Mimis Fotopoulos
Dimitris "Mimis" Fotopoulos (Greek: Δημήτρης (Μίμης) Φωτόπουλος; 8 April 1913 – 29 October 1986) was a Greek actor, writer, poet, and artist.
He was born in Zatouna, Gortynia, Arcadia. He studied at the Dramatic School of National Theatre (Δραματική Σχολή του Εθνικού Θεάτρου). He also studied at the Philosophical School at the University of Athens until his second year in 1933. He headed a theatrical company from 1952 and an actor from 1960.
He died on 29 October 1986 in Athens, from a heart attack, aged 73.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.2929 |
| Birthday | 1913-04-20 |
| Place of Birth | Zatouna, Arkadia, Greece |
| Also Known As | Μιμης Φωτοπουλος, Μίμης Φωτόπουλος, |
1952
Δυο κοθώνια στο ναυτικό!
9/1
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Δυο κοθώνια στο ναυτικό!
1955
The Counterfeit Coin
7.573/41
Four stories, humorous, romantic or dramatic, are linked by a counterfeit gold sovereign. It is made by the honest engraver in the first story, seduce...
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The Counterfeit Coin
1948
One Hundred Thousand Pounds
7.333/3
The daughter of a Greek expatriate from Australia, Pagona a.k.a. Peggy (Ketty Panou), after the death of her father she returns to Greece to live with...
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One Hundred Thousand Pounds
1982
Wheel Bag and Kopana
5.867/15
A major hit in the Greek cinemas at the time, this comedy by Omiros Efstratiadis is about a bunch of teenagers who make things difficult for their tea...
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Wheel Bag and Kopana
1962
Theodore and the gun
6.786/14
An anachronistic and paleolithic father tries to find a good, honest husband for his daughter.
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Theodore and the gun
1960
The yellow gloves
6.615/26
When it comes to his wife, Orestis is suspicious of everything, be it a moustachioed chauffeur or a lost pair of bumblebee-yellow gloves. But, are his...
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The yellow gloves
1955
The Hurdy-Gurdy
7.316/19
Two poor portable barrel piano players ramble through Greek countryside and play in fairs. They meet by chance with a rich runaway girl whose father o...
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The Hurdy-Gurdy
1954
The Beauty of Athens
6.333/12
A streetwise guy, according to a will, has to marry an extremely ugly old lady to get the money of the inheritance.So he tries to trick a poor devil i...
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The Beauty of Athens
1954
The Little Mouse
6.833/6
Loukis, after a successful break-in, manages to escape the police chase thanks to a younf flower seller named Krinoula who introduces herself as "Litt...
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The Little Mouse
1970
A Hippie With Slippers
10/1
Kitsos leaves behind his village to create a better future in Athens, Greece. He rescues Helen but soon realises that she is the daughter of an indust...
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A Hippie With Slippers
1956
The Coffee Reader (Kafetzou)
7.875/16
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 prep...
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The Coffee Reader (Kafetzou)
1961
Poor Bums
6.125/8
Intent on marrying into money, two antagonists will stop at nothing to seduce a young heiress, renouncing their sweethearts just to get a greater chan...
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Poor Bums
1959
Vacation in Kolopetinitsa
7/2
All the village society, but especially the President Thimios Tambourlas and the policeman Miltiadis Sourvos, welcome Mr. Toni and his wife Judy. They...
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Vacation in Kolopetinitsa
1962
Stamatis and Grigoris
5.444/9
Opposite as black and white, the successful lawyers and business partners, tardy Stamatis and hasty Grigoris, fall for their supposedly single new sec...
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Stamatis and Grigoris
1959
The Unwilling Nanny
7/3
After returning from a masquerade, much to his surprise, a wandering textile salesman stumbles upon an abandoned and helpless baby. Will he find his p...
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The Unwilling Nanny
1957
Laterna, Poverty and Carnation
7.412/17
Pavlaras and Petrakis have spent the money that Kaiti's father gave them two years ago and continue to travel around Athens with their lantern. Howeve...
