Eleni Zafeiriou

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This is the film Crete in Flames, with some changes made to exploit a true story – it is about the kidnapping of Tasoula Vardinoyannis by Yannis Kefalogiannis –, a story that had shocked and fascinated the entire Greek nation, and had received widespread publicity. The Battle of Crete and the legendary resistance of the brave Cretan people against the German occupiers who invaded the island en masse by air in 1942.

Shortly before his father dies, Nikos, as the eldest son, promises to help his twin brother Andreas finish his studies. He sacrifices his dreams and the girl he loves, Anna, and throws himself into the harsh struggle for survival. He sets sail and travels to the ends of the earth, but his ship sinks and he is presumed dead. Meanwhile, Andreas completes his studies, becomes a lawyer, and gets married. When Nikos, who was rescued, returns to Greece years later, without papers, crippled, and poor, he finds himself involved in a murder case he did not commit. Andreas is the prosecutor in the trial, and Nikos tries in every way to conceal his identity, but Andreas realizes this and manages to get him acquitted. Nikos, in order not to damage the social standing of Andreas and Anna, prefers to leave again and leave them in peace.

Jenny Skoutari, a student and the daughter of a party local commander Kosmas Skoutaris, gets use to visit the private library of - her father's political rival - the shipowner Miltos Kassandris. Kassandris prepares his nephew - and a childhood friend of Jenny - Nikos Mantas, as a candidate for the next election. Mantas' rival has a lead, and is backed by Skoutaris, who is facing financial problems. So Kassandris decides to force Jenny to marry his nephew with a fake marriage, while at the same time financially breaks down her father in order to secure the election of his nephew. This marriage, however, will lead to unexpected situations between the couple..

The abysmal hatred which exists between two landowners is transferred to their natural environment as well. Whatever crosses the river separating the two families, be it man or beast, dies. The film is yet another rendering of the Romeo and Juliet tale, with intense emotions, dominated by the extreme behavior of the heroes. The film tries to imitate the style, atmosphere and action of westerns.

The strict and formal director Lila Vassiliou has under her orders all the staff of the technical office of which she takes over the management, but at the same time, she is looking to find ways of charm to conquer the lively sub-engineer Alekos Samiotakis.

Miranda, the rich and spoiled daughter of an Athenian businessman, accompanies her father to Messolonghi, where they have their own fish farming facilities in the best parts of the lagoon. There, while the local fishermen try to establish a cooperative so they can defend themselves against exploitation by their bosses, Miranda seduces a charming and dynamic young man, disrupting his life and his relationship with the girl he loved and intended to marry.

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Costas finds Peter, a poor medical student, and convinces him to marry his sister Lisa. After the wedding, Peter leaves for London, but when he returns, Lisa's relatives avoid him. What has happened;

Manousos is the biggest child of a poor and crowded family living in the province. After finishing his term, he decides to work in Athens to help his mother. His friends and acquaintances are detestable, but he will find work as a singer in a nightclub. Soon she knows success and marries Eleni. But her brother wants to spoil their happiness.

Seven months after the declaration of the Greco-Italian War, a volunteer nurse and a small group of confidants who take part in the Resistance, face incarceration and horrible tortures, as they refuse to betray their country.

A daughter discovers her wealthy family is actually on the verge of bankruptcy and decides to charm a millionaire for his money in marriage. Soon she is torn between living a lie and keeping up appearances.

Unexpectedly, a railroad worker falls in love with his co-worker's sister, unbeknownst to him that his boss' daughter has set her sights on him, envious of their true feelings. Can love prove more powerful than her wilful fabrications?

Rena’s father insists on marrying her off to the son of a shipowner. Rena, however, doesn’t even want to hear about it, so she runs away and disguises herself as a boy named Pipis. As such, she meets a poor fisherman, Lefteris, and helps him on his way to Ioannina.

