Irene Papas
Irene Papas (Greek: Ειρήνη Παππά, born Eirini Lelekou (Greek: Ειρήνη Λελέκου) 3 September 1929 – 14 September 2022)was a Greek actress and singer who starred in over 70 films in a career spanning more than 50 years. She gained international recognition through such popular award-winning films as The Guns of Navarone (1961), Zorba the Greek (1964) and Z (1969). She was a powerful protagonist in films including The Trojan Women (1971) and Iphigenia (1977). She played the title roles in Antigone (1961) and Electra (1962). She had a fine singing voice, on display in the 1968 recording Songs of Theodorakis. Papas won Best Actress awards at the Berlin International Film Festival for Antigone and from the National Board of Review for The Trojan Women. Her career awards include the Golden Arrow Award in 1993 at Hamptons International Film Festival, and the Golden Lion Award in 2009 at the Venice Biennale. Description above from the Wikipedia article Irene Papas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
as DrosoulaWhen a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in...
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The Guns of Navarone
as Maria PappadimosA team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable...
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Into the Night
as Shaheen ParviciEd Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he...
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The Message
as HindHandsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the...
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Anne of the Thousand Days
as Queen CatherineHenry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male...
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Lion of the Desert
as MabroukaThis movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian...
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Don't Torture a Duckling
as Dona Aurelia AvalloneA reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote...
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Zorba the Greek
as WidowAn uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed...
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Z
as Hélène, wife of the DeputyAmidst a heated political climate, the opposition leader is killed in what appears to be a...
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Christ Stopped at Eboli
as Giulia VenereIn the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near...
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
as Madre de AngelaThis suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series...
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The Moon-Spinners
as SophiaYoung English girl Nikky and her aunt arrive at the Moon-Spinners, a hotel on Crete, to a less...
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Attila
as GruneAttila, the leader of the barbarian Huns and called by the Romans "The Scourge of God", sweeps...
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The Brotherhood
as Ida GinettaThe son of a powerful Mafia don comes home from his army service in Vietnam and wants to lead...
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Bloodline
as Simonetta PalazziWhen her father is murdered, a cosmetics heiress becomes the next target of an unknown killer...
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Jacob
as RebekkaIsaac's son Jacob deprives his brother Esau of his birthright and has to flee for his life. He...
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Bambina
as Raimonda SpinaIn order to convince Raimonda, a wealthy noble woman, to finance his project for a holiday...
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Iphigenia
as KlytaimnistraThe Greek army is about to set sail to a great battle, but the winds refuse to blow. Their...
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We Still Kill the Old Way
as Luisa RoscioA leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia,...
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The Battle of Sutjeska
as Borina majkaThe headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The...
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Tribute to a Bad Man
as Jocasta ConstantineJeremy Rodock is a tough horse rancher who strings up rustlers soon as look at them. Fresh out...
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Oasis of Fear
as Barbara SlaterTwo young sexually free hippies, Dick and Ingrid, finance their travels by selling naked snaps...
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The Trojan Women
as HelenIn the aftermath of the Trojan Wars, Queen Hecuba takes stock of the defeated kingdom. Her son...
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Roma bene
as Elena TeopoulosA parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.
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The Odyssey
as AnticleaIn this adaptation of Homer's timeless epic, Armand Assante stars as Odysseus, the warrior King...
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Theodora, Slave Empress
as FaidiaTeodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and...
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1931: Once Upon a Time in New York
as Donna MimmaIn 1931, when the late American Prohibition major bosses have now divided the territory to...
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Moses the Lawgiver
as ZipporaThe epic story of Moses, who led the Israelites out of slavery, parted the Red Sea and received...
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A Dream of Kings
as CaliopeA Greek American father of a dying boy decides to take his son to Greece to breathe the clean...
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Odissea
as PenelopeOdysseus' journey told in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus...
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Witness Out of Hell
as Lea WeissLeah Weiss, a Polish Jew, was first forced into prostitution at Auschwitz. Afterwards, she was...
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Electra
as ElektraLiving in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped...
