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- Iro Konstantopoulou was thirteen years old when the Germans invaded Greece. Despite her age, however, she got involved with the resistance. When she was arrested for the first time, her rich father managed to set her free, and she fell in love with a young doctor who took care of her injuries following torture. A little before the withdrawal of the Germans, she participated in the blowing up of a train that was transporting ammunition, and she was arrested again, but this time no one could save her. She was executed at the Chaïdari camp, along with forty-nine other prisoners.
- The first and last myth-making feature film of director and actor Mimis Kougioumtzis tells the story of a young man on the brink of manhood, who finds himself involved in a case of drug dealing - a dangerous adventure for both him and his best friends that will leave a lasting mark on their lives.
- Aimilios, disappointed by his exhausting life in Athens, where he works in an advertising agency, returns to his village to find peace. His own people, however, treat him with hostility, considering him a prodigal and never-do-well. A youthful romance, however, is rekindled, since Louiza, his first love, still carries a flame for him. Their decision to marry brings him, by degrees, to the tragic revelation that Louiza is his sister.
- In a Gypsy settlement, mourning prevails due to the loss of Zigkos, the leader of the clan. Later on, they celebrate the appointment of the new leader, who, according to custom, is no other than Vantar, son of the deceased. A chance meeting between Vantar and the beautiful Gypsy woman Maira triggers the beginning of a passionate love. Another Gypsy, however, Karatzais, also desires Maira. He woos her with passion and succeeds in winning her over. Vantar, disappointed and bitter, seeks comfort in the arms of a rich white woman, Margarita, but finds it difficult to live with her. Nevertheless, the incorruptible law of the Gypsies is death, and that is where both Maira and Karatzais end up.
- Charis is a district attorney, and his wife Liana is a dancer in a night club. Liana finds out that her husband has cancer, but she hides it from him for obvious reasons. An old friend of her husband, Ntora, who was in love with him and in whose house the couple lives, accuses Liana of infidelity, presenting as evidence a photo of her with the doctor. Charis sends her away without a second thought. In a car accident, however, Liana, seizes the opportunity to switch identities with that of the deceased woman and so completely disappears from Charis' life in order to survive on her own. In the end, of course, the truth is revealed, and the couple get back together. However, with everything that has happened in the interim, their relationship has suffered severe damage.
- Angeliki, a beautiful girl with a lovely voice, leaves the orphanage as soon as she comes of age and finds work in a social club. The son of the owner, Alkis, who likes her a great deal, urges her to become a singer. Her first appearance meets with unhoped-for success and, naturally, it's not long before she becomes a star of popular song. One day, however, her friend Lena informs her that an elderly man, Mr. Nikolas, has visited the orphanage looking for a little girl named Angeliki he had left there years ago. Shocked, Angeliki looks for and finds him, reuniting father and daughter at last. In the meantime, she is involved with Aris, but when he comes to ask for her hand in marriage, a drunken Mr. Nikolas sends him off. An accident, however, puts a different spin on things, as Angeliki loses her eyesight, and her father takes her to America for treatment. In the end, the compulsory separation fails to alienate the young couple, and their love proves superior to all obstacles, including that of another woman who threatens to invade Alkis' life and affections.
- The search for a missing woman gives an Athenian lawyer, Manos - who is suffocating in his marriage to Kynthia - the opportunity to travel to Epirus. Leaving his familiar surroundings, he gradually enters another world, unknown and mysterious. His journey resembles the descent to Hades, and his visit to the supposed entrance to the underworld is revelatory. In Epirus he discovers that Evanthia, the woman he is searching for and whose disappearance twenty years ago provoked a major inheritance issue, has, in the meantime, married a Greek refugee from Albania, Fanis. Circumstances oblige Fanis to return to Albania, but Evanthia goes in his stead. Manos discovers Fanis hiding in an isolated hut and learns that Evanthia has been in Albania for quite some time. He decides to cross the border, finds Evanthia and brings her back. This is a film about loss and searching, both external and internal. An introspective meditation on life inspired by the social disorder of the Balkans in the mid '90s.
- In Turkish-occupied Macedonia, two young Greeks, boyhood friends, fight against the Ottoman occupiers and their Bulgarian allies. They take under their protection a deaf-mute Christian girl, with whom they both fall badly in love; a development which brings their friendship into conflict.
- Stefanos fights a lonely battle to succeed in life, keeping from Anna, the woman he loves, his fears about an uncertain future. When he is called to join the army for additional duty, Anna is seduced by a friend of his, Dimitris, becomes pregnant and gives her illegitimate daughter up for adoption to a childless couple. Following these events and realizing her mistake, Anna chooses to disappear from his life and leaves Greece, a development Stefanos blames on his financial situation. Some years later, when Anna returns, she finds out about the death of her child's foster parents and takes her back. She then meets Stefanos, who, in the meantime, has overcome his financial difficulties. Together they realize that their separation was the result of a merciless social environment and the fatal weakness of human nature.
