
Directing
Nikos Tsiforos
Born — Died
1909-08-26 — 1970-08-06
Place of birth
Alexandria, Khedivate of Egypt [now Alexandria, Egypt]
Known for
Directing
Credits
41 titles
Nikos Tsiforos (Greek: Νίκος Τσιφόρος; 27 August 1912 – 6 August 1970) was a Greek humorist, screenwriter, and film director. He had more than 60 film scripts to his credit between 1948 and 1970. He further directed 17 films between 1948 and 1961. He was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1912; two years later, his family was permanently resettled in Athens. From age eleven to his death, Nikos Tsiforos had been writing with gusto. In 1938, he wrote his first play, performed in an outdoors theatre in Freattyda; although his first effort did not quite succeed, young Nikos was not disappointed. He went on to earn a degree in Law, and work, for two years, at the Election Supervision Council. He soon…
Known for
6.3A smart young man is forced to pretend to be stupid in order to get a job in the office of a strict businessman, whose daughter he is in love with. By pretending to be stupid, he manages to save the businessman from making major mistakes, winning his sympathy.
The Smart Aleck
1966
7.6Theoni finds a strange way to gain some money, in order to pay her bills , by renting rooms in her rickety house.
The Treasure of the Beatitude
1959
8.0Having 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.
My Child Must Live
1951
6.2The film focuses on the Tarniatis brothers, with the brother trying to marry his sister (Georgia Vasileiadou), who refuses to follow the fashion of the time and become a lustful woman, so that he too can marry, having been engaged for eight years. The last groom that Vangelis shows Eftychia is Kleomenis, who after their trip to Hydra falls in love with the family's niece. However, Koulis also wants to marry Eftychia, who thinks he is inheriting 120,000 pounds.
The Bridegrooms of Eftyhia
1962
6.9The Clearchos order to escape the unbearable and domineering wife Marina and found a lively geitonisa of Iro, will invoke the alleged suspicions that the Mahos groom, husband of their daughter Rhea has a mistress and will follow up the Fthiotida, where do you go to spas for a sore arm ...
Klearhos, Marina and the short one
1961
6.7A kindhearted owner of a shop falls in love with the girl he hires and, eventually, he finds out who tricks him and who really loves him.
Who Thanasis!
1969
Film credits
Behind the camera
6.3A smart young man is forced to pretend to be stupid in order to get a job in the office of a strict businessman, whose daughter he is in love with. By pretending to be stupid, he manages to save the businessman from making major mistakes, winning his sympathy.
The Smart Aleck
1966
7.6Theoni finds a strange way to gain some money, in order to pay her bills , by renting rooms in her rickety house.
The Treasure of the Beatitude
1959
7.6Theoni finds a strange way to gain some money, in order to pay her bills , by renting rooms in her rickety house.
The Treasure of the Beatitude
1959
8.0Having 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.
My Child Must Live
1951
6.2The film focuses on the Tarniatis brothers, with the brother trying to marry his sister (Georgia Vasileiadou), who refuses to follow the fashion of the time and become a lustful woman, so that he too can marry, having been engaged for eight years. The last groom that Vangelis shows Eftychia is Kleomenis, who after their trip to Hydra falls in love with the family's niece. However, Koulis also wants to marry Eftychia, who thinks he is inheriting 120,000 pounds.
The Bridegrooms of Eftyhia
1962
6.9The Clearchos order to escape the unbearable and domineering wife Marina and found a lively geitonisa of Iro, will invoke the alleged suspicions that the Mahos groom, husband of their daughter Rhea has a mistress and will follow up the Fthiotida, where do you go to spas for a sore arm ...
Klearhos, Marina and the short one
1961
6.9The Clearchos order to escape the unbearable and domineering wife Marina and found a lively geitonisa of Iro, will invoke the alleged suspicions that the Mahos groom, husband of their daughter Rhea has a mistress and will follow up the Fthiotida, where do you go to spas for a sore arm ...
Klearhos, Marina and the short one
1961
6.7A kindhearted owner of a shop falls in love with the girl he hires and, eventually, he finds out who tricks him and who really loves him.
