Kostas Baladimas

Set on a lush Greek island, the story concerns a sister and brother, who return home after years abroad. Falling under the island's erotic spell, the girl and boy discover that their love goes beyond filial...

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 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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An actor's troupe puts up a variety show.

Three short stories satirizing the Greece of “Change” in early 80's. A take-off on the police dramas of Giannis Maris; a satire of the films of the New Greek Cinema; and a satire of the “fustanella (Greek kilt)” films as well.

Angeliki, a young woman seeking devotion, enters a secluded convent ruled by a harsh abbess with a hidden past. Among nuns escaping their own lives, tensions rise and buried secrets slowly surface within the silence of the cloister.

During the brutal era of the military government, an innocent tourist manager is accused of being a member of the illegal resistance movement.

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.

CIA team in Greece tries to capture a major drug dealer.

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A chance meeting between Vantar, who succeeded his father as leader of the clan, and the beautiful Gypsy woman Maira triggers the beginning of a passionate love. But he is not the only one who desires her.

George Ardisson heads up a special police unit in Athens, that are trying to stop stolen ancient artifacts from leaving Greece.

In Athens, a radical female journalist and a former stage actor share their lives against the backdrop of the regime change, right after the fall of the military dictatorship and the first legislative elections in 1974.

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.

A rich family find their holiday island home invaded by a pair of criminals who've just escaped from the local jail.

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Towards the end of the war, Eleni meets the rebel Kostas, who is being pursued by the Germans. One night, the rebel arrives wounded at his brother Giannis' house where Eleni works. She'll take care of him, and then they'll say goodbye. When Kostas tries to meet Eleni again, he is arrested by the Germans. But he will escape execution, as the rebels will save him from death.

A widower and father of three children loses his peace with the coming of the daughter of an old friend from America.

Anna is a young fisherman's daughter who lives with her blind mother on a small Greek island frequented by many tourists. With an fervent temper, thus far restrained, Anna is now at an age when desire has taken hold of her body.

A young woman who lost her husband five years ago to a naval tragedy in the seas of Indochina does not say to lose her hope. He always lives with the remembrance of his form and with the certainty that he will once come back alive and she will reassert him in her arms.

A lawyer, offspring of a bourgeois family of Greek-Egyptians, tries to find the traces of a relative of his. Through a rich tapestry of characters, Christofis creates an ode to the Hellenic Diaspora.

The owner of a ship falls in love with the ship's captain, but the war will ruin their plans for marriage. The captain goes missing, and her accountant pushes her into the arms of his brother.

Lefteris, who has been sentenced to death, confesses to the priest the truth about the crime that led to his conviction. A flashback to the past begins, through which we watch as all the events unfold, in which a beautiful and fatal woman has played a leading role.

The 300 Spartans is an account of the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, in which the Greek Spartan King Leonidas, played by Richard Egan, led a remarkably small number of Greek Sparta to victory over an invading Persian army led by evil King Xerxes that was thought to number over 25,000. This spectacular conflict gave the Grecians enough time to organize a force to ultimately repel the Persians, and thus change the course of Western civilization.

A modern retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. The young and fiery second wife of an extremely wealthy shipping magnate meets her estranged stepson Alexis and sparks immediately fly. Their love seems doomed from the beginning when she convinces him to come to Paris to meet his father.

The attempt of the daughter of an Eastern Bloc country leader to escape to a country in the West.

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Two ambitious young employees land a job at the small store of an avaricious man, intending to stay there no more than a few months. But, fate has other plans in store for them. How many dreams must one sacrifice to find happiness?

A young hoodlum tries to separate himself from his gang, while at the same time taking on behalf of his boss the blackmail of a businessman's wife.

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A poor neighborhood of Athens, Asyrmatos, is the center of the world for the people who live there and try in every way to escape from poverty and destitution. A handsome released youth, Ricos (Alekos Alexandrakis), is trying to make money, at the same time that his lover, Stefi (Aliki Georgoulis), is seeing other men and her father, Nekrophoras (Manos Katrakis), is trying to contribute in family finances. Rico will set up a job, but will spend the money raised before he can put it into action. As a result, one of his "partners" (Alekos Petsos) will commit suicide, leaving his pregnant wife, Eleni (Aleka Paizis), to her fate. Rikos, his beloved and her father, defeated and disappointed because of the expectations that were never fulfilled, will be forced to come to terms with the harsh reality.

