Hristos Tsaganeas
Biography: Christos Tsaganeas was born in Braila, Romania on July 2, 1906. He came from a wealthy Greek and aristocratic family and from a young age he showed great love for the theater. His parents, however, had demanded that he finish some university school, and that's why when he graduated from the Greek high school in Romania, they sent him to Athens for academic studies. He initially enrolled in Medicine but soon dropped out and went to Law from which he never got a degree. The reason for this event was his acquaintance and love for the actress Nitsa Vitsori, seven years older than him, for whose sake he abandoned his studies and began to appear in the theater. When Nitsa divorced her first husband, Giorgis Vitsoris, Tsaganeas not only married her but also enrolled in the Drama School of the National Theater to get a proper foundation and an acting degree. For this career choice, he had several fights with his parents, with whom he finally broke up and cut off his funding. Another version cites his participation in the political movement of the Archio-Marxists, in which his wife Nitsa also participated, as the reason for the elimination. This development led him, for some time, to live on a boat in the port of Piraeus while he was forced to take part in performances of itinerant troupes, which at that time were underestimated. "There are few theaters, few theater squares, many practitioners", as he used to say. During the German-Italian occupation he actively participated in the National Resistance through the ranks of the EAM together with his wife Nitsa. During the December 1944, his name was involved in the execution of the actress Eleni Papadakis by OPLA. As a member of the board of the National Militia of the EAM Theater, he had put his signature - together with his colleagues, Emilio Veakis, Theodoros Moridis, Spyros Patrikios and Panos Karavousiano - for the death sentence of Eleni Papadakis, who had been accused of dowry. A year later, Christos Tsaganeas was in danger of losing his life in the armed attack against the then president of SEH, Spyros Patrikios.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 02, 1906
Deathday: July 02, 1976
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Known For
Wrong Path
1933-01-01
Wrong Path
Overview: Christina and Chrysoula are two teenage friends in Zakynthos and they are completely different as characters. Christina is ugly but honest, while Chrysoula is beautiful, but scandalizes the neighborhood with her provocative behavior. First fully sound-synchronized Greek motion picture. The film was shot in Constantinople by the director of the National Turkish Theatre, Muhsin Ertugrul with a script by Grigorios Xenopoulos, based on his novel by the same name. It was shown as one of the first contemporary Greek films to include full sound and conversation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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We Have Only One Life
1958-05-08
We Have Only One Life
Overview: A bank teller discovers an accounting error, becomes rich and lives his life like he's never lived it.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1958-05-08
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Something Hot
1964-01-13
Something Hot
Overview: During an International Trade Fair at Thessaloniki, a mature woman, Rena (Martha Karagianni), goes there with her sister to convince her childhood friend Dinos (Dinos Iliopoulos) to have a "white wedding" so that she can inherit a large estate. Dinos though, does not accept because even though he is actually a womanizer he acts as a shy and modest man around people. Everyone there will meet a group of musicians and one of them will fall in love with the daughter of the strict manager of the company Dinos works for who is accompanied by Dinos. At some point, everyone goes to Athens where things get more complicated untill everyone finds his perfect match. In the end Rena gets her inheritance and all together they perform a musical play in a grand theater.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-01-13
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Σέργιος και Άννα
1971-01-01
Σέργιος και Άννα
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Vacation in Kolopetinitsa
1959-09-09
Vacation in Kolopetinitsa
Overview: All the village society, but especially the President Thimios Tambourlas and the policeman Miltiadis Sourvos, welcome Mr. Toni and his wife Judy. They have come to spend their honeymoon in Kolopetinitsa and this is a great honor for the village. No one suspects that this is a pair of bandits who fled to the village until their robbery was forgotten ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1959-09-09
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Theodore and the gun
1962-10-15
Theodore and the gun
Overview: An anachronistic and paleolithic father tries to find a good, honest husband for his daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-10-15
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If Luck Favors You
1964-01-30
If Luck Favors You
Overview: A poor but very decent teacher, Telis, who has resigned from his job, finds a winning lottery ticket in the street. Suddenly, his life changes radically. But he then discovers that someone has put it in front of him deliberately.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-01-30
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Greek Pride
1968-01-01
Greek Pride
Overview: Tilemachos has been for many years now engaged to Fofo, who is pressuring him to get married. But he first wants to marry off his sister, who has passed “the usual” age for marriage. Tilemachos is desperate, and he decides to find a husband for his sister by advertising in the newspapers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Joe, the Amazing
1955-03-21
Joe, the Amazing
Overview: Joe, and Gardelis his friend, plan to rob a safe, a Russian émigré, Lavrentis Shack. By opening, however, the safe, -propylcarbamoyl ekplixeos- see, they have stolen all the valuable items, apart from the will of the princess, which defines as heir, poor niece Shack, Nadia maid. Joe will go through a lot: You get into and out of prison, will fall victim to extortion by gangs, ultimately, though, he'll discover the real thief of the safe, which will make the Nadia maid to love ...
