Manos Katrakis

An old communist returns to Greece after 32 years in the Soviet Union. However, things aren't the way he had hoped for. (imdb)

A powerful rendering of the tragedy of Elektra by Euripides. The film begins with a summary treatment without dialogue of the action of the preceding play in the trilogy, The Agamemnon, in which the wicked Queen Clytemnestra and her lover Aesgisthes murder her husband Agamemnon upon his return from the Trojan War. (imdb)

After the end of the Greek Civil War, two guerilla fighters try to go back home, having to face the National Army who wants to clear all remains of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS). None of them will succeed in it, but the fiancee of the one will give birth to his son, who will participate in the Athens Polytechinic Uprising against the military junta in 1973.

A true story: The trial of judges Polizoidi and Tertseti for disobedience and their triumphant acquittal during the three men regency council, when king Othon of Greece was a minor. The cast of the film was enormous, with almost half of the theatrical people participating. The music was written by Christos Leontis.

The residents of a poor neighbourhood in Piraeus are asked to leave as modernization will take place. The prostitutes of one of the many brothels are preparing to move on. The camera follows their individual stories, their misery, shattered dreams and hopes for a better future. (imdb)

The story of Nikos Belogiannis member of the communist party and officer of Ellas that has come back to Greece only to get arrested, tried for espionage on behalf of Russia and executed. A photograph of his bearing a carnation has circulated internationally and gives the name of the film.

Karl is a German officer who falls for a young Greek woman of Jewish ancestry in this symbolic war drama. He wants to marry Lisa, but he dutifully turns her over to the Gestapo when she reveals she is Jewish. (allmovie.com)

The plot concerns struggles between peasants and the wealthy estate-owners over division of land in the early part of the 20th century. This battle is contrasted with the rivalry of two brothers over a woman's affections. The performances are somewhat lacking, but Georgiades' assured direction and presentation of a little-known chapter of Greek history resulted in an Oscar nomination as "Best Foreign Film." (allmovie.com)

In the Ancient Greek city of Thebes, Antigone defies Creon's orders and buries her brother.

Angelos Kreouzis (Nikos Kourkoulos) survives a shipwreck and reveals to the committee in charge that the disaster was not an accident, but the consequence of the neglect of the ship by those responsible.

It is the third film in a row of the type that much later on was called "fustanella (Greek kilt)", following Gkolfo by Bachatoris (1914) and Astero by Gaziadis (1929). It is based on the successful theatrical play (rhyming pastoral romance) by Dimitrios Koromilas, who draws his inspiration from a poem by Giannis Zalokostas "I fell in love with a shepherdess". The setting is Greece, a rural country in the middle of the 19th century. (imdb)

The poor Athenian neighborhood of Asyrmatos is the center of the world for the people who live there and who are trying to escape from poverty and deprivation. Rikos, a young man recently released from prison, is trying to make some money, while his girlfriend is seeing other men, and her brother is trying to contribute to the household's finances.

Yorgos (A. Alexandrakis), a seductive driver, is hired as a chauffeur at the residence of the rich Tasos Petridis (M. Katrakis) and begins an erotic affair with his wife, Lina Petridi (M. Hronopoulou). When her husband catches them, he dies and his dangerously beautiful daughter Ilektra (Z. Laskari) decides to take revenge for her father's death. (Wikipedia)

A young, ambitious Public Prosecutor is assigned a large trial for a murder, but things get complicated when he finds out that his own wife is involved in the case.

A young examiner decides to delve again in the case of a woman who is now in jail and who believes is innocent. However, as he goes deeper into the case he will step-by-step discover with the help of a seedy, mysterious stranger that he is in fact entangled in a frame-up more complicated than he could ever imagine.

The stepson of a lawyer, with help of a girl who loves him, healed from amnesia, which was caused due to an injury. 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.

An undercover cop infiltrates in a spiral of drug dealers, trying to uncover the leader. (imdb)

An unconscious driver fatally injures a woman and leaves her helpless to die. The victim was the wife of investigator Costas Kyriazis, who six years later was called to tell a similar story. For the first time, he feels that he will not be able to do his job unaffected, without the emotional involvement and passion required by law enforcement. (imdb)

As WWII is brewing over Europe, a diligent secretary becomes entangled in a well-orchestrated ballet of counter-intelligence, as her desire for a captain threatens to jeopardise the entire operation. But, can love bloom on the battlefield? (imdb)

Three stories of Greek people living under occupation; The inhabitants of an island passively resisting against the Italian forces. A Greek-Cypriot woman who falls in love with an EOKA member fighting against British rule. A formerly upstanding citizen living in the Greek mainland, unwilling to be forced into accepting a German officer living in his home.

The death of a civil servant under suspicious circumstances drags a young reporter into a dangerous conspiracy involving a construction conglomerate. Is there an escape from the clutches of the opportunists and the jungle of the city? (imdb)

Captain Alexis Komninos escapes from German-occupied Greece to Cairo, where he assumes new responsibilities and enters in a new relationship, while he suspects his wife of having an affair with another officer. When she and a priest are arrested by the Germans, the team of commandos disembarks in Greece in an attempt to free their compatriots.

Targeted for her beauty and pilloried by members of her own village, a poor and orphaned young woman flees from her humble but hostile birthplace to seek refuge in the bosom of the hectic city of Athens. Can love put an end to her ordeals?