Irene Papas

In 1821, in Cinema, he records the cinematic representations of the Revolution from the first decades of the 20th century. until the present day. Despite the fact that the Revolution of 1821 constitutes the founding act of the modern Greek state, as a subject matter it is underrepresented in national film production. This is one of the points on which the research looks, which simultaneously examines the periods of concentration of films on the subject of the Revolution or, respectively, the periods of its collective silence. The purpose of the documentary is to study the ideological discourse and the cinematic language of the films with the theme of 1821, in order to highlight the function of the cinema as a carrier of Public History and as a factor in shaping the collective historical consciousness.

Based upon Vincenzoni's biography, "Pane e cinema", the documentary traces the story of the screen play writer who invented many stories that became blockbusters throughout the world.

A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean. On board and on day trips in Marseilles, Pompeii, Athens, Istanbul, and Cairo, a professor tells her young daughter about myth, history, religion, and wars. Men approach her; she's cool, on her way to her husband in Bombay. After Cairo, for two evenings divided by a stop in Aden, the captain charms three successful, famous (and childless) women, who talk with wit and intellect, each understanding the others' native tongue, a European union. The captain asks mother and child to join them. He gives the girl a gift. Helena sings. Life can be sweet.

그리스의 평화스러운 섬 케팔로니아. 이섬에도 2차대전이라는 큰 전쟁은 한바탕 회오리바람을 몰고 오는데, 젊은이들은 앞 다투어 전쟁터로 나가 나라를 위해 싸우게 된다. 이들 젊은이 가운데, 이 섬의 의사 딸인 펠라기아를 사랑하는 만데라스가 있으며 전쟁터로 떠나기전 펠라기아와 약혼을 하게 된다. 하지만 만데라스의 마음을 받아들이지 않는 펠라기아 앞에 전쟁과는 전혀 어울리지 않는 그저 놀고 노래하고 만돌린 연주에만 열중 하는 이탈리아 군인 안토니오 코렐리 대위가 나타나게 되고, 펠라기아는 점점 그에게 사랑을 느끼게 된다. 이들은 서로의 사랑을 확인 하지만, 이탈리아 군들은 못솔리니 정권이 종식되자 퇴각을 감행 하게 되고 이 와중에 독일군에게 대항하지만 모두 처형 당하는 운명을 맞게 되고 구사일생으로 살아나게 된 코렐리 대위는 섬을 떠나게 된다. 전쟁이 끝나고, 코렐리 대위는 펠라기아를 위해 작곡한 만돌린 곡들을 음반으로 내게 되며 펠라기아를 잊지 못하는 코렐리에게 펠라기아의 부친은 편지를 보내고 그들 연인은 다시금 만나게 되는데...

Yerma is desperate to have children, so when a psychic advises her to look outside her marriage to conceive, what can she say but yes?

An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro play, two famous doctors, an 80-year-old father, and his 60-year-old son, contemplate senility and death. "Suzy," from an Antonio Patricio story, is set in the '30s when a young courtesan dies on the operating table. "Mother of the River" is from an Agustina Bessa-Luis fable about eternal life.

This French language drama from Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira takes an ironic look at the pretentiousness of international jet-setters while simultaneously examining an obsessive romantic relationship between an aging Lothario and a beautiful married woman. The tale begins at a garden party in a lovely villa in the Azores held by Rogerio and Leonor for handsome, middle-aged Michel and his mistress Irene, a noted Greek movie star. The guests aren't there long before an obvious attraction between Leonor and Michel prompts them to head for a private beach (their tryst, if there was one, occurs off-camera). Five years later, the foursome again meet for a garden party and once again they pair off after spending much time discussing gender differences, emotion, social insight and exchanging witty bon mots.

In this inspiring tale from the book of Genesis, young shepherd Jacob (Matthew Modine) falls in love with and wants to marry Rachel (Lara Flynn Boyle), the daughter of his Uncle Laban (Giancarlo Giannini). Lacking a dowry, Jacob toils seven years as his uncle's indentured servant to win Rachel's hand. But calculating Laban dupes him into another seven years of labor. Irene Papas portrays Jacob's iron-willed mother.

A prosperous widow with a gay son fallls for a young gym instructor in Athens.

