Maria Skoula
Also Known As: Μαρία Σκουλά
Biography: Maria Skola is a Greek stage and screen actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1971
Age: 54 years old
Gender: Female
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Last Visit
Overview: Last Visit is a tribute to Lefteris Voyatzis (1945 - 2013), an indisputable milestone in the modern history of Greek theater that defined people, projects, and our theatrical perception. He defined and was defined by the Theater of Odou Kykladon. At this place he left work, memories, and senses that still intensively exist. Through this strange dreamy visit he returns to favourable theatrical place for a proper farewell to his friends and colleagues.
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Original Language: el
Release Date: 2021-09-17
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18
Overview: In a working class neighborhood of Athens of the economic crisis, resurgence of fascism and covid19, a racist group of 18-year-old students persecute immigrants, homosexuals, anyone who is just different. A classmate of theirs who does not hide his dislike for their action quickly becomes their target.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2022-06-02
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September
Overview: The death of a pet prompts the unraveling of a woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2013-09-21
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Ave Eva
Overview: Eva is a seven-year-old girl who accidentally sees her parents making love. This spectacle, unbearably mysterious and violent, causes fear and curiosity at the same time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2018-09-17
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Silence 6–9
Overview: Aris and Anna meet one evening in a half-abandoned town surrounded by antennas. In this strange, dreamlike world, the two solitary souls gradually start to develop feelings for one another.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2022-12-08
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Fonissa
Overview: It is the early 20th century on a dystopian Greek island. Hadoula, a widow who lost her husband, loannis Fragkos, at a young age, is a woman who has learned how to survive in a male-dominated and extremely patriarchal society. Hadoula carries a difficult burden within her. Like a baton passed on to her from her mother, and the generations before her, she is meant to accept the belittling and degradation of women. Hadoula reacts. Her personal, internal revolution soon comes forth. The victims of her outburst are the little girls of the island, whom she sets free from the social and economic burden that their existence entails by taking their lives. Her actions will bring her face to face with the law. She leaves her home and escapes to her refuge, nature. But as much as her faith and morals dictate that she did the right thing, her trans-generational trauma follows her everywhere. And the end comes as redemption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2023-11-30
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The Hawker
Overview: In a house by the side of the road that also operates as a taverna for passersby, a couple leads a dull and uneventful life. One day, a hawker talks the woman into buying colored tablecloths for her taverna on credit, and that changes things ...
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Original Language: el
Release Date: 2002-08-07
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Astrapogiannos
Overview: The battle-scarred hero of the Greek Revolution, Giannos "Astrapogiannos", returns home after the end of the blood-soaked War of Independence, only to find himself in a new conflict, as he locks horns with a ruthless local Kodjabashis.
Genres: Drama War Adventure
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1970-09-21
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7 Kinds of Wrath
Overview: Petros is a gay archaeologist who experiences the naked Greek paranoia in the center of Athens. Either by choice or coincidence, he comes into contact with people who are "different": An Arab immigrant, who comes to Greece, a land of "infidels", determined to conquer it by any means; A Greek-French cello player, who is burdened by the agony of her alcoholic mother; A young Albanian pianist, who carries the curse of his own personal genius and divinity; A Greek immigrant, who was repatriated but now has nowhere to call home; A bank director, who believes everything can be bought, even love; A patrolman, who creates his own version of socio-political reality. Petros' contact with these people is in fact a traumatic experience. For each encounter he has to pay a price. Sometimes the price is material, while other times it's emotional. At times it is both. Will the experience gained make up for the loss?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2014-09-19
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Preparation
Overview: Three generations of women in one household do what they can to prepare for the impending loss of one of their number.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2017-09-11
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The Surface of Things
Overview: An urban legend of Athens says that in the 80s a girl was swept away by an ancient underground river that nobody has ever seen. Today a young anthropologist is researching the case, interviewing the girl’s three best friends and their former history teacher.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2017-11-05
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Kazantzakis
Overview: The true story of the greatest Greek writer of the 20th century, Nikos Kazantzakis, based on his work, Report to Greco, which is, essentially, his autobiography.
