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1984
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Maya/Medea
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1978
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Gertrude
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1976
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Karla
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1975
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1974
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Nina (Melina Mercouri) is a former silent-film star from Russia who abandons her career to care for her son. She is a single...
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Nina Kacew
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1970
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Ben Hecht's reminiscences from his youth as a cub reporter in 1910 Chicago makes an uneasy transition to the screen in this...
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Queen Lil
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1969
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Passion, whether sex or violence, is the root of conflict in this film which follows as the alcoholic Mercouri and her...
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Maria
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1966
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This late-'60s spy spoof also borrows a page from late-'50s Alfred Hitchcock, with its everyday man becoming embroiled in the...
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Aurora-Celeste da Costa
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1966
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French novelist Henri-Francois Rey adapted his novel Les Pianos Mecaniques with director Juan Antonio Bardem for this...
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Jenny
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1965
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After years of enduring movie lampoons of his 1955 crime-caper classic Rififi, director Jules Dassin topped them all with his...
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Elizabeth Lipp
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1964
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An epic and unusual anti-war drama about WWII, writer-director Carl Foreman's heavily ironic saga is loosely based on the...
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1963
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Inspired by Euripedes' tragedy Hippolytus and set in modern times, this allegorical tale centers on the love triangle between...
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Phaedra
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1962
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An episodic, funny, though uneven spoof of human manners and foibles, this comedy by Vittorio de Sica begins in Naples when...
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1961
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In this globally acclaimed comedy drama, eccentric, tough, and carefree Ilya (Melina Mercouri) is one of those characters who...
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Illia
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1960
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Jules Dassin, blacklisted during the McCarthy era, directs this routine, ostensibly romantic tale that really courts an...
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Donna Lucrezia
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1959
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Greek actress Melina Mercouri made her English-language film debut in The Gypsy and the Gentleman. Mercouri plays tempestuous...
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Belle
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1958
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Filmed on the island of Crete and set in the early 1920's, when Greece was occupied by the Turks, Jules Dassin's Celu Qui...
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Katerina
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1957
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Earlier reports that Greek filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis' Stella was based on Olive Higgins Prouty's Stella Dallas were...
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Stella
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1955
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