Kostas Karras
Also Known As: Κώστας Καρράς, Κωστας Καρρας
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Athens, Greece
Birthday: June 21, 1936
Deathday: May 06, 2012
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Iphigenia
Overview: The Greek army is about to set sail to a great battle, but the winds refuse to blow. Their leader, King Agamemnon, seeks to provide better food, but accidentally slays a sacred deer. His punishment from the gods, the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1977-09-10
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Πικρή ζωή
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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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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The Mediterranean In Flames
Overview: A volunteer from a World War II-era Greek resistance group agrees to seduce a German officer in order to gain secrets
Genres: War
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1972-05-14
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The Daughter of the Sun
Overview: The plain of Thessaly, 1910. The tenant farmers suffer untold hardships, both from the Arvanites invaders who ravage and seize their possessions and from the chief landlord of the area Stratos Karatzas, who claims the lion’s share of their harvest. The dynamic daughter of one of the tenant farmers, Maya, who is about to get married to a young farmer, Lefteris, leads their struggle for better conditions and confronts Karatzas – as well as his niece Vgenio, who also wants Lefteris. The latter plots and succeeds to separate them. Lefteris leaves for the army and Karatzas persuades Maya to marry him. Lefteris is captured during an ambush set by the Turks, but in the end he is set free and returns to Maya’s arms forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1971-12-27
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Lieutenant Natassa
Overview: The year is 1965. Natasa Arseni visits Dachau, the place where she was found by the Americans at the end of the World War II. She returns to Greece, and during the train ride she recalls those past events. Before the beginning of the Greek-Italian war, she met Orestis . With the German invasion, Orestis, who was an officer in the Greek army, left for the Middle East. She followed him and accompanied him back to occupied Greece on a mission. She was arrested, interrogated and tortured and was finally sentenced to execution.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1970-12-12
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Crooked Deeds
Overview: Dimitris, a poor painter who feels deeply disappointed in his life, leaves his wife and begins to wander aimlessly. The woman who raised him after the death of his parents, Mrs. Marigo, must now undergo a difficult operation and Dimitris is forced to submit to the whims of the rich Rita, in order to help his sick nanny. Another failed painter, Alexis, who lives as a gigolo, is also Rita's lover, but Dimitris is unaware of this. Will the silent anti-jealousy end in a stabbing? (greek-movies.com)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Ο δρόμος των ηρώων
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Genres: War
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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The despised
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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My Brother, the Lord
Overview: A car electrician, Charis, spends all his money on tailors in order to give the appearance of a "lord". He constantly fights with his brother, Vasilis, who is also a day laborer (painter), saddled with all the joint expenses of the house. Charis believes that his looks will someday attract a rich wife and thus change his life and solve all his problems. Martha, however, the wealthy daughter of the shipowner Karapezis, falls in love with and marries his brother Vasilis (after he saved her life) without regard for her father's opinion or Vasilis' lack of money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Athens dances Rock 'n' Roll
Overview: The film refers to the fashion of the new American rock and roll dance, which also reached Athens. It is a short film that cost 100,000 drachmas. When Costas Karras appears in the movie, he says that it is a "rock and roll" competition in which he won an electric guitar and that his partner Katerina Helmi was a top performer at that time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Yie mou... Yie mou...
Overview: A widow wants to remarry, but as often as he tries to flirt with younger women he faces the rivalry of his own son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-10-25
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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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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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The Parisian Lady
Overview: Sometimes, the circumstances call for reckless bravery--and just like that--a humble neighbourhood seamstress becomes an enchanting Parisian couturière bent on dazzling Mykonos' haut monde. But, is all fair in love and war?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-12-22
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Η Γόησσα
Overview: A young doctor, Spyros, falls in love with a poor singer, Eleni, who is under the extortionist urge of her fiancé Peter, who is unbearably pushing her to marry a wealthy old man so that he can pay his debts on paper. Spyros is driven for his sake by separation from his spoiled and wealthy fiancé, Katerina, and the usual problems in such cases begin. In the pre-existing class differences, the hatred of the people in his circle, who do everything they can to prevent it, is added. Spyros, however, is totally determined to cope with life the way he thinks - and eventually succeeds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-02-01
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Who Is Margarita?
Overview: A girl from the province, who works in a fashion house in Athens, goes to Kos to promote her clothes. Residents believe that the daughter of a Greek-American tycoon and she plays the role will lead it to embrace the real son of the alleged father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Captives of Hate
Overview: Viky, a Greek from Africa, returns in shock to her homeland after the riots in the Congo, where she saw almost all of her family killed before her very eyes. In Athens, the businessman Angelos von Zirach, of German origin, helps her brother avoid financial disaster, but also helps her launch a career as a singer and dancer. Viky falls in love with him and agrees to marry him, inviting the wrath of his secretary and lover Tzina, who, in order to get even with him, reveals to Vicky that Angelos' ships don't transport food, medicine and indispensable articles to Africa, but guns, ammunition and even mercenaries. Viky is shocked. She turns in von Zirach to the police and leaves. After some years, she returns to him with their son Freiderikos, when von Zirach has donated his fortune to the orphans of Biafra.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1972-12-27
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Apollo Goes on Holiday
Overview: Prince Jan is spying on beautiful tour guide Elena from his helicopter while touring Greece. He escapes from his entourage and joins the girl's group, posing as a humble visitor. The two fall in love, but Prince Jan, knowing that he has duties and responsibilities to his country, leaves her, never revealing his true identity.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-02-28
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In the name of the law
Overview: A traumatised Korean War veteran is accused of arson and murder. Now, the deceased's criminal attorney daughter is determined to send him in prison, even though he claims he's innocent. Will she destroy a man in the name of the law?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1970-05-09
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The Merchant
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Η ανταρσία των 10
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Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1970-09-26
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Θυμήσου τον Σεπτέμβρη
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Εικοσιτέσσερις ώρες ζωντοχήρα
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Γιατί με πρόδωσες
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Too Late for Tears
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Δίψα για ζωή
Overview: Katerina is a spoiled rich woman who spends her time playing with the men who surround her. Only herself and her parents know she is dying and that the first possible emotion will be fatal.She knows that the first time she will love will be the last one and so he is not given to anyone until he meets Stephanos.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Νυχτοπερπατήματα
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Genres: Documentary Comedy Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Ένα παιδί χωρίς όνομα
Overview: After their father's death, the vicious and drunken eldest son, Angelos, kicks out of the house his stepbrother Nikolas, a kind-hearted and hardworking young man in love with Angelos' sister, Marina, and he vows to take revenge for the cruel way his brother treated him. But the years pass and Marina has married her childhood friend Petros, the only person who helped her in the difficult times, after the disappearance of Nikolas. Angel has squandered his fortune and is in danger of losing everything to a creditor. But, on Christmas Eve, Nikolas' good heart commands him to forgive Angelos and be alone with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Imperiale
Overview: Greece's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1968.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Thymisou, agapi mou...
Overview: Elsa and her husband Alkis vacation with their friend Vera in Nafplio, where Elsa's former love, Markos, is imprisoned. Years ago, Markos, a poor man, was framed for a crime by Alkis, leading to his imprisonment. Now, with Markos released and Alkis involved with Vera, old secrets resurface, and Elsa must confront her past and follow her heart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Φτωχός, αλλά τίμιος
Overview: A poor young man, who bears the surname of a rich shipowner, meets and falls in love with a rich heir. She does not believe that this is a coincidence and their relationship is built on a lie.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Ενώνει ο πόνος δυο καρδιές
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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