Melina Kanakaredes

Melina Kanakaredes

Birthday:Apr 23, 1967
Place of birth:Akron, Ohio, USA

Filmography

2013
Snitch

Snitch

Thriller Drama Action Domestic Thriller Family Drama
6.4

20131h 52min

United Arab Emirates, United States

Director: Ric Roman Waugh

Construction company owner John Matthews learns that his estranged son, Jason, has been arrested for drug trafficking. Facing an unjust prison sentence for a first time offender courtesy of mandatory minimum sentence laws, Jason has nothing to offer for leniency in good conscience. Desperately, John convinces the DEA and the opportunistic DA Joanne Keeghan to let him go undercover to help make arrests big enough to free his son in return. With the unwitting help of an ex-con employee, John enters the narcotics underworld where every move could be his last in an operation that will demand all his resources, wits and courage to survive.

2010
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Adventure Fantasy Family Mythological Fantasy Adventure Epic
5.9

20101h 58min

United States

Director: Chris Columbus

Accident prone teenager, Percy discovers he's actually a demi-God, the son of Poseidon, and he is needed when Zeus' lightning is stolen. Percy must master his new found skills in order to prevent a war between the Gods that could devastate the entire world.

2001
15 Minutes

15 Minutes

Action Crime Thriller Organized Crime Investigation Suspense
6.1

20012h

Germany, United States

Director: John Herzfeld

When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and make them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story."

1998
Dangerous Beauty

Dangerous Beauty

Drama Romance Historical Drama Passionate Romance
7.1

19981h 51min

United States

Director: Marshall Herskovitz

Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of questionable family. So Veronica's mother, Paola, teaches her to become a courtesan, one of the exotic companions favored by the richest and most powerful Venetian men. Veronica courageously uses her charms to change destiny -- and to give herself a chance at true love.

1996
The Long Kiss Goodnight

The Long Kiss Goodnight

Crime Action Mystery Thriller
6.8

19962h 1min

United States

Director: Renny Harlin

Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and a violent home invasion trigger flashes of her past, she discovers she used to be a deadly CIA assassin. Teaming up with a wisecracking private investigator, Samantha must return to her old ways to take down the people who tried to erase her.