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Oh Babylon (1989)
Character: N/A
The film adaptation for the modern era of the ancient tragedy The Bacchae. Pentheus is celebrating his birthday, and surreal scenes unfold before his eyes, arousing doubts in the celebrant as to whether the things he is experiencing are real. Written by Greek Film Archive
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Ντελίριο (1983)
Character: Petros
An unconventional director gets through a critical time in his life. His best friend dies in a car accident and he ignores his girlfriend. The last straw is when he is told to make a movie about his life.
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Die Jungfrau (2000)
Character: N/A
How to have children without having sex. Two sisters, one married to a man, the other married to God. One goes through artificial insemination and the other through spiritual insemination. Who will be successful in their attempt?
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Μετέωρο και σκιά (1985)
Character: N/A
A biopic about the rise and fall of one of Greece's most esteemed poets, Napoleon Lapathiotis.
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Τεριρέμ (1987)
Character: Ahilleas
The mute wife (Olia Lazaridou) of a shadow-theater player (Antonis Kafetzopoulos) is suffering from cancer. An old woman, guided by her visions, discovers a Byzantine religious icon buried in a field. Her nephew sells the find to a thief, who then murders the old woman, without knowing that she had told the village priest about the holy icon she found. Two priests arrive in the village together with the puppeteer and his ailing wife, and there the wife sees a vision of the icon and where it was located in the field, which leads to the discovery of the bones of a saint. The wife sleeps on the spot where the holy relics were discovered and, upon awaking the following morning, regains her speech.
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120 Ντεσιμπέλ (1987)
Character: N/A
After having an accident Nassos is brought into a hospital where he lies in coma without regaining his consciousness. All his friends visit him and each of them remembers the most important moments of their friendships.
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Ριβιέρα (2024)
Character: N/A
A dying palm tree, a doomed summer romance, and a mother who wants to move on. This will be Alkistis’ last summer on the Athenian Riviera.
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Η Ομπρέλα (2018)
Character: Alekos
An umbrella protects from the rain, but also gets people together.
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Τεστοστερόνη (2005)
Character: Man at the Ship
Peter, the hero, aged 20, finds himself on a deserted Greek island with no other men in sight. The women of the island, regardless of age harass him sexually. What starts off as a typical male sexual fantasy turns out into a nightmare
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Η Γυναίκα Είναι... Σκληρός Άνθρωπος (2005)
Character: Athanasiadis
Johnny Maniatis (Anthony Kafetzopoulos) is a successful advertiser and ... womanizer. Georgia (Fay Kokkinopoulou), currently the woman of his life, wants urgently to make a child. His mother, Aspasia (Jenny Roussea) is absent. His faithful secretary, Herse (Yota Festa) is tired of the irresponsible behavior, but tries to help him. His daughter Artemis (Eleni Apostolopoulos) is arrested aain for stealing the eve of her trial, while the former wife Martha (Mania Papadimitriou) is throwing him all the blame ...
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Η Καρδιά Του Κτήνους (2005)
Character: Interrogator
His advanced studies in philosophy have caused Stephanos to view all people as his inferiors. When he is discharged from the -obligatory in Greece- army service, he thinks the world belongs to him. In reality all that does belong to him are debts left by his mother who has just died and rejection by his formerly devoted girlfriend. Nikos, an old high school classmate, reappears in his life.
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Ηρωίδες (2015)
Character: N/A
Elli, Mimi and Luki do not claim the sweet, thousand-chewed concession of the "second chance". They are too young for that, they haven't turned thirty yet... Elli, Mimi and Luki are his women now, determined but also deeply vulnerable, self-sufficient but also in constant search, giving but also self-centered, confident but also fragile... The three of them will be faced with events that will overturn the way they have faced their lives until now. They'll get hurt, they'll hurt, they'll fall in love, they'll fall out of love, they'll get fired, they'll quit, they'll start over, they'll laugh a lot, they'll cry, they'll party crazy, they'll make love (a lot of love), they'll have sex (a lot of sex) , they will love, they will dare…
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Οι Αριθμημένοι (1998)
Character: Gerasimos
A burglar accidentally kills a wealthy businessman and assumes his identity. He finds life as a playboy very enjoyable, but the deceased man's sister (who lives far away from him) soon starts being suspicious.
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Νετρίνο (1999)
Character: Dimitris
When Alkis is released from prison, he accidentally meets a girl and falls in love with her. She will return to her rich friend and Alkis finds his old collaborators, with whom he organizes another robbery. But when they enter the bank ...
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Βαριετέ (1985)
Character: N/A
An actor's troupe puts up a variety show.
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Ειμαρμένη (2015)
Character: N/A
On a small island, a saint is about to be canonized by the church. His icon has no face. According to local lore, one night the saint stepped out of the icon, visited the fair and scandalized the believers. He was ashamed of his behavior and never returned. After a disastrous weekend, a writer discovers that a painter had actually been commissioned to paint the portrait of a saint, but that his dissolute way of living led the locals to attribute to the saint the painter’s acts. The islanders resorted to crime, filling in the blanks of the icon. While seeking the truth, the writer dies in a dramatic way. A while later, his corpse is found. It has suffered abuse. A reporter undertakes to cover the story, but is faced with a closed society that refuses to speak.
