Vasilis Avlonitis
Also Known As: Βασιλης Αυλωνιτης, Βασίλης Αυλωνίτης, Василис Авлонитис
Biography: Vasilis Avlonitis (Greek: Βασίλης Αυλωνίτης; 1 January 1904 – 10 March 1970) was one of the most famous old-school Greek comedians. He performed in numerous films and stage productions in the mid to late 20th century. Vasilis Avlonitis is best known for his collaboration in films with Georgia Vasiliadou; he usually played her husband, brother or neighbour. Together they would cause laugh since he portrays the fat guy and she would be the ugly funny lady having problems with him. They would get calm at the end of the film, by resolving their arguments and/or marrying each other. Avlonitis has also carried demanding drama roles, such as the leading character in the film Tis nyhtas ta kamomata.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Athens, Greece
Birthday: March 01, 1904
Deathday: March 10, 1970
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Μαρία Πενταγιώτισσα
Overview: Maria, a beautiful girl, baptized by Father Gavriil, joins gang leader Davelis and returns to her village to take revenge on the people who had treated her badly.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1929-02-18
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Δύσκολοι δρόμοι
Overview: In mid-1960s Perama, a popular singer plans to marry a sweet woman, not because he loves her, but because he hates her boyfriend who truly loves her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Klearhos, Marina and the short one
Overview: The Clearchos order to escape the unbearable and domineering wife Marina and found a lively geitonisa of Iro, will invoke the alleged suspicions that the Mahos groom, husband of their daughter Rhea has a mistress and will follow up the Fthiotida, where do you go to spas for a sore arm ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1961-12-18
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We Have Only One Life
Overview: A bank teller discovers an accounting error, becomes rich and lives his life like he's never lived it.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1958-05-08
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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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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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The Coffee Reader (Kafetzou)
Overview: In a poor neighborhood of Athens, next to the coffee shop of Spyros (Mimis Fotopoulos) is a coffee shop that has gained a great reputation and is preparing to move to Kolonaki as it has made a lot of money by telling the cup. In the same neighborhood is a laundress, Kalliopi (Georgia Vassiliadou), who makes a living by force. One day, after an incident in which a customer (Kostas Mentis) humiliates Kalliopi and Spyros intervenes, he comes up with an idea: for Kalliopi to run the coffee shop, since the other one has left.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1956-10-29
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Ο Τζίτζικας κι ο Μέρμηγκας
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1958-04-03
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When the Cat is Missing!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-01-30
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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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Ο Μιχαλιός του 14ου Συντάγματος
Overview: A guileless peasant with a heart of gold enlists in the prestigious Hellenic Special Forces and finds himself neck-deep in trouble when his superior entrusts him to keep an eye on his beloved only daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-03-20
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The Treasure of the Beatitude
Overview: Theoni finds a strange way to gain some money, in order to pay her bills , by renting rooms in her rickety house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1959-10-11
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The Girl Has Got an Uncle
Overview: A young and pretty girl, Violeta, is in love with a kind young artist, Alekos. The feelings are mutual, but the two young people have to face a severe old maid, aunt Pinelopi.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1957-02-01
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Madame Mayor
Overview: On the square of a village on a beautiful greek island there are two competing tavernas. One belongs to Aspasia and the other to Anargyros, who is a former Sergeant Major of the Greek Army. Their constant conflict doesn’t affect their children, who love and meet each other in secret. The local elections creates a new battlefield for the two taverna-owners, as they both run for office and promise everything to everyone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-01-30
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The Bridegrooms of Eftyhia
Overview: The film focuses on the Tarniatis brothers, with the brother trying to marry his sister (Georgia Vasileiadou), who refuses to follow the fashion of the time and become a lustful woman, so that he too can marry, having been engaged for eight years. The last groom that Vangelis shows Eftychia is Kleomenis, who after their trip to Hydra falls in love with the family's niece. However, Koulis also wants to marry Eftychia, who thinks he is inheriting 120,000 pounds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-08-15
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Κατά Λάθος Μπαμπάς
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Lazy like a dog
Overview: A lazy and wasteful slacker who enjoys living off his hard-working brother reluctantly accepts to work as a debt collector. Now, he is in love, and for once in his life, he is good at something. Can the boss' daughter straighten him out?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-02-12
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Young and old in action...
