List of the best Melina Mercouri movies: Never on Sunday(1960), Promise at Dawn(1971), 10:30 P.M. Summer(1966), Phaedra(1962), A Dream of Passion(1978), He Who Must Die(1957), Gaily, Gaily(1969), Nasty Habits(1976), Where the Hot Wind Blows(1959), Once Is Not Enough(1975) ... ...
Comedy
Greece
1960
91 Minutes
Melina Mercouri Jules Dassin George Foundas Titos Vandis Mitsos Ligizos Despo Diamantidou Dimos Starenios Dimitris Papamichael
prostitute tourist pimp sailor lighthearted witty greece port city philosophy culture clash morality salvation adventure rivalry transformation love 1960s
An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated.
Drama, Biography
France|USA
1971
101 Minutes
Melina Mercouri Assi Dayan Francois Raffoul Despo Fernand Gravey
A Soviet silent-film actress (Melina Mercouri) raises her illegitimate son, who becomes the writer Romain Gary (Assaf Dayan).
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Spain|USA
1966
85 Minutes
Melina Mercouri Romy Schneider Peter Finch Julian Mateos Isabel Maria Perez Beatriz Savon
A group of tourists, which relations are already complicated enough, faces with local crime incident.
Drama
1962
115 Minutes
Melina Mercouri Anthony Perkins Raf Vallone Giorgos Karoussos Elizabeth Ercy Georges Sarris Andreas Philipides Olympia Papadouka
wife ship owner son business owner young woman fascinating passionate dark moving greece island family home affair unhappy marriage incest unusual romance family business forbidden love growing up 1960s
A Greek shipping tycoon's (Raf Vallone) second wife (Melina Mercouri) has a tragic affair with her stepson (Anthony Perkins).
Drama
1978
110 Minutes
Melina Mercouri Ellen Burstyn Andreas Voutsinas Despo Diamantidou Yannis Voglis Betty Valassi
An actress (Melina Mercouri) preparing for a stage version of "Medea" meets a mother (Ellen Burstyn) who killed her three children.
Drama
France|Italy
1957
120 Minutes
Katerina, Mary Magdalene
Jean Servais Melina Mercouri Pierre Vaneck Gert Froebe Maurice Ronet Nicole Berger Fernand Ledoux Carl Mohner Roger Hanin Gregoire Asian
After WW1,ordinary citizens of a small Greek village plays the Passion Play in order to rebel against Turkish rulers during Turkish-Greek relations in 1920's.
Comedy
USA
1969
106 Minutes
Beau Bridges Melina Mercouri Brian Keith George Kennedy Hume Cronyn Margot Kidder Roy Poole Melodie Johnson
runaway madam prostitute editor friend reporter amusing endearing inspiring spirited chicago brothel newsroom small town coming of age unlikely allies friendship politics corruption journalism
To escape sinful impulses, Ben Harvey, a callow youth, leaves his small town for Chicago in 1910. A pickpocket promptly relieves him of his money, and he nearly starves before Queen Lil ... See full summary »
Comedy
UK|USA
1976
96 Minutes
Sister Gertrude
Glenda Jackson Sandy Dennis Melina Mercouri Geraldine Page Anne Jackson Anne Meara Susan Penhaligon Edith Evans Jerry Stiller Rip Torn Eli Wallach
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.
Drama
1959
120 Minutes
Donna Lucrezia
Gina Lollobrigida Marcello Mastroianni Pierre Brasseur Yves Montand Melina Mercouri
A racketeer and an aged squire are among the competitors for the affections of a desirable young woman.
Drama, Gay & Lesbian
USA
1975
121 Minutes
Karla
Kirk Douglas Alexis Smith Deborah Raffin David Janssen George Hamilton Melina Mercouri Gary Conway Brenda Vaccaro Lillian Randolph Renata Vanni Mark Roberts
producer daughter wife magazine editor writer astronaut hedonistic passionate melodramatic tender new york city newsroom nightclub bedroom central park restaurant high society family dysfunction sexual awakening may-december romance
A young woman goes home to New York after a long stay in Europe. Her former schoolmate introduces her to the decadence of New York and she ultimately falls in love with an older man who's a stand-in for her father, before tragedy strikes.