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Trap for the Assassin
as Julia de NoirvilleThis one is generally looked upon as the best version of the old-fashioned melodrama by Jules...
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Ring of Darkness
as RaffaellaOnce a Satanist who surrendered her soul and body to the devil himself, Carlotta Rhodes begins...
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High Season
as PenelopeOn the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A...
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Erendira
as Grandmother AmadisWhile Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house...
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The Assisi Underground
as Mother GiuseppinaThis film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing...
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Il falso bugiardo
as Self (archive footage)Based upon Vincenzoni's biography, "Pane e cinema", the documentary traces the story of the...
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The Unfaithfuls
as Luisa AzzaliA group of "respectable" people are all partly responsible for the suicide of a servant girl....
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A Talking Picture
as HelenaA meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for...
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The Desperate Ones
as AjmiIn 1941, two Polish brothers escape a Soviet gulag. Their only escape route is through the...
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Yerma
as Vieja paganaYerma is desperate to have children, so when a psychic advises her to look outside her marriage...
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Antigone
as AntigoneIn Thebes in ancient Greece, King Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother Jocasta,...
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1821 at the Cinema
as (archive footage)In 1821, in Cinema, he records the cinematic representations of the Revolution from the first...
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Sweet Country
as Mrs. ArayaAn American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's...
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Party
as IreneThe battle of the sexes? The forces of despair and seduction? On S. Miguel in the Azores,...
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Plato's Banquet
as DiotimeAt house of Agathon get together many intellectuals and philosophers, including Socrates, to...
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Behold Man - The Survivors
as AnnaHaving survived a terrible nuclear war that destroyed the human race, a family of three persons,...
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Vortice
as ClaraElena, after a date with his boyfriend Guido, comes home finding his father tried to kill...
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Anxiety
as MotherAn anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In...
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A Child Called Jesus
as Old MariaThe film attempts to fill in the "missing years" of Jesus, from ages 3 through 12. When King...
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Up, Down and Sideways
as ΜαρίαA prosperous widow with a gay son falls for a young gym instructor in Athens.
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The Man From Cairo
as Yvonne Lebeau"The Man from Cairo", a Michaeldavid production for distribution by Lippert, with Ray Enright...
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L'assistente sociale tutto pepe
as La SignoraNadia is a social worker who is trying to keep the residents of a local slum in line....
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Bouboulina
as Laskarina BouboulinaThe life and action of Laskarina Bouboulina. Captain Lascarina decides to organize the...
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The Lake of Sighs
as FrosyniIoannina, in the beginning of the 19th century. The whole Greece is under Turks. Ioannina is...
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The Balad of Mamelouk
as Mamluk's MotherMamluk is an unassuming, handsome young peasant who happens to have come along just in time to...
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The Missing Scientists
as GinaA group of nuclear scientists try to make sure top secret information about atomic weapons does...
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Fallen Angels
as LianaTo help her sick mother, a girl is hired for what she believes to be a simple delivery service....
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Island
as MarquiseIsland is Paul Cox's serene and beautiful film which explores a spectrum of emotions - ranging...
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The Steps
as JoanaAn artist returns to Santorini, where she spent her childhood, to face the ghosts of her past...
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The Deserter
as MariangelaIn this tragic story that has an unrealized potential to tug at the emotions, a woman in...
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N.P.
as CasalingaA prophetic Film about the fundamental problem of our times, that automatization of the...
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Dead City
as LenaDead City (Greek: Nekri politeia) is a 1951 Greek drama film directed by Frixos Iliadis. It was...
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Blood Wedding
as La mèreIn a small village in southern Morocco, Amrouch cannot, because of his social position, marry...
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as SelfA talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Climax!
as Maxanne YorkClimax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...
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The Odyssey
as AnticleiaIn this adaptation of Homer's timeless epic, Armand Assante stars as Odysseus, the warrior King...
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The Odyssey
as PenelopeItalian miniseries based on Homer's Odyssey.
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Moses the Lawgiver
as SeforaA biopic of Moses, who led the Jewish people out of Egypt, ex. by parting the Red Sea and...
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