Akilas Karazisis
Also Known As: Ακύλας Καραζήσης
Biography: Akylas Karazisis (Thessaloniki, 1957) is a Greek actor and director. From 1975 to 1990 he lived in Germany, where he studied Political Science and History, while working as an actor since 1985. Since 2006 he has also been working as a director.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Thessaloniki, Greece
Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Male
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Blackmail Boy
Overview: In the small, closed community of a provincial town, Magda tries to maintain a balance within a family facing many serious problems. The families apparently normal, bourgeois, every-day life will crack open, bringing to the surface hatred and passions of the kind that lie well-hidden in the mists of the nearby lake. An intense plot and a totally unexpected ending make up this film, which features characters who are vulnerable, innocent and ordinary, but who become ruthless and callous, worrying only about protecting their financial resources. The offences are disproportionately serious compared to the financial benefits they try to secure
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2003-11-14
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J.A.C.E.
Overview: Twice-orphaned Jace, a seven-year-old Albanian of Greek origin, witnesses a massacre that wipes out his entire foster family in Argyrokastron, and then falls in the hands of a bunch of ruthless gangsters who "export" children abroad for various profitable reasons (ranging from beggary to organ trade). Jace ends up in Athens, Greece, begging at street corners, exploring the secret horrors of brutal institutions for young offenders or, much later, serving obscure patrons, in an underworld where violent loss seems to be his only destiny. The movie follows Jace's inverted Odyssey in a dark universe of abuse, murder and fear, as he desperately (and silently) seeks for a "family" of his own or, at least, for a sense of belonging
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-08
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A Drop in the Ocean
Overview: Explores gender equality and how it affects relationships and love in the 1990s. Plot concerns Anna, an actress who is performing in a play about a woman artist who had to dress as a man order to attend lectures forbidden to women, and her brief affair with Andreas, a drop-out working as a bar waiter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1996-02-16
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Chariton's Choir
Overview: Chariton Ulianov has one great love: Life! That particular love affair however does not hamper him in his pursuit of enjoyment of her simpler pleasures. For him every woman is beautiful, every wine is superior when shared with good company and every situation an opportunity for good humor. His position as School Master in a small provincial town on the island of Corfu gives him the opportunity to disseminate his own unique philosophy especially to the students that participate in his greatest passion: the choir.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2005-11-10
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Uranisco Disco
Overview: About a producer-director of erotic films and his mistress, a wannabe a singer, making a porn-musical.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Milky Way
Overview: Follows 17-year-old Maria, a high school senior with dreams of becoming a dancer, whose starry-eyed plans for the future are put on hold when she gets pregnant by her boyfriend Tasos.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2023-11-02
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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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Loufa kai parallagi: Seirines sti steria
Overview: Seven years after the incident in Pitta, all from the group leaves the Aegean, and get's to shore... Stavrakomathiakakis - after the mysterious kidnap of his 12 years old Pakistanian protégé Noori - leaves Psiloritis and, following her tracks, invades - in the middle of crisis - the capital. There, Parlavatzas and his chef, Papadakis, fight to salvage his Eastern fast food Sevdali restaurant. In the meantime hacker and "Roben Of The Shelves", Nakos, tries to wake up his fellow citizens to revolt, while newly elected city council Kalouris fights to upgrade the aesthetic of the city. Finally famous guru Tzimpitzidis tries to get higher his followers Self-esteem, part of which his ex and now vice secretary Marialena is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2011-10-27
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Desert Sky
Overview: The few survivors of a deserted city, sometime in the near future, are left with no water or food but somehow manage to survive. In a hospital, a lonely scientist, Foteini, is helping a patient with amnesia to recover. She also meets an actor named Aias (Ajax) – who often visits his sick sister – and becomes romantically involved with him. Foteini is swept away by love; Aias, however, is unprepared for such strong emotions. Their separation brings Foteini to the house of the amnesiac, and he takes care of her, up to the moment that she discovers a photo of hers among his things. In the meantime, Aias brings his sister back home from the hospital. While it is getting darker, with clouds gathering in the sky, Foteini and Aias wander the city and meet in the rain.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1997-11-28
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Summer Breeze
Overview: A recently divorced middle-aged man receives a smartphone from his daughter and reconnects with the first love of his life who asks him to meet.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-03
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Highway to Hellas
Overview: The life of Jorg Geissner, a German banker, totally transforms with a visit to Paladiki Island, Greece. A business trip to check on a project called “Galapagos in Greece” by the islanders and for which his bank extended a loan and credit, brought him there. Being a German, he wants to investigate thoroughly, but Panos, a mini-mart owner, and the mayor try their utmost to sabotage him—to camouflage a not-so-good reality. After every single trial resulted in nothing because of the islanders’ secret meddling, Jorg’s trip becomes elongated, like The Odyssey’s, forcing him to contemplate the priorities and responsibilities in life again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-08-06
