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- When an Italian submarine torpedoes a Greek destroyer, a trapped platoon must escape the Albanian coast with its honour intact.
- A smart electronic technician needs his fifteen minutes of fame to scrutinise the corrupt Government, threatening to blow a building to smithereens with his devilishly intricate explosive device. Who can stop a man with nothing to lose?
- A young but poor Casanova who inherits from his deceased uncle--the king of gravy--nothing but a small island in the Aegean, meets a beautiful islander and her mother who holds an unexpected secret that may fulfil everyone's dreams.
- The past and the present coexist in a place spoiled by modern industry but which long ago hosted the Eleusinian Mysteries, the secret ceremonies that initiated the ancient Greeks into the miracles of life, death and the afterlife.
- A brief encounter at a record shop paves the way for a youthful romance between an impecunious pianist and a rich woman; however, a terrible car accident renders him incapable of playing. Can true love overcome life's towering obstacles?
- A group of students has fun every day playing tricks.
- A French-Greek co-production, filmed in Paris, in which the forty-year-old Maxim is released from prison after five years in prison. As he tries to adjust to life on the outside, he accidentally meets a Parisian taxi-driver who commits suicide right before his eyes. Without a pause he takes the dead cabbie's place behind the wheel and starts making the rounds of the city, transporting passengers (Jean-Pierre Léaud plays the role of a client who recites Cavafy throughout the entire ride). He feels the air of freedom, a lord of Paris and master of himself, up to the moment that he meets young Anies, and his life falls into new paths.
- Father Isichios, who is seeing that the faith of his fellow human beings is lost and that the church where he works is emptied of believers, recruits a two-wheeled motorcycle in order to penetrate the youth.
- Instead of pursuing her dreams, an aspiring model finds herself trapped in the dangerous world of fashion and drug trafficking. Can she escape from the clutches of a deadly ring, or will she pay the price of ambition and pleasure?
- Despite the soccer World Cup fever during the summer of 1998, a group of young people insist on rehearsing for a theatrical performance. The process they are getting into will form the identity of the play itself, but will also force the actors to face their own personal problems and anxieties.
- Aris, a race driver, meets a guy who looks incredibly like him. With evident curiosity he tries to find out, from his friend Dimitris, who this identical "stranger" is. He finds out that his name is Kyriakos and that he works in a car-repair shop. Kyriakos too, however, who is involved with Foteini, is informed of Aris' existence and also, from his own father, he finds out that Aris is his twin brother who had been given up for adoption to a well-off gentleman, Kaisaris. The latter, as Ntiana, Aris' friend, finds out, wanted a son to inherit his vast fortune. Ntiana helps Kyriakos become a singer, while at the same time blackmailing Kaisaris. In the end, the two brothers find out everything, and Kaisaris is forced to sabotage Kyriakos' car, so as to put him out of the running in the forthcoming race. At the last minute, however, Aris takes Kyriakos' place. The weak (as usually) heart (of Kaisaris) fails, but Kyriakos manages to save his brother from an undeserved death.
- The few survivors of a deserted city, sometime in the near future, are left with no water or food but somehow manage to survive. In a hospital, a lonely scientist, Foteini, is helping a patient with amnesia to recover. She also meets an actor named Aias (Ajax) - who often visits his sick sister - and becomes romantically involved with him. Foteini is swept away by love; Aias, however, is unprepared for such strong emotions. Their separation brings Foteini to the house of the amnesiac, and he takes care of her, up to the moment that she discovers a photo of hers among his things. In the meantime, Aias brings his sister back home from the hospital. While it is getting darker, with clouds gathering in the sky, Foteini and Aias wander the city and meet in the rain.
- Refusing to realise that she has become a lovely sixteen-year-old woman, a gawky tomboy taunts her bookish neighbour. But, the effervescent feelings of first love start to take over. Will she renounce her former self for love's sake?
- The first and last myth-making feature film of director and actor Mimis Kougioumtzis tells the story of a young man on the brink of manhood, who finds himself involved in a case of drug dealing - a dangerous adventure for both him and his best friends that will leave a lasting mark on their lives.
- A village in Arcadia invites a "famous" icon painter and his assistant to restore the worn-out murals in a historic church. One is an amateur astronomer, and the other is involved in various scams.
- Bent on becoming the community's president, a maladroit Pontic Greek fails to realise that the block's belle is secretly in love with him. Will he fulfil his aspiration? Above all, will he ever find out that love is closer than he thinks?
- A bag crammed with fifty million drachmas in cash results in unemployment and a certificate of exceptional honesty, forcing a painfully ethical man to accept the lucrative proposition of a shady entrepreneur. Is he walking into a trap?
