George Foundas

An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.

A group of resistance fighters during the Occupation, collaborates with a lieutenant who comes to Greece from the headquarters of the Middle East, aiming to blow up a German ship.

The everyday lives of some international football players before and after a big game.

An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the local prostitute with whom he is infatuated.

The story of a young, wild woman who doesn't want to compromise and settle down. Stella is a restless, rebellious Greek woman who plays with men and enjoys her life as much as she can. But when she meets a young footballer, things get mixed up. She loves him but she loves her freedom too. So it's about time she made an important choice.

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A young emerald miner is in love with a girl but doesn't ask her to marry him because he cannot support her financially.

Graceful Sofia falls in love with Alkis, a charming young writer. They make plans for the future; but, one day, her boss, Memas, enters the picture: a tough guy who owns a cabaret in Trouba, and wants Sofia back.

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

The inextricably intertwined stories of five sex workers who live in a brothel at Pireas harbor.

A dark atmosphere pervades this film in true noir fashion. So does the feeling that our principals are trapped. They fight their way against economic forces and their status in life, and love might conquer all.

1868, Thessaly. Thanasis Vardas stalked by a Turkish-Albanian gang and forced to leave the 5 year old son Giorgis in a monastery in Meteora. Fifteen years later, when Thessaly was liberated and incorporated into the Greek state, Giorgis, big anymore, leaving the monastery. Flying robes and becomes engaged to the daughter of a fellow Turk-Albanians but always lurking and wanting at all costs a medallion held, on which is engraved the point where the lost treasure of Ali Pasha is hidden. The conflict with them is inevitable.

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Alexis abandons his fiancée Irene when he realizes that her family no longer has the wealth it was once famous for, which he had hoped would cover the debts he incurred through gambling. He is charmed by a singer, Veta, while previously the father of the singer in question had taken his money in an organized plan of revenge on the part of Eirini's family, for whom Veta's mother worked as a domestic helper. Eirini marries a former employee of her family, who now has his own mines and who has been in love with her for a long time. However, she will abandon him, while he will give up everything to work in a quarry. There, Eirini will meet him, remorseful.

A union leader is corrupted by the owner of a factory and appointed as its CEO.

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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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Psarogiannos lives with his wife and five children in a seaside village. One day, a sailor appears, seeking revenge and wanting to fight Psarogiannos. Psarogiannos realizes that the sailor is his son from another woman. When the time comes for the confrontation, neither of them can hurt the other. In the end, Psarogiannos' family gains another child.

A successful businessman suspects that his wife is having an affair with his best friend. Sadly, it will take more than a decade to unearth the truth, as his daughter thirsts for answers and closure. But, were they, indeed, lovers?

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.

Maro, the daughter of shepherd Panos, is in love with his son, Liakos. They want to marry but his father does not agree.

Anna, who lives with her aunt, is afraid that Stratos, the man she loves, is cheating on her with another woman. She decides to leave for America, where she will spend a year with another aunt. When she returns to Athens, her aunt will try to marry her off to a rich young man, but she is still in love with Stratos.

Iro Konstantopoulou was thirteen years old when the Germans invaded Greece. Despite her age, however, she got involved with the resistance. When she was arrested for the first time, her rich father managed to set her free, and she fell in love with a young doctor who took care of her injuries following torture. A little before the withdrawal of the Germans, she participated in the blowing up of a train that was transporting ammunition, and she was arrested again, but this time no one could save her. She was executed at the Chaïdari camp, along with forty-nine other prisoners.

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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?

Alfa (Attik) runs an itinerant theatrical troupe and can see that a young woman, Nora (Zinet Lakaz), is very talented. Indeed, Nora turns into a great actress. However, when she does not reciprocate his love, he turns her away. After this, Alfa falls on hard times, while Nora achieves great popular success.

A woman who lives happily with her husband and child discovers that she is suffering from cancer and tries to ensure their happiness after her death, without learning anything about the truth…

During the German occupation, the Nazis plan to execute 30 men in retaliation for the death of a German soldier at the hands of the partisans. Among the men are three brothers (Giorgos Fountas, Anestis Vlachos and Giannis Fertis). The villagers ask the German officer (Zoras Tsapelis) to spare the life of one of the brothers. He accepts on the condition that their father (Lavrentis Dianellos) selects the one to remain alive.

A notorious thief seeks refuge in the home of a young woman who works in the nightlife industry. She pretends to be a nurse and he pretends to be a doctor. However, the next day finds the thief being pursued by the authorities and arrested. Before that, their true identities are revealed. The two young people, who are in love with each other, swear eternal love.

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When Daisy saves the life of police officer Markos she is immediately promoted to the drug department of the police. Markos falls in love with her and they start going out until he asks her to marry him. That's exactly when she meets a junkie named Tasos Bekiris and falls in love with him. When he is murdered by a mysterious woman all the clues lead to Daisy who tries to prove her innocence. As she discovers, this woman is in charge of a drug-smuggling racket and she is also planning to import a huge quantity of heroin in Athens. Daisy kills her and arrives at their meeting place along with Markos.

