Katina Paxinou

Date of Birth: 17 Dec 1900
Country: Greece
Total Credits at Criticker: 10 (Actor)
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Following death of husband, Rosaria (Katina Paxinou) moves to Milan with her sons: Simone (Renato Salvatori), Rocco (Alain Delon), Ciro (Max Cartier), and Luca (Rocco Vidolazzi). Already there is Vincenzo (Spiros Focas), preoccupied with his impending nuptials to the beautiful Ginetta (Claudia Cardinale). Movie chronicles the familys' struggle. Much of the second half deals with loutish Simone and Rocco. Complications arise when Nadia (Annie Girardot), a prostitute, enters their lives.
An American adventurer investigates the past of mysterious tycoon Arkadin...placing himself in grave danger. (imdb)
Eugene O'Neill's updated version of the Orestaia. In New England, after the American Civil War, a war-weary Agamem--er... (imdb)
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era -- like Ernest Hemingway and his friends -- has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains... (imdb)
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. (imdb)
During the Spanish Civil War, a republican courier travels to England to try and buy coal. He meets with an amount of local hostility, while his life is at risk from those on the fascist side. Support comes from an unlikely if attractive quarter. (imdb)
During the Napoleonic era, in Spain, a young postulant falls in love with a handsome British soldier who is recovering with others of his regiment after being wounded. Before leaving, he asks her to leave the convent and marry him. The postulant, devoted to the statue of the Virgin Mary, asks her for a heavenly sign and leaves when nothing happens. Then the statue of the Virgin descends from its pedestal. (imdb)
An evil guardian plots the murder of his young heiress niece in this Victorian melodrama. (www.allmovie.com)
In Cyprus, an EOKA fighter (against the British Administration), Kyriakoulis, is imprisoned by the British. His comrades kidnap the son of a friend of the British Administrator in retaliation. Plans to help Kyriakoulis escape fail and the British hang him. Kyriakoulis mother intervenes magnanimously and the fighters free their british prisoner.
A determined police action in Sicily forces the notorious bandit Vito Ribera to hide in mountains, then to try to leave Italy. Ribera soon realizes that he can no longer count on the protection of his powerful mafia allies. (imdb)