Two rival brothers vie for the same woman against the backdrop of peasant revolts in their Greek homeland. In Thessaly in 1907, a man incites the poor farmers to take over the land they work for the benefit of the landowners. Odysseus (Nikos Kourkoulos), the son of one such landowner (Manos Katrakis), refuses to clash with the farmers.

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A British girl is trapped on the island of Crete when the Germans invade it.

Katerina is a spoiled rich woman who spends her time playing with the men who surround her. Only herself and her parents know she is dying and that the first possible emotion will be fatal.She knows that the first time she will love will be the last one and so he is not given to anyone until he meets Stephanos.

Captain Andreas, a widower master learns that the planned departure postponed and the crew discovers hidden in the ship's refrigerator a girl, Marina. The company and the kind of behavior makes him take her with him to his home in Poros, which is home to the sister of Royal and two nephews. The presence of the marina there inflamed passions and causes the scheming sister, culminating when he set sail for the trip. When his ship sinks and he is considered missing, his sister declares him dead, eliminates the Marina and trying to reap his fortune with the help of their lawyer. Some time later, Andrew returns secretly finds Marina, marries her and takes her to his home, where enforce order ...

The inhabitants of Praxos, a mountain village in an occupied country, organize their own resistance to the oppressor. Faced with reprisals, they decide that every hour a man will cross the bridge that is the population's only supply route. The action, which results in the death of all those taking part, continues until dawn on the third day.

Con artist Steve Blair persuades Tony Dallas, a Manhattan gangster, to finance a movie about Adam and Eve by offering the female lead to Tony's stripper girl friend, Cha Cha Miller. The film is such a disaster, however, that Steve and his writer, Paul Ferris, decide to escape on a freighter to Greece. En route, Steve learns that the island of Paradeisos has lost its tourist trade because it has no apparent historical or mythological heritage. Intrigued, he hits upon the scheme of turning Paradeisos into a legendary island of love and taking a cut from all commercial enterprises. After planting Greek antiquities in the waters surrounding the island, Steve induces Paul to "recover" them, thus causing the tourist trade to increase.

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.

A summer night in 1944 in Kokkinia, Kosmas, a black marketeer, is out with his friends before he is arrested by the German patrol. The Germans push him to turn in people from the Resistance, or they will execute him.

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The young and beautiful Eleni leads a double life, as during the day she works as a nude model for a rich and famous painter, Mina, and at night as a luxury prostitute at the agency of Stamatis Velenopoulos, which is based in a villa in Paleo Psychiko and is run by Mrs. Nana Provata. Stamatis, in addition to prostitution, is also involved in the drug trade, in collaboration with a factory owner, Kalogridis, who is the president of a charitable organization and a regular customer of Eleni. One day, a poor and charming young man, a plumber by profession, Alekos, appears, who initially becomes Mina's lover and protégé, but then...

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.

A poor man, Angelis Katsavidis, and his hard-of-hearing friend Stratos leave their village and come to Athens in search of a better life. Their local MP, Lefterakis Laosotiras, is unable to help them find work, but Mrs. Elpiniki Katsipodiu hires them as unskilled workers in her art agency, which also operates as a private investigation agency. However, while she assigns them to follow an illicit couple, she actually wants to throw dust in the eyes of a police officer who suspects her of running a network of high-class prostitutes. Aggelidis and Stratos will experience several amusing situations, but they will also meet the "golden-hearted" Kleio. When her wealthy uncle dies, she hires them to work in the family business she has inherited.

A priest tries to reassure the inhabitants of his village, who are preparing for the end of the world, which they believe will come with Halley's Comet.

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.

The forbidden love between legendary Mrs Frosini with the son of Ali Pasa, Mouhtar and her tragic death in the lake of Ioannina.

The heroic Souli have managed to repel the asker of Ali Pasha and his brave Malamos Dragon sends his mother to ask her hand Maro, niece of the captain Tzavelena. She ignores the hatred that separated years both Families and agrees to give her niece, but to know that Maro loves Kitsos Botsari. When the son of Fotos Tzavellas engage Maro with Kitsos, the Malamos drowns his pain and unleashes his rage against the Turks, who are trying again to get the Souli.

The film narrates the struggle of the Greek Nation.