The year is 1965. Natasa Arseni visits Dachau, the place where she was found by the Americans at the end of the World War II. She returns to Greece, and during the train ride she recalls those past events. Before the beginning of the Greek-Italian war, she met Orestis . With the German invasion, Orestis, who was an officer in the Greek army, left for the Middle East. She followed him and accompanied him back to occupied Greece on a mission. She was arrested, interrogated and tortured and was finally sentenced to execution.

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A poor bookstore decides to appear to the widow of a professor's friend as their lost grandson when she learns she is about to die.

A poor builder tries, with the help of his wife, to raise his three children. When he gets killed in an accident at the construction site, his oldest son undertakes the responsibility of providing for the family, facing all difficulties.

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In a poor neighborhood of Athens, next to the coffee shop of Spyros (Mimis Fotopoulos) is a coffee shop that has gained a great reputation and is preparing to move to Kolonaki as it has made a lot of money by telling the cup. In the same neighborhood is a laundress, Kalliopi (Georgia Vassiliadou), who makes a living by force. One day, after an incident in which a customer (Kostas Mentis) humiliates Kalliopi and Spyros intervenes, he comes up with an idea: for Kalliopi to run the coffee shop, since the other one has left.

On an island in the Aegean, a young girl, when he learns of the authoritarian father that is illegitimate, he tries to commit suicide by falling from the cliff into the sea, but is saved from a wreck in the desert shore Marine

A poor young man, working hard, manages and becomes a captain on a ship of the shipowner, in whose home his mother worked older as a shipwreck. But he resigns when he discovers that the ship is dangerous.

Against the backdrop of a cloudless summer, love's unforeseen complications will entwine an Athenian writer, a morosely beautiful daughter, and a scorned local suitor. And then, calamity strikes. Can love redeem the sad girl in black?

Maria falls in love with George who is a student of her strict father, Andreas Economou. Dolly, a classmate of Maria spends a night with George and the next morning tells Maria about it. ..

Ioannina, in the beginning of the 19th century. The whole Greece is under Turks. Ioannina is governed by the fierce and vulgar Ali Pasas. Ali’s eldest son, Muchtar, falls in love with a young Greek widow, Frosyni. The problem is, he’s married to the vindictive and cruel Chanife. And the muslim penalty for having an affair with a married man is death…

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Vasilis Karatzoglou is a successful singer who lives with his mother and sister having lost his father in the destruction of Smyrni. From an old man learns that his father did not die but was arrested by the Turks. He decides to follow the scientific mission of Professor John Anderson in Turkey, to find traces of his father.

A sweet and rich girl loves a poor shepherd and thus rejects the marriage proposals of a rich man. He accuses her beloved of theft—which the shepherd boy never committed, of course—but his scheming does not lead to the desired result.

Betty has become engaged, for her father’s sake, with a hard working and kind young man, Kostas, who works at a store selling electrical appliances that belongs to Betty’s father, Mr. Periklis. The latter values Kostas and truly wants to make him his son-in-law. Kostas saves the life of a sensitive girl, Mary, who tries to commit suicide because her English lover deserted her. Later on, he is persuaded to impersonate a rich Englishman in order to help Mary deal with her father, Mr. Kyriakos, who is trying to force her to marry someone against her will.

Shortly after the Gorgopotamos bridge was blown up, Loukas and Christoforos, two Cypriot students studying in Athens and staying at Kyra-Anthi's house, decide to join the Greek army and try to escape to the Middle East. With the help of Papa-Sinisios and a cabaret singer, they set off with other patriots for the coast of Asia Minor, but off the coast of Samos they encounter a German frigate and Loukas is lost at sea. The bad news reaches Cyprus and plunges his beloved Aphrodite into grief. Aphrodite's father decides to marry her off to Telis. At the end of the war, Loukas, who had been rescued, returns to the island and claims Aphrodite, but her father forces him to write to her saying that he does not love her. Aphrodite continues to love him, and Telis is forced to step aside, leaving her free to be with her beloved.