Island is Paul Cox's serene and beautiful film which explores a spectrum of emotions - ranging from extreme passion to fear, leading to murder - from loneliness to sensuality. Three women from Australia, Sri Lanka, and Greece meet on a Greek island. All are exiles escaping from their own personal tragedies. Ultimately, it is the island itself, with the generosity and warmth of the islanders, which leads all three women to revelations about themselves and their place in the world.

At house of Agathon get together many intellectuals and philosophers, including Socrates, to discuss the theme of love and sex: each of them intervenes to support its argument dialogical rules, within the context symposial.

On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he commissions a sculpture of the Unknown Tourist for the town square; the sculptor he brings to Rhodes is Kate's ex-husband. Also there to see Kate is Sharp, an aging antiquarian and her dear friend. He has something important to tell her. As Kate, her ex, and Sharp sort out things that go back years, two English tourists bumble about, one thinking he's fallen in love with Kate, his wife thinking she's found her own lover. A rare vase, a spy, old friendships, the statue's unveiling, and off-hand English sorting-out play into the resolution.

This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. Based on a novel by distinguished author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the tale begins in the present as a middle-aged doctor returns to the village after a twenty-year absence to investigate the murder that occurred just before he left.

An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow.

The film attempts to fill in the "missing years" of Jesus, from ages 3 through 12. When King Herod fearing that the Messiah has indeed been born, orders that all Hebrew male children under the age of three be slain, Joseph moves his family near Egypt. Here, Jesus, sensing His divinity, expresses a desire to return to Nazareth. Travelling homeward with His mother Mary, Jesus flashes forward to events that will unfold in his adult life.

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.

주인공 에드 오킨(Ed Okin: 제프 골드브롬 분)은 우주 공학자로, 오랜 동안 불면증에 시달리다 우연히 부인의 외도를 알게 된다. 그는 어느 잠 못 이루던 밤에 공항에 차를 몰고 갔다가 괴한들에게 쫓기는 다이애나(Diana: 미쉘 파이퍼 분)를 도와주게 된다. 다이애나는 이란 왕가의 진귀한 보석을 밀반입했다가 괴한들의 추적을 받게 된 것. 다이애나가 도움을 청한 친구들이 차례로 고한들에게 희생되면서, 다이애나는 마지막으로 과거의 후견인 잭을 찾아간다. 잭은 거부로 병상에 있는 상태. 그러나 이란 왕족 샤힌의 하수인 집단에게 살해될 뻔한 위기에서 다잉애나와 에드를 구해주고 도피자금까지 마련해 준다. 에드는 영문도 모른 채 남의 사건에 휘말려 들었다가 사건이 무마되자 처음으로 숙면할 수 있게 된다. 잠에서 깨어보니 다이애나는 사라지고..

While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in order to extract restitution from the girl, forces her into prostitution. Erendira's surreal mystical experiences continue while her grandmother grows rich from exploiting her.

In this tragic story that has an unrealized potential to tug at the emotions, a woman in mourning for her two sons lost in World War I is the only one in her village determined to financially support a war memorial. The village poor have too little money, and the richer are tight-fisted. She has given a whole 15 years of savings -- yet the good priest, for whom she works as a maid, is not enthusiastic about her action because he is worried that the memorial will not remind the villagers of past horrors and suffering but disguise the human cost of war in rhetoric. As the memorial's advocates begin to sustain the day, flashbacks show how the woman's youngest son shot his captain, deserted the army, and came to die of fever while in his mother's care. The priest helped her as much as possible, yet he feels compelled to tell the authorities that her son was a deserter.

