Rembetiko
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.
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Ο χαρτοπαίχτης
A young man just released from the army is making great dreams for his life. Finally he gets a job in a butcher's shop and gains the confidence of the owner. After the butcher's death he falls in love with his daughter but also has an affair with the widow and cannot decide between them
Take Care
A family story of incest, decadence and desolation. Greece, early twentieth century. A bourgeois family is on the verge of breaking up. The mother has abandoned the family, and the father, a retired officer, keeps his three daughters, as well as the illegitimate son of the oldest daughter, confined in the house. After his death, the three sisters live through their personal drama. The eldest, Eleni, imbued with the morals of the time and closely identifying with her father, tries to take his place. The middle one, Maria, representing rebellion, goes off with a captain of the sanitation service, while the youngest, Anna, skating on thin ice through all this, is completely destroyed.
Absences
A tanner, swamped with debts, must abandon his trade and go work in the local factory.
The Factory
An actor's troupe puts up a variety show.
Varieté
1950s Athens. Prince, a self-made impresario and the owner of the "Acropole" review theater, fires one of his leading ladies when she shows up drunk on opening night. In order to replace her, he turns to Lakis Loizos, an expert at comic female roles and an ex-wonder-child of movies, who now runs an agency for extras. At first, Lakis is surprised by the prince's proposal, but finally decides to try his luck on the stage of the legendary theater.
Acropol
A young man, Kostas, together with two friends, sets for a journey on a sailboat, looking for something precious that his father hid on one of the Aegean islands during the years of Greek Resistance and Civil War.
On Course
Alexis Panas, a brilliant trainee psychiatrist, leads a double life. By day, Alexis handles complex cases for inmates at a mental health clinic. By night, the quiet psychotherapist frequents Athens' seedy gay bars looking for pleasure. As Alexis' complicated existence unfolds, the stories of fellow lost souls depict the city's ugly face and the chronic problem of acceptance and racism that society stubbornly shies away from dealing with. But the closeted psychologist knows he is playing with fire. After all, he is looking for love in all the wrong places. And when a horrible incident leaves him open-mouthed, Alexis will have to choose: live a life in fear or live his life.
The Homosexuals
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Umbilical
Having been recently discharged from rehab, 26-year-old Phoebe takes her young son on a road trip that will determine their future.
Phoebe
A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.
Fugitive Pieces
Twenty-year-old homosexual Angelos, who works in a jewelry shop, lives very discreetly in a rather hostile social environment. When he falls in love with a sailor, Michalis, he decides to leave home, abandoning his alcoholic father, his hysterical mother and his disabled sister, to live with his lover.
Angel
At a small village, somewhere in Greece, a 10-year old boy gets raped by a powerful man. The boy's mother (who suffers from cancer) tries to prove who is the guilty one. In the meanwhile, the movie goes on showing how teenagers become male prostitutes. It depicts Athens in a very decadent way. A reporter starts working on an article about this case and gets beaten by a bunch of gay bikers! Teenage boys get laid with wealthy middle-aged men who pay well for these 'services'. One of these boys strangles his wealthy client and he is immediately arrested.
Boy Prostitutes
When good girl Nadia investigates her sisters death she finds out that sadistic pimp Nick is behind it all so she straps on the leather and whips and beats him at his own games.
The Wild Pussycat
I am ... a "prostitute". The film refers to the harrowing life of a prostitute, Rita, who is a daughter of a prostitute - with her mother now in a very difficult situation as she is ill and miserable. However, she seems to be reconciled with her fate. But when she learns that her promoter, Takis, is trying to corrupt her daughter's daughter, she rages up and goes to the murder.
I am...
Χίλια Χρόνια Πριν - Βυζάντιο: Η Γιορτή των Καλενδών
A lone car thief, meets a mysterious and charming woman who would be the love of his life but will lure him into a dangerous adventure.
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Danilo Treles: The Famous Andalusian Musician
A young man returns to his hometown because of his father's serious illness and consequent death. The grave personal loss is experienced through a journey into happy childhood recollections and memories of family life.
The House on Pangalou Street
Ντο Ρε Μι Φασολάδα
A script is our life
Anna is the Jewish daughter of a Spanish mother and a Greek father. She has returned to her family's house in Greece
The Devil Turned Holy Mother
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The Last Porn Movie
Two friends, former shooting champions get involved with the world of professional assassins.
A Time to Kill
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