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Ἑκάβη (1988)
Character: Talthybius
Hecuba (Ancient Greek: Ἑκάβη, Hekabē) is a tragedy by Euripides, written c. 424 BC. It takes place after the Trojan War but before the Greeks have departed Troy (roughly the same time as The Trojan Women, another play by Euripides). The central figure is Hecuba, wife of King Priam, formerly queen of the now-fallen city. It depicts Hecuba's grief over the death of her daughter Polyxena and the revenge she takes for the murder of her youngest son, Polydorus.
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Αγάπησα και πόνεσα (1963)
Character: Lakis' father
After a momentary lapse of judgment, an impecunious husband finds himself behind bars, losing both his freedom and his wife who's eloped with her ex-lover. Now, a desperate search for the missing mother commences. Will the family reunite?
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Ένας Άνδρας με Συνείδηση (1969)
Character: N/A
A freighter leaves the one she loves and goes to Germany to raise money to get married. When she returns she finds her married to another. The same night she goes to ask her the word and the money she sent her for so long, her husband is murdered and he is arrested.
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Γιακουμής, Μια Ρωμέικη Καρδιά (1970)
Character: Iordanis
Giakoumis is a poor man with no family, working at the docks. One day he finds out that he has a very rich relative abroad.
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Ζούσα Μοναχός Χωρίς Αγάπη (1971)
Character: N/A
A talented young musician, Petros Apostolou, arrives in Athens and soon manages to record his first album. The success comes along with the love of young Anna, the niece of the director of the recording company, Mr. Theoharis. Despite her uncle's objections, Anna marries him, stays pregnant and dies at birth, but brings a little boy to the world. The blow is too heavy for Peter, who abandons everything.
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Η Καρδιά ενός Αλήτη (1968)
Character: Αργύρης Δελησταύρου
Shortly before his father dies, Nikos, as the eldest son, promises to help his twin brother Andreas finish his studies. He sacrifices his dreams and the girl he loves, Anna, and throws himself into the harsh struggle for survival. He sets sail and travels to the ends of the earth, but his ship sinks and he is presumed dead. Meanwhile, Andreas completes his studies, becomes a lawyer, and gets married. When Nikos, who was rescued, returns to Greece years later, without papers, crippled, and poor, he finds himself involved in a murder case he did not commit. Andreas is the prosecutor in the trial, and Nikos tries in every way to conceal his identity, but Andreas realizes this and manages to get him acquitted. Nikos, in order not to damage the social standing of Andreas and Anna, prefers to leave again and leave them in peace.
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Άγγελοι Χωρίς Φτερά (1965)
Character: N/A
The tragic story of a woman who divorces her rich husband after the intrigues of her mother-in-law.
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Πικρή ζωή (1965)
Character: N/A
The disabled Marina (Anna Fonsou) learns with joy that a childhood friend of hers (Phaedon Georgitsis) has returned to Greece as a brilliant doctor, after many years of studying abroad. She remembers the moments they lived, as well as the way another friend of hers (Kostas Karras) and her aunt (Rita Mousouri) pushed them away. Their meeting will dispel the clouds and even give the disabled girl a hope for a cure.
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Το μεροκάματο του πόνου (1964)
Character: Venetis
A melodrama that recounts the extremely difficult conditions under which a couple tries to live and find happiness. However, their quest for happiness turns into a harsh struggle for survival.
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Η θυσία της μάνας (1956)
Character: N/A
A mother decides to present as her own the child that her unmarried daughter has given birth to.
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Κατέστρεψα μια νύχτα τη ζωή μου (1951)
Character: N/A
In the orderly and happy life of a married woman, an old lover reappears and disrupts her peace of mind. His reappearance threatens her family peace and her relationship with her husband, a relationship that is being tested irreparably.
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Το παιδί μου πρέπει να ζήσει (1951)
Character: N/A
Having become a beggar on the streets, Alexis reminisces about his love affair with a wealthy girl, Eva, who gave him the accordion he always wanted. When she became pregnant, Alexis suggested that she not have an abortion, in exchange for disappearing from her life. She married a failed man of aristocratic descent, who soon abandoned her for a cabaret dancer, embezzling a large part of her fortune. Alexis kidnaps his child and ends up in prison. Many years later, he is released from prison and watches his daughter's progress from afar. She learns the truth about her father from a former employee of her mother's business and rushes to find him.
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Αυτοί που ξέχασαν τον Θεό (1964)
Character: N/A
The son of a ruthless moneylender loves a girl whose mother was his father's first love. When he refuses to accept her as his daughter, his son leaves home and takes a job in a car repair shop.
