Hristos Valavanidis
Also Known As: Χρήστος Βαλαβανίδης, Χρηστος Βαλαβανιδης, Christos Valavanidis
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Athens, Greece
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Birthday: May 21, 1944
Age: 80 years old
Gender: Male
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Extended Play
Overview: Poor Tasos and was so young! But also very jealous. A defect that ultimately cost him his own life as during his last jealousy crisis for of his beautiful girlfriend Alice, he will fall victim of a traffic accident. Archangels will sympathize with him, granting him another five invisible, on land, minutes, where he will have the opportunity to touch his favorite - and not - persons and to intervene in their lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2006-10-19
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The Wretches Are Still Singing
Overview: Five friends (representatives of the Fifties generation) now in their forties, get together after many years of silence. One shows up from jail, where he has been entering and exiting for years, the other comes from a series of "accidental" murders, another leaves his wife and kids, the fourth one is a wonderer, and the last one, the girl of the gang, comes from a lunatic asylum where she has been hiding for years... All of them are outcasts, tortured from barren love affairs, wounded from the deaths of their beloved friends and betrayed by the politics of their times. They hopelessly try to reconstruct the gang of their puberty, but the revolution is lost... Now, each in his own way, will progress into a journey of death, thus opening a new chapter in the history of their generation.
Genres: Mystery Drama Adventure Crime
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1979-10-04
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Ο νταβατζής με τα ριγέ σώβρακα
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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The Very Poor, Inc.
Overview: Odysseus is a model employee in Haramis Inc, a large company with an unscrupulous boss, Mr Haramis. When an oil spill puts the boss in a difficult situation, Odysseus gets the blame and he is sent to jail unfairly. In jail, he meets a junkyard dealer and an out-of-work mathematician with a fixation on the chaos theory. The three meet again once out of jail and decide to start a rubbish recycling company, which unfortunately, soon becomes successful enough to challenge the profits of Haramis Inc. Odysseus and his former boss cross swords again and end up in court - The moot point, who owns rubbish?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2000-11-17
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Λάκης ο 1ος
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Crying... Silicon Tears
Overview: This is the story of two Greek families, named Delafrangas and Bisbikides. The former family is very wealthy & lucky, the latter very poor and continually struck by fate. Poor but honest Martha is in love with Giakoumis, a young builder and bouzouki organist, but all her dreams fall apart when posh Tzela "steals" the love of her beloved one... A couple of flash backs, following their families roots back to WW2 and the Turkish domination, and a hidden secret will unfold the story's ending..
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2001-10-26
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Τα Καμάκια
Overview: This comedy takes place during a hot summer at a Greek island. We meet Stathis and his company and we watch as they try to get the attention of all kinds of beautiful foreign girls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1981-07-15
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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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I Loved a Pontian
Overview: The feelings of a young lady for a Pontian Greek, whom his fellow countrymen call "the disgrace of Pontus", is obvious to everyone. Kostikas, however, doesn't notice her feelings because his mind is elsewhere. He is trying to become the president of the football team of New Pontus, in order to take the place of Giorikas, who happens to be in love with the lady in question.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1986-03-06
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Patris, listeia, oikogeneia
Overview: A paranoid state organises bank robberies to save its crumbling economy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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Η Γυναικάρα Απ' Το Κιλκίς
Overview: Fed up with her unbearable and good-for-nothing husband, a proud Pontian-Greek woman from Kilkis decides to try her luck in the bustling city of Athens in search of a better future. But, can she make it big all alone?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Bitter Movie
Overview: An unconventional director gets through a critical time in his life. His best friend dies in a car accident and he ignores his girlfriend. The last straw is when he is told to make a movie about his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1983-09-14
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The Photograph
Overview: A young Greek man goes to Paris seeking help from a solitary and almost misanthropic distant relative who works as a furrier. With him, he takes nothing from his homeland but a photograph of a woman that he finds on the pavement. A misunderstanding regarding the photograph sets off a series of dramatic misunderstandings which trap him in a vicious circle of lies and fantasies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1987-10-27
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Αλλού παπάς αλλού τα ράσα του
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Τα ντερέκια
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Παπα-Turbo: Μας πήραν και τα...ράσα!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Made in Greece
Overview: Giannis Giannakis, released from psychiatric hospital after many years, decides to return home to his parents. On his way back he slowly discovers that the outside world is crazier than he thought - and starts to question whether he'd be better off back in the psychiatric ward.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Directing Hell
Overview: A Documentary about Nikos Nikolaidis' work. Nikos Nikolaidis was an acclaimed film director and author from Greece. He is famous for creating controversial characters in his films that have a rebellious attitude towards the social and political status quo. He illustrates a dark and pessimistic present and future, but also providing ambiguous hope for the end when his heroes find their escape in death. His films are shocking and contentious, raising questions during times when political visions start to fade away. His filming was poetic, dynamic and aesthetically beautiful in order to present situations on edge and elicit his audience's feelings. The aim of this project is to transfer his dynamics in a documentary that will convey some of his messages and create a platform for exchanging opinions among filmmakers from all over the world, in an effort to decipher his universe and his symbols as reflections of his unique and rare personality.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2011-05-27
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Beatitudes
Overview: A retiring man in rioting Athens faces ghosts and memories from the past to make choices about the present.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2012-11-02
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Καρδιακός Φίλος
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Eleni
Overview: When Helen is bored, horrible things happen around her.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2011-09-20
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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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O agapitikos tis Dimitroulas
Overview: The show that broke the box office at the "Vembo" theater. A stage comedy of thieves and sinners.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Ο Πιπίλας και ο Τορπίλας
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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