Giorgos Ninios
Also Known As: Γιώργος Νινιός
Biography: Giorgos Ninios is a Greek television, film and stage actor with an extensive filmography. He has won two awards at the Thessaloniki Film Festival for Best Supporting Actor in 1989 and 1991.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Athens, Greece
Birthday: March 05, 1951
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Master of the Shadows
Overview: Shadow puppetry is not only part of the heritage of East Asia; Greece had its own traditional form of this popular art. In this leisurely drama, set in 1950s Athens, Antonis Barkis (Kostas Kasakos) is the master puppeteer for a traditional shadow show. However, although he is still making a living, it is clear that other forms of popular entertainment will soon supplant this one. This does not improve Antonis' temper, and his assistant's desires to modernize their entertainments only make it worse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1991-05-26
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Greenhouse
Overview: Sali, a young man of Albanian origin, has dropped out of school and works at greenhouses. He wants to save enough money to go through the tryout process of Juventus Academy. But to realize his dream, he must first overcome a series of hurdles in his harsh daily life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2023-09-06
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The Athenians
Overview: This is a series of intersecting stories. A petty crook and former lover of a lazy ingénue steals the box-office receipts from the Odeon of Herodus Atticus, on the day an important football game is also taking place. There is also the story of the half-mad mother of the ingénue who refuses to put shoes on because she believes that shoes lead people astray. An eccentric grave-digger produces a two-seater coffin for couple-victims of car accidents. The film also tells the story of one of the Odeon's cleaning women and of a watermelon that goes all around the city, pursued by a tired theater technician and his sister, who is a tour guide. The impresario conducts an inquiry after the theft, but the thief and his two associates, the ingénue and the technician, use what was stolen to set up a small theatre. Small everyday stories and comic incidents combine to create a portrait of modern-day Athens.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1990-10-20
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Ο Τσιγγάνος
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Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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From The Balcony
Overview: A little story from a blue-collar neighborhood. Lina, a middle-aged lady who never leaves the balcony of her house, intervenes in everything that happens within her visual field. People passing by in front of her building, neighbors from the apartments across the street, everyone realize that whatever they do, Lina is watching day and night and intervenes: From throwing a bandage from her balcony when an accident takes place to giving parking advice or notifying the police for a burglary. Some are surprised by her attitude, but most are annoyed by her constant gaze on them. Until Lina loses her son in a car accident and does not go out to her balcony ever since. The neighborhood is not the same anymore.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2022-05-22
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Despina
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1990-02-14
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Touch Me Not
Overview: In this Greek romantic comedy, Athens bus lines manager Voulis (Giorgos Ninios) has given up trying to salvage his marriage. Instead, he devotes time and energy to feeling-up cute commuters, eventually developing a fascination with one passenger in particular.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1996-11-17
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The Crossing
Overview: Two soldiers are coming back home, an accident on their way will change their lives forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1989-12-07
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The lifer
Overview: A prisoner sentenced to 622 years in prison is imprisoned in a Greek prison in which the laws of the Junta are still in force. Isovitis (Lifer) and all prisoners are supported by a mouse living in prison, Montechristo, behaving very arrogantly.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1992-03-16
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Isimeria
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1991-09-01
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U-Turn
Overview: A lone car thief, meets a mysterious and charming woman who would be the love of his life but will lure him into a dangerous adventure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1991-09-01
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Farther Right Than the Right
Overview: The secret services of the junta use a resisting captain who is now their prisoner in order to trap some resistance kernels. The conflicting ideological trajectories of people, each representing something specific, are drifting from the whirlpool of history, composing a mosaic of representative heroes of a time.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1989-10-01
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Living Dangerously
Overview: A gifted electrician, Michalis Karamanos works for Greek Telecommunications Organization and it seems that he is the only one who hasn't been completely absorbed by the corrupt and all-devouring system. Acting as a member of the revolutionary organization Constitutional Struggle, which is fighting against the unpopular policy of the government, he connects the computer of the director of OTE to an explosive device. He threatens to destroy the telecommunications of the country if he is not allowed to broadcast on television his revolutionary message during the broadcast of an important football game. The Authorities, thinking that he has gone crazy, try to bring him around using his old friends from the army, whom they pick up one by one as intermediaries. This is a situation comedy with excellent, mature plot development, plenty of suspense as well as masterful criticism of sociopolitical reality.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1987-10-29
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The Cronos Children
Overview: Aris and Thanos are good friends and they share an apartment. The arrival of Stella will unbalance their relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1985-10-03
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6 Με Έξι
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Αγαπώ Τη Μαμά Σου
Overview: The Alceste (Betty Livanos) is a fifty-year woman with two daughters, who still retains the youthful glow of years. The decision to follow her lover to England resulted completely disrupt relations with Mika (Christiana Matzouranis), her great daughter. When Alcestis decides to settle in Greece, wants to make a new beginning with her daughters. But Mika confronts her icily, and never accepted behavior of her mother. A legacy in Galaxidi addressed Alcestis and her daughters, imposing the coexistence of the family. Only that Mika has decided to send a representative to husband, Marino (Haris Romas), a winemaker ... Behind the aggressive attitude of Marino for the charming mother of hiding a strange eroticism to unforeseen development, which causes many comical situations ...
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2007-05-22
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Ioanna, I Love You
Overview: A love triangle story between two friends and a woman called Ioanna.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1997-11-01
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