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A group of young boys must decide whether to buy a TV set to watch the launch of Apollo 11 or visit Uranya to learn about the secrets of love.

A paranoid state organises bank robberies to save its crumbling economy.

A completely euphemistic black comedy or the worst film you've ever seen, Dimitris Piata's feature directorial debut in the cinema is the triumph of bad taste over "whatever".

Against the backdrop of Athens' bustling streets, a Greek white-collar worker starts his day off by doing various errands, and even though he hasn't worked all day, in reality, he is exhausted. Is this what his typical day off looks like?

"Arpa-colla" in Greek literally means "Grab and stick", a phrase used to show something that has been done quickly and therefore isn't good enough. This is what the 2 main heroes of the film are doing. The one is a director(Giorgos) and the other an author(Kostas) with communistic ideas, who has won a prize at a festival. They both want to make a movie for the cinema. But every idea they have never comes true, because every time they meet someone to whom they tell their idea, they change their mind, and they want to make a totally different movie, ideas varying from political cinema to Greek historical dramas and modern films with motorcycle gangs. Not a bad attempt for the Greek cinema of the early 80's, which starts to wake up from the hibernation of the 70's.

Manos (Christos Loulis) seems to have problems with his love life. He leaves the capital and coercive girlfriend to be close to his only relatives in the province. There, apart from his uncle (Paul Chaikalis) - that is looking frantically for donuts with honey - and beloved aunt (Bright Baxevani), he will meet Xenia (Fay Xila), an old friend who now works in the funeral home. With the help of the clever and cute pink piggy Marikaki he will try to reveal a old secret on the whole village and break out the lies that prevent redemptive truth.

On the morning of the World Cup final, Karamanos, an employee of the Greek Telecommunications Organization (TOE), connects his commander's personal computer to a devilishly complex and explosive device. He threatens to blow up the floor and the satellite dishes above if he is not allowed to appear on the national network 10 minutes before the football match to denounce all the wrongs that plague the lives of Greek citizens and make them victims of a partisan and corrupt state.

A young Casanova falls in love with a tallyman-woman who keeps persisting knocking at his door everyday.

Peter, a lively and wacky young, along with the equally crazy friends, erecting tents on a beach next to a luxury hotel, which makes a holiday of the girl, Anna, along with strict parents of, not the allow comes with this company. The sister of Peter drifted into a supposedly Anna erotic rendezvous father to give the opportunity to Anna to see his brother

The comedy was written and played at the end of the 5th century BC, at the end of the Peloponnesian War, a time of decline of the Athenian Republic. Aristophanes, on the occasion of the political situation in his country, tries to help his fellow citizens by presenting this comedy. Dionysus and his slave Xanthias, with the instructions of Hercules, go down to Hades looking for a poet, who will bring his city out of the impasse in which it has reached. After the poetic struggle between Euripides and Aeschylus, Dionysus chooses the latter to save Athens and they leave Hades together.

In this fast-paced Greek wedding comedy, young lovers Ilias and Marina arrive on the island of Crete for their wedding, along with their large, boisterous families all eager to celebrate the nuptials. However, when a typo on the wedding invitation confuses the reception venue and scatters the guests in different directions, they embark on a collision course of increasingly comedic proportions.

A fairly successful insurance agent, Charles, invites a charming woman, Nana, who was the victim of one of his clients, to lunch and gives her a series of state lottery tickets that he buys during lunch.However, he gets into an argument with Nana and she returns the lottery tickets to him, while Charles gives them to his secretary and two clients. The lottery ticket wins the first prize, but how can he collect the winnings? Then the goddess Fortune appears before him in the form of a beautiful woman and complains that he kicked her. Charles's luck, however, was meeting Nana. A baby, found abandoned on his doorstep, causes the two young people to realize their love and decide to unite their lives, taking the baby's poor mother, who regrets her decision and wants her baby back, into their employ.

Dimitris Thalassias is a single singing teacher at a senior high school in Athens and undertakes the care of a child abandoned by its mother at the door of the foundling hospital. He does everything required to raise it right, but he sees his life changing unexpectedly, since his fiancée leaves him, and his relations with his students go from bad to worse. While this is happening, the mother shows up to claim her child. In the end, everything is corrected, and a solution is provided through marriage.

Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly lives in Germany.

Michalis returns to the tobacco growers of his rural village after having spent some time in the city and persuades them to form a collective, rather than suffer the poverty-inducing prices they are paid for their crops by tobacco brokers. They agree not to sell to any of the brokers and start to form a farmers' group. When one of the farmers breaks the agreement and is found dead, Michalis is accused. However, rather than expose the farmers' plight and give publicity to the brokers' greed, the motive the government gives for the killing is thi asimanton aformin, for unimportant reasons.

A journalist (Alekos Alexandrakis), working together with a young director (Peris Michailidis), tries to gather information about a family that was separated due to political turmoil. They locate some of its members, who tell their dramatic stories that began with the Civil War. The two men’s search is interrupted when a key person refuses to speak

The coming of age of a young student, through a series of events and erotic-emotional regressions, the same time that his mother is pregnant, without a father, while his boss falls in 'old age. "

As Georgios Vizneyos, one of Greece's greatest authors, degenerates in an Athens mental asylum, the tale of another story-teller, his grandfather, begins to emerge through his mad ramblings. This lavish film recreates (through his own words) the writer's childhood life, rich with fantasy and legend. Apprenticed to a tailor, young Georgios' mind is filled with his grandfather fairy tales. He ponders the hill from which one can climb into the sky and waits each day for the chance to bring clothes to the princess and win her heart through song. But, just as reality begins to germinate doubt in his mind, Georgios is called home to his ailing grandfather, who will reveal one final, true story that may prove to be the most fantastic of all.

The story of a group of Rembetes, singers and musicians of the Greek equivalent to the blues, in the early decades of the 20th century, seen through the eyes of a young female singer.

Dimitris Apostolou is a successful lawyer and former minister. He lives peacefully with his wife and daughter, leading an uneventful family life. Tassos, a dear friend of his, tries to convince him to make his life a little more fun by escaping from the daily grind, but he is not convinced. Dimitris meets Aliki, a journalist by profession, who becomes his lover but also writes his biography. However, someone from his past comes to disturb his peace...

The film describes the martyrdom of Giannoulis Halepas in his attempt to discover new forms of expression and to render the new era with his own plastic techniques. The film reflects the struggle of the artist who seeks to breathe life into clay and sacrifices himself for this purpose... He entered the Tartarus of the earth to forget what he knew and learn what he did not know—the mysteries of Divine Will...to learn how matter becomes spirit, and he returned to our world to reveal Divine Harmony to us.