- When an Italian submarine torpedoes a Greek destroyer, a trapped platoon must escape the Albanian coast with its honour intact.
- This first film of Cyprus' first director, Giorgios Filis, depicts music and dance customs in the form and style of a folk opera, with traditional Cypriot dances and songs. The film consists of a folkloric inventory based on the folk culture of Cyprus, as well as on similar ritual happenings. The narration and dialogue are entirely in the Cypriot dialect and are characterized by a rhetorical and poetic mood.
- A brief encounter at a record shop paves the way for a youthful romance between an impecunious pianist and a rich woman; however, a terrible car accident renders him incapable of playing. Can true love overcome life's towering obstacles?
- To meet his young correspondent, a sergeant and his brother-in-arms arrive in Athens. In the next five days, an irresistible attraction between her and the taciturn friend will lead to a fervid romance. Can the two comrades remain friends?
- A talented but impecunious author has a chance encounter with the household's exotic new housemaid: the bright-eyed African beauty, Oua-Oua. Could the cryptic housekeeper with the deliciously strange name be the answer to his prayers?
- Bent on becoming the community's president, a maladroit Pontic Greek fails to realise that the block's belle is secretly in love with him. Will he fulfil his aspiration? Above all, will he ever find out that love is closer than he thinks?
- After a momentary lapse of judgment, an impecunious husband finds himself behind bars, losing both his freedom and his wife who's eloped with her ex-lover. Now, a desperate search for the missing mother commences. Will the family reunite?
- The past and the present coexist in a place spoiled by modern industry but which long ago hosted the Eleusinian Mysteries, the secret ceremonies that initiated the ancient Greeks into the miracles of life, death and the afterlife.
- As indicated by the title, this is an obvious melodrama, where a beautiful rich girl (Miranda), departs from family norms and traditions by falling in love with a poor singer - obliging her to leave home. The singer also deserts her, but the heroine can no longer return home. With the help of the "emancipated" Florance, she is driven to prostitution, where she will experience countless humiliations, but, at the same time, her soul remains untouched and absolutely pure.
- A political documentary and model of team work par excellence, with the struggles of the Greek people as its theme. It begins with the rebellion of the university students against the junta, with the occupation of the Law School in February 1973, and continues with the popular mobilization and the major strikes against the first government of Karamanlis in July 1975. An absolutely committed film that attempts to intensify the political struggle and not just create entertainment from it. An extension of this fighting spirit was also reflected in the way in which this film was distributed. As a rule, it wasn't played in commercial cinemas but at political organizations, where its creators would discuss the film with the audience.
- Three men escape from a concentration camp, determined to recount the atrocities to the United Nations Human Rights Council and raise awareness about human rights.
- Two very poor young people who grow up together, Alexis and Anna, live in two hovels with a common courtyard and seriously love each other, thinking indeed of getting married. One day, Alexis, who has a very good voice and a real talent in popular music, sends a demo cassette to a well-known record company, and suddenly everything changes. From one day to the next, he becomes famous, and, naturally, he is confused by his own success, changing tastes and styles. He is attracted by the glamor of a successful singer and neglects his former love. In the end, however, he will return to her, and everything will turn out fine.
- A married woman struggles to escape her deteriorating marriage. She meets a gentle, odd young man with whom she falls intensely in love and experiences with him the great illusion, the dream for which she was longing. She experiences both bewilderment and phenomenal joy. The young man, however, is "unsettled", mentally unbalanced and epileptic. When his doves, which he has raised with a singular and pathological love, all die from an unknown cause, he completely loses his senses and kills his beloved, believing he is offering her the ultimate freedom.
- Aliki, granddaughter of a destitute fisherman, captain Kostis, meets one day at the beach an unscrupulous bad guy, Papoulas, who tries to rape her, but she is saved by a young man who accompanies him, Stefanos. To make sure that Aliki won't turn them in, Stefanos keeps Aliki in confinement while her grandfather is looking for her and notifies the sergeant of the gendarmerie of the neighboring island about her disappearance. Stefanos explains to the young girl how he was seduced into criminality by a beautiful singer, Ntina, who was Papoulas' lover and stole an amphora from a ring of antiquity smugglers. The amphora is buried on a deserted beach of the island. During his quest, Stefanos and Papoulas fight over its possession, and Papoulas is killed. Stefanos is arrested by the sergeant, who, however, believes the story that Stefanos tells him, and so he lets him free to enjoy with Aliki their love that has just began.
- Based on the myth of Electra, this film is simultaneously a refutation of, and an effort to recreate, the drama in modern terms. In the area of Thessaloniki, a poor family experiences a similar drama when Electra urges Orestis to kill their mother, not because she killed their father but because Electra herself wants Aegisthos. Next, the two siblings become lovers, and catharsis never occurs.
