Stratos Pahis

Unbeknownst to the 19th-century Greek "primitive" painter Theofilos, other painters around the world at the time were also exploring non-academic subjects, focusing on the everyday lives of ordinary persons. In the U.S., the group of painters who chose such subjects were dubbed "the Ashcan school." Though Theofilos remained unknown in his lifetime, this biographical drama explores the painter's life from his birth on the Isle of Lesbos (Lesvos) in 1868 to the time when he developed his characteristic style, following his discharge from the Greek army.

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Following the wedding of his daughter, stone-faced beekeeper Spyros makes an annual journey from the north of Greece to the south, traveling along with his hives. En route, he meets an erratic, young female drifter, with whom he strikes up an unusual, self-destructive relationship.

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Combining Greek popular tradition and magic realist irrationalism, it tells the story of a 17-year-old youth who runs away from his village to find The Enchantress, a beautiful fairy feared by all. Travelling through an enchanted world of ghosts, spirits, imps and fairies, he leans what true love and passion really are.

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The students of the 3rd grade of a Lyceum, for a week now, have a vacancy in Greek because their philologist is ill. During these hours they spend the pool with Sotiris, who is very hot with Teresa. One day at the pool, Teresa meets Nikos and their acquaintance evolves into a strong feeling ...

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A forgotten satirical (and occasionally dark) comedy about sex life in the Greek countryside.

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Summer 1949: end of the civil war in Greece. The last band of guerrillas of the Democratic Army is forced to abandon Mount Taygetus and to head for the sea. Everything behind them has collapsed and they can count on help from no one. In this long, desperate and aimless march, the group will end up by being annihilated by the National Army and the armed villagers.

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Dimitris Lembessis gets out of prison, pays his friend Stratos a visit and kills him. With Ilias he organizes a big jewel heist. During the operation they discover that someone has ratted on them. In their attempt to escape, a police officer is killed and Ilias is mortally wounded...

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In an inn in Trieste, Kyveli, wife of a political prisoner of the junta, falls in love with an old student of her husband, who has been distinguished for his activities against the dictatorship. But he will be forced to run away, along with his lover, as they are hunted by the police. Kyveli will go to Strasbourg to present evidence to the Council of Europe, which proves human rights violations in Greece, but the session is postponed and she now lives in a web of fantasies and unfulfilled expectations.

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A masseur whose son is a student in Germany learns that he has become a member of the Neo-Nazi party.

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Alexander, a tribal warlord and former political prisoner, kidnaps British tourists, holding them for ransom until Britain and the Greek puppet government in Athens meet his demand for amnesty for his band of freedom fighters.

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In a poor neighborhood of Athens, Andreas and Eftyhis are struggling to eke out a living. Making the most of the adventurism inspired in them by the post-war era and trying to make a life for themselves against the backdrop of the post-dictatorship conservative regime, the two heroes gradually lose their political conciousness and social identity and are led to ruin.

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During a hunting party on New Year's Eve 1976, five representatives of the bourgeoisie encounter with their companion the body of a partisan from the Civil War of the late forties. What they are most confused about is the fact that the corpse that lies at their feet is still bleeding…

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A traveling theatre troupe tours the Greek countryside from 1939 to the early 1950s, staging “Golfo the Shepherdess”. As the years pass, its members endure persecution, betrayal, executions, and exile. Their personal stories become entangled with the country’s major historical events, in a seemingly endless cycle of violence and loss.

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The adventures of a young naive prostitute when she meets and fall in love with a law student and decides to escape her slavery.

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An immigrant in Germany works hard to support his father and sister, who live in Greece. When he is forced to return home, he discovers that he has no money because the bank where he kept his savings has gone bankrupt. So he returns hidden in a refrigerated truck and arrives frozen, which starts a battle between refrigerator advertisers over who will convince him to advertise their refrigerators.

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Professor Algeras becomes the target of foreign agents working for major powers, who use every legitimate and illegitimate means at their disposal to try to get hold of his scientific discovery. The most ruthless and unscrupulous foreign agent, who ultimately traps Algeras, is Milko, who comes from the countries behind the Iron Curtain. It eventually transpires that Milko, who has been brainwashed, was the professor's only son, lost during the communist child abductions.

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Chronis employed by a company, the chairman of which is a consequential, terrible moralist man, who is of the opinion that its employees must follow its own life and perception patterns. One day his sister Chronis, Eve, organizing home parties and invite Emilios, the president's son. Among them a fiery romance develops. The other day the president makes strict remarks to Chronis, who expects nothing anymore his dismissal ...

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The old mansion in Plaka, inherited by three cousins, becomes the stone of the scandal, as each of them thinks to use it differently. Achilleas wants to turn it into a nightclub, where he will present his dance program, while Hippocrates lives in it and rents the basement to the girl he loves, Despina. Things are complicated by the arrival from abroad of the third heiress, Kaiti, who will blow their minds.

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A childless Romani woman abducts the daughter of the prosecutor who imprisoned her. As she trains the child to do her evil bidding, the girl becomes a woman and soon finds herself accused of murder. Can a trainee solicitor clear her name?

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An Olympic flight attendant, Chloe, during her short stay in Rome will meet a Greek shipowner, Stefanos, hiding her true identity and posing as a rich girl. On the return flight to Athens, she finds out that Stefanos is among the passengers, who is coming to Greece to help his sister Martha Dupont with an adoption issue that has been troubling her for some time. The fairy tale continues on the plane with the effective help of Chloe's colleagues. The blatant lies on both sides create many scandals and misunderstandings, but in the end both manage to keep all their emotional energy alive, thanks also to the attitude of the orphan Petris who does not want to be adopted by a rich French woman.

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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.

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