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Τα Κουρέλια Τραγουδάνε Ακόμα (1979)
Character: Alkis
Five friends (representatives of the Fifties generation) now in their forties, get together after many years of silence. One shows up from jail, where he has been entering and exiting for years, the other comes from a series of "accidental" murders, another leaves his wife and kids, the fourth one is a wonderer, and the last one, the girl of the gang, comes from a lunatic asylum where she has been hiding for years... All of them are outcasts, tortured from barren love affairs, wounded from the deaths of their beloved friends and betrayed by the politics of their times. They hopelessly try to reconstruct the gang of their puberty, but the revolution is lost... Now, each in his own way, will progress into a journey of death, thus opening a new chapter in the history of their generation.
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The Zero Years (2005)
Character: N/A
Four women, who have been sterilized and are under constant toxic restraint and surveillance, are serving their term in a government-run brothel. The relations between them are at a critical point; food and water are scarce, their house is rotting and ready to collapse. Nothing on the outside exists any more. Nightmarish visions, simulated miscarriages, injections and nausea all make up their daily routine. Yet their dream – even though they have been sterilized by the State – is to have a child. One day, one of their customers disappears. The interrogation begins...
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Προστάτης Οικογένειας (1997)
Character: Sokratis Leivadinos
A young writer takes to edit the autobiography of a popular folk singer then, however, falls victim to intrigues and accused of kidnapping her daughter.
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Θηλυκή Εταιρεία (1999)
Character: Tselepis
High society women of a small Greek town try everything to have sex with the first male they can find.
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Άλλος για τον Κορυδαλλό (1983)
Character: N/A
Trapped in a vicious cycle, three drug pushers who want out, find themselves forever indebted to a hardened drug kingpin, who, in turn, is dependent on the protection of a corrupt police officer. Can they escape from the inevitable?
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I Love Greece (2022)
Character: Andreas Le Grand
Jean and Marina go to Athens for their summer vacation. There they are reunited with Marina's family, while preparing to spend a romantic getaway, Marina's family decides to accompany them. But nothing will go according to the plan.
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Γλυκιά Συμμορία (1983)
Character: Xanthos
The diary of the life and death of a group of "amoral" young people, who have reached the point of no return and seek something to believe in and to die for. Their behavior brings them to the attention of the State. A discreet surveillance begins. A vigilante group monitors their house, headed by a nameless blonde man.
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Γυναίκες Δηλητήριο (1993)
Character: Markos Iordanoglou
It is a story of a normal, everyday Greek family that each member turns out to be wacko or gets wacko by the other members. The father is the stoic figure that accepts everything. The mother has a middle age crisis and takes advantage of her husbands inability. The older brother is a doctor of psychology and has everything under control (or believe so) and the younger brother does nothing with his life acclaiming that he is a filmmaker.
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Βίος και Πολιτεία (1987)
Character: Boulis/Marlafekas
A gifted electrician, Michalis Karamanos works for Greek Telecommunications Organization and it seems that he is the only one who hasn't been completely absorbed by the corrupt and all-devouring system. Acting as a member of the revolutionary organization Constitutional Struggle, which is fighting against the unpopular policy of the government, he connects the computer of the director of OTE to an explosive device. He threatens to destroy the telecommunications of the country if he is not allowed to broadcast on television his revolutionary message during the broadcast of an important football game. The Authorities, thinking that he has gone crazy, try to bring him around using his old friends from the army, whom they pick up one by one as intermediaries. This is a situation comedy with excellent, mature plot development, plenty of suspense as well as masterful criticism of sociopolitical reality.
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Μαγικό Δέρμα (2018)
Character: N/A
Running away from a life filled with failure and rejection, Nikos desperately dives into the dark waters of human desire, after closing a faustian pact. He is given an old piece of animal skin that promises its owner everything, but at a high price - his life. As he steadily steps down the spiral of madness, Nikos wonders if he could ever wake up from a life that more and more resembles a dream. A contemporary, radical outlook on Balzac’s classic novel.
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4 Μαύρα Κουστούμια (2010)
Character: Babis
Four undertakers in financial trouble latch onto a one-off opportunity to change their lives and bid farewell to a profession they entered for a while, but got stuck in for good. On the promise of a large fee, they fulfill the dying wish of a rich Greek who lived his life abroad: he wants them to take his body from Athens to a village in Boeotia for burial...on foot. Deciding to grant his bizarre request, they embark on an odyssey, which soon becomes an unexpected voyage of discovery.
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Μην Περνάς, Ανάβει Κόκκινο (2003)
Character: Astynomos Dabasis
The occupation of students just before the Panhellenic effervescence inducing s`ena public high school in Piraeus. On the first day of the Panhellenic found dead in the toilets George, with a syringe stuck in the arm. All his friends swear that their informal leader never took drugs. The investigations are difficult and the youth does not show any willingness to cooperate.
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Made in Greece (1987)
Character: N/A
Giannis Giannakis, released from psychiatric hospital after many years, decides to return home to his parents. On his way back he slowly discovers that the outside world is crazier than he thought - and starts to question whether he'd be better off back in the psychiatric ward.
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Φτηνά Τσιγάρα (2001)
Character: Takis
As the lights flicker on a warm August night, amidst vacant Athens' stillness, a modern bohemian flirts with a woman he just met at a phone booth, while strolling around the city's quiet night streets.
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