Yorgos Pirpassopoulos
Also Known As: Γιώργος Πυρπασόπουλος, Giorgos Pyrpasopoulos, Giorgos Pyrpassopoulos
Biography: George Pyrpasopoulos (Adelaide, July 14, 1974) is a Greek actor, director and presenter. He was born in 1974 in Adelaide, Australia and came to Greece at the age of two. He studied acting in Athens and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. He started acting on television as a teenager and since then has had many appearances in television, cinema and theater. He is one of the founding members of the Hellenic Film Academy, while in 2012 he was president of the Greek Actors' Association.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Adelaide, Australia
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Birthday: July 04, 1974
Age: 50 years old
Gender: Male
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The Student
Overview: On 17th of November 1973, the Junta ordered the military to intervene in order to stop the 3 days demonstrations against the regime. Armored tanks surrounded the Polytechnic University of Athens and one of them entered the premises by bringing down the main gate. We are inside that armorded tank and we follow the events the very last minutes before bringing down the gate.
Genres: History
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2021-09-13
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Γκίνες
Overview: Threatened by his debtors, rocked by a broken heart and driven by greed, a charming gambler arrives at a middle-of-nowhere tavern in search of a case of gold. Instead, he attracts the attentions of the grumpy tavern owner's unhappy wife, whose affection complicates his plan and perpetuates his spell of misfortune.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2009-02-26
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Wild Duck
Overview: “Wild Duck” is the story of Dimitris, a telecommunications engineer who’s forced to shutter his business after running up a considerable debt with a local loan shark. He and his buddy Nikos, another telecommunications expert working for a big outfit, decide to get to the bottom of a big scandal. Their research leads them to a certain apartment, whose tenant Panagiota becomes the focus of their attention. Dimitris is now facing some major dilemmas and a trip to his hometown will help him clear his head and look at himself under a different light.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2013-11-06
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Goodbye
Overview: Six goodbyes and a welcome. The very ending of dramatic, melodramatic and funny scenes of everyday life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2001-09-21
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We are Stardust
Overview: The swan song of the Honorary Director of the Eugenides Planetarium Dionysios Simopoulos was to be the last unpublished musical work of the late and world-renowned composer Vangelis Papathanasiou. On the occasion of the New Digital Planetarium's 20th anniversary, this show looks back on its previous productions, with unreleased music by Vangelis and narrated by Dionysios Simopoulos. A tribute to Science and Art by two creators whose friendship and mutual appreciation is more than evident in this work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-01
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Crimes of the Future
Overview: With his partner, a celebrity performance artist publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. An investigator from the National Organ Registry obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed... Their mission — to use the artist's notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-25
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Beckett
Overview: An American tourist in Greece finds himself on the run after a tragic accident plunges him into a political conspiracy that makes him a target for assassination.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-08-04
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Monday
Overview: A spark on a Friday can lead to a sizzling weekend fling, but what happens when you get to the inevitable Monday?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-11
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Chevalier
Overview: In the middle of the Aegean Sea, six men on a fishing trip on a luxury yacht decide to play a game. During this game, things will be compared. Things will be measured. Songs will be butchered, and blood will be tested. Friends will become rivals and rivals will become hungry. But at the end of the journey, when the game is over, the man who wins will be the best man. And he will wear on his smallest finger the victory ring: the Chevalier.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2015-11-26
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Safe Sex
Overview: A satire of life in modern Greece, presented through a series of different stories about sex. There are several couples and their relation with sex in parallel stories that come together in a hilarious way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1999-10-22
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Poker Face
Overview: Niki when she was still a child she had a gift. A stuffed parrot that brought her luck. Thanks to that her father and his friends were able to win in gambling in order to make a living. One day though a friend of her's steals the parrot and as a result her father goes bankrupt and ends in prison. Niki as an adult she has to fight back her old friend in a poker tournament. Things get tough thou when she falls in love with him.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-01
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End of an Era
Overview: In late-1960s Athens, a student forms a strong friendship with a group of young dreamers, against the backdrop of the military dictatorship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1994-10-11
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The Wing of the Fly
Overview: A college student seeks to set things traight with his mother, that abandonned him as a child as she fled with his uncle to America.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1995-11-03
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Love Me Do
Overview: A director decides to make a film about an old friend, musician, who died from drugs years ago and became known to the general public after his death. The present and the past confused in the mind of the director and the influences in his work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2003-02-06
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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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Mila
Overview: Mila likes to skate. Mila hasn't spoken to her alcoholic dad for over five years. Mila means "speak" in Greek. Mila visits her sick dad at the hospital. Mila means "beloved" in Polish. Mila likes to skate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-19
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Ellinikon
Overview: In the abandoned airport of Ellinikon, a man's peaceful solitude is disrupted by bustling activity, and his ticket out might lead him right back to his starting place.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-29
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From a Thorn Comes a Rose: Kick-Off
Overview: Shogra and Leyla are cooking. Shakiba takes piano lessons. All three of them will soon go to training. Hestia F.C., the first football team of women refugees, has become a small homeland for these young players. They have found solidarity, warmth, beauty. Yorgos Pyrpassopoulos is following them during their training, talks with Katerina Salta, the founder and soul of the team, about this innovative project and listens to the dreams of the athletes for their future. Can football change the world?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2019-11-24
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The Fridge
Overview: When George finds an old abandoned icebox in the hallway, he decides that he can keep the money that his room mate has given him for a refrigerator...
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Original Language: el
Release Date: 2004-05-03
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Bird of Cyprus
Overview: The gangster kidnapping of a popular Greek actress in Athens, the adventurous wandering in the Mediterranean, the unexpected capture by the Turks and the venture to realize a bold dream.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2014-03-28
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Driving Lessons
Overview: Nick, along with his wife and child, are traveling to his family's house in the countryside. It soon becomes clear that this is no ordinary visit.
Genres: Family
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2013-11-16
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The Giraffe
Overview: M is a woman Who lives alone. She suffers from insomnia and she needs someone to sleep with her. The process is the following: she finds different people to sleep with each time. She wants the touch of another body in her bed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2021-03-03
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Female Company
Overview: High society women of a small Greek town try everything to have sex with the first male they can find.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-03
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Listen
Overview: Financial upheaval forces a teenage deaf girl, Valmira 16, to leave her progressive Athens school and return to her father's struggling island where she is confronted by the danger of prejudice and intolerance, most shockingly -- her own.
Genres: Family
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2022-11-20
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Creative Producer: The Unsung Hero of Greek Cinema
Overview: The documentary Creative Producer: The Unsung Hero of Greek Cinema explores the role of the producer in the creative process of Greek cinema, highlighting the complexity and unseen creative role that distinguishes this special profession.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2024-05-26
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Truth
Overview: The strange suicide of a scientist working in an Oil company permanently changes the lives of two friends, leading them to investigate and uncover the truth.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2006-04-03
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The Exalted
Overview: Renowned German organist Anna discovers her Latvian husband's involvement in a corruption scandal, shaking the foundation of their life together. Can she come to terms with this new reality about her husband?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2024-11-15
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Mykonos
Overview: A rag tag band of noble thieves, steal from obnoxious wealthy tourists who wreak havoc on their home island each summer season.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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Life In A Beat
Overview: Lena is a 20 year old woman who lives in Athens, works at a local supermarket and lives with her family.What if keeping her baby is the only way to keep her job?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
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