Spyros, an honest young man from a poor neighborhood, owns a small coffee shop. His only friends are the shoe shiner Tsichlas and the drunkard Barba-Stamos. One day, he decides that the time has come to ask for Pitsa's hand in marriage. The poor neighborhood and its people pressure Pitsa, who can't take it anymore and runs away from home during the engagement. She runs into Didi, a playboy who, in an effort to pay off his debts, supplies beautiful girls to a rich old man.

For Her Love Has Become A Desperate Dream.

Thomas Karatoulpanis (Dinos Iliopoulos) is a naive employee at a car show in the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair. Because of his modest personality he is constantly criticised by his mother-in-law, his uncle and his boss. The only one who supports him is his wife. But the appearance of a doppelganger who buys extravagant gifts in his name causes a ruckus. Thomas is an amateur singer and participates in the Thessaloniki Song Festival winning the first prize. This is when everyone realises that there are two people who look alike.

A look at poverty in post-war Athens. Kosmas, a young man living in the slums, constantly tries to make ends meet, hoping for a better day. Because of debts, he gets tangled up in smuggling. His morals are tested and he tries to find a way out.

The inhabitants of Praxos, a mountain village in an occupied country, organize their own resistance to the oppressor. Faced with reprisals, they decide that every hour a man will cross the bridge that is the population's only supply route. The action, which results in the death of all those taking part, continues until dawn on the third day.

Sergeant George Merkos is so absorbed in his duties that he never finds the time to meet the relatives of Anna, the girl he loves. Instead of going to her house, he chose to arrest a criminal and then go to the villa of Julia, a middle-aged woman who was found dead. The sergeant's suspicions turn to the murdered woman's young husband, Alekos Petratos, but he has a solid alibi. The meticulous Merkos finally refutes Petratos' alibi, but shows excessive zeal in arresting Dimitris Naskos, whom he mistakenly believes to be the rapist of a young woman. Dimitris, who is Anna's half-brother, is killed while trying to escape, and Merkos is forced to resign, losing Anna forever.

In the Thessalian plain, a wealthy landowner creates insecurity among farmers when he brings in a threshing machine and boosts his production to unrealistic levels. The landowner's brother is released from prison and demands his share of the property, while also slandering Thanos, the engineer who found the machine. Thanos is in love with the landowner's daughter. With the consent of the girl's mother, the two young people manage to get married.

After the murder of a brutal landowner, and six long years of incarceration, unarmed Tasos returns to his village, only to face the deceased's murderous brothers. Is Tasos willing to honour his promise to his late mother?

A string of miscalculated choices and the longing of a fresh start will drag Magda of the slums deeper and deeper into a tireless personal nightmare.

Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit and contains additional titles, music and voice-over added later than 1961. 65 minutes.) Filmed in Mytilene and Annavysos, Greece, 1958. Existing copy on video, J. and M. Paris Films, Athens.

The love between a folk singer and a civil engineer is met with resistance from the latter's mother, who is determined to destroy their relationship.

A police constable tries to find blood during the night for his wife to be born. When he finally finds a blood donor, he will have to deal with a frenzy runaway, who holds hostage children in a school car.

A man who lives in the underworld and on the margins of society, in order to pay off his debts, pretends to be a woman's husband so that she can satisfy her father's request to see her restored to her former status. The strange couple will slowly bond, and true love will blossom between them. The hesitations and shadows of the past will fade away in the face of the power of their feelings.

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.

Andreas, as the owner of a semi-central building in Athens, intends to give it away in exchange for compensation, but the building houses a nightclub owned by Stefanos, who is strongly opposed to this. Stefanos decides to prevent this by any means necessary, even if it means sacrificing his personal happiness with Kaiti. Since Stefanos knows that Andreas won't marry Fani unless he marries his sister Vasso first, he tries to seduce her. So he does not hesitate to use various schemes to undermine her relationship with Stelios, a fellow Greek from Congo who is a friend of Fani's brother, Alekos. When he finally succeeds, he begins to slander Fani as well, thus destroying her relationship with Andreas.

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.

A fisherman's daughter is secretly in love with a strong man who works for her father; however, after a nearly-fatal accident, the crew will have to venture into the isle's notoriously dangerous waters. Will they return in one piece?

A prisoner of war who escaped from Albania claims to be a major in the Greek army named Alexandros Vergis, causing great confusion within the army, since Vergis had escaped a year ago and now works for Greek counterintelligence. The shock for Vergis' wife and the niece of the head of counterintelligence, General Gerakaris, is immense. The two men look like two peas in a pod, and the grueling interrogations that follow aim to unravel the mystery and expose the traitor.