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Laterna, Poverty and Carnation
1963
Wanted honest
7.143/7
A sometimes blind and sometimes mute homeless panhandler becomes the pivotal point in a modular story composed of secret love affairs, bittersweet con...
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Wanted honest
1963
Marriage Lads
7/1
Fotis and Kosmas are partners in a country resort. They are not so concerned with their work as they are with their unmarried sisters. Finding the rig...
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Marriage Lads
1963
Deluxe Crazy
7/2
Faidon is rich but lazy and ungrateful, complaining all day long. Everything in his life will change when he hosts a couple of friends at his villa.
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Deluxe Crazy
1964
Another One for the Million
6.5/8
The honest and meticulous cashier, Savvas, works in a business and is often pressured by his wife’s siblings to embezzle money from his job and lend i...
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Another One for the Million
1954
The Unknown
3.857/7
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The Unknown
1952
Grousouzis
7.125/8
Agatocles, a grumpy and gruesome caffector, finds out a baby's out of his cafe and, to the surprise of everyone, decides to adopt it.
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Grousouzis
1955
Golfo-Girl of the Mountains
6.5/2
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Golfo-Girl of the Mountains
1980
Taste from Greece
6.5/2
Anthology film with a number of sketches that satirize modern Greece.
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Taste from Greece
1970
The Four Aces
7/3
An adaptation of "Romeo and Juliette" where the children of two rival shopkeepers fall in love and try to reconcile their fathers.
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The Four Aces
1965
A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush
5.667/3
The daughter of a miser grocer react to their father's effort to marry with the man he approves. When her uncle from America and her older sister arri...
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A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush
1948
Madame Sousou
7/1
Sousou is a poor Greek woman who behaves like an aristocrat causing trouble to her honest husband and laughs to the people of her neighborhood.
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Madame Sousou
1959
The Miserable
6/5
A bachelor by conviction not watch the girl who works at the shop cashier is in love with him, despite all the efforts of the landlady.
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The Miserable
1955
No Harm's Done
6.4/15
Lalakis is married with Poppe. He goes on a trip to Salonique by train, with his mistress, pretending that he has business there to attend. After his...
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No Harm's Done
1970
Two Crazy and crafty, clever and cunning person
7.5/2
Philemon and Pausanias are two wretches, friends and roommates in the same chamber, which are constantly struggling to pay off their debts mainly rent...
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Two Crazy and crafty, clever and cunning person
1967
Boat of Joy
7.5/2
A large group of people with different temperaments, traveling from Piraeus to New York, with the ocean liner "Olympia". On the trip they will meet ea...
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Boat of Joy
1957
The Big Shark
6.5/4
Vangelis is a lazy guy who's trying to earn some money to marry his beloved, but he is captured by the police who confused him with a wanted man. Even...
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The Big Shark
1962
Gold and Tin
4.833/6
A super market owner opposes the affair of his daughter with a new employee at his business.
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Gold and Tin
1960
Snow White and the 7 Old Boys
7.3/10
Alexia is a young woman who comes from the countryside and is in love with a rich man, Paris, who is studying abroad. Her stepmother treats her cruell...
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Snow White and the 7 Old Boys
1965
Descended from Heaven
6.125/8
The late Pericles gets permission from God to return to earth and help his family, who has gone astray after his death. Invisible to all but present e...
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Descended from Heaven
1969
Bad, Cold, and Cantankerous
5.8/5
Financially hard-pressed, a good-hearted coffee-shop owner asks his twin brother and famous actor for a loan; but, when he faints and collapses on sta...
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Bad, Cold, and Cantankerous
1984
Μήτσος ο Ρεζίλης
7.857/7
Mitsos, the son of a coffee shop owner and matchmaker, runs a marriage bureau and earns his living by arranging marriages. He does not hesitate to dre...
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Μήτσος ο Ρεζίλης
1950
Apaches of Athens
6.714/7
Costas is known as the "Prince". Now that he has learned of the arrival of the Greek-American Paralis and his daughter Vera, for whom Paralis is looki...