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1955-03-21
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Μαντάμ Σουσού
1948-01-01
Μαντάμ Σουσού
Overview: Sousou is a poor Greek woman who behaves like an aristocrat causing trouble to her honest husband and laughs to the people of her neighborhood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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Αγνούλα
1939-01-23
Αγνούλα
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1939-01-23
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The Miss Of The Mister
1962-03-12
The Miss Of The Mister
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-03-12
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Death Will Return
1961-06-12
Death Will Return
Overview: Adapted from Nikos Foskolos’ theatrical play. On a terribly stormy night, in a secluded hotel, the owner, Brigadier Norton, is murdered. Prime suspects: his daughter Elena, his second wife Liza, Liza’s niece and her fiancé, Norton’s physician, and the hotel staff. Inspector Fox and his assistant, policeman Petridis, are assigned the investigation of the crime. While the suspects’ questioning is under way, some more people arrive at the hotel: detective Tilemachos Christofis with his assistant Aliki, and lieutenant Karalis, a sworn enemy of the victim, complicating things even more.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1961-06-12
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Το συρτάκι της αμαρτίας
1966-01-01
Το συρτάκι της αμαρτίας
Overview: Greek melodrama about a woman shunned by her family.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Murder Backstage
1960-09-01
Murder Backstage
Overview: A journalist helps, famed policeman Becca, to solve the murder of a theater actress.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-09-01
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Ένας Μάγκας στα Σαλόνια
1969-10-20
Ένας Μάγκας στα Σαλόνια
Overview: A young fisherman who lives in a Greek island save a rich girl from a accident when she is in holidays in island. He will love her and the problems just begun.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-10-20
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Doctor Z-Vengos
1968-01-01
Doctor Z-Vengos
Overview: A blunderer barber ends after a misunderstanding to pretend doctor. However the patients problems aren't medical nature but personally so he helps them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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To Fintanaki
1955-11-19
To Fintanaki
Overview: In a small courtyard of an Athenian neighborhood, the tenants become the owner of the cunning landlady who intervenes in their lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1955-11-19
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Maiden's Cheek
1959-11-16
Maiden's Cheek
Overview: Young teacher Floras arrives to teach a class at a girls’ high school in Athens. His students, daughters of rich Athenian families, are very spoilt making his and the other teachers work difficult. When he starts implementing discipline in his class, the girls use every means to get rid of him. But the most undisciplined, Lisa Papastavrou, falls in love with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1959-11-16
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Να ζήσουν τα φτωχόπαιδα
1959-01-01
Να ζήσουν τα φτωχόπαιδα
Overview: A wealthy man, Tonis , in love with a poor girl, wants to marry her despite the objections of his father. The brother of the girl falls in love with Tonis' sister and the two couples will finally be able to get away with the tough father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Satrapis
1968-01-01
Satrapis
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Ena agori... alloiotiko ap' t' alla
1971-01-01
Ena agori... alloiotiko ap' t' alla
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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With Many Children
1964-01-01
With Many Children
Overview: A poor waiter struggles to provide for his family, while his wife keeps giving birth to twins, triplets - and always girls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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My friend, Lefterakis
1963-02-25
My friend, Lefterakis
Overview: Theodoros in order to be able to go out with his occasional lovers, he "invented" a non-existent friend from Patras, Lefterakis, and use him as an alibi in wife Fofo. When one day arrives at home, quite suddenly, the non-existent friend Lefterakis Tsampardis, Theo will welcome him with surprise and terror.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-02-25
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Ο Παλιάτσος
1968-10-05
Ο Παλιάτσος
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-10-05
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Rich Without Money
1960-01-01
