Irene Papas

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.

  • Title : Irene Papas
  • Popularity : 5.405
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1926-09-03
  • Place of Birth : Chiliomodi, Corinth, Greece
  • Homepage :
  • Also Known As : Ирен Папас, Ειρήνη Παπά, Ειρήνη Παππά, Eirini Leleku, إيرين باباس
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Irene Papas Movies

  • 1979
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    Bloodline

    Bloodline

    4.7 1979 HD

    A pampered heiress inherits her father's pharmaceutical empire when he dies in a suspicious accident, and soon finds herself surrounded by ruthless...

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  • 2001
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    Captain Corelli's Mandolin

    Captain Corelli's Mandolin

    6 2001 HD

    When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.

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  • 1964
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    Zorba the Greek

    Zorba the Greek

    7.5 1964 HD

    An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.

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  • 1974
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    Moses the Lawgiver

    Moses the Lawgiver

    5.2 1974 HD

    The epic story of Moses, who led the Israelites out of slavery, parted the Red Sea and received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. Originally a TV...

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  • 1979
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    Ring of Darkness

    Ring of Darkness

    5.1 1979 HD

    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...

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  • 1994
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    Jacob

    Jacob

    6.8 1994 HD

    Isaac's son Jacob deprives his brother Esau of his birthright and has to flee for his life. He finds shelter with his uncle Laban, but is himself...

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  • 1969
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    Z

    Z

    7.823 1969 HD

    Amid a tense political climate, the opposition leader is killed in an apparent accident. When a prosecutor finds evidence of a cover-up, witnesses...

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  • 1961
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    The Guns of Navarone

    The Guns of Navarone

    7.3 1961 HD

    A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range...

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  • 1969
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    Anne of the Thousand Days

    Anne of the Thousand Days

    7 1969 HD

    Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.

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  • 1976
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    The Message

    The Message

    7.3 1976 HD

    Handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the Prophet Muhammad.

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  • 1981
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    Lion of the Desert

    Lion of the Desert

    7.3 1981 HD

    This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a...

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  • 1979
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    Christ Stopped at Eboli

    Christ Stopped at Eboli

    7.082 1979 HD

    In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty...

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  • 1964
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    The Moon-Spinners

    The Moon-Spinners

    5.7 1964 HD

    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...

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  • 1968
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    Odissea

    Odissea

    7.7 1968 HD

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

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  • 1971
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    Oasis of Fear

    Oasis of Fear

    5.647 1971 HD

    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...

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  • 1977
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    Iphigenia

    Iphigenia

    7.1 1977 HD

    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...

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  • 1971
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    The Trojan Women

    The Trojan Women

    6.1 1971 HD

    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...

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  • 1962
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    Electra

    Electra

    7.1 1962 HD

    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.

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  • 1972
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    Don't Torture a Duckling

    Don't Torture a Duckling

    7.3 1972 HD

    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...

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  • 1974
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    Bambina

    Bambina

    4.9 1974 HD

    In order to convince Raimonda, a wealthy noble woman, to finance his project for a holiday resort, Saverio gets engaged to Clotilde, her...

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  • 1967
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    We Still Kill the Old Way

    We Still Kill the Old Way

    6.628 1967 HD

    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...

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  • 1968
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    The Brotherhood

    The Brotherhood

    5.9 1968 HD

    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...

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  • 1956
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    Tribute to a Bad Man

    Tribute to a Bad Man

    7 1956 HD

    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...

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  • 1954
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    Attila

    Attila

    5.3 1954 HD

    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...

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  • 1987
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    High Season

    High Season

    5.3 1987 HD

    On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he...

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  • 1971
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    Roma bene

    Roma bene

    5.9 1971 HD

    A parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.

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  • 1982
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    The Balad of Mamelouk

    The Balad of Mamelouk

    4 1982 HD

    Mamluk is an unassuming, handsome young peasant who happens to have come along just in time to save the king from a fatal trap, and as a reward, the...

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  • 1973
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    The Battle of Sutjeska

    The Battle of Sutjeska

    6.4 1973 HD

    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...

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  • 1989
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    Plato's Banquet

    Plato's Banquet

    5.2 1989 HD

    At house of Agathon get together many intellectuals and philosophers, including Socrates, to discuss the theme of love and sex: each of them...

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  • 1987
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    Chronicle of a Death Foretold

    Chronicle of a Death Foretold

    7.4 1987 HD

    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...

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  • 1989
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    Island

    Island

    5.2 1989 HD

    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...

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  • 1953
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    The Man From Cairo

    The Man From Cairo

    4.8 1953 HD

    "The Man from Cairo", a Michaeldavid production for distribution by Lippert, with Ray Enright the only credited director on the film print, finds...

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  • 1985
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    The Assisi Underground

    The Assisi Underground

    5.5 1985 HD

    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.

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  • 1969
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    Behold Man - The Survivors

    Behold Man - The Survivors

    2.5 1969 HD

    Having survived a terrible nuclear war that destroyed the human race, a family of three persons, Jean, his wife Anna and Patrick, lives in a trailer...

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  • 1961
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    Antigone

    Antigone

    7.8 1961 HD

    In Thebes in ancient Greece, King Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother Jocasta, having two sons - Eteocles and Polyneices - and two...

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  • 1983
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    Erendira

    Erendira

    6.1 1983 HD

    While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her...

