James Paris

Production

James Paris

Batousa, Lesvos

James Paris (1921 – 26 May 1982), born Dimitris Paraschakis, was a Greek film producer. Born in 1921 in the village of Vatoussa, Lesvos, he studied at the Agricultural School of Thessaloniki and the Agricultural Institute of the University of Beirut in Lebanon. In 1948 he emigrated to America and during his first years in the US he studied at the 20th Century Fox Film School, obtained American citizenship and became director of the advertising department of United Artists (1948-1952). After working as a production manager on 20th Century Fox films, he returned to Greece in the late 1950s, giving a new lease of life to film productions. In about a decade, he produced 54 Greek films, many of which were distinguished at the Thessaloniki Film Festival (5 Best Film Awards) and were box office successes. His first film was The Company of Miracles (1963) directed by Stefanos Stratigos. James Parris, the producer thanks to whom the concept of "overproduction" became known in the Greek cinema, died in 1982 at the age of 61.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Ο 13ος poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ο 13ος

1967

The Wild Pussycat poster
4.7

When good girl Nadia investigates her sisters death she finds out that sadistic pimp Nick is behind it all so she straps on the leather and whips and beats him at his own games.

The Wild Pussycat

1969

Erotes sti Lesvo poster
NR

A Greek-American expatriate with six months to live embezzles millions from his New York City company and flees to his hometown of Mytilene. But law and fate never forget, and a chance encounter with love complicates matters.

Erotes sti Lesvo

1967

Serenity poster
6.8

Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit and contains additional titles, music and voice-over added later than 1961. 65 minutes.) Filmed in Mytilene and Annavysos, Greece, 1958. Existing copy on video, J. and M. Paris Films, Athens.

Serenity

1961

Papaflessas poster
6.9

The life and work of the hero of 1821 Papaflessas that during the liberation struggle of the Greeks against the Turks, revolutionizing the elders and the world to declare war!!! Up to the heroic battle Maniaki.... A movie that shows the heroism and sacrifice of the Greeks for their homeland and their freedom

Papaflessas

1971

Mikaela, The Sweet Temptation poster
3.0

Mikaela a very pretty woman, married to a rich architect, goes to an island To meet her husband who’s working with his secretary and a family friend.The friend is very much in love with Mikaela, but his friendship with her Husband prevents him from revealing his true feelings. Mikaela attracts the attention of the local islanders and with the many problems she has with her husband it is inevitable that she looks for tenderness and love in the arms of a number of men, until that is, she discovers that the only embrace that will comfort her is that of a woman. In the end she will be abandoned by them all, except for the secretary of her former husband,who truly loves her

Mikaela, The Sweet Temptation

1975

The 201 Canaries poster
6.8

A deliberate injustice forces an orphaned music student to leave home, only to land a job as a pianist for an affluent woman's canaries. Now, it's time to turn the page. Can she find a bright future amid two hundred and one songbirds?

The 201 Canaries

1964

I Blame My Body poster
5.7

An American woman is robbed in Greece. A policeman pretending to be her suitor investigates among her acquaintances. The suspects will prove them selves to be innocent while the real culprit is a friend of hers.

I Blame My Body

1968

Dangerous Cargo poster
5.1

A pirate takes over a munitions ship, killing the captain, and when the crew mutinies and abandons ship, is left aboard with the captain's widow.

Dangerous Cargo

1977

At the Battle of Crete poster
7.5

The picture is set during Battle of Greece and Crete Battle in 1941, after the fall of the mainland when the Germans entered Athens.

At the Battle of Crete

1970

The Deserter poster
4.3

A soldier runs away from the horrors of war, finds love with a virgin farm girl and a mistreated housewife, and will find that it is difficult to survive the battles of sex and love.

The Deserter

1970

Αγώνας χωρίς τέλος poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Αγώνας χωρίς τέλος

1978

For a Handful of Tourist ladies poster
3.3

In search of the perfect location to start a camping business, a lovely investor visits a sun-kissed Greek island, only to get caught in the middle of a long-standing feud between two antagonistic villages. Can they let bygones be bygones?

For a Handful of Tourist ladies

1971

Lesbian August poster
4.6

A young girl goes with her father and stepmother, with whom she has a lesbian affair, for vacation on a small island and a local fisherman gets between the two lovers.

Lesbian August

1974

Company of Miracles poster
6.0

A God-fearing young man refuses to sell his, rich in ore, pasture to a mining company. So an agent of this company creates a scam of a so-called miracle in order to convince him.

Company of Miracles

1962

Antigone poster
7.6

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...

Antigone

1961

The last of the Komitadjis poster
7.0

In eastern Macedonia, the Bulgarians receive from the Germans the conquered Greek lands. Bulgarian Major Antoine Paiko is appointed governor of the area he had destroyed in 1918, shortly before he retreated. He secretly seizes Gregory and puts in place his twin brother Ivan Simeonov, whom the Bulgarians have kidnapped and raised as theirs. The "savior" fools the villagers, but not Gregory's fiancé.

The last of the Komitadjis

1970

Persecution poster
6.0

We are in 1942, in the middle of the German Occupation, on an island opposite the coast of Asia Minor, where a mature woman, Katerina Rodeli, cares for a wounded resistance fighter named Kanaris. In her memory, there are images of the past, the panic of the Asia Minor catastrophe and especially the entrance of the tsets in her village. There she lost her three-year-old son, Konstantin, whom he never ceased to look for. However, the village's mackerel maharagrite handed it over to the Germans and, in the face of the danger, they were arrested along with the wounded and a boat ride on the Turkish coast to find themselves immediately enclosed in a refugee camp. His commander is a tough second lieutenant, Osen, who is bought by the English consulate of Izmir to transfer the fugitives to Egypt.

Persecution

1964

Hippocrates And Democracy poster
6.8

The father of medical in Kos, Hippocrates, believes that illnesses can be treated with medicines and herbs instead of prayers and comes into conflict with the medical establishment of the island. Leaving Kos, he goes to Athens, where he is called to face a plague for save the city.

Hippocrates And Democracy

1972

Armida, the Tragedy of a Wife poster
9.0

The soldier Alessio escapes from the horrors of the war. He meets a young woman and hide in her home.

Armida, the Tragedy of a Wife

1970