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Κουρέλι της ζωής (1969)
Character: N/A
After the end of World War II, a Greek woman who was imprisoned in a German concentration camp returns to Greece. She is a woman broken by the hardships, but at the same time determined to find the man who caused her all this misery, namely the one who reported her to the Gestapo as a Jew.
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Πρέπει να τα παντρέψουμε (1953)
Character: N/A
Two young people from Zakynthos have to deal with difficult situations due to the attitudes of the local community. In the end, they will manage to live happily ever after.
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Η σκλάβα (1970)
Character: N/A
During the reign of Otto, the beautiful daughter of a local lord is kidnapped. Her fiancé tries to track down the kidnappers, but to no avail. The girl endures many hardships, but eventually escapes from her captors and returns to her home and her beloved.
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Ο Κόκκινος Βράχος (1949)
Character: Alfredos Sandris
Fiore di Levante, Zakynthos, in 1883. A young lady of noble rank, Foteini Santri, lives a carefree life with her younger brother Mimis. The arrival of her first cousin, forty-year-old Angelos Marinis, who has come to the island on vacation, puts an end to her carefree existeness and fills her with troubles and worries. Angelos falls passionately in love with her, but she doesn’t respond to his feelings, since they are related. Angelos, disappointed, returns to Athens...
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Κάποτε κλαίνε και οι δυνατοί (1967)
Character: Mr. Nikolaou
A poor young man, working hard, manages and becomes a captain on a ship of the shipowner, in whose home his mother worked older as a shipwreck. But he resigns when he discovers that the ship is dangerous.
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Προδομένη (1965)
Character: N/A
Manos, owner of an entertainment center, is being watched by a mysterious woman. At the same time, the club's singer tries to get close to him, gaining the trust of his wife. She senses that something is wrong and, seduced by the appearance of an old flame, she leaves her husband, only to regret it immediately afterwards.
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Γερακίνα (1958)
Character: N/A
Maro, the daughter of shepherd Panos, is in love with his son, Liakos. They want to marry but his father does not agree.
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Η αρχόντισσα του κάμπου (1971)
Character: N/A
A sweet and rich girl loves a poor shepherd and thus rejects the marriage proposals of a rich man. He accuses her beloved of theft—which the shepherd boy never committed, of course—but his scheming does not lead to the desired result.
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Άδικη κατάρα (1967)
Character: Hospital Manager
Costas finds Peter, a poor medical student, and convinces him to marry his sister Lisa. After the wedding, Peter leaves for London, but when he returns, Lisa's relatives avoid him. What has happened;
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Σταυραετοί (1963)
Character: N/A
A gunman, during the Turkish occupation of Greece, collides with the landlords, considering them traitors. But when he learns that belong to the Society of Friends and prepare the Revolution, would become their ally.
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Τα ψίχουλα του κόσμου (1967)
Character: N/A
A captain trusts his only son in the hands of a girl, for which he believes is one that correspond.
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Λαφίνα (1962)
Character: N/A
Giorgis is the only son of the richest tseligas of a mountain village. Although he is considered a sought-after groom, he only has eyes for Droso, who reciprocates his feelings. The obstacle to their love is Giorgis' father. He is a cruel usurer who has confiscated the girl's fields. After a fight between father and son, the former falls dead. However, everyone believes that Droso killed him. Droso runs away from the village and takes refuge in the caves and cliffs, among the lads of the robber Zarvas, who helps to uncover Bournova's murderer. The murder has been committed by Maria, a noblewoman in love with Giorgis, who is subsequently arrested by the gendarmerie. Thus, Droso is now free to marry Giorgis.
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Ο Γιάννος κι η Παγώνα (1959)
Character: N/A
Pagona loves Yiannos, her father's sheeper, who wants to marry her with Dimos, the son of other sheeper of the nearby village. However, Crystalo loves Yiannos too.
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Η Γυναίκα Που Έβλεπε Τα Όνειρα (1988)
Character: Uncle
Something changes in the relationship of Achilleas and Anna when she starts to dream vividly and insists on relating her dreams to her husband. He is a barrister in the middle of an important murder trial and his temper becomes frayed with Anna's seeming indifference and involvement and preoccupation with her dream world.
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Χαμένοι άγγελοι (1948)
Character: N/A
To help her sick mother, a girl is hired for what she believes to be a simple delivery service. That will cause her serious problems with her boyfriend and with justice.
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Χτυποκάρδια στο Θρανίο (1963)
Character: Mr. Oikonomidis
Lisa is a student, pretending the sick not to go to school. Her parents are worried about her health and call the doctor to examine her. He realizes her lies but he covers her. Soon, they fall in love and eventually get married. However, after the honeymoon she begins to yearn school and her classmates and she returns to it without saying anything to her husband. Soon, her husband begins to suspect her because of her frequent absences from home and her secret meetings with the professor seem to confirm his suspicions.
