List of the best Katina Paxinou movies: For Whom the Bell Tolls(1943), Rocco and His Brothers(1960), Mourning Becomes Electra(1947), Prince of Foxes(1949), Confidential Agent(1945), Mr. Arkadin(1955) ... ...
Romance, Adventure, Drama
USA
1943
170 Minutes
Pilar
Gary Cooper Ingrid Bergman Katina Paxinou Akim Tamiroff Arturo de Cordova Joseph Calleia Vladimir Sokoloff Mikhail Rasumny Fortunio Bonanova Eric Feldary Victor Varconi
soldier guerrilla fighter love interest engaging emotional gripping spain mountain romance war historical events adventure sacrifice love 1930s
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
Drama
Italy|France
1960
155 Minutes
Rosaria Parondi
Alain Delon Renato Salvatori Annie Girardot Katina Paxinou Roger Hanin Paolo Stoppa Suzy Delair Claudia Cardinale Spiros Focas Max Cartier Rocco Vidolazzi
widow son boxer wife prostitute student melodramatic moving sad italy train station milan tenement house church boxing ring city vs. country brother relationship poverty relocation infidelity
Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.
Drama
USA
1947
173 Minutes
Christine Mannon
Rosalind Russell Michael Redgrave Raymond Massey Katina Paxinou Leo Genn Kirk Douglas Nancy Coleman Henry Hull Sara Allgood Thurston Hall Walter Baldwin
Eugene O'Neill's updated version of the Oresteia set in New England, after the American Civil War.
Adventure
USA
1949
107 Minutes
Mona Constanza Zoppo
Tyrone Power Orson Welles Wanda Hendrix Marina Berti Everett Sloane Katina Paxinou Felix Aylmer Leslie Bradley
ambassador nobleman count wife sister thrilling italy provincial town venice, italy power struggle corruption revolution torture love metamorphosis rescue rise renaissance
An unscrupulous agent for the Borgias suffers a change of heart when asked to betray a noble count and his much younger, very beautiful wife.
Drama
USA
1945
118 Minutes
Mrs. Melandez
Charles Boyer Lauren Bacall Peter Lorre Victor Francen Wanda Hendrix George Coulouris Katina Paxinou John Warburton Holmes Herbert Dan Seymour Art Foster
secret agent fascist love interest double agent suspenseful intense dark london espionage war violence fascism love quest rivalry 1930s
In 1937, agents from the opposing sides of the Spanish Civil War travel to the neutral UK to secure coal contracts and to undermine each other's efforts.
Drama
1955
99 Minutes
Sophie
Orson Welles Michael Redgrave Robert Arden Paola Mori Patricia Medina Akim Tamiroff Mischa Auer Katina Paxinou Jack Watling Gregoire Aslan Peter Van Eyck
wealthy man ex-convict murderer smuggler gangster daughter creative dark dense copenhagen, denmark mexico amsterdam railyard street amnesia investigation deception mystery transformation adventure
A shady financier (Orson Welles) pays a man (Robert Arden) to research his past, in order to erase it with murder.