- Two lonely women, Sara and Vera, meet by accident and become amorously involved. A series of assassinations of prominent people, from the world of both politics and business, seem to be connected to the ladies in question, who are pursued by a strange policeman, Petros, who then falls in love with the suspected killer. A triangle forms between the two women and the policeman; who continue their lonely routes up to the moment when their final assassination attempt brings the two women into fatal conflict - and involves Petros in crime.
- At the Presidential Mansion news arrives every day indicating that things in the country are going from bad to worse. The President summons all the political leaders in order to understand exactly what is happening; and yet no one can enlighten him. He decides to act. He calls two journalists and assigns them the task of investigating the matter by speaking directly with ordinary people. The investigation starts with the notorious Gypsy Tamtakos, who struggles every day for a living. Then they move on to a simple employee, Markos, who dreams of a raise -which never comes. Then it's a farmer, Thymios, who comes to the capital to sell his oranges. In a largely burlesque manner, the film more or less reveals that the entire misfortune is due to Greeks' laziness and apathy, as well as to the prevailing attitude of "no big deal".
- A group of students has fun every day playing tricks.
- Lefteris, condemned to death, confesses to a priest the truth about the crime that was the cause of his conviction. This initiates a flashback, through which we observe the events gradually unfold - with a beautiful and fatal woman playing the most important role.
- The young doctor Alekos returns to his island, after having completed his studies in France, ready to build his life and practice. His mother, however, undercuts his relationship with a poor girl he met at the beach, Xanthoula. The latter lives with her grandfather, "Uncle-Christos", who used to be a sponge-diver but is unable to work anymore. Alekos' mother wants her son to marry the only daughter of Miltos Perotis, Rena, whom she had helped financially after the death of her husband. But Xanthoula doesn't want to marry Alekos either, not because she doesn't love him, but because she knows she will soon die from a weak heart. So she sacrifices her love and agrees to become the wife of Dimitros, a kindhearted man who grew up close to her grandfather and is now thinking of abandoning the sea and all its miseries. Rena, however, finds out how things really stand and decides to step out of Alekos' life, freeing him to live with Xanthoula and help cure her heart condition.
- Petros, a young and poor man, falls in love with the daughter of his boss, Annita. He works as the chauffeur of her father, the businessman Nikos Zervoulis, who has ties to the criminals, one of whom, Aris, blackmails Annita. Petros tries to save her from Aris, who is unwilling to relinquish his victim.
- A travelogue and documentary about the poorest country in Europe, which, for forty years, was completely isolated under the ruthless rule of Enver Hoxha. From the Orthodox South where Greek civilization has left its mark in theaters and churches, up to the North, where Muslims and Catholics mostly live, the situation is everywhere the same: primitive life conditions, abject squalor and despair.
- Trapped in the decaying city of Aldevaran, a doomed wordsmith and poet is searching for hope and purpose with his only friends: a call girl and a rocker. Is he destined to perish along with Aldevaran, the inhospitable, dream-crushing city?
- A young but poor Casanova who inherits from his deceased uncle--the king of gravy--nothing but a small island in the Aegean, meets a beautiful islander and her mother who holds an unexpected secret that may fulfil everyone's dreams.
- A young professional killer from the former Soviet Union, Aliosha, is assigned to perform a hit in Athens. He comes to Greece to kill Lampros but is accidentally arrested at a police roadblock. A Greek singer from Russia, Elena, searches for her lost son. Although she saw Aliosha the moment he was stepping out of Lampros' office, when called to identify him she covers for him with her silence. Aliosha's patrons, afraid of being exposed, decide to eliminate him, while the police are constantly watching him, since the head of the investigation never believed in his innocence.
- Amargi means "return to the womb" as well as "freedom". This is an experimental-type film with stylized images and frequent split screens that create a pleated structure of free associations and where visual sensations, illusions and the flow of sounds, like a web of music, freely mingle and intersect.
- In a hypothetical scenario of the overthrow of the government by a radical ecological party, the rise and domination of a new TV channel is described in a satirical way. The clash of the channel with political corruption, in the person of the Foreign Minister, will lead political life to a dead end.
- A Greek gym-owner in New York, Michalis, is forced to ask for a loan from the richest man in Astoria, Antonis, who has connections with the underworld. Antonis also has a daughter, Martha, who is involved with the son of his friend Charis. Antonis willingly gives him the loan, without knowing, however, that his son-in-law Nikos, husband of his eldest daughter Elli, is using Michalis in a major scam to steal the money he has withheld from the internal revenue service. When Apergis' plan is completed and Antonis asks for the money owed, Michalis closes down the gym and leaves for Greece. Then, Antonis follows him to Athens, where he finds out about the entire plot. He also discovers that Nikos was one of the robbers of a bank in New York, which he was planning to flee with his young lover. Antonis apologizes to Michalis and allows his daughter to marry the man she loves.