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Πικρή Μου Αγάπη (1964)
Character: Mr. Sideris
A poor young man (Thanos Livaditis) is working in a car cage and buying a car, mortgaging his mother's house (Eleni Zafiriou). It turns into a pirated taxi but has an accident. To repair the damage he suffered, he is forced to work for a wealthy man (Theodoros Moridis). He undertakes to make the driver of his spoiled daughter (Miranda Kounellaki). It will affect her and transform her into a responsible person, so she falls in love with him. At the same time, the young person gains the respect and appreciation of her father.
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Γκόλφω (1955)
Character: Zisis
Spiridon Peresiadis (1864 - 1918) was one of the best writers of the dramatic idylls and mountain adventure genre that flourished into the late nineteenth century in Greece. In 1894, Peresiadis wrote Golfo, a story of love, jealousy and betrayal. In a village near Mount Helmos where the waters of the River Styx of Mavroneri flow, the young Golfo and Tassos swear eternal love to one another. True to her word, Golfo rejects a nobleman who wishes to marry her, but Tassos breaks his oath and agrees to wed a rich young woman instead. When he changes his mind, it is too late and the forces of destiny continue to their inevitable conclusion
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Ο άνθρωπος που γύρισε από τον πόνο (1966)
Character: Grigoris
Nikos Liosis returns to his homeland, with the wounds of the Korean War still fresh in his mind and body. His wife Vera and all his relatives think him dead. He does not want to be present in his home in the state where he is. One day Vera meets him at random. He denies the identity of Nikos Liossis and is recommended as Alexis Sarris. She asks him to play the role of her real husband who never ceases to love, to avoid the marriage forced by her parents.
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Θύελλα στο φάρο (1950)
Character: Captain Bohalis
Lighthouse keeper Captain Bochalis, whose wife abandoned him years ago, lives in a remote lighthouse with his daughter, Chrysa. One day, they find a man in the shore under the lighthouse.
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Η κραυγή μιας αθώας (1969)
Character: N/A
A former teacher, Alexis Vergis, agrees to give private lessons to the young son of a wealthy family, but quickly realizes that the real reason he was hired is to help Anna, the boy's sister, who has suffered a nervous breakdown after the death of her fiancé. With kindness and methodicalness, he tries to lift the girl's spirits. Walks in the countryside and conversations about happy and carefree topics help her to relax somewhat. However, Anna's stepmother is disturbed by the relationship developing between the two young people, because she actually intends to have Anna committed to a mental institution and inherit her husband's fortune. She tries to slander Alexis and partly succeeds, but in the end, the truth shines through and the love of the two young people triumphs.
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Αφοσίωση (1963)
Character: N/A
Shortly before the start of a recital at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, pianist Stefanos Ballis has an accident and is taken to hospital. As she goes to see him, his wife Elli, distraught, tells her friend Stella how she met Stefanos seven years ago, when he was giving her piano lessons at her home, how she fell in love with him and married him—despite her military father's opposition—and had two children with him: Petrakis and Chloe...
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Φτωχογειτονιά αγάπη μου (1969)
Character: N/A
A poor bookstore decides to appear to the widow of a professor's friend as their lost grandson when she learns she is about to die.
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Ο Τζίτζικας κι ο Μέρμηγκας (1958)
Character: Vrasidas
Two friends and co-owners of a flower shop, Eudaimon and Loulis, live by completely opposite principles. One enjoys himself and lives carefree, while the other works hard and plans for the future. When the "grasshopper" ogles his kind housewife, eyeing her olive trees, the "ant" tries to bring him to his senses. But the girl, whom the ant plans to introduce to the cicada, will ultimately enchant him.
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Τυφλός άγγελος (1960)
Character: Nikitas
Two young people (Christina Silva and Takis Varlamos), living in a provincial town, fall in love with each other and are stolen. After a wild chase, the girl returns pregnant to her father (Theodoros Moridis), who removes the newborn, saying that she died in childbirth. The girl leaves for Athens where she marries a businessman (Lambros Konstantaras), but loses her eyesight in an accident. Her father, remorseful, investigates and discovers the child (Takis Vidos) and the woman, because of unspeakable joy, regains her sight.
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Η Οδύσσεια Ενός Ξεριζωμένου (1969)
Character: N/A
Vasilis Karatzoglou is a successful singer who lives with his mother and sister having lost his father in the destruction of Smyrni. From an old man learns that his father did not die but was arrested by the Turks. He decides to follow the scientific mission of Professor John Anderson in Turkey, to find traces of his father.
