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The Counterfeit Coin, 2h7
Origin Grece
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Anthology film, Action, Romance
Actors Vassílis Logothetídis, Orestis Makris, Ilya Livykou, Mímis Fotópoulos, Sperantza Vrana, Vasilis Avlonitis

An honest, religious engraver, Anargyros Loumbardopoulos (Vassilis Logothetidis), has routinely invested his money in gold coins, specifically British gold sovereigns, bought from a friend of his, a banker. Upon having stored away 100 sovereigns, a friend of the banker suggests that Anargyros mints counterfeit sovereigns, but he adamantly refuses. The banker's friend then introduces Anargyros to a lady that he knows. Anargyros' resistance is soon curbed, and he spends all his invested 100 sovereigns to buy minting equipment.
We Have Only One Life, 1h51
Origin Grece
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Yvonne Sanson, Dimítris Horn, Vasilis Avlonitis, Christos Tsaganeas, Kóstas Gouzgoúnis, Lavrentis Dianellos

Un ancien banquier (Dimitris Horn) emprisonné pour détournement de fonds raconte à son gardien comment il en est arrivé là. Il est tombé amoureux d'une femme (Yvonne Sanson), par ailleurs maîtresse de son patron. Ses goûts de luxe l'ont ruiné puis poussé au crime. Cependant, avant son procès, il hérite d'une fortune qui lui permet de solder ses dettes et de quitter la Grèce.
Rembetiko
Rembetiko (1985)
, 2h28
Directed by Costas Ferris
Origin Grece
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films

This musical drama sweeps through a turbulent 40 years in popular singer Marika's (Sotiria Leonardou) life – and in the history of Greece – starting with the singer's birth in Smyrna, Turkey in 1917. Marika was deported to Greece along with all the other Greeks in Smyrna when she was seven years old, and a few years later, her parents started a career as a musician and a singer in a nightclub/bar. In the short space of one decade, Marika witnesses her father murder her mother, runs away from home, has a baby, and comes back to the nightclub to sing in an act with a childhood friend and a bouzouki player, Babis. Success finally comes at the expense of the suicide of another female singer at the club (named Rosa), but then Marika's childhood friend is exiled for political reasons, and she and Babis leave for other venues. Although Ninou carries a torch for Babis, their relationship never seems to work out, and after many years and World War II go by, she sends her daughter away to a convent school and goes on a tour in America. She then returns to Greece to find herself supplanted by a younger singer named Matina who has caught the attention Babis. Marika eventually dies in an accident during Mardi Gras and is buried by the people she sang with as they sing in her memory at the cemetery.
The King
The King (2002)
, 2h10
Origin Grece
Genres Drama
Actors Vangelis Mourikis, Minas Hatzisavvas, Yannis Zouganelis

Arrivé à 35 ans, un homme décide de changer de vie pour fuir son passé douteux. Il retourne s'installer dans son village natal. Mais, il est très vite regardé avec méfiance. Survient une femme de son passé.
The Red Lanterns, 2h12
Directed by Vasílis Georgiádis
Origin Grece
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films based on plays, Erotic thriller films
Actors Tzeni Karezi, Giorgos Fountas, Dimitris Papamichael, Manos Katrakis, Mary Chronopoulou, Déspo Diamantídou

The film begins with a happy couple, Eleni and Petros, at an amusement park in Athens, celebrating their affair. Some time later, Eleni and Petros are together again on a beautiful day, but she has to go and so she leaves for her secret workplace: The Red Lanterns.
Synoikia to Oneiro, 1h35
Directed by Alekos Alexandrakis
Origin Grece
Genres Drama
Actors Alekos Alexandrakis, Manos Katrakis, Vasilis Avlonitis, Sapfo Notara

Dans un quartier misérable d'Athènes, Assyrmatos, la population du bidonville survit de façon précaire en usant de toutes les combines et occasions. L'intrigue principale est centrée sur la lutte entre un chômeur, Rikos (Alekos Alexandrakis), tout juste sorti de prison et son propriétaire. La fiancée de Rikos est de son côté attirée par d'autres hommes. Rikos tente de créer une entreprise et fait faillite. Son associé se suicide. Les intrigues secondaires évoquent les amours, les drames et la vie quotidienne des habitants qui ne renoncent jamais à leurs rêves et sont capables de faire front de façon solidaire.
Landscape in the Mist, 2h7
Directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Origin Grece
Genres Drama
Themes Inspiré de l'univers des contes et légendes, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Transport films, Road movies
Actors Gerasimos Skiadaresis, Stratos Tzortzoglou, Michael Giannatos, Christoforos Nezer (d. 1996)

Pubescent Voula (Tania Palaiologou) and her five-year-old brother Alexandros (Michalis Zeke) want to see their father, whom they have never met before. Their mother tells them he lives in Germany and so Voula and Alexandros one day secretely leave their home to find him. They go to the Athens Railway Station and try to use the Germany Express, but are removed from the train for not having a ticket. A police officer takes them to a distant uncle, who convinces the officer that the children do not have a father in Germany. He informs him that their mother lied to them, to prevent them from knowing the truth: that they have different fathers and are simply the results of one-night stands. Although Voula and Alexandros eavesdrop on the conversation, they still believe their mother and believe the uncle is lying. When a blizzard suddenly hits the village and no more attention is paid to them, the children manage to escape.
The Weeping Meadow, 2h50
Directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Origin Grece
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Michael Giannatos

