Kostas Stefanakis

In the mid-1960s, Kostas left his village in Crete dreaming of becoming a star. His rugged physique and humble background afforded him only small “tough-guy” roles, yet in numerous Greek films – from big studio productions and renowned auteur masterpieces to low-budget exploitation films alike. By placing a support actor at centerstage, the film traces five decades of Greek cinema.

Vangelis, a remnant of the rave party generation of the late 90s, sells weed for a living. Wants a steady job, no risks involved. Petros, a smalltime gangster. Wants a family. Demands respect. Katerina unwillingly brings them together under the same roof.

An ex cop arrives in Athens after the murder of his wife. Approached by the chief of police, he reluctantly agrees to help take down a mafia ring. Thus begins a circle of blood that becomes more and more violent as the hero goes deeper into the case. When he is asked to abandon his mission, he refuses; nothing seems able to stop the violent outburst of a man desperately looking for catharsis

Konrad, his sister Nina, and their friend Ito drift through the eastern Mediterranean in search of drugs, moving between decaying ports and shabby hotels. They steal, deal and sell their bodies to survive, while emotionally detached Konrad remains seemingly untouched by the increasingly destructive life around them.

Stella is a beautiful young girl who dreams of becoming one day a famous singer. Her boyfriend Andreas leads a quiet life working at his small store, and doesn't approve Stella's quest for fame. When she decides to leave Athens for a singing job offered to her somewhere in north Greece, Andreas sets off on a quest to find her again and convince her to come back to him

Greek movie 2002

Mark Avgeris (the new giant of action Dimitris Polydouri) is the Greek wrestling champion. The syndicate pushes him to participate in match-fixing. When he refuses, his wife (Angela Metaxa- "The Remaliah of Athens") falls prey to wild rape and murder. After the devastating this blow, Mark falls in heroin, wanders in dirty Athens and do everything for the dose. The syndicate of murderers but not yet say his last word. They want the champion back, whatever the cost. Meanwhile Marco with the help of a cop (played by the cult star Notis Pitsilos) cuts the pinch and is becoming a merciless avenger.

Apostolos (Souglakos) is an ex-wrestler who has become an alcoholic due to his daughter's unexpected death. His acquaintance with a mysterious woman, Anna will fire up an incredible conspiracy and murder and will lead him on the trails of a mercilless killer who hides a deadly secret.

The "registered package" of a lifeless body in front of the door of a former police officer's house marks the beginning of a crazy dance of events. This is how a game between the past and the present begins, without anyone knowing the reasons and causes. Seemingly unrelated cases, links in a chain that the hero is called upon to connect and solve the mysteries. Are these random events or staged and premeditated traps? Mysteries, murders, characters that are as current and relevant as ever, the world of nightlife, the underworld, so-called "high society," modern technology, and floppy disks containing incriminating evidence. People with many faces and roles, dark faces, well hidden. Wealth, power and its obedient instruments, drugs, the emptiness and irony of modern, lonely life...

This highly acclaimed drama from Greek writer/director Sotiris Goritsas, inspired by the Sotiris Dimitriou short story, represented Greece as an official selection for the 1994 Cannes Film Festival Directors' Fortnight. It concerns two young Greek men seeking refuge in Albania. Thomas (Vassilis Eleftheriadis) and Achilleas (Ierassimos Skiadaeressis) make an illegal late-night run at the Greek border, joined by young Nikos (Antonis Manolas), a child whose mother had been killed by Albanian guards. Returning to Athens, they find that the land they had missed and dreamed of so often has changed, refusing to accept the returning refugees or even see them as Greek -- the locals refer to the trio as "Albanians" throughout the film. Demoralized and disillusioned, Thomas is accidentally killed while working at a building site to make ends meet, and Achilleas and Nikos decide to return to their Albanian village rather than stay in an Athens, which clearly has no place for them anymore.

A police comedy/fantasy adventure with witches, ghosts, beautiful fairies and a cop who tries to solve a mysterious murder.