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Αμάρτησα για το παιδί μου (1950)
Character: Tzimis Zorbas
Pantelis, a building contractor, is informed that the mother of his adopted daughter Julia has been released after many years in prison. He decides to speak to the girl about her mother's past and character. The story began in Aegina, where his partner Agis and he had undertaken the construction of a pier in the harbor. There they met her mother, orphan Roi, who worked at Jimmy's taverna. Agis fell passionately in love with her, but, due to other obligations, he had to leave the island and return to the capital, without knowing that Roi was already pregnant.
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Μια Του Κλέφτη... (1960)
Character: Professor
A lawyer goes to Paros to meet his mistress. But trying to get away from her husband, who returns unannounced, he enters the room of a good-hearted girl who tries to help him, thinking he is a thief. When he learns the truth, he gets angry and avoids him, and he sets a trick to bring her near.
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Κυνηγημένη προσφυγοπούλα (1969)
Character: N/A
After the death of her kind stepfather and Pontian Greek refugee, a young woman arrives in Athens to track down her biological father who is missing since the blood-drenched Pontic genocide in Asia Minor. Will she ever find him?
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Η Δούκισσα της Πλακεντίας (1956)
Character: Ioannis Kolettis
After leaving Nafplio, the first capital of the newly founded Greek Nation, the affluent French Duchess of Plaisance and ardent philhellene, Sophie de Marbois-Lebrun, moves to Athens with her young daughter, Eliza, circa 1834.
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Μανταλένα (1960)
Character: Giorgaras Giokaris
Madalena is a tough seventeen-year-old who is forced to take on her father's ferry business after he dies. She has her many brothers and sisters to support, and there is no one else to do the job. So she rallies her defenses and sets out to give her rival in the ferry business a run for his money. But at the same time, the rival's handsome son is starting to look better and better. Madalena refuses to acknowledge her feelings for him -- though how long she can sustain that denial is the question.
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Το Ξύλο Βγήκε Απ' τον Παράδεισο (1959)
Character: Themistoklis Papastavrou
Young teacher Floras arrives to teach a class at a girls’ high school in Athens. His students, daughters of rich Athenian families, are very spoilt making his and the other teachers work difficult. When he starts implementing discipline in his class, the girls use every means to get rid of him. But the most undisciplined, Lisa Papastavrou, falls in love with him.
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Αθώα ή Ένοχη (1963)
Character: Judge
Petros, one of Greece's best athletes, decides to end his life with the help of his beloved wife Anna in order to escape his incurable illness and the terrible pain that accompanies it. Anna is then brought to justice on charges of premeditated murder. The trial unfolds through the testimonies of people close to them, who testify about the reasons that led her to this decision. During a break in the trial, mentally and physically exhausted, she cuts her veins and dies. Innocent or guilty? The answer to this question is left to the audience.
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Αντιγόνη (1961)
Character: First Elder of Thebes
In Thebes in ancient Greece, King Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother Jocasta, having two sons - Eteocles and Polyneices - and two daughters - Ismene and Antigone. King Oedipus dies a beggar in the exile after gouging out his own eye, and Eteocle agrees to reign in Thebes in alternating years with Polynices. However, he refuses to resign after the first year and Polynieces raises an army and attacks Thebes, and they kill each other. The ruler of Thebes Creon decrees that Eleocles should have an honorable burial while the body of the traitor Polyneices should be left on the battlefield to be eaten by the jackals and vultures. However, Antigone, who was betrothed to Creon's surviving son Haemon, defies Creon's orders and buries her brother. When Creon is reported of the attitude of Antigone, he sentences her to be placed in a tomb alive. Antigone hangs herself in the tomb and Haemon tries to kill his father first and then he kills himself with his sword...
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Σαρακατσάνισα (1959)
Character: N/A
The story of Romeo and Juliet is transferred to the Greek province (on the slopes of Mount Parnassos), where the conflict between two powerful Sarakatsanai families rages, whose children, despite family hatreds, love each other madly.
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Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος: 1910-1927 (1980)
Character: Emmanouil Benakis
A biographical film about the great Greek politician Eleftherios Venizelos for the period between 1910-1927. The film highlights his vision of a Greater Greece and refers to important events in Greek history such as the formation of a government by Venizelos after the Goudi movement, his dispute with the King over Greece's stance in the First World War, the temporary his withdrawal from politics after his defeat in the 1920 elections and the Asia Minor disaster. A biography of the former Greek prime minister Eleftherios Venizelos and the recreation of his acts and the political and social climate in Greece from 1910 to 1927.
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Οι άσσοι του γηπέδου (1956)
Character: President of Committee
The everyday lives of some international football players before and after a big game.
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