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Apaches of Athens
1983
Wheel Bag and Kopana 2
3.375/8
A rich kid comes to Havale High School with his servant for the new school year and, of course, becomes the butt of the other students' jokes, until h...
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Wheel Bag and Kopana 2
1984
Wheel, Bag and Truants 3
4/9
Aris, Billias, and the rest of the students decide to return to school with the excuse of earning their high school diplomas without any favors this t...
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Wheel, Bag and Truants 3
1955
The Magic City
6.154/13
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...
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The Magic City
1967
Kolonaki Conduct Zero
5.375/8
When an open-hearted folk man, a butcher of the profession, buys an apartment to stay with his family in a block of flats in a lush neighborhood, the...
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Kolonaki Conduct Zero
1960
The Daywork of Happiness
6.333/3
Two young people are trying to make their common life although have to face the obstacle of an authoritarian mother. The young man, trying to overcome...
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The Daywork of Happiness
1965
Eva Has Not Sinned
4.714/7
A pretty and chubby woman, Eva, Fontas ex- wife, is now married to the neighborhood’s tavern owner, Menelaos, who gives her a hard time being unbeliev...
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Eva Has Not Sinned
1951
Bloody Christmas
5.833/6
Returning to Athens after the end of the World War II, Captain Nikolas finds out what happened to his family from a neighbor.
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Bloody Christmas
1953
The Driver
7.4/5
A poor taxi driver works hard in order to pay off his car and to marry his fiancee.
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The Driver
1959
Long live the poor children
10/1
A wealthy man, Tonis , in love with a poor girl, wants to marry her despite the objections of his father. The brother of the girl falls in love with T...
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Long live the poor children
1965
Heartbreak in the Slums
9/1
An entire social microcosm lies hidden in plain sight in a decrepit Athenian courtyard of a humble mid-1960s neighbourhood. Love, desire, and deceit a...
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Heartbreak in the Slums
1965
Beethoven and Bouzouki
7.125/8
A dedicated classical music tutor who keeps burning bridges with everyone in the name of art is unwilling to reconcile with his successful bouzouki pl...
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Beethoven and Bouzouki
1964
The Emir and the poor man
5.6/5
An Arab monarch arrives in Athens accompanied by his wife and his beautiful daughter, who falls in love with a charming background actor. Of course, t...
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The Emir and the poor man
1968
Kitsos Mini and Souvlaki
7/1
Kitsos from Gastouni comes to Athens and gets a job at the souvlaki restaurant owned by Dimos from Roumeli. He falls in love with his boss's daughter,...
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Kitsos Mini and Souvlaki
1957
Fanouris and His Kin
7.75/4
A good-natured paterfamilias who is struggling to make ends meet rests his hopes on his successful expatriate brother to finally see their older siste...
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Fanouris and His Kin
1952
The Godson
4.5/6
During the Balkan Wars, Vivika Zaharouli, sick and tired of the goings-on of her womanizer husband, welcomes in Athens her godchild, who comes to live...
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The Godson
1951
Above all... Coolness
9/1
Two lazy friends (Mimis Fotopoulos and Ntinos Iliopoulos) find a job as ice-cream vendors to pay their back rent. When they start giving ice-cream to...
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Above all... Coolness
1967
The goody dad
8/3
A married couple is having a son and they do everything to raise it right.
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The goody dad
1958
An Italian in Greece
6.25/4
Charming, affluent--with his father's money--and self-assured, a frivolous son who can have any woman he desires falls head over heels for a beautiful...
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An Italian in Greece
1950
Come to Uncle
6.8/5
Antonis is the nephew of the good-hearted grocer Harilaos Toukouras. He is slothful and lazy but he is the only heir to his uncle, who considers marri...
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Come to Uncle
1985
On Course
7.5/2
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 Aeg...
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On Course
1970
What Does Man Do To Live
7.333/3
Leandros is a night club owner who is trying to avoid imprisonment by searching for money to pay the insurance contributions. Along with his debts, he...
