Alekos Alexandrakis
Also Known As: Αλέκος Αλεξανδράκης, Αλεκος Αλεξανδρακης, Алекос Александракис
Biography: Alekos Alexandrakis (Greek: Αλέκος Αλεξανδράκης; 27 November 1928 – 8 November 2005) was a famous Greek actor. He was known for his theatrical work as well as work in film and television. He died of lung cancer. Alexandrakis starred in more than 60 films, including Stella with the late Melina Mercouri in 1955, Laterna ftoheia kai filotimo (1955), Mia trelli... trelli oikogeneia (1965) and Oi Kyries tis avlis (1966). He also directed two films in the early 1960s.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Athens, Greece
Adult: No
Birthday: November 27, 1928
Age: 96 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 08, 2005
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Miss Manager
Overview: The strict and formal director Lila Vassiliou has under her orders all the staff of the technical office of which she takes over the management, but at the same time, she is looking to find ways of charm to conquer the lively sub-engineer Alekos Samiotakis.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-12-18
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Two Worlds
Overview: The murder of an underworld figure, Takis Katridis, puts Martha, a young girl who was in love with him, as well as her father, craftsman Giannis, in the dock. Each one of them, separately, claims to be the guilty one, so that the other won’t go to prison.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1949-05-16
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1821 at the Cinema
Overview: In 1821, in Cinema, he records the cinematic representations of the Revolution from the first decades of the 20th century. until the present day. Despite the fact that the Revolution of 1821 constitutes the founding act of the modern Greek state, as a subject matter it is underrepresented in national film production. This is one of the points on which the research looks, which simultaneously examines the periods of concentration of films on the subject of the Revolution or, respectively, the periods of its collective silence. The purpose of the documentary is to study the ideological discourse and the cinematic language of the films with the theme of 1821, in order to highlight the function of the cinema as a carrier of Public History and as a factor in shaping the collective historical consciousness.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2021-10-14
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Wake up Vassili
Overview: Vasilis is a poor conservative man who works in a company and tends to buy the lottery very often - but with no luck. His life will turn upside down when his younger sister turns out to be an anarchist and gets involved with a leftist rebellious man he already knows and hates. Eventually, in an ironic twist of faith, the two of them will earn millions and gain the exact lifestyle they used to fight against and Vasilis will lose his mind.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-04-13
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A Crazy Family
Overview: Mika is a young woman living in a crazy ... family. Her mother, Pasta Flora, is alienated, her little sister is uncontrollable, and her father is a good, but cowardly, man. She's engaged to Mikis but the day before their wedding she goes to Venice and marries Andreas, who, after meeting her family, he undertakes to make sense of them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-10-25
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Synoikia to Oneiro
Overview: A poor neighborhood of Athens, Asyrmatos, is the center of the world for the people who live there and try in every way to escape from poverty and destitution. A handsome released youth, Ricos (Alekos Alexandrakis), is trying to make money, at the same time that his lover, Stefi (Aliki Georgoulis), is seeing other men and her father, Nekrophoras (Manos Katrakis), is trying to contribute in family finances. Rico will set up a job, but will spend the money raised before he can put it into action. As a result, one of his "partners" (Alekos Petsos) will commit suicide, leaving his pregnant wife, Eleni (Aleka Paizis), to her fate. Rikos, his beloved and her father, defeated and disappointed because of the expectations that were never fulfilled, will be forced to come to terms with the harsh reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1961-10-15
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Lily of the Harbor
Overview: Captain Giakoumis makes the big decision to forsake the sea and live peacefully close to his wife and his adopted son, Andreas, who is about to sit for examinations in order to become a lieutenant. However, a terrible secret burdens his soul. He has a daughter, Agni, whom he had years ago when he had an affair with Maria, a prostitute from Troumpa. Maria, before she died, expressed the wish that Giakoumis recognize their daughter as his child. He, however, refused, since Agni ended up becoming a prostitute. The girl, to take revenge on her father, starts an affair with her half-brother with the intention of dragging him down into the mud. In the end, however, she falls in love with him, and this love blesses everyone and everything.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1952-01-14
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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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The Bait
Overview: Α crook turns a cabaret girl into a fine lady to use her as bait for his victims.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-11-09
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The Woman Driver
Overview: Mary and Nikos are a happily married couple whose life turns upside down when Mary’s friend, Lilly, borrows their new car. When Lilly crashes the car, she asks Mary to cover for her so that her husband doesn’t find about her new affair. The case of the car crash is brought to court, and Mary is accused. Things get so complicated that not even Lilly’s confession can solve the misunderstanding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-11-07
