This delicate and haunting fable from elder statesman of Portuguese filmmaking Manoel de Oliveira has been intepreted in many...
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Helena
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2004
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Louis de Bernières' best-selling novel of love during wartime is brought to the screen in this story that blends comedy,...
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2001
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Upon learning that her husband may be the reason why she has been unable to conceive, a woman desperate to bear children...
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1999
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The 89-year-old Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira wrote and helmed this Portuguese-French-Spanish-Swiss co-production,...
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1998
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This French language drama from Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira takes an ironic look at the pretentiousness of...
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Irene
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1996
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The biblical story of Jacob explored in this made-for-TV movie starring Matthew Modine as the titular religious figure and...
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1994
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In this antic sex farce, a sexually vigorous older woman (Irene Pappas) and her similarly active gay son Stratos Tzortzoglou)...
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Maria
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1993
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Cristina is passionate, charming, magnetic and forceful, and when she gets involved with Sergio while he is studying at the...
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Gina
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1992
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Marquise
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1989
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Katherine (Jacqueline Bisset) is a photographer who lives in the exotic Greek islands with her sculptor husband Patrick...
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Penelope
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1988
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1988
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This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to...
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Angela's mother
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1987
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The Chilean Revolution of 1973 provides the framework of this propaganda drama that chronicles the aftermath of the...
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1987
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Filmed on location in Tunisia, the four-hour Italian TV production A Child Called Jesus mixes Scripture with Speculation. The...
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1987
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1987
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Filled with enough cameos to keep film buffs entertained, this otherwise routine action-comedy by John Landis boasts...
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Shaheen Parvizi
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1985
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In this tragic story that has an unrealized potential to tug at the emotions, a woman in mourning for her two sons lost in...
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Mariangela
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1984
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Set during World War II, The Assisi Underground deals with the efforts made by a handful of hardy European souls to rescue...
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Mother Giuseppina
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1984
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This tantalizing blend of eroticism and mysticism was adapted from a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Erendira...
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The great-mother
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1983
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Mamluk (Yorgo Voyagis) is an unassuming, handsome young peasant who happens to have come along just in time to save the king...
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Mother
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1982
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Libyan leader Moummar Quaddafi financed this desert epic about a Libyan hero who helped his nation fend off an Italian...
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Mabrouka
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1981
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1979
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Simonetta Palazzo
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1979
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This production by Michael Cacoyannes is respectfully adapted from the ancient classical Greek play by Euripides (485-406...
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Clytmnestre
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1977
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Originally filmed for British television as a six-hour miniseries, Moses appeared in the U.S. in 1975 as a 2 1/2-hour...
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Zipporah
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1976
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This handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the prophet Mohammed -- who,...
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Hind
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1976
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This drama is set upon a Greek island and chronicles the struggles of a woman tortured by the memories of her family. During...
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1976
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When the ambitious skirt chaser Saverio (Luigi Proietti) meets serenely nymphomaniac retarded rich Clothilde...
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1975
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1974
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The Adventures of Ulysses is a 1974 feature-length abridgement of the 8-part Italian TV miniseries The Odyssey. In...
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1974
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This Yugoslavian epic depicts the World War II military exploits of Marshall Tito (played here by Richard Burton), who later...
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1973
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When several young boys are brutally murdered in a small southern Italian village, the superstitious locals react with...
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1972
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1972
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Any 1972 film starring Richard Conte was like as not produced in Italy. Despite its title, 1931: Once Upon a Time in New York...
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1972
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The 1920s sees New York City being overtaken by a mob. Dubbed into Spanish. ~ Rovi...
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1972
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1971
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The Trojan Women is a film of the ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides, which is a highly mannered, ritual-like stage play. It...
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Helen
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1971
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A philandering man's wife decides to take matters into her own murderous hands. ~ Kristie Hassen, Rovi...
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1971
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Science fiction often enables artists to explore social trends without being hindered by the limitations of current reality,...
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1971
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Z is one of the most politically insightful films ever made, exposing government hypocrisy and cover-up in the wake of a...
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Helene, the Deputy's wife
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1969
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Anthony Quinn plays Matsoukas, a Greek/American ne'er do well, living in Chicago with his long-suffering wife Caliope...
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Caliope
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1969
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Anne of the Thousand Days is the belated film adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's 1948 stage play. The story concentrates on the...
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Katharine of Aragon
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1969
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In this drama, two Polish brothers escape from a Russian labor camp and try to join the exiled Polish Army in Afghanistan....
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Ajmi
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1968
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Ida
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1968
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In this drama, a Yugoslavian journalist is hired by a German policeman to find the last surviving ex-inmate of a...
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Lea Weiss
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1967
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Paolo Giana Maria Volonte is a lonely teacher who learns that two of his friends have been murdered in this twisting crime...
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Luisa Roscio
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1967
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1966
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Disney produced this distilled Hitchcockian suspense yarn, diluted for the consumption of children. Hayley Mills stars as...
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Sophia
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1964
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If ever there was a role that Anthony Quinn was born to play, it was the lusty, life-affirming title character in Zorba the...
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The Widow
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1964
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This excellent adaptation by Michael Cacoyannis of the famous tragedy by Euripides garnered him his first international...
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Electra
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1962
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Yiorgos Tzavellas wrote and directed this award-winning attempt at reimagining the classic tragedy by Sophocles as an actual...
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1961
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The guns of Navarone are huge Nazi cannons, installed on an Aegean island behind enemy lines. Anthony Quayle is the officer...
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1961
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The catch-all title Tribute to a Bad Man had been floating around MGM for years (at one point, it was the working title for...
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Jocasta Constantine
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1956
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Italian director Pietro Francisci directed this 1954 drama about the fifth-century invasion of Rome by Attila the Hun....
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Grune
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1954
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1954
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It's hardly a coincidence that George Raft made so many films outside the U.S. when he began to have income-tax problems in...
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Yvonne
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1954
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1953
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Narrator
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