Melina Mercouri

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Melina Mercouri - what members say

Never On Sunday review by from Milton Keynes

Ancient Greece – before tourism 14 November 2005
...o be snobbish about, setting out to reform contented prostitute Ilya, played by Melina Mercouri. Ilya is a fan of ancient Greek tragedy, but in Ilya’s version there is always ... Read customer review

Nasty Habits (1977)
Starring: Glenda Jackson, Melina Mercouri, Geraldine Page
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
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In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants.

75% from 2 members
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Gaily, Gaily (1969)
Starring: Beau Bridges, Melina Mercouri, Brian Keith
Director: Norman Jewison
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A naive young news reporter arrives in Chicago at the turn of the century, gets a job covering the seamier side of the city for a major newspaper with the help of a "madam", and then gets into a lot of trouble.

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10:30 P.M. Summer (1966)
Starring: Melina Mercouri, Romy Schneider, Peter Finch
Director: Jules Dassin
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Passion, whether sex or violence, is the root of conflict in this film which follows as the alcoholic Mercouri and her husband Finch travel with their daughter and Schneider across Spain. Being married does not stop Finch from fooling around with other women, however, and an affair flares up ..read more »

20% from 3 members
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Topkapi on DVD (1964)
Starring: Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell, Peter Ustinov
Director: Jules Dassin
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Five years after directing the heist classic RIFIFI, Jules Dassin returns to robbery with TOPKAPI. Again there is a long and daring break-in, as his heroes attempt to steal the priceless Emerald Dagger from the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul, but in contrast to the bleak RIFIFI, the mood in ..read more »

59% from 473 members

The Victors (1963)
Starring: Vince Edwards, Albert Finney, George Hamilton
Director: Carl Foreman
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War has no victors, only survivors. Killing destroys the killers as well as the killed; because it murders decency, self-respect and ultimately life itself. The story follows in the footsteps of a squad of young American solders from the early days of the Battle of Britain, through the fierce ..read more »

76% from 6 members
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Phaedra (1962)
Starring: Melina Mercouri, Raf Vallone, Anthony Perkins
Director: Jules Dassin
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Inspired by Euripedes' tragedy Hippolytus and set in modern times, this allegorical tale centers on the love triangle between a fabulously wealthy Greek shipping magnate, his lonely second wife, and his first-born son. The affair between the wife and her stepson begins soon after she arrives in ..read more »

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Never On Sunday on DVD (1960)
Starring: Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin, George Foundas
Director: Jules Dassin
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An American scholar in Greece sets about improving a prostitute he's infatuated with.

64% from 287 members

Nasty Habits - 4.0 stars
Gaily, Gaily - 3 stars
10:30 P.M. Summer - 1.0 stars
Topkapi - 3.0 stars
The Victors - 4.0 stars

Never On Sunday - 3.5 stars
Topkapi - 3.0 stars
The Victors - 4.0 stars
Nasty Habits - 4.0 stars
Phaedra - 1.5 stars

Gaily, Gaily - 3 stars
10:30 P.M. Summer - 1.0 stars
Phaedra - 1.5 stars
Nasty Habits - 4.0 stars
The Victors - 4.0 stars

Romy Schneider - 2 times - show films
Beatriz Savón - 1 times - show films
Edith Evans - 1 times - show films
Olympia Papadouka - 1 times - show films
Jules Dassin - 1 times - show films

Jules Dassin - 4 times - show films
Carl Foreman - 1 times - show films
Michael Lindsay-Hogg - 1 times - show films
Norman Jewison - 1 times - show films