Mimis Fotopoulos

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 time.Aris and Billias put their plan into action and the fun returns to everyday life.Two new teachers appear on the scene. One is a chemistry teacher who, due to a mistake, transforms into a different animal every so often, and the other is a kindergarten teacher.

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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 dress up according to the occasion in order to satisfy his clients' whims. Everything goes well until he meets Eva and his heart beats wildly with love.

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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 give up and tries in a thousand and two ways to prove to them that he is not the provincial they think, but a hard heart conqueror.

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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 he falls in love with a classmate, changes, and becomes the toughest kid in school.is accepted by his classmates, and together they rebel against their teachers....

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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 store for him. Will he have to kiss his dream goodbye?

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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 teachers.

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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 in number and very pretty women - are staying at the hotel, waiting for the proper opportunity for the burglary. Meanwhile, the hotel's daughter, Myrto, seeing that the hotel is not doing well, and believing that some people sabotage the business, represents the receptionist, in order to learn from the inside exactly what is happening. The passion of Simos makes him a companion of the five women's gang's plans, both to frustrate the burglary and to win the hand of Myrto, who has fallen in love with him.

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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 kill him if he does not set a wedding date immediately. So he sees his conscription as a saving grace, but he is assigned to a paratrooper commando unit and endures hell during training. At the camp, he hangs out with three other guys his age who are turning the universe upside down. However, the difficult life at the camp eventually convinces him to get married and become a good family man.

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An ex-criminal wants to change his life but the Mafia wants him back.

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Much to his surprise and not a moment too soon, the young long-term unemployed, Achilleas Taleporos, realises that his striking resemblance to his twin sister and traffic officer, Varvara, will finally land him a steady job, provided that he went the extra mile to succeed. Suddenly, his sister's uniform, a pair of black almond-toe pumps, a flaxen wig and a little bit of make-up will open the doors to the Police Academy, where "Varvara", amidst an all-female class, gets a rigorous training. But, now that the new recruit in disguise is finally accepted, what are the chances of finding true love in the most unusual of places?

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Anthology film with a number of sketches that satirize modern Greece.

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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, Christofis creates an ode to the Hellenic Diaspora.

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Babis (Nikos Rizos), after his release, finds it difficult to balance between the groups with the guys and jobber of Piraeus, and the strict surveillance of the police, who closed the once in prison. He will try to sell the alleged Byzantine icons that makes a fellow prisoner, but will be arrested. It will be released as there were images of value, and will be informed that the mother of the same (Mary Metaxa) alerted the police to remove him from the unlawful activity.

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The episode of the documentary series Paraskinio, produced in 1979, dedicates its first part to two great actors of theater and cinema, Dinos Iliopoulos and Mimis Fotopoulos. On the occasion of their collaboration in the stage production "Some Like It Hot" at the Akropol Theater (1978–79 season), directed by Alekos Alexandrakis and co-starring himself and Nonika Galinea, the show's camera meets the two actors in an Athenian bar. The documentary features short interviews with Alekos Alexandrakis and Nonika Galinea, who speak about their collaboration with Iliopoulos and Fotopoulos and the reasoning behind casting them in those specific roles. The program also includes clips from films starring Iliopoulos and Fotopoulos, as well as scenes from the play "Some Like It Hot" at the Akropol Theater, written by Peter Stone, translated by Pavlos Matesis, and directed by Alekos Alexandrakis.

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Episode from the documentary series Paraskinio, dedicated to Mimis Fotopoulos, who speaks about his life and work in a monologue in front of the camera, likely improvised. We watch footage from his films, and we hear him reading aloud. Among the ruins of an open-air space, mostly used as a film studio, he initially plays the blind man from "The Counterfeit Coin", talks about his films such as "The Counterfeit Coin", "Laterna, Poverty and Dignity", and "The Little Chauffeur", and comments on that period of the golden age of classic Greek cinema. Fotopoulos wanders through the ruined studio and discusses the increased responsibilities of actors in theater and the challenges of filming while performing in plays during the flourishing period of Greek cinema.

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Greek television series

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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 her laugh again? Above all, can they stop a sinister scheme behind the sheikh's back?

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A kind-hearted man from the Greek province falls deeply in love with the beautiful daughter of his self-made entrepreneur boss. However, complications arise when another suitor enters the equation. Who will prevail in this romantic test?

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Kitsos, a charming countryman from Gastouni, visits Athens to secure a dowry for his sister. Instead, Uncle Charalabos mistakes him for Kits Harad, his wealthy Greek-American nephew. Will Kitsos give his sister the wedding she dreams of?

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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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A pasta-factory owner, Aristotelis Kolokythas, after two unsuccessful marriages in the past, is now crazy about a folk singer, Mirella. For her sake, he lavishly squanders his pasta profits, despite the earnest efforts of his partner Orestis, to rein in his spending and put some sense into him. When the business finally goes bankrupt, the hero considers leaving for the Congo to work with his twin brother, Vangelis. Suddenly, however, everything changes, as Vangelis arrives in Athens.

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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 has to withstand the pressures of his beloved for marriage.

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Manolios decides to quit working on a ship and return to Crete so he can marry his beloved one, Lenio.

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Philemon and Pausanias are two wretches, friends and roommates in the same chamber, which are constantly struggling to pay off their debts mainly rents, because the landlady is very grumpy. Their agarmposyni, however, does not help them to steriosoun in some work: either in a gas station or in antique or as waiters at a nightclub where she sings the amiable Michael, a poor student who lives in the same yard and is in love with Soula. But Uncle Soula, the Menios, wants to marry a rich kid, Tasos. She, however, also loves Michael manages to cajolery to obtain the consent of and become a successful singer in his side.

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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 industrialist. Does Kitsos, the hippie in sandals, stand a chance of winning her heart?

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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 stage, it's up to him to save the day, and his sibling's reputation. Is he up for the task?

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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, Zeta, but she does not reciprocate his feelings. After a heated argument with Dimos, he quits and leaves. He opens his own souvlaki restaurant and is very successful. His terrified competitors try everything they can to learn his secret and even go so far as to recruit the beautiful Suzy to seduce him.

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