Stavros Xenidis
Also Known As: Σταύρος Ξενίδης, Σταυρος Ξενιδης, Stauros Xenidis
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Constantinople, Turkey
Birthday: March 08, 1923
Deathday: November 02, 2008
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Milo-Milo
Overview: Set in the greek island Milos, this action comedy follows a group of people searching for the actual Venus de Milo
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-23
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Loafing and Camouflage
Overview: The film is the story of a group of soldiers, who, in the course of their compulsory military service in 1967 and 1968, before and during the military dictatorship in Greece, are assigned to the then recently founded Armed Forces Television. This TV station, founded for the civilian population, was run by the Cinematographic Unit of the army which until then had only produced propaganda films and newsreels and was responsible for entertaining the troops and other charity organizations with movie screenings. The personnel was composed mostly of soldiers, who already had experience in the film business in their civilian lives, as well as those who received their training in the army. The story may be only 95% true, but that is simply because the true story is even more absurd...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1984-10-01
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The Strongman Who Became a Lamb
Overview: Leonidas Petrohilos (Lambros Konstantaras), a widower with three master unruly children, Kimon (Paul Liaros), Andreas (Thanassis Papadopoulos) and dad (Vangelis Ioannidis), still loves his first wife and refuses to remarry. His friend Xenophon (Stavros Xenidis) recommends Mary's (Maro Kondou) atychisasa a lady who needs to work. Leonidas hires Mary as housekeeper and serenity comes home. But until Leonidas understand that it is intended for rigged plot has good bite on the plate ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-01-22
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An Uncompromising Man
Overview: A medical student (Pavlos Sidiropoulos) delays his studies to become a singer in this story of a man who follows his own convictions. He becomes a street singer and finds a young woman (Betty Livanou) he wishes to marry. After the two are wed, he returns to medical school to support his wife and family. He earns his medical degree and lands a job in a hospital. When he refuses to take part in the exploitation of the patients, he is fired. He opens his own practice but later quits when he is asked to participate in another fraudulent medical scam.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Froutopia
Overview: Children's series with dolls which is the television adaptation of the comic of the same name (1983) by the writer Evgenios Trivizas and the cartoonist Nikos Maroulakis. The series is about the adventures of journalist Pikos Apikos, who travels to the distant land of Fruitopia to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Manolis of Manavis. The comic was also transferred to television in 1985, by the Sofianou family, visualized with puppets and achieving great success. The series began airing on November 8,1985, on the ERT channel and now also plays on ERTFLIX. Despite the fact that the finale of Fruitopia never aired, due to cutbacks in the programming zone in which the series aired, with a total of 48 episodes, were aired several times in the following years.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy Crime Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1985-09-30
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The Island of Love
Overview: A crook meets a young man, in prison. Assisted by his girlfriend he tries to sell the tiny rock-island, which the young man inherited, to a wealthy American. But the young man falls in love with the American's daughter and...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Modern Cinderella
Overview: Katerina, a poor girl, finds a job as a secretary and falls in love with her boss on a trip to Rome.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-03-08
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Party, Money and Love
Overview: Angelos, a law student in Athens, is expecting Lavrentis, his rich uncle from the village, hoping that with his money, his luck will change. His uncle though is very sick and the doctors suggest rest and calmness. Youyou, Angelos' girlfriend though suggests otherwise in order to push the rich uncle closer to his death. And so, Angelos, with two friends from his village, Damian and Sarantis start partying with Lavrentis whose health starts getting better and better. In the meantime Angelos meets Myrto, falls madly in love with her and decide to finish his studies and marry her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1955-11-14
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The Beauty of Athens
Overview: A streetwise guy, according to a will, has to marry an extremely ugly old lady to get the money of the inheritance.So he tries to trick a poor devil into getting married with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1954-03-13
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Seven Years of Marriage
Overview: Having been married for seven years, a tourist office director and his well-known television presenter wife, Alekos and Efi Fotiou go through a crucial phase. Dedicated to their careers, they rarely meet, and when thy actually achieve it they always end up quarreling. The only family they have, their uncles, suggest they have a baby. She finds it a good idea, but Alekos thinks that they won't be able to raise a baby properly. This dispute brings them one step closer to divorce, which now seems the only solution, especially when Efi starts to believe that Alekos is flirting with Tzouli, and Alekos suspects that his wife is having an affair with Dimitris. When it is finally proved that none of this is true, and, actually, Tzouli is planning to marry Dimitris and Efi's aunt Dimitris' uncle, they all get reasonable, the couple gets over its crisis and they live happily ever after, together with their newborn child.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1972-01-12
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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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And the Woman Shall Fear Her Husband
Overview: When a man decides to marry the woman he's been living with, she stops being the silent patient person she was and claims to be the boss in the house. Her behaviour changes so much after the marriage that the husband gets so irritated as to ask for a divorce even a few hours later..