Genres: History
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2017-11-23
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Love Me Not
Overview: A couple hires a young migrant to be their surrogate mother and moves her to their beautiful villa. While the man is away for work, the woman and the girl start to bond and enjoy the couple's wealthy way of life. But behind her forced cheerfulness, the woman seems more and more depressed. After a few drinks with the girl, she goes for a drive. The next morning, her husband gets a call: his wife is dead, her burned body was found in her wrecked car.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2017-09-24
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Miss Violence
Overview: On the day of her birthday, eleven-year-old Angeliki jumps off the balcony and falls to her death with a smile on her face. While the police and Social Services try to discover the reason for this apparent suicide, Angeliki's family keep insisting that it was an accident. What is the secret that young Angeliki took with her? Why does her family persist in trying to "forget" her and to move on with its life?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2013-09-09
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Wasted Youth
Overview: Harris, a 16 year old boy spends his day skateboarding aimlessly around Athens with his friends. Vassilis, a middle aged cop, is frustrated with his dead-end job and crammed in his small apartment with his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2011-03-17
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Runaway Day
Overview: Maria and Loukas decide at the same time and for no apparent reason to respectively run away from their homes. Each of them has to deal with their personal problems: Maria is stuck in a wealthy marriage with Dimitris while raising their two children. Loukas is unemployed and full of debts. Both of them run away from their personal issues, both of them begin wandering in modern day Athens. They come across a series of controversial events and meet with strange characters. Furthermore, various people seem to be on their track; Maria is followed by two policemen. Loukas is followed by a weird stranger dressed in black, Joseph, who desperately wants something from him.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2013-12-05
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Lefteris
Overview: The introduction of this film is set during the time of the Junta (1967-1974) when the main character (Lefteris Dimakopoulos) used to work at the fish-market in Mesolonggi in order to be able to finish his studies at the Polytechnic University. Later on, we watch Lefteris’ life through his relationship with Dimitra, a fellow student. The ups and downs in their relationship during the course of their studies end up in a deadlock, in which they sacrifice their relationship to their quest for success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1993-11-07
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Anna's Summer
Overview: A widow reminisces on her life after returning to her family home in Greece.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-08-30
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Iceberg
Overview: Overweight nineteen year old, Stefanos, is a passionate conspiracy theorist. Suffering from the recent loss of his brother he decides to seek vengeance from the man he blames for his death. By doing that he enters a world he does not belong to and will fight his way to redemption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2012-11-02
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Paradise
Overview: Marianna returns to Greece on a whim to surprise her boyfriend, secretly plotting to stay with him forever, while Nikos is using the carnival as an excuse to confess his love to his unsuspecting boss. Eugenia hesitates to tell her daughter about her secret romance with the much younger carnival crew leader, while Ilias has no qualms about begging his estranged wife to come home. Four couples, each one desperately trying to either rescue or escape their relationship, lose themselves in the intoxicating atmosphere of the carnival before they finally reveal their true colors, hidden behind the masks. In the midst of carnival madness, four duets are staking their claim on their own personal Paradise…
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2011-11-09
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Freezer
Overview: Tassos, a man just over 50 years old, with a career in the marketing and commercial direction of large corporations, has been unemployed for three years now. Too old for a new beginning, but also too young to resign. His relationships with his close people are being tested, and his psychological state is marginal. His goal is one: to get out of the 'freezer'.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-20
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Shores of Twilight
Overview: An adaptation of Alexandros Papadiamantis's short story
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1998-11-15
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The Right Pocket of the Robe
Overview: A monk of a Greek monastery, tries to cope with the unbearable sadness and loneliness , when he loses his little dog, the only companion he has got.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2018-11-06
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Iskioma
Overview: A veterinarian is called in to treat a mysterious disease in a remote farm. He examines the first victim of this disease, a ram, and he advises the owner to put down all his livestock as a precautionary measure. A freak storm, though, forces him to spend the night at the farm.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2020-09-25
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In the Strange Pursuit of Laura Durand
Overview: Two men who live in modern day Athens decide to start the quest for Laura Durand, a porn star of the 90's who has disappeared mysteriously several years ago.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2019-09-24
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The Homecoming
Overview: After 35 years working in a factory in Germany, Ilias returns to his almost deserted village and buys a service station on the main street to Ioannina. He wants to make a new start but soon feels like a foreigner again, this time in his own country. His relationship with Eleni, his younger and still beautiful wife, is going though a serious crisis. Eleni, who married him when she was very young to escape the poverty of village life, now feels she is suffocating. She wants to live while there is still time.Their life changes when Ilias saves Petros, a young Albanian illegal immigrant who comes to Greece seeking a better life, from the border guards and hires him in his shop.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2008-04-03
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Whack
Overview: In the near-future metropolis of Athens, suicide is illegal and citizens have no other desire but to die. Following the film’s heroes to their chase of one last desire, a great deal of tragicomic surprises come the way.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-26
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Ms Nitsa
Overview: Nitsa is trying to cope with her mother’s loss, a woman to whose shadow she has lived under for years. In order to cover the shame of loneliness she invents a false reality that leads her to a masochistic satisfaction.
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Original Language: el
Release Date: 2024-09-06
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