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What Does Man Do To Live
1948
The Germans Strike Again
7.385/13
4 years after the Nazi occupation in Greece, the Greeks are involved in a Civil War and they are killing each other. Theodoros, a quiet and modest ma...
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The Germans Strike Again
1961
Our Good Angel
6.1/5
After saving the beautiful but frivolous daughter of an austere businessman from an embarrassing situation, a silver-tongued gentleman becomes indispe...
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Our Good Angel
1982
And the First Matakias
4.25/8
An unruly voyeurism, Simos, works in a hotel as a bourgeois. A gang of burglars has put in the eye of the hotel's safe. The members of the gang - five...
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And the First Matakias
1981
Traffic Cop Varvara
4.583/12
Much to his surprise and not a moment too soon, the young long-term unemployed, Achilleas Taleporos, realises that his striking resemblance to his twi...
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Traffic Cop Varvara
1967
Agent Kitsos calls Gastounis
5.5/2
As he slips into something more pastoral chic to boost sales in an Athenian travel agency, a poor countryman finds love in the person of an unexpected...
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Agent Kitsos calls Gastounis
1948
Fallen Angels
7/2
To help her sick mother, a girl is hired for what she believes to be a simple delivery service. That will cause her serious problems with her boyfrien...
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Fallen Angels
1951
The 4 Stairs
8/1
Surrounded by wealth, an impecunious young lady leaves home and the suave man of her dreams to spread her wings in Athens. But, he refuses to give up...
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The 4 Stairs
1970
Aristotelis the Lightweight
4.333/9
A pasta-factory owner, Aristotelis Kolokythas, after two unsuccessful marriages in the past, is now crazy about a folk singer, Mirella. For her sake,...
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Aristotelis the Lightweight
1952
Άγγελος με χειροπέδες
6.5/2
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Άγγελος με χειροπέδες
1952
Greedy for Everything
7.25/2
The avaricious Athenian, Fanouris Karababas, forbids his daughter to marry her beloved and behaves cruelly to his wife. But she persuades him that he...
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Greedy for Everything
1962
Don't All Knock Together
7.5/2
Sprogitis, a clumsy goofball with a good heart, constantly finds himself embroiled in the most unlikely situations, along with his friend Floros. Unab...
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Don't All Knock Together
1951
One Night in Heaven
6.333/3
Ms. Byzantiou is a passionate writer who stays at the hotel “Paradise” together with other eccentric tenants. When the friend of a hotel boy, who is p...
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One Night in Heaven
1970
Enter Manolio
7.667/3
Manolios decides to quit working on a ship and return to Crete so he can marry his beloved one, Lenio.
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Enter Manolio
1967
Aspasia's dollars
5.167/6
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Aspasia's dollars
1979
The Street Smarts
5.25/8
Babis (Nikos Rizos), after his release, finds it difficult to balance between the groups with the guys and jobber of Piraeus, and the strict surveilla...
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The Street Smarts
1958
The Misogynist
8/1
A recently fired cook poses as a misogynist to get a job in the mansion of an unrepentant woman-hater.
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The Misogynist
1954
Goal in Love
6/2
A barber owes a lot of money to his landlady, who shows great patience and understanding, hoping that one day he will convince him to marry her.
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Goal in Love
1971
A Nanny and a Maid, Everyone
9/1
A kind-hearted man from the Greek province falls deeply in love with the beautiful daughter of his self-made entrepreneur boss. However, complications...
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A Nanny and a Maid, Everyone
1970
The firecracker
5.333/3
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The firecracker
1962
Women want beat
5.25/4
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Women want beat
1982
Αλλαγή... και το λουρί της μάνας
0/0
An ex-criminal wants to change his life but the Mafia wants him back.
