Giannis Argyris
Birthday: Born in 1918-01-01 in Schimatari, Viotia, Greece
Deathday: 1993-07-22
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Λωξάντρα
Character: Δημητρός
Loxandra is a Greek mother and wife living the ordinary life of a well to-do Greek family in Constantinoupolis of the late 1800s-early 1900s, a world gone forever. Historical events intrude in the background -revolutions, palace coups, massacres, and the great upheavals of WW1 in which Greeks saw their wildest hopes fulfilled, then dashed: for a brief time Constantinoupolis itself was regained, then lost along with all Asia Minor. Through troubles great and small, Loxandra's simple optimism, bel...
Ο Χριστός ξανασταυρώνεται
Character: Αγάς
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The Ogre of Athens
Character: Hondros
A peaceful, frightened little man is mistakenly identified as "The Dragon", a notorious criminal at large. He briefly and reluctantly rules the underworld until they realize their mistake....
Provocation
Character: Eirini's father
Angelos holds nothing in Greece. His sweetheart married his former friend, the woman who once was his first, killed. Here it is just waiting for disappointment, so all the money he buys a ticket to Australia. But while the young man is waiting for departure in his life to happen a new love experience. A chance meeting with Isabella on the ship that was carrying him to Athens, would be for Angelos another test, would lead to a meeting with the past and will be the key to unlocking the old crime....
Η ζωή ενός ανθρώπου
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The Dressmaker
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The son of a shipowner is in love with a poor seamstress. When his father reacts to their love, he abandons his wealth and becomes a composer of a folk song, in order to live together....
Η ζωή μου στα χέρια σου
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Το κορίτσι του "17"
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Το σπίτι των ανέμων
Character: Argyris Iordanidis
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Two Grapes
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After finding out about the affair between young farmer and his spoiled daughter, the landlord persecutes the former, takes away his family's rented vineyard and wine barrels, de facto dismantling this family. The young man returns on his father's funeral, and meets his old love again....
As the bride and groom wish
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The Big Streets
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An only child of poor farmers goes to Athens to study medicine. He meets and falls in love with an orphan girl who aspires to become a singer. The young man's father and the girl's aunt, with whom she lives, oppose their relationship. Eventually, the two go to live in a boarding house with their newborn child. They live in poverty and hardship because the young man is an unknown doctor. They quarrel, but they make up and go to live in the doctor's village, now happy....
I Neraida Kai to Palikari
Character: kapetan Vrontakis
Fourtounakis’ daughter, Katerinio, is forced to get engaged with a brutal Cretan, Skandalakis. But the return of Manousos Vrontakis from Athens and his flirtation with the girl leads to a great romance, without them knowing that they belong to families who are longstanding enemies....
Thanos and Despina
Character: Haralambos
Katina, an impoverished Greek woman, tries to arrange the marriage of her shepherd son, Thanos, to Despina, the daughter of a wealthy landowner. But Despina’s father, Vlahopoulos refuses to give his blessings....
O Ippolytos kai to violi tou
Character: Αγησίλαος
A poor violinist gets involved in a bizarre adventure, when a drunken customer at the night club where is working, asks to help him to go home and sleep at the living room....
The Child of the Street
Character: Phaedon
A girl, Vassula, learns shortly before marrying her lover, Richard, that the alleged father is actually her uncle. The latter, when the natural daughter died, presented the event as the death of his adoptive daughter. The mother of the girl is still alive and will accompany her to church with her true father....
The Drawer of Sin
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Greek melodrama about a woman shunned by her family after being raped by her sister's husband....
Love on a Horse
Character: Alexis
A son and his stepmother, without noticing their father/husband peeping at them, make love on a horse. The father, while being a painter, gets inspired and begins a new painting that creates tension between them....
The Harbor Bum
Character: police officer
Accused of stabbing his nightclub singer mistress to death, unscrupulous dockhand Christos is on the run. But he swears he's innocent. Could the harbour bum be telling the truth?...
Dating Agency
Character: Pipis
An elderly man, Kosmas, gets involved in a fight and, trying to escape from the police, runs into Maritsa, who is standing in the museum garden waiting for the man of her dreams. He falls in love with her and they decide to get married, but all he knows about her is that she is looking for a husband through the marriage bureau of Pipi and Fifi....
Crazy, Nuts and Vengos
Character: Mihalis (taxi driver)
Thanasis, the waiter of country tavern "The seven brothers", is preparing to marry the Anthoula. Shortly before going to church but has an accident and suffers amnesia. While Anthoula, siblings and friends are waiting for him in the church, he wanders the streets unnecessarily....
The Constellation of Virgin
Character: Boulis
3 different story's that a prostitute says to her patrons whe she is asked about her story life...
Dead City
Character: Lambros
A young painter returns to his hometown, Mystras, where he falls in love with the daughter of a family with whom his own family has a feud. The girl's father will kill her, thinking she is a man, since she had disguised herself as a man to save her lover....
Love and Blood
Character: Nestoras Gerakas
The abysmal hatred which exists between two landowners is transferred to their natural environment as well. Whatever crosses the river separating the two families, be it man or beast, dies. The film is yet another rendering of the Romeo and Juliet tale, with intense emotions, dominated by the extreme behavior of the heroes. The film tries to imitate the style, atmosphere and action of westerns....