20세기 초기에 벌어졌던 이탈리아와 리비아 사이의 20년 전쟁이 이 영화의 소재이다. 이 영화는 실화이며 등장인물도 역사적 실존 인물의 실명을 그대로 활용하고 있다. 20세기 초, 당시 끊임없이 벌어졌던 강대국의 제국주의 전쟁은 아프리카에서도 예외가 아니었다. 영국은 이집트를, 프랑스는 튀니지아를, 스페인은 모로코를 점령했다. 그런데 이탈리아는 1910년부터 리비아를 침공하였으나 29년까지 교착상태에 빠진다. 그러자 무솔리니는 새 지후관 그라치아니를 파견한다. 한편 그의 상관 베드윈족의 지도자 요마르 무크타르로서 전직은 교사이며 적을 물리치는 것만이 평화로 가는 유일한 방법이라는 코란의 정신을 이어받아총을 들고 나선 탁원한 전술가이다. 이탈리아군에 의한 무자비한 양민학살이 지속되지만 무크타르는 사막전과 산악전에서 뛰어난 전술로 현대병기로 무장한 이탈리아군을 계속 패퇴시킨다. 평화라는 미명하에 작전상의 협상이 벌어지고 전쟁은 계속된다. 결국 이탈리아군은 리비아 사막 수백 마일에 4천 명의 인부를 동원해 수천 톤의 철조망 작업을 행하영 베드윈족 5천명을 강제 수용소에 수용하고 무크타르를 생포해 공개리에 교수형에 처함으로서 1931년 9월 16일 전쟁을 종결한다.

Nadia is a social worker who is trying to keep the residents of a local slum in line. Unfortunately she keeps neglecting her work and fantasizing about a life as a pop-star. When she falls for one of the residents in question, a small time crook called Bel Ami, she ends up an accomplice in a convoluted heist involving a holy Catholic relic.

Once a Satanist who surrendered her soul and body to the devil himself, Carlotta Rhodes begins to regret her tryst with Lucifer when her teenage daughter, Daria, starts showing the evil influence of dear old Dad. Convinced that she can stop the devil's power on earth, Carlotta calls upon an exorcist for help.

거대한 제약회사의 딸인 엘리자베스 롤페((오드리 헵번 분)는 지적이며 아름다운 여인으로 성장한다. 어느날 아버지가 의문의 죽음을 당하자 그녀는 국제적 규모의 대기업 총수가 되면서 가장 부유하며 화려한 상속인이 된다. 그러나 누군가 그녀를 죽이려하고 있다. 언제 어디서일지 알 수 없는 끊임없는 살인 음모가 일어난다.

파시즘이 팽배한 1935년의 이탈리아를 배경으로, 남부 에볼리 근처의 작은 마을에 의사로 보내진 카를로 레비의 눈을 통해 현지 농부들이 고립과 가난 속에서 질병과 싸우며 살아가는 참상을 묘사한 작품. -daum 영화

The Greek army is about to set sail to a great battle, but the winds refuse to blow. Their leader, King Agamemnon, seeks to provide better food, but accidentally slays a sacred deer. His punishment from the gods, the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia.

In a small village in southern Morocco, Amrouch cannot, because of his social position, marry the daughter of a wealthy farmer from the nearby village. Based on Federico Garica Lorca’s novel.

양치기 고아출신인 마호메트는 나이 40에 이르러 어느날 갑자기 산속으로 들어갔다가 사흘만에 내려온 후 신은 한명뿐이며 그가 바로 하나님이고, 자신은 하나님의 사자라고 주장한다. 서기 7세기인 당시의 메카는 거상들의 중심이 되어 3백여개의 우상을 섬기며 도시를 다스리고 있었으나 마호메트의 주장은 엄청난 충격이었다. 거상들은 당연히 마호메트와 그 추종자들을 박해했고 이들은 숨어서 전도를 하다가 끝내 견디지 못하고 메디나로 쫓겨난다. 마호메트의 교리에 끌려 합류하는 사람이 늘어나자 불안을 느낀 메카의 거상들은 군대를 보내 마호메트 일행을 공격한다. 평화를 신봉하는 이슬람 교도들도 끝내는 이들과 맞서 싸운다. 함자가 이끄는 이슬람 군대는 숫적인 열세에도 불구하고 메카 병력을 물리친다.

Story of Moses. Originally a TV Miniseries recut for theaters

In order to convince Raimonda, a wealthy noble woman, to finance his project for a holiday resort, Saverio gets engaged to Clotilde, her mentally-disturbed and sex-obsessed adolescent daughter. He plans to have her kidnapped and raped by an accomplice so she won't be a virgin anymore and he'll have an excuse to get out of the impending marriage. But what he doesn't plan is to fall in love with the girl...

The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the encirclement and face the enemy on the plains of Sutjeska.

In 1931, when the late American Prohibition major bosses have now divided the territory to exploit, the family of one of them - killed in a clash - decides to send half a million dollars in Sicily hidden in the body of the deceased.