The film revives themes of Angelopoulos' 1975 film The Travelling Players, and its events span from 1919 to the aftermath of World War II. It tells the story of Greek history through the sufferings of one family. A band of refugees that returns to Greece after the Russian Revolution adopts an orphaned girl, Eleni (Alexandra Aidini). Eleni becomes the focus of the story. The film follows her through adolescence and the marriage to her musician half-brother Alexis (Nikos Poursanidis). Eleni becomes pregnant by Alexis, and bears twin boys, who are sent away at birth. Many years later she is forced to marry her widowed adopted father. On her wedding day, Eleni escapes with Alexis to Thessaloniki, where they reunite with their sons. Their lives are then ripped apart by World War II and the ensuing Greek Civil War.
The Travelling Players, 3h50
Directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Origin Grece
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Christoforos Nezer (d. 1996), Giorgos Tzifos

A group of travelling players peregrinates through Greece attempting to perform the popular erotic drama Golfo The Shepherdess. In a first level the film focuses on the historical events between 1939 and 1952 as they are experienced by the travelling players and as they affect the villages which they visit: The last year of Metaxas' fascist dictatorship, the war against the Italians, the Nazi occupation, the liberation, the civil war between left and right wingers, the British and American interventionism in the Greek politics. In a second level the characters live their own drama of jealousy and betrayal, with its roots in the ancient myth of the House of Atreus. Agamemnon, a Greek refugee from Asia Minor, goes to war against the Italians in 1940, joins the resistance against the Germans, and is executed by them after being betrayed by Clytemnestra and Aegisthos. Aegisthos, Clytemnestra's lover, is an informer and collaborator working with the German occupiers. Orestes, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, fights on the side of the leftists, avenges his father's death by killing his mother and Aegisthos. He is arrested in 1949 for his guerrilla activities and is executed in prison in 1951. Electra, his sister, helps the leftists and aids her brother in avenging the treachery of their mother and Aegisthos. After the death of Orestes she continues the work of the troupe and her relationship with Pylades. Chrysotheme, Electra's younger sister, collaborates with the Germans, prostitutes herself during the occupation, sides with the British during liberation, and later marries an American. Pylades, close friend of Orestes, is a Communist who is exiled by the Metaxas regime, joins the guerrillas and is arrested and exiled again. Finally he is forced to sign a written denunciation of the left after torture by the right wing and he is released from prison in 1950.
Stella
Stella (1955)
, 1h30
Directed by Michael Cacoyannis
Origin Grece
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Politique, Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Melina Mercouri, Giorgos Fountas, Alekos Alexandrakis, Christina Kalogerikou, Voula Zouboulaki, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos

Stella, the main character, is a rebetiko singer. Although she is in love with Miltos, a soccer player, she repeatedly rejects his marriage proposals. When Miltos finally forces her to accept the idea of marriage, Stella does not appear in church, despite Miltos repeatedly warning her that he will kill her if she doesn't marry him. Miltos kills her with a dagger at end of the film.
The Ogre of Athens, 1h45
Directed by Níkos Koúndouros
Origin Grece
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actors Thanasis Veggos, Dinos Iliopoulos, Zannino

A simple man realizes that he looks like a criminal named "Drakos". The police are after him and he hides in a night club. Day by day, he identifies himself with "Drakos".
Megara
Megara (1974)
, 1h9
Origin Grece
Genres Documentary

Documentaire sur la lutte des paysans de la plaine de Mégare contre les expropriations.
Horse and Carriage, 1h46
Directed by Dinos Dimopoulos
Origin Grece
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Orestis Makris, Vasilis Avlonitis, Antigoni Valakou, Pantelis Zervos, Stefanos Stratigos, Vasilis Diamantopoulos

Dans l'Athènes des années 1950, M. Anestis, un cocher subit de plein fouet la concurrence des automobiles. Il refuse cependant de changer de métier. Il vit avec Annoula, une orpheline qui devrait épouser son fils Nikos. Cependant, ce dernier a émigré pour trouver du travail. Le vieil homme et la jeune femme partage leur misère et leur tristesse. M. Anestis est obligé à vendre son fiacre. Cela lui fend le cœur. Il survit en vendant des cigarettes à la sauvette dans les rues de la capitale. Il est finalement terrassé par une crise cardiaque en pleine rue. De retour, Nikos épouse Annoula. Leur première visite est pour la tombe du vieil homme mort de chagrin.
Loafing and Camouflage, 1h39
Directed by Nikos Perakis
Origin Grece
Genres Comedy
Themes Political films
Actors Dimitris Poulikakos, Stavros Xenidis, Gerasimos Skiadaresis

The film tells the story of a group of soldiers, who, during their compulsory military service in 1967 and 1968, before and during the Greek Junta, are assigned to the, then, recently founded Armed Forces Television. This TV station, founded for the civilian population, was run by the Army Cinematographic Unit which until then had only produced propaganda films and newsreels and was responsible for entertaining the troops and other charity organizations with movie screenings. The personnel was composed mostly of soldiers, who already had experience in the film business in their civilian lives, as well as those who received their training in the army.
And the Woman Shall Fear Her Husband, 1h45
Origin Grece
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Tasso Kavadia, Maro Kontou, Giorgos Konstantinou, Déspo Diamantídou, Stavros Xenidis, Katerina Gogou

Antonis and Eleni are an unmarried couple, which live in a traditional neighbourhood in Athens. Antonis is a literate employee of a ministry but Eleni is an illiterate housewife from a poor family. Due to their social divide between them, Antonis underrates Eleni and treats her like a slave. Nevertheless, she carries on loving him and serving him. But the situation changes after their marriage. Eleni starts to emancipate and she claims equality. Antonis doesn't put up with the new situation and asks divorce. Several years later the two former spouses are met in the demolition of their old house. They remember their old lives and decide to give their relationship even one chance. The film features the characters mixing the humour with emotion and nostalgia, filled also with the beautiful pictures of Athens at those years.