Mihalis Giannatos
Biography: Michalis Giannatos (Greek: Μιχάλης Γιαννάτος; 11 July 1941 – 17 September 2013), alternatively spelled as Michael Yannatos, was a Greek actοr. Ηe was born in (Istanbul), Turkey. He left the city for Greece in 1964 during the long expulsion of Istanbul Greeks. He studied in Konstantinos Demopoulos' school of drama and first appeared as a professional actor in Georgios Zervoulakos' film Oi stigmatismenoi (Greek: Οι στιγματισμένοι) in 1966. When still a student, he participated in the theatrical play Capetan Michalis (Greek: Καπετάν Μιχάλης) next to Manos Katrakis. During his long cinematic career, he appeared in close to 100 films, television series and plays. He was a regular in Theodoros Angelopoulos films since he was one of the director's favorite actors. After Megalexandros (Greek: Μεγαλέξανδρος) in 1981, Angelopoulos was always calling him to play in his movies. He was fluent in five languages; Greek, Turkish, French, Italian and Spanish. Due to that, he appeared in many international productions, including Midnight Express, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Munich and more.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 11, 1941
Deathday: September 17, 2013
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Known For
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
2001-04-18
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Overview: When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-18
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Orpheus Descending
1996-01-26
Orpheus Descending
Overview: Eurydice is a singer in a group that plays in country fairs. The group is not successful and Eurydice gets convinced by a rich farmer to follow him to Athens, where he promises her that he will make her a famous singer. Things do not turn out as promised, and Eurydice returns to the band, which is very successful now, due to Orpheus, a mute clarinet player, who has joined them. The farmer comes to reclaim her by force and Eurydice gets killed in a car accident. Orpheus tries to give her life with his clarinet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1996-01-26
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Το όνειρο του Ίκαρου
2014-11-26
Το όνειρο του Ίκαρου
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2014-11-26
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Pretty Smart
1987-03-13
Pretty Smart
Overview: In this adolescent-oriented drama, a young woman is forced to attend a posh finishing school in the Mediterranean. She vents her anger by rebelling against the cruel and sicko headmaster. When she discovers that he has been secretly photographing them naked and profiting from the pictures, she rallies the other girls and gets revenge.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-13
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Munich
2005-12-23
Munich
Overview: During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.
Genres: Drama Action History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-23
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Τράνζιτο
1995-03-01
Τράνζιτο
Overview: An extreme passion that overturns the balance and changes the life course of a woman. Anna is a successful journalist with impeccable image and perfectly organized life. However, it has reached a borderline where nothing fills it anymore. One night, during a reportage, he will accidentally encounter a strange, mysterious and dangerous stranger, who goes through transit from Greece. Between them a relationship will be exciting, but also nightmarish ...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1995-03-01
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The Suspended Step of the Stork
1991-12-04
The Suspended Step of the Stork
Overview: A reporter notices an old man in a border town who may be an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously years ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1991-12-04
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Landscape in the Mist
1988-09-10
Landscape in the Mist
Overview: Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly lives in Germany.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1988-09-10
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A Touch of Spice
2003-10-24
A Touch of Spice
Overview: "A Touch of Spice" is a story about Fanis, a young Greek boy growing up in Istanbul, whose grandfather, a culinary philosopher and mentor, teaches him that both food and life require a little salt to give them flavor. They both require... A Touch of Spice. Fanis grows up to become an excellent cook and uses his cooking skills to spice up the lives of those around him. 35 years later he leaves Athens and travels back to his birthplace of Istanbul to reunite with his grandfather and his first love. He travels back only to realize that he forgot to put a little bit of spice in his own life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2003-10-24
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Προσοχή, κίνδυνος!
1983-02-01
Προσοχή, κίνδυνος!
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1983-02-01
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Misunderstanding
1983-06-07
Misunderstanding
Overview: Remake of Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Doulos."