Who Thanasis!
1969
4.3Paschalis Zoumpoulos, an otherwise decent family man and director of the house Frabalas & Co. belonging to his wife Corinna, is an incorrigible skirtchaser. His assistant Aristos covers as it can, but someday found himself in the dock because Paschalis stung a woman in the street. In court, where he ordered course a poor but clean-cut girl is in dire need of money, and that the way of obliging Paschalis to hire her as a secretary. When Paschalis flirting Alki, she immediately leaves her job and Aristos, resigns.
The Skirtchaser
1957
4.3Paschalis Zoumpoulos, an otherwise decent family man and director of the house Frabalas & Co. belonging to his wife Corinna, is an incorrigible skirtchaser. His assistant Aristos covers as it can, but someday found himself in the dock because Paschalis stung a woman in the street. In court, where he ordered course a poor but clean-cut girl is in dire need of money, and that the way of obliging Paschalis to hire her as a secretary. When Paschalis flirting Alki, she immediately leaves her job and Aristos, resigns.
The Skirtchaser
1957
5.8The sudden heritage, which is announced to two mercantiles, infuses their minds and begins to live richly, forgetting their previous lives.
The Money
1958
7.0Lukas and Sotiris hate the work but are forced to make ends meet working as salesman of books. In one visit, Luke would accept a proposal from the hostess, Fofi to represent her husband in the eyes of Julia's aunt, as long as you remain in Greece.
Seven Days of Lying
1963
7.3Thanasis is part of a mistaken identity featuring an angry brother concerned about his sister's troubled marriage.
The Hustler
1964
4.5A charming woman who feels that her husband has grown tired of her and is no longer as interested in her sexually as he once was tries to rekindle his interest by making him believe she has a lover. He is indeed taken in by the bluff, and jealousy motivates and rekindles a relationship that had noticeably cooled.
The Devil and His Tail
1962
7.8Vengos studies in a secret agents' academy, dreaming of becoming a great spy like 007. Unfortunately, he can't do anything right, so he wreaks havoc during his final exams.
Help! Vengos Visible Agent '000'
1967
6.8Loukis, after a successful break-in, manages to escape the police chase thanks to a younf flower seller named Krinoula who introduces herself as "Little Mouse". He will take her with him in his hideout where he lives with Vangelis, Hristina and their gang leader Costas. Loukis wants to live an honest life and so he rents a room with the Little Mouse and tries to astart over. Costas though is not yet ready to see his criminal gang disband...
The Little Mouse
1954
6.8Loukis, after a successful break-in, manages to escape the police chase thanks to a younf flower seller named Krinoula who introduces herself as "Little Mouse". He will take her with him in his hideout where he lives with Vangelis, Hristina and their gang leader Costas. Loukis wants to live an honest life and so he rents a room with the Little Mouse and tries to astart over. Costas though is not yet ready to see his criminal gang disband...
The Little Mouse
1954
6.8Loukis, after a successful break-in, manages to escape the police chase thanks to a younf flower seller named Krinoula who introduces herself as "Little Mouse". He will take her with him in his hideout where he lives with Vangelis, Hristina and their gang leader Costas. Loukis wants to live an honest life and so he rents a room with the Little Mouse and tries to astart over. Costas though is not yet ready to see his criminal gang disband...
The Little Mouse
1954
6.1After saving the beautiful but frivolous daughter of an austere businessman from an embarrassing situation, a silver-tongued gentleman becomes indispensable to both the firm and her family. Is he, indeed, their good angel?
Our Good Angel
1961
7.4A poor but very decent teacher, Telis, who has resigned from his job, finds a winning lottery ticket in the street. Suddenly, his life changes radically. But he then discovers that someone has put it in front of him deliberately.
If Luck Favors You
1964
6.8A 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
6.1A man finds out that his boss had a quarrel with his wife, so he now tries to present her as his housemaid.
Oh, That Woman of Mine!
1967
5.3Two 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.
The Cicada and the Ant
1958
6.5An ex-member of the Resistance pumps six bullets into a grizzled woman and spends the night at the police station, recounting the dangerous life of her heroic father during the Nazi Occupation of Greece. Is she capable of forgiveness?
