
Spiros Focás
Actor · 1937 – 2023 · Patras, Greece
Spiros Focás (Greek: Σπύρος Φωκάς, born 17 August, 1937 - November 10, 2023) was a Greek actor who, in a career extending for over half-century, has appeared in over two hundred films (Rambo III, The Jewel of the Nile) and episodes of television series. Born in Patras, Greece's third-largest urban area and the regional capital of West Greece Periphery, Spiros Focás made his initial screen appearances at the age of 22, when he acted in four films produced in 1959. Among the directors for whom he worked are Luchino Visconti, Vincente Minnelli and Ferdinando Baldi. In 2011 he had been performing in Lords of Magic and was scheduled for another title, planned for 2012 release, The Family Inheritance. Description above from the Wikipedia article Spiros Focás, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movie6.2ActionAdventureCombat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured.
Rambo III
1988 · 3.6K votes
Movie6.2AdventureActionJoan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who brings her to the Middle East, ostensibly to write a book about his life. Of course, he's up to no good, and Joan is just another pawn in his wicked game. But Jack Colton and his sidekick Ralph show up to help our intrepid heroine save the day.
The Jewel of the Nile
1985 · 1.3K votes
Movie8.0DramaRomanceWhen a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.
Movie6.6DramaRomanceMax Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of life. Mismatched or not, their attraction is instant and smoldering. With time, however, their class and age differences become an obstacle in their relationship, especially since Max can't keep Nora a secret from his Jewish friends and upper-crust associates forever.
White Palace
1990 · 210 votes
Movie6.1AdventureCrimeDetective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
Shaft in Africa
1973 · 86 votes
Movie5.8Science FictionDramaAn executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up.
Holocaust 2000
1977 · 59 votes
Movie5.9DramaHorrorPuglia, southern Italy, around 1400. A convent is invaded by the Tarantula cult, whose fanatical and crazed members desecrate the sacred place by committing obscene and bloody acts.
Movie5.0DramaTwo Athenian attorneys pursue litigation for the return of the Parthenon Marbles. As the bronze statue of Athena Promakhos used to stand guard in front of the Parthenon, both must find the courage to stand in defense of what they love.
Movie5.6DramaHistoryMessalina was the Roman noblewoman who inveigled ageing emperor Claudio into marriage. Once ensconced on the throne, Messalina launched a reign of terror that shook the empire to its very foundations. The subject of countless film treatments, Rome's most villified empress is herein played by British actress Belinda Lee.
Movie9.0DramaΗ ζωή ενός ανθρώπου
1968 · 1 votes
MovieComedyLily Miniver is an eccentric, intrepid young woman whose job as associate curator at the prestigious Jeffersonian Museum in Washington, D.C. takes her around the globe. When a unique Aztec necklace, on loan from the British Museum, is slightly tarnished, she quickly deduces that it's a fake, and she is sent to London by her boss to determine how a substitute necklace showed up at the Jeffersonian.
Lily
1986
Movie5.1DramaFantasyDuring a press conference, international star Nina remembers simpler times, flashing back to her days as a maid in a run-down Italian hotel. As a young woman, Nina befriends Contessa Sanziani, an elderly woman who entertains Nina with memories of her vibrant, wealthy life with Count Sanziani. Inspired by her tales of success, young Nina fantasizes about her own adventures and seeks to find the same excitement in her life.
A Matter of Time
1976 · 14 votes
Movie6.1WarThe real story of the partisan Silvio Corbari (Giuliano Gemma). Silvio forms a band of partisans in Northern Italy, completely independent from the Italian organized resistance (CLN). Ines (Tina Aumont), leaves her husband to join the band and becomes Silvio's lover. Silvio seems to suceed in creating a free-zone, his personal republic, independent from Nazi-occupied Italy, in a little village called Tregnano.
Corbari
1970 · 5 votes
Movie6.4DramaChronicle of the dark maneuvers put into practice by a politician to seize an opposition newspaper. A Lebanese terrorist receives the order to kill a stockbroker, which triggers a series of blackmail and deception. A deputy commissioner and a journalist intend to shed light on all these murky matters, but the politician has no scruples and also knows how to move with extraordinary skill.
Tre colonne in cronaca
1990 · 7 votes
Movie6.6CrimeMark Terzi goes to Genoa to take on the case of a serial killer who calls himself "The Sphinx".
Movie7.0ComedyDramaAlexandros wants to open a bar in a district town so he travels to Romania to find young girls to work for him.The bar has unprecedented success but then something happens.
Movie4.3DramaTV MovieA woman who's been having an affair with a married man who's been taking care of her. When he dies she finds herself with nothing. So she tries to rebuild her life but not without the stigma of being a kept woman following her.
Mistress
1987 · 4 votes
Movie5.0WesternActionKen Dakota's search for the murderer of his brother, killed by bandit Gary Stevens, at the behest of land owner Chris Malone. Dakota attempts to bring the men responsible for his brothers death to justice.
Movie3.6HorrorAdventureAn archaelogist falls under the spell of a statue with a curse on it.
The Serpent of Death
1990 · 5 votes
Movie6.0DramaMysteryFrancesco, a young Sicilian aristocrat, scars an aging gangster who has set out to take away his property. The gangster vows to obtain vengeance, and Francesco is forced to flee across Greece with his girl friend, pursued by his antagonist's vicious henchmen.
Movie5.6DramaPolitical activist Salvatore returns to his native Sicily and stirs up trouble among the peasants, urging them to confront the Mafia and demand the right to plough their own fields. The peasants refuse to help him, and Salvatore is marked by the Mafia as a troublemaker.
Movie9.0DramaΗ απολύτρωση
1961 · 1 votes
Movie5.1ComedyAn Italian variation on the Frankie & Annette-Gidget beach party movies that were all the rage in North America in the early 60s. Nicole Molino (Catherine Spaak) and Nicola Molino (Gianni Garko) are not related to one another. In fact, they don’t even know each other until both are inadvertently assigned the same hotel room on the island of Ischia. Nicole isn’t interested in any hanky-panky, so Nicola reluctantly promises to keep his hands to himself.
Series5
TV7.5MysteryCrimeAn unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · 471 votes
TV8.0CrimeDramaJourney back more than 400 years to 16th century Sicily, where the small Italian islands have fallen victim to corruption, intimidation, extortion, and brutality.
TV4.0DramaΤης Αγάπης Μαχαιριά
2006 · 5 votes
TV7.0ComedyDramaHappy Holiday
1993 · 1 votes
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Il ricatto
1989 · 1 votes