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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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Laterna, Poverty and Carnation
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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The Countess of Corfu
Overview: A businnesman, Sotiris Karelis, is presented to the piano teacher and twice a widow, Antzolina, and asks her to sell her mansion in order to convert it into a hotel. The same time, an Italian music group arrive in Corfu, which has been abandoned by Alinda Ritsi singer. Antzolina is persuaded not only to host her home but also to replace the singer. However, there is a lot of confusion because the singer of the group Alinda Ritsi comes in Corfu with her fiancée, and everyone is starting to look for their real identities.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1972-02-07
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One Girl For Two Men
Overview: Kimon and Aris are brothers, still they are completely different characters. Kimon, the eldest one, is a serious, conceivable, and stubbornly man who refuses to marry. In opposite, Aris is an open-minded, lively and austere man. Their older sister Polyxeni is trying to bring them closer. Aris wants to meet his girlfriend, Myrto to his brother, but he fears that he will reject her because she is a singer so he convinces him to recruit her as his secretary by concealing her real identity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-10-21
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The Liar
Overview: Infatuated with a handsome sculptor, an overindulged daddy's girl will make use of every trick in the book--including a cunning but charming impersonation--to reach her goal. But, will the pampered heiress have it her way once more?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-04-13
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Papaflessas
Overview: The life and work of the hero of 1821 Papaflessas that during the liberation struggle of the Greeks against the Turks, revolutionizing the elders and the world to declare war!!! Up to the heroic battle Maniaki.... A movie that shows the heroism and sacrifice of the Greeks for their homeland and their freedom
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1971-09-22
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Fading Light
Overview: Twelve year old Christos Myrisiotis lives with his mother Eleni on a remote picturesque Aegean island. The boy has been doubly singled out by fate. He has a remarkable musical talent but at the same time is condemned to going blind as a result of a rare disease. Now an eccentric loner, Christos finds an outlet in nature and the dream world of a cave where his heightened hearing enables him to collect natural sounds which he then turns to musical compositions for his violin. His only friends are his classmate Angeliki and the old lighthouse keeper Soursoumis who teaches him not only the violin but also about life in general. Everything changes when the new schoolteacher Maria arrives on the island. She develops a great interest in Christos’ exceptional abilities even though he keeps on being indifferent to school. On her own initiative Maria ensures his participation in a music contest. Christos’ traumatic family and personal experiences cause him to mature as an artist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2000-12-15
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Without Identity
Overview: Giannis (Alekos Alexandrakis) pretends to be the lost son of the Mavroleontos family. The mother (Vaso Metaxa) is happy with the return of her son. Her daughter Liana (Zoe Laskari) is also happy, and Giannis falls in love with her. Liana’s cousin Zanet (Mary Chronopoulou) tries to kill Liana so that she can claim the family fortune, but in the end she injures Giannis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-06-12
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The Unknown
Overview: Madame X (Greek title: I Agnostos) is a 1954 Greek drama film directed by Orestis Laskos. It is based on the 1908 play by French playwright Alexandre Bisson (1848-1912). Thrown out of her home by a jealous husband, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on harming her son. The son, unaware of who the woman is, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1954-06-06
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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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An Italian girl from Kypseli
Overview: A young student (Alekos Alexandrakis) comes from Italy and presents to his sister (Katerina Gioulaki) the fiancée (Maro Kondou) as Italian, because the first insisted not to marry a Greek. The couple, however, in cooperation with the afflicted spouse (Giannis Vogiatzis) strict sister, managed to change the opinion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-10-28
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Heaven Is Ours
Overview: A small and poor girl who lives with her sick adoptive grandmother knows and falls in love with a apotakto Air Force. Friend is an Aviation Group Captain. He and his wife have lost their little girl for several years. It turns out that the poor girl was their daughter.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1953-12-07
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Ladies of the Courtyard
Overview: The Pippi a genuine artist, painting with touches of everyday life of ordinary people, who live and share the joys and sorrows in the large and vibrant with life yard of a neighborhood of old Athens.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-04-09