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-06-28
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Μεγάλοι δρόμοι
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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Athens dances Rock 'n' Roll
Overview: The film refers to the fashion of the new American rock and roll dance, which also reached Athens. It is a short film that cost 100,000 drachmas. When Costas Karras appears in the movie, he says that it is a "rock and roll" competition in which he won an electric guitar and that his partner Katerina Helmi was a top performer at that time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Ένας τρελός τρελός αεροπειρατής
Overview: Two apartments of an apartment building with common balcony, living two same-sex couples. At one resident Stephen with Fanny and the other Myrto with Tatiana. But other things show and others are as well in the apartments live two married couples. Stephen with Myrto and Fanis with Tatiana, who keep hidden their marriages, because women working as hostesses in an airline that does not allow their marriage...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1973-10-10
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Nightmare
Overview: A new and rich heir, Anna Margot, is receiving threatening phone calls from an old friend, Anna not knowing what to do requests the help of her friend Tonis Karzis, the anxiety will culminate as a series of unexplained murders follows .
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1961-09-01
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Ο Άνθρωπος που Έσπαγε Πλάκα
Overview: Lambros Konstantaras performs a wealthy gossip that has never worked, and all he has to do is make fun and jokes to others. But when he suddenly finds himself in the street, he realizes that life is not just fun and is forced to look for a job. In the end, it turns out he had not lost his fortune as it was an idea his father had invented shortly before he died to be
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1972-07-07
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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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Anamesa se dyo gynaikes
Overview: A young lady, Maria, is hired at Mrs Elsa's house to watch her mother-in-law. But she does not realize that her lady has thrown it into nights and gambling. She also understands from the narratives of the mother-in-law of Mrs Elsa and her mother, Demetris, who is the master and has with him on the voyage and his brother Manos, that the two brothers work for a sacred purpose: to raise money and to make money Jail their father. But when Dimitris returns with the intention of staying forever on the land, he finds that Elsa has squandered all their economies on paper. Bitter thought to divorce her but Mary, knowing that Elsa loves him, prevents such a development. Maria itself decides to live with her lawyer, Mr. Pantelis, who has long been in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-08-04
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The Parliamentarian Lady
Overview: Rena Varlamou (Rena Vlahopoulou), a female queen and a captain, takes up the election campaign of her fiancé Pericles Arapis (Stavros Xenides), a tavern who has founded a party and wants to become a member. He tries to land him in reality, but he does not, and when Pericles is not elected, he takes off. The reason is the sudden death of the uncle of Iakovos Menexes, a political career, who had re-elected a Member on their island. Menexes had included it on his ballot, as a runner-up, and Rena took his place, becoming the first female MP and struggling to make some important works in her place.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-07-21
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Astronauts
Overview: An eccentric and little crazy professor of astrophysics, helped by his assistant and by a naive admirer of science fiction, working for the launch of the first manned rocket into space.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-10-15
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Lolitas of Athens
Overview: What lies hidden in a nymphet’s soul? Lust for sex? Self-preservation? Childhood trauma? Father quest? Who can really see? A Police Officer who wants to bring Rosie back onto the right track does - but Rosie is too busy flirting with middle-aged men, destroying virtuous families and scheming her way up the social ladder, while also wallowing in seedy night clubs of the ’60ies wrestling Frida, the naked dancer hiding a rod, for Jim’s eyes only. Jim is not 100% sure which one of the two blondes he wants to kill so he might just make a serious mistake and kill Rosie. But is it really easy for a nymphet to be killed?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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A Fool And A Hater
Overview: Thomas is a good but low intelligence man. He is in love with Urania, a widow, whose stingy husband Sotiris is over a year dead, as the ship he was sailing in, sunk. When Sotiris appears, explaining that he was hiding so as to get the life insurance money. Urania, who already has a love affair, convinces Thomas to murder him, pretending she is in love with him. Thomas indeed tries unsuccessfully. Everything is revealed when Sotiris discovers that the insurance money have been stolen and appears screaming during his memorial service. A trial ensues, where Thomas admits that he is not only an imbecile but 'an imbecile and a half'.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Satrapis
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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The Young Lady's Fool
Overview: Julia, the daughter of Telis, general manager of the steel company, is a rich girl who likes the good living. Grigoris, a poor employee in the company who is in love with Julia, after a series of misunderstandings will lose his job and be fired ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-03-14
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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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An Italian in Greece