Vasilis is a poor conservative man who works in a company and tends to buy the lottery very often - but with no luck. His life will turn upside down when his younger sister turns out to be an anarchist and gets involved with a leftist rebellious man he already knows and hates. Eventually, in an ironic twist of faith, the two of them will earn millions and gain the exact lifestyle they used to fight against and Vasilis will lose his mind.

Madame X (Greek title: I Agnostos) is a 1954 Greek drama film directed by Orestis Laskos. It is based on the 1908 play by French playwright Alexandre Bisson (1848-1912). Thrown out of her home by a jealous husband, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on harming her son. The son, unaware of who the woman is, takes the assignment to defend her in court.

The battle-scarred hero of the Greek Revolution, Giannos "Astrapogiannos", returns home after the end of the blood-soaked War of Independence, only to find himself in a new conflict, as he locks horns with a ruthless local Kodjabashis.

A modest film of three independent parts showing sad couple stories.

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During the cold spring of 1941, with Greece already under German occupation, a long-suffering squad of war-battered soldiers receives orders from the headquarters in Athens to fall back, leaving behind the Albanian Front. As the men retreat through the snow-covered landscapes of the bomb-scarred Greek countryside, the terrifying certainty that nothing will ever be the same again crushes their weary human souls.

At the top of his class, a diligent architecture student, and son of a poor bouzouki player dreams of a life different from the one his father has already planned for him. But, can a man renounce his origins to follow his passion?

The rivalry between a professional doctor and a midwife in a small Greek village. A retired doctor decides to settle down with his family in his wife's village and opens a medical practice. However, he gradually comes into conflict with the village midwife and her unorthodox medical practices, namely eye-opening and amulets. The midwife's son, a medical student in Athens, comes to the village for vacation, falls in love with the doctor's daughter, who tries to reduce her influence over the villagers.

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Charilaos (Orestis Makris), a retired officer with very strict and conservative principles, raises his four daughters with... military discipline, taking care of their culture, their appearance and their good behavior. Despite all his desire to marry them, he does not leave them anywhere alone, as a result of which no man approaches them. His wife, Efterpi (Eleni Zafiriou), as well as his friend and neighbor Xenophon (Pantelis Zervos), make remarkable efforts to convince him to change his tactics, but he insists on his very conservative behavior. But when the conversation reaches the well-to-do sister of Kalliopis (Georgia Vassiliadou) who has been living in Chicago, USA for years, everything turns upside down. She returns to Athens and undertakes to modernize the general's house, as well as help the four girls (and her nieces) to be rehabilitated.

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A resistance fighter, trying to escape the German blockade, takes refuge in a house where a mother lives with her daughter, Alice. Alice, despite having a relationship with a German collaborator, decides to actively participate in the resistance.

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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.

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A young man returns to his home after years abroad, despite not becoming wealthy, he has managed to save money for his last years.

A young painter returns to his hometown, Mystras, where he falls in love with the daughter of a family with whom his own family has a feud. The girl's father will kill her, thinking she is a man, since she had disguised herself as a man to save her lover.

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A freighter leaves the one she loves and goes to Germany to raise money to get married. When she returns she finds her married to another. The same night she goes to ask her the word and the money she sent her for so long, her husband is murdered and he is arrested.

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A weak before her lady-killer lover, a blond diva breaks up with the arrogant libertine to be with a kind friend. His ego demands appeasement, but the lethal revolver in her hand thirsts for retribution. Who is to blame for her downfall?

A delicious and understated countryman, Anna, leaves for the capital to study. He's hitchhiking on the motorway, and a business car, with a medical practitioner, stops to get it. The driver, named Fanis, is doing this job very much to take care of his seriously ill mother. Fanis gives her a place in his house to stay and, over time, falls in love with her, but family situations force Anna to abandon her studies. She returns to the village and marries her fellow villager, the Bargaining Barnabas. This, above all, has sent her father to the grave for unbearable debts. After his death and his mother, Fanis comes to the village and tries to persuade the girl to follow him to Athens, which is done with the mediator's help from the pope. Fanis promises to finish his studies and become the doctor of the village, to marry Anna naturally and to have children.