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Αλλαγή... και το λουρί της μάνας
1982
Θα Σε Κλέψω, Μ' Ακούς;
7/1
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Θα Σε Κλέψω, Μ' Ακούς;
1965
Απόκληροι της κοινωνίας
6.5/2
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Απόκληροι της κοινωνίας
1983
A Thousand Cubic Meters of Madness
7/2
A frivolous husband who longs for a fast 1000cc sports bike decides to sell the family business. However, his hard-working wife has other plans in sto...
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A Thousand Cubic Meters of Madness
1952
The Tower of Knights
6.25/4
A down-to-earth grocer yields to pressure and decides to follow his wife's advice to put to good use his deceased Jewish associate's gold sovereigns,...
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The Tower of Knights
1984
Ένας Πρωτάρης Στο Κολλέγιο!
8/1
A country kid enters a physical education college that prepares future champions. Rookie as he is, he is teased by his classmates. But he does not giv...
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Ένας Πρωτάρης Στο Κολλέγιο!
1968
Cloudy horizons
4.333/3
To settle her affairs, a kind woman arrives in Athens, only to realise that the administrator of her late father's truck company is scheming to rob he...
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Cloudy horizons
1960
Nancy bought it!
5.333/3
Like a true diva, an aspiring painter renounces her mundane given name, and instead of it, she prefers her artistic pseudonym, Nancy. A young professo...
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Nancy bought it!
1987
Massage gia ola ta gousta
0/0
Inspector Charilaos and Detective Mitsos, the brains of the vice squad, undertake to solve a murky case with their police genius. They turn beauty sal...
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Massage gia ola ta gousta
1966
A Ship Full of Papadopoulos
5.5/4
A couple of rich Greek-Americans travels from New York to Piraeus with their five nephews, who are unaware that their uncle has decided to implement a...
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A Ship Full of Papadopoulos
1971
Two Clever Fools
9/1
Two jobless bosom buddies have a chance encounter with an Arab billionaire and his sad daughter who is in love with an Athenian singer. Will they make...
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Two Clever Fools
1968
For a Lousy Drachma
7.5/2
To convince his wealthy uncle to keep sending his monthly cheques, a poor man lies about his marital status. But, when the relative returns to Greece,...
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For a Lousy Drachma
1982
Commando and Manoulias
5/2
A 35-year-old reservist is called up for retraining in new weapons. He has been engaged for nine years to a Cretan girl, whose brother threatens to ki...
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Commando and Manoulias
1961
The Wastrels
5.4/5
Exarhos is persuaded by his two lazy brothers to sell their shipyard, and they buy a factory in which nothing works normally.
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The Wastrels
1950
Storm at the Lighthouse
6.333/3
Lighthouse keeper Captain Bochalis, whose wife abandoned him years ago, lives in a remote lighthouse with his daughter, Chrysa. One day, they find a m...
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Storm at the Lighthouse
1979
Wandering
8/1
A lawyer, offspring of a bourgeois family of Greek-Egyptians, tries to find the traces of a relative of his. Through a rich tapestry of characters, Ch...
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Wandering
1971
Ο Καου-Μπόυς του Μεταξουργείου!!
7/1
Kitsos, a charming countryman from Gastouni, visits Athens to secure a dowry for his sister. Instead, Uncle Charalabos mistakes him for Kits Harad, hi...
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Ο Καου-Μπόυς του Μεταξουργείου!!
1979
Behind the Curtain: Dinos Iliopoulos
0/0
The episode of the documentary series Paraskinio, produced in 1979, dedicates its first part to two great actors of theater and cinema, Dinos Iliopoul...
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Behind the Curtain: Dinos Iliopoulos
1976
Behind the Curtain: Mimis Fotopoulos
0/0
Episode from the documentary series Paraskinio, dedicated to Mimis Fotopoulos, who speaks about his life and work in a monologue in front of the camer...
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Behind the Curtain: Mimis Fotopoulos
1982
Κέρατο στο κέρατο
10/1
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Κέρατο στο κέρατο
1985
Οι ατσίδες του σούπερ μάρκετ
0/0
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Οι ατσίδες του σούπερ μάρκετ
1953
Ρωμέικη καρδιά
7/1
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