A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a distrust of outsiders.

Nino Manfredi is a police captain, giving an onlooker's point-of-view towards the decadent society folk. Party itself features a down & out baron, who dances with the party's glamorous hostess Virna Lisi so that he can steal her valuable earrings. When they're missing, she's angry enough to call in the cops (Manfredi shows up) and have the baron taken away.

Two young sexually free hippies, Dick and Ingrid, finance their travels by selling naked snaps of Ingrid until their plan is brought to an abrupt end by the Police. Forced on the run the two seek refuge at a seemingly empty isolated large villa. As it turns out the house is inhabited by the middle-aged Barbara who invites them in for some potential three-way hanky-panky that soon locks them into something far more twisted and chilling!

In the aftermath of the Trojan Wars, Queen Hecuba takes stock of the defeated kingdom. Her son has been killed, and his widow, Andromache, is left to raise their son, Astyanax, alone. Hecuba's daughter, Cassandra, fears being enslaved by her Greek masters, while Helen of Troy risks being executed. Astyanax also becomes the focus of the Greeks' attention as the last male heir of the Trojan royal family.

A phrophetic Film about the fundamental problem of our times, that automatization of the production process ultimately eliminates human labour. In this fact lies the potential for the marxist liberation of the productive forces and the and the industrial genocide.

16세기의 영국 튜더 왕조의 국왕인 헨리 8세(King Henry VIII: 리차드 버튼 분)는 자신의 왕후인 앤 볼린(Anne Boleyn: 제네비에브 부졸드 분)을 처형하기 위해 재상 크롬웰(Thomas Cromwell: 존 콜리코스 분)이 가지고 온 문서에 서명을 하려고 한다. 영화는 서명을 하려는 헨리 8세가 자신이 앤과 결혼하기 위해 해왔던 일들을 회상하는데서 시작된다. 왕의 무도회. 프랑스에서 이제 막 돌아온 볼린가의 막내딸인 앤도 약혼자인 퍼쉬(Harry Percy: 테렌스 윌톤 분)와 무도회에 참석했다. 울지 추기경(Cardinal Wolsey: 안소니 쿼일 분)은 이 젊은 남녀의 결혼을 허락해 줄 것을 왕에게 간청하지만 아름다운 앤에게 이미 마음을 빼앗겨 버린 왕은 허락은 커녕 앤과 퍼쉬를 떨어뜨려 놓고 자신이 앤을 차지하려고 한다. 하지만 앤은 이미 왕에게 농락당해 아이를 가지고 있던 언니(Mary Boleyn: 발레리 거론 분)의 모습을 보곤 절대 왕의 여자가 되지 않겠다고 가족들에게까지 말하고 왕에게도 냉랭한 태도를 갖는다. 앤의 이런 싸늘한 태도에 왕은 더욱 더 매력을 느끼고 앤의 집에 머물며 그녀의 환심을 사려고 노력한다. 결국 앤의 안위를 걱정한 퍼쉬는 다른 아가씨와 결혼을 하고 앤은 괴로워한다. 앤의 계속되는 냉담한 반응에 왕은 캐서린 왕비의 시종으로 앤을 궁궐로 불러들이고 궁으로 옮긴 앤은 점점 권력과 사치의 맛을 배우게 된다. 하지만 왕의 애타는 사랑은 여전히 앤을 떠나지 않는다. 권력의 맛을 느끼게 된 앤은 왕에게 자신과 결혼하여 아들을 낳아주는 대신 자신이 영국의 왕비이여야 하며 자신의 아들이 왕위를 계승하게 해주어야 한다고 이야기한다.

A Greek American father of a dying boy decides to take his son to Greece to breathe the clean air of his ancestors, in an attempt to save the boy's life. However, money is a problem.

오랫동안 정치적 망명을 떠났던 과학자 제트가 고국으로 돌아온다. 1963년 5월, 그는 핵실험을 반대하는 연설을 하던 도중 원인 모를 습격을 받아 중태에 빠지게 된다. 정부에서는 그 사건의 진실을 묻어두기 위해 판결을 조작한다. 그러나 제트의 희생이 정부 관료에 의해 꾸며진 음모라는 것이 밝혀지고, 이 사건을 묵인하려 했던 정부 관료들이 실형을 선고받게 된다. 그러나 1967년 쿠테타가 발생하고 군사 독재 정권이 들어서자 이들은 다시 복권된다.