George (George Kimoulis) is a confused young man who thinks he is faced with thousands of dead ends. In reality, however, he faces the same problems as most young people. Having given up on life and love, he decides to commit suicide, knowing that his best friend will be there to save him every time. His friend, wanting to show him the true value of life, sets up an ingenious trick together with a mysterious man, who participates in every scene of the play...

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The true story of a young couple (Babis and Eleni) fighting for love and freedom. An odyssey in and out of prisons during the dark period between the Greek civil war until the end of dictatorship in 1974.

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Two parallel stories complement each other. The first recounts the investigation of a journalist and an actress who, through a radio program, attempt to identify parallels between terrorist acts of the present and the past. The second takes us back to 1948 and describes the events that led to the murder of American journalist George Polk in Thessaloniki, guided by the investigation of the two protagonists and the testimonies of various individuals.

Crete 1897. Greek rebels gained their freedom by fighting in the mountains. An allied fleet of French, English, Italian and Russian warships anchored in the port of Chania in protecting Greek and Turkish inhabitants. Rosa Bonaparte, accompanied by twelve girls off at a deserted beach with all the equipment of a Marseille brothel. Installed in a wing of a huge, ruined former Town Hall, where the officers of the allied fleet meet and entertain in the evenings surrounded by undercover agents, military connectors, and speculators : an East-West mosaic of languages, costumes and intrigue ...

Panos and Archimidis are colleagues and co-tenants. Panos is a modern young man, whereas Archimidis is more conservative. Panos tries to make Archimidis live his life more passionately. Archimidis then develops a dual personality. In the morning, he is a restrained teacher, and at night he is a reveller and a skirt-chaser. When his sister is kidnapped, Archimidis enters a hospital to overcome his problem.

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Iro Konstantopoulou was thirteen years old when the Germans invaded Greece. Despite her age, however, she got involved with the resistance. When she was arrested for the first time, her rich father managed to set her free, and she fell in love with a young doctor who took care of her injuries following torture. A little before the withdrawal of the Germans, she participated in the blowing up of a train that was transporting ammunition, and she was arrested again, but this time no one could save her. She was executed at the Chaïdari camp, along with forty-nine other prisoners.

An unruly voyeurism, Simos, works in a hotel as a bourgeois. A gang of burglars has put in the eye of the hotel's safe. The members of the gang - five in number and very pretty women - are staying at the hotel, waiting for the proper opportunity for the burglary. Meanwhile, the hotel's daughter, Myrto, seeing that the hotel is not doing well, and believing that some people sabotage the business, represents the receptionist, in order to learn from the inside exactly what is happening. The passion of Simos makes him a companion of the five women's gang's plans, both to frustrate the burglary and to win the hand of Myrto, who has fallen in love with him.

An employee of an insurance company, Hercules (Sotiris Moustakas) undertakes with the help of two friends (Stathis Psaltis and Antonis Papadopoulos) to protect the chastity of his daughter (Katie Finos) an entrepreneur (Yiannis Michalopoulos). The possible failure in this mission can be the end of the company. Are the shadow of the girl and get entangled in various comic situations.

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A super review that speaks volumes to everyone.

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Mitsos, the son of a coffee shop owner and matchmaker, runs a marriage bureau and earns his living by arranging marriages. He does not hesitate to dress up according to the occasion in order to satisfy his clients' whims. Everything goes well until he meets Eva and his heart beats wildly with love.

Babis, who is crazy about rock music, gives a performance with his band "Jelings Band" to his fellow villagers. However, they don't like disco and beat him up. Disappointed, he heads to Athens to become a star. He meets Eva, the daughter of a big hotel owner. Eva starts to like him, unlike her friends who make fun of him. Bambis, penniless and level-headed, approaches the hotel manager and is hired as a chambermaid under the name Agrampeli. However, the ingenious detective Tsakmakis realizes what is going on...

