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.

Essa adaptação do romance de Louis de Bernier ambienta-se em uma ilha grega durante a Segunda Guerra. Quando a Grécia é invadida, soldados italianos chegam à pequena e tranqüila Ilha de Cefalônia. Um destes invasores é o capitão Antonio Corelli (Nicholas Cage), que no início não quer saber muito dos moradores. Os moradores, por sua vez, também não vão com a cara dos soldados. Mas ele acaba se hospedando na casa do médico da vila e, aos poucos, torna-se amigo de Pelagia (Penélope Cruz), a filha do dono da casa. Quando o namorado dela vai lutar no continente, a atração entre Pelagia e Antonio cresce. Agora, envolvido com os moradores da ilha, Antonio questiona suas razões de estar na guerra. E com Mussolini se rendendo aos Aliados, a guerra toma novo rumo e ameaça o romance entre os dois.

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.

A história dos irmãos Esau e Jacó.Na terra de Canaan vive Isac,filho de Abraão,ele e Rebeca tem dois filhos:Esau e Jacó.Esau é corajoso e forte caçador,enquanto que Jacó é mais gentil e humilde,além de ser o favorito da sua mãe para ser o herdeiro de Isac e Abraão,apesar de não ser o mais velho.

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.

Um marido, Ed Okin (Jeff Goldblum), que não consegue dormir enfrenta problemas conjugais e acha o emprego monótono. Ao dirigir através de Los Angeles ele socorre Diana (Michelle Pfeiffer), que está sendo perseguida por quatro iranianos que desejam 6 esmeraldas de valor inestimável.

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.

Em 1922, com a ascenção de Mussolini e dos fascismo, a Itália como as outras potências européias, procuram aumentar suas zonas de comércio e exploração na África. A Itália volta os olhos para a Libia, onde iniciam uma grande guerra contra o povo local que resiste bravamente contra as forças modernas italianas. Os beduinos comandados pelo lider local Omar Mukhtar iniciam uma grande batalha pra expulsar as tropas italianas, que cada vez mais investem em armas e massacram o povo libiano. A intenção de Mussolini é dominar o Norte da África, porém ele encontra um grande obstáculo no líder da rebelião beduína Omar Mukhtar / Quinn. A única solução para garantir a vitória no combate é enviar um destemido general, que organiza uma operação violenta e sanguinária. Filme fidelíssimo à História, que mostra a determinação do povo com as medidas imperialistas dos colonizadores italianos. Com um elenco perfeito, Akkad dirige as cenas de guerra com forte realismo. Um filme de guerra fantástico.

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.

Sam Roffe, presidente de uma empresa farmacêutica multinacional, é morto enquanto praticava alpinismo. No início acham que é um acidente, mas depois o Inspetor Max Hornung deduz que Roffe foi assassinado. A filha de Sam, Elizabeth, assume o controle da empresa, e enquanto viaja através da Europa, ela logo se torna um alvo também. A suspeita recai sobre os primos Roffe, todos eles querem lançar na Bolsa ações da empresa e vender com um lucro enorme. Uma vez que isto vai contra a vontade do pai, Elizabeth rejeita seus conselhos e decide manter a empresa nas mãos da família. Enquanto o Inspetor Hornung investiga a fundo os primos, mais tentativas são feitas contra a vida de Elizabeth. Na esperança de revelar o culpado, Hormung é capaz de conectar essas tentativas a uma série de assassinatos de prostitutas, que são gravados em snuff filmes.

Inspirado no romance autobiográfico de Carlo Levi, o filme narra a vida de um médico e escritor antifascista colocado sob prisão domiciliar em 1935 em uma remota vila italiana. Proibido de exercer qualquer atividade, incluindo a prática da medicina, ele descobre o mundo camponês, longe dos círculos intelectuais, até ser libertado dois anos depois já tendo ganhado a estima dos agricultores pobres da região.

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.

Handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the prophet Mohammed.

Egito, ano de 1300 A.C. Sob o reinado do Faraó Ramsés II, ordenou-se a morte de todos os recéns nascidos varões. Porém, um deles sobreviveu ao ser recolhido das águas do rio pela família do Faraó. Seu nome era Moisés, salvo das águas. Ao crescer, Moisés se converteria no emissário de Deus, e seria o encarregado de guiar o povo de Israel ao seu destino prometido.

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.

Baseado em fatos reais, um maníaco realiza uma série de assassinatos envolvendo um grupo de crianças em um vilarejo da Sicília, na Itália. Com a cidade à beira da histeria, todos passam a serem suspeitos. Andrea Martelli (Tomas Milian) é um jornalista e tenta desvendar o verdadeiro culpado, enquanto a bela Patrizia (Barbara Bouchet) tenta se livrar das suspeitas levantadas contra ela, mas o medo acaba formando uma onda de violência com pessoas inocentes.

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.

O rei Henrique VIII (Richard Burton) apaixona-se pela jovem Anna Bolena (Geneviève Bujold). Casado com Catarina de Aragão, que não lhe deu um herdeiro homem, não mede esforços para ficar com Anna, rompendo com a Igreja Católica e criando a Igreja Anglicana. Mas Anna também não consegue lhe dar seu tão esperado filho homem. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)

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.

Conheça o caso Lambrakis, onde a morte de um político foi encoberta vergonhosamente por políticos e policiais, na Grécia dos anos 60. Vencedor dos Oscar de Melhor Filme Estrangeiro e Edição, foi o primeiro filme a ser indicado também na categoria Melhor Filme. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)

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

The son of a powerful Mafia don comes home from his army service in Vietnam and wants to lead his own life, but family tradition, intrigues and powerplays involving his older brother dictate otherwise, and he finds himself being slowly drawn back into that world.

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?

A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to learn it.

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.

Um escritor inglês vai a Creta para trabalhar em uma mina que herdou do pai, um grego de nascença. Logo ele conhece Alexis Zorba (Anthony Quinn), um determinado camponês grego que também quer trabalhar na mina. Os dois acabam indo se hospedar em um pequeno hotel administrado por uma velha prostituta francesa.

Nikky conhece Mark enquanto está em Creta nas férias e os dois se apaixonam. O problema é que Mark está sendo procurado por um roubo a uma joalheria e, para provar sua inocência, precisa achar o verdadeiro ladrão. Nikky concorda em ajudá-lo, mas o culpado pode estar mais perto do que ela imagina.

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...

Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, e após a perda de dois mil soldados britânicos no estreito grego de Kheros, os alemães resolvem reforçar defesas na região. Mas a retirada dos Aliados foi cortada por uma fortificação costeira alemã na ilha de Navarone, dotada de dois poderosíssimos canhões. Agora um pequeno grupo aliado, apoiado pela resistência grega, precisa de destruir as duas armas a fim de viabilizar a retirada britânica.

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 é um rancheiro durão que arrasa ladrões assim que olha para eles. Recém-saído da Pensilvânia, Steve Miller acha difícil se acostumar com os costumes de Rodock, embora tenha um brilho imediato em sua garota grega Jocasta.

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

Átila, o líder dos hunos bárbaros e chamado pelos romanos de "O Flagelo de Deus", varre a península italiana, derrotando todos os exércitos de Roma, até que ele e seus homens alcançam os portões da própria cidade.

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.