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1983-06-07
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My Family and Other Animals
2005-12-27
My Family and Other Animals
Overview: An English family relocates to sunny Greece in the months before WWII.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-27
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The Flower of the Lake
1999-11-14
The Flower of the Lake
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1999-11-14
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The Weeping Meadow
2004-02-20
The Weeping Meadow
Overview: The first part of an incomplete trilogy telling the story of the greek people. The film begins in 1919, with Greek immigrants from Odessa arriving near Thessaloniki. Led by the charismatic Spyros, they establish a new settlement in the delta of a river. The youngest of the settlers are Spyros' son Alexis and an orphan from Odessa, Eleni. A strong, almost incestuous affection develops between the teenagers, resulting in twins who are given to a foster family. Also standing in the way of love is Spyros, determined to take his foster daughter as his wife. The lovers then decide to flee the village, persecuted by their father, leading a life of exile. As Alexis joins a group of musicians planning to go to the United States, Eleni regains custody of the twins. Angelopoulos, as in previous films, looks at the sacrifice of civilians confronted by the workers' demonstrations of 1935, the rule of Metaxas' fascist junta and forced emigration to America, and finally the civil war of 1944-1949.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2004-02-20
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Someone Else's America
1995-09-09
Someone Else's America
Overview: This tale takes place in a bar. The Spanish Alonso and his blind mother run this place. Bay, who is Alonso's friend live here too. This story tells something about Alonso and Bay and the "American Dream".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1995-09-09
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Alexander the Great
1980-09-08
Alexander the Great
Overview: Alexander, a tribal warlord and former political prisoner, kidnaps British tourists, holding them for ransom until Britain and the Greek puppet government in Athens meet his demand for amnesty for his band of freedom fighters.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1980-09-08
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The Beekeeper
1986-10-23
The Beekeeper
Overview: Following the wedding of his daughter, stone-faced beekeeper Spyros makes an annual journey from the north of Greece to the south, traveling along with his hives. En route, he meets an erratic, young female drifter, with whom he strikes up an unusual, self-destructive relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1986-10-23
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What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi?
1971-09-23
What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi?
Overview: A wild tale of mistaken identity set during the Nazi occupation of Greece and starring the great Thanasis Vengos. Thanasis is called upon, during the Occupation, to testify at the trial of a tavern owner accused of serving cat meat to his customers. He too is accused of perjury and imprisoned with some resistance fighters. The resistance fighters escape, but Thanasis remains in his cell. He is accused of being Ivan, the notorious ringleader of certain revolutionaries.
Genres: Drama Comedy History
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1971-09-23
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The Wind
1986-11-17
The Wind
Overview: Mystery writer Sian Anderson leaves her boyfriend John for three weeks of intense writing in the isolated Greek town of Monemvassia. Upon her arrival in the ancient, deserted, walled-in fortress, she is met by Elias Appleby, the round eccentric landlord who guides her through mysterious underground passageways to the house where she will work. He warns her to stay inside at night because of the killer winds that arrive after dark.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-17
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To the Inn
2003-11-26
To the Inn
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2003-11-26
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Kata lathos astynomikos
2002-05-23
Kata lathos astynomikos
Overview: The classic comedy, Alekos Sakellarios, Christos Giannakopoulos, "Ilias the 16th", which was performed in the summer of 2002 at the theater "Minoa" entitled "Markos ... Elias of the 16th". During a robbery, the little sculptor Elias makes the tsiliador disguised as a policeman. But then he is forced, once in a while, to investigate a robbery himself ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2002-05-23
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Bordello
1985-10-17
Bordello
Overview: Crete 1897. Greek rebels gained their freedom by fighting in the mountains. An allied fleet of French, English, Italian and Russian warships anchored in the port of Chania in protecting Greek and Turkish inhabitants. Rosa Bonaparte, accompanied by twelve girls off at a deserted beach with all the equipment of a Marseille brothel. Installed in a wing of a huge, ruined former Town Hall, where the officers of the allied fleet meet and entertain in the evenings surrounded by undercover agents, military connectors, and speculators : an East-West mosaic of languages, costumes and intrigue ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1985-10-17
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Vengos the Crazy Kamikaze
1980-12-08
Vengos the Crazy Kamikaze
Overview: A breadwinner, Thanasis Trampas, decides to open a shop renting motorbikes. When the local bikers begin to bother him, he turns into a kamikaze to deal with them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1980-12-08
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The Warriors of Peace
1973-06-17
The Warriors of Peace
