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Melina Mercouri

Melina Mercouri

October 18, 1920 (March 6, 1994)

A Dream of Passion

V.O.: Kravgi gynaikon
Gr. 1978. Psychological drama by Jules Dassin with Melina Mercouri, Ellen Burstyn, Andreas Voutsinas. An actress assigned to play the role of Medea visits a woman convicted of killing her children in prison.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1970. Dramatic comedy by Jules Dassin with Melina Mercouri, Assaf Dayan, François Raffoul. A Russian actress, who has great ambitions for her son, moves to France where she works in various jobs.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1969. Comedy by Norman Jewison with Beau Bridges, Brian Keith, Melina Mercouri. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the tribulations of an apprentice journalist in Chicago.
Runtime: 105 min.
G.-B. 1966. Police comedy by Ronald Neame, Cliff Owen with James Garner, Melina Mercouri, Tony Franciosa. A business person passing through Lisbon is mistaken for a secret agent in charge of finding diamonds.
Runtime: 99 min.
U.S. 1966. Drama by Jules Dassin with Romy Schneider, Melina Mercouri, Peter Finch. In Spain, a young alcoholic who realized that her husband was cheating on her with one of her friends, comes to the aid of a murderer.
Runtime: 85 min.

The Uninhibited

V.O.: Los Pianos mecanicos
Fr. 1965. Mores drama by Juan Antonio Bardem with Melina Mercouri, Hardy Krüger, James Mason. Suffering from depression,a young painter spends some time in a village on the Costa Brava.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1964. Police comedy by Jules Dassin with Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell, Peter Ustinov. A woman organizes the theft of a precious object from a museum in Istanbul.
Runtime: 118 min.
U.S. 1963. War drama by Carl Foreman with George Hamilton, George Peppard, Eli Wallach. Members of an American regiment have a variety of experiences, during the war in Europe.
Runtime: 148 min.
Fr. 1961. Comedy by Claude Autant-Lara with Francis Claude, Danielle Gaubert, Jean Sorel. Henry IV is looking for a complaisant husband for a young girl he wants to make his mistress.
Runtime: 83 min.

Phèdre

V.O.: Phaedra
Fr. 1961. Drama by Jules Dassin with Melina Mercouri, Anthony Perkins, Raf Vallone. The wife of a wealthy Greek shipowner has a violent passion for her son-in-law.
Runtime: 115 min.
G.-B. 1960. Mores comedy by Jules Dassin with Jules Dassin, Melina Mercouri, Georges Foundas. An American tourist falls in love with a Greek prostitute whom he tries to reform.
Runtime: 88 min.
Fr. 1958. Mores drama by Jules Dassin with Gina Lollobrigida, Yves Montand, Marcello Mastroianni. A strange game allows its winner to subjugate all the inhabitants of a small Italian port.
Runtime: 110 min.
G.-B. 1958. Adventures by Joseph Losey with Melina Mercouri, Keith Michell, Patrick McGoohan. A gypsy woman pretends to be in love with an English gentleman in order to get money from him.
Runtime: 107 min.

He Who Must Die

V.O.: Celui qui doit mourir
Fr. 1957. Religious drama by Jules Dassin with Pierre Vaneck, Melina Mercouri, Jean Servais. In a Greek village occupied by the Turks, inhabitants are preparing to perform the Passion of Christ.
Runtime: 122 min.
Gr. 1955. Psychological drama by Michael Cacoyannis with Melina Mercouri, Georges Foundas, Sophia Vembo. The star of a cabaret goes from lover to lover, but always refuses marriage.
Runtime: 87 min.

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