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Maria in Silence
Overview: Maria, the daughter of Barbie Lambrou is dumb village we all laugh. The new village teacher Gregory, just to know is willing to learn the language of the deaf. Her father is impressed that manages and communicates with his daughter and radically changing behavior towards her. One evening Maria would raped by the chairman of the village, but will not say anything to anyone until after three months revealed her pregnancy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Horafa family
Overview: The consistency of a family with 13 children tested when a childless couple asks Americans to adopt the 14th located in his mother's belly.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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The Island of the Brave
Overview: An officer in the Greek army arrives in Crete, immediately after the fall in the hands of the Germans. In collaboration with rebels and allies saboteurs involved in sabotage installations of the Germans. The old favorite will ensure some secret documents, which will steal from the German commander, but then betrayal will be revealed and will be led to the firing squad. The young officer would punish will escape in Cairo.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Short break
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-09-26
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Stella
Overview: The story of a young, wild woman who doesn't want to compromise and settle down. Stella is a restless, rebellious Greek woman who plays with men and enjoys her life as much as she can. But when she meets a young footballer, things get mixed up. She loves him but she loves her freedom too. So it's about time she made an important choice.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1955-04-04
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Date in Corfu
Overview: A womanizing lawyer spends his holidays in mother's hotel in Corfu. What they do not know is that he has set up an entire trap by his mother and Lanitis entrepreneur, to finally learn what true love. The bait is daughter's trader Diana who plays the role of Mirka.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-02-08
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The Trial of an Innocent
Overview: At the beginning of his trial, the accused Vassilis Doranis takes account of the events that brought him to the dock. From a very young age, he did everything for his younger brother, Mimis, sacrificing his own career to study the other. Mimis, instead of looking at his studies and lessons, preferred to spend his time in fun and entertainment. He went on to do the same prodigious life, and when he went to post-graduate studies in Germany, and when he returned, he even did not hesitate to cast himself on Anna, his brother's girlfriend. Vassilis had forgiven him for all this and reached up to the point of admitting that he was the drunk driver who dragged someone and left him helpless, dying in the middle of the road. For this criminal negligence of his brother, Vasilis is now in the dock, but he does not regret his choice. The one who regrets is Mimis, who gets angry at the court and assumes his responsibilities, admitting his guilt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-11-04
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Those Not Allowed to Love
Overview: Pavlos, a conservatory student dreaming of becoming a great artist of quality music, lives with his fiancée Kaiti in a small room, hosted by two friends. Due to financial tribulations, he is forced to join his friends' folk band and performs every night at a night club. That's were Mr Giorgos and his lover Liza frequent. Liza, a rich girl, falls in love with Pavlos and tries to seduce him. However, when she realizes how deeply he loves his fiancée, decides to help him get back together with Kaiti.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1951-01-29
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The Man with the Carnation
Overview: The story of Nikos Belogiannis member of the communist party and officer of Ellas that has come back to Greece only to get arrested, tried for espionage on behalf of Russia and executed.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1980-11-23
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The Fairy Tale Girl
Overview: A young girl, who lives in a poor neighborhood with her little brother, falls in love with a rich young man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1956-01-12
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Tears for Electra
Overview: Intent on hurting herself, a beautiful but desperate daughter crashes her car on the day of her mother's wedding, unfolding a tragic tale of love, deception, and murder behind the closed doors of a wealthy family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-11-07
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One Night in Heaven
Overview: Ms. Byzantiou is a passionate writer who stays at the hotel “Paradise” together with other eccentric tenants. When the friend of a hotel boy, who is planning to marry a young tenant, arrives at the same time with a couple of newlyweds, Ms. Byzantiou is inspired to write about a dramatic love affair.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1951-06-30
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The Godson
Overview: During the Balkan Wars, Vivika Zaharouli, sick and tired of the goings-on of her womanizer husband, welcomes in Athens her godchild, who comes to live in their house. She doesn't know, however, that this is not her godchild but an impostor, Petros Harmidis, who took the other's place because he is in love with her. One day, she is visited by a classmate of hers from their old girl's school, Kiki, who is Harmidis' wife. Kiki asks her to intervene in the transfer of her husband from the front, but one misunderstanding leads to another...