Abuse of authority
Character: Arxigos
A police officer tries to discover the murderer of his brother, who was a pianist and a morphine. As a member of the Drug Enforcement Department, he tries to identify the head of a drug dealer gang. His unorthodox way of acting upsets his superiors, even though they allow him to continue his investigations. When the gang discovers that he is a police officer, he makes him a drug addict, but he manages to detoxify and eventually capture the gang's brain....
Love In The Dunes
Character: Father
The tragic love of Anna and a prison breaker....
Astrapogiannos
Character: Konstadis Velousis
The battle-scarred hero of the Greek Revolution, Giannos "Astrapogiannos", returns home after the end of the blood-soaked War of Independence, only to find himself in a new conflict, as he locks horns with a ruthless local Kodjabashis....
Joe, the Amazing
Character: boss
Joe, and Gardelis his friend, plan to rob a safe, a Russian émigré, Lavrentis Shack. By opening, however, the safe, -propylcarbamoyl ekplixeos- see, they have stolen all the valuable items, apart from the will of the princess, which defines as heir, poor niece Shack, Nadia maid. Joe will go through a lot: You get into and out of prison, will fall victim to extortion by gangs, ultimately, though, he'll discover the real thief of the safe, which will make the Nadia maid to love ......
Pavlos Melas
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The military action of a Greek officer, Pavlos Melas, for the liberation of Macedonia from the Turks and Bulgarians. A story stick to the facts for the heroism and sacrifice of the Greeks. Pavlos Melas is the symbol of the struggle for the independence of Macedonia in Greece....
In the name of the law
Character: Forensic Surgeon
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?...
To Our Teacher, with Love
Character: Thanasis Liapis
A young teacher arrives in a village that has been almost completely deserted by emigration and tries to educate the children and bridge the differences between the residents, which stem from the machinations of a powerful landowner....
Poverty
Character: Keti's father
Kaiti's father decides to end Nikos' family and evicts them. Nikos and his mother rent a room in Anna's family's house. Together with Giovanna's band, in which he is a pianist, he will find himself in Thessaloniki where they have gone for various performances with his beloved, Lisa. Lisa will receive a message and will return hurriedly to Athens. There she will have an accident, will become disabled and will decide to disappear from Nikos' life. Upon returning, Nikos tries in vain to find her......
Η μάνα της φόνισσας
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Fanny, young daskalitsa, is in love with Lambros, student of Chemistry. Transferred to the Greek school in Munich and accepts the transfer, to raise money to set up their home, despite the objections of Lambros mother. But fate sets a bad game. When Fanny returned from Munich finds Lambros married with plousiokori Rena, his fellow student. Dreams of collapse and not having anyone in the world to build on going ......
The She-Wolf
Character: Manousos
Wanting to have nothing to do with the feud that has decimated not only his own family but also that of his neighbors, an irenic teacher faces his childhood sweetheart who yearns to kill him. Can the feared she-wolf see the error of her ways?...
Η ανταρσία των 10
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Antigone
Character: Sentry
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 sho...
Κατηγορούμενος... ο Έρως
Character: Gerasimos Lahanatos
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The fate of the innocent
Character: Nikolas
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I am innocent
Character: Emile Zola
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Triantafyllo ki agathi
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A dramatic story, as true as life itself, as shocking as the harshest fate and as inhuman as the worst nightmare....
Rose and Thorn: Part II
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A dramatic story, as true as life itself, as shocking as the harshest fate and as inhuman as the worst nightmare....
O orkos tou misous
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Maria Valfi is the daughter of wealthy merchant Valfi, who is unjustly accused in a trial for some uncovered checks. The plaintiff's lawyer in the trial is Dimitris Alexiadis, who is an arrogant lawyer. Valfis commits suicide in court and Maria believes that the lawyer is responsible for her father's death. At her father's grave, Maria swears an oath of hatred against the young lawyer. Her revenge begins seven years later, when she gets a job at his office as a trainee lawyer under the name "Mar...
Μας ενώνει ο πόνος
Character: Markos
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Attik's Street Organ
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The poor and orphaned Manto tries in every way to care for her sick father. An equally poor musician falls in love with her, but she is in love with Loris, who is of bourgeois origin. Loris falls victim to a plot hatched by a cunning woman. He abandons Manto, who soon gives birth to their child. The poor musician stands by her, but she......
Λουίζα
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For the Love of my Child
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Antonis is a tough and heartless guy who, after several years in prison, is released and returns home, causing great turmoil in the previously peaceful life of the village. Everyone fears him and avoids any kind of conflict with him for any reason. Tassos, however, who has recently returned from abroad and has a heightened sense of justice, does not hesitate to confront him in order to win Vasso's heart and save her child (from her first marriage), who has been kidnapped by Antonis in order to b...
Sinful Women of the Night
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A poor and uneducated girl is forced into prostitution by a corrupt individual....
For the love of the shepherdess
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Those who forgot God
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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....
Ματωμένη γη
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The daughter of a powerful husband in a mountainous village in Greece is being forced to marry a wealthy villager while loving a poor lad. Her beloved will leave the village, giving an oath to return and marry her....
Ο γυρολόγος
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Δέσπω
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Ματωμένα στέφανα
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Καραγκούνα
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