After four years in the Mediterranean as deck ratings of a luxurious cruiser, two Pontian Greeks return to their hometown of Athens to settle down with a well-off woman from the big city. But, is the perfect match closer than they think?

Haris Acharos is a poor family man, a tax collector by profession, very honest and unwilling to compromise his conscience in any way. His financial problems are great and the temptations to take bribes are many, but Haris Acharos is unshakeable. As a result, his family is deprived and he argues with his wife on a daily basis. His only hope is that his godfather will come from Chicago to bail him out financially. The godfather arrives and solves all his problems, but gets him into other kinds of trouble because he is a mafioso...

Captain Angelos and the soldier Memos participate in a group of experienced ELAS's guerrillas. The team assumes the dangerous mission to reach the center of Athens, under the control of the English and the Greek regular army, and blow up the headquarters of the British headquarters located in the hotel of "Great Britain". When after a fight they manage to reach and place the explosives, the order is revoked. Their headquarters were afraid of the consequences of the possible death of British Prime Minister Wilson Churchill, who suddenly arrived in Athens and so the whole business was canceled.

Haris and Tzimis accidentally overhear a conversation about an oil tin full of golden sovereigns, burried by a partisan during World War 2. With the help of beautiful Flora, they set out to learn the location of the treasure and recover it. Panagos, the barrista of the village where the treasure is burried, becomes suspicious of their movements and foils their plan.

Returning from a trip, Father Akakios sees that his neighborhood has been filled with discos and soccer fields, projects of the mayor. Unable to accept this situation and in order to bring young people closer to the church, he begins a campaign to close these establishments. However, he faces opposition from the mayor and so tries various ways to sabotage the discos...

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Sergeant Georgios of the narcotics squad is transferred to Athens, where the leader of a drug ring, who wants to take revenge on him for dismantling his network in Evros, uses a 16-year-old drug addict to trap him...

The peddler Tamtakos dreams of becoming an aristocrat and get into the big time. His dream takes shape when inheriting a large fortune. Receptions, top hats, hard collars, opulence, enabling the source and inexhaustible Tamtako overcome all the limits ...

Papa-Malachias, Papa-Haros and Papa-Bilias have founded the Priestly Band and make appearances at the nightclub "Xerokomata". Their abbot, who is learning their new occupation, comes to Athens, but fails to make sense of them. When he returns to the monastery of Medouli and tells everything to the other monks, they leave the monastery and form their own rebetika bands, causing a crisis in the field of folk song. At the same time, Papa-Lazaros, who is looking for a solution to his financial problems and at the same time is trying to find money to build a new wing for his parish's orphanage, is resorting to the following solution: setting up a football team with priests.

A retired diplomat has begun writing a historical novel about the legendary Captain Meϊtanos, who lived in the 17th century. Initially, he was a klepht (bandit), then an armatolos (member of irregular forces), then a klepht again, until finally winding up in the Ottoman hangman’s noose. Captain Meϊtanos was described by monks who lived for many years after his death, recounting his activities and passing on his story. Memories are revived; snatches of a story and mystery emerge, such as that of a holy icon painted in 1715 by the iconographer Vaϊos – an icon which adds additional color and detail to this story.

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Two young officers of the Municipal Police, Stratos and Alexis, different types, one typical, brutal policeman, the other "little gkomeniaris", accompanying Mrs. Martha and her daughters (Marianna Kastania, Philip Elena) to collect the 120,000. 000 won the lottery, can not the preserve of the robbers when entering the bag with the money from the hands of Martha. So entangled in many situations ..

During a hunting party on New Year's Eve 1976, five representatives of the bourgeoisie encounter with their companion the body of a partisan from the Civil War of the late forties. What they are most confused about is the fact that the corpse that lies at their feet is still bleeding…

A concentration camp on a barren island is hell for the exiled political prisoners. The everyday life of the prisoners consists of interrogations, psychological and physical violence, arbitrary punishments and other torments. One of the prisoners who refuses to yield is subjected to torture. Trying to escape, he falls into the sea. When the Queen visits the island, the prison guards find the runaway and murder him without a second thought, since he is already assumed dead.