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-11-25
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Τρίτη και 13
Overview: A chain of bizarrely perfect and utterly extraordinary coincidences will convince a superstitious civil engineer that his impoverished long-lost friend is indeed a bearer of good fortune; however, is he truly an invaluable mascot?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-07-31
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Another One for the Million
Overview: The honest and meticulous cashier, Savvas, works in a business and is often pressured by his wife’s siblings to embezzle money from his job and lend it to them. When his manager, leaving on a trip, entrusts him with a million drachmas without a receipt, Savvas succumbs to the pressure and gives some of the money to his brother-in-law. In the end, however, an unexpected development awaits Savvas, since his manager is killed in an airplane crash and he has to decide what to do with the money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-10-20
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Giannis Messed Up
Overview: A retired General sends his nephew, Giannis, to Athens so to settle into a job. One day, Giannis discovers that a stolen suitcase which has given him to guard contains something suspicious. The naïve Giannis decides to hand it over to the police. The rich owner of the suitcase, is looking for a clever husband for his daughter Kathy, and Giannis seems to be the most appropriate person.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-04-02
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Οι Προικοθήρες
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-12-02
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A Very Clever Guy
Overview: Two naughty men, Iordanis and Potis, are partners in a drug- industry. Potis is a great womanizer, given that, even though he is married to the main financier of the business, Amalia, he doesn’t hesitate to cheat on her. One day, Tilemachos runs in a hurry into his office, looking for a job. Clever as he is, he suspects at once the ongoing situation and threatens to reveal everything to Amalia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-02-28
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Thymios in the Land of Striptease
Overview: Staple of music-dance with acrobatics and theatrical skits mainly foreign artists metaklithikan in Greece by Kostas CHATZICHRISTOU, in line with the business of theatrical activities
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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The Clever Bird
Overview: A poor but hardworking and proud young woman falls in love with her boss and manages to save him from many problems troubling his business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Το λιμάνι των δακρύων
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1929-01-01
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Ήταν Όλοι Τους... Κορόιδα!
Overview: The whole male population of Katochori is in love with the niece of former president Katsikaris. The village is the American archaeologist John Bull and the president did not miss an opportunity, as a man unexpectedly appeared, willing to dig the fields ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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A Patented Stupid Man
Overview: As Pelopidas is going around hungry, trying to find something to eat, a misunderstanding makes him seem like a thief. In order to escape his persecutors, he runs trying to hide. He hitchhikes and gets a ride by a truck, whose driver happens to be his fellow villager who knows the runaway’s past. Pelopidas has been working hard since his childhood, but due to his naivety nobody is serious with him. His return to the village where was born gets him mixed up in more trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Four Brides and a Groom
Overview: father of four girls of marriageable age brings home a prospective suitor. One daughter agrees to see him but the rest are trying to persuade the. The three friends of the groom are also trying to prevent the ap`to marriage, but eventually fall in love with the three girls and get married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Snow White and the 7 Old Boys
Overview: Alexia is a young woman who comes from the countryside and is in love with a rich man, Paris, who is studying abroad. Her stepmother treats her cruelly and forces her to escape from home. Alexia finds herself in an isolated area by chance, where she is discovered by seven brothers who live together in a nearby house. The seven bachelors put her up and treat her like a member of their own family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-12-26
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Double Sacrifice
Overview: A postwar melodrama of jealousy and rage.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1945-12-31
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Bouzouki Strumming
Overview: One day, while Grigoris is working and singing at a construction site, a conductor, Vangelis, and two bouzouki musicians happen to pass by. They listen, enchanted by his limpid voice, and suggest that he becomes a member of their orchestra. Thus, the newly-wed day laborer gets a second job at Mr. Lefteris’ night club. His wife, Marina, soon joins him at the club, and, before long, she too goes on stage, cuts capers and charms everyone. Her success, however, has a negative impact on the couple’s relationship, since Marina’s admirers as well as those of Grigoris’, turn one away from the other.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-03-14
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Ησαΐα χόρευε
Overview: Isaiah and Anargyros are partners and keep together a wedding bureaux office. Things are not going well lately, and Isaiah's wife, Kallirroi, is in charge of helping the situation. She finds a bridegroom for her daughter, a wealthy family. But the groom is not as rich as he is in fact the son of the groom. The situation is getting even more confused since her daughter is not the daughter of a shipowner as he presented her!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Κορόιδο γαμπρέ
Overview: Two fanciful friends earn a half-apartment in a lottery and are forced to cohabit, while they like the same girl and want to marry her. So one tries to put obstacles in the other and engage in comic situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-12-17
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The Money
Overview: The sudden heritage, which is announced to two mercantiles, infuses their minds and begins to live richly, forgetting their previous lives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1958-03-31
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Ο Παράς Και Ο Φουκαράς
Overview: Cosmas (Kostas Hadjichristos) learns that his mother needs to be immediately subjected to surgery. He asks the help of a relative (Nikos Fermas) to cover the expenses. He finds it difficult to overcome them, as he tries to raise money to marry his eminent heart (Martha Vourtsi). His relative agrees to pay, but asks Kosma to marry the Spanish singer (Martha Karayiannis) of the cabaret she runs, so that she can stay legally in Greece. Marriage becomes a secular event and is publicized, creating in Kosmas many problems and misunderstandings with his fiancé. Ultimately, a series of happy times will cancel the fake marriage, mother's surgery, and leave Kosmas the money to marry and start married life with greater financial comfort.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-07-23
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Το Εισπρακτοράκι
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Horse and Carriage
Overview: An old chauffeur, after removing his rambling son, decides to live with his orphaned girl while facing the advent of the car that displaces the carts.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1957-02-04
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Τρία Κορίτσια απ'την Αμέρικα
Overview: A wealthy couple of Greek-Americans arrive in Greece with their three daughters, who meet three young men- pretending to be rich- and fall in love with them.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Γαμπρός για Κλάματα
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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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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Το Καρπουζάκι
Overview: Bursting with excitement before meeting a blonde hottie and her equally good-looking companion, a lascivious merchant lures his gullible old friend into a splendid afternoon by the sea behind his wife's back. But, will he get away with it?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Ο ΨευτοΘόδωρος
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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And All 14 Were Wonderful!