Overview: Charming, affluent--with his father's money--and self-assured, a frivolous son who can have any woman he desires falls head over heels for a beautiful Italian student; however, she is a hard nut to crack. Will he manage to impress her?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Gerontokoros
Overview: Thanasis is against marriage, by conviction. But he changes his mind when hiring Mary as secretary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The Policeman of the 16th Precinct
Overview: Ilias dresses himself in a police uniform as part of a complex burglary plot. Unfortunately for him, the impostor officer is called to assist in the investigation of a real crime. The other officers involved in this case treat him as a colleague, and he is forced to play along in hopes that his cover is not blown.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1959-05-30
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Cruise to Rhodes
Overview: Peter has lost all his property without getting frustrated now. Along with Takis installed in a large hotel of Rhodes and represents the great entrepreneur, hoping to meet with some rich. In the same hotel and Sofia Katrani, looking to find her daughter Vera, a wealthy groom. From the recommendations of the receptionist, Panagiotis has already identified Peter ...
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Honeymoon
Overview: Taxidi Tou Melitos is about the fear that most elderly people experience: approaching death. Leon (Stavros Xenides) and Zaharoula (Betty Livanou) are heading out for their annual vacation at a summer resort. Instead of their usual carefree anticipation, their mood is subdued because their daughter has just married and is off on her honeymoon. Life is lonely without her and the couple cannot avoid the realization that death is not that far away for them. Once at the resort, Leon tries to overcome this nagging fear by taking a wild plunge in the ocean, naked, as he and Zaharoula are out walking on the beach. Taken up in the spirit of the moment, she joins him among the waves. The results, however, are not what they expected.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1979-10-01
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Father, Behave Yourself!
Overview: Antonis is a wealthy peasant who finds out that his son spends money and time partying instead of studying. He decides to visit him and restore him to track but instead of achieving his purpose, he falls into the trap of sweet life too.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Christina
Overview: Dinos (Dinos Iliopoulos) works in a coffee shop and has a passion for crime novels. Hristina or Christina (Tzeni Karezi) shares the same passion with her brother Dinos and is convinced that she has traced the traces of "Fantomas of Thessaloniki", a notorious thief of luxury hotels. As usual, what they think is not what seems to be.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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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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Laos and Kolonaki
Overview: A milkman has his shop at the affluent Athenian neighborhood of Kolonaki and is in love with an aristocratic girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1959-10-19
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My Daughter, the Socialist
Overview: Liza falls in love with one of her father's employees. Her socialistic ideas about employment drive her to collide with her father and the sociopolitical status of the time.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-10-24
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A Man for All Jobs...
Overview: A cynical young man, Giorgos, who believes that in this life you need to steer clear of principles and attachments, clashes with his father, captain Manolis and abandons the management of the family’s shipyard. Determined to build his life again, he gets a job as a waiter in a large hotel and believes that he can also get rich by taking advantage of the sorrows and the loneliness of the wealthy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-01-10
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Spend the first of the month
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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I Loved an Armchair
Overview: Years ago, Grigoris was forced to sell four velvet armchairs to the junk dealer. After the death of his aunt, he was informed that her entire legacy, which was a box of jewelry, was hidden in one of those four armchairs. In the meantime, the armchairs had been sold to other people, and so a desperate quest for the right armchair begins, resulting in many and sometimes grotesque adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Underwater Papanikolis
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Genres: Drama History War Adventure
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1971-09-24
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Manto Mavrogenous
Overview: In Vienna 1820, the Manto Mavrogenous encounters a group of Greek students and talk of revolution to be made. Returning to Greece uncle of the initiates at Friendly Society. Madonna sells its dowry and equip their ships and army to help the revolution. Meet the founder of the Friendly Society, Dimitrios Ypsilanti, and builds relationships with him but encounters the objections of the political leaders of the struggle and particularly of Ioannis Kolettis who fears the two young people like to be the first king of the new nation. To break up the uses of beautiful paintings Niki monk who just came from Paris.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Eleftherios Venizelos: 1910-1927
Overview: A biographical film about the great Greek politician Eleftherios Venizelos for the period between 1910-1927. The film highlights his vision of a Greater Greece and refers to important events in Greek history such as the formation of a government by Venizelos after the Goudi movement, his dispute with the King over Greece's stance in the First World War, the temporary his withdrawal from politics after his defeat in the 1920 elections and the Asia Minor disaster. A biography of the former Greek prime minister Eleftherios Venizelos and the recreation of his acts and the political and social climate in Greece from 1910 to 1927.
