Best movies like Η μεγάλη θυσία
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The Drunkard
After losing his son in WW2, a poor cobbler has become a drunkard and laughing stock of the whole neighborhood, besetting his daughter. When his daughter falls in love with a rich young man, he tries in vain to hide his passion from the young man's family...
One Day in August
Middle August in Athens. Three families, living in a three storey building, leave for their summer vacations. Everyone is wishing for a miracle to happen this summer. In the meantime, a drifter breaks into their apartments and rummages their personal belongings, thus unfolding hidden secrets.
I Sinned for My Child
Pantelis, a building contractor, is informed that the mother of his adopted daughter Julia has been released after many years in prison. He decides to speak to the girl about her mother's past and character. The story began in Aegina, where his partner Agis and he had undertaken the construction of a pier in the harbor. There they met her mother, orphan Roi, who worked at Jimmy's taverna. Agis fell passionately in love with her, but, due to other obligations, he had to leave the island and return to the capital, without knowing that Roi was already pregnant.
I leave with Bitterness in Foreign Countries
After years abroad, a naval officer reunites with his mother, who has planned an arranged marriage to a beautiful and affluent heiress. But, he is madly in love with another woman. They say love is blind. Can he have the love of his life?
The Red Lanterns
The inextricably intertwined stories of five sex workers who live in a brothel at Pireas harbor.
No Budget Story
In order to secure money for the production of his first film, a young man asks help from a film producer. The producer, however, was involved with pornographic films, and now his main business is drug dealing. The young director will have to become a drug runner in order to get the money he needs for his film
What a Mess
Three short stories satirizing the Greece of “Change” in early 80's. A take-off on the police dramas of Giannis Maris; a satire of the films of the New Greek Cinema; and a satire of the “fustanella (Greek kilt)” films as well.
I Die Every Dawn
The story of three young girls that are sisters and remain with their mother a tavern in the port. The Persa, the more dynamic it has relations with the labeled Zachos. The Tasia waiting at the port for years, the return of her beloved. Hara, a tomboy, reluctant to reveal feelings for Alekos, who sees it as a good childhood friend. Among all these catalytic moves a man of law, Orpheus.
The song of separation
A beautiful Athenian lady (Lida Miranta), who spends the summer in Hydra, falls in love with a fisherman (Lampros Konstantaras) and “steals him” from his girlfriend (Evgenia Danika) to turn him into a singer at Athenian nightclubs.
Applause
Alfa (Attik) runs an itinerant theatrical troupe and can see that a young woman, Nora (Zinet Lakaz), is very talented. Indeed, Nora turns into a great actress. However, when she does not reciprocate his love, he turns her away. After this, Alfa falls on hard times, while Nora achieves great popular success.
Youth of Athens
A rich widower impregnates a poor young woman and dumps her. Her brother, member of a resistance group during the Occupation, tries to mend things up.
Ragismenes kardies...
Marios and Louiza broke up because of the war. Marios goes to the front to fight, and Louiza agrees, under pressure from her father, to marry a wealthy man named Alkis, as she believes that Marios has died. When Marios comes back from the front, he wants Louiza back, and he meets with his friend Alkis, who asks him not to contend for the woman he loves. Louiza gets very upset by the new turn of events and loses her memory.
The Jungle of Cities
Athens, 1964. A police reporter, Nikos Avgeris, has the journalistic mission to cover a suspected car crash that killed a senior state official. His investigation reveals that the victim was responsible for the financial control of a large building organization and that he was being used to cover the illegality of his administration. This organization had abused much of the money earmarked for the erection of homes for homeless war wounded, and is now very much annoyed by the revelations of Augustus. This is why they try to close his mouth, but he is not hurt and continues the investigation. Augustus reaches the end, revealing everything and clearing up yet another dirty affair.
The Red Cliff
Fiore di Levante, Zakynthos, in 1883. A young lady of noble rank, Foteini Santri, lives a carefree life with her younger brother Mimis. The arrival of her first cousin, forty-year-old Angelos Marinis, who has come to the island on vacation, puts an end to her carefree existeness and fills her with troubles and worries. Angelos falls passionately in love with her, but she doesn’t respond to his feelings, since they are related. Angelos, disappointed, returns to Athens...
The sin girl
A girl, after the death of her fiancé, ends up working in a cabaret. A year later he meets a friend of his, who tells her that he loves her, but she leaves him because he fears that his past will be revealed.
Those Not Allowed to Love
Pavlos, a conservatory student dreaming of becoming a great artist of quality music, lives with his fiancée Kaiti in a small room, hosted by two friends. Due to financial tribulations, he is forced to join his friends' folk band and performs every night at a night club. That's were Mr Giorgos and his lover Liza frequent. Liza, a rich girl, falls in love with Pavlos and tries to seduce him. However, when she realizes how deeply he loves his fiancée, decides to help him get back together with Kaiti.
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Last Mission
The Last Mission (Greek: Teleftaia apostoli) is a 1950 Greek drama film directed by Nikos Tsiforos. It was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.