Overview: Four cousins inherit a rich uncle. In order to do this, however, they must first fulfill the terms that each uncle has laid down in his covenant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-03-11
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Yannis is afraid of the Beast...
Overview: Pericles, a barber, leaves his homeland and goes to Africa to hunt wild animals. Someday he decides to return and his adventure is about to begin...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-03-06
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Τέρμα Τα Δίφραγκα
Overview: Agisilaos is in need of some money because he's facing an eviction.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Ο Ανηψιός μου ο Μανώλης
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Η Αδελφή Μου Θέλει Ξύλο
Overview: A mad man, Spyros, wants to marry Marianna, his lively sister. He wants to give her a dowry apartment, but his money is not enough for that. So he has to ask for a loan from his boss. The boss refuses to serve him but as soon as he knows Marianna, he changes his mind. Spyros tries to think of Marianna, who is smirked for his boss's mistress, but he only manages to lose his job. He wants to marry her with the poor and honest electrician Manolis, who is in love with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-11-16
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Ο Μπαμπάς Μου Ο Τεντυμπόυς
Overview: Two girlfriends are having a car accident with two boyfriends...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-12-01
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Get Up, Dance Sirtaki
Overview: With his pockets crammed with cash, a countryman in Athens becomes the target of a plotting compatriot and a beautiful singer who want to rinse him for every penny. But, he's already in love with the girl next door. Can he win this bet?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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At Night The Entanglements
Overview: The funny things that happen through the walking by the neighborhood night shift of a kind policeman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Ο Πεθερόπληκτος
Overview: Xristos is married to the rich Rena. In fact the rich is his mother-in-law, who has big business abroad. In Greece the mother-in-law gives the hotel's managment to Xristos but also loads to him all the work. Desperate, he decides to slam the yoke and kill her ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-11-20
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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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The Harefoot
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Meletis of the Flying Squad
Overview: The life of the kind-hearted policeman Study, and endless unexpected incidents faced
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Fifis the Unbeatable
Overview: A tough sailor, Fotis, returns to Greece to marry his beloved and to settle certain inheritance issues with his twin brother Fifis, who is an effeminate artist. Their striking resemblance will upset the lives of both of them equally.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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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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Κάθε Κατεργάρης Στον Πάγκο Του
Overview: For too long, a nephew has been lying to his rich uncle about his marital status, to get his monthly cheques. But, when he pays a sudden visit, only a young architect can save him. Will she be able to pass herself off as his loving wife?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-11-12
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My Bitter Love
Overview: A poor young man (Thanos Livaditis) is working in a car cage and buying a car, mortgaging his mother's house (Eleni Zafiriou). It turns into a pirated taxi but has an accident. To repair the damage he suffered, he is forced to work for a wealthy man (Theodoros Moridis). He undertakes to make the driver of his spoiled daughter (Miranda Kounellaki). It will affect her and transform her into a responsible person, so she falls in love with him. At the same time, the young person gains the respect and appreciation of her father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-07-25
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Αγάπησα και πόνεσα
Overview: After a momentary lapse of judgment, an impecunious husband finds himself behind bars, losing both his freedom and his wife who's eloped with her ex-lover. Now, a desperate search for the missing mother commences. Will the family reunite?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1963-05-09
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I Ellinida kai o erotas
Overview: Revolving around the modern Greek woman and her perspective on love in general, not one, but twenty-one brief and vivid vignettes attempt to shed light on an ever-present matter: can there be consequences in Cupid's eternal game?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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So Many Dreams on the Streets
Overview: Two ambitious young employees land a job at the small store of an avaricious man, intending to stay there no more than a few months. But, fate has other plans in store for them. How many dreams must one sacrifice to find happiness?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-05-17
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Αγαπούλα μου
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Goodmorning Athens
Overview: A struggling trio of artists has a chance encounter with a sad industrialist, and decide to undertake three challenging tasks to make him happy. Each day is a new one. So, good morning, Athens, and good morning new life. Will they succeed?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Η Αριστοκράτισσα Και Ο Αλήτης
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Παράσταση για ένα ρόλο
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Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1978-10-05
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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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Τα δίχτυα της ντροπής
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Πονηρός πράκτωρ Καραγκιόζης
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Τα κορόιδα η βαλίτσα μου κι εγώ
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Sidewalk
Overview: Angelina is a prostitute. Her only friends are her colleague Nana and coachman Minas. George suddenly enters her life and confesses his love to her. Angelina begins to believe that her life can change, not suspecting that George has approached her on behalf of the drug dealer Nino.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Έξυπνοι και Κορόιδα
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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