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Meat
Overview: In a tale rooted in ancient Greek tragedy, a patriarch must decide the fate of his son and the boy he raised when a long-standing unneighbourly feud turns to murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2024-09-06
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Dolls of Dresden
Overview: Anna is a young journalist with progressive ideas. Lophilia is a painter who impresses and challenges with her heretical lifestyle and art. The chance meeting of the two women will soon develop into an intense and deep relationship with unexpected revelations. The experience of Anna’s acquaintance with Lophilia, will determine her later life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-10
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11:01
Overview: A former dancer returns to her hometown, encountering an unexpected heartwarming connection with a girl who has Down syndrome.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-07-27
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Polyxeni
Overview: In 1955 a couple of prominent Greek Istanbulites adopt an orphan Greek girl, twelve-year-old Polyxeni, who is separated from her younger brother. She embarks on a new life and a future that looks bright, but she will have to defend what’s rightfully hers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2017-12-14
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I'm Tired of Killing Your Lovers
Overview: Theophilus Palios, owns a small traditional publishing house. He man madly falls in love with Sia, that is doing vocals on the show of a known singer. Sia maintains her living by the "generosity" of old fans. In the face of Theophilus, Sia will experience true love, though it continues to accept the offers of numerous admirers. Theophilus mad by jealousy, is lead to huge wastages and ultimately to economic collapse. He ends up entangled in a case of robbery and murder. Sia, in a guilt and self-sacrifice crisis, becomes mistress of the investigating policeman in exchange for his silence. This creates an odd triangle ..
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2002-10-25
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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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Window to the Sea
Overview: Faced with life changing news, María, a fifty-five-year-old Spanish woman from Bilbao, chooses to take a trip to Greece with her closest girlfriends against the advice of her son and doctors. A spontaneous decision leads her to the island of Nisyros, a tiny haven of peace and calm that immediately feels like home. While exploring the beautiful island and soaking in its hidden treasures, she meets Stefanos and finds herself falling in love against all odds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-07-13
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Apnea
Overview: Dimitris, a 23 yr. old swimming champion, meets Elsa, a yound environmental activist. Their relation, and her sudden dissaperance, make him re-evaluate his settled life.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2011-01-13
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Ιαγουάρος
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1994-11-01
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Siege on Liperti Street
Overview: Austerity took everything but the roof over their heads, and today it will come for that too. But this time, they will finally fight back, like a family with nothing left to lose...
Genres: Action
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2019-11-06
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One Day in August
Overview: Middle August in Athens. Three families, living in a three storey building, leave for their summer vacations. Everyone is wishing for a miracle to happen this summer. In the meantime, a drifter breaks into their apartments and rummages their personal belongings, thus unfolding hidden secrets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2002-10-13
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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'.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-20
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I Dream of My Friends
Overview: Four episodes, four instances from a man’s life covering 25 years, from 1965 in Germany to 1990 in Athens. The episodes seem to be irrelevant to one another, yet they all focus on male powerplay, reveal the self-consciousness and moderation of the protagonist’s idiosyncrasy and depict some special aspects of the Greek male mentality. Probably Nikos Panayotopoulos’ most personal film, covering a substantial period of his generation’s years, “I’m dreaming of my friends” is based on the book by Dimitris Nollas, looks a lot like a “road movie” and features an all-male cast, as if there’s no room for women in it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1993-11-13
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The Limousine
Overview: Three friends from 60s Paris attempt a road trip to modern-day Greece, looping in and out of fantasy and questioning absolutely everything. A situation comedy and a coming-of-age fairy tale or, according to the director himself, "a film that can be heard". Starring Nikos Kouris, Doukissa Nomikou, Dimitris Katalifos and Pavlos Haikalis. Lifetime Achievement Award to Nikos Panagiotopoulos
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2014-01-30
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What If...
Overview: Athens - Greece - The age of Economic crisis Demetris is a highly independent man who lives a normal life. A confirmed bachelor at the age of 33! When a moment arrives, his choice at that point in time will change everything. His roommate is a female German Shepherd called Lonesome. One night, after supper, Lonesome wants to be taken out. Demetris tries to change her mind but Lonesome insists Its at this moment that he comes to a decision. This decision will change his entire life. If Demetris goes out he will meet Christina, the love of his life. If he stays in, he will not meet her. Does true love exist? What is the impact of a severe economic crisis on people and how can the crisis destroy a couple? One story shown from two different angles.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2012-11-29
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