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1973-06-17
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Dictator calls Thanasis
1973-11-12
Dictator calls Thanasis
Overview: The adventures of a photographer, who undertook to take a photographs of exiled dictator from South America and eventually found chased without knowing why.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1973-11-12
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Carefree... Nut
1971-11-22
Carefree... Nut
Overview: In this color comedy Thanasis trying for years to leave illegally for America to make his life because due to financial can not pay fares, but always something was wrong and left behind. His friend, Nikiforos, advises him to stay in Greece, to work and to look to find the namesake of Thanasis, who helps around the world.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1971-11-22
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Voyage to Cythera
1984-04-21
Voyage to Cythera
Overview: An old communist returning to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union is disillusioned with the state of things.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1984-04-21
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Thanasis in the land of the cuff
1976-07-25
Thanasis in the land of the cuff
Overview: The movie is about dictatorships in Greece – first, the Metaxas regime (1936-1940), and then the Colonels’ Junta (1967-74). In Part One, the Metaxas regime is depicted as a circus, where Thanasis (Thanasis Vengos) is a clown trying to conceal a young colleague’s subversive action. In Part Two, we see Thanasis suffer because of his honesty and kindness, in a country where the system’s irrationality is clearly evident.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1976-07-25
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The Wicked World of Thanasis
1979-03-19
The Wicked World of Thanasis
Overview: Seven short stories of everyday madness starring Thanasis Vengos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1979-03-19
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The Charlatan
1973-12-24
The Charlatan
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1973-12-24
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The Man Who Ran a Lot
1973-01-01
The Man Who Ran a Lot
Overview: Thanasis Zevedaios (Thanasis Vengos) has a shop with watches and running but not enough! Time and the clocks have become obsessed after running nonstop in an effort to nourish their relatives. The 'philosopher' brother dies and leaves another four mouths under his protection. The day is divided between the shop, his sister and his niece to marry, and his beloved, who works in a supermarket, while the economic situation and their obligations do not allow them to marry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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A Walk in the Sun
1978-12-25
A Walk in the Sun
Overview: Tore Andersson is a depressed 43 year old sport journalist living in Stockholm. His girlfriend has left him so he decides to take a vacation in Cyprus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-12-25
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1922
1978-04-01
1922
Overview: Based on the book by Ilias Venezis "The Number 31328", the film by Nikos Koundouros unfolds through the personal tragedies of three characters, the Asia Minor Disaster and the agonizing travails of the Asia Minor Greeks who had been arrested and led to death by Kemal's troops and armed groups of Muslims. The wife of a merchant, a teacher and a seventeen-year old boy try to survive, following the column of prisoners into the depths of Asia Minor.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1978-04-01
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Eternity and a Day
1998-10-23
Eternity and a Day
Overview: An ailing Greek man attempts to take a young, illegal Albanian immigrant home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1998-10-23
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The Lady and the Tramp
1968-12-30
The Lady and the Tramp
Overview: Rena’s father insists on marrying her off to the son of a shipowner. Rena, however, doesn’t even want to hear about it, so she runs away and disguises herself as a boy named Pipis. As such, she meets a poor fisherman, Lefteris, and helps him on his way to Ioannina.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-12-30
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Taste from Greece
1980-01-01
Taste from Greece
Overview: Anthology film with a number of sketches that satirize modern Greece.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Anna's Summer
2001-08-30
Anna's Summer
Overview: A widow reminisces on her life after returning to her family home in Greece.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-08-30
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Ulysses' Gaze
1995-10-12
Ulysses' Gaze
Overview: An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1995-10-12
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The Lost Treasure of Hursit Pasha
1996-03-08
The Lost Treasure of Hursit Pasha
Overview: On 29 January 1993 eighty prisoners escaped from an Athens prison. Well, in actual fact one convict escaped, a guy named Vassilis, for his beloved in Amalliada, but in his hurry he forgot the prison door open and little by little another seventy-nine got out... The film follows the eleven who made it down to the Peloponnese... with them an old musician who has a map he bought from a Greek in America for $2500 with the lost treasure of General Hursit Pasha.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1996-03-08
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Midnight Express
1978-08-31
Midnight Express
Overview: Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-31
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The Bubble
2002-01-02
The Bubble