Towards the end of the war, Eleni meets the rebel Kostas, who is being pursued by the Germans. One night, the rebel arrives wounded at his brother Giannis' house where Eleni works. She'll take care of him, and then they'll say goodbye. When Kostas tries to meet Eleni again, he is arrested by the Germans. But he will escape execution, as the rebels will save him from death.

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Reserve Second Lieutenant Christos Kladis is absent without leave from his unit when he learns that his girlfriend has become engaged to someone else. At the court martial, he refuses to explain himself and is sentenced to dismissal from the army and two years' imprisonment. His father, a retired officer, disowns him. After his release from prison, Christos changes his name and leaves to work as a sailor on ships under the name Grigoris Staridis. When war is declared, he returns to Greece and fights on the front lines.

A talented young musician, Petros Apostolou, arrives in Athens and soon manages to record his first album. The success comes along with the love of young Anna, the niece of the director of the recording company, Mr. Theoharis. Despite her uncle's objections, Anna marries him, stays pregnant and dies at birth, but brings a little boy to the world. The blow is too heavy for Peter, who abandons everything.

A nightclub singer is forced to shoot her ex-boyfriend, who has escaped from prison and is blackmailing her for money. Believing him to be dead, the girl decides to leave and start her life anew. She marries a wealthy gentleman, who is unaware of her past, and together they have a baby girl. One day, however, an old friend – who, by a devilish coincidence, is also her husband’s brother – will return, threatening to reveal everything about her past.

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A mother fights tooth and nail to get her child back from an orphanage. She left him there when the man of her life, the child's father, abandoned her, leaving her alone and helpless. But she is not discouraged and continues her struggle.

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A poor and refined water fisherman, Zafeiris Kassis (Nikos Xanthopoulos), who was invited by the barba - Minas pop singer in Athens, maintains his mother and his sister's widow's family. In the center where he sings, Renata, the daughter of the millionaire big publisher Derku and editor of one of his newspapers, is visiting him. At their first meeting, they strongly argue because of a girl's article in the newspaper and his own response. When they happen to meet again in Hydra, where they know better, a strong and mutual feeling develops between them. Renata's father and his environment are opposed to this relationship, while Renata is forced to leave Zafire. But her love for him is unshakable.

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This is one of the many variations on the Romeo and Juliet myth, in which young love reunites two children, Dimitris and Myrto, whose families hate each other to death. Myrto's father caused Dimitris' father to be financially ruined and, although both men are dead, the hatred of Dimitris' mother, Theophile, does not seem to fade. This time, the feeling between the two young people blooms again under the sun of Chalkidiki, where Myrto and her aunt Eleni are going on vacation. Dimitris does not seek any revenge and his interest in Myrto is sincere and guileless. The feeling is mutual, while the passions and hatreds of the past fade away under the blue sky and the hot sun...

A poor young man (Thanos Livaditis) is working in a car cage and buying a car, mortgaging his mother's house (Eleni Zafiriou). It turns into a pirated taxi but has an accident. To repair the damage he suffered, he is forced to work for a wealthy man (Theodoros Moridis). He undertakes to make the driver of his spoiled daughter (Miranda Kounellaki). It will affect her and transform her into a responsible person, so she falls in love with him. At the same time, the young person gains the respect and appreciation of her father.

After many years of working at sea, Andreas returns to his island in order to clear his dead father's name and settle his debts by taking back his family's boat. Yannis is the powerful man on the island and the one responsible for his father's death. Andreas falls in love with Yannis' daughter, without knowing who her father is. Even when he finds out, his feelings for the girl do not change. On the contrary, Yannis refuses to accept this relationship and insists on giving his daughter to his trusted friend Stavros. The two suitors fight hard for the girl's heart, until her father realizes the wickedness of his favorite and entrusts his daughter to Andreas.

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A spoiled girl, Maria, does not care about anyone but herself and her good-natured. She relates eroticly to her sister's fiancé, Costas, to pay her the debts she has to do with her wasteful life.