A post-apocalyptic sci-fi film, from Italian director Bruno Gaburro, with a soundtrack by Ennio Morricone.

아버지때부터 마피아 집안인 프랭크(커크 더글러스 분)는 고향 시실리를 떠나 미국에 건너온 뒤 노조를 장악하는 등 마피아 조직의 실력자로 성장한다. 그는 대학을 졸업한 동생 빈스(알렉 코드 분)에게 자부심을 느끼며 끔직히 사랑한다. 프랭크는 30여 년 전 조직을 배신하고 아버지를 밀고해 죽게한 인물이 빈스의 장인이자 오래전부터 알고 지내던 도미니크임을 알고 그를 살해한 뒤 시칠리아로 도망친다. 그리고 조직에서는 프랭크를 살해하라는 임무가 내려진다.

Odysseus' journey told in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka.

Leah Weiss, a Polish Jew, was first forced into prostitution at Auschwitz. Afterwards, she was victimized in medical experiments. Now, twenty years later, German war crimes prosecutors hope she will be their star witness. But can she stand up to the shame, the publicity, and the reliving of those experiences?

이탈리아 시칠리아 섬의 한 마을, 사냥을 하던 두 남자가 의문의 죽음을 당한다. 하지만 그들 중 한명인 마노가 지역 주민의 딸과 은밀한 관계였기에 큰 충격으로 받아들여지지 않는 분위기다. 그래서 그녀의 아버지와 두 남자 형제가 체포되지만, 파올로 로라나 교수(지안 마리아 볼론테)는 이 살인이 마피아가 그의 친구인 로시오 박사(살보 랜돈)를 입막음하기 위해 조작됐으며, 마노의 죽음은 단지 눈속임을 위한 것이라고 믿는다. 그는 자신의 이웃들이 전통적으로 마피아가 관련된 일에는, 아무것도 듣거나 보려 하지 않는다는 사실을 깨닫지 못하고, 거의 자살행위나 마찬가지인 범죄 조사에 뛰어든다. 그는 그 과정에서 미망인 루이사(이렌느 파파스)의 도움을 받고 사랑에 빠지게 된다. 그는 루이사의 사촌인 로셀로(가브리엘 페르제티)를 유력하게 의심하게 되는데, 어느 날 밤 파올로는 로셀로에게 기습을 당하게 된다. 그리고는 그녀가 사실은 로셀로의 정부였다는 이야기를 듣게 된다.

In 1941, two Polish brothers escape a Soviet gulag. Their only escape route is through the impossible mountains of Afghanistan and the KGB is on their tail.

This one is generally looked upon as the best version of the old-fashioned melodrama by Jules Mary.Riccardo Freda,who was mainly known for his horror movies,tried also his hand at spy thrillers in the wake of James Bond ("Coplan Ouvre Le Feu à Mexico") ,and had a penchant for old French melodramas (before "Roger la Honte" ,he redid "Les Deux Orphelines " -D.W.GRiffith's "orphans of the storm-. Georges Géret replaces Lucien Coedel and Irene Pappas takes on Maria Casarès's part of his mistress.Freda 's movie is more compact ,with a running time of 105 min,whereas Cayatte's version (1945-46) spread over two episodes with a total time exceeding 3 hours.It also benefited from the use of color .But all in all,it's the same old story.

An artist returns to Santorini, where she spent her childhood, to face the ghosts of her past and her present.

소나기가 억수로 쏟아지는 날, 영국인 문학도 버질(앨런 베이츠 분)이 지중해의 아름다운 섬 크레타에 도착한다. 크레타에는 유산으로 받은 갈탄광이 있었는데, 책을 파먹고 사는 삶이 지겨워 단순하게 생각하고 행동하는 사람들과 살기 위해 온 곳이다. 함께 광산에서 일할 사람을 찾던 버질은 이곳 주민인 알렉시스 조르바(안소니 퀸 분)를 만난다. 조르바는 충직하고 모든 일을 긍정적으로 생각하는 사람으로 버질은 그가 마음에 꼭 들었다. 버질은 조르바와 함께 광산 일을 시작한다. 버질은 미모의 미망인과 사랑에 빠지고 조르바 또한 오스탕스라는 여인과 결혼하게 되는데...