Overview: Makis , a man with difficulties in the stock market, falls for Roula , who is the mistress of a big tycoon , which Makis has invested in. Makis becomes witness to an assassination gone wrong. The police are after him thinking he is the shooter but the real assassin is after Makis to recruit him to his terrorist beliefs. The only comfort Makis can find is Roula who follows him on his deadly adventure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2002-01-02
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The Policeman of the 16th Precinct
2008-11-27
The Policeman of the 16th Precinct
Overview: Elias of the 16th Precinct follows three friends – Elias, Thomas and Vangelis – who face considerable financial hurdles with their debts rivalling the size of Everest. They decide the only solution is to snatch money from Vangelis’ boss, Labros ; a cafeteria owner, pawnbroker and fence. While Thomas will attempt the breaking and entering, Elias will be disguised as a police officer – for security reasons, of course. Hilarity ensues as this comedy of errors sends their plan spiralling off in a totally different direction.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2008-11-27
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Μπουζάνκα αλά... ελληνικά
1975-01-01
Μπουζάνκα αλά... ελληνικά
Overview: A Naive man from the countryside, affected by the famous Italian cine star Lado Bouzanka and his ladiesman ways, travels to Athens in order to act in a similar way with women, after having sold all his land and ready to spend a lot. He stays with his cousin, a crazy deluded artist and his sexy models. His many attempts with every single girl he meets, are being interrupted by several incidents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Η εκδίκηση του Πατέρα
1990-01-01
Η εκδίκηση του Πατέρα
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Genres: Drama Action Romance Crime
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Kamikazi, agapi mou
1983-01-01
Kamikazi, agapi mou
Overview: Stathis loves bikes, Rena wants to dance all the time and Aleksis goes crazy for rock music. They are three crazy siblings. One of them, Stathis, doesn't seem capable to keep a job and when he loses his girlfriend, his mother decides to give him what he loves the most, a motorcycle!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Τα Παιδιά της Πιάτσας
1979-06-13
Τα Παιδιά της Πιάτσας
Overview: Babis (Nikos Rizos), after his release, finds it difficult to balance between the groups with the guys and jobber of Piraeus, and the strict surveillance of the police, who closed the once in prison. He will try to sell the alleged Byzantine icons that makes a fellow prisoner, but will be arrested. It will be released as there were images of value, and will be informed that the mother of the same (Mary Metaxa) alerted the police to remove him from the unlawful activity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1979-06-13
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Ένας Τρελός... Τρελός Ονειροπαρμένος
1986-06-11
Ένας Τρελός... Τρελός Ονειροπαρμένος
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1986-06-11
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America
1999-09-23
America
Overview: A man sees a poster of an old movie that he claims to have acted in
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1999-09-23
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Χαμός στο Αιγάλεω σίτυ
1987-01-01
Χαμός στο Αιγάλεω σίτυ
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Το αίμα των αγαλμάτων
1982-10-07
Το αίμα των αγαλμάτων
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Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1982-10-07
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Ο εφιάλτης
1987-01-01
Ο εφιάλτης
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Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Αλέξανδρος και Αϊσέ
2001-11-01
Αλέξανδρος και Αϊσέ
Overview: A Christian boy and a Muslim girl fall in a forbidden love in the town of Komotini. They decide to escape together, but the Turkish consul has another opinion.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2001-11-01
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The Serpent of Death
1990-12-06
The Serpent of Death
Overview: An archaelogist falls under the spell of a statue with a curse on it.
Genres: Horror Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-06
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A Madhouse Named "Hellas"
1988-12-01
A Madhouse Named "Hellas"
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1988-12-01
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Ταξίδι στην Πρωτεύουσα
1982-10-01
Ταξίδι στην Πρωτεύουσα
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1982-10-01
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Filming Under Pressure
1991-02-01
Filming Under Pressure
Overview: A doc made during the nightmarish filming of The Suspended Step of the Stork at Florina.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1991-02-01
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Hotel Αστέρια
2005-01-01
Hotel Αστέρια
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Opa!
2005-11-13
Opa!
Overview: A modern day treasure hunt for a mystical relic that turns into a love story for all time.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-13
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Skipper Straad
2003-09-14
Skipper Straad
Overview: A seaman finds himself out of work and stranded in a distant port. He shares a cheap room. They take turns sleeping, some in the morning, some at night. Grief! When he will go back to sea? And there! The scent of woman drifts up to seduce him! He realizes he had shared his bed with a lady of the night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2003-09-14
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The Next One
1984-09-15
The Next One
Overview: An astronaut's widow and her young son meet a stranger from the future on a Greek island.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-15
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Αθώος ή ένοχος;
1989-10-01
Αθώος ή ένοχος;
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1989-10-01
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