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Nelly, the Spy

1981 Movie Drama Music Romance

Against the backdrop of the Nazis' rapid rise to power, a Greek music student arrives in 1936 Berlin and becomes a cabaret singer. In Europe, WWII rages on, and joining the Resistance is the only way to fight back. Will Nelly do her part?

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This film is a social comment of the times, exploring issues that centre around relationships and what was allowed and what was not allowed at the time (early 60s) in Greece. There are sub-plots also, mainly relating to the life of the poor city dwellers, social injustice and seeming double standards. Aliki Vougiouklaki is a poor young girl dreaming of a better life and the "handsome prince on a white stallion" who will deliver her from her miserable existence. She meets and falls in love with a young man (Nikos Kourkoulos) who also falls in love with her, but things are not as simple as they first seem. His past comes to haunt them with tragic consequences. Vassilis Diamantopoulos is excellent as the half-crazed old captain whose life strangely echoes that of young Aliki.

The Trip

1962 Romance
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An Olympic flight attendant, Chloe, during her short stay in Rome will meet a Greek shipowner, Stefanos, hiding her true identity and posing as a rich girl. On the return flight to Athens, she finds out that Stefanos is among the passengers, who is coming to Greece to help his sister Martha Dupont with an adoption issue that has been troubling her for some time. The fairy tale continues on the plane with the effective help of Chloe's colleagues. The blatant lies on both sides create many scandals and misunderstandings, but in the end both manage to keep all their emotional energy alive, thanks also to the attitude of the orphan Petris who does not want to be adopted by a rich French woman.

Air hostess

1971 Comedy
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Eleni and her mother run a clothing store. Business is not going well and they are in debt. Her mother pressures her to accept the proposal of Thanos, a rich man, and to give up her relationship with Petros, a young man who is serving his military service in Cyprus. Petros shows no signs of life and Eleni, who is already pregnant by Petros, marries Thanos. Petros returns and after the death of his grandmother, he inherits her house and a bank account. He opens a gas station and decides to marry Anna, the girl who took care of his grandmother...

Lost Happiness

1966 Drama
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6.0 FILM

Madalena is a tough seventeen-year-old who is forced to take on her father's ferry business after he dies. She has her many brothers and sisters to support, and there is no one else to do the job. So she rallies her defenses and sets out to give her rival in the ferry business a run for his money. But at the same time, the rival's handsome son is starting to look better and better. Madalena refuses to acknowledge her feelings for him -- though how long she can sustain that denial is the question.

Madalena

1960 Drama
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This immensely successful remake of the 1929 foustanella classic was directed by Dinos Dimopoulos and quickly established its stars (Dimitris Papamichael and the beautiful Aliki Vouyouklaki) as the Greek cinema's top box-office draws. The story itself rigidly follows the conventions of its subgenre, although because Greek filmmakers were still churning out foustanellas for decades afterward, it hardly seems more dated than the original. Once again, it tells the tale of Mitros (Titos Vandis), a wealthy herd owner with a foster daughter named Astero (Vouyouklaki) whom he marries off to another herd owner, despite the fact that she and his son Thimios (Papamichael) are desperately in love. The other herd owner dies and Astero loses her mind a bit (although she doesn't wig out quite as spectacularly as Aliki Theodoridou in the silent original), but Mitros finally comes to the right decision and allows the children to marry.

Astero

1959 Romance
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The plain of Thessaly, 1910. The tenant farmers suffer untold hardships, both from the Arvanites invaders who ravage and seize their possessions and from the chief landlord of the area Stratos Karatzas, who claims the lion’s share of their harvest. The dynamic daughter of one of the tenant farmers, Maya, who is about to get married to a young farmer, Lefteris, leads their struggle for better conditions and confronts Karatzas – as well as his niece Vgenio, who also wants Lefteris. The latter plots and succeeds to separate them. Lefteris leaves for the army and Karatzas persuades Maya to marry him. Lefteris is captured during an ambush set by the Turks, but in the end he is set free and returns to Maya’s arms forever.

The Daughter of the Sun

1971 Drama
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Thalia, young, beautiful, and ambitious, arrives from abroad, where she studied theater, to pursue a career as an actress in Greece. She becomes involved with a young writer, Nikitas, a romantic idealist who disagrees with his beloved's ambitions and plans. Thalia is hired as the leading actress in a major theater company, co-starring with the popular actor Tasos Stergiou, and at the same time takes part in a television production. Nikitas gets involved with some anarchist groups, wanting to gather information to write a book about their ideology. His involvement proves fatal, because one night he finds himself in a clash between anarchists, which results in casualties. The police pursue him while he goes into hiding. Meanwhile, Thalia is on the road to success, while her anxiety about Nikitas' fate reaches its peak. On the big day of the premiere, which she had dreamed of so much, Nikitas arrives at her house in a terrible state, injured...

Via & goiteia

1989 Drama

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