The Last Mission
1949
6.5An ex-member of the Resistance pumps six bullets into a grizzled woman and spends the night at the police station, recounting the dangerous life of her heroic father during the Nazi Occupation of Greece. Is she capable of forgiveness?
The Last Mission
1949
7.8Mika is a young woman living in a crazy ... family. Her mother, Pasta Flora, is alienated, her little sister is uncontrollable, and her father is a good, but cowardly, man. She's engaged to Mikis but the day before their wedding she goes to Venice and marries Andreas, who, after meeting her family, he undertakes to make sense of them.
A Crazy, Crazy Family
1965
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Ο άνεμος του μίσους
1954
7.3A blunderer barber ends after a misunderstanding to pretend doctor. However the patients problems aren't medical nature but personally so he helps them.
Doctor Z-Vengos
1968
7.0To 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.
Fallen Angels
1948
7.0To 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.
Fallen Angels
1948
4.8An old couple reviews their lives together, from the first time they met and got married since the present, through good and bad moments...
Bedlam My Love
1972
6.2Anna thinks up a clever plan to bring her husband Manos on track. Having discovered that he is cheating on her, after only two years of marriage, she pretends to be crazy and decides to pay him back in the same coin.
My wife went mad
1966
6.9An anachronistic and paleolithic father tries to find a good, honest husband for his daughter.
Theodore and the gun
1962
6.9An anachronistic and paleolithic father tries to find a good, honest husband for his daughter.
Theodore and the gun
1962
6.8Antonis is the nephew of the good-hearted grocer Harilaos Toukouras. He is slothful and lazy but he is the only heir to his uncle, who considers marriage as the only solution to his nephew’s problems. That’s why he is looking for a bride for him by checking the newspaper ads. Due to a printing error, an ad for the sale of a sewing machine appears in the personal ads column, bringing uncle and nephew to the house of a serious and honest estate agent who has two single sisters.
Come to Uncle
1950
6.8Antonis is the nephew of the good-hearted grocer Harilaos Toukouras. He is slothful and lazy but he is the only heir to his uncle, who considers marriage as the only solution to his nephew’s problems. That’s why he is looking for a bride for him by checking the newspaper ads. Due to a printing error, an ad for the sale of a sewing machine appears in the personal ads column, bringing uncle and nephew to the house of a serious and honest estate agent who has two single sisters.
Come to Uncle
1950
6.1Julia, the daughter of Telis, general manager of the steel company, is a rich girl who likes the good living. Grigoris, a poor employee in the company who is in love with Julia, after a series of misunderstandings will lose his job and be fired ...
The Young Lady's Fool
1960
6.5The honest and meticulous cashier, Savvas, works in a business and is often pressured by his wife’s siblings to embezzle money from his job and lend it to them. When his manager, leaving on a trip, entrusts him with a million drachmas without a receipt, Savvas succumbs to the pressure and gives some of the money to his brother-in-law. In the end, however, an unexpected development awaits Savvas, since his manager is killed in an airplane crash and he has to decide what to do with the money.
Another One for the Million
1964
7.3A widow who inherits a debt-ridden inn spreads the word that somewhere inside it is a treasure hidden by the Occupation. At once potential and unlikely treasure hunters are killed to rent a room.
The treasure
2017
6.1An unorganized and spoiled guy, Telis Partalis, who is only cut off for his amusement, is squandering all of his father's possessions in feasts and cartogangers. His sister, Ellie, a tasty girl and a serious lawyer, as well as Julie's rich aunt, do their utmost to avert this situation but telis is not at all aware of his own misery. His aunt is forcing him to get engaged to the wealthy Nana, who in turn is a fanatic of the spree and has the ability to bail him out of debt. They once realize that Telis has fallen to the clutches of the deft who, led by the impostor Stelios, want to take away even the factory he has inherited. Then they all buckle together, even his sister and Nana, so they take down the bad guys. The factory survives, the hero's mind is somewhat "coagulates" and the love that arises between dues and nanas seals the happy ending.
That Something... Else!
1963