- A successful young Athenian lawyer, Theodora, who is the daughter of a general, takes on the case of Mantzavinos who is a grocer in Kolonos. Trying to avoid the usual hum-drum approach, she becomes involved with a strange gang with a blind beggar for a leader, Linos, a former teacher, and current idol, of hers, who seems to Theodora like a modern Oedipus. Linos' companion and right-hand man is the former caretaker of the school. The group is completed by two sister-hookers, Anta and Mina, who work in a brothel housed in the school building and who sometimes force Linos to beg for money. The gang is planning a "big score", the theft of the antiquities of Plato's Academy, but Theodora's reluctance, combined with the timely intervention of the police, cancel the plan.
- A ruthless businessman and publisher of the newspaper "The Truth" takes advantage of a cleaning lady's seriously ill eight-year-old son by sending him off to Paris for treatment at the newspaper's expense - and then publicizing this act of "generosity" in his newspaper, dramatically increasing circulation. The youth recovers, but while growing up he is faced with other situations. One day, now a thirty-year-old man, he comes down with influenza. Since he is unemployed and penniless, he can't manage the situation on his own. He sends his wife to the son of his erstwhile benefactor to ask for money to buy medicine. The son, however, even more unscrupulous than his father, refuses to help him. So, the unfortunate man, who cheated death when he had leukemia, now succumbs to influenza.
- The search for a missing woman gives an Athenian lawyer, Manos - who is suffocating in his marriage to Kynthia - the opportunity to travel to Epirus. Leaving his familiar surroundings, he gradually enters another world, unknown and mysterious. His journey resembles the descent to Hades, and his visit to the supposed entrance to the underworld is revelatory. In Epirus he discovers that Evanthia, the woman he is searching for and whose disappearance twenty years ago provoked a major inheritance issue, has, in the meantime, married a Greek refugee from Albania, Fanis. Circumstances oblige Fanis to return to Albania, but Evanthia goes in his stead. Manos discovers Fanis hiding in an isolated hut and learns that Evanthia has been in Albania for quite some time. He decides to cross the border, finds Evanthia and brings her back. This is a film about loss and searching, both external and internal. An introspective meditation on life inspired by the social disorder of the Balkans in the mid '90s.
- Aliki, granddaughter of a destitute fisherman, captain Kostis, meets one day at the beach an unscrupulous bad guy, Papoulas, who tries to rape her, but she is saved by a young man who accompanies him, Stefanos. To make sure that Aliki won't turn them in, Stefanos keeps Aliki in confinement while her grandfather is looking for her and notifies the sergeant of the gendarmerie of the neighboring island about her disappearance. Stefanos explains to the young girl how he was seduced into criminality by a beautiful singer, Ntina, who was Papoulas' lover and stole an amphora from a ring of antiquity smugglers. The amphora is buried on a deserted beach of the island. During his quest, Stefanos and Papoulas fight over its possession, and Papoulas is killed. Stefanos is arrested by the sergeant, who, however, believes the story that Stefanos tells him, and so he lets him free to enjoy with Aliki their love that has just began.
- An elderly man is transporting a coffin, feeling alienated from his future as well as from his past, which he sees as a burden of tender memories. He is now playing his last card. A young taxi driver becomes involved in the game.
- A talented but impecunious author has a chance encounter with the household's exotic new housemaid: the bright-eyed African beauty, Oua-Oua. Could the cryptic housekeeper with the deliciously strange name be the answer to his prayers?
- A young man with ideals, equipped with a high-school diploma, dreams of a quiet and honest life. Nevertheless, being unable to find a job and facing the problems of unemployment, he gets involved in a ring of thieves. The hoodlums organize a major heist. Lefteris agrees to take part in order to solve his money problems and live happily with his girl. Things, however, do not develop smoothly. The hero, at the last moment, manages to escape and avoid arrest by the policemen, thanks to the help of a girl who works in a cabaret in Piraeus and is in love with him.
- Psychological drama of Greek-English production, in which an employee of the British Embassy, Liz, meets a hospitalized patient covered in burns. He tells her a strange story about five teenagers who met years ago on an island and whose youthful pranks caused someone's death. Their meeting at the scene of the tragedy, twenty-five years later, brings back the traumatic experiences of the past. To redeem themselves, they decide to sacrifice that which is most valuable to them - their lives. One of them, Nanta, cuts his throat with glass, while the painter, Tim, hangs himself from an interior staircase. Following the suicide of the third, Jonathan, the rest of the group, Stewart and Christian, decide to set fire to the house and burn with the bodies of their friends. Liz, deeply affected by the narration, realizes with horror that the injured man is Stewart, who after completing the story, and Liz's departure, takes his own life. However, he is not the only survivor. Christian, who was also rescued by an islander, decides to give himself up to justice. Some years later, he is released from prison, having experienced the "freedom of prison" as atonement for everyone's sins.