1. Never On Sunday (1960)
Very racy for the time period. Not only does this film center around an unrepentant prostitute, but this character and her various male companions are shown in various states of undress.
Melina Mercouri stars as a woman who happily exchanges sexual favors with men of her choosing, while the director and Mercouri's husband, Jules Dassin, co-stars as an American trying and failing to teach her the error of her ways. Playing out in the background is an estrangement between Western ideals of Greece and what that country actually is (or was). Never On Sunday is a compelling tale of how idealization falls flat in the face of reality, and after its release Mercouri would be awarded Best Actress at Cannes.
She'd go on to become Greece's Minister for Culture in 1981.
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