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A Ruthless gang along with the assistance of their leader's girlfriend Monica, make a heist into an spirits factory's vault and they take 20 millions. On their way out after closing back the vault the alarm goes off and the police is after them. During a shootout all of the member are killed or wounded apart from the gang leader Peter, who makes it, to his girlfriend's car, with all the money in a bag, and he also takes hostage a high rank police officer. The peculiar fellowship is now running away from cops, escaping from road blocks, helicopters and car chases, stealing and changing vehicles constantly in an effort to cross all over Greece and make it to the northern borders.

Paul Dellis, a young self-made shipowner, has no time for anything other than high class call girls in a luxurious resort. The girl suppliers are a photographer and owner of a model agency, Werner, and his girlfriend Samantha. A rich woman, Tina, who spends her time at the same resort, fascinated by Paul arranges to visit him taking the place of Samantha. When Samantha is found dead, Tina disappears and all suspicions fall on Paul.

A Greek journalist, Thomas Giannidis, learns that there will be an assassination attempt against Archbishop Makarios on July 15, 1974. After making several unsuccessful attempts to publish the information in the newspaper where he works, he decides to go to Cyprus. There he meets a Cypriot girl, Mary, whose brother serves in Makarios' presidential guard, and they put him in touch with Makarios himself. Makarios assures him that there have been many attempts in the past and is not impressed by his information. After an attempt to kill the journalist, the presidential guard decides to find evidence in the illegal organization's hideout. Then the coup takes place on the 15th and the Turkish invasion on July 20, 1974.

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Police use a beautiful woman as bait for a maniacal killer of women, whose impotence was caused by a depraved female SS officer.

Under the guise of a false identity, a cardiothoracic surgeon finds happiness again in the shape of a lively amusement park employee; however, all secrets, eventually, come out. Is this the end of their brief but passionate relationship?

Amid blinding prejudice, a vivacious blonde teacher gets married to an honest man, only to see him leave for the Greco-Italian Front, a few hours after their wedding ceremony. Will she cope with her loss, when there's no one to turn to?

Alexis abandons his fiancée Irene when he realizes that her family no longer has the wealth it was once famous for, which he had hoped would cover the debts he incurred through gambling. He is charmed by a singer, Veta, while previously the father of the singer in question had taken his money in an organized plan of revenge on the part of Eirini's family, for whom Veta's mother worked as a domestic helper. Eirini marries a former employee of her family, who now has his own mines and who has been in love with her for a long time. However, she will abandon him, while he will give up everything to work in a quarry. There, Eirini will meet him, remorseful.

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Trying to marry off his sister Penelope so that he can finally marry his beloved, Odysseus accidentally gets involved with a gang. Meanwhile, his sister's beloved, who comes from America for her sake and knows her only through their correspondence, meets Odysseus dressed as a woman and mistakes him for his sister.

Thanasis Kourtis came from the countryside to Athens to find his friend, the well-known impresario Giorgos Oikonomidis. Oikonomidis cannot find him a job, but suggests that he open an agency to seek out new talent. Thanasis follows his advice, and one of his first clients is Kostas, the son of industrialist Lyridis, who wants to become an actor. Eleni, who wants to help him and win him over, becomes Thanasis' secretary.

Lambros has a bizarre office that does crazy jobs, because he is not a fan of the "Fake pie to eat" theory, but he also puts his hand on every time he wants to reach a happy ending in a neighborhood. But he believes that marriage is a bad thing, until the day when the female Satan, using tricks similar to his own, appears in front of him.

A married couple is having a son and they do everything to raise it right.

An unconscious driver fatally injures a woman and leaves her helpless to die. The victim was the wife of investigator Kostas Kyriazis, who, six years later, is called upon to solve a similar incident. He will not be able to perform his work without emotional involvement and passion, as he leads to the conclusion that the driver being treated is the same as the person responsible for the death of his wife.