A young woman who lost her husband five years ago to a naval tragedy in the seas of Indochina does not say to lose her hope. He always lives with the remembrance of his form and with the certainty that he will once come back alive and she will reassert him in her arms.

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Martha is locked up in a mental hospital by her own husband, who covets her fortune. At some point, however, with the help of her husband's brother, who studied medicine abroad, she escapes and returns home to see her daughter. This creates friction and coldness between the two brothers, resulting in the doctor who showed her genuine affection packing his bags and leaving Greece.

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A wealthy young man with a bright future, Andreas, finishes the Polytechnic at a time when the lovely Stella, the girl she is in love with, starts her studies at the University. He wants to get married, but his father has other plans in mind: to send him for postgraduate studies in Paris. Stella does not want to stand in the way of Andrea's career and future, and she sacrifices her own happiness to become that great architect. She suffers from their separation, but her pain softens her job: a psychologist, specialized in the treatment of delayed children, will dedicate her soul and body to her work. A few years later, thanks to Lina, who is surprised to learn that he is the daughter of Andreas, he will rejoin him and finally find happiness.

Foula is kicked out of her father's house when the doctor who loved her leaves her, and she ends up in a brothel. There, her brother, who is unaware that she is his sister, meets her and falls in love with her. The girl attempts suicide, but luckily for her, she is taken to the hospital where her former lover works as a doctor.

Captain Giakoumis makes the big decision to forsake the sea and live peacefully close to his wife and his adopted son, Andreas, who is about to sit for examinations in order to become a lieutenant. However, a terrible secret burdens his soul. He has a daughter, Agni, whom he had years ago when he had an affair with Maria, a prostitute from Troumpa. Maria, before she died, expressed the wish that Giakoumis recognize their daughter as his child. He, however, refused, since Agni ended up becoming a prostitute. The girl, to take revenge on her father, starts an affair with her half-brother with the intention of dragging him down into the mud. In the end, however, she falls in love with him, and this love blesses everyone and everything.

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An honest and sensitive girl who lives with her grandmother, Lena Petri, believes that the man she loved has deceived her in a despicable way. Disappointed, she throws herself in front of a car. Seriously injured, she is taken to the hospital, but is saved thanks to the successful surgery performed by Dr. Varna. When she recovers, she falls in love with him, but is forced to suppress her feelings when she learns that he is engaged to a ruthless social climber who will stop at nothing to climb the social ladder. However, a journalist who is well acquainted with Athenian high society helps the innocent Lena get together with Varna.

The honest laborer falls into disfavour and is undermined by his factory's son because they both love the daughter of the factory owner without suspecting the secret that unites them.

The adoptive son of a lawyer, with the help of a girl who loves him, healed from amnesia, which was caused because of a childhood trauma. He remembers that he has a twin brother. When he discovers, he sees with surprise that his brother has become a successful lawyer, but who will draw him to court, accusing him of burglary.

The heroic Souli have managed to repel the asker of Ali Pasha and his brave Malamos Dragon sends his mother to ask her hand Maro, niece of the captain Tzavelena. She ignores the hatred that separated years both Families and agrees to give her niece, but to know that Maro loves Kitsos Botsari. When the son of Fotos Tzavellas engage Maro with Kitsos, the Malamos drowns his pain and unleashes his rage against the Turks, who are trying again to get the Souli.

To preserve his mother and sister, Michalis works at the port of Piraeus. His sister falls in love with a poor young man, but she is engaged to another man. When the girl loses her light in an accident, her fiancée will disappear, and only the young man who really loves her will stay with her. The latter will sell the coffee shop that is given to him by a friend and he will be able to cure it in America.

An unconscious driver fatally injures a woman and leaves her helpless to die. The victim was the wife of investigator Kostas Kyriazis, who, six years later, is called upon to solve a similar incident. He will not be able to perform his work without emotional involvement and passion, as he leads to the conclusion that the driver being treated is the same as the person responsible for the death of his wife.