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- When an Italian submarine torpedoes a Greek destroyer, a trapped platoon must escape the Albanian coast with its honour intact.
- 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?
- Father Isichios, who is seeing that the faith of his fellow human beings is lost and that the church where he works is emptied of believers, recruits a two-wheeled motorcycle in order to penetrate the youth.
- A village in Arcadia invites a "famous" icon painter and his assistant to restore the worn-out murals in a historic church. One is an amateur astronomer, and the other is involved in various scams.
- 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.
- Father Isichios tries to sell the church's valuable objects to help his parish. He transforms into a night avenger to rob the big spenders. But soon, he raises suspicion.
- Despite the soccer World Cup fever during the summer of 1998, a group of young people insist on rehearsing for a theatrical performance. The process they are getting into will form the identity of the play itself, but will also force the actors to face their own personal problems and anxieties.
- Instead of pursuing her dreams, an aspiring model finds herself trapped in the dangerous world of fashion and drug trafficking. Can she escape from the clutches of a deadly ring, or will she pay the price of ambition and pleasure?
- 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.
- 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?
- A group of students has fun every day playing tricks.
- Refusing to realise that she has become a lovely sixteen-year-old woman, a gawky tomboy taunts her bookish neighbour. But, the effervescent feelings of first love start to take over. Will she renounce her former self for love's sake?
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- Psychological drama of Greek-English production, in which an employee of the British Embassy, Liz, meets a hospitalized patient covered in burns. He tells her a strange story about five teenagers who met years ago on an island and whose youthful pranks caused someone's death. Their meeting at the scene of the tragedy, twenty-five years later, brings back the traumatic experiences of the past. To redeem themselves, they decide to sacrifice that which is most valuable to them - their lives. One of them, Nanta, cuts his throat with glass, while the painter, Tim, hangs himself from an interior staircase. Following the suicide of the third, Jonathan, the rest of the group, Stewart and Christian, decide to set fire to the house and burn with the bodies of their friends. Liz, deeply affected by the narration, realizes with horror that the injured man is Stewart, who after completing the story, and Liz's departure, takes his own life. However, he is not the only survivor. Christian, who was also rescued by an islander, decides to give himself up to justice. Some years later, he is released from prison, having experienced the "freedom of prison" as atonement for everyone's sins.
- 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.
- 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.
- Aris, a race driver, meets a guy who looks incredibly like him. With evident curiosity he tries to find out, from his friend Dimitris, who this identical "stranger" is. He finds out that his name is Kyriakos and that he works in a car-repair shop. Kyriakos too, however, who is involved with Foteini, is informed of Aris' existence and also, from his own father, he finds out that Aris is his twin brother who had been given up for adoption to a well-off gentleman, Kaisaris. The latter, as Ntiana, Aris' friend, finds out, wanted a son to inherit his vast fortune. Ntiana helps Kyriakos become a singer, while at the same time blackmailing Kaisaris. In the end, the two brothers find out everything, and Kaisaris is forced to sabotage Kyriakos' car, so as to put him out of the running in the forthcoming race. At the last minute, however, Aris takes Kyriakos' place. The weak (as usually) heart (of Kaisaris) fails, but Kyriakos manages to save his brother from an undeserved death.
- 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.
- The few survivors of a deserted city, sometime in the near future, are left with no water or food but somehow manage to survive. In a hospital, a lonely scientist, Foteini, is helping a patient with amnesia to recover. She also meets an actor named Aias (Ajax) - who often visits his sick sister - and becomes romantically involved with him. Foteini is swept away by love; Aias, however, is unprepared for such strong emotions. Their separation brings Foteini to the house of the amnesiac, and he takes care of her, up to the moment that she discovers a photo of hers among his things. In the meantime, Aias brings his sister back home from the hospital. While it is getting darker, with clouds gathering in the sky, Foteini and Aias wander the city and meet in the rain.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A bag crammed with fifty million drachmas in cash results in unemployment and a certificate of exceptional honesty, forcing a painfully ethical man to accept the lucrative proposition of a shady entrepreneur. Is he walking into a trap?
- A documentary, divided into "chapters", about the life of the inmates of the asylum on Leros. From the point of view that the mentally ill are victims of social oppression, the film turns a harsh light on the psychiatric system and offers pointed criticism of the policies that produce such inhuman conditions.
- 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.
- Greece in the years of Turkish occupation. The Ottomans make frequent raids and seize Greek children, whom they lead to training camps and turn them into Janissaries. In such a mass kidnapping of children they seize a distinguished Greek boy and raise him according to the rules of this militantly anti-Christian group. Many years later, the Greek boy, now a man and an Ottoman conqueror, returns to his village and clashes with his own kin.
- 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".
- For fear of condemning his compatriots to certain death by the hand of the Turkish oppressors, a proud Cretan returns to the blood-stained ancestral grounds under a new name. Will the Eagle of the Enslaved ignite the spark of rebellion?
- 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 successful young Athenian lawyer, Theodora, who is the daughter of a general, takes on the case of Mantzavinos who is a grocer in Kolonos. Trying to avoid the usual hum-drum approach, she becomes involved with a strange gang with a blind beggar for a leader, Linos, a former teacher, and current idol, of hers, who seems to Theodora like a modern Oedipus. Linos' companion and right-hand man is the former caretaker of the school. The group is completed by two sister-hookers, Anta and Mina, who work in a brothel housed in the school building and who sometimes force Linos to beg for money. The gang is planning a "big score", the theft of the antiquities of Plato's Academy, but Theodora's reluctance, combined with the timely intervention of the police, cancel the plan.
- Young Giannis escapes from prison and hides in a deserted factory, with the dream of traveling far away. At the factory, a group of university students rehearse Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, and a girl from the group discovers him. The students accept him into their group, offering him a part in the play as well. One night, three young men try to destroy the props for the theatrical performance, and Giannis tries to stop them, ending up back in prison. The students manage to get him out of jail, and he embarks on a ship and leaves far away.
- This is a series of intersecting stories. A petty crook and former lover of a lazy ingénue steals the box-office receipts from the Odeon of Herodus Atticus, on the day an important football game is also taking place. There is also the story of the half-mad mother of the ingénue who refuses to put shoes on because she believes that shoes lead people astray. An eccentric grave-digger produces a two-seater coffin for couple-victims of car accidents. The film also tells the story of one of the Odeon's cleaning women and of a watermelon that goes all around the city, pursued by a tired theater technician and his sister, who is a tour guide. The impresario conducts an inquiry after the theft, but the thief and his two associates, the ingénue and the technician, use what was stolen to set up a small theatre. Small everyday stories and comic incidents combine to create a portrait of modern-day Athens.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- Driven by a vain desire to make a name for himself and rise above the cruel limitations of his social class, instead, an idealist civil engineer finds himself on the verge of utter defeat. But, what would happen if he believed in himself?
- 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.
- 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 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- After a nearly fatal accident, the daughter of a wealthy industrialist has a blood transfusion and falls in love with the donor. But the theft of a bracelet sends the Good Samaritan to jail. Can his friend help him clear his name?
- 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?
- 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.