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  • 1967
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    Witness Out of Hell

    Witness Out of Hell

    6.7 1967 HD

    Leah Weiss, a Polish Jew, was first forced into prostitution at Auschwitz. Afterwards, she was victimized in medical experiments. Now, twenty years...

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  • 1987
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    A Child Called Jesus

    A Child Called Jesus

    6.6 1987 HD

    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,...

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  • 1951
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    Dead City

    Dead City

    6 1951 HD

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

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  • 2021
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    1821 at the Cinema

    1821 at the Cinema

    1 2021 HD

    In 1821, in Cinema, he records the cinematic representations of the Revolution from the first decades of the 20th century. until the present day....

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  • 1972
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    N.P.

    N.P.

    6.5 1972 HD

    A prophetic Film about the fundamental problem of our times, that automatization of the production process ultimately eliminates human labour. In...

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  • 1985
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    Into the Night

    Into the Night

    6.498 1985 HD

    Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana. Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive.

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  • 1953
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    Vortice

    Vortice

    7 1953 HD

    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...

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  • 1954
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    Theodora, Slave Empress

    Theodora, Slave Empress

    5.8 1954 HD

    Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. But the divide...

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  • 1973
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    1931: Once Upon a Time in New York

    1931: Once Upon a Time in New York

    1 1973 HD

    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 -...

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  • 1977
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    Blood Wedding

    Blood Wedding

    5 1977 HD

    In a small village in southern Morocco, Amrouch cannot, because of his social position, marry the daughter of a wealthy farmer from the nearby...

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  • 1992
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    Up, Down and Sideways

    Up, Down and Sideways

    4.2 1992 HD

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

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  • 2003
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    A Talking Picture

    A Talking Picture

    7.1 2003 HD

    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...

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  • 1953
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    The Unfaithfuls

    The Unfaithfuls

    5.7 1953 HD

    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...

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  • 1969
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    A Dream of Kings

    A Dream of Kings

    5 1969 HD

    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...

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  • 1966
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    Trap for the Assassin

    Trap for the Assassin

    5.3 1966 HD

    An industrialist is falsely accused of murdering one of his creditors and, because he cannot reveal that it was his mistress who gave him the money...

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  • 1981
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    L'assistente sociale tutta pepe e tutta sale

    L'assistente sociale tutta pepe e tutta sale

    4.8 1981 HD

    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...

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  • 1954
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    The Missing Scientists

    The Missing Scientists

    3.3 1954 HD

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

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  • 1996
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    Party

    Party

    6.5 1996 HD

    The battle of the sexes? The forces of despair and seduction? On S. Miguel in the Azores, Rogério, a young man with old money, and his...

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  • 1998
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    Anxiety

    Anxiety

    6.4 1998 HD

    An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro...

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  • 1967
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    The Desperate Ones

    The Desperate Ones

    1 1967 HD

    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...

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  • 1959
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    Bouboulina

    Bouboulina

    7 1959 HD

    The life and action of Laskarina Bouboulina. Captain Lascarina decides to organize the revolution in Spetses and to participate herself, despite her...

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  • 1987
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    Sweet Country

    Sweet Country

    4.833 1987 HD

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

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  • 1948
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    Fallen Angels

    Fallen Angels

    6 1948 HD

    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...

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  • 1999
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    Yerma

    Yerma

    3.5 1999 HD

    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?

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  • 1966
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    The Steps

    The Steps

    1 1966 HD

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

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  • 1959
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    Pssst ... girls!

    Pssst ... girls!

    7 1959 HD

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  • 1959
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    The Lake of Sighs

    The Lake of Sighs

    5.6 1959 HD

    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...

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  • 2008
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    Il falso bugiardo

    Il falso bugiardo

    1 2008 HD

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

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  • 2001
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    ...και το τρένο πάει στον ουρανό

    ...και το τρένο πάει στον ουρανό

    5 2001 HD

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  • 1983
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    The Deserter

    The Deserter

    1 1983 HD

    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...

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  • 1984
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    أفغانستان لماذا؟

    أفغانستان لماذا؟

    1 1984 HD

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  • 2002
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    Short Cuts

    Short Cuts

    1 2002 HD

    Short Cuts was an Australian children's television series that first screened on the Seven Network in 2001. The 26-episode series was aimed at...

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  • 1954
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    Climax!

    Climax!

    3 1954 HD

    Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary...

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  • 1968
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    The Odyssey

    The Odyssey

    8.9 1968 HD

    Italian miniseries based on Homer's Odyssey.

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  • 1989
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    Oceano

    Oceano

    5 1989 HD

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  • 1997
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    The Odyssey

    The Odyssey

    7.174 1997 HD

    In this adaptation of Homer's timeless epic, Armand Assante stars as Odysseus, the warrior King of the mythical island of Ithaca, who must endure a...

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  • 1974
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    Moses the Lawgiver

    Moses the Lawgiver

    1 1974 HD

    A biopic of Moses, who led the Jewish people out of Egypt, ex. by parting the Red Sea and afterwards delivered the Ten Commandments from God.

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  • 1975
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    Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

    Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

    6 1975 HD

    A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

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  • 1982
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    Champs-Elysées

    Champs-Elysées

    6.2 1982 HD

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  • 1987
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    Ein Kind mit Namen Jesus

    Ein Kind mit Namen Jesus

    10 1987 HD

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  • 1988
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    La Valise en carton

    La Valise en carton

    1 1988 HD

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  • 1954
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    Reflets de Cannes

    Reflets de Cannes

    1 1954 HD

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