Acting

Melina Mercouri

Born October 18, 1920 · Athens, Greece

Died March 6, 1994 · aged 73

Maria Amalia "Melina" Mercouri (Greek: Μαρία Αμαλία "Μελίνα" Μερκούρη, 18 October 1920 – 6 March 1994) was a Greek actress, singer, activist, and politician. She came from a prominent political family for multiple generations. She received an Academy Award nomination and won a French Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award for her performance in the film Never on Sunday (1960) and an Italian David…

Known For

Topkapi

Topkapi · 1964

MovieComedyCrime

Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal the emerald-encrusted dagger of the Mehmed II from Istanbul's Topkapi Museum.

Never on Sunday

Never on Sunday · 1960

Never on Sunday

MovieComedyRomance

An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the local prostitute with whom he is infatuated.

The Law

The Law · 1959

MovieDramaCrime

A gorgeous housekeeper turns the tables on the men in a small Mediterranean coastal town by using their own vicious drinking game.

The Gypsy and the Gentleman

The Gypsy and the Gentleman · 1958

The Gypsy and the Gentleman

MovieDramaHistory

A lusty Gypsy gold digger marries a Regency aristocrat, then learns he has no money.

Once Is Not Enough

Once Is Not Enough · 1975

Once Is Not Enough

MovieDramaRomance

An over-the-hill movie producer marries a wealthy, spiteful woman and closeted lesbian just to please his spoiled daughter who then, in an attempt to spite him, seduces both a wealthy playboy and a local screenwriter.

The Victors

The Victors · 1963

Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infantry squad as they make their way from Sicily to Germany during the end of World War II.

Nasty Habits

Nasty Habits · 1977

In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants.

la loi

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Topkapi

Topkapi · 1964

MovieComedyCrime

Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal the emerald-encrusted dagger of the Mehmed II from Istanbul's Topkapi Museum.

Elizabeth Lipp

Never on Sunday

Never on Sunday · 1960

Never on Sunday

MovieComedyRomance

An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the local prostitute with whom he is infatuated.

Ilya

The Law

The Law · 1959

MovieDramaCrime

A gorgeous housekeeper turns the tables on the men in a small Mediterranean coastal town by using their own vicious drinking game.

Donna Lucrezia

The Gypsy and the Gentleman

The Gypsy and the Gentleman · 1958

The Gypsy and the Gentleman

MovieDramaHistory

A lusty Gypsy gold digger marries a Regency aristocrat, then learns he has no money.

Belle

Once Is Not Enough

Once Is Not Enough · 1975

Once Is Not Enough

MovieDramaRomance

An over-the-hill movie producer marries a wealthy, spiteful woman and closeted lesbian just to please his spoiled daughter who then, in an attempt to spite him, seduces both a wealthy playboy and a local screenwriter.

Karla

The Victors

The Victors · 1963

Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infantry squad as they make their way from Sicily to Germany during the end of World War II.

Magda

Nasty Habits

Nasty Habits · 1977

In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants.

Sister Gertrude

la loi

Lucrezia

The Uninhibited

The Uninhibited · 1965

The Uninhibited

Vincent is recovering from a nervous breakdown in a seaside village on the Costa Brava. He enters into an affair with nightclub owner Jenny, but their relationship changes when she falls for alcoholic author Pascal Regnier, who is struggling to resume his writing career. Vincent eventually returns home, leaving Jenny to stay on with Pascal and his young son Daniel.

Jenny

10:30 P.M. Summer

10:30 P.M. Summer · 1966

10:30 P.M. Summer

MovieDramaRomance

A female traveling companion seduces a married man and his alcoholic wife.

Maria

Phaedra

Phaedra · 1962

MovieDramaRomance

A modern retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. The young and fiery second wife of an extremely wealthy shipping magnate meets her estranged stepson Alexis and sparks immediately fly. Their love seems doomed from the beginning when she convinces him to come to Paris to meet his father.

Phaedra Kyrilis

Stella

MovieRomanceDrama

The story of a young, wild woman who doesn't want to compromise and settle down. Stella is a restless, rebellious Greek woman who plays with men and enjoys her life as much as she can. But when she meets a young footballer, things get mixed up. She loves him but she loves her freedom too. So it's about time she made an important choice.

Stella

The Last Judgment

The Last Judgment · 1961

The Last Judgment

In Naples, a voice from the skies announces one morning that the final judgment will be at 6 p.m. on that day. What follows is a series of vignettes depicting various people's reactions (or lack thereof) to the announcement.

Foreign lady

He Who Must Die

He Who Must Die · 1957

He Who Must Die

1920s Greece is occupied by the Turks. A country in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. A small community conduct their annual Passion Play. The leading citizens, under auspices of the Patriarch, choose the actors: a stuttering shepherd as Jesus, the town butcher as Judas, the town prostitute as Mary Magdalene, and so on. As the story unfolds, the Passion becomes a reality.

Katerina

Gaily, Gaily

Gaily, Gaily · 1969

After runaway Ben Young is robbed and left on his own, he is taken in by Lil, the head of a Chicago brothel. Acting as a surrogate mother for Ben, who thinks she runs a boardinghouse, Lil gets him a job with Francis Sullivan at the local newspaper. As Ben is exposed to the workings of the big city, he realizes the extent of government corruption and sets out on the daunting task of reforming Chicago politics, finding several allies along the way.

Lil

The Rehearsal

The Rehearsal · 1974

MovieDramaDocumentary

An indictment of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. The film tries to give a reconstruction of the events during the students' uprising in the Athens Polytechnic (November 1973) by documents, rehearsals, interviews, songs and poems.

Producer

A Man Could Get Killed

A Man Could Get Killed · 1966

A Man Could Get Killed

MovieActionComedy

An American businessman visiting Lisbon gets mistaken for a British secret agent who stole some diamonds. As a result, he has everybody in Lisbon after him.

Aurora / Celeste da Costa

Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!

Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love! · 1961

Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!

MovieHistoryAdventure

Henri IV falls in love with the young Charlotte de Montmorency, 40 years his junior. The king decided to marry her off to his nephew, Henri de Condé, so that he could later make her his mistress.

Marie de Médicis

Promise at Dawn

Promise at Dawn · 1970

Promise at Dawn

A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then France, and is over-ambitious about him but never gives in.

Nina Kacewa

A Dream of Passion

A Dream of Passion · 1978

A Dream of Passion

Maya is a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea. Searching for inspiration and clues as to how a mother could kill the children she loves, Maya discovers Brenda, a Bible-spouting American woman serving time in an Athens prison for that very crime.

Maya / Medea

Songs of Fire

Songs of Fire · 1975

MovieMusicDocumentary

A documentary about the resistance of the people against the millitary Greek junta.

Songs