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Ship Owner Without Wanting To

1971 Movie Comedy

Manolis Sideris is a charming young man, a first-class "ladies' man." One day in Syntagma, the hangout of ladies' men, while he manages to "pick up" a flight attendant named Daisy, pretending to be a shipowner, he happens to be watched by the real shipowner Manolis Karnezis, known for his Daisy, pretending to be a shipowner, he is spotted by the real shipowner Manolis Karnezis, known for his pranks, who admires his talent. For fun, he lends him his name, his car, his chauffeur, and his mansion, as well as money for Daisy's whims. Manolis begins to live the high life and seems to be in his element, but the situation is turned upside down by the dynamic intervention of Karnezis' wife, Elena, who, alerted by her maid, cuts short her vacation and returns home furious. When the deception is revealed, Karnezis promises his wife that he will not play any more pranks, and Daisy agrees to marry Sideris.

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When the general manager who possesses 70% of the shares of a steelworks learns that he is sick and has to go abroad to be cured, he hands his shares to Timoleon Adamantas (Orestis Makris), his brother, a teacher, with whom he hasn’t spoken for almost 30 years. Timoleon, being an honest and goodhearted man, aided by his brother’s secretary, Margarita (Martha Karagianni), with whom his son Andreas is in love, finds out a number of great administrative irregularities. Immediately, he throws out his brother’s number one assistant, Kleftodimos (Dionysis Papagiannopoulos) and Margarita as well and puts everything in order.

Thieves out!

1961 Comedy
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4.8 FILM

A plane carrying a weapon more dangerous than a nuclear weapon goes down near Greece. To prevent panic, the officials go in dressed as tourists (who are dressed so casually that the pilots assume that they are all gay). The pilots are not to make themselves known and can't contact the rescue team. The secrecy causes a comedy of errors including the desolate Greek Isle deciding that since tourists have now arrived, they have to become touristy.

The Day the Fish Came Out

1967 Science Fiction
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A professor asks two poor students of law to steal, for a fee, a rare figurine from the house of a collector. After the successful outcome of the theft, the professor dies from joy, and the two students decide to return the figurine to its owner. There they meet his daughters, to whom they tell numerous lies. In the end, it is revealed that the whole thing was part of a wager between the professor and the collector, and the two students fall in love with the latter's daughters.

Five Thousand Lies

1966 Comedy
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Katia Karalis is a simple typist in a newspaper but wants to be a journalist. One day she learns from her director that Chris Back, a high profile dressmaker. However, in order to provide him with a quiet holiday, he has presented his double to the hotel, and Katia, accompanied by Gregoris, a photographer who is in love with her, watches him everywhere, falling from gaffe to gaffe. Ultimately, despite all the difficulties, they make the great journalistic success after they manage to get an interview with the real Chris Back, namely Christodoulos Baka.

One Groom, Many Lightweight

1972 Comedy
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6.7 FILM

A wild tale of mistaken identity set during the Nazi occupation of Greece and starring the great Thanasis Vengos. Thanasis is called upon, during the Occupation, to testify at the trial of a tavern owner accused of serving cat meat to his customers. He too is accused of perjury and imprisoned with some resistance fighters. The resistance fighters escape, but Thanasis remains in his cell. He is accused of being Ivan, the notorious ringleader of certain revolutionaries.

What Did You Do in the War, Thanassi?

1971 Drama
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Having been married for seven years, a tourist office director and his well-known television presenter wife, Alekos and Efi Fotiou go through a crucial phase. Dedicated to their careers, they rarely meet, and when thy actually achieve it they always end up quarreling. The only family they have, their uncles, suggest they have a baby. She finds it a good idea, but Alekos thinks that they won't be able to raise a baby properly. This dispute brings them one step closer to divorce, which now seems the only solution, especially when Efi starts to believe that Alekos is flirting with Tzouli, and Alekos suspects that his wife is having an affair with Dimitris. When it is finally proved that none of this is true, and, actually, Tzouli is planning to marry Dimitris and Efi's aunt Dimitris' uncle, they all get reasonable, the couple gets over its crisis and they live happily ever after, together with their newborn child.

Seven Years of Marriage

1972 Comedy
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7.4 FILM

An extremelly honest man, Timoleon Lambrou (Dinos Iliopoulos), who has lost his job many times due to his honesty finds a wallet full of cash and a letter from the USA that belongs to a military General who is the president o a large public organisation and decides to return it. The General's wife though, Lia (Rena Vlahopoulou), covers for her brother (Andreas Douzos) who has embezzled from her husband's organisation and the letter proves the lies and embezzlements. Finally, Lia gets hold of the letter despite the honest man's objections but the General, decides to hire him due to his honesty. There, he discovers the embezzlements and when he tells everything to the General, his wife and her brother try to prove that he is crazy, a crook, a communist and anti-systemic, things that usually make the General furious. The honest man is imprisoned but in the end Lia decides to come forth with the truth.

The Robber Cries Thief!

1965 Comedy
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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.

The Lottery Man

1979 Comedy
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Thierry, a successful businessman and womanizer, constantly argues with his wife. So he decides to visit his daughter, Lila, who is studying in Patras, to escape the nagging and enjoy the crazy pace of the carnival. Upon arriving in Patras, he finds himself face to face with Lila's half-naked childhood friend and the daughter of his best friend, who still calls him uncle. His "niece's" wild moods bring him face to face with a sweet temptation that he really wants to give in to.

Seduction... of an Adult

1987 Comedy

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Katia Karalis is a simple typist in a newspaper but wants to be a journalist. One day she learns from her director that Chris Back, a high profile dressmaker. However, in order to provide him with a quiet holiday, he has presented his double to the hotel, and Katia, accompanied by Gregoris, a photographer who is in love with her, watches him everywhere, falling from gaffe to gaffe. Ultimately, despite all the difficulties, they make the great journalistic success after they manage to get an interview with the real Chris Back, namely Christodoulos Baka.

One Groom, Many Lightweight

1972 Comedy

Shares 2 cast members · Same director

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After the Ball, a retail fairy tale set in the world of fashion. Kate's dream is to design for couturier houses. Although she is a bright new talent, Kate can't get a job. No one trusts the daughter of Lee Kassell, a retail guru who markets clothes "inspired" by the very designers Kate wants to work for. Who wants a spy among the sequins and stilettos? Reluctantly, Kate joins the family business where she must navigate around her duplicitous stepmother and two wicked stepsisters. But with the help of a prince of a guy in the shoe department her godmother's vintage clothes and a shocking switch of identities, Kate exposes the evil trio, saves her father's company -- and proves that everyone can wear a fabulous dress.

After the Ball

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A professor asks two poor students of law to steal, for a fee, a rare figurine from the house of a collector. After the successful outcome of the theft, the professor dies from joy, and the two students decide to return the figurine to its owner. There they meet his daughters, to whom they tell numerous lies. In the end, it is revealed that the whole thing was part of a wager between the professor and the collector, and the two students fall in love with the latter's daughters.

Five Thousand Lies

1966 Comedy

Shares 2 cast members