- Marianna, a wealthy and immoral girl, is involved with Marios, who is the leader of a gang of burglars which has robbed a jewelry store in Athens. The robbery was staged at midday by Alekos, his girlfriend, Souzy and Sotos. Mairi, who is a maid in Marianna's house, is also a member of the gang, which is now planning a more ambitious score, since they know the particular weakness that Marianna's father has for Kaiti, Marianna's quiet and modest sister, who wants to become a painter. She is drugged and photographed naked in the arms of Alekos. Later, they demand a large sum of money, otherwise they will send the pictures to her father, who has a heart condition. The money is given to them, and Marios tries to grab both money and jewels. Mairi catches him in the act, however, and kills him, while the others try to escape abroad. Meanwhile, Mairi, confused, parks in a no-parking zone, and, consequently, the traffic police tow the car away - containing all the stolen goods.
- A rather improvised wandering through the night-life of Athens, in which a series of sketches, written by the master of vaudeville Mimis Frangioudakis, are performed by well-known actors and singers of the time in the capital city's most popular clubs.
- An old couple reviews their lives together, from the first time they met and got married since the present, through good and bad moments...
- A smart electronic technician needs his fifteen minutes of fame to scrutinise the corrupt Government, threatening to blow a building to smithereens with his devilishly intricate explosive device. Who can stop a man with nothing to lose?
- A ruthless businessman and publisher of the newspaper "The Truth" takes advantage of a cleaning lady's seriously ill eight-year-old son by sending him off to Paris for treatment at the newspaper's expense - and then publicizing this act of "generosity" in his newspaper, dramatically increasing circulation. The youth recovers, but while growing up he is faced with other situations. One day, now a thirty-year-old man, he comes down with influenza. Since he is unemployed and penniless, he can't manage the situation on his own. He sends his wife to the son of his erstwhile benefactor to ask for money to buy medicine. The son, however, even more unscrupulous than his father, refuses to help him. So, the unfortunate man, who cheated death when he had leukemia, now succumbs to influenza.
- An experimental film using a mixture of techniques to portray the different views of the human body. It consists of seven parts, each one presenting an ideotype of the human body, from the beginning of civilization up to the present time. The body as a concept or dogma is simply the embodied reflection of every civilization, upon which man himself is established. The anthropomorphism that characterizes the sum total of perception, in a clear or latent state, comes from the fact that the human body, as reality, idea and expression, comprises the ultimate reference.
- The young orphan Aliki is entrusted by her grandfather to the care of a wealthy childless couple. Several years later, Aliki falls in love with the waiter at a nightclub, who is also a medical student. Her social environment stands in the way of their love, but the intervention of her grandfather, who sells cigarettes at the same club, leads to a happy ending.
- A dutiful and honest journalist named Verina (a name of Latin origin that refers to the word truth) passionately wants to contribute, as much as possible, to righting the wrongs and the injustices of the world, a tendency which usually costs her dearly. One day, she undertakes the duties of acting editor and selects for the front cover the story of a poor man who returned money he found in the street. She puts this story ahead of an atrocious crime and a sex scandal concerning ballet, and, as a result, she clashes with her manager and loses her job.
- A successful lawyer, Marios, and his wife, Margarita, live in Athens, leading a quiet and rather conventional life according to established, average, middle-class standards. The husband has a love affair with a young lawyer, and the wife has her own adventure. The settled life of the couple radically changes, however, when the husband finds out he is a carrier of AIDS, and suddenly everything collapses: family, social relations, career.
- A police officer investigates the death of a woman in a traffic accident, and the clues lead him to a folk singer. When he discovers that the singer's husband left her for the dead woman, he is certain that her death was premeditated. However, the officer's brother gets involved in the case, which confuses things greatly.
- A French-Greek co-production, filmed in Paris, in which the forty-year-old Maxim is released from prison after five years in prison. As he tries to adjust to life on the outside, he accidentally meets a Parisian taxi-driver who commits suicide right before his eyes. Without a pause he takes the dead cabbie's place behind the wheel and starts making the rounds of the city, transporting passengers (Jean-Pierre Léaud plays the role of a client who recites Cavafy throughout the entire ride). He feels the air of freedom, a lord of Paris and master of himself, up to the moment that he meets young Anies, and his life falls into new paths.
- An elderly man is transporting a coffin, feeling alienated from his future as well as from his past, which he sees as a burden of tender memories. He is now playing his last card. A young taxi driver becomes involved in the game.
- Ten years after the first emigration wave of Greek laborers to Belgium coalmines, the director takes a personal view of the problems confronting these workers.