Genres: History
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1980-03-03
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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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Δολλάρια και όνειρα
Overview: To locate the heir of $500,000, an affluent Greek-American places an announcement in the newspaper, and hundreds of potential plutocrats start flocking to the city. Will he ever find the lucky one? Is love more important than money?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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The Brightest Star
Overview: A girl from the slums of Athens becomes a famous singer while falling in love with her songwriter.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-11-07
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Το Κλωτσοσκούφι
Overview: A young woman asks from a ship magnate to help her immigrate to Australia but he falls in love with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-03-21
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Το Τραγούδι του Πόνου
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1953-10-25
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Η Χαρτορίχτρα
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-10-17
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Εξωτικές Βιταμίνες
Overview: A middle-aged womaniser takes in his distant cousin, who has fled from an arranged marriage, and she decides to use a potent love potion to seduce the unattainable object of her desire. Can a dash of exotic vitamins help her succeed?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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The Island of Aphrodite
Overview: In Cyprus, an EOKA fighter (against the British Administration), Kyriakoulis, is imprisoned by the British. His comrades kidnap the son of a friend of the British Administrator in retaliation. Plans to help Kyriakoulis escape fails and the British hang him. Kyriakoulis mother intervenes magnanimously and the fighters free their prisoner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-09-01
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Η Κλεοπάτρα ήταν Αντώνης
Overview: An unemployed man poses as a housekeeper to stay afloat; but, his fiancée starts to suspect something, the gardener wants more of "her", and his employer's scheming cousins want everything for themselves. Can he get out of the tight spot?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Εισπράκτωρ 007
Overview: An honest employee saves some valuable documents when a fire breaks out in the factory where he works, at the risk of his life. But the secrets hidden in these documents are capable of destroying the relationship between his two bosses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Mania
Overview: It is on Ascension Day that Zoe, a brilliant computer analyst, visits the National Park in the center of Athens with her daughter, Katerina. That afternoon in the park, Zoe experiences an overwhelming array of instinctive compulsions and transforms into an ancient Maenad in ecstatic frenzy, even capable of murder. Instincts and animals get loose and panic takes over.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1985-10-01
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The Brightest Bouzouki
Overview: The Fanouris broccoli is a traveling salesman who happens to looks amazing with the famous actor George Kartali, which creates a lot of tangles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Γάμος Στο Περιθώριο
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1989-10-01
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Ο Μανωλιός στην Ευρώπη
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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The Secrets of Sinful Athens
Overview: A young hoodlum tries to separate himself from his gang, while at the same time taking on behalf of his boss the blackmail of a businessman's wife.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Ερωτιάρης του γλυκού νερού
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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From the Stable to the Salon
Overview: The amateur singer, Magdalo, plucks up the courage to leave her small village in search of a well-paying job and has a chance encounter with the idealist classical musician, Fodas. Bent on taking back the familial plots from a money-grubbing loan-shark, Magdalo lands a job as a resident singer at a trendy nightclub, whereas, Fodas is having a hard time keeping himself afloat. Once more, after Magdalo's rapid rise to stardom, the two artists cross paths; however, they are too proud to admit their deeper feelings for each other. Will those two polar opposites bury the hatchet for love's sake?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Αν όλες οι γυναίκες του κόσμου
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Triumph
Overview: An unexpected big break changes the life of a young, ambitious actor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Μακρυά απ' τον κόσμο
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Erotic Symphony
Overview: The Peace and Betty are twins and look like as two drops of water but their characters are completely different. Betty is open and jovial man while peace is closed off and timid. Their music professor Roda visitors to their island home and proposes to the Peace who are virtuoso piano to follow a series of concerts in Paris. Initially HESITATES but when Betty will announce that he will marry with Petro, with which peace is also in love, will change their minds and accept the proposal of Roda.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Η εφοπλιστίνα
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Ταξίδι στην Πρωτεύουσα
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1982-10-01
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Υβ!... Υβ!...
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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