's personal choices for the roles of...

Direction Herman Shumlin

Cast Charles Boyer · Lauren Bacall · Victor Francen · Wanda Hendrix

Synopsis During the Spanish Civil War, a republican courier Louis Denard (Charles Boyer) travels to England to try and buy coal. He meets with an amount of local hostility, while his life is at risk from those on the fascist side....

Direction Dudley Nichols

Cast Rosalind Russell · Michael Redgrave · Raymond Massey · Kirk Douglas

Synopsis Eugene O'Neill's updated version of the Orestaia. In New England, after the American Civil War, a war-weary Agamem--er, Ezra Mannon comes home to his unhappy wife (Christine) and loving daughter (Lavinia). But Lavinia's ex-suitor, Adam Brant, has become Christine's lover,...

Direction Charles Frank

Cast Jean Simmons · Katina Paxinou · Derrick De Marney · Derek Bond

Synopsis Caroline Ruthyn is the teen-aged niece of the her uncle Silas, a sickly and at one time unbalanced man who becomes her guardian on the death of her father. The fact that Silas is broke and greedy and young Caroline...

Direction Marcel Camus

Cast Nino Ferrer · Juliet Berto · Katina Paxinou · Pierre Perret

Direction Irving Rapper

Cast Carroll Baker · Roger Moore · Walter Slezak · Vittorio Gassman

Synopsis During the Napoleonic era, in Spain, a young postulant falls in love with a handsome British soldier who is recovering with others of his regiment after being wounded. Before leaving, he asks her to leave the convent and marry him....

Direction Giuseppe Amato

Cast Giorgio Albertazzi · Lea Massari · Francisco Rabal · Katina Paxinou

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Luise Rainer · Arturo de Córdova · William Bendix · Paul Lukas

Synopsis Lt Glasenapp (Hans Conried) commits suicide at a club which leads the Gestapo to arrest everyone who is present. It gives them an excuse to execute the 26 Czech citizens that they now have in custody under the pretext of...

Direction Robert Enrico

Cast Joanna Shimkus · Katina Paxinou · Bernard Fresson · Josep María Flotats

Synopsis A twenty-year old girl, Annie (Joanna Shimkus) lives with her mother and her aunt (both played by first-class actresses Suzanne Flon and Katina Paxinou. The auntie is dying and for the first time in her life Annie has to cope...