Young English girl Nikky and her aunt arrive at the Moon-Spinners, a hotel on Crete, to a less than enthusiastic welcome. The coolness of the owner is only out-done by the surliness of her brother Stratos, recently back from London. But then there is nice English lad Mark to make friends with, at least until Stratos and his pal take a shot at him one night. When Nikky helps him hide she finds the Greeks are after her too.

Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.

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. King Oedipus dies a beggar in the exile after gouging out his own eye, and Eteocle agrees to reign in Thebes in alternating years with Polynices. However, he refuses to resign after the first year and Polynieces raises an army and attacks Thebes, and they kill each other. The ruler of Thebes Creon decrees that Eleocles should have an honorable burial while the body of the traitor Polyneices should be left on the battlefield to be eaten by the jackals and vultures. However, Antigone, who was betrothed to Creon's surviving son Haemon, defies Creon's orders and buries her brother. When Creon is reported of the attitude of Antigone, he sentences her to be placed in a tomb alive. Antigone hangs herself in the tomb and Haemon tries to kill his father first and then he kills himself with his sword...

독일군은 당시 중립을 지키고 있는 터키에 위협을 가해 전쟁에 끌어들이려 했다. 그들은 자신들의 힘을 과시하기 위한 장소로 터키에서 몇 킬로미터 밖에 떨어지지 않은 군사적인 가치도 없는 케로스라는 섬을 택한다. 독일 군대 중에서 최정예 부대가 출전할 준비를 끝내고 케로스의 영군 병사들은 대공세에 빠져나오지 못한다면 몰살당할 수 밖에 없는 상황이었다. 그러나 케로스로 가는 유일한 길은 그 근처에 있는 '나바론'이라는 섬의 두대의 거포가 막고 있었다. 최신 레이다 장비를 갖춘 두 대의 거포는 연합군의 어떠한 전함도 당할 수가 없었다.

Ioannina, in the beginning of the 19th century. The whole Greece is under Turks. Ioannina is governed by the fierce and vulgar Ali Pasas. Ali’s eldest son, Muchtar, falls in love with a young Greek widow, Frosyni. The problem is, he’s married to the vindictive and cruel Chanife. And the muslim penalty for having an affair with a married man is death…

The life and action of Laskarina Bouboulina. Captain Lascarina decides to organize the revolution in Spetses and to participate herself, despite her double widowhood. In the struggle for the liberation of Greece, she gives all her property and fighting along with her lads.

Jeremy Rodock is a tough horse rancher who strings up rustlers soon as look at them. Fresh out of Pennsylvania, Steve Miller finds it hard to get used to Rodock's ways, although he takes an immediate shine to his Greek girl Jocasta.

A group of nuclear scientists try to make sure top secret information about atomic weapons does not fall into the wrong hands.

Attila, the leader of the barbarian Huns and called by the Romans "The Scourge of God", sweeps onto the Italian peninsula, defeating all of the armies of Rome, until he and his men reach the gates of the city itself.

Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. But the divide between nobility and slave is too great. Teodora seeks justice for her people, and revolution and armed conflict erupt in both Byzantium and Rome.

Elena, after a date with his boyfriend Guido, comes home finding his father tried to kill himself with gas because he lost a lot of money due to some wrong investments.

"The Man from Cairo", a Michaeldavid production for distribution by Lippert, with Ray Enright the only credited director on the film print, finds Mike Canelli, the man from Cairo, nosing around Algiers with mystery surrounding the people he meets and the things he does and has done to him, all deriving from the war-time theft of $100,000,000 in gold which lies somewhere in the adjacent desert. People representing many nationalities and reasons are also seeking the gold. It boils down to a battle between Canelli and the original looter aboard a speeding train.

A group of "respectable" people are all partly responsible for the suicide of a servant girl. They are pounced upon by a wily blackmailer, who knows that these people will pay dearly rather than inform on themselves or others.

Dead City (Greek: Nekri politeia) is a 1951 Greek drama film directed by Frixos Iliadis. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.

To help her sick mother, a girl is hired for what she believes to be a simple delivery service. That will cause her serious problems with her boyfriend and with justice.