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1952-11-15
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Hippocrates And Democracy
Overview: The father of medical in Kos, Hippocrates, believes that illnesses can be treated with medicines and herbs instead of prayers and comes into conflict with the medical establishment of the island. Leaving Kos, he goes to Athens, where he is called to face a plague for save the city.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1972-09-29
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Μπάρμπα Γιάννης ο Κανατάς
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1957-03-14
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Applause
Overview: Alfa (Attik) runs an itinerant theatrical troupe and can see that a young woman, Nora (Zinet Lakaz), is very talented. Indeed, Nora turns into a great actress. However, when she does not reciprocate his love, he turns her away. After this, Alfa falls on hard times, while Nora achieves great popular success.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1944-12-04
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The enemies
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-08-19
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Vertigo
Overview: A 19-year-old temptress caught in the intoxicating vertigo of passion ends up in prison. Her secret diary tells her side of the story, but unanswered questions arise.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-08-14
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Two Feet in One Shoe
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-02-17
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The Children of the Swallow
Overview: A journalist (Alekos Alexandrakis), working together with a young director (Peris Michailidis), tries to gather information about a family that was separated due to political turmoil. They locate some of its members, who tell their dramatic stories that began with the Civil War. The two men’s search is interrupted when a key person refuses to speak
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1987-06-15
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Dirty city
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-07-09
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For a Handful of Tourist ladies
Overview: In search of the perfect location to start a camping business, a lovely investor visits a sun-kissed Greek island, only to get caught in the middle of a long-standing feud between two antagonistic villages. Can they let bygones be bygones?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1971-07-14
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The Tomboy
Overview: 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?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Return
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-06-04
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Eva
Overview: Young Antinoos is on vacation on an island where he meets a seductive woman, Eva, who is having a miserable time with her middle-aged husband, Alekos. Eva is attracted to Antinoos, who is her missing part, but at the same time, she feels guilty and tries to suppress her passion.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1953-06-09
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Beautiful days
Overview: A mysterious woman arrives on the Greek island Patmos.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Athens Blues
Overview: A group of men in their sixties that spend the August nights in Athens outside a pharmacy during night shift, an ambulance driver who has an affair with a younger girl, a middle-aged couple who have invented a lie to renew their passion for one another, a child pretending to sleepwalk in the streets of Athens, two younger people who are tied together in an office after a burglar attack, and other amorous encounters during the same night.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2001-06-22
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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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The one that didn't bend
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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I am innocent
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Δεν υπάρχουν λιποτάκτες
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Genres: War Drama Adventure
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1970-04-23
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Red roses
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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I loved a bum
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Cloudy horizons
Overview: To settle her affairs, a kind woman arrives in Athens, only to realise that the administrator of her late father's truck company is scheming to rob her of her lorry. Will the firm's newest driver manage to help her out of the tight spot?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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The last prisoner
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Το Οργανάκι του Αττίκ
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1955-04-23
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Reverse course
Overview: As a coincidental event unites a publisher and a hospital manager, sinister revelations entangle the couple with the aspiration of an editor-in-chief. Will he unearth the truth? After all, almost everybody has a skeleton in the closet.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Το Νυφοπάζαρο
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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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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The Immigrant
Overview: A young man returns to his home after years abroad, despite not becoming wealthy, he has managed to save money for his last years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-09-01
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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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Rolled in the mud
Overview: An impecunious young woman is lured into prostitution, trying to survive and provide for her ailing, bedridden mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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In the vertigo of life
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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The Seagull
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Ο αήττητος
Overview: A childless Romani woman abducts the daughter of the prosecutor who imprisoned her. As she trains the child to do her evil bidding, the girl becomes a woman and soon finds herself accused of murder. Can a trainee solicitor clear her name?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
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Η θυσία της μάνας
Overview: A mother decides to present as her own the child that her unmarried daughter has given birth to.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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