Rich Without Money
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Κοκοβιός και Σπάρος στα Δίχτυα της Αράχνης
1967-01-01
Κοκοβιός και Σπάρος στα Δίχτυα της Αράχνης
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Crime in Kolonaki
1959-06-12
Crime in Kolonaki
Overview: When the painter Nasos Karnezis is found dead and the police arrests Floras, the stockbroker Dimitris, his son from his first marriage, decides to find out who the real murderer is. Along with a tow of his friends, reporter Makris and the politician Delios research the case and they suspect Myrto, daughter of captain Kapsis who was executed by the Germans during the years of Occupation, after Karnezis had turned him in. Dimitris and Myrto, whose innocent has become clear in the meantime, fall in love with each other.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1959-06-12
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The Happy Beginning
1954-12-06
The Happy Beginning
Overview: Three young musicians and three female singers strive for success, competing each other. But love gets in their way.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1954-12-06
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Φτωχαδάκια και Λεφτάδες
1961-06-21
Φτωχαδάκια και Λεφτάδες
Overview: Intent on marrying into money, two antagonists will stop at nothing to seduce a young heiress, renouncing their sweethearts just to get a greater chance at a lucrative love. But, what does the girl have to say about their risky business?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1961-06-21
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Η Κρεβατομουρμούρα
1971-02-18
Η Κρεβατομουρμούρα
Overview: Lawyer Savvas Tsiviklis receives a gift from an old girlfriend, Kiki Petachtidou, who has just returned from the Congo. The gift is two small wooden lions which, in order not to find his wife Koula and mad in the bedroom, gives them to a well-known young man. In a while, however, his wife comes and gives him the lions he had previously given to the young man. Savvas goes crazy and begins the quarrels and jealousy that bachelor Menios supposes by constantly exclaiming "What good do I do and not get married!" Of course, in the end, they clear everything, since Koula from the beginning She had said the lions were a gift from an old classmate, Ms. Contoyorgus, and those that Savvas gave to the young, though quite the same, were different.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1971-02-18
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The Germans Strike Again
1948-01-05
The Germans Strike Again
Overview: 4 years after the Nazi occupation in Greece, the Greeks are involved in a Civil War and they are killing each other. Theodoros, a quiet and modest man, disgusted and disappointed, falls asleep and has a nightmare. Hitler is alive and the Nazis strike back with new, more powerful weapons.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1948-01-05
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Ο διάβολος και η ουρά του
1962-07-11
Ο διάβολος και η ουρά του
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-07-11
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The Hurdy-Gurdy
1955-12-12
The Hurdy-Gurdy
Overview: Two poor portable barrel piano players ramble through Greek countryside and play in fairs. They meet by chance with a rich runaway girl whose father offers a large reward to her finders.They have to choose between getting the reward or helping the girl with her renegade love affair.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1955-12-12
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Fallen Angels
1948-12-22
Fallen Angels
Overview: To help her sick mother, a girl is hired for what she believes to be a simple delivery service. That will cause her serious problems with her boyfriend and with justice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1948-12-22
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My Dimitri... My Dimitri
1967-10-16
My Dimitri... My Dimitri
Overview: An almost irresistible attraction between the rich daughter of a factory owner and a successful popular singer will lead to marriage against her father's will. Is he the good and honest man everybody says? Will money corrupt him, too?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-10-16
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Apollo Goes on Holiday
1968-02-28
Apollo Goes on Holiday
Overview: Prince Jan is spying on beautiful tour guide Elena from his helicopter while touring Greece. He escapes from his entourage and joins the girl's group, posing as a humble visitor. The two fall in love, but Prince Jan, knowing that he has duties and responsibilities to his country, leaves her, never revealing his true identity.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-02-28
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Betrayed love
1962-06-06
Betrayed love
Overview: Anna, who lives with her aunt, is afraid that Stratos, the man she loves, is cheating on her with another woman. She decides to leave for America, where she will spend a year with another aunt. When she returns to Athens, her aunt will try to marry her off to a rich young man, but she is still in love with Stratos.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-06-06
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Το χαμίνι
1960-01-01
Το χαμίνι
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Aspasia's dollars
1967-01-01
Aspasia's dollars
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Ο Μισογύνης
1958-02-15
Ο Μισογύνης
Overview: A recently fired cook poses as a misogynist to get a job in the mansion of an unrepentant woman-hater.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1958-02-15
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Love that time does not fade
1966-01-01
Love that time does not fade
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Don't Fall in Love on a Saturday
1962-01-01
Don't Fall in Love on a Saturday
Overview: A streetwise investment broker, who has been tricked into accepting a counterfeit $100 bill by a statuesque con woman, falls in love with her. Against all logic, he refuses to turn her in to the police. Is there a future between them?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Five Thousand Lies
1966-10-17
Five Thousand Lies
Overview: A professor asks two poor students of law to steal, for a fee, a rare figurine from the house of a collector. After the successful outcome of the theft, the professor dies from joy, and the two students decide to return the figurine to its owner. There they meet his daughters, to whom they tell numerous lies. In the end, it is revealed that the whole thing was part of a wager between the professor and the collector, and the two students fall in love with the latter's daughters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-10-17
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That's How My Life Ended
1952-01-01
That's How My Life Ended
Overview: The captain Alekos Nikolopoulos doesn't get along with his wife. One day, he receives a letter from a woman he had met before the war who reminds him that she is pregnant.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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What the Night Hides
1963-01-01
What the Night Hides
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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The pain of separation
1965-01-01
The pain of separation
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Ένα Καράβι Παπαδόπουλοι
1966-01-01
Ένα Καράβι Παπαδόπουλοι
Overview: A couple of rich Greek-Americans travels from New York to Piraeus with their five nephews, who are unaware that their uncle has decided to implement a plan to find out who is the most suitable to inherit his immense fortune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Η Στοργή
1965-01-01
Η Στοργή
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Artesta
1966-01-01
Artesta
Overview: A rich young man is in love with a dancer, whom she marries against the will of his parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Ο Μανωλιός ξαναχτυπά
1971-01-01
Ο Μανωλιός ξαναχτυπά
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Αλύγιστη Στη Ζωή
1964-01-01
Αλύγιστη Στη Ζωή
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Ο ακτύπητος κτυπήθηκε
1970-05-06
Ο ακτύπητος κτυπήθηκε
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1970-05-06
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To ploio tis haras
1967-01-01
To ploio tis haras
Overview: A large group of people with different temperaments, traveling from Piraeus to New York, with the ocean liner "Olympia". On the trip they will meet each other, to live entertaining moments, misunderstandings, and share their dreams.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Sidewalk
1962-01-01
Sidewalk
Overview: Angelina is a prostitute. Her only friends are her colleague Nana and coachman Minas. George suddenly enters her life and confesses his love to her. Angelina begins to believe that her life can change, not suspecting that George has approached her on behalf of the drug dealer Nino.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Η πικραγαπημένη
1965-01-01
Η πικραγαπημένη
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Ο άνεμος του μίσους
1954-04-26
Ο άνεμος του μίσους
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1954-04-26
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Φτωχός, αλλά τίμιος
1965-01-01
Φτωχός, αλλά τίμιος
Overview: A poor young man, who bears the surname of a rich shipowner, meets and falls in love with a rich heir